Global Western Landscapes
Chair:
Neil Campbell, University of Derby, United
Kingdom
Neil Campbell, University of Derby, United Kingdom: �Virtual Wests: Post-Tourism and Postwestern Landscapes�
John Beck, University of Newcastle: �Dead Calm: The �Still� Image as
Aftershock�
Audrey Goodman, Georgia State University: �Photographic Afterlives: Re-exposing the Wartime Landscapes of Los Alamos and Manzanar�
Representing the Rio Grande: Mapping, Imaging, Teaching
Chair: Alex Hunt, University of West Texas A&M University
Alex Hunt, University of West Texas A&M University: �Imperial Cartographies: Emory and the Boundary Survey on the Rio Grande�
Barbara Cook, Eastern Kentucky University: �A Tapestry of the Land, the River, and the People: Laura Gilpin�s Photographic Essay of the Rio Grande�
Barbara Nelson, Sul Ross State University: �Crossing Borders: A West Texas Wolf Trapper�s True Stories Cross Over Into Cormac McCarthy�s Fiction�
�We Are No More and No Less than the Life that Surrounds Us�
Chair: O. Alan Weltzien, University of Montana, Western
Patrick K. Dooley, St. Bonaventure University: �The Inhuman Philosophy of Edward Abbey�
Angela Waldie, Utah State university: �Ecoautobiography: Seeking the Self in Nature�
Paul Varner, Oklahoma Christian University: �Jane Hirshfield: Celebration of the Ordinary�
Neoliberalism, Empire, Romance: Chicano/a Critical Interventions
Chair: Chadwick Allen, Ohio State University
Patricia M. Perea, University of New Mexico: �Sleeping with the Enemy: Manifest Destiny, the Impure Daughters of Mexico and the Legitimate? Nation-Building Project of the United States�
Hector A. Torres, University of New Mexico: �Contemporary Chicana/Chicano Literary Discourse, Postmodern?: The Social Act of Writing Under Erasure/Empire�
John-Michael Rivera, University of Colorado, Boulder: �Don Zavala and President Fox Go to Washington D.C.: Mapping the Neoliberal Spectacles of US/Mexican Democracy�
Chair: Melody Graulich, Utah State University
James
Maguire, Boise State University: �A Letter
to Sands Hall About Fair Use and Angle of Repose�
Linda K. Karell, Montana State University: �Western Studies Grows Up: Stegner, Mary Hallock Foote, and Fair Use�
Jason Williams, University of New Hampshire: �Competing Visions: The Alternate Wests of Elinore Pruitt Stewart and N.C. Wyeth�
Can the Old West be Narrated Anew?
Chair: Nicolas Witschi, Western Michigan University
Will Brannon, Texas Tech University: ��Each Tale the Sum of All Lesser Tales�: Cultural Myths and Social Conflicts in Cormac McCarthy�s Border Trilogy�
Malek
H. Mohammad, Angelo State University:
�Race and the Western Border in Elmer Kelton�
Cory Shaman, University of Mississippi: �Humans as Nature, Humans in Nature Naturally: Spectacles of the Primal in Zane Grey�s Riders of the Purple Sage and Cormac McCarthy�s Blood Meridian�
Redemptive Western Landscapes, Early and Late 20th Century
Chair: Reuben Ellis, Prescott College
Robert
King, Utah State University: �Authenticity
as Modern Salvation and the Cultural Work of the Southwest in Willa Cather and
Zane Grey�
Reuben Ellis, Prescott College: �Therapeutic Urban Space: Aestheticizing Dead Cities�
Sarah
E. McFarland, University of Oregon:
�Penetrating Doug Peacock�s Wilderness: Animals, Gender and Power in Grizzly
Years�
Gaps and �Other� Issues in
Cather Studies
Chair: TBA
Brett Mertins, University of Nebraska, Omaha: �Cather's Gaps: Imaginative Allusions to William Blake's Synthetic Poetry�
Todd Richardson, University of Nebraska, Omaha: �Cather's Empire: The Inclusion, Differentiation, and Management of 'Others' in Willa Cather's Fiction