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Luncheon Archive
"On Affect and Articulation: Reading Oe Kenzaburo’s Anti-Nuclear Speeches," Margherita Long, University of California, Riverside
“Sandro Penna, Queer Intellettuale Impegnato,” John Champagne, Penn State, Erie
“Calcutta-London-Madrid: The Politics of Translation in Global Modernisms," Gayle Rogers, University of Pittsburgh
"Poetic Innovation and Appropriative Translation in the Americas," Rachel Galvin, Johns Hopkins University
“Modernist Snark: How Fights Shaped Japanese Literature,” Alisa Freedman, University of Oregon
"Christ's Gripe: Sociability and Enchantment in 19th-century Vision Narratives,” Christopher Castiglia, Penn State
"Kant, Satire, and Sexual Difference," Surya Parekh, Penn State
"Re-writing Japonisme: Félix Régamey’s The Pink Notebook of Madame Chrysanthème," Christopher Reed, Penn State
"Derrida the Workaholic," Jonathan Eburne, Penn State
"The Melodrama of the Hacienda: Luis Bunuel’s Abismos de Pasion as Postcolonial Trans/Plantation," Kevin Hagopian, Penn State
"Bones of the Butterfly: Translating João Guimarães Rosa's Tutaméia," Thomas Beebee, Penn State
"Theorizing Literature from Japan, 1907," Michael Bourdaghs, University of Chicago
"Zen Master Dogen, A Medieval Japanese Monk Well-Versed in Chinese Poetry," Steven Heine, Florida International University
"Christopher Columbus & the Discourse of Empire in the United States," Elise Bartosik-Velez, Dickinson College
“The Backlash Against Indigenous Rights and the Return of Indigenismo Under the Citizen’s Revolution in Ecuador (2006-Present),” Carmen Martínez Novo, University of Kentucky
"An Ontology of Women's Labor: He-Yin Zhen and Anarcho-Feminism in Early Twentieth-Century China," Rebecca Karl, New York University
"Metalepsis in Medieval Grammar and Rhetoric," Rita Copeland, University of Pennsylvania
"Comparative Literature from Below: South to South Comparisons," Simon Gikandi, Princeton University
"This Year's Winner: Alice Munro," Charlotte Eubanks, Rosemary Jolly and Rebekah Zwanzig, Penn State
"World Theatre and the Common Ground of Global Modernity," Glenn Odom, Rowan University
"Speculative Modernism: Proust and the Stock Market," Hannah Freed-Thall, Princeton University
"Latina/o Literature Unbound," Ralph Rodríguez, Brown University
"From Anthology to Archive: Reed’s Osiris, Pound’s Mumbo Jumbo," Jeremy Braddock, Cornell University
"Russian-American Literature in the 21st Century: The Sequel," Adrian Wanner, Penn State
"Translating Calligraphy," Abé Markus Nornes, University of Michigan
"Digital Tools/Early Modern Books," Sarah Werner, Folger Shakespeare Library
"Chimera of Correspondence," Eduardo Cadava, Princeton University
"Personhood and the Subliminal Mind: Yogacara Buddhism versus Freud," Tao Jiang, Rutgers University
"Talking about Chinese Poetry in Modern Japan," Matthew Fraleigh, Brandeis University
"Public Privacies: Forms of Self and Nation in Recent South African Autobiography," Gabeba Baderoon, Penn State
"Of Maps and Mannequins: Dung Kai Cheung, Hong Kong, and the Logic of the Fetish," Carlos Rojas, Duke University
"Disappearing History: Scenes of Trauma in the Theater of Human Rights (A reading of Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden)," Cathy Caruth, Cornell University
"Zombie Metabolism: Performance, Consumption and the Promise of Infection," Atia Sattar, Penn State
"Black Women and the New Pornography," Ariane Cruz, Penn State
"Emotion vs. Strategy: On the New Media Experience of Space," Marie-Laure Ryan, Independent scholar
The "Nerds, Wonks, and Neo-Cons" symposium
"Two Imaginary Medieval Universities," Caroline Eckhardt, Penn State
"After Midnight: Realism and the Indian Emergency," Susan Z. Andrade, University of Pittsburgh
"Clarice Lispector and the Art of the Cronica," Elizabeth Lowe, University of Illinois
"Biotropes: Environmental Aesthetics for an Industrial Age," Christine Marran, University of Minnesota
"Recycling the Epic: Gilgamesh on Three Continents," Wai-chee Dimock, Yale University
"Wiring Ourselves for Sound: Quietness, White Noise and the Metamorphosis of Mediated Subjectivity," Matt Jordan, Penn State
"Comparing Surgery Literatures: Sex Reassignment Surgery in Thailand," Jillana Enteen, Northwestern University
"Passwords: Philology, Security, Authentication,"Â Brian Lennon, Penn State
"Thick Skin, Thin Mask: The Dilemma of Chinese Opera in the New Millennium," Daphne Lei, University of California, Irvine
"Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths," Nancy Marie Brown
"'How to Read Lolita," Imraan Coovadia, University of Cape Town
"Professor Latino goes to Singapore: Race, Classical Reception, and Canonicity in 16th century Granada and 21st century Singapore," Mira Seo, Yale-NUS College
"The Art of Stephen Colbert: Satire and Democracy," Sophia McClennen, Penn State
"Narrative and Intellectual Disability," Michael Berube, Penn State
"Literary History in the Posthistorical University: The Division of Francophone Studies," Vincent Bruyere, Penn State
"Parallel Lives: Bolivar and the Classical Poets of the Revolution," German Campos-Munoz, Penn State
"Strategic Amnesia: Postcolonial Studies and the Second World," Nancy Condee, Universty of Pittsburgh
"Being There: Writing from the Indian Sub-continent," Sharmistha Mohanty, Indian Writer
"The Teleologies of Modernism: Toward a Transitional Theory," Christopher Hill, Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University
"Literature and Politics in Communist Albania and the Parables of Dictatorship in the Prose of Ismail Kadare," Baviola Shatro, "Aleksander Moisiu" University, Durres, Albania
"After Midnight: Realism and the Indian Emergency," Susan Z. Andrade, University of Pittsburgh
"On Transtromer," Aldon Nielsen, Penn State, and Douglas Messerli, poet and the Director of The Contemporary Arts Educational Project, Inc.
