Guide to Digital-Humanities Talks at the 2006 MLA Convention

Summary of Sessions

30: Rhetoricizing Technology, Technologizing Rhetoric

Wednesday, 27 December 2006, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 411–412, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Division on the History and Theory of Rhetoric and Composition

Presiding: Peter Leslie Mortensen, University of Illinois, Urbana

• “The Rhetorical Canons as an Ecology of (New Media) Practice,” Collin Gifford Brooke, Syracuse University
• “The Typesetter as the Scapegoat of Industrial Literature,” Cary Hollinshead-Strick, University of Pennsylvania
• “Molecular Vision: Analogies of Technology in the Bio-Nano Age,” Michelle A. Sidler, Auburn University, Auburn

91: iPod Capitalism

Wednesday, 27 December 2006, 8:45–10:00 p.m., 308, Philadelphia Marriott.

A special session.

Presiding: Robert A. Wilkie, University at Albany, State University of New York

• “Technology, the Image, and the Production of Value,” Paul Smith, George Mason University
• “DeLillo's Financial Sublime,” Alison Shonkwiler, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
• “Red Critique in a Digital World,” Robert A. Wilkie

105: Innovative Uses of Technology in L1 and L2 Writing

Thursday, 28 December 2006, 8:30–9:45 a.m., Regency Ballroom C, Loews.

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Information Technology

• “Meet EMMA: The English Markup and Management Application,” June Anne Griffin, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
• “Making the Case for Online Composition Classes,” Catherine Carsley, University of Maryland, Adelphi
• “Improvising Writing and Critical Thinking in an Online Forum,” Emily E. Scida, University of Virginia
• “Computer Stories: Using Web Pages for Creative Writing in a Foreign Language,” Sylvia H. Rieger, Harvard University
• “Using Mark Twain's Digital Manuscripts in Teaching Composition,” Matthew Klauza, Auburn University, Auburn
• “Virtual Peer Review: Bringing the Classroom Together One Click at a Time,” Lesley L. Broder, Stony Brook University, State University of New York
• “Digital Literacies: New Directions for Teaching Writing,” Regina A. Clemens-Fox, Arizona State University, Tempe

108: Walter J. Ong's Orality and Literacy at Twenty-Five

Thursday, 28 December 2006, 8:30–9:45 a.m., Congress C, Loews.

A special session.

Presiding: John P. Walter, Saint Louis University

• “Orality, Literacy, and Ong's Asymmetrical Opposition,” Jerry S. Harp, Lewis and Clark College
• “Orality and Literacy as a Methodological Apparatus for Examining Women's Rhetorics,” Melissa Jane Fiesta, California State University, Long Beach
• “Ong, Derrida, and the New Media Theory,” David Martyn, Macalester College

For copies of abstracts, visit www.jpwalter.com/MLA2006.

111: Everquesting: Digital Learning and the Humanities

Thursday, 28 December 2006, 8:30–9:45 a.m., Liberty Ballroom Salon C, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the MLA Executive Council

Presiding: Priscilla B. Wald, Duke University

• Anne Balsamo, University of Southern California
• Cathy N. Davidson, Duke University
• Anna Everett, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Douglas Thomas, University of Southern California

112: Remapping Genre

Thursday, 28 December 2006, 8:30–9:45 a.m., Commonwealth Hall A2, Loews.

Program arranged by the PMLA Editorial Board

Presiding: Wai Chee Dimock, Yale University

• “A Labor Theory of Translation,” Emily S. Apter, New York University
• “Translating Genre: Whitman Crossing Borders Electronically,” Ed Folsom, University of Iowa
• “Genre as Somatype: Medieval Chinese Genre Theory,” Stephen Owen, Harvard University
• “The Last Night of All: The Unfinishable Work as a Genre,” Michael Wood, Princeton University

133: The Sound of Poetry, the Poetry of Sound

Thursday, 28 December 2006, 10:00–11:45 a.m., Regency Ballroom A & B, Loews.

The Presidential Forum. Presiding: Marjorie Gabrielle Perloff, Stanford University

• Susan A. Stewart, Princeton University
• Susan Howe, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
• Charles Bernstein, University of Pennsylvania
• Yoko Tawada, Hamburg, Germany
• Kenneth Goldsmith, New York, NY

For coordinated workshops, see meetings 192 and 244 and 272.

