Fictions of Citizenship
Session 1: Friday the 27th, 1:00-2:30
Panel Chair: Alden Marte-Wood

The Formation of Asian American Identity in Today’s Environmental Crises
Karen Siu

The Hook, the Line, and the Sinker
Lily Wulfemeyer

Asian American Literature & Impacts of Race and Immigraiton History on Family Dynamics and Generational Conflict
Ashley McDonald

Binaries in Fiction/Fictional Binaries
Session 2: Friday the 27th, 2:30-4:00
Panel Chair: Els Woudstra

Working-With Objects: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Giant Wisteria”
Chaney Hill

Our Mother who Art in Heaven: Anti-Colonial Women in Hageorn’s Dogeaters
Anna Ta

Shapes and Forms Long Since Withdrawn: The Monstrous Gods of HP Lovecraft
Thomas Millary

Radical Collegiality
Session 3: Friday the 27th,  4:00-5:30
Panel Chair: Betty Joseph

“Radical Collegiality:” A Conversation about Graduate Collaboration
Paul Burch, Brooke Clark, Sonia Del Hierro, Meredith McCullough, Kelly McKisson, SJ Stout

Reimagining 19th-Century America
Session 4: Saturday the 28th, 10:00-11:30
Panel Chair: John Crum

Alternate Americas: Civil War Counterfactuals in Fiction
Bryson Kisner

The Foundation of Intersectional Advocacy: Elite African American Women of the Greater Civil War Era
Nina Nevill

Revising South Texas Imaginaries with Jovita Gonzalez’s Caballero
Sophia Martinez-Abbud

Race and Resistance
Session 5: Saturday the 28th, 11:30-1:00
Panel Chair: Sonia Del Hierro

Loyalists and Slavery in East Florida, 1776-1804
Rebecca Earles

Fear of and Fascination with the Foreigner: Surveilling Sherlock’s Spaces
Ellie Mix

The Twin Hells: Anxiety, Morality, and Prison Voyeurism
Dru Sanders

Interdisciplinary Methodologies
Session 6: Saturday the 28th, 2:00-3:30
Panel Chair: Sam Stoeltje

“Team Humanities” Approach: Encouraging Interdisciplinary Intellectual Curiosity in Academic Research
Toni von dem Hagen

Illustrating Shakespeare: Textual and Visual Adaptation in Tales from Shakespeare
Nina Cook

The Literary Philosophic Method: Nietzsche’s Influence
Christian Blacét

The Beastly
Session 7: Saturday the 28th, 3:30-5:00
Panel Chair: Ron Broglio

South African Literature, Animals, Humans and the work of K. Sello Duiker
Rowan Morar

The Beast: Literal and Political
Stefan Sanchez

Beast-Becoming-Human as “infected carrier of the past”: Animality and Disability in Djuna Barnes’ Nightwood
Stacie Cruz