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ALA 2018 Annual Conference - San Francisco



American Literature Association
Annual Conference
May 24-27, 2018, San Francisco, CA
Announcing the three Melville Society events at this year's ALA: our two standing panels and our first collaborative panel with the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment.
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Bartleby Now
Session 15-D: Saturday, May 26, 8:10 – 9:30 am
Chair: Meredith Farmer, Wake Forest University
1. “Is non-preference a preference?” Wendy Anne Lee, New York University
2. “Bartleby is nothing,” Nancy Ruttenburg, Stanford University
3. “‘The Brain in Your Gut’: An Update on Bartleby and Digestion,” Ralph Savarese, Grinnell College
4. "Thanatopolitics and the Managerial Regime," Jeffrey Hole, University of the Pacific
Melville and the Emergence of Trumpism
Session 19-D, Saturday, May 26, 2:10– 3:30 pm
Chair: James Noel, Los Medanos College
1. “Trumpism and the Know-Nothing Party” Madison Furrh, Colorado State University- Pueblo
2. “The Pilgrimage and Pepe: What Clarel Can Tell Us about the Alt-Right,” Caitlin Smith Oyekole
3. “Melville, Trump, and the Politics of Aggrievement,” David Blake, The College of New Jersey
4. “Crippled America: Trump, Ahab, and the Materialist Turn,” Nathan Wolff, Tufts University
Melville in the Anthropocene
(organized with the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment)
Session 4-A, Thursday, May 24, 1:30 – 2:50 pm
Chair: Meredith Farmer, Wake Forest University
1. “Ethics, Islands, and the Anthropocene: Bartleby and the Politics of Measurement,” Helena Feder, East Carolina University (ECU)
2. “Concentrating ‘the snugness:’ Body, Relation and Being in a Melvillean Anthropocene,” Ryan Heryford; California State University, East Bay
3. “‘Has the crater but shifted?’: Geology and Racial Violence in Melville’s Battle Pieces,” Carie Schneider, University of Arizona
Respondent: Meredith Farmer, Wake Forest University