144: Screening the War Machine: Cinema, Sovreignty, Surveillance

Thursday, 28 December 2006, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 306, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Division on Film

Presiding: Anna Everett, University of California, Santa Barbara

• “Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Documentary: Political Aesthetics in Still Life,” Terri J. Ginsberg, New York, NY
• “Electronic Media and the Feminine: The Manchurian Candidate before and after 9/11,” Mark Edwin Wildermuth, University of Texas of the Permian Basin
• “The Battle of Algiers Redux,” Elizabeth Dale Samet, United States Military Academy

155: Edition Wars

Thursday, 28 December 2006, 10:15–11:30 a.m., Grand Ballroom Salon I, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions

Presiding: Nicholas Halmi, University of Washington, Seattle

• Martha Nell Smith, University of Maryland, College Park
• Nigel S. Smith, Princeton University
• Gordon Teskey, Harvard University

173: Textual Materialities

Thursday, 28 December 2006, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Grand Ballroom Salon I, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Society for Textual Scholarship

Presiding: Neil Fraistat, University of Maryland, College Park

• “Save As: Textual Studies and the Challenges of Born-Digital Literature,” Matthew Gary Kirschenbaum, University of Maryland, College Park
• “Picture Criticism: Textual Studies and the Image,” Kari M. Kraus, University of Rochester
• “Textual Studies and the Book,” Peter Bigland Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania

193: Wikis, Authority, and the Public Sphere: Examining the Impact of Dynamic, Multiauthored Digital Texts

Thursday, 28 December 2006, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Grand Ballroom Salon L, Philadelphia Marriott.

A special session.

Presiding: Amit Ray, Rochester Institute of Technology

• “The Digital Palimpsest: Reviewing the Author Function in the Age of Wikis,” Erhardt Graeff, Rochester Institute of Technology; Amit Ray
• “Wikipedia: The University and the Open Archive,” David Parry, University at Albany, State University of New York
• “Rewriting Hejinian's My Life: Authorship, Gender, and Drag on a Collaborative Wiki,” Leisha J. Jones, Penn State University, University Park

For copies of abstracts and working papers, visit http://honors.rit.edu/~wiki.

194: Literary Studies in the Public Sphere

Thursday, 28 December 2006, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Liberty Ballroom Salon C, Philadelphia Marriott.

A special session.

Presiding: Jeffrey J. Williams, Carnegie Mellon University

• “Professors without Borders: Literary Bloggers and the Public Sphere,” Amardeep Singh, Lehigh University
• “The Uses of Literature: An Un-manifesto,” Rita Felski, University of Virginia
• “Critical Conditions: Writing Online and Off,” Michael F. Bérubé, Penn State University, University Park

232: Digital Medievalism and the Single Scholar

Thursday, 28 December 2006, 1:45–3:00 p.m., Grand Ballroom Salon K, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Association for Computers and the Humanities

Presiding: Dorothy Carr Porter, University of Kentucky

• “The Whole World on My iBook: The Cotton Anglo-Saxon Mappamundi Project,” Martin Foys, Hood College
• “Saints, Technology, and the Art of Collaboration,” Amy Ogden, University of Virginia
• “Reflections of a Digital Antiquary,” David Radcliffe, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

For copies of abstracts, visit www.ach.org/mla/mla06/ after 1 November.

233: Researching Advanced Foreign Language Learning

Thursday, 28 December 2006, 1:45–3:00 p.m., Washington C, Loews.

Program arranged by the Division on Applied Linguistics

Presiding: Julia R. Herschensohn, University of Washington, Seattle

• “Comparison of Two Spanish Composition and Conversation Classes: Explicit and Implicit Focus on Form,” Graziela Rondon-Pari, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
• “Using Corpora to Research Advanced Language Writing,” Estela Ene, University of Arizona, Tucson

244: Sounding the Visual

Thursday, 28 December 2006, 1:45–3:00 p.m., Regency Ballroom C, Loews.

A workshop arranged in conjunction with the forum “The Sound of Poetry, the Poetry of Sound”.

Presiding: Johanna Drucker, University of Virginia

• Hélène Aji, Université du Maine, Le Mans
• Roland Greene, Stanford University
• Brian M. Reed, University of Washington, Seattle
• Johanna Drucker
• Joan Retallack, Bard College
• Ming-Qian Ma, University at Buffalo, State University of New York

268: Siting Citation: Quotation, Paratexts, and the Poetics of the Social

Thursday, 28 December 2006, 3:30–4:45 p.m., Grand Ballroom Salon L, Philadelphia Marriott.

