Meeting Schedule | American Comparative Literature Association

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THURSDAY February 26th

4:00 PM EDT - 5:45 PM EDT

Pre-conference workshop: “How Do I Design a Successful Collected Volume? – A Publisher-led Workshop”

Day: Thursday, February 26, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 511A

Stream: 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM

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Pre-conference workshop: “Publishing Your First Article" (Comparative Literature/Comparative Literature Studies)

Day: Thursday, February 26, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 511B

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)

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Pre-conference workshop: Building Intellectual Life Beyond The University

Day: Thursday, February 26, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 511C

Stream: 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM

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Pre-conference Workshop: The Translator as Scholar

Day: Thursday, February 26, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 511E

Stream: 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM

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UnReal/Real

Organizer: Huda Fakhreddine, University of Pennsylvania

Day: Thursday, February 26, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 511F

Stream: 4:00 PM - 5:45 PM
- If You Can't See It, Is It Real? Drone Warfare and the Literature of Invisible Weapons Sophia Scime, Denison University
- Understanding Class in The Postcolonial World Shaanze Haroon, Rice University
- Spectres of Palestine: A Hauntological Examination of Emile Habibi’s The Pessoptimist Yousef Alafghani, American University of Sharjah
- Federico García Lorca: Mythology of a Political Martyr in 21st Century Spain Grace Ellison, Reed College
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6:00 PM EDT - 7:30 PM EDT

Poetry Reading with Marilyn Dumont & Erín Moure; Opening Ceremony

Day: Thursday, February 26, 2026

Time: 6:00 PM EST - 7:30 PM EST

Location: 510

Stream: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM

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FRIDAY February 27th

8:30 AM EDT - 10:15 AM EDT

A New Existentialism

Organizers: Colin Jager, Rutgers University; Yi-Ping Ong, Johns Hopkins University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 510A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- The Hum of the Own: Kierkegaard and Knausgaard on Existence in the Present Age Yi-Ping Ong, Johns Hopkins University
- Beyond ‘Human’ Justice: Antigone, Kierkegaard, and the Legitimacy of Ethical Life Alicia Badea, University of Chicago
- On Karl Knausgaard’s Inadvertent: Shame, Epiphanies, and Existentialist Philosophy Dante Clementi, University of Notre Dame
- Imagining Silence: Sartre, Bergman, and Attentive Freedom Ruochen Bo, Bilkent Üniversitesi (Bilkent University)
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A[sian] I[ntelligence]: Asian-inflected issues pertaining to the imagination and implementation of generative AI

Organizers: Carlos Rojas, Duke University; Eileen Chengyin Chow, Duke University School of Law

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 514A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- From “Cosmotechnics” to Astrotechnical Intelligence: Rethinking Technology in China Mark Hansen, Duke University
- Machine Feeling: A(ffective) I(ntelligence) and Labor in the Care Economy Jennifer Cho, University of Maryland, College Park
- AI Technology, the Changing Global Order, and the Reimagining of the New Chinese: From Scientist-Executive to Mentor-Entrepreneur Yuan Shu, Texas Tech University
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Aftermaths of the 19th Century

Organizers: Emily Drumsta, The University of Texas at Austin; Tristram Wolff, Northwestern University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 511F

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Capitalist Legacies of the 19th Century Formative Journey Eran Horowitz, Yale University
- Welthafen, Weltliteratur Harris Feinsod, Johns Hopkins University
- Petroaesthetics, Before & After Oil Tristram Wolff, Northwestern University
- Shawqi in the Balance: Poetry and Value in Modern Egypt Emily Drumsta, The University of Texas at Austin
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Alternative Imaginaries of Transport

Organizer: Arnaud REGNAULD, Université Paris 8

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 513C

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Bicycle Heuristics: Converting Motion into Knowledge Raphael Piguet, Princeton University
- Post-apocalyptic Walk: A New Old Means of Transportation in Contemporary TV Series Elaine Despres, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
- Time Travel, History, Revolt (Resnais, Quintane, Marx) Jackson Smith, Vassar College
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Anti-Capitalist Critique and the Fetish

Organizers: Madeleine Reddon, Loyola University Chicago; Jonah Gray, New York University (NYU)

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 510D

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- French-Canadian Modernism and Indigeneity as Fetish in Hubert Aquin Torin McLachlan, Capilano University
- Death and Money in Andy Warhol's "Cowboys and Indians" Jonah Gray, New York University (NYU)
- Treaty Fetishism: The Dematerializing Force of State Archives in Matthew James Weigel’s Whitemud Walking Madeleine Reddon, Loyola University Chicago
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Archiving Socialisms: Material and Intellectual Legacies

Organizer: María Isabel Alfonso, St. Joseph's University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 513F