PANEL: "Thinking beyond the Region," Jon Abel, Andrea Bachner, and Michelle Decker, Penn State
"Genocide, Science, and Ethnosuicide, The Extirpation of Idolatries in the Colonial Andes and a Contemporary Variant," Jose Rabasa, Harvard University
"Culture in the Age of One World," Michael Denning, Yale University
"Against Periodization," Eric Hayot, Penn State
"The Right to Look and the Crisis of Visuality," Nicholas Mirzoeff, NYU
"'Si-militude', or How the Early Chinese Out-Platoed Plato," Martin Ekstrom, Sodertorn University, Stockholm
"The Classics as Public Sphere in Modernizing Europe and China," Alex Beecroft, University of South Carolina
"Translation, Intertexuality, Interpretation," Lawrence Venuti, Temple University
"Why Were The New York Intellectuals Jewish?; or The Secret Relationship between the Neo-Cons and the Jews," Benjamin Schreier, Penn State University
"David Lynch's Material Girls," Todd McGowan, UVM
"Berlin and the Anxious Disavowal of Beijing Modernism: Architectural Polemics within Globalization," Daniel Purdy, Penn State
"Sexual minorities and erotic justice in Africa: issues and challenges," Marc Epprecht, Queen's University, Kingston
"Transgender and Race," Matt Richardson, University of Texas - Austin
ROUNDTABLE: "Comparing Comparisons," Jonathan Eburne, Nergis Ertuk, Charlotte Eubanks, Sophia McLennen, Penn State
"Between Grief and Grievance: The Place of the Barbie Trial in French Contemporary Memoir and Film," Bella Brodzki, Sarah Lawrence College and Michael G. Levine, Rutgers University
"Machado and Borges: A New Trajectory of Avangarde-Fiction in the Americas," Rhett McNiell, Penn State
"Reader Response -- For Real, This Time," Tom Beebee, Penn State
"Testimonio (testimonial narrative) and Truth," John Beverly, University of Pittsburgh
PANEL: "Is this year's Nobel in Literature novel? A Tribute to Mario Vargas Llosa," Julia Cuervo-Hewitt and Guadalupe Marti-Pena, Penn State University
"Trauma as Durational Performance: A Walk Through Villa Grimaldi with Pedro Matta," Diana Taylor, NYU
"Making Monsters: War Crimes and Ordinary Men," James Dawes, Macalester College
PANEL: "Arabic Literature Now: New Directions," Waïl S. Hassan, University of Illinois, Urbana and Amal Amireh, George Mason University
"'A Path 'Strewn with Dreams': William Stanley Braithwaite, Modernist Poetics, and The Poetic Year For 1916," Geoffrey Jacques, George Mason University
"'When I finish this dialectic, then I will be happ': C.L.R. James - Dialectics in the Desert," Aldon Nielsen, Penn State
"Film Co-Productions, Spatial Practice, and the Cultural Contingencies of 'New Asia,'" Stephanie DeBoer, Indiana University, Bloomington
PANEL: "Contemporary Literature of the Americas: A Conversation with Luisa Valenzuela, JoÃ£o Almino, and Zulfikar Ghose"
"Contemporary Chinese Film and Media Culture: a Dialogue with Dai Jinhua," Speakers: Professors Dai Jinhua, Alex Huang, Eric Hayot, and Jon Abel
"Celebrating the Year's Work: Faculty Books and Department Awards"
"Disaster and Encyclopedism, or How To Do Things with Diderot," Paul St. Amour, University of Pennsylvania
"A Delicate Subject: Comparative Literature, Erich Auerbach, and Penn State," Djelal Kadir, Penn State
"Entertaining and Useful: Contemporary Japanese Educational Manga," Sari Kawana, University of Massachusets, Boston
"The Critical Role of the University Press," Kendra Boileau, Penn State University Press
"Victorian Scandal: New Meredith Letters Reveal Thomas Love Peacock's 'Love Child'," Jim Powell, Writer and Nick Joukovsky, Penn State University
"Indigenizing Modernism," Dean Irvine, Dalhousie University, Halifax
"Ghandi and his South African readers," Isabel Hofmeyr, Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg
"The Devil Inside: the image of Japan in 20th century Chinese humor," Barak Kushner, University of Cambridge
"How Shizuo Ozawa became Mario the Jap: Militant Ethnics and Ethnic Militancy in Brazil," Jeffrey Lesser, Emory University
"The Dialogue of Translation," Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, American University of Paris
"Genre and Discipline," Alastair Renfrew, Durham University, Stockton, England
"Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Gender of Jewishness," David Greven, Connecticut College
"Sacred Texts & Saving Remnants: Manuscript Culture and the Roman Catholic Underground in Early Modern Europe," Earle Havens, Johns Hopkins University
Roxanna Curto (Assistant Professor of French, Illinois State University): "Aime Cesaire and the Theater of Development."
Urs Heftrich (Professor and Chair of the Slavic Literatures Department, University of Heidelberg, Germany): "Facing Two Faces of Totalitarianism: Czech Poetry 1938-1954."