A special session.

Presiding: Alan C. Golding, University of Louisville

• “Miss M[arianne] M[oore]: ‘Bulldoggy’ on Suffrage,” Mary A. M. Chapman, University of British Columbia
• “The Footnote Poem: Avant-Garde Poetics and Institutional Form(ation)s,” Alan C. Golding
• “Notes on Flarf; or, The Internet and Avant-Garde Formalism,” Vincent Nicholas LoLordo, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

269: Bilingualism, Language Contact, and Language Learning

Thursday, 28 December 2006, 3:30–4:45 p.m., Congress B, Loews.

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on General Linguistics

Presiding: Roslyn Sue Raney, College of San Mateo, CA

• “Bilingualism as a Threat to Languages: The Paradox of Language Endangerment,” Janina Brutt-Griffler, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
• “Sächsisch als Verlierersprache? Insights into the Status of Saxon German Fifteen Years after Reunification,” Keith Kennetz, University of Georgia
• “Methodological Approaches in Computer-Mediated Communication in the Second or Foreign Language Classroom: Implications for Theory and Practice,” Bryan Smith, Arizona State University, Tempe
• “The Role of ASL in the English Prose of Deaf College Students,” Rebecca S. Day Babcock, University of Texas of the Permian Basin
• “Nonlinguist American Raters' Ability to Detect Segmental and Suprasegmental Features in the Romanian Accent in English,” Iulia Pittman, Auburn University, Auburn

270: (Re)Imaging the Performance Archive

Thursday, 28 December 2006, 3:30–4:45 p.m., 306, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Division on Drama

• “Homo Sacer Data Bodies,” Jon McKenzie, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
• “Performing for an Alternative Archive in July Monarchy France,” Cary Hollinshead-Strick, University of Pennsylvania

282: Digital Shakespeares

Thursday, 28 December 2006, 3:30–4:45 p.m., Liberty Ballroom Salon C, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Division on Shakespeare

Presiding: Lowell Gallagher, University of California, Los Angeles

• “Shakespeare Film in the Age of Digital Incunabula (1984–2000),” Peter S. Donaldson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• “Cyber Shakespeare: The Impact of Non-English Sites and Archives,” Alexander C. Y. Huang, Penn State University, University Park
• “The Panopticon in the Playground: Shakespeare and Appropriation Online,” Christy Desmet, University of Georgia; Sujata Iyengar, University of Georgia

333: Reportage, Class, and War

Thursday, 28 December 2006, 7:15–8:30 p.m., 306, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Division on Nonfiction Prose Studies, Excluding Biography and Autobiography

Presiding: Jennifer L. Bernhardt Steadman, Trinity College, CT

• “Remember the Maine? Journalistic Interpellation and the Spanish-American War,” Tania Gentic-Valencia, University of Pennsylvania
• “Ernie Pyle, Meet Busby Berkeley and the Matrix: The Technomechanization of the Working Class in World War II and Iraq,” Todd Vogel, University of Washington, Bothell
• ““For Y'All This Is Just a Show but We Live in This Movie”: Vietnam, Iraq, and the War Documentary,” Tony Grajeda, University of Central Florida

337: High-Performance Computing and Textual Studies

Thursday, 28 December 2006, 7:15–8:30 p.m., Regency Ballroom C1, Loews.

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Information Technology

Presiding: Geoffrey Rockwell, McMaster University

• “What Is High-Performance Computing, and Why Does It Matter?” Geoffrey Rockwell
• “A Million Books and High-Performance Computing,” Gregory Crane, Tufts University

347: Research Instruction: Teaching Information Literacy with the MLA International Bibliography

Friday, 29 December 2006, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 404, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the MLA Advisory Committee on the MLA International Bibliography

Presiding: H. Faye Christenberry, University of Washington, Seattle

• “Joining the Academic Conversation: Faculty Member–Librarian Collaboration in Teaching the MLA International Bibliography to Undergraduates,” Laura R. Braunstein, Dartmouth College
• “Information Literacy and the MLA International Bibliography: A Core Competency for Undergraduates,” Robert Matuozzi, Pullman, WA
• “Using the Interdisciplinary Nature of the MLA International Bibliography to Teach Information Literacy,” Elisabeth E. Pankl, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

349: Theory of Mind across Disciplines

Friday, 29 December 2006, 8:30–9:45 a.m., Liberty Ballroom Salon A, Philadelphia Marriott.