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Imagine Socialism with Transnational Corporations? : A New Dressing Image Trend for Post-Socialist China in Neoliberal Age Juntian Cai, New School for Social Research
- A Cannibalistic and Circular Temporality in Sino-socialist Experiences: Reimagining Socialist Past and Future amid Censorship in Post-1989 Literature Tiffany Yun-Chu Tsai, The Citadel, the Military College of South Carolina
- Prove tecniche di trasmissione. Memory, oucronias, and aesthetic emergence in Offlaga Disco Pax’s Socialismo Tascabile (2005) Matilde Veglia, Cornell University
- Historical Fiction as Historical Hindsight: Arthur Huff Fauset, Literary Archives, and the "Failures" of Socialism Amy Barenboim, Columbia University
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Atemporality

Organizers: Jason Gladstone, University of Colorado Boulder; Michael Clune, Ohio State University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 521C

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Comprehension Time Nan Da, Johns Hopkins University
- "A Great Flat Motionless Sea": Time, Space, and Ontological Drift in At Swim-Two-Birds Gina Case, Boston College
- Ishmael Reed’s Allochronic Now Jason Gladstone, University of Colorado Boulder
- Mediating Discrepant Temporalities in Park Chan-wook’s "Oldboy" Zina Giannopoulou, University of California Irvine (UC Irvine)
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Black Matter(s): Opacity, Relation, Representation

Organizers: Pragati Sharma, University of Toronto; Matthew Molinaro, University of Toronto

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 512B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- To Smell a Portal: Olfactory Manifestations of Opacity Temple Marucci-Campbell, Concordia University, Montreal
- Opacity as Ana-method Darrell Moore, Claremont Graduate University
- Reassembling the Viscous Image Milka Njoroge, Simon Fraser University
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Brazil Inside Out: Tensions between Cultural Singularity and Conceptual Translatability

Organizers: Alfredo Melo, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP); Anita Moraes, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 525B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Leonilson, Reader of Fanon Raquel Parrine, Haverford College
- Reusing Empire: Caio Prado Jr., Colonial Categories, and the ambivalence of Formação Alfredo Melo, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
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Can Dialectics Make Bricks?

Organizers: Thomas Pringle, University of Southern California; Mal Ahern, University of Washington

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 520B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Reading the Meter: Evolutions in Electricity’s Medium Riley Gold, University of Southern California
- Circuit Ecologies: Milieu, Modulation, and Maintenance Yijun Sun, Wellesley College
- The Mill-Site between Marx and Simondon Derek Woods
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Chronotopes of Extinction

Organizers: Timothy Bewes, Brown University; Antoine Traisnel, University of Oxford

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 511D

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- The Chronotope of Value in the Capitalocene and its Extinction Josh Todarello, Johns Hopkins University
- “Worms, Crawling Through an Apple”: Prelapsarian Time-Space in the Post-Apocalyptic Novel Maya Hollander, University of Oxford
- Meeting the Mammoth Under the Earth: Extinction Chronotopes in the Subterranean Novel Matthew Chrulew, Curtin University
- Life in Installments: Economies of Suspension in American Fiction Antoine Traisnel, University of Oxford
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Close Reading and Comparative Literature: Histories, Debates, and New Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century (A CLS Forum)

Organizers: Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State); Jonathan E. Abel, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 520F

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- What is Close Reading in Comparative Literature (Now)? Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
- The Orientalist Origins of Close Reading R. John Williams, Yale University
- Teaching Close Reading in the Age of Generative AI Patrick Jones, University of Geneva
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Comedy Now

Organizers: Huw Marsh, Queen Mary University of London; Andrew Dean, University College London

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 512C

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- “Who’s ‘we’?”: comedy, work and the dynamics of humour Huw Marsh, Queen Mary University of London
- Sounding Tryhard: Literary Cringe Comedy Katharine Streip, Concordia University
- How to Rehearse Having an Inner Life: Philosophy as Comedy in Nathan Fielder's "The Rehearsal" Daniel Schwartz, Assumption College
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Contemporary East Asian Poetics: Technology, Ecology, and Intermedial Fluidity

Organizers: Liu Xiaoyu, Xiamen University; Xuemeng Zhang, SOAS University of London; Shu, Hazel Chen; Huiwen SHI, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (SPEED)

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 518B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Violence, Ecological Grief and Indigenous Knowledge in Contemporary Yi Poetry Shu, Hazel Chen
- From Butterfly to Brand-New Panther: Contemporary Chinese Animal Poetry Zhenyu Xu
- Shōjo “Shikkaku”: Female Bodily Failure and the Aesthetics of Cruel Youth in Japanese Girls’ Comics, with Ai Yazawa and Kyoko Okazaki as Case Studies Liang-Jing Y Zhu, Arizona State University
- Ontological Reconstruction and Transregional Practices in East Asian Oceanic Poetics: A Dialogue Between Syaman Rapongan and Caribbean Oceanic Theory Liu Xiaoyu, Xiamen University
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Cosmologies of Care: Relationality, Environmental Justice, and Cosmovisions

Organizers: Hsinya Huang, National Sun Yat-sen University; Chia-hua Lin, National Sun Yat-sen University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 512H

