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PRESIDENT VICE-PRESIDENT SECRETARY-TREASURER Lynne Adrian Bill Atwill Ruth Banes Ralph Bogardus Thomas Bonner, Jr. Michael D. Clark Richard Collin Susan V. Donaldson Peter W. Dowell Cristine Levenduski Townsend Ludington |
Past President Matthew Mancini History, Southwest Missouri State University Richard Megraw Lisa Nanney Peggy Whitman Prenshaw Lorenzo Thomas, Cecelia Tichi The following individuals and organizations are recognized with appreciation for integral roles in planning the conference. Southern American Studies Association University of North Carolina at Wilmington
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There will be over 90 presenters at the 1999 Biennial meeting of the Southern American Studies Association, February 25-28, 1999 at the Wilmington Hilton Riverside. The Plenary speakers will be Walter Hoelbling and Michael Berube. Other events include a walking tour of Wilmington's historic district, tour of Ft. Fisher Civil War battlefield, and river taxi excursion to the U.S. S. North Carolina. The Southern American Studies Association is the largest and one of the most respected regional chapters of the American Studies Association (U.S.A.). SASA, with a mailing list of over 700 and an active membership of 500, presents new developments and findings in American Studies scholarship, identifies and defines areas of debate about the nature of American culture and its study, and conducts cultural and historical programs on the South and its communities. American Studies specifies an interdisciplinary investigation of American culture in order to better understand the institutional patterns, beliefs, and values of America pluralistic society Al l presenters must be members of the American Studies Association. Membership in the National American Studies Association includes membership in the member's regional chapter and subscriptions to the American Quarterly, ASA Newsletter, and the annual program. Members of the American Studies Association can also elect to join additional regional chapters. For information about the American Studies Association, call 202-467-4783. To become a member of the Association, call Johns Hopkins University Press at 410-516-6945 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION INFORMATION Registration for the Southern American Studies Association meeting is $30.00 for students, $60.00 for all others. Registration must be received by January 15, 1999. There is a $10.00 late fee for registering at the conference. Make checks payable to: Southern American Studies Association and mail to Bill Atwill, Conference Coordinator, Dept. of English UNCW, 601 S. College Rd., Wilmington, NC 28403. UNCW reference account: # 9-98007. |
WALTER HOELBLING Walter Hoelbling is the Secretary of the European American Studies Association and Associate Professor of American Studies Department at Karl-Franzens-University Graz, Austria. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard, Minnesota, Michigan, and Stanford. His research interests include U. S. literary history and criticism, general literary theory, with emphasis on the socio-cultural context of literary aesthetics; methodology of American Studies and interdisciplinary approaches; literature and war; feminist (literary) theory and practice; theory and practice of intercultural exchange; literature into film; documentary film; U.S. popular culture; European migration to the U.S.; emigrant literature. He is currently working on a study of Austrian refugee publishers in the U.S. after 1938. Professor Hoelbling's authored and co-edited publications include: Fiktionen vom Krieg im neueren amerikanischen Roman; Utopian Thought in American Literature: Untersuchungen zur literarischen Utopie und Dystopie in den U. S. A.; The European Emigrant Experience in the United States. ; Krieg der Bilder: U. S. Dokumentarfilme zum Zweiten Weltkrieg und zu Vietnam. Trier: WVT, 1993. MICHAEL BERUBE Michael Berube is professor of English and University Scholar at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the director of the Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities. He