A special session.

Presiding: Peter J. Simon, W. W. Norton

• “Theory of Mind and the Rhetoric of Composition,” Joseph Bizup, Columbia University
• “Theory of Mind, Detective Fiction, and the Case Method,” Simon Stern, Harvard University
• “Dontdatehimgirl.com and Theory of Mind; or, When Literary Criticism Met Cognitive Science,” Lisa Zunshine, University of Kentucky

Respondent: Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Duke University

371: Cyphernetics: Signs, Codes, Texts

Friday, 29 December 2006, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 306, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Division on Literature and Science

Presiding: Arielle Saiber, Bowdoin College

• “Order from Order,” Wendy H. Chun, Brown University
• “Dovetailing Details Fly Apart—All Over, Again, in Code, in Poetry, in Chreods,” Stephanie Strickland, Parsons the New School for Design
• “Abducting the Index,” Kris Paulsen, University of California, Berkeley
• “Cryptomemetic Expression and Evolution in Oulipo,” Matt Rowe, Indiana University, Bloomington

381: The Digital Postcolonial

Friday, 29 December 2006, 8:30–9:45 a.m., Commonwealth Hall A1, Loews.

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Postcolonial Studies in Literature and Culture

Presiding: David Chioni Moore, Macalester College

• “Cowphone: The Spectacle of Rural Telecommunications in Bangladesh,” Benjamin Conisbee Baer, Princeton University
• “Digital Indigenes: Pros and Cons of Information Technology as Native Localities Go Global,” John Hunt Peacock, Jr., Maryland Institute College of Art
• “Extremely Urgent: Nigerian E-mail Spam as African Literary Genre,” David Chioni Moore

390: Of Mass Graves and Transatlantic Exiles: Spain and the Civil War—Still Haunted after All These Years

Friday, 29 December 2006, 10:15–11:30 a.m., Regency Ballroom C1, Loews.

Program arranged by the Division on Twentieth-Century Spanish Literature

Presiding: Ofelia Ferrán, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

• “Victims and Silences of the Spanish Civil War: The Rupture of the World and the Conflict of Memories,” Ignacio Fernández de Mata, University of Burgos
• “Políticas de la memoria y semiología del objeto testimonial: Las ‘fosas comunes’ y los ‘papeles de Salamanca’,” Ulrich Winter, Philipps-Universität, Marburg
• “Looking for Justice in the Virtual World: Francoism Faces the Internet Tribunal,” Gina Ann Herrmann, University of Oregon
• “Mediterranean Memories, Atlantic Melancholia: The Spanish Civil War in Angelina Muñiz-Huberman's Writing,” Tabea Alexa Linhard, Washington University

398: Reading Code

Friday, 29 December 2006, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 306, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Media and Literature

Presiding: Rita M. Raley, University of California, Santa Barbara

• “Code? (((Who?) Reads?) What?),” John Cayley, London, England
• “Becoming Encoded,” David A. Golumbia, University of Virginia
• “Exe.cut(up)able Statements: Algorithmics as a Structural Dimension of Literature,” Florian Cramer, Piet Zwart Institute

Respondent: Mark Marino, University of Southern California

401: Television and Film Narratives

Friday, 29 December 2006, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 402–403, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Society for the Study of Narrative Literature

Presiding: Hilary P. Dannenberg, University of Bayreuth

• “The Unmaking of the President: Narrative Discontinuity, Historical Revisionism, and the Films of Oliver Stone,” Marc Singer, Howard University
• “Moll Flanders on Screen: From Criminal Confession to Romance,” Jessika L. Thomas, West Virginia University, Morgantown
• “The Filmic Paratext in the Digital Age: Bonus Material and Bogus Material,” Eckart Voigts-Virchow, University of Giessen

For copies of abstracts, visit http://hilarydannenberg.uni-bayreuth.de/.

411: Closing Borders, Bridging Gaps? German Pop at the Millennium

Friday, 29 December 2006, 10:15–11:30 a.m., Washington A, Loews.

A special session.