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Indigenous Pacific Water Cosmologies and the Ethics of Care Hsinya Huang, National Sun Yat-sen University
- Kālaikumulipo o Mālama a me Pilina: Cosmology of Care and Relation in Haunani-Kay Trask’s Night is a Sharkskin Drum Chia-hua Lin, National Sun Yat-sen University
- Ghost Moths in the Death Cosmologies of Keri Hulme Kaitlin Moore, Wake Forest University
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Cross-Border Indigenous Representation: tense and conflicting paths of "visibility”

Organizers: Roberto Viereck Salinas, Concordia University, Montreal; Liz Ann Young, Binghamton University (The State University of New York); Grace Miller, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 513D

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- ‘Indigeneity’ as a Framework for Collective Liberation Mukti Lakhi Mangharam
- Land as Relative, Story as Restoration: Native Literatures and Ecological Sovereignty Grace Miller, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
- Paddling World-Canoes: Unsettling John Muir on Lingít Aaní Mitchel Jurasek, Columbia University
- Indigenous Wisdom and Catholic Social Thought Catherine Craft-Fairchild, University of St. Thomas
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Cultural Legacies of Slavery in Modern Spain and the Global Hispanophone World

Organizers: Aurélie Vialette, Yale University; Akiko Tsuchiya, Washington University in St. Louis

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 448

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- An Abundance of Lacunae: the Twentieth-Century Archive of the Early Iberian Slave Trade (1580-1640) Anna More, Universidade de Brasília (UnB)
- Collecting Others: 19th-Century Cartes de visite in María de las Nieves de Braganza's Domestic Archive Alejandra Rosenberg Navarro, Brown University
- The Legacies of Slavery in the Philippines: Coerced Labor in Tobacco Fields. Aurélie Vialette, Yale University
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Documents

Organizer: Scott Kushner, University of Rhode Island

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 512G

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Undocumented: Documentary Poetry’s Detournements Olivia Evans, Samford University
- Documenting Permission: Tickets, Enclosure, and the Textual Legitimation of Cultural Performance Scott Kushner, University of Rhode Island
- Haptic Copies and Textual Re-Rendering Paul Benzon, Skidmore College
- Screening Bureaucratic Time in the Turn-of-the-Century Asylum Office Hannah Hussamy, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
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Going Beyond the Literary III : Methods for Caribbean Interdisciplinarity

Organizers: Jeannine Murray-Román, Florida State University; Kavita Singh, University of Houston

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 516C

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Black and Brown Seams Across Diasporas of Indenture NATASHA BISSONAUTH, Emily Carr University of Art and Design
- Fiberwork as Decolonial Archiving: Erna Brodber’s Nothing’s Mat (2014) and Caribbean Textile Arts Patrick Crowley, Lenoir-Rhyne University
- Wilson Harris’ Infinite Rehearsals: (Dis)entangling Archival Webs Anya Lewis-Meeks, Brown University
- Metaphors of Technology: Kamau Brathwaite and Speculative Futures Nicola Hunte, The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill
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Infrastructure Between World-Making and Nation-Building

Organizers: James Daniel Elam, The University of Hong Kong ; Michael Allan, University of Oregon

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 515B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Roadwork: Reading of Ways and Ways of Reading between Nation and World Emily Sun
- Wiring Words: Language, Infrastructure, Telegraphy Michael Allan, University of Oregon
- Language as Infrastructure or, How to Save a Dying Language Akshya Saxena, Vanderbilt University
- The Family in the City: Development in the Pakistani TV Serial Maryam Wasif Khan, Lahore University of Management Sciences
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Life writing at the end of the world: evolving genres of the Self

Organizers: Terri Tomsky, University of Alberta; Emily Johansen, Texas A&M University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 511A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- From radical realism to speculative fiction and beyond: The distributed self and choral voices in Karl Ove Knausgaard’s The Morning Star Fiona Doloughan, The Open University, United Kingdom
- "He was simply a carpenter as far as anyone knew": The Immanent Genres of Claire-Louise Bennett's "Big Kiss, Bye-Bye" Cobi Chiodo Powell, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
- Not So Fast: Mediated Immediacy in Contemporary Autofiction Ralph Clare, None
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Literary Criticism as Composition: Montage, Genre, and the Art of World-Making

Organizer: Thomas Symeonidis, Athens School of Fine Arts

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 521B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Meaning by proximity, argument by composition: What literary study can learn from artists’ books Emmett Pinsky, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
- Documentary Writing: Challenges and Opportunities for Literary Criticism Rosana Hernandez Nieto, Boston University
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Literary Ethnography

Organizer: Cheng-Chai Chiang, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 513E

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- What is (a) narrative? Toward a long-overdue dialogue between literature and linguistic anthropology Joshua Babcock, Brown University
- Literary/Ethnographic/Dubbing: Accenting the Anglo-Chinese Commonwealth Cheng-Chai Chiang, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- Earwitness: On the Labor of Interpreters in the Humanitarian Field Laura Kunreuther, Bard College
- “Service, Sacrifice, & Everyday Life Exhibits (NEW!)”: Ethnographic Figuration and Shared Affective Space Aboard the USS Midway Carrie Taylor
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Literary Nonfiction on Health and Medicine