Jeffrey Williams (Professor of English and Literary and Cultural Studies, Carnegie Mellon University): "The Rise and Fall of the Theory Journal"
2009 Nobel Laureate Herta Müller: A Roundtable Discussion
Centre County Reads Presents: On Dashiell Hammett, Jonathan Eburne, Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Penn State: "The Two Dashiell Hammetts"
**Meeting in the Palmer Museum of Art **
Anke Birkenmaier (Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, Columbia University): "Walking Backward: Roberto Bolaño and the Latin American Avant-Garde"
Michael Düring (Professor and Head, Slavic Department at Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel): "Travels to Remote Regions of the World: Jonathan Swift among the Slavs"
Jeffrey Di Leo (Dean of Arts and Sciences, University of Houston, Victoria, and Editor, Symploke): "Critical Affiliations"
Jennifer Wagner-Lawlor (Associate Professor of Women's Studies and English, Penn State University): "Susan Sontag's Early Journals: 'the Work' and the World"
Ackbar Abbas (Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine): "Performing Space in Hong Kong/Chinese Cinema"
Marshall Brown (Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Washington and Editor, Modern Language Quarterly): "How Does a Poem Think?"
Claire Colebrook (Professor of English, Penn State University): "The Ethics of Extinction"
Rudolf Kuenzli (Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Iowa): "Interventionist Collage: From Dada to the Present"
Charlotte Eubanks (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies) "Turning the Wheel of the Dharma: Buddhist Book History"
Manthia Diawara (Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of the Institute of Afro-American Affairs and Director of the Africana Studies Program, New York University) "Jean Prouve's 'Maisons Tropicales', or Architecture as Discourse on colonialism
John Horgan (Director, International Center for the Study of Terrorism and Associate Professor of Science, Technology and Society, Penn State University): "Walking Away: Disengagement and De-Radicalization from Terrorism"
Rita Barnard (Professor of English and Director of the Women's Studies Program and the Alice Paul Center for Research on Women and Gender, University of Pennsylvania): "On National Literature and Globalization"
Su Fang Ng (Associate Professor of English, University of Oklahoma) "Dutch Wars, Global Poems: Dryden's Annus Mirabilis (1666) and Amin's Syair Perang Mengkasar (1670)"
Bradley Epps (Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and Chair, Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University) "In Praise of Indiscretion: Pedro Almodvar's Law of Desire"
"Who Owns African Literature: A Roundtable Discussion"
"Strunk and White's *The Elements of Style* at 50: A Roundtable Discussion."
Jean-Pierre Le Dantec (Professor and Director, School of Architecture, University of Paris-La-Villette): "The Sustainable City in the 21st Century: The Case of the Grand Paris"
Charles Garoian (Director and Professor of Art Education, School of Visual Arts, Penn State University): "Drawing Blinds: Art Practice as Prosthetic Visuality"
Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis: A Roundtable Discussion.
Michael Bérubé (Paterno Professor of English, Penn State University) and Maud Newton (writer, NYC): "Blogging and the Arts."
John Mackay (Professor, Slavic Languages & Literatures; Chair, Film Studies Program, Yale University): "Memory and Montage: Vertov's Proletariat"
Vincent Colapietro (Professor of Philosophy, Penn State University): "Psychoanalysis and Jazz: Familiar Bedfellows in a Strange Setting"
Steve Cannon (Author, New York City): "Chester Himes and the Absurd"
Rob Doggett (Assistant Professor of English, SUNY Geneseo): "Auditory Modernism and the Metallic Homunculus, or Yeats on the Radio"
Wilfried Raussert (Professor of Northamerican Literatures and Cultures, Universität Bielefeld, Germany): "Space and Masculinity in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada"
Gabriel Weisz (Comparative Literature, Universidad Autónoma de México): "The 'Other' Face of Reason"
Jonathan Eburne, (Josephine Berry Weiss Early Career Professor in the Humanities and Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Penn State University): "Meth Time: The Logic of Presentism"
Judith Roof (Professor of English, Michigan State University): "Gendering Systems"
The Year’s Work in Comparative Literature: Departmental Awards and recently published books by Comparative Literature Faculty.
"The Future of Comparative Literature": Roundtable and Discussion. Featuring Charlotte Eubanks, Eric Hayot, and Jonathan Eburne
Jerry W. Ward, Jr. (Distinguished Scholar and Professor of English and African World Studies, Dillard University): "The Legacy of Richard Wright in the 21st Century"
Solimar Otero (Assistant Professor of English, Louisiana State University): "Cuban Nostalgia and Yoruba Identity in Lagos, Nigeria"
John Westbrook (Associate Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Bucknell University): "Dense Order: Roger Caillois's Militant Orthodoxy and the Performative Intellectual"
Madhuri Desai (Assistant Professor of Art History, Penn State University): "City of Mosques and Temples: Urban Negotiation in Banaras, 1669-1926"
Jean Gregorek (Associate Professor of English, Antioch College, and member of the "Non Stop Institute"): "Preserving the Liberal Arts: The Case Study of Antioch College"
Nicolás Fernández-Medina (Assistant Professor of Spanish, Penn State University): "The Problem of Subjectivity in Antonio Machado's Proverbios y cantares"
Myriam Chancy (Professor of English, Louisiana State University): Reading from her novels Spirit of Haiti (2003), The Scorpion's Claw (2005) and The Loneliness of Angels(forthcoming 2009).
Lisi Schoenbach (Assistant Professor of English, University of Tennessee): "Le Pragmatisme: An American Philosophy in Paris."