Presiding: Anke S. Biendarra, University of California, Irvine

• “Kölner Realismus Redux? The Legacy of 1960s Realism in Postunification Literature,” Carrie Smith-Prei, Trinity College, Dublin
• “Pop Cultural Positionings: Minor and Major Archives in Feridun Zaimoglu and Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre,” Thomas Ernst, University of Trier
• “Author or Data Jockey? Thomas Meinecke's Novels as an ‘Archive of the Surface’,” Enno Stahl, Heinrich-Heine-Institut
• “‘Eingeborene von Trizonesien’: (Re)Making History in German Schlager,” Sunka Simon, Swarthmore College

418: Postmodernity: Liabilities and Opportunities

Friday, 29 December 2006, 12:00 noon–1:45 p.m., Liberty Ballroom Salon C, Philadelphia Marriott.

A forum. Presiding: Amy J. Elias, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

• “Postmodernity, Antifoundationalism, and Dialogical Value,” Amy J. Elias
• “Postmodernity Is Not Postmodernism: Implications for Individuality and Agency,” Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth, University of Edinburgh
• “The Death of Postmodernism and the Rise of Informationalism,” N. Katherine Hayles, University of California, Los Angeles
• “Postmodernity and Information Machines,” Mark Poster, University of California, Irvine

432: Contexts for Electronic Editing

Friday, 29 December 2006, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 404, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Information Technology

Presiding: Kenneth M. Price, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

• “Edition Production and Presentation Technology (EPPT) and the Scholarly Edition,” Kevin S. Kiernan, University of Kentucky
• “Exploring the Development of a Modern Text with EPPT: William Preston's Illustrations of Masonry,” Andrew Prescott, University of Sheffield
• “The Transliteracies Project: Research in the Technological, Social, and Cultural Practices of Online Reading,” Alan Liu, University of California, Santa Barbara
• “Modeling Scholarly Practices with the Renaissance English Knowledgebase (REKn),” Raymond G. Siemens, University of Victoria

448: Electronic Literature and Textual Scholarship

Friday, 29 December 2006, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Commonwealth Hall D, Loews.

Program arranged by the Division on Methods of Literary Research

• “Typee, Revision, and Editing a Fluid Text: Making the Invisible Visible,” John Bryant, Hofstra University
• “Human Computer Collaboration: Literary Interpretation as Provocation and Response,” Tanya Clement, University of Maryland, College Park

462: The Impact of Identity, Authority, and Culture on Professional Communication

Friday, 29 December 2006, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 306, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Association for Business Communication

Presiding: James K. Archibald, McGill University

• “Internationalizing Information Systems: Culture and Collaboration along the Sonoran Migratory Pollinator Corridor,” Matthew McCool, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces
• “How Sensitive Are Professional Translators to Corporate Language and Identity? A Think-Aloud Protocol Study,” Alexander Künzli, Stockholm University
• “Contrasting Traditional and Alternative Models of Online Scientific Authority: Analysis of Two National Labs' Web Sites,” Maria Cochran, Iowa State University

For copies of abstracts, visit www.businesscommunication.org/.

502: Text and Hypertext: Dictionaries and Their Readers/Users

Friday, 29 December 2006, 3:30–4:45 p.m., 406, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Lexicography

Presiding: Felicia Jean Steele, College of New Jersey

• “Reading Johnson's Dictionary: Metatext, Hypertext, and Johnson's Relationship with His Readers,” Chris P. Pearce, Boston University
• “Reading and Writing the Electronic Dictionary: Perspectives from the OED Online,” Katherine Martin, Oxford English Dictionary
• “The Critical Dictionary: Structure and Audience,” Michael P. Adams, Indiana University, Bloomington

Respondent: John M. Morse, Merriam-Webster, Inc.

For copies of abstracts, visit http://steele.intrasun.tcnj.edu/mla/abstracts.

506: Resisting Texts: Teaching the Virtual Renaissance Book

Friday, 29 December 2006, 3:30–4:45 p.m., 306, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Division on the Teaching of Literature

Presiding: David Scott Kastan, Columbia University

• “Teaching the Unedited Renaissance: Making Do with PDFs,” Jesse Macliesh Lander, University of Notre Dame
• “Resisting Texts: Teaching the Digital Book,” Olin Bjork, University of Texas, Austin; John Rumrich, University of Texas, Austin
• “What Exactly Is a Compendious Dyttie? Teaching Surrey's ‘Epitaphe’ from Early English Books Online (EEBO),” Jason E. Powell, Wake Forest University