Organizer: Mileta Roe, Simon's Rock at Bard College

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 515C

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Reckoning with the Prozac Revolution: Narrative Journalism, Memoir, and the Limits of Psychiatric Medication Lisa Phillips, New Paltz (State University of New York)
- Narrative and Chronicity in "I Live A Life Like Yours" Mileta Roe, Simon's Rock at Bard College
- The Politics of Contemporary Medical Life Writing Katherine Johnson-Rogers, University of California Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz)
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Literary Translation and its Institutions

Organizers: Anna Muenchrath, Florida Institute of Technology; Matthew Eatough, Baruch College, CUNY

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 510B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Poetry as Propaganda: How the British Council Created the First English Anthology of Modern Turkish Poetry Derick Mattern, Washington University in St. Louis
- 'Right' Translation: Jean Raspail's Le Camp des Saints (1973) in German Alexander Braunegg, New York University (NYU)
- Deep-State Aesthetics vs. “The Translator from Missoureh” Rebecca Hanssens-Reed, Washington University in St. Louis
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Marxism and the Lyric

Organizer: George Kovalenko, New York University (NYU)

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 510C

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Lyrical Impulse, Dialectical Loop, and Thermodynamic Anxiety: Petropoetry and Poetics of Energy in Socialist China Chengxiang Lin, Cornell University
- Lyric and Method: Marx's Poetics George Kovalenko, New York University (NYU)
- Poetic Contingencies, Nodal Transmissions: Paz’s Dialectics Skylar Xu, Duke University
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On A (Not-So) Global Scale: Dissecting the Spatio-Temporal Complexities of Slow Violence

Organizers: Jordan Grunawalt, Illinois State University; Asmita Saha, Illinois State University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 511C

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- “Doing Time” as International Student-Workers: The Politics and Aesthetics of New Precarities Sheetala Bhat, York University
- Landscape: Scientific and Filmic Renderings isa murdock-hinrichs, Tulane University
- Systematizing Taste: Masculinity, Aesthetic Control, and Tea Culture Junhong Ma, University of Alberta
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Palestinian American Literature and its Others

Organizers: Benjamin Schreier; Danielle Haque, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 512F

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Threading the Needle: Tatreez, Trade, Tales, and Talk in Anglophonic, Women’s Literature of the Arab Diaspora Summer Mohrmann, Syracuse University
- Besieged on Both Lands: The Liminality of Being Palestinian-American Dalal Yaqub, Florida Atlantic University
- Imagining Alternative Futures for Palestinian American Literature Suja Sawafta, University of Miami
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Performativity and the Performed: Voice, Ritual, and Representation in Arabic Literature and Culture

Organizer: Ali Alnahhabi, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University - IMSIU

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 523B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Rhetoric as Performance: Ṣafī al-Dīn al-Ḥillī’s al-Kāfiyah al-Badīʿiyyah Poem to the Prophet Muḥammad Suzanne Stetkevych, Georgetown University
- The Poetic Crusade and the Imagined Enemy: al-Qaffāl, Ibn Ḥazm, and Nikephoros II Ali Alnahhabi, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University - IMSIU
- Al-Mutanabbi: I am fighting horses—and fate is one of their knights Hussain Abulfaraj, King Abdulaziz University
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Poetry and the Choreography of the Body

Organizers: Elizabeth Fowler, University of Virginia; Carmen Faye Mathes, McGill University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 511B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Indexing Bodies, Positioning Resistances: Chilean Women’s Poetry (1973–1990) Paula Cucurella, University of California Riverside (UC Riverside)
- The Gleaners and Keats Carmen Faye Mathes, McGill University
- “Behind the Windowpane, Breathing”: Leung Ping-kwan and the Lineation of Late Colonial Hong Kong Poetry Xiaoyu Xia, Princeton University
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Post-Millennial Speculative Fiction from the Global South

Organizers: Amit Baishya, University of Oklahoma; Hanan Jasim Khammas, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 520C

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Fabulating Failure: The Death of Vivek Oji and Queer African Counter-Realism Jay Rajiva, University of Saskatchewan
- Muslim Speculative Fiction Esra Santesso, University of Georgia
- Supernatural and Political Horror in Mariana Enriquez' Our Share of Night Daniella Prieto, Cornell University
- Transformation and repetition: the vision of the future in some speculative fictions of the Caribbean Víctor Alarcón, Catholic University Andrés Bello
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Prompting Comparison: Technological Horizons of Poetics Today

Organizers: Moira Weigel, Harvard University; Anne Dymek, Harvard University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 522AB

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Cinematography in Modern Arabic Poetry: Redefining the Philosophy and Dynamics of Poetic Imagery SAYED ELSISI, George Mason University
- Reading as En-sensing: Imagination and Affect in Antonin Artaud's Film Scenarios Sasha McDowell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Literature and Imagination: Reading Franz Kafka Thomas Eder, Universität Wien (University of Vienna)
- Poetry After Poiesis: AI, Creativity, and the Culture of Immediacy Warren Steele, Western University
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Racial Formlessness: Multiethnic Fiction after the Method Wars