Rayna Kalas (Associate Professor of English, Cornell University): "The Grotesque Frame of Renaissance Prose"
Hermann Herlinghaus (Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Pittsburgh): "Violence Without Guilt: Ethical Narratives from the Globalized South"
Shannon McLachlan (Editor for Literature and the Humanities, Oxford University Press): "Academic Publishing: Today and Tomorrow"
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Neil Larsen (Professor of Comparative Literature and Critical Theory, University of California, Davis): "Towards a Critical Theory of 'Theory'"
Randy J. Ploog (Coordinator of International Programs, College of Arts and Architecture and Affiliate Assistant Professor of Art History, Penn State University): "The Mitchell Dawson Collection at the Newberry Library: Remnants of a Double Life"
Sophia A. McClennen (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Spanish, and Women's Studies, Penn State University): "The Curse of Neoliberalism: Sex and Social Violence in Y tu mamá también and The Nanny and the Iceberg"
Ruben Gallo (Associate Professor of Spanish, Princeton University): "Freud's Pre-Columbian Antiquities"
Bettina Brandt (Assistant Professor of German, Montclair State University): "Herta Müller's Scissor Script: Collage, Advertising, and the Practices of the Avant-Garde"
Rebecca Walkowitz (Associate Professor of English, Rutgers University): "Making World Literature: J.M. Coetzee and the Transnational Novel"
Jane Gallop (Institute for the Arts and Humanities Distinguished Visiting Professor): "The Value of Close Reading"
Heather Love (M. Mark and Esther K. Watkins Assistant Professor in the Humanities, University of Pennsylvania): "To Be a Problem, To Be an Exception: Du Bois and Modern Stigma"
Martha Schoolman (Assistant Professor of English, Miami University of Ohio): "Violent Places: Travel, Reform and Revolution in William Wells Brown's Three Years in Europe"
Irene Makaryk (Vice-Dean of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, University of Ottawa): "Modernism, the Berezil Theatre, and the Paris Art Deco Exhibition of 1925."
Michael Taylor (The Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art): "Body Matters: Marcel Duchamp's Etant donné Revisited"
Patrick Alexander (Associate Director and Editor-in-Chief, Penn State Press): "Books, Proposals, and Darwin: How the Fit Survive"
Sarah K. Rich (Associate Professor of Art History, Penn State University): "How does one look at the back of a painting from the front? And why would one want to?"
Matt Jordan (Assistant Professor of Film/Video & Media Studies, Penn State University): "Neo's Liberal Movement: Virtual Action Aesthetics as a Symptom of the Global Ideology"
Jamie K. Taylor (Assistant Professor of English, Bryn Mawr College): "The Face in the Crowd: Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale"
Djelal Kadir (Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Comparative Literature, Penn State University): "The People's Republic and the Republic of Letters: Literature and the State"
LuMing Mao (Professor of English, Miami University): "Beyond Reading the Chinese Fortune Cookie: Analogy, Identity, and Hybridity in Chinese American Rhetoric"
The Future of Arts Journalism: A Roundtable Discussion
A Roundtable Discussion on 2007 Nobel Prizewinner Doris Lessing
L. Stephanie Cobb (Assistant Professor of Religion, Hofstra University): "Stoicism and the Problem of Pain in Early Christian Martyr Texts"
Donatella Ester di Cesare (Professor of Philosophy, University of Rome): "The Eclipse of the Word: On Language and Globalization"
Allan Stoekl (Professor of French, Penn State University): "The Logic(s) of Expenditure: Bataille in the context of Michael Marmot and Robert Frank"
Jeff Ferrell (Professor of Criminal Justice, Texas Christian University): "Little Scraps and Lost Moments: Writing the Empire of Scrounge"
Na'ama Rokem (Stanford University): "Inscribing Prose in Poetry: H.N. Bialik in the City of Slaughter"
Edwin Hill (University of California, Los Angeles): "Technologies of the Minor: Radio as Metaphor for Cultural Emergence"
Eric Hayot (Associate Professor of English, University of Arizona and Global Fellow, International Institute at University of California, Los Angeles): "Modernity’s Chinese Idiom: Suffering and the Problem of the Universal Human"
Patrice Nganang (Randolph Distinguished Visiting Associate Professor of Africana and German Studies, Vassar College): "Picturing the Colonized: From an African Theory of Pictures to Colonial Cinema"
Panel Discussion on David Lynch
Regine Jean-Charles (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Carter G. Woodson Institute for African-American & African Studies, University of Virginia): "Survival Tales: Incest Survivor Narratives in Calixthe Beyala's Your Name Shall Be Tanga and Yvonne Vera's Un
Djelal Kadir (Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Comparative Literature): "Memos from the Besieged City"
Jed Esty (Associate Professor of English and Critical Theory, University of Illinois): "Empires of Youth: Modernism, Colonialism, and the Anti-Developmental Novel."
William McCarthy (Professor of English, Emeritus, Penn State Dubois): "The Shipman, the Sages, and Schaharazade: Medieval Tales in Contemporary American Folklore"
Nergis Ertürk (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, SUNY Binghamton): "Surrealism and Turkish Script Arts."
Hester Blum (Assistant Professor of English, Penn State University): "Holes in the Poles"
James English (Professor and Chair, Department of English, The University of Pennsylvania): "The Global Economy of Literary Prestige"
James Peterson (Assistant Professor of English, Penn State Abington): "An Anatomy of Hip Hop Criticism"
Stan Lai (Screenwriter/Director): "Performing the Diaspora: Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land"
Bernard Bell (Professor of English, Penn State University): "The Globalization in Mainland China of African American Jazz and Hip-Hop Culture"
Vincent Colapietro (Professor of Philosophy, Penn State University): "The Poetics of Experience: Toward a Pragmatic Understanding of Experience, Practice, & Translation"
Jonathan Marks (Associate Professor of Bioethics, Humanities and Law, Penn State University): "Al Qaeda through the Terrorscope: The Logic and Language of Torture."
Barbara Trent (Academy Award Winning Documentary Director): "The Economics of Media Censorship"
Elaine Richardson (Associate Professor of English and Applied Linguistics, Penn State University): "Ride or Die B, Jezebel, Lil' Kim, or Kimberly Jones: African American Women's Language Practices."
Jonathan Eburne (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Penn State University): "Adoptive Affinities: Josephine Baker and Black Internationalism"
Aaron Rosenberg (Lecturer, Comparative Literature, Penn State University): "Verbal Art in East(ern) Africa: Samba Mapangala and Shaaban Robert"
Michael Bérubé (Paterno Professor of English, Penn State University): "What's Liberal About the Liberal Arts?"