508: Children's Digital Literature and Culture

Friday, 29 December 2006, 3:30–4:45 p.m., Grand Ballroom Salon L, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Children's Literature Association

Presiding: Cathlena Martin, University of Florida

• “The Book Unbound: Children's Digital Literature, Postmodernism, and Consumerism,” June S. Cummins, San Diego State University
• “Ersatz the Purchaser: Generation Y as Techno-Being and the E-Relevant Texts Written about Them,” Jennie M. Miskec, Christopher Newport University
• “‘When a Hair-Dryer Becomes a Weapon’: Playable Indulgence and Other Modes of Power in Casual Games, Produced for Preadolescent Girls,” Vered Pnueli, Brunel University

516: Electronic Textual Editing: What's Next?

Friday, 29 December 2006, 3:30–4:45 p.m., 203-A, Convention Center.

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions

Presiding: Martha Nell Smith, University of Maryland, College Park

• Julia H. Flanders, Brown University
• David Lee Gants, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton
• Steven E. Jones, Loyola University, Chicago

For copies of abstracts visit www.mith.umd.edu/CSE/MLA2006.

530: Literature and the New Media Economy

Friday, 29 December 2006, 3:30–4:45 p.m., Washington A, Loews.

Program arranged by the Division on Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature

Presiding: Peggy L. Sharpe, Florida State University

• “The Erotic and Exotic Lure: A Cultural Decoy,” Maria José Somerlate Barbosa, University of Iowa
• “The Material Girl's Digital Archive: Literature and New Media Economy in Clarah Averbuck's Máquina de pinball,” Leila Maria Lehnen, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
• “A hora da estrela: A doméstica no cinema brasileiro contemporâneo,” Sonia M. Roncador, University of Texas, Austin
• “Singing under Siege: Resistance Music in Portugal and Brazil,” Patricia I. Vieira, Harvard University

570: Media Theory and Cultural Transformation

Friday, 29 December 2006, 7:15–8:30 p.m., Commonwealth Hall D, Loews.

Program arranged by the Division on Literary Criticism

Presiding: N. Katherine Hayles, University of California, Los Angeles

• “Print and Textual Instability: Resolving the Crisis of Representation in the Age of Johnson,” Mark Edwin Wildermuth, University of Texas of the Permian Basin
• “Gramophone, Film, Trauma Writer: Trauma's Discursive Dependence on Media,” Brian L. Croxall, Emory University
• “Revision and the Error,” J. Stephen Murphy, University of California, Berkeley
• “The Ideology of Digital Embodiment,” Eyal Amiran, University of California, Irvine

593: Deformative and Reformative Critical Practices

Friday, 29 December 2006, 7:15–8:30 p.m., 306, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Computer Studies in Language and Literature

Presiding: Raymond G. Siemens, University of Victoria

• “Nanocriticism: Extreme Deformance and Serious Play,” Johanna Drucker, University of Virginia
• “Transgenic Deformation: Literary Translation and the Digital Archive,” Matt Cohen, Duke University
• “Reading the Gap in Experimental Poetry,” Lisa Nell Samuels, University of Auckland

611: The Lure and Violence of Globalized Digital Culture

Friday, 29 December 2006, 9:00–10:15 p.m., Congress C, Loews.

Program arranged by the Division on Comparative Studies in Twentieth-Century Literature

Presiding: Marcel H. Cornis-Pope, Virginia Commonwealth University

• “Information, Terror, and the Poetics of Noise,” Mark Nunes, Southern Polytechnic State University
• “‘Staring It Straight in the Eye’: A Look at the Network,” Christian Moraru, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
• “Hypertext: Between the Violence of the Void and the Lure of the System,” Rodica C. Ieta, Murray State University
• “E-cadie: The Birth of a Cybernation,” Nicole Boudreau, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

635: Writing the Machine: Materiality and Intentionality in Digital Poetry

Saturday, 30 December 2006, 8:30–9:45 a.m., Commonwealth Hall A1, Loews.

A special session.

Presiding: Charles Alexander Baldwin, West Virginia University, Morgantown

• “The Link in Hypertext Poetry: Modulating the Agency of Author and Reader,” Ziv Neeman, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
• “‘To “Interpret” a Computer “Poem” Is Not to Interpret a Poem’: The Computer-Generated Poem as a Limit Case,” Lori A. Emerson, University at Buffalo, State University of New York
• “Energy Transactions: Transhuman Digital Poetics,” Charles Alexander Baldwin
• “What Is an Internet Author? Innovative Poetry and Online Communities,” Maria Damon, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

For copies of abstracts, visit www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~lemerson/.

