Writing the Journey: June 1999 | Department of English

-Conference Program-

Thursday, June 10, 8:30 p.m.

OPEN MICROPHONE: READINGS OF ORIGINAL TRAVEL WRITING, Chestnut Room

Beatriz Badikian, Susan Blake, Kent Dixon, Robert Garlitz, Rachel Holmes, Sandra Doe

Friday, June 11, 9-10:30 Return to Conference Directory

1. WOMEN AND THE AMERICAN WEST, Chestnut Room
Chair: Elizabeth Hagglund, University of Birmingham

Deborah Lawrence, California State University, Fullerton, "A Narrative of Settlement and Unsettlement: Contextualizing Sarah Royce's A Frontier Lady"
Josh Masters, University of Connecticut, "Gendering the American West: Feminized Landscapes and Phallic Intrusions"
Carol Porterfield Milowski, Bemidji State University, Minnesota, "Mary Austin's 'Basket Women and 'Western Trails:' Woman as West, West as Woman"

2. EGYPT AND THE HOLY LAND, Center I
Chair: Bruce Harvey, Florida International University

Emily Haddad, University of South Dakota, "'Old Egypt's New River:' Contemporary British Accounts of the Opening of the Suez Canal"
Bruce Harvey, Florida International University, "Iron Expeditions, Decadent Emperors, and the Search for Sodom"

3. VARIETIES OF AMERICAN INNOCENCE ABROAD, Center II
Chair: Russ Pottle, Southeastern Louisiana University

Jeffrey Melton, Auburn University, Montgomery, "Keeping the Touristic Faith in Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad"
Omer Hadziselimovic, Indiana University East, "Snowy Domes and Gay Turbans: American Travelers on Bosnia, 1897-1941"
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Russ Pottle, Southeastern Louisiana University, "Inward Bound: Americanism and Truth in Melville's Typee"

4. ENGLAND IN THE EYE OF THE TRAVELER, University I
Chair: Donald Ross, University of Minnesota

Terence Bowers, College of Charleston, " 'Hogarth's Peregrination," Chorography, and the Representation of England"
Andrea Zemgulys, University of California, Berkeley, "From Pilgrimages to Sight Seeing: Literary Tourism and The Modernist Reader in Early Twentieth-Century England"
Donald Ross, University of Minnesota, "American Travelers to England in the 19th Century, or Paying for the Roof on Our Old Home"

Friday, June 11, 11-12:30 Return to Conference Directory

5. WOMEN TRAVELERS IN INDIA, University II
Chair: Marie McAllister, Mary Washington College

Nira Gupta-Casale, Kean University "The Commerce of Travel: Gender, Genre, and the 18th- Century Traveller"
Rebecca M. Brown, St. Mary's College, "'Weary and a Wanderer': Finding a Home with Emma Roberts's Scenes and Characteristics of Hindostan"
Margaret McColley, Rutgers University, "Where the Heart Lies: Alexandra David-Neel's 'Home' in the Himalayas"

6. ENGLISH AND AMERICAN VIEWS OF MEXICO, Chestnut Room
Chair: Miguel Cabanas, University of Connecticut

Linda Ledford-Miller, 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"
Brian Rourke, Stanford University, "Travel Writing or Tourist Journalism: Imperial Decline and Cultural Distinction in the Mexican Travel Books of Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene"
Miguel Cabanas, University of Connecticut, "Establishing a Woman's Voice in Anglo-American Travel Narratives: Fanny Calderon de la Barca's Life in Mexico"

7. (POST)COLONIAL, (POST)MODERN, (POST)NATIONAL, Center I
Chair: Jim Schramer, Youngstown State University

Stacy Burton, University of Nevado, Reno, "Travel, Identity, and the Spectacle of Modernity"
Allison Harvey, 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"
Sujata Iyengar, University of Georgia, "'I'm Not Spanish, You See; I'm Indian': Pico Iyer and the Limits of 'Postnational'Travelling Subject"