Organizers: Henry Ivry, University of Glasgow; Timothy Lem-Smith, Saint Michael's College

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 520A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Aesthetic Exhaustion and the Contemporary Deformation of Race Henry Ivry, University of Glasgow
- Form and Emptiness in Genre-Bending Multiethnic Fiction Jeremy Rosen, University of Utah
- Multi-Ethnic Literary Transvaluation Jennifer Wang
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Reel/Repeat/Rupture: Digital Selves, Algorithms, and the Infrastructures of Online Community

Organizer: Manvendra Singh Thakur, Université de Montréal (University of Montreal)

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 515A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Mockery in the Loop: Meme, Cross-Dressing and the Politics of Queerphobic Nostalgia Ashutosh Prateek, University of Delhi
- Digital Nostalgia and the Affective Afterlives of Memory on Social Media Srishti NA, YLAC
- Producing Authenticity of Emotion: Digital Gothic Narrative and Its Emotional Intensity in The Candy House Wenting Cai, Chongqing University
- Dalit Resistance Performance and the Sonic Counter-Archive: Select Case Studies from Instagram Ivy Roy Sarkar, Independent Researcher
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Remnant Forms: Vulnerable Bodies and Interstitial Aesthetics in Brazilian Narrative and Art

Organizers: Nicole Sparling Barco, Central Michigan University; Raquel Parrine, Haverford College

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 525B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Crimes Against Humanities: Rubem Fonseca’s O Caso Morel and Its Literary Illusions/Allusions Nicole Sparling Barco, Central Michigan University
- Leonilson, Reader of Fanon Raquel Parrine, Haverford College
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Renegotiating Ethics in Literature and Film

Organizer: Chia-Chieh Mavis Tseng, Taipei Medical University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 520E

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Idiorrhythmic Address: Solitude, Loneliness, and Ethical Interruption in Ottessa Moshfegh’s Death in Her Hands and Dorota Masłowska’s Magiczna rana Zuzanna Ladyga, Uniwersytet Warszawski (University of Warsaw)
- Reconsidering the Ethics of Debt and Contingency in Ian McEwan’s Novels Chia-Chieh Mavis Tseng, Taipei Medical University
- A Terribly Quiet Place: The Limit of Responsibility to the Other Carole-Anne Tyler, University of California Riverside (UC Riverside)
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Representing Aging: Literature, Film, and the Demographic Shift

Organizer: Stefano Rossoni, University College London

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 520D

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- How old is Phaedra? Jennifer Kellett, Indiana University Bloomington
- Aging Sordidly in Devil Between the Legs (Arturo Ripstein, 2019) Agustin Zarzosa, Purchase College (State University of New York)
- Fantastic ageing in Spain: Cristina Fernández Cubas and a new life Lisa Surwillo, Stanford University
- Two Women, One Watchful Town: Aging, Intimacy, and Defiance Marjan Heidari, The University of Texas at Dallas
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Reproducing Motherhood: Between the Poles of Natality and Maternity

Organizers: Zhuoran Deng, University of Toronto; Rachel Shields, N/A

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 523A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Motherhood, Natality, and the Imagined Future: The Radical Political Possibilities of Wayward Miranda Brady, Carleton University
- The Eugenic Unconscious: Reproductive Politics in Jennifer Haigh’s Mercy Street Katie Fitzpatrick, The University of British Columbia
- Pedagogy of the Pregnant Pause: Melodrama as Sex Education for the Good-Bad Girl Amanda Greer, McGill University
- “But what is life like, really?”: Abortion, Motherhood, and Representation in Annie Ernaux’s Happening (2000) and Kate Brigg’s The Long Form (2023) Naomi Morgenstern, University of Toronto
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The Beauty of Killing Fascism

Organizer: Lupina Farhana, University of California Riverside (UC Riverside)

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 516A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- “Sideways” - Theater against the epistemology of nationalism in Israel\Palestine Netta Sovinsky, Yale University
- Interrupting Fascism via Caesura in Rodrigues’ Catarina et la beauté de due des fascistes Lupina Farhana, University of California Riverside (UC Riverside)
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The Comparison of African Literature

Organizers: Duncan Yoon, New York University (NYU); Kirk Sides, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 513B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Ontologies of Land and Limits of Comparison in Yvonne Vera’s The Stone Virgins and Adania Shibli’s Minor Detail Ivana Ancic, SUNY Cortland
- Agrarian visions: The Dar es Salaam Debates and Tanzanian Literature Viola Bao, Northwestern University
- Toni Morrison and African Literature Sakiru Adebayo, Western University
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The Difference Accent Makes

Organizers: Pavitra Sundar, Hamilton College; Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Rice University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 511E

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Signing, Singing, Subtitling: Accent in Jay Afrisando’s “Aural Architecture” Pavitra Sundar, Hamilton College
- Hearing old age through the video essay Barbara Zecchi
- The Consolation of Howling: Accent, Mishearing, and Sonic Passing in Amara Lakhous’s "Scontro di civiltà per un ascensore a Piazza Vittorio" Milan Reynolds, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
- Accenting the Hindu Nation: Narendra Modi, Accent, Voice, and Masculinity Praseeda Gopinath, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
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The Future is Past: Rethinking Dystopia in Contemporary Film and Literature