has written extensively on issues involving literary and cultural studies; disability and mainstreaming; race, education, an American intellectuals; postmodernism and human rights; and American cultural politics. His publications include: The Employment of English: Theory, Jobs, and the Future of Literary Studies; Public Access: Literary Theory and American Cultural Politics; Higher Education Under Fire: Politics, Economics, and the Crisis of the Humanities; Edited with Cary Nelson; Marginal Forces/Cultural Centers: Tolson, Pynchon, and the Politics of the Canon; and Life As We Know It: A Father, A Family, and an Exceptional Child. He has also written for a wide variety of academic and general publications, ranging from the Minnesota Review and the Yale Journal of Criticism to Dissent, Tikkun, and the New Yorker. |
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The Southern American Studies Association Banquet will be held Saturday evening at 7:30 p.m. at the Hilton Riverside . The cost is $25.00. Advance reservations are necessary. Please indicate if you are planning to attend the banquet when you send in your conference registration. RESERVATION INFORMATION FOR THE WILMINGTON HILTON RIVERSIDE A block of rooms have been reserved at the Hilton Wilmington Riverside at a conference rate of $100.00 per night, double occupancy. The Hilton offers complimentary shuttle service to and from the Wilmington International Airport. Reservations should be made by January 30, 1999 directly to the Wilmington Hilton : 1 800-445-8667 attn: Southern American Studies Association. |
TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION By Air: Direct flights to Wilmington are available on U.S. Airways, although most involve changes through U.S. Air's hub in Charlotte, NC. Delta also offers service to Wilmington., though somewhat limited. By Car: From points north: Take I-95 South to I-40 East and follow signs to U.S. 17 South/Market St. Follow Market St. to the river and turn right. The Hilton is two blocks up on the left. From points south: Take I-95 North to U.S. 74/76 East. Stay on U.S. 74/76 until you cross the Cape Fear River Bridge. Turn left on 3rd Street and go approx. 8 blocks to Market St. Turn left and go to the river. Turn right to Hilton two blocks on the left. |
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1999
5:00-7:20 p.m. Registration
UPPER LOBBY
Coffee and Tea
Book Exhibit
GARDEN
ROOM
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY, 26, 1999
8:00-2:00 Registration
UPPER
LOBBY
9:00-10:30 A.M. CONCURRENT SESSIONS9:00-10:30 a.m. CAROLINA ROOM
1. MEMORY, REGION, AND MIDDLE AMERICA
CHAIR: Ruth Banes, University of South Florida
David R. Haus Jr., American Studies, Bowling Green University Haven of Bliss: Memory, Nostalgia, Environment and the Middle America of Jean Shepherd.
Carter Meyer, English, Ramapo College
Edgar Hewett and the Invention of Southwestern Identity"
Barbara Looney, Atlanta, GA
Remembering, Reconsidering and Reinterpreting:
Literary Reflections upon the Rancher's Shifted Role
William Ellis, History, Eastern Kentucky My Mind on the River:" The Kentucky River as Subculture
9:00-10:30 a.m.
AZALEA
ROOM
2. DOWN ON THE CORNER: RACE, GENDER, AND THE MODERN CITY
CHAIR: Lynne Adrian, American Studies, University of Alabama
Eric Lizee, University of Alabama
Black Roots, White Fruits: Rap Music and Cultural Crossing
Eleanor H. McConnell, University of Alabama
The Scene of the Crime: Mapping Baltimore in Homicide
Robert Hill, University of Alabama
Becoming Black, Becoming Woman: Elaine Brown and Gender Dynamic within the Black
Panther Party
9:00-10:30 a.m
CAPE
FEAR ROOM
3. AUTOBIOGRAPHY, TRAUMA, AND TRANSITION
CHAIR: Barbara Waxman, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Susan M. Moynihan, English, Purdue University Autobiographical Witnessing: Memories of American Internment Camps in Yoshiko Uchida's "Desert Exile"
Clifford. J. Marks, English, University of Wyoming Against Ethics: Remembering One's Life in "Maus"
Lisa Muir, English, Appalachian State University Memory and Memorialization: The Autobiographical Self Called 'Ethnic'"