8. AFRICAN-AMERICAN TRAVEL NARRATIVES (1) , Center II
Chair: Houston Baker, University of Pennsylvania

Jessica Lieberman, University of Michigan, "Autoethnographic Haunting: Charles Johnson's 'Oxherding Tale' and the African-American Travel Narrative"
Adam Hotek, University of Pennsylvania, "Understanding the Magic of Charles Johnson's and Toni Morrison's Travel Narratives"
Sandra Gunning, University of Michigan, "Nancy Prince and the Politics of Mobility, Home and Diasporic (Mis)Identification"

Friday, June 11, 2:00-3:30 Return to Conference Directory

9. AMERICA FROM THE ROAD, Chestnut Room
Chair: Litty Paxton, University of Pennsylvania

Charles Harrington, Indiana University, South Bend, "Ernie Pyle's Travel Dispatches from the 1930's"
John Schwetman, University of California, Irvine, "Cosmopolitan Crimes: Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita"
Rachel Holmes, University of Warwick, "Writers in the Mirror Are Closer than They Appear: Intertextuality in Contemporary British Road Narratives on the USA"

10. TRAVELERS AND ETHNOGRAPHERS, University I
Chair: Susan Birkwood, University of Saskatchewan

Regina Bendix, University of Pennsylvania, "Travel, Travel Writing, Art, and the Production of Popular Ethnography in Turn-of-the-Century Austria"
Cathy Rickey, Memorial University of Newfoundland, "Big Mac Attack -- Abroad: A Travelers' Culinary Conundrum"
Susan Birkwood, 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"

11. KEROUAC REVISITED, Center I
Chair: Betsy Bowden, Rutgers University

Marco Abel, Pennsylvania State University, " Speedily Traveling the Rhizome: Kerouac's On the Road as an Aesthetic Mapping of the American Political Landscape"
Michael Garabedian, Whittier College, "Kerouac's Pursuit of Possibility: The Logistics of Secular Pilgrimmage in On the Road"
Betsy Bowden, Rutgers University, Camden, " The Once and Future Canon: Narrative Viewpoint in the Works of Kerouac and Xenophon"

12. THE JOURNEYS OF THUBRON AND RABAN, Center II
Chair: David Espey, University of Pennsylvania

Jim Schramer, Youngstown State University, "'I Am Not Cosmophobic; I'm Just English: Space and Spaciousness in Colin Thubron's Travel Writings"
Jan Borm, Universite de Versailles, San Quentin en Yvelines, "Circling the Centre--Jonathan Raban's Coasting and Literary Strategies of the British Travel Book"
Jennifer Dellner, University of Houston, "The Inhabiting Imagination: Jonathan Raban's Discovery of America"

13. AFRICAN-AMERICAN TRAVEL NARRATIVES (2), University II
Chair: Farah Griffin, University of Pennsylvania

Cheryl Williams, University of Pennsylvania, "Harriet Jacobs and the Garret as the Figuration of Travel"
Kim Blockett, University of Wisconsin, "Where's a Homegirl to Go? Theorizing Journey in Black Women's Travel Narratives"
Cheryl Fish, CUNY, "Travelling Medicine Chest: Mary Seacole's Journeys to Panama and the Crimea"

Friday, June 11, 4-5 pm Return to Conference Directory

14. KEYNOTE ADDRESS, Palmaire V

Colin Thubron
"The Travel Writer Today: A Figure in the Landscape"

Welcoming Remarks:

Peter Conn, Andrea Mitchell Professor of English

Director of the Writing Program, University of Pennsylvania

Robert Barchi, Provost of the University of Pennsylvania

Friday, June 11, 5:45-7:00 Return to Conference Directory

RECEPTION Georgian Suite

Friday, June 11, 8:30 Return to Conference Directory

READING: In Siberia (forthcoming) Colin Thubron, Palmaire V

Saturday, June 12, 9-10:30 Return to Conference Directory

15. DISPLACEMENT AND ANXIETY IN 20TH CENTURY BRITISH TRAVEL WRITING, Chestnut Room
Chair: Bernard Schweizer

Loretta Stec, San Francisco State University, "Class and Gender Anxieties: Rebecca West's Black Lamb and Grey Falcon"
Bernard Schweizer, University of Zurich, "Graham Greene and the Anxieties of Political Travel"

