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”