Program

Thursday, February 9, 2012

5:00 p.m.

Evening Reception and Welcome

Schedule of Presentations

AT&T Center Room 102

(please note that times given here are estimations)

Friday, February 10, 2012

9:00 a.m.

Welcome and Introduction: Elizabeth Scala, University of Texas

Strategies of Reading

Chair: Peggy McCracken, University of Michigan

"Faith and Betrayal: Close Reading and/as Psychoanalysis"

Ben Saunders, University of Oregon

"Surface and Depth, Local and Global: The Politics of Critical Attention in the 21st Century"

Geraldine Heng, University of Texas

"The At-ar-ar-chive"

Michelle Warren, Dartmouth College

10:30 a.m. Coffee

11:00 a.m.

Skin and Body

Chair: Tison Pugh, University of Central Florida

"Medial Body / Figural Body"

Julie Orlemanski, Boston College

"A feel for Manuscript"

Catherine Brown, University of Michigan

"Surface and Depth on a Bestiary Page"

Sarah Kay, Princeton University

12:30 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m.

Politics

Chair: Patricia Clare Ingham, Indiana University

"Ethics, Objects, Networks"

Jeffrey J. Cohen, George Washington University

"Crisis Mode"

George Edmondson, Dartmouth College

"'I Don't Know About Your Brian, But Mine is Really Bossy'"

L.O. Aranye Fradenburg, UC Santa Barbara

Saturday, February 11, 2012

9:30 a.m.

Historicity

Chair: W. Joseph Taylor, University of Alabama, Huntsville

"Free Reading: Amateurs and the Discipline of Literary Studies"

Carolyn Dinshaw, New York University

"Getting Medieval on Political Animals: How We Read (Bodily) Remains (Out)"

James Simpson, University of Glasgow

"Medieval Studies in a Secular Age"

Ethan Knapp, Ohio State University

11:00 a.m. Coffee

11:30 a.m.

Gender

Chair: Joseph Campana, Rice University

"Feminist Criticism: Back to the Future?"

Ruth Evans, St. Louis University

"Surface, Depth, and the Interpretive Shuttle: The Case of the Early Modern Women's Letters"

Deanna Shemek, University of Southern California

"Living on the Surface: The Resistance to Symptomatic Reading in Medieval German Studies"

Sara S. Poor, Princeton

1:00 p.m. Lunch

2:30 p.m.

Questions of Depth

Chair: Jonathan P. Lamb, University of Kansas

"Disturbing Familiarity: Literal Reading and the Question of Transcendence"

Constance Furey, Indiana University

"Naming and Negation"

Mark Chinca, Cambridge University

"Reading Pastimes, or the Way We Read Then"

Karma Lochrie, Indiana University

"Reading the Book of Nature: Surface, Symptom and Science in the Work of Francis Bacon"

Henry Turner, Rutgers University

Sunday, February 12, 2012

Final Comments

Randy Schiff, SUNY Buffalo

Patricia Clare Ingham, Indiana University