16. FOREIGN TRAVELERS IN "OLD" AMERICA, Center I
Chair: Nina Allen, Suffolk University

Elizabeth Hagglund, University of Birmingham, "Anne Grant and the 'Primitive': Highlanders and Mohawks"
John Ehrhardt, 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"
Nina Allen, Suffolk University, "The American Scene According to Emily Faithfull, Victorian Feminist"

17. TOURS IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH, THEN AND NOW, Center II
Chair: Leigh Ann Duck, University of Chicago

Phil Cavalier, Auburn University, "An Inside View of Slavery"
Jeremy Wells, University of Michigan, "'Civilizing the South: Race, Region, and National Identity in Northerners' Postbellum Travel Writing"
Leigh Ann Duck, University of Chicago, "V.S. Naipaul and the Lure of the Redneck"

18. WOMEN ON THE EDGE, University I
Chair: Stacy Burton, University of Nevada, Reno

Shealeen Meaney, SUNY Albany, "Feminist Epistemologies: Feminist Ethnographies: Maud Parrish, Box Car Bertha, and the Nomadic Woman's Residual Passion for the Politics of Patriarchy"
Susan Blake, Lafayette College, "Going All the Way: Love and Sex in Contemporary Women's Travel Narratives"
Anka Ryall, University of Tromso, Norway, "Antarctica and the Question of Women"

19. DESERT PLACES, University II
Chair: John Schwetman, University of California, Irvine

Susan Lucas, University of Nevada, Reno, "Down Under: Immersion and Authenticity in Australian Travel Narratives"
Thomas Argiro, University of Kansas, "Postmodern Desert and Comforting Space: Reading the American Landscape in Baudrillard and Ehrlich"

20. VICTORIAN ADVENTURERS, Palmaire V
Chair: Gerald Majer, Villa Julie College

Craig Monk, 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"
Linda Sumption, CUNY, "Deserts, Seascapes, and Prairies: Landscapes of Contemplation in an Age of Adventure"
Gerald Majer, Villa Julie College, "Perilous Play: Life and Death in John Tyndall's Travel Writing"

Saturday, June 12, 11-12:30 Return to Conference Directory

21. HOME IN AMERICA, Chestnut Room
Chair : William Howarth, Princeton University

Gene McQuillan, CUNY, "Issues of Privilege and Labor in Peter Matheissen's Men's Lives"
Gary Totten, Ball State University, "Road Vision: The Road and the 'Look' of American Culture in Dreiser's A Hoosier Holiday"
Theodore Humphrey, California Poly, Pomona, "Seeing the USA with John McPhee: Deep Structure and Travels in the Fourth Dimension"

22. VARIETIES OF TRAVEL GUIDES, Center I
Chair: Ira Grushow, Franklin and Marshall College

Richard Gassan, University of Massachusetts, "Class and Tourism in the 1820's: The American Tourist Guidebook"
Ira Grushow, Franklin and Marshall College, "Now, Now Voyager: Measured Counsel in Classic Baedeker Handbooks"

23. WHITE WOMEN IN AFRICA, Center II
Chair: Suzanne Guiod, University of New Hampshire

Troy Bassett, University of Kansas, "Lady Jenkins, Big-Game Hunter: An Undiscovered Manuscript"
Suzanne Guiod, University of New Hampshire, "Recasting the Pilgrimmage: Evolution of a Divine Persona in African Memoirs of Isak Dinesen"
Mary Beth Simmons, Bloomsburg University, "How We Talk about the Servants: A Look at Isak Dinesen's Farah and My Habra"

24. THE TRAVEL WRITING OF BRUCE CHATWIN, University I
Chair: Susan Lucas, University of Nevada, Reno

Karen Wyndham, University of Arizona, "A Simple Heart in the 'Bight of Benin': Bruce Chatwin's Critical Adaptation of Gustave Flaubert"
Siobhan O'Flynn, University of Toronto, "Bruce Chatwin's Songlines: Nomadic Theory, Nomadic Text"

25. NINETEENTH-CENTURY WOMEN TRAVELERS, University II
Chair: Anne Lockwood, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

Karen Roggenkamp, University of Minnesota. " 'Dignified Sensationalism': Elizabeth Bisland, Cosmopolitan, and Trips Around the World."
S. M. Adams, University of Macau, "Victorian Women in China"
Rike Brisson, Penn 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