Organizers: Elif Sendur, Rutgers University; Allison Mackey, Universidad de la República (Uruguay)

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 522C

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Dystopia and Political Imagery Elif Sendur, Rutgers University
- De-Centering the Human in Contemporary Dystopias Cagatay Emre Dogan, Independent Researcher
- “Ignorance is Strength”: Conservative Mexican Science Fiction Cinema Miguel Garcia, Arizona State University
- The Genetic Deathmarch of the Cleons in Foundation Amir Saffar Perez, Kent State University
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The Knowledge of Art: Aesthetics and Epistemology

Organizers: Robert Lehman, Boston College; Jess Keiser, Tufts University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 516B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Large Aesthetic Models: On the Interpretability of Styles Seth Perlow, Georgetown University
- Feeling Seen Robert Lehman, Boston College
- Redundant Form and James Hampton’s Throne of the Third Heaven Thayer Anderson, Princeton University
- Teleological Judgment and the Knowledge of Art Audrey Wasser, Miami University
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The Long 1990s: Queer Theory in the Archive

Organizers: Heather Love, University of Pennsylvania; Robyn Wiegman, Duke University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 513A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Strong Preferences: Judgment in 90s Queer Criticism David Kurnick, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
- Thomas Yingling and the "Cohesive Affection" of Literary and Queer Theory Matthew Johnson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Barbara Johnson vs Hulk Hogan Chase Gregory, Bucknell University Julien Fischer
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The Manifesto and Postcolonial Thought

Organizers: Yogita Goyal, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA); Peter Kalliney, University of Kentucky

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 519B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Boycott: The 1881 “No Rent” Manifesto and its Anticolonial Offspring Peter Kalliney, University of Kentucky
- Letters, Petitions, Manifestos, and the Radical Tradition in Panama, 1885-1903 Dennis Hogan
- The All-India Progressive Writers’ Association (PWA) Manifesto and the Enduring Question of Literary Technique Abhipsa Chakraborty, Berry College
- A Duty to Fight: Slavery in the 1857 Indian Mutiny Proclamations Rijuta Mehta, University of Toronto
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Transgender Storytelling: Accounts of Oppositional Being and Becoming

Organizers: Clarke Crockett, Florida State University; Ezekiel Greenwood, Florida State University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 512D

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Falling, Rolling, Tumbling, Failing: Alternative Temporalities of Trans Becoming in Ludic Narrative Form Christine Prevas, Columbia University
- Precarious Magic(k): Conjuring Trans Futurity in the Digital Archive of Jazmyne Ambrosia Tim Welch
- Situating Trans Tamil Sri Lankan Trans-/rhetorical Practices M. Eliatamby-O’Brien, Central Washington University
- The Multiverse of Gender-Becoming: Sinophone Transgender Storytelling as Activism Yuhan Huang, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Translating beyond humans: translation as an ecological encounter between humans and non-humans

Organizers: Edith Adams, Bowdoin College; Hongyang Ji, University of Alberta

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 512E

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- The Language of Water: Posthuman Ecologies in Mexican Science Fiction Jonathan Godinez Paez, Wellesley College
- Listening/voicing the more-than-human in contemporary French poetry Eric Trudel, Bard College
- Paratextual Eco-Translation of The Non-Human Voices in Being a Beast Hongyang Ji, University of Alberta
- Multispecies Translation: Ecologies and Poetics of the Korean Demilitarized Zone Soyoon Bae, University of Pennsylvania
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Unresolved Feeling, Fragments of Belonging: Emotion Across Text and Screen

Organizer: Bora Kang, SUNY Binghamton

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 525A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- The Global Reshaping of National Narratives: From Yu Hua's collective Suffering to He Zhengyu's Family Ethics Xiang Yao
- Writing an Irish Woman: Invented Memory and Reconstructed Identity in the Work of Eavan Boland Mary Rhodes, Wake Forest University
- The Most Photographed Barn in America: Collective Feeling in Don DeLillo’s Contemporary America Allysha Vinebrg, University of Toronto / York University
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Uses and Abuses of History in Literary Narratives

Organizers: Ishan Mehandru, Northwestern University; Nisarg Patel, University of Southern California

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 519A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Refractory Thickness and Historical Haunting in J.M Coetzee’s Disgrace Kabelo Sandile Motsoeneng, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- Pre-Modern Narrative Forms in Interwar France Genevieve Amaral, Sheridan College
- Writing after Amnesia: The narratives of history between G.N. Devy and Qurratulain Hyder Nisarg Patel, University of Southern California
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Versatile Bodies in Global Asia

Organizers: Yucong Hao, Vanderbilt University; Yihui Sheng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 516D

