MLA Convention, Washington, DC
December 27-30, 2005

The Modern Language Association Convention, first held in 1883, is an annual gathering of teachers and scholars in the field of language and literature study. The convention enables members of the profession to share their ideas and research with colleagues from other universities and colleges.

Below is a schedule of Rutgers English faculty and students who are presenting papers and/or moderating panels, as well as the listing for the Rutgers English Cash Bar. See you in Washington, DC!

Tuesday, December 27, 2005

7:00–8:15pm, Wilson A. Marriott
The School of Criticism and Theory and Past, Present, and Future of Critical Theory
Michael D. Warner

Wednesday, December 28, 2005

8:30–9:45 am,Coolidge, Marriott
Embodiment and Mediation: Radical Theatrical Bodies in the Nineteenth Century
Matthew Buckley, Organizer and Chair

8:30–9:45 am, Park Tower Suite 8212, Marriott
Theorizing Tradition
" Division Executive Committee for Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Literature"
Paula J. McDowell, Organizer and Speaker

8:30–9:45 am, Park Tower Suite 8212, Marriott
Division on Restoration and Early-Eighteenth-Century English Literature
Theorizing Tradition
Michael McKeon, Chair

10:15–11:30 am, Coolidge, Marriott
"We Live in Fictional Times": The Creative Use of Nonfiction
"Blurred Boundaries: The Intersection of Fact and Fiction in Art Spiegelman's Maus "
Maria J. Rice

12:00–1:15 pm, Wilson B, Marriott
Old English Poetry: Bodies, Aesthetics, and Sexual Difference
"Labors of Violence and Strains of Sexual Difference in Genesis A and B"
Stacy S. Klein

1:45–3:00 pm, Virginia Suite A, Marriott
Program arranged by the Division on Seventeenth-Century English Literature
"War"
Ann Baynes Coiro, Organizer and Chair

3:30–4:45 pm, Delaware Suite B, Marriott
Victorian Tropicopolitanisms
"White Indians"
Kate Flint

7:15–8:30 pm, Carolina, Marriott
Writing Periodically: Theory
"Palaces of Paper: The Periodical Great Exhibition"
Jonah Sebastian Siegel

Thursday, December 29, 2005

8:30–9:45 am, Chevy Chase, Washington Hilton
Performing the Impossible II: Unimaginable Enactments
"Caryl churchill's Pregnant Impossibilities"
Elin Diamond

12:00–1:15 pm, Wilson C., Marriott
Rewriting the Capitol: Part-Time and Contingent Faculty Members Lobbying in Practice and Theory
Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Part-Time Faculty Members
Karen Thompson, Speaker

3:30–4:45 pm, Wilson C, Marriott
Franz Boas and the Harlem Renaissance
Bradley C. Evans, Chair and Response

3:30–4:45 pm, Wilson C, Marriott
Franz Boas and the Harlem Renaissance
"Characteristics of Cultural Exchange"
Sunny Stalter

7:15–8:30 pm., Faragut, Washington Hilton
Fictional Entomologies
"Curious Transports: Entomology and the Sublime of the Small in Eliza Haywood's Female Spectator"
Kristin M. Girtin

9:00–10:10 pm, Caucus, Washington Hilton
New Angles on Graphic Narratives
Hilary Chute, Panel Moderator

Friday, December 30, 2005

8:30–9:45 am, Map, Washington Hilton
Radical Theatricality and the Baroque Body
Anne Bayne Coiro, Chair

12:00–1:15 pm, Caucus, Washington Hilton
Cervantes in American Literature
"Quixotic History: Don Quixote and Diedrich Knickerbocker"
Jeffrey M. Scraba

9:00–10:15 pm, Wilson A, Marriott
The Fate of Rhetoric in Early Modern England
"Resorting to Reason: The Failures of Rhetoric in the English Civil War"
Thomas Fulton