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- Abel, Marco, Pennsylvania State University, " Speedily Traveling the
Rhizome: Kerouac's On
the Road as an Aesthetic Mapping of the American Political Landscape", Session 11
- Adams, S. M., University of Macau, "Victorian Women in China", Session 25
- Allen, Nina, Suffolk University, "The American Scene According to
Emily Faithfull, Victorian
Feminist", Session 16; Chair for Session 16
- Ahmed, Alami, Indiana University, "The Implied Reader and the Travel
Writing of James
Richardson: The Negotiation Between the Sub-text and Pre-text", Session 32
- Argiro, Thomas, University of Kansas, "Postmodern Desert and
Comforting Space: Reading
the American Landscape in Baudrillard and Ehrlich", Session 19
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- Badikian, Beatriz, Roosevelt University, "Imagining Patagonia", Session 31; Chair for Session 31
- Bailey, Suzanne, Trent University, "Travelling the Body: the Travel
Poetry of Karen Connelly", Session 38; Chair for Session 38
- Baker, Houston, University of Pennsylvania, Chair for Session 8
- Bar-Yosef, Eitan, Oxford University, "'Homesick Crusaders: British
Soldiers in the Holy
Land, 1917-1918", Session 32
- Barchi, Robert, Provost of the University of Pennsylvania, Welcoming Remarks (Friday Night)
- Bassett, Troy, University of Kansas, "Lady Jenkins, Big-Game Hunter:
An Undiscovered
Manuscript", Session 23
- Behr, Alan, Freelance Writer, Chair for Panel 34
- Bendix, Regina, University of Pennsylvania, "Travel, Travel Writing,
Art, and the Production
of Popular Ethnography in Turn-of-the-Century Austria", Session 10
- Birkwood, Susan, University of Saskatchewan, "Ethnographic
Classification and the Role of
the 'Four Stages Theory' of Social Development in British Travellers' Accounts of the
Aboriginal Peoples of North America", Session 10; Chair for Session 10
- Blake, Susan, Lafayette College, "Going All the Way: Love and Sex in
Contemporary
Women's Travel Narratives", Session 18; Thursday Night Reading
- Blockett, Kim, University of Wisconsin, "Where's a Homegirl to Go?
Theorizing Journey in
Black Women's Travel Narratives", Session 13
- Borm, Jan, Universite de Versailles, San Quentin en Yvelines,
"Circling the Centre--Jonathan
Raban's Coasting and Literary Strategies of the British Travel Book", Session 12
- Bowden, Betsy, Rutgers University, Camden, " The Once and Future
Canon: Narrative
Viewpoint in the Works of Kerouac and Xenophon", Session 11; Chair for Session 11
- Bowers, Terence, College of Charleston, " Hogarth's Peregrination,
Chorography, and the
Representation of England", Session 4
- Brisson, Rike, Pennsylvania State University, "West Africa on Stage: Travel
Writing as
Performance in Richard Burton's Two Trips to Gorilla Land and Mary Kingsley's Travels in
West AfricaÓ, Session 25
- Brittan, Alice, University of Pennsylvania, "Intimate Borders:
Drifting Families and Traveling
Trees in Murray Bail's Ecalyptus", Session 38
- Brown, Rebecca M., St. Mary's College, "'Weary and a Wanderer': Finding
a
Home with
Emma Roberts's Scenes and Characteristics of Hindostan", Session 5
- Brusky, Sarah, Michigan State University, "The Veiled Lady: Nancy
Prince and Her Gothic
Odyssey", Session 30
- Burton, Stacy, University of Nevado, Reno, "Travel, Identity, and the
Spectacle of Modernity", Session 25
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- Cabanas, Miguel, University of Connecticut, "Establishing a Woman's
Voice in Anglo-American Travel Narratives:
Fanny Calderon de la Barca's Life in Mexico", Session 6; Chair for Session 6
- Cavalier, Phil, Auburn University, "An Inside View of Slavery" Session 17
- Chilson, Peter Washington State University, Panel 35
- Conn, Peter, University of
Pennsylvania, Welcoming Remarks (Friday Night)
- Coskran, Kathleen, Lake Country School, Minneapolis, Panel 35
- Coyne, John, Chair for Panel 35
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- Dellner, Jennifer, University of Houston, "The Inhabiting Imagination:
Jonathan Raban's
Discovery of America", Session 12
- Dixon, Kent, Wittenberg University, "Travels with Charon: Travel
Narrative's Side Trip to Hell", Session 40
- Duck, Leigh Ann, University of Chicago, "V.S. Naipaul and the Lure of
the Redneck", Session 17; Chair of Session 17