Barbara Waxman, English, University of North Carolina at Wilmington Cultural Memories, New Language: Autobiography by Richard Rodriguez and Esmeralda Santiago
11:00-12:30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS
11:00-12:30
CAROLINA
ROOM
4. THE CAMERA'S EYE: IMAGE AND COLLECTIVE MEMORY
CHAIR: Matthew Mancini, Southwest Missouri State University
Leslie Frost, American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Children and Machines: Lewis Hines's Photography for the National Child Labor
Committee
Janna Jones, Interdisciplinary Studies, University of South Florida
A Sense of the Past: Public and Private Memory at a Preserved Picture Palace
Steve Minney, American Studies, University of Wales, Swansea
Collective Memory and the Historic Instantaneous
Paul Grainge, American Studies, University of Nottingham
TIME's Past and Present: Nostalgia and the Black and White Image
11:00-12:30
CAPE
FEAR ROOM
5. VIETNAM AND ITS NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTS
CHAIR: Walter Hoelbling, KarlFranzen University, Graz,
Austria
Pamela Steinle, American Studies, California State University--Fullerton
What the War in Vietnam 'Was Like:' Fictionalized Narratives and the Construction of
Popular Historical Knowledge
Jon Roper, American Studies, University of Wales
Challenging the Meta-Narrative of American History: The Vietnam War
and the Legitimization of a Postmodern Sensibility
Donna Packer-Kinlaw, English, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Vietnam, Memory, and Fiction in the Works of Tim O'Brien
11:00-12:30
AZALEA
ROOM
6. REMEMBERING TO FORGET, FORGETTING TO REMEMBER
CHAIR:
Lynell Thomas, American Studies, Emory University
Counter-Memory and Counter-Narrative: Revising History
Through Atlanta's African American Tourism
Barbara Baker, English, Tuskegee University
Riffing on Memory: The Blues in Lewis Nordan's Music of the Swamp
Mark A. Krasovic, American Studies, Michigan State University
Narratives of Identity and Memory: Ex-Slave Interviews by The Federal Writer's Project
Wendy Gaudin, History, New York University
The Rhythm Night Club Fire of 1940: Recovery and Deference in Jim Crow Natchez
12:30-2:00 LUNCH
2:00-3:30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS
2:00-3:30
CAROLINA
ROOM
7. REMEMBERING THE DREAMS DEFERRED
CHAIR: Michael Clark, University of New Orleans
Brian J. Finnegan, American Studies, George Washington University
Paradoxes of U.S. Liberalism Abroad in the Americas: Narratives on Chile
Tasslyn Frame, American Studies, Case Western Reserve University
Engaging Atomic Memories at the National Air and Space Museum
Virginia Jenkins, Takoma Park, MD
The 1918 Spanish Influenza Pandemic and Public Forgetting
Edward Tang, History, University of Alabama
Reforming History and Memory: Catherine Maria Sedgwick's
Vision for the Early Republic
2:00-3:30
CAPE
FEAR ROOM
8. EVERYDAY USE: WAYS OF REMEMBERING
CHAIR:
Deborah Grayson, School of Literature, Communication, and Culture, Georgia
Institute of Technology
A Stitch at a Time: Piecing History and Memory Together in African American Women's
Quilting and Quiltmaking Traditions
Lindsay Aegerter, English, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Memory in Beloved
Andrew Levy, English, Butler University
A General Good Time: Huckleberry Finn meets Brown v. Board of Education
Susan Curtis, History, Purdue University
Memory and American Historians
2:00-3:30
AZALEA
ROOM
9. MILLENIUMS AND POSTMODERN MEMORIES
CHAIR:
Jeanne Holland, English, University of Wyoming
How to Become and American Saint: Engendering Recollections of UFO Abductees' Repressed
Memories
Phil Melling, American Studies, University of Wales
Narratives of Jewish Memory within Fundamentalism As Sources of Animation in American
Protestant Millenialist History
Stefan Gunther, English, Brandeis University
Postmodern Form and the Hermeneutics of Memory
in the Novels of D.M. Thomas and W. G. Sebald"
4:00-4:45 PLENARY SPEAKER AZALEA ROOM
Walter Hoelbling: Coming Into View: European (Re-)Visions
of "America" After World War II
4:45-5:30 PANEL DISCUSSION
AZALEA ROOM
6:00-7:00 RECEPTION WITH CASH BAR GARDEN ROOM
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1999
