Sesson 4-N Italian Influences (Parliament 7th Floor) Chair: James Nagel, University of Georgia 1. Duchesses and their Villas: A Short Tour of Literary and Visual The Duchess at Prayer’s “Italian Sources,” Elisabetta Mezzani, Independent Scholar 2. Italian-American Literature: Umbertina,” Frank Gado, Independent Scholar “Defining Session 4-O Food and Metaphor (Mastiff 7th Floor) Chair: Gail Sinclair, Rollins College 1. Literary Study of Food, Gender, and Social Injustice in Literature of the U.S.-Mexico Border Region “A (1980-2002),” Rosalinda Salazar, University of California, Davis 2. Escape from the Patriarchal in Doris Betts’s The Sharp Teeth of Love,” Jennifer Martin, “The University of South Carolina 3. Research Beer, and a Piece of Tibetan Peach Pie: Historical Materialism in Tom Robbin’s “The Later Works,” Liam O. Purdon, Doane College 4. WASP and a Geechee Girl Walk Into La Cuisine: Julia Child and Vertamae Grosvenor’s Cooking “A Adventures in Paris,” Christina G. Bucher, Berry College Session 4-P Becoming Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (North Star 7th Floor) Organized by the Agee Society Mary Richards, University of Delaware 1. Recapturable Instant’: The Composition of James Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,” “‘Every Hugh Davis, Piedmont College 2. Tenants’ to Famous Men: A Comparative Analysis of Change,” Michael A. Lofaro, “From ‘Cotton University of Tennessee Thursday May 21, 2015 3:00 4:20 pm – The Bostonians Session 5-A Boston, Bostonians and (St George A 3rd Floor) Organized by the James Society Kathleen Lawrence, Brandeis University 1. Bostons,” Daniel Karlin, University of Bristol “Other 2. New Bostonians: Jamesian presence in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Fiction,” Linda Raphael, George “The Washington University
Sesson 4-N Italian Influences (Parliament 7th Floor) Chair: James Nagel, University of Georgia 1. “Italian Duchesses and their Villas: A Short Tour of The Duchess at Prayer’s Literary and Visual Sources,” Elisabetta Mezzani, Independent Scholar 2. “Defining Italian-American Literature: Umbertina,” Frank Gado, Independent Scholar Session 4-O Food and Metaphor (Mastiff 7th Floor) Chair: Gail Sinclair, Rollins College 1. “A Literary Study of Food, Gender, and Social Injustice in Literature of the U.S.-Mexico Border Region (1980-2002),” Rosalinda Salazar, University of California, Davis 2. “The Escape from the Patriarchal in Doris Betts’s The Sharp Teeth of Love,” Jennifer Martin, University of South Carolina 3. “The Research Beer, and a Piece of Tibetan Peach Pie: Historical Materialism in Tom Robbin’s Later Works,” Liam O. Purdon, Doane College 4. “A WASP and a Geechee Girl Walk Into La Cuisine: Julia Child and Vertamae Grosvenor’s Cooking Adventures in Paris,” Christina G. Bucher, Berry College Session 4-P Becoming Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (North Star 7th Floor) Organized by the Agee Society Mary Richards, University of Delaware 1. “‘Every Recapturable Instant’: The Composition of James Agee’s Let Us Now Praise Famous Men,” Hugh Davis, Piedmont College 2. “From ‘Cotton Tenants’ to Famous Men: A Comparative Analysis of Change,” Michael A. Lofaro, University of Tennessee Thursday May 21, 2015 3:00 – 4:20 pm Session 5-A Boston, Bostonians and The Bostonians (St George A 3rd Floor) Organized by the James Society Kathleen Lawrence, Brandeis University 1. “Other Bostons,” Daniel Karlin, University of Bristol 2. “The New Bostonians: Jamesian presence in Jhumpa Lahiri’s Fiction,” Linda Raphael, George Washington University