Alamír Aquino Corrêa (Associate Professor of Literary Theory and Brazilian Literature, Universidade Estadual de Londrina (State University of Londrina, Brazil): "Literary Practices on the Internet in Brazil"
Adrian Wanner (Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, Penn State University): "The New Nabokovs? Russian-American Immigrant Literature in the 21st Century"
Rudy Wiebe (Author & Professor Emeritus, Department of English, University of Alberta): "Writing Into Existence: A Reading of Western Canada Fiction"
Marc Caplan (Assistant Professor of German and Romance Languages and Literatures, Johns Hopkins) "Tevye Transformed: Sholem Aleichem From Page to Stage and Film."
Benjamin Schreier (Postdoctoral Fellow In Jewish Studies, Penn State University): "Delmore Schwartz and the Beginning and End of Jewishness"
Frederic Jameson (Institute for the Arts and Humanities Distinguished Visiting Fellow): "Futures of Theory"
Pius Adesanmi (Associate Professor of English at Carleton University in Ottawa): "Postcolonial Difference and “Criminalized” Mobilities: Preliminary Reflections"
Nobel Prize Literature 2006 Panel on the 2006 Nobel Prize, Orhan Pamuk.
Philip Jenkins (Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies and History, Penn State University): "Reading the Bible in the Global South"
Karen Thornber (Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University): "Transcultural Reconfigurations of Japanese Literature in East Asian Contact Zones, 1895-1945"
Charlotte Eubanks (Lecturer of Classical Japanese Language and Literature, University of Virginia): "The Buddhist Book of Memory: Text, Flesh, and the Written Word"
Jonathan Abel (Postdoctoral Fellow, East Asian Studies Program, Columbia University): "Declassifying Censorship: The Radical Obscenities of Umehara Hokumei and Samuel Roth"
Gabeba Baderoon (Poet and Media Scholar): "The Dream in the Next Body"
Schuyler Henderson (M.D., New York City): "That Joke's Not Funny Anymore: Theories of Comedy and Suffering"
Richard Kopley (Professor of English, Penn State, Du Bois): "A Contemporary Narrative Response to Nathaniel Hawthorne's Short Story 'The White Old Maid'"
Stuart Gillespie (Reader in English Literature, University of Glasgow): "Cultural Authority: Metempsychosis from Pythagoras to Dryden, Proust, and Borges"
Maria Truglio (Assistant Professor of Italian, Penn State University): "Wise Gnomes, Nervous Astronauts and a Very Bad General: The Children's Books of Umberto Eco and Eugenio Carmi"
Tawny Holm (Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University of Pennsylvania): "Aramaic Literature in the Dawn of Judaism"
Shane Vogel (Assistant Professor of English, University of Indiana): "Unperforming the Self: Lena Horne and Segregated Cabaret Performance "
Robert Caserio (Professor and Head of English, Penn State University: "Modernist Realism and Imperial Romance"
Gonzalo Rubio (Assistant Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies, History, and Religious Studies, Penn State University): "Textual Promiscuity and Scribal Artifacts in Mesopotamia"
Caroline Eckhardt (Professor of Comparative Literature and English, Penn State University): "Medieval Ideas of Europe"
Sergia Adamo (University of Trieste, Italy): "Representations of Single Women: Identity and Voice in Mann, Faulkner, Joyce and other 20th-c. Authors"
Jinghui Wang (Associate Professor of English, Tsinghua University, China): "Enemies and Barbarians: Ibsen and Coetzee"
Thomas Beebee (Professor of Comparative Literature and German, Penn State University): "The DNA of the Lamb: The Race for the End on American Millenial Fiction"
Yunte Huang (Associate Professor of English, University of California, Santa Barbara): "Basic English and Modernist Babel"
Rachel Teukolsky (Assistant Professor of English, Penn State University): "Decadence, Sexology, Utopia: Richard Burton's 'Arabian Nights'"
Manuel Broncano (Professor of Anglo-American Literature, University of León, Spain): "Translation as Translocation: The Translator as Intercultural Mediator: Translating Flannery O'Connor, Willa Cather, and Charlotte Lennox into Spanish"
Igor Klekh, (Visiting poet, from Moscow, author of A Land the Size of Binoculars): "From Fiction to Non-Fiction: A Writer's Journey"
Wang Ning (Professor and Director of the Center for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Tsinghua University, Beijing): "Global Englishes, and Global Chineses: A New Framework for Comparative Literature"
Allan Elfant (State College, Psychologist): "Freud Encounters the Greek Myth of Eros: Is Psychoanalysis Compatible with Romance?"
Hülya N. Ünlü (Senior Lecturer and Language Program Director for the Germanic and Slavic Department, Penn State University): "Islamist Literature in Turkey: Occidentalism from Within"
T. Scott Herring (Assistant Professor of English, Penn State University): "Caravaggio's Rednecks"
Tomislav Longinovic (Professor of Slavic and Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison): "This is a Man's World: Filming the Balkan Wars"
Lisa Surwillo (Assistant Professor of Spanish, Penn State University): "Poetic Diplomacy: the American Civil War poems of Carolina Coronado"
Nobel Prize Literature 2005 Panel on the 2005 Nobel Prize, Harold Pinter
Chad Lavin (Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, Tulane University): "Managing Katrina, or, A Crisis of Agency in the Agency of Crisis"
Lee Roberts (University of California, Berkeley): "Mixing Metaphors: Terms of a German - Japanese Alliance"
Joseph Murphy (Associate Professor of Japanese Language and Literature, University of Florida): "An Engineering Mediation to Culture: Thermodynamic Models in Soseki and Bataille"
Yoko Tawada (Writer in German & Japanese): "A Playful Journey through Words, Sound, and Body: Reading in Japanese, German, and English"
Dr. Haun Saussy (Professor of Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages, Yale University): "A Plea for a Longer and Wider History of Globalization"
Robert Tierney (Stanford University): "The Colonial Eyeglasses of Nakajima Atsushi"
James Dunkerley (University of London): "Americas Plural - Old Wine in New Bottles?"
