2017 Conference Schedule
Registration & Breakfast (8-9am) 2nd Floor Foyer, Tawes Hall
Session 1 (9:00-10:15am)
Panel A: New Approaches to “Old” Work - Rm. 3132
Moderator: Andrea Knowles
Moderator: Kristopher Reed
Session 2 (10:30-11:45am)
Panel A: Women & Labor - Rm. 3134
Moderator: Aqdas Aftab
Moderator: Justine DeCamillis
Lunch (12-1pm) 2nd Floor Foyer
Session 3 (1:15-2:30pm)
Panel A: Work, Action, & Interdisciplinarity - Rm. 3136
Moderator: Setsuko Yokoyama
Moderator: Hillary Roegelein
Moderator: Konstantinos Pozoukidis
Session 4 (2:45-4:00pm)
Panel A: Future Work - Rm. 3134
Moderator: Tung-An Wei
Moderator: Jessica Harrington
Plenary Panel (4:15-5:30pm) At Work: Bodies and Texts - Rm. 2115
Moderator: Justine DeCamillis and Hillary Roegelein
Dinner Reception (5:45-7pm) Rm. 1310
Thanks to everyone who attended Worked Up: Labor, Literature, and Culture yesterday, to all of our presenters, and to Justine and Hillary for running a fantastic conference. See you again next year!
Here are a few wonderful moments from the conference. Check out our Facebook page for more!
Session 1 (9:00-10:15am)
Panel A: New Approaches to “Old” Work - Rm. 3132
Moderator: Andrea Knowles
- "Political Agency in Tennyson’s Early Work” - Brooke Feichtl, UMD
- “Good Reverberations: An Analysis on Translating African Literature” - Sara Faradji, UMD
- "Blake’s Labor of Experience: Analyzing Predictive Features in Songs of Innocence and Experience" - Emily Smith, UMD & Emily Metcalf, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Moderator: Kristopher Reed
- "Stale Tales and Mutinous Members: Coriolanus and the Fable of the Belly" - Shaun Russell, UMD
- “TBD” - Nicolette Polek, UMD
- “The New Reader: The Writerly Labor and Samuel Beckett’s Molloy” - Tung-An Wei, UMD
Session 2 (10:30-11:45am)
Panel A: Women & Labor - Rm. 3134
Moderator: Aqdas Aftab
- "Women Working the Table: The Material Culture and Visual Representations of Female Gamblers in Early Modern Italy" - Nicole Wagner, Binghamton University
- "Player 'Work' as a Challenge in Alternate Reality Game Design" - Katie Kaczmarek Frew, UMD
- "Producing Intimacy: The Factory Girl and Workingwomen’s Romantic Relationships" - Emily Coccia, Georgetown University
Moderator: Justine DeCamillis
- “The Favor of Another: Finance, Insecurity, and Precarious Labor in Mbue's Behold the Dreamers” - John Macintosh, UMD
- "Impersonal Economies and Labor Relations in Tom McCarthy's Remainder" - Joanna Falk, UMD
- "Facilitating the Simulation: The Work of the Native Informant in Tom McCarthy’s Remainder" - Justin Thompson, UMD
Lunch (12-1pm) 2nd Floor Foyer
Session 3 (1:15-2:30pm)
Panel A: Work, Action, & Interdisciplinarity - Rm. 3136
Moderator: Setsuko Yokoyama
- “Critical Lenses, Empowered Labor” - Brett Shanley, Teachers College, Columbia University
- "What’s Going on in This Profession? or What the Humanities Could Learn About Collaboration, Partnership, and Building Audiences from Nonprofit Arts Organizations" - Gerard Holmes, UMD
- "‘Welcome, Dear Workers’: Figuring the Working Class in Contemporary Albanian Art” - Raino Isto, UMD
Moderator: Hillary Roegelein
- “Working the Will in York's The Entry into Jerusalem” - Monica Schroeder, The Catholic University of America
- "Race, Labor, and Christianity in Harriet Wilson" - Susanna Compton, UMD=
- "The Maid as Culture Hero in The Skin of Our Teeth" - Stephen Rojcewicz, UMD
Moderator: Konstantinos Pozoukidis
- "Documenting Disability: Comparing Performances of Masculinity, Sexuality, and Disability in Sins Invalid (2006) and MurderBall (2006)" - Jewel Pereyra, Georgetown University
- “‘There’s some of me in you’: Permeability and Object-Oriented Materialism in Blade Runner” - Will Thompson, UMD
- “(Not So) Free Basics: An Intersectional Critique of Western Corporate Philanthropy” - Adam Heidebrink-Bruno, Lehigh University
Session 4 (2:45-4:00pm)
Panel A: Future Work - Rm. 3134
Moderator: Tung-An Wei
- “Gashed: An Analysis of Lacerations, Black Bodies and Futurity in The Underground Railroad” - Lenaya Stewart, UMD
- "Mapping the Future: Richard Hakluyt’s Colonizing Cartographic Consciousness and Early Modern Knowledge Production" - Kristopher Reed, UMD
- "Work, Desire and Auto-Ethnographic Futures" - Tracy Riley, New Jersey City University
Moderator: Jessica Harrington
- "The Value of Playing Make Believe" - Tara Kun, UMD
- "The Character's Work becomes the Writer's: Occupation and Labor as a Mode of Characterization in Fiction" - Emily Myrick, UMD
- "Rice the Glorious: the Grain, Brain, and Pain” - Theresia Pratiwi, UMD
Plenary Panel (4:15-5:30pm) At Work: Bodies and Texts - Rm. 2115
Moderator: Justine DeCamillis and Hillary Roegelein
- Jan M. Padios, American Studies Department, University of Maryland - "1-800-Philippines: Transnational Labor in Postcolonial Perspective"
- Kellie Robertson, English Department, University of Maryland - "A Genealogy of Able Bodies: The Working Poor"
- (KEYNOTE) Cindy Weinstein, English Department, Caltech - "Working Towards Nabokov"
Dinner Reception (5:45-7pm) Rm. 1310
Thanks to everyone who attended Worked Up: Labor, Literature, and Culture yesterday, to all of our presenters, and to Justine and Hillary for running a fantastic conference. See you again next year!
Here are a few wonderful moments from the conference. Check out our Facebook page for more!