Session G (8:00-9:15 Saturday)
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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�

 

 

Creative �Borrowings� and Other Ethical Matters

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