9:00-10:30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS
9:00-10:30
CAPE
FEAR ROOM
10. GENERATING THE MYTHIC WEST: ORIGINS, THEMES, AND COUNTER-MYTHS
CHAIR:
Patricia Kalayjian, English, California State University--DH
Alone Together: The Contradictory Impulses of Western Settlement"
Kathryn West, English, Bellarmine College
The Lines of Demarcation Has Gotten Fuzzy': Borders and the Memory of Borders in John
Sayles' "Lone Star"
John Orr, English, University Of Portland The Brute, the Knight, and the West as Naturalistic Proving Ground
9:00-10:30
CAROLINA
ROOM
11. CONSPIRACY, CAPITAL AND PUBLIC WILL
CHAIR:Townsend Ludington, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kathleen Drowne, American Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
American Literary Responses to National Prohibition
Lisa McNary, History, University of Miami
The Labor Trial of the Century: How a Capitalist Conspiracy Inadvertently Gave Labor
the Power to Succeed
Melissa Chinchillo, History, State University of New York at Stony Brook
Whose Memory Can We Trust?: Conspiracy and 20th Century Culture
9:00-10:30
AZALEA
ROOM
12. GOING OUTSIDE THE CIRCLE: THE ARTS INCREASING INVOLVEMENT IN SOCIAL CONCERNS
CHAIR: Dennis Moore, Florida State University
Sally McRorie, Art Education, Florida State University
Frenchtown, Pragmatic Aesthetics and Ethics
Jane Hughes, Tallahassee, FL
Music Therapy: Harnessing the Power of Music for Change
Lynda Davis, Dance, Florida State University
Sites and Insights: Dance as Mirror
Nicholas Mazza, Social Work, Florida State University
Poetry Therapy: Interface of Literary, Therapeutic, and Social Concerns
Respondent: Michael Sikes, Charlotte, NC
11:00-12:30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS
11:00-12:30
CAROLINA
ROOM
13. NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE: LIMINALITY, MEMORY AND TRADITION
CHAIR: Lee Schweninger, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Chris LaLonde, English, North Carolina Wesleyan University
"Middle Place', "Louis Owens' Bone Game, and Healing
Roseanne Hoefel, English, Alma College
Cosmogyny and Memory in Linda Hogan's Solar Storms
Clyde Ellis, English, Elon College
"Those Songs, You Know They Tell Us About Ourselves": Music and the
Construction of Memory in the Kiowa and Comanche Community of Southwest Oklahoma
Lee Schweninger, English, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Delineating Discourse: Joy Harjo Reinvents Tradition
11:00-12:30
CAPE
FEAR ROOM
14. HOW WE REMEMBER: POPULAR CULTURE IN POST-WAR AMERICA
CHAIR: Michael Wentworth, English, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Ingrid Fields, American Studies, Transylvania University
Unforgettable: The Epistemology of Memory in X-Files and Conspiracy Theory
Sean McCann, American Studies, Wesleyan University
Buried Crimes: Contemporary Detective Stories and Memories of Post-War Liberalism
Jeffrey MacIntyre, American Studies, University of British Columbia
Contesting Auras: Hollywood Film and the Historical Sublime
11:00-12:30
AZALEA
ROOM
15. AFRICAN-AMERICAN IDENTITY AND PUBLIC HISTORY
CHAIR:Melton McLaurin, History, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Micki McElya, American Studies, New York University
Monumental Identities: Reading the Early 20th Century Mammy Commemoration Controversy
Matthew Hyland, American Studies, College of William and Mary
Representations of African American History and Culture at James Madison's Montpelier
Melton McLaurin, History, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
From Individual to Collective Memory: Commemorating Wilmington's Racial Violence of
1898
Margaret Mulrooney, History, Marymount University
Perils and Possibilities of Public History: Business, 'Boosterism' and Wilmington's
Remembering Wilmington's Racial Violence
12:30-2:00 LUNCH
12:30-2:00 WALKING TOUR OF HISTORIC WILMINGTON
2:00-3:30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS
2:00-3:30
CAROLINA
ROOM
16. BROTHERS, COWBOYS, AND EXODUSTERS: MEMORIES OF SOUTHERN MANHOOD
CHAIR:
John Lowe, American Studies, Louisiana State University
Fraternal Fury in Faulkner's As I Lay Dying
Tim Powell, English, University of Georgia