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- Joe Eaton, St. Gregory's University, "British Travelers and the
Question of American
Physical Nature: A Challenge to American Exceptionalism", Session 26; Chair of Session 26
- Ehrhardt, John, Southern Illinois University, "North to Alaska:
Comparisons Between Russian
and British Descriptions of Alaska and its Natives in the Latter Half
of the 18th Century", Session 16
- Espey, David, University of Pennsylvania, Panel 41; Chair of
Session 12; Remarks before Dinner on Saturday
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- Fish, Cheryl, CUNY, "Travelling Medicine Chest: Mary Seacole's
Journeys to Panama and the
Crimea", Session 13
- Fussell, Paul, University of Pennsylvania, Guest of Honor (Saturday's
Dinner)
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- Garabedian, Michael, Whittier College, "Kerouac's Pursuit of
Possibility: The Logistics of
Secular Pilgrimmage in On the Road", Session 11
- Garlitz, Robert E., Plymouth State College, "Romancing Bolivia's
Poor", Session 31 and Thursday Night Reading
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- Gassan, Richard, University of Massachusetts, "Class and Tourism in
the 1820's: The
American Tourist Guidebook", Session 22
- Goodman, Daniel, University of Cincinnati, "That Obscure Object of
Desire", Session 29
- Griffin, Farah, University of Pennsylvania, Chair of Session 13
- Grushow, Ira, Franklin and Marshall College, "Now, Now Voyager:
Measured Counsel in
Classic Baedeker Handbooks", Session 22; Chair of Session 22
- Guiod, Suzanne, University of New Hampshire, "Recasting the
Pilgrimmage: Evolution of a
Divine Persona in African Memoirs of Isak Dinesen", Session 23; Chair of Session 23
- Gunning, Sandra, University of Michigan, "Nancy Prince and the Politics of Mobility, Home and Diasporic
(Mis)Identification", Session 8
- Gupta-Casale, Nira, Kean University "The Commerce of Travel: Gender, Genre,
and the
18th- Century Traveller", Session 5
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- Haddad, Emily, University of South Dakota, "'Old Egypt's New River:'
Contemporary
British Accounts of the Opening of the Suez Canal", Session 2
- Hadziselimovic, Omer, Indiana University East, "Snowy Domes and Gay
Turbans: American
Travelers on Bosnia, 1897-1941", Session 3
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- Hagglund, Elizabeth, University of Birmingham, "Anne Grant and the
'Primitive': Highlanders
and Mohawks", Session 16; Chair of Session 1
- Harrington, Charles, Indiana University, South Bend, "Ernie Pyle's
Travel Dispatches from the
1930's", Session 9
- Harvey, Allison, University of Nevada, Reno, "Narrating 'Other'
Times and Spaces in a
Postcolonial Age: Robert Kaplan and Pico Iyer Explore Some Lonely Places in the
World", Session 7
- Harvey, Bruce, Florida International University, "Iron Expeditions,
Decadent Emperors, and the Search for
Sodom", Session 2; Chair of Session 2
- Heaps, Denise, University of Toronto, "Canadian Women's Travel
Writing: Travelling
Mother-wards, Writing Mother-words", Session 38
- Holland, Patrick, University of Guelph,
"The Futures of Travel Writing", Session 29
- Holmes, Rachel, University of Warwick, "Writers in the Mirror Are
Closer
than They Appear:
Intertextuality in Contemporary British Road Narratives on the
USA", Session 9
- Horne, Julia, University of New South Wales, "Miss Eliza Goes
Exploring", Session 27; Chair of Session 27
- Hotek, Adam, University of Pennsylvania, "Understanding the Magic of
Charles Johnson's and
Toni Morrison's Travel Narratives", Session 8
- Howarth, William, Princeton University, Chair for Session 21
- Humphrey, Theodore, California Poly, Pomona, "Seeing the USA with
John McPhee: Deep
Structure and Travels in the Fourth Dimension", Session 21
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- Iyengar, Sujata, University of Georgia, "'I'm Not Spanish, You See;
I'm Indian': Pico Iyer
and the Limits of 'Postnational'Travelling Subject", Session 7
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- Johnson, Kendall, University of Pennsylvania, "Portraits of
Polygenism: The Scientific
Explorations of Louis Agassiz and Henry James's 'A Landscape Painter" , Session 39; Chair of Session 39
- Judkins, David, University of Houston, "Defining Disappointment: The
