ALA 2017 Annual Conference, Boston, MA
May 25-28 2017
The Westin Copley Place - 10 Huntington Avenue - Boston, MA 02116
Melville Society ALA Panels
Thursday, May 25, 2017: 1:30-2:50 pm: Session 4-F:
Melville and the Historical Imagination
Organizer & Chair: Hoang Gia Phan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1. "'Warmest climes but nurse the cruelest fangs': Melville and the Global South," John Patrick Leary, Wayne State University
2. "Melville and the Scientific-Historical Imagination," Britt Rusert, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
3. "'Black Artillery': Race and Revolt in Herman Melville's Battle Pieces and Aspects of War," Lenora Warren, Colgate University
Respondent: Hoang Gia Phan, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Friday, May 26, 2017: 3:40-5:00 pm: Session 12-K:
Melville and Literary Influence: Reframing Tradition
Organizer & Chair: David Greven, The University of South Carolina
1. "Melville, Mathew Arnold, and the Role of the Critic," K. L. Evans, (aka Kim Leilani Evans), Cornell University
2. "Nothing less is here essayed": Language and Authorship in Monique Truong's The Book of Salt and Herman Melville's Moby-Dick, Kacie Fodness, University of South Dakota
3. "Black Boys and White Whales: Ta-Nehisi Coates' Conversation with Herman Melville," Caroline Chamberlin Hellman, City Tech, CUNY