Peter Potter (Editor in Chief, Penn State University Press): "Scholarly Publishing in the Digital Age"
Gabeba Baderoon (Independent Scholar): 'Oblique Figures: Representations of Islam in South African Media and Culture'
Carmelo Esterrich (Associate Professor, Columbia College Chicago): "Tearing Mother Apart: The films of Arturo Ripstein and Paz Alicia Garciadiego"
Debra Castillo (Professor of Romance Studies and Comparative Literature, Cornell University): "Américan Dreams: New Latino Literature and the Curriculum"
Rachel Brenner (Dept Chairperson, College of Letters and Sciences, Department of Hebrew & Semitic Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison): "Beyond the Canon - How to Reread Israeli Literature: The Case of Amos Oz's My Michael"
Ato Quayson (Professor of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Literature, Cambridge University, United Kingdom): "Home as Longing: Literature and Diaspora"
Nancy Berg (Associate Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature, Washington University): "Requiem for a Baghdad Lost: Israelis Remember Iraq"
Alexander Huang (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Chinese, Penn State University): "Wartime 'Diaspora' of Shakespeare"
Pius Adesanmi (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Penn State University): "The Februaries of African Literature: Random Thoughts on a Different Representation of Difference"
Michael Naydan (Professor of Slavic Literature, Penn State University): "Translating Sound in Poetry: The Slavic Contexts"
Jonathan Brockopp (Associate Professor of Religious Studies and History, Penn State University): "Early Islamic Law: A New Text."
Robin Becker (Professor of English and Women's Studies, Penn State University): 'Graphic Representation in "The Venetian:" A Poetry Reading and Slide Presentation on Ekphrastic Poems'
Aldon Nielsen (Kelly Professor of American Literature, and English, Penn State University): "The Beach Boys and the Black Arts"
David Pan (Associate Professor of German, Penn State University): "Herder, Rousseau, and the Origin of Language"
Judy Van Zile (Professor of Dance at the University of Hawaii-Manoa): "Politics and Dance in Korea"
Bernard Bell (Professor of English, Penn State): "The Contemporary African American Novel: Trey Ellis's Platitudes and the New Black Aesthetic"
Nobel Prize Literature 2004 Panel on the 2004 Nobel Prize, Elfriede Jelinek
Donald Pease (Professor of English, Dartmouth College): "American Studies/Emergency States"
Dennis Schmidt (Professor of Philosophy, Penn State University): "Tragedy and Ethical Life: The Example of Hoelderlin"
Linda Woodbridge (Distinguished Professor of English and Women's Studies, Penn State University): "Payback Time: On the Economic Rhetoric of Revenge (on The Merchant of Venice, etc.)"
Alfred A. Triolo (Associate Professor Emeritus of Spanish and Italian, Penn State University): "Inferno V: Unpacking Francesca, Designed Undecidability?"
Thomas Hale (Professor of African, French, and Comparative Literature, Penn State University): "Marriage Should Not Mean Bondage: Women's Songs From West Africa"
Hester Blum (Assistant Professor of English, Penn State University): "Americans at Sea: 19th Century Sailors and Their Literary Culture"
Chris Dunton (Professor of English and Dean of the College of the Humanities, The National University of Lesotho): "Making Waves?: Colonial Policies and Shifting Structures of Feeling in the Early Independent Press in Southern Africa"
Charles Dumas (Associate Professor, School of Theatre, Penn State University): "Theatre in the New South Africa"
Elizabeth Smith (Associate Professor of Art History, Penn State University): "Interpreting Visual Culture in the 12th Century: The Name and Image of the Rose in an Italian Church"
Lovalerie King (Assistant Professor of English, Penn State University): "Exploring Questions of Race, Property, and Ethics in African American Literature"
Daniel Purdy (Associate Professor of Germanic and Slavic Languages and Literatures, Penn State University): "The Perils of Building Big Before 9/11: Manhattan Skyscrapers and the Reconstruction of Berlin"
Susan Napier (Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture The University of Texas, Austin): "Matter Out of Place: The Abjected Monstrous in Princess Mononoke and Spirited Away"
Christine Clark-Evans (Associate Professor of French, Women's Studies, and African and African American Studies, Penn State University): "Neuroscience in Two French Renaissance Poets: Pernette du Guillet and Guillaume du Bartas"
Sandra Spanier (Professor of English and General Editor, Hemingway Letters Project, Penn State University): "On Hemingway's Paper Trail"
Jonathan Eburne (Lecturer of English, Penn State University): "Surrealism and the Art of Crime"
Sophia A. McClennen (Associate Professor of Comparative Literature and Spanish, Penn State University): "Beyond Bicultural: The Diasporic Subject in Ariel Dorfman's Heading South, Looking North"
Adrian Wanner (Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, Penn State University): "Verbal Painting in the Russian Avant-Garde: Livshits vs.Kandinsky."
Christopher Clausen (Professor of English, Penn State University): "Reading Post-Cultural America Since 9/11: Has Everything/Anything Changed?"
Evelyn Hu-DeHart (Professor of History, Director Center for the Study of Race & Ethnicity in America (CSREA), Brown University): "Asian Americans and Globalization?"
Carla Mulford (Associate Professor of English, Penn State University): "Pox and Hellfire: Boston's Smallpox Controversy, the New Science and Early Modern Liberalism."
Philip Jenkins (Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies and History, Penn State University): "Frank Waters and the Reinvention of Native-American Spirituality."
Lois Parkinson Zamora (Professor of English, University of Houston): "Monsters and Martyrs: García Márquez's Baroque Iconography."