Contentious Traveler", Session 40
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- Klein, Christina, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Hawaii and Cold War Identity:
Travel and Immigration", Session 29
- Krummrich, Philip, University of Georgia, "Peter Flemings's Brazilian
Adventure", Session 31
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- Lawrence, Deborah, California State University, Fullerton, "A
Narrative of Settlement and
Unsettlement: Contextualizing Sarah Royce's A Frontier Lady" , Session 1
- Ledford-Miller, Linda, University of Scranton, "A Protestant Critique
of Catholicism: Fanny
Calderon de la Barca's Outsider's View of Insider Religious Practice in 19th-Century
Mexico", Session 6
- Lieberman, Jessica, University of Michigan, "Autoethnographic
Haunting: Charles Johnson's
'Oxherding Tale' and the African-American Travel Narrative", Session 8
- Lockwood, Anne, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, "Gertrude
Bell's The Desert and
the Sown: The British Lady Travels to the Middle East to Become a
Real Person", Session 33; Chair of Session 33; Chair of Session 25
- Lucas, Susan, University of Nevada, Reno, "Down Under: Immersion and
Authenticity in
Australian Travel Narratives", Session 24; Chair of Session 24
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- Majer, Gerald, Villa Julie College, "Perilous Play: Life and Death in
John Tyndall's Travel
Writing", Session 20; Chair of Session 20
- Maslow, Jonathan, Speaker on
Saturday
(8:30 pm)
- Masters, Josh, University of Connecticut, "Gendering the American
West: Feminized
Landscapes and Phallic Intrusions", Session 1
- McAllister, Marie, Mary Washington College, Chair for Panel 5
- McColley, Margaret, Rutgers University, "Where the Heart Lies:
Alexandra
David-Neel's
'Home' in the Himalayas", Session 5
- McKenzie, Alan, Purdue University, "Teaching Oxbridge--There", Session 37
- McQuillan, Gene, CUNY, "Issues of Privilege and Labor in Peter
Matheissen's Men's Lives", Session 40; Chair of Session 40
- Meaney, Shealeen, SUNY Albany, "Feminist Epistemologies: Feminist
Ethnographies: Maud Parrish, Box Car
Bertha, and the Nomadic Woman's Residual Passion for the Politics of Patriarchy", Session 18
- Melton, Jeffrey, Auburn University, Montgomery, "Keeping the Touristic
Faith in Mark
Twain's The Innocents Abroad", Session 29; Chair of Session 29
- Milowski, Carol Porterfield, Bemidji State University, Minnesota,
"Mary Austin's 'Basket
Women and 'Western Trails:' Woman as West, West as Woman", Session 1
- Monk, Craig, University of Lethbridge, "Writing the Heroic Narrative
and the 'Truths' of the
Travel Diary: Inclusion/Exclusion and Dillon Wallace's Journeys to Labrador, 1903-05", Session 20
- Moskal, Jeanne, University of North Carolina, "Gender and Italian
Nationalism in Mary
Shelley's Rambles in Germany and Italy", Session 27
- Moss, Sarah, Oxford University, "Full of Fruit: Hans Egede's
Greenland", Session 26
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- O'Flynn, Siobhan, University of Toronto, "Bruce Chatwin's Songlines:
Nomadic Theory,
Nomadic Text", Session 24
- O'Neil, Louisa Peat, Washington Post, "Teaching Travel Writing: A Journey Through the
Senses", Session 37
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- Palmer, Stephanie, University of Michigan, "Accidents in Contexts", Session 40
- Paxton, Litty, University of Pennsylvania, Chair Session 9
- Pesman, Ros, University of Sidney, "Women, Travel, Colonial and
National Identity, 1880-
1930", Session 27
- Poon, Angela, Brandeis University, "Exploring Liminality: the Spatial
Politics of Travel and
Gender Identity in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters", Session 33
- Russ Pottle, Southeastern Louisiana University, "Inward Bound:
Americanism and Truth in
Melville's Typee", Session 3; Chair of Session 3
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- Rickey, Cathy, Memorial University of Newfoundland, "Big Mac Attack
-- Abroad: A Travelers' Culinary Conundrum", Session 10
- Roberson, Susan, Auburn University, "Margaret Fuller's Summer on the
Lakes", Session 26
- Roggenkamp, Karen, University of Minnesota. " 'Dignified
Sensationalism': Elizabeth Bisland, Cosmopolitan, and Trips Around the World.", Session 25
- Ross, Donald, University of Minnesota, "American Travelers to