26. NATURE AND THE TRAVEL WRITER , Palmaire 3
Chair: Joe Eaton, St. Gregory's University

Susan Roberson, Auburn University, "Margaret Fuller's Summer on the Lakes"
Sarah Moss, Oxford University, "Full of Fruit: Hans Egede's Greenland"
Joe Eaton, St. Gregory's University, "British Travelers and the Question of American Physical Nature: A Challenge to American Exceptionalism"

Saturday, June 12, 2:00-3:30 Return to Conference Directory

27. WOMEN TRAVELERS: GENDER, NATIONALISM AND NATIONAL IDENTITY, Chestnut
Chair: Julia Horne, University of New South Wales

Ros Pesman, University of Sidney, "Women, Travel, Colonial and National Identity, 1880- 1930"
Jeanne Moskal, University of North Carolina, "Gender and Italian Nationalism in Mary Shelley's Rambles in Germany and Italy"
Julia Horne, University of New South Wales, "Miss Eliza Goes Exploring"

28. WILDE, LAWRENCE, STRACHEY AND FRIENDS, Center I
Chair: Gregory Tague, St. Francis College

Shelley Salamensky, Harvard University, "Difference in a Desert: Julia Constance Fletcher and the Mirage of Oscar Wilde"
Julie Taddeo, Temple University, "Ploughboys, Postboys, and Arabian Nights: Lytton Strachey's Imperial Adventure"
Gregory Tague, St. Francis College, "Through the Eyes of D.H. Lawrence: Journeyman Life Philosopher Charting a Physical and Metaphysical Voyage"
Full text of paper

29. POST(WAR), POST(IMPERIAL), POST (TRAVEL) , Center II
Chair: Jeffrey Melton, Auburn University, Montgomery

Christina Klein, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Hawaii and Cold War Identity: Travel and Immigration"
Daniel Goodman, University of Cincinnati, "That Obscure Object of Desire"
Patrick Holland, University of Guelph, University of Munich, "The Futures of Travel Writing"

30. WRITING THE JOURNEY THROUGH THE FEMALE GOTHIC, University I
Chair: Mary Suzanne Schriber

Sarah Brusky, Michigan State University, "The Veiled Lady: Nancy Prince and Her Gothic Odyssey"
Abbey Zink, Northern Illinois University, "A Tomb of One's Own: The Female Gothic and Sarah Rogers Haight's Night in the Necropolis"
Mary Suzanne Schriber, Northern Illinois University, "Home and the War Travels of Edith Wharton"

31. IMAGINATIVE PROJECTIONS ON LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARRIBEAN, University II
Chair:Beatriz Badikian, Roosevelt University

Catherine Sears, CUNY, "The Gothic Aspect of Slavery: Matthew Gregory Lewis's Journal of a West India Proprietor"
Robert E. Garlitz, Plymouth State College, "Romancing Bolivia's Poor"
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Philip Krummrich, University of Georgia, "Peter Flemings's Brazilian Adventure"
Beatriz Badikian, Roosevelt University, "Imagining Patagonia"

32. PSYCHIC TERRAIN: NORTH AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST, Palmaire 3
Chair: Barbara Ryan, University of Missouri, Kansas City

Barbara Ryan, University of Missouri, Kansas City, "Mark Twain's Innocents Abroad; or Ipse Dixits in the Holy Land"
Eitan Bar-Yosef, Oxford University, "'Homesick Crusaders: British Soldiers in the Holy Land, 1917-1918"
Alami Ahmed, Indiana University, "The Implied Reader and the Travel Writing of James Richardson: The Negotiation Between the Sub-text and Pre-text"
Greg Wolmart, University of Pennsylvania, "Sleeping With Camels: Cultural Dissonance and Imperious Perspective in Bowles's A Distant Episode"

Saturday, June 12, 4:00-5:30 Return to Conference Directory

33. TRAVELERS TO THE MIDDLE EAST: GENDER IDENTITIES, Chestnut
Chair: Anne Lockwood, University of North Carolina

Angela Poon, Brandeis University, "Exploring Liminality: the Spatial Politics of Travel and Gender Identity in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters"
Feliz Turhan, New York University, "Labeling the Lady: the Identities of Lady Hester Stanhope"
Anne Lockwood, 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"