Stanley Weintraub (Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Arts & Humanistic Studies, Penn State University): "Adventures in the Rothschild Archives."
Christiane Makward (Professor of French and Women's Studies, Penn State University): "Visual Metaphor and Ellipses: ldrisso Ouedraogo's Film Style."
Deborah Clarke (Associate Professor of English and Women's Studies, Penn State University): "Race Cars and Race Men: Modernism, Gender and Automobiles."
Gerhard Strasser (Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Penn State University): "Francesco Petrarca and Cola di Rienzi at the Habsburg Court in Prague in the 1350s."
Robert Edwards (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Penn State University): "Ricardian Dreamwork: Chaucer Meets Cupid Again."
Nobel Prize Literature 2003 Panel on the 2003 Nobel Prize, John Maxwell Coetzee
Shu Kuge (Stanford University): "The Politics of Bio-Rhythm: Mishima Yukio's Elephant Seal."
Justin Read (Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Modern Languages and Literatures Spanish and Portuguese, State University of New York at Buffalo): "The Cannibal Logic of Hyphens: An Orthography of Nation in the Americas."
Timothy Van Campernolle (Postdoctoral Fellow in the East Asian Studies Program at Oberlin College): "Literary Memory in Modernity: The Fiction of Higuchi Ichiyo."
Brett Levinson (Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, State University SUNY at Binghamton): "Politics and Allegory: Rereading Populism, Thinking Neoliberalism."
Julia Kasdorf (Associate Professor of English, Penn State University): "Joseph Yoder (1872-1956), Mifflin County Musician, and author of "Rosanna of the Amish"
Thomas Beebee (Professor of Comparative Literatures, Penn State University): "Golden Flying Saucers: Ernesto Cardenal and Millennial Ufology."
John Moore (Associate Professor of English, Penn State University): "A Lament for Humanities .001."
Alice Sheppard (Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Penn State University): "Reading King Alfred in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle."
Ken Wiwa (Nigerian author and activist, Saul Rae Fellow in the Munk Centre for International Studies at the University of Toronto): "An Inventory of Belonging: The Meaning of Home in a Postmodern World."
Shuang Shen (Assistant Professor of English and Faculty Fellow of the Center for Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, Rutgers University): "Diasporic Time and Space in Ha Jin's Waiting."
Aníbal González (Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Spanish, Penn State University): "The Republic of Desire: Miguel Barnet's Canción de Rachel (1969) and the New Sentimental Novel in Spanish America."
James Brasfield (Senior Lecturer of English, Penn State University): "South: A Morphology."
Aline Tauzin (Senior Researcher in anthropology at the French National Center for Scientific Research at the University of Picardy and professor at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris): "Saharan Music: About a Feminine
Vincent Colapietro (Professor of Philosophy, Penn State University): "Emerson's Experience: A Theological and Psychoanalytical Reading."
Bela Tsipuria (Visiting Scholar, Comparative Literature, Penn State University): "Choosing a Cultural Space (Georgian Literature in the XX century)."
John Moore (Associate Professor of English, Penn State University): "A Lament Humanities 001."
Philip Jenkins (Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies, Penn State University): "WRITING THE NEW GLOBAL CHRISTIANITY: Beyond the Missionary Myth."
Maria Truglio (Visiting Assistant Professor of Italian, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese Department, Penn State University): "They might be poets: Giovanni Pascoli's 'God and Magog.'"
Catherine Bertho-Lavenir (Professor of Contemporary History Universite Clermont-Ferrand, France): "French cultural elites and the new media. 1920-1970."
Alan Benjamin (Research Associate, Population Research Institute and Affiliate Professor of Jewish Studies, Penn State University): "Ethnic Identity in Context: Ethnographic lessons from Jews in Curacao."
Basem Ra'ad (Professor of English and World Civilizations, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem): "Sacred Places and the Politics of Naming."
Theo D'haen (Professor of American Literature at Leuven University (Louvain), Belgium, and Professor of English and American Literature at Leyden University, the Netherlands): "Empires Clashing over Literary History: US or UE (European Union)?"
Jen Hofer (Poet and Translator, Freelancing between Mexico City and Los Angeles): "No Visible Doors: Editing an Anthology of Contemporary Poetry by Mexican Women."
Claire Katz (Assistant Professor of Philosophy & Jewish Studies, Penn State University): Abraham --A Drag Queen? Or, Levinas and The Question of Maternity."
Sophia McClennen (Assistant Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages, Illinois State University, and Visiting Assistant Professor in the Comparative Literature Department, Penn State University): "The Dialectics of Exile Writing: The Crisis of R
Craig Eisendrath (former Executive Director of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council (state arm of the National Endowment for the Humanities) and Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington, DC): "Crisis Game. A Novel of the Cold War"
Thomas Lamarre (Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at McGill University, Montreal, Canada): "The Geopolitical Unconscious of Pure Film: Film Literature and Images of the Globe in Interwar Japan."
Panel Discussion on Imre Kertesz, the Nobel Prize Winner for Literature 2002.
Aldon Lynn Nielsen (George and Barbara Kelly Professor, Department of English, Penn State University): "Melville on Trial: C.L.R. James and the Tribunal."
Richard Kopley (Associate Professor, Department of English, Penn State University): "Additional Allusions in Frederick Douglass's Narrative: The Declaration of Independence and Poe's 'The tell-Tale Heart.'"
Cary Fraser (Assistant Professor, Department of African and African American Studies, Penn State University): "Forging a Diasporic Sensibility: The Caribbean as a Site of Alternative Identity."
Pius Adesanmi (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Candidate For Faculty Position in Comparative Literature, Penn State University): "Notebook(s) of a Return to the Native Land: The Ethnospatial Question in African Literatures."
Vera Mark (Assistant Professor of French and Linguistics, Penn State University): "What's in a Date? Literary Archeology and Popular Memory."
