(A) Curriculum Construction. Location: Buntrock 142

1. Loretta Stec (San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA): "How Wide a Context? Global Capitalism in the Study of Literatures in English"
2. Cindy Lys (Carleton College, Northfield, MN): "Problematizing Curriculum, Constructing the Blueprint: The Frustrations and Hope of a Senior English Major"
3. Jon Hegglund (Washington State University, Pullman, WA): "National Lines of Descent, Global Geographies of Power: Globalizing the Core Literature Curriculum in One English Department"

Moderator: Rich DuRocher (Saint Olaf College)

(B) Literature, Music and Food. Location: Buntrock 143

1. Sue Houchins (Bates College, Lewiston, ME): "Rhythm in the Blood: Yvonne Vera's Stone Virgins as Musical Score"
2. Michael Harris (Central College, Pella, IA): "Coltrane and Coetzee: A Distant Mirror (in Reverse)"
3. Erik Grayson (SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton, NY): “’Savoring the Past, Feeding the Present': An Examination of Foodways in Recent Transnationally-Themed American Fiction"

Moderator: Colin Wells (Saint Olaf College)

(C) Immigrant Boundaries. Location: Buntrock 144

1. Laura Cruse (Northwest Iowa Community College, Sheldon, IA): "Where Are the Boundaries? Immigrants in New York Delivered to a Russian Market, Death Staged at a Party, and the Intersection of Sex and Reverence"
2. Adriana Estill (Carleton College, Northfield, MN): "U.S. Latin@ Letters: Insistent Translations"
3. Keith Russell (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL): "Cold Memories of Trauma in Richard E. Kim's Lost Names: Scenes from a Korean Boyhood

Moderator: Wendy Bashant (New College of Florida, Sarasota, FL)

(A) Teaching Global Literatures in English (1). Location: Buntrock 142

1. Analee Heath (Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN): "From Tribal to Global Classic: Achebe's / Things Fall Apart / and the Making of World Literature"
2. Jonathan Steinwand (Concordia College, Moorhead, MN): "Truth, Survivance, and Reconciliation: Postcolonial Healing in the Globalizing Literature Classroom"
3. Mark Bresnan (University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA): "Writers to Be Read: Teaching Toni Morrison and Paul Beatty in ‘Literatures of the African Peoples’"

Moderator: Karen Marsalek (St. Olaf College)

(B) Theory and Global Literatures in English. Location: Buntrock 143

1. Nick Robinette (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN): "Weltliteratur and Historicism"
2. Carolyn Ayers (St. Mary's University of Minnesota, Winona, MN): "The Language Barrier as Boundary: World Literature vs. Literatures in English"
3. Purvi Shah (Sakhi for South Asian Women, New York, NY): "Diasporic Intertextuality: When the Sum is More than the Whole of Parts"

Moderator: Gaurav Desai (Tulane University, New Orleans, LA)

(A) Teaching Global Literatures in English (2). Location: Buntrock 142

1. Carlos Reyes (St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN): "Crossing Genre Borders: Two Kinds of Suspense in Two Verse Novels (Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red and Vikram Seth’s Golden Gate)"
2. David Babcock (Brown University, Providence, RI)): "Transience and Community in Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go"
3. Magdalena Maczynska and Sejal Shah (Marymount Manhattan College, New York, NY): “Islamic Narratives in the American Classroom: Reading Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses in Freshman Composition and Introductory Narrative Courses"

Moderator: Eric Nelson (St. Olaf College)

(B) "This gathering of broken pieces": Teaching and Learning Caribbean Literature . Location: Buntrock 143

1. Karen Cherewatuk ( Saint Olaf College), "Walcott and the Language of Literary Allusion; or, An American Medievalist Teaches / Omeros"
2. Jonathan Hill ( Saint Olaf College), "On the Scent of Tiepolo's Hound: Elusive Walcott"
3. Heidi Morse, Molly Schaus, and Matt Simenstad (Saint Olaf College), "Site-Reading in the Caribbean"

Respondent: Kendel Hippolyte

Coffee, Dessert and Book Signing in the Margaret Skoglund Reception Lounge

(A) Phone Messages for Literatures in English. Location: Buntrock 142

A panel presentation by members of the Saint Olaf Department of Romance Language on Francophone and Hispanophone Literatures

Panelists include: Jolene Barjasteh, Gwen Barnes-Karol, Clare Mather

(B) From Canon to Contemporary: Teaching Across the Centuries. Location: Buntrock 143

1. Shannon L. Reed (Cornell College, Mount Vernon, IA): "From the Eighteenth Century to Africa"
2. Christina MacGillivray (Macalester College, Saint Paul, MN): "Frankenstein and Fanon: Race, Monstrosity, Postcoloniality, Sympathy"
3. Diana Postlethwaite (Saint Olaf College): "Global Reincarnation: Teaching the 19th to the 21st Century Novel"

Moderator: Mary Trull (St. Olaf College)

(C) American Literature, Global Connections. Location: Buntrock 144

1. Clarence Slavens (Dana College, Blair, NE): "Anita Loos and Truman Capote in a Global Context"
2. Jennifer Henry (Macalester College, Saint Paul): "Is the Moon Postcolonial? Territoriality, the Colonized, and Empty Space"
3. Bradley Johnson (Doane College, Crete, NE): "Supranational Subversion: Teaching Jane Eyre as Southern Literature"

Moderator: Mary Titus (St. Olaf College)

(A) Jewels in the Canon: Literature from India. Location: Buntrock 142

1. Christopher Holmes (Brown University, Providence, RI): "Moon Shot: Indian Astronauts and the Question of Necessary Hybridity in The Inheritance of Loss and English, August"
2. Ira Raja (University of Delhi, Delhi, India): "Consuming Modernity: The Eater and the Eaten in Contemporary Indian Fiction"

Moderator: Jenny Dunning (St. Olaf College)

(B) Is American Literature a Literature in English?. Location: Buntrock 143

A round-table discussion led by members of the St. Olaf Department of English: Mark Allister, Carol Holly, Mary Titus, and Colin Wells

(C) Choosing Literatures for Teaching Writing: A Panel Presentation. Location: Buntrock 144

1. Natalie Stowe, Todd Anderson, and Michael MacBride (Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN): "Teaching Writing and Literatures in English"
2. Christopher Merkner (University of Colorado-Denver, Denver, CO): "The Problem of Literatures in Creative Writing Workshops"

Moderator: Diane LeBlanc (St. Olaf College)