649: Meet the Bloggers: Blogging and the Future of Academia

Saturday, 30 December 2006, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 308, Philadelphia Marriott.

A special session.

Presiding: Scott Kaufman, University of California, Irvine

• “Instantaneous Citation Index,” Michael F. Bérubé, Penn State University, University Park
• “I'm Nobody! Who Are You?” Tedra S. Osell, University of Guelph
• “Form Follows the Function of the Little Magazine,” John Holbo, National University of Singapore
• “The New Interdisciplinary,” Scott Kaufman

Respondent: Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed.

For copies of abstracts, visit http://acephalous.typepad.com/abstract.html.

653: Experimental Poetry and the Visual Arts

Saturday, 30 December 2006, 8:30–9:45 a.m., Grand Ballroom Salon K, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Division on Twentieth-Century American Literature

Presiding: Marianne DeKoven, Rutgers University, New Brunswick

• “At Sixes and Sevens: Abstraction and Reference in Robert Creeley's ‘Numbers’,” Timothy Pan Yu, University of Toronto
• “Hinged, Contingent, Joined: Susan Howe's Hinge Picture,” Elisabeth W. Joyce, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
• “Digital Poetry's Complex Surfaces: Navigations, Animations, Combinations,” Maria Engberg, Blekinge Institute of Technology
• “Image Cacophony: The Use of Imagery in Leslie Scalapino's Dahlia's Iris: Secret Autobiography and Fiction,” Brenda Iijima, Brooklyn, NY

684: Early Modern Englishwomen in the Book Trades: A Session in Honor of Katharine F. Pantzer

Saturday, 30 December 2006, 10:15–11:30 a.m., Grand Ballroom Salon K, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Division on Methods of Literary Research

Presiding: Elizabeth H. Hageman, University of New Hampshire, Durham

• “Women and Patronage in the Early Modern Book Trades,” Helen Smith, University of York
• “Joan Brome and the Lyly Plays: A Feminist History of the Book,” Tara Lyons, University of Illinois, Urbana
• “Printing and Bookselling Preferences of Women in the Early Modern London Book Trade,” David Lee Gants, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton; Sarah Neville, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

707: Challenges of the Future: Foregrounding Diversity in the WPA Palette

Saturday, 30 December 2006, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 302, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Council of Writing Program Administrators

Presiding: Dominic DelliCarpini, York College, PA

• “Framing Diversity Issues for College Writers: Listening to a Multivocal Writing Program,” Juanita Comfort, West Chester University
• “Writing Programs, Diversity, and the Knowledge Economy: Some Implications,” Wendy Olson, Washington State University, Pullman
• “Electronic Equity or Exclusion? Four Campus Digital Divides,” Ellen Strenski, University of California, Irvine
• “Queer Eye for the Comp Program: Toward a Queer Critique of WPA Work,” Jonathan Alexander, University of Cincinnati; William Banks, East Carolina University

723: Editing's Cultural Work: Building the Electronic New Variorum Shakespeare

Saturday, 30 December 2006, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 308, Philadelphia Marriott.

Program arranged by the Association for Computers and the Humanities

Presiding: Alan Galey, University of Alberta

• “Past Is Prologue: Early Electronic New Variorum Shakespeares,” Paul Werstine, University of Western Ontario
• “How Does the Scholar Think? Modeling Editorial Work in the Electronic New Variorum Shakespeare,” Julia H. Flanders, Brown University
• “Electronic Monuments: The Digital Variorum and Theories of the Archive,” Alan Galey

For copies of abstracts, visit www.ach.org/mla/mla06/ after 1 November.

755: History and Comparative Literature: The Future

Saturday, 30 December 2006, 1:45–3:00 p.m., Commonwealth Hall D, Loews.

Program arranged by the American Comparative Literature Association

Presiding: Eric R. J. Hayot, University of Arizona, Tucson

• “Influence after Narrative: Literary Annalism and the Search Function,” Daniel Alan Fried, National Central University
• “What We Don't Know,” Eric R. J. Hayot
• “Cyberspace, Electronic Texts, and the Future of Comparative Literature,” Kathleen Lenore Komar, University of California, Los Angeles