Dorothea Loebbermann (Research Fellow at the Center for Literary Studies, Zentrum für Literaturfoschung, Berlin): "Performances of Memory: 1920s' Harlem in fictional representations."
Willa Silverman (Associate Professor of French, Penn State University): "Of Books and Book Women: Discourses on Women's Reading Practices in Fin-de-Siecle France."
Anthony Tamburri (Professor of Italian and Italian/American Literature, Chair, Languages and Linguistics Interim Chair, English, Florida Atlantic University): "Italian/American Literature: Where It Began and Where Is It Going?"
Kang Liu (Associate Professor of Chinese and Comparative Literature): "Reinventing the 'Red Classics' in the Age of Globalization."
Cecilia Novero (Assistant Professor of German, Penn State University): "Spinning the Text: DJ meets Feminist Theory in a Contemporary German Novel."
Stanley Weintraub (Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Arts and Humanities, Penn State University): "Henry Williamson, Adolf Hitler, and the Obsessive 1914 Christmas Truce."
Nancy Tuana (Dupont- Class of 1949, Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies, and Director of the Rock Ethics Institute, Penn State University): "Introducing the Rock Ethics Institute."
Robert Lima (Professor Emeritus of Spanish and Comparative Literature, Fellow Emeritus, Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies, Penn State University): "The Alchemical Art of Leonora Carrington through Jung's Coniunctio."
Evelyn Hu-DeHart (Professor and Chair, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of Colorado): "Slave or Free? Black or White? Chinese Coolies on 19th Century Cuban Plantations."
Professor Paul Rose (Department of History and Mitrani Professor of Jewish Studies, Penn State University): "Meyerbeer and Wagner Revisited: Parody and Intensification."
Professor Paul Giles (Department of English and American Studies, Cambridge University, U.K.): "Transnationalism in Practice"
Professor Arturo Arias (President of the Latin American Studies Association, and Director of Latin American Studies, University of Redlands): "Latin American Studies in an Age of Globalization."
Professor Arturo Arias (President of the Latin American Studies Association, and Director of Latin American Studies, University of Redlands): "Latin American Studies in an Age of Globalization."
Professor James L. W. West III (Department of English, Penn State University): "Tender is the Night and the Ellingson Matricide."
Professor John Carlos Rowe (University of California, Irvine): "Comparative American Studies."
Professor Paul Jay (Loyola University, Chicago): "Global Culture, Comparative Literature, and Institutional Change"
Nancy Marie Brown (Director, Research Publications and Policy, Penn State University): "Medieval Icelandic Sagas and Modern Icelandic Realities: The Writing of 'A Good Horse Has No Color.'"
Professor Santiago Vaquera (Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, Penn State University): "Limit, Divide, Gateway: Re/thinking the Borderlands."
Professor Fred Gardaphé (SUNY, Stony Brook): "From Wiseguys to Wise Men: The Gangster Figure in Italian American Culture"
Associate Professor Marie Secor (Department of English, Penn State University): "Emotion and Rhetoric: Darwin's Earthworms and The Expression of Emotion in Animals."
Professor Robin Becker (Department of English, Penn State University): "Where Lyric Joins Narrative: A Poetry Reading and Discussion with Robin Becker."
Professor Robin Becker (Department of English, Penn State University): "Where Lyric Joins Narrative: A Poetry Reading and Discussion with Robin Becker."
Panel Discussion on the Nobel Prize for Literature: "The Significance of V.S. Naipaul as the 2001 Recipient."
Jeffrey Nealon (Associate Professor of English at Penn State): "Learning from Las Vegas II: Empire of the Intensities".
Andrzej Warminski (Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine): "Worked OR: Aesthetic Ideology/Material Inscription" (On Hegel's Aesthetics and Keats's Urn)
Andrzej Warminski (Professor of Comparative Literature, University of California at Irvine): "Worked OR: Aesthetic Ideology/Material Inscription" (On Hegel's Aesthetics and Keats's Urn)
Beatrice Hanssen (Associate Professor of German, Harvard University): "Black Skin, White Masks: Fanon, Melancholy, and Race."
Reingard Nethersole (Prof. of Cross Cultural Studies and Director, Center for International Political Studies, University of Pretoria; also Honorary Professorial Research Fellow, Graduate School for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Wi
Stanley Weintraub (Evan Pugh Professor of English and Comparative Literature Emeritus, Penn State University): "The Prince of Wales Makes a Royal Progress Through India, 1875-1876."
Sherry Roush (Assistant Professor of Italian, Penn State University): "What poets mean when they gloss their own verse: The cases of Dante and Tommaso Campanella."
Robert Lima (Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature, Fellow, Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies, Penn State University): "Entering Khufu: A Search in Secret Egypt"
Ronald Judy (Professor of English, University of Pittsburgh): "Global Literature and a Theory of Arabic Literary Modernism."
David Damrosch (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University): "What is World Literature?"
Rolando Hinojosa-Smith (Ellen Clayton Garwood Professor of English and Creative Writing, University of Texas, Austin): "This Writer's Sense of Place."
Roland Greene (Professor of English and Comparative Literature, Stanford University): "The Problem of the Transatlantic?"
Jonathan Culler (Senior Associate Dean College of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University): "The Genius of Roland Barthes."
Dr. Nawal El Saadawi (Egyptian novelist, essayist, and activist for women's rights): "The Situation of the Writer in Egypt Today."
Calin-Andrei Mihailescu (University of Western Ontario): "Myth and Habit."
Deborah Starr (Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies, Penn State University): "Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism."

Schuyler Henderson (M.D., New York City): "That Joke's Not Funny Anymore: Theories of Comedy and Suffering"

When	Feb 06, 2006 from 12:15 PM to 01:25 PM
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Department of Comparative Literature

Schuyler Henderson (M.D., New York City): "That Joke's Not Funny Anymore: Theories of Comedy and Suffering"