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- “Throwing off a Teacup”: From a Performer’s Body to the Corporeal Experience of Theater in Early Modern China Yihui Sheng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- The Enfleshed Voice: Auditory Mediation and the Acoustics of Precarity in Contemporary Chinese Sound Media Yucong Hao, Vanderbilt University
- Inside the Booth: Embodied Voice Training and Technological Mediation in China’s Voiceover Industry Fenglin Selina Ju, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- The Ghost in the Technique: Embodied Epistemology in the Performance of Huozhuo Sanlang Yi Lyu, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Visible and Invisible Wounds: Trauma and Representation in Global South Diasporic Literature

Organizer: Abhik Banerjee, Georgia State University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 516E

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Rupturing the Crypt: Intergenerational Trauma and Resistance in Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing Nana Brobbey, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
- Lazarean Writing, Anti-Cathartic Affect and Intergenerational Trauma in Marie Ndiaye's Rosie Carpe Maïté Marciano, Williams College
- Visible and Invisible Wounds in Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso: Generational Trauma and Postcolonial Feminist Critique in Global South Diaspora Jiajia Gu, The University of Texas at Dallas
- Narrating Diasporic Trauma: Faqir’s My Name is Salma and Aboulela’s Minaret Feride Elsaidi, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi (Istanbul Bilgi University)
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W(h)ither Identity?: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Unselving

Organizers: Suchismito Khatua, Stanford University; Jenny Andrine Madsen Evang, Universiteit Utrecht (Utrecht University)

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 514C

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Decolonial Poetics of Flight: Unselving and Temporal Refusal in Simpson’s "Noopiming" Cassandra Gemmell, York University
- The Poetic Violence of Selfhood Jan Maramot, University of California Irvine (UC Irvine)
- Embodied Disappearance: I am (Not) Queen Mary Jenny Andrine Madsen Evang, Universiteit Utrecht (Utrecht University)
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Why Work? Compulsion, Coercion, and Narratives of Labor

Organizers: Thomas Adams, University of South Alabama; Jana Tschurenev, Freie Universität Berlin (Free University of Berlin)

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 518C

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- 'Counterfeit Service' and the Ideology of Inequality Thomas Adams, University of South Alabama
- Freedom to Work, Freedom to Care? Gender, Choice and Compulsion in the German Debate on Shared Parenting (1990s-2020s) Jana Tschurenev, Freie Universität Berlin (Free University of Berlin)
- Examining narratives of compulsion in women's work in post Partition Bengal Supurna Banerjee, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata
- Navigating Systemic Marginalization: Gendered experiences of migrant workers in Thailand's EEZ fisheries Melissa Marschke, University of Ottawa
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World Cinema in Theory

Organizer: Sarah Hamblin, University of Massachusetts Boston

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 518A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- World Cinema as Ecopoetics: Kashmir and Valley of Saints Upasana Dutta, Fairfield University
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Writing the Impossible in Eastern Europe: Biography and Autobiography Amid Trauma

Organizer: Eva Hudecova, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 521A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Of Pain and Hope: Autobiography in a Time of War Maryna Romanets, University of Northern British Columbia
- Impossible Desires and the Limits of History: Constructing Queer Archives in Michał Witkowski’s Lubiewo Matthew Mucha, University of Toronto
- Screening LGBTQIA+ Lives in the Balkans: Queer In/Visibility in Post-Yugoslav Cinema Dragoslav Momcilovic, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Film as Postcard: Between Family History and Public Remembrance in Srđan Keča’s Letter to Dad Dragana Obradović, University of Toronto
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10:30 AM EDT - 12:15 PM EDT

Alphabets and AI

Organizers: Christopher Jimenez, Stetson University; Katia Schwerzmann, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Ruhr-University Bochum)

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 514A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- The Algorithmic and Alphabetical Politics of Unicode Christopher Jimenez, Stetson University
- Point(s) of Origin: War, Translation, and the Fabrication of AI Daniel Persia, Princeton University
- Alphabetic Bent: Classifying Dreams Emerge from Grapheme's Hand Avery Slater, University of Toronto
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Anti-Socially Necessary Labour Time

Organizers: Rob Jackson, University of Wyoming; Anisha Sankar, York University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 518C

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- A Political Economy of Absence Rob Jackson, University of Wyoming
- Bloom and Hypoxia: Introducing The Inorganic Composition of Capital Jeff Diamanti, Universiteit van Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam)
- The Destituent Picaresque Seb Boersma-Grossmann, Carleton University
- The Reserve Army of Illiterates Matthew Garrett, Wesleyan University
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Asia, the Middle East, and the Caribbean

Organizers: XU PENG, University of Connecticut; Peiyu Yang, George Mason University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 516C

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Solidarity Rising: Comparing Ghassan Kanafani in Beirut to Yang Shuo in Cairo and Beijing Peiyu Yang, George Mason University
- Mao's Diffusion in 1960s Beirut and Paris Elizabeth Holt, Bard College
- Translating the Language of God in Zhang Chengzhi's Essays Joanna Lee-Brown, Columbia University
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Bodies under Test

Organizers: Ana Ugarte Fernandez, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA); Ana Maria Pozo, Agnes Scott College