34. PANEL: TRAVEL WRITERS TALK ABOUT THE TRADE, Center I and II
Chair: Alan Behr, Freelance Writer

Tom Swick, Sun-Sentinel of Fort Lauderdale; Author, Unquiet Days: At Home in Poland; "Anti Travel Journalism"
Howard Shapiro, Philadelphia Inquirer , "Travel Writer/Travel Editor"

35. PANEL: THE PEACE CORPS, TRAVEL AND WRITING, University I and II
Chair: John Coyne (Ethopia), Editor, Going Upcountry: Travel Essays by Peace Corps Writers;Living on the Edge: Fiction by Peace Corps Writers

(All panelists are former Peace Corps volunteers who have published travel books and fiction. See Abstracts section for biographical sketches and list of publications.)

Richard Wiley (Korea), University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Author, Ahmed's Revenge; Indigo; Soldiers in Hiding
Mike Tidwell (Congo), Washington Post; Author, Amazon Stranger
Kathleen Coskran (Ethiopia), Lake Country School, Minneapolis; Editor, Inn Near Kyoto: Writing by American Women Abroad;Author, High Price of Everything Stories
Peter Chilson (West Africa), Washington State University; Author, Riding the Demon: On the Road in West Africa

Saturday, June 12 7:00 Return to Conference Directory

DINNER:, Palmaire I and II (Cash Bar by Palmaire from 6-7)

Guest of Honor: Paul Fussell
Professor Emeritus
University of Pennsylvania

REMARKS: David Espey, University of Pennsylvania

Saturday, June 12 8:30

36. Jonathan Maslow, "Adventurer for Hire: Travel Writing, Money and the Art of Interesting Impoverishment," Palmaire 1 and 2

Sunday, June 13, 9-10:30 Return to Conference Directory

37. TEACHING AND TRAVEL, Chestnut Room
Chair: Jon Volkmer, Ursinus College

Alan McKenzie, Purdue University, "Teaching Oxbridge--There"
Louisa Peat O'Neil, Washington Post "Teaching Travel Writing: A Journey Through the Senses"
Full Text of Paper
Jon Volkmer, Ursinus College, "Writing the Academic Journey: An Examination and Review of a College Composition Course Based on Travel Writing"

38. BODIES AND SPACES, Center I
Chair: Suzanne Bailey, Trent University

Alice Brittan, University of Pennsylvania, "Intimate Borders: Drifting Families and Traveling Trees in Murray Bail's Ecalyptus"
Denise Heaps, University of Toronto, "Canadian Women's Travel Writing: Travelling Mother- wards, Writing Mother-words"
Suzanne Bailey, Trent University, "Travelling the Body: the Travel Poetry of Karen Connelly"

Sunday, June 13, 11-12:30 Return to Conference Directory

39. SOPHISTICATED TRAVELERS: HENRY JAMES AND EDITH WHARTON, Center I
Chair: Kendall Johnson, University of Pennsylvania

Valerie Smith, University of Connecticut, "The Landscape of Identity: Gender, Class, and the 'Other' in the Travel Writing of Edith Wharton"
Kendall Johnson, University of Pennsylvania, "Portraits of Polygenism: The Scientific Explorations of Louis Agassiz and Henry James's 'A Landscape Painter'"

40. "BAD" TRIPS, Center II
Chair: Gene McQuillan, CUNY

David Judkins, University of Houston, "Defining Disappointment: The Contentious Traveler"
Kent Dixon, Wittenberg University, "Travels with Charon: Travel Narrative's Side Trip to Hell"
Stephanie Palmer, University of Michigan, "Accidents in Contexts"

41. OPEN SESSION: THE FUTURE OF OUR TRAVEL WRITING CONFERENCE, Chestnut

Panel: David Espey, Jeffrey Melton, Donald Ross, Jim Schramer, Jon Volkmer

Comments on the conference, observations on travel writing and academia, ideas for future sites and paper topics, publications, funding, etc.

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