Mexican Brother or Shadowy Other: The Construction of White Manhood in Cormac
McCarthy's All the Pretty Horses
Carolyn Jones, American Studies, Louisiana State University
Myths of Southern Manhood in Toni Morrison's Paradise
2:00-3:30
AZALEA
ROOM
17. REMEMBERING THE MODERNIST MOMENT
CHAIR:Phil Furia, English, University of North Carolina
at Wilmington
Richard Megraw, American Studies, University of Alabama
Modernism as Culture
Paul Gorman, American Studies, University
of Alabama
Reluctant Modernism: Lyle Saxon and New Deal New Orleans
Amilcar Shabazz, African American Studies, University of Alabama
Bird Hunting: BeBop and the Politics of Authenticity
Raymond Blair, American Studies, University of Alabama
Bob Dylan Revisited
2:00-3:30
CAPE FEAR ROOM
18. THE ART OF VISUAL MEMORY
CHAIR:
Virginia Jones, English, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
American Modernism and the Celebration of Primitivism
Michael Cook, Art, University of New Mexico
'Instructions': A Visual Presentation on Mythic American Monuments
4:00-4:45 PLENARY SPEAKER AZALEA ROOM
Michael Berube, Academic Postmodernists and the State of the State
4:45-5:30 PANEL DISCUSSION
Michael Berube, Andrew Levy,
SASA BANQUET 7:00
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28,1999
9:00-10:30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS
9:00-10:30
CAROLINA
ROOM
19. "MONSTERS OF CONSCIOUSNESS": EMOTIONAL EXCURSIONS INTO THE
INTELLECTUAL HISTORY OF OUR TIME
CHAIR:
James E. Ryan, History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Transcendentalism's Architectural Memory: Frank Lloyd Wright,
R. Buckminster Fuller, and American Utopia
David J. Syracuse, Independent Scholar, Chapel Hill, NC
"The Blast Resistless": A Temporal Encapsulation of the Affinity
Between Perry Miller and J. Robert Oppenheimer.
9:00-10:30
AZALEA
ROOM
20. UNRAVELING POSTMODERN GENEALOGIES
CHAIR:
Diana K. Campbell, High Point, NC
Melungeons on the Internet: Lost Tribe and Postmodern Symbol
Michele Shauf, Georgia Institute of Technology
The Weaver House: Historical Memory and New Media
Pam Wilson, Robert Morris College.
Unraveling the Mysteries of Memory, Family, and Community:
Genealogy and Cultural Identity in the Age of the Internet
Anne McClanan, Art History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
William Edmundson and the Problem of History: A Southern
Self-Taught Artist and the Primitive Baptist Church
9:00-10:30
CAPE
FEAR ROOM
21. FILM AND THE AMERICAN CENTURY
CHAIR
Randall Clark, English, Pfeiffer University
Going Nowhere Fast: Walter Hill's Retro-Fantasy "Streets of Fire"
Calinda N. Lee, American Studies, Emory University
Black Press Response to the Film "Pinky": Censorship and the Culture of
Dissemblance
Donald Whaley, American Studies, Salisbury State University
From 'Joe Cantwell' to Oliver Stone: Hollywood's Nixon
11:00-12:30 CONCURRENT SESSIONS
11:00-12:30
AZALEA
ROOM
22. COLLABORATING TO REMEMBER: JANE DUDLEY'S "BIRD AS PROPHET"
CHAIR: Patty Phillips, Florida State University
Patty Phillips, Dance, Florida State University
Jane Dudley, Memory, and the Preservation of Dance
Jamuna Hayes, Dance, Florida State University
Performing "Bird As Prophet"
11:00-12:30
CAROLINA
ROOM
23. WILDERNESS AND BEWILDERMENT: REGION AND IDENTITY
CHAIR:
Lisa Nanney, NC School of Science and Math
Remembering and Recreating Wilderness: The Image of 'Mountain of the
Holy Cross' as Cultural Icon and Environmental Catalyst
Foote Stephanie, History, University of Illinois
Regionalism and the Identity of Class
Jarod Kearney, Greensboro Historical Museum
Katherine Maynard, English, Rider University
Theodore Kaczynski: The American Adam as Cult Hero and 'Isolated Nut'
11:00-12:30
CAPE
FEAR ROOM
24. MEMORY AND LOCATION IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH
CHAIR: Thomas Bonner, Xavier University
Thomas Bonner, English, Xavier University
John Faulkner's Mythical Mississippi County
Leslie Abadie, American Studies, University of Iowa
All of Your Vision and None of My Own: The Transformation of a Southern Square
Joe Sarnowski, Toledo, Ohio
The Terrible Distance: Robert Penn Warren's (Unwritten) Story of Romantic Love.
