Department of English
Writing the Journey: June 1999 - Conference Presenters
-Conference Presenters-
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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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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)
- 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
Full text of paper - 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
- 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
Full text of paper - 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Full text of paper - 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
Full text of paper - 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
- 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
- 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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