England
in the 19th Century, or
Paying for the Roof on Our Old Home", Session 4; Chair of Session 4; Panel 41
- Rourke, Brian, Stanford University, "Travel Writing or Tourist
Journalism: Imperial Decline
and Cultural Distinction in the Mexican Travel Books of Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene", Session 6
- Ryall, Anka, University of Tromso, Norway, "Antarctica and
the Question of Women", Session 19; Chair of Session 19
- Ryan, Barbara, University of Missouri, Kansas City, "Mark Twain's
Innocents Abroad; or Ipse
Dixits in the Holy Land", Session 32; Chair of Session 32
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- Salamensky, Shelley, Harvard University, "Difference in a Desert:
Julia Constance Fletcher
and the Mirage of Oscar Wilde", Session 28
- Schramer, Jim, Youngstown State University, "'I Am Not Cosmophobic;
I'm Just English:
Space and Spaciousness in Colin Thubron's Travel Writings", Session 12; Chair of Session 7; Panel 41
- Schriber, Mary Suzanne, Northern Illinois University, "Home and the
War Travels of Edith
Wharton", Session 30; Chair of Session 30
- Schweizer, Bernard, University of Zurich, "Graham Green and the
Anxieties of Political Travel", Session 15; Chair of Session 15
- Schwetman, John, University of California, Irvine,
" Cosmopolitan Crimes: Vladimir
Nabokov's Lolita", Session 19; Chair of Session 19
- Sears, Catherine, CUNY, "The Gothic Aspect of Slavery: Matthew
Gregory Lewis's Journal
of a West India Proprietor", Session 31
- Shapiro, Howard,
Philadelphia Inquirer , "Travel
Writer, Travel Editor," Panel 34
- Simmons, Mary Beth, Bloomsburg University, "How We Talk about the
Servants: A Look at Isak Dinesen's Farah and My Habra", Session 23
- Smith, Valerie, University of Connecticut, "The Landscape of
Identity: Gender, Class, and the
'Other' in the Travel Writing of Edith Wharton", Session 39
- Stec, Loretta, San Francisco State University, "Class and Gender
Anxieties: Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon", Session 15
- Sumption, Linda, CUNY, "Deserts, Seascapes, and Prairies: Landscapes
of Contemplation in
an Age of Adventure"
- Swick, Tom, Sun-Sentinel of Fort
Lauderdale, "Anti Travel Journalism",
Panel 34
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- Taddeo, Julie, Temple University, "Ploughboys, Postboys, and Arabian
Nights: Lytton
Strachey's Imperial Adventure", Session 28
- Tague, Gregory, St. Francis College, "Through the Eyes of D.H.
Lawrence: Journeyman Life
Philosopher Charting a Physical and Metaphysical Voyage",
Session 28; Chair of Session 28
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- Thubron, Colin, Keynote Speaker
(Friday)
- Tidwell, Mike, Washington
Post, Panel 35
- Totten, Gary, Ball State University, "Road Vision: The Road and the
'Look' of American
Culture in Dreiser's A Hoosier Holiday", Session 21
- Turhan, Feliz, New York University, "Labeling the Lady: the
Identities of Lady Hester
Stanhope", Session 33
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- Volkmer, Jon, Ursinus College, "Writing the Academic Journey: An
Examination and Review
of a College Composition Course Based on Travel Writing", Session 37; Chair of Session 37
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- Wells, Jeremy, University of Michigan, "'Civilizing the South: Race,
Region, and National
Identity in Northerners' Postbellum Travel Writing", Session 17
- Wiley, Richard, University of
Nevada, Las Vegas, Panel 35
- Williams, Cheryl, University of Pennsylvania, "Harriet Jacobs and the
Garret as the Figuration
of Travel", Session 13
- Wolmart, Gregory, University of Pennsylvania, "Sleeping With Camels: Cultural Dissonance
and Imperious Perspective in Paul Bowles's A Distant
Episode",
Session 32
- Wyndham, Karen, University of Arizona, "A Simple Heart in the 'Bight
of Benin': Bruce
Chatwin's Critical Adaptation of Gustave Flaubert", Session 24
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- Zemgulys, Andrea, University of California, Berkeley, "From
Pilgrimages to Sight Seeing: Literary Tourism and The Modernist
Reader in Early Twentieth-Century England", Session 4
- Zink, Abbey, Northern Illinois University, "A Tomb of One's Own: The
Female Gothic and Sarah Rogers Haight's
Night in the Necropolis"
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