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 515C

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Faces of Reconstruction: Transnational Narratives of the Hiroshima Maidens Project Corinna Cape, Fordham University
- Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Mysticism, and the Impotentiality of the Body Lucy Wowk, York University
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Capitalist Realism's Worlds

Organizer: Darwin Tsen, Syracuse University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 523B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Peripheral Surplus: The Return of Real in the Era of Philippine EJKs Alden Marte-Wood, Vassar College
- Isla del Futuro: Puerto Rican Imaginaries Beyond Containment John Waldron, University of Vermont
- Myth, History, and Violence: American Imperialist Realism Sophia Hershfield, York University
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Categorical Criticism

Organizers: Michael Dango, Rice University; Dora Zhang, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 521B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Dialectical Criticism and Narrative Theory Yoon Sun Lee, Wellesley College
- Category Horror; or, Some Versions of Annihilation Theodore Martin, University of California, Irvine
- Assembling in the Ruins: Toward a “Collective Reading” Laura Nelson, Princeton University
- Queer; the Category-Defying Category S. Pearl Brilmyer, The University of Pennsylvania
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Chronic Catastrophes and Precious Species

Organizers: Isabel Lane, Harvard University; Jennie Snow, Montclair State University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 511C

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Where Life is Precious: Prison Hospice Beyond the Medical Model Jennie Snow, Montclair State University
- Doing it for Love: Paul Murray’s The Bee Sting and the Perils of Universalism Moira Marquis, New York University (NYU)
- "You can’t tell a river to itself": Reimagining Justice for the Colorado River Jane Robbins Mize
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Complaint, Queerness, and Killjoys: Engaging Sara Ahmed’s Theory

Organizers: Dîlan Canan Çakir, University of Cambridge; Alrik Daldrup

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 514C

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Picking up the Pieces. Killing Joy as World-Making with Sara Ahmed Alrik Daldrup
- Black Sheep Research: Sara Ahmed and “Legitimate” Research Subjects Shoshana Schwebel, The University of British Columbia
- Against Civility: The Killjoy and Complainer Ruin It All Tammy Birk, Otterbein University
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Complex Relationalities, Encounters, and Solidarities in Settler Colonial Contexts

Organizers: Bruno Cornellier, University of Winnipeg; Dallas Hunt, University of British Columbia

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 513D

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- From Impasse to Otherwise: Rethinking Radical Imaginaries through Indigenous Sci-Fi Dallas Hunt, University of British Columbia
- Extraterritorial Communities Beyond the State: The Assertion of Indigenous Community in the Desautel Decision and You Are on Indian Land Shaun Stevenson, Carleton University
- “Sometimes by Simile, a victory’s won”: Phillis Wheatley’s Unsettling Colonial Worldmaking Aliza Theis, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- The Red Thread: Asian Diasporic Knowledge and Relationships to Place under Settler Colonialism Leah Kuragano, The University of Winnipeg
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CONSPIRACISM

Organizers: Sarah Brouillette, Carleton University; Lee Konstantinou, University of Maryland, College Park

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 520A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- The Conspiracies of Theory Nico Baumbach, Columbia University
- Anti-Anti-Conspiracism Lee Konstantinou, University of Maryland, College Park
- Conspiracy narratives, the bot double, and the foreclosed subject Andrew Long, Pomona College
- Desiring Science, Rejecting Science: Ethos Displacement and the Schizoanalytic Rhetoric of Conspiracism Jay Arns, Miami University
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Documenting Damage: Zones of Human and Environmental Violence

Organizers: Hannah Cole, University of California Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz); Pierre-Elliot Caswell, University of Notre Dame; Shabana Sayeed; Shahab Nadimi

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 512H

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- “I wish these were trees”: a case against sacrifice zone framings Laurence Butet-Roch, McGill University
- Testimony in Crisis: Atomic Violence and the Regime of Avisuality Pierre-Elliot Caswell, University of Notre Dame
- James Benning’s Breathless, an “Environmental Happening” Liliane Ehrhart, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
- West’s “Anarchist Amnesia” on Debris, Explosives, Unborn Child, and Unheard Voices Shabana Sayeed, Bentley University
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Doppelgänger, Mirror Worlds, Twins, and Doubles

Organizers: James Martell, Lyon College; James Martel, San Francisco State University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 522C

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Accusations of Doubling in Greek Tragedy and Today Christopher Langlois
- “It’s like a permanent reverberation”: Hong Sangsoo’s Double Worlds Matt Longabucco, New York University
- Language's Own Begotten Twin: On Gaétan Soucy's 'La Petite Fille qui aimait trop les allumettes' Cosmin Toma, Champlain College – Saint-Lambert
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Ecologies of Grief: Water, Memory and the Afterlives of Extraction

Organizers: Marta Sierra, Kenyon College; Elizabeth Pettinaroli, Rhodes College

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 448

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Griefed Aesthetics: Environmental Loss in Latin American Literature and Art Elizabeth Pettinaroli, Rhodes College
- Grief and Queer Ecologies in Reinaldo Arenas’s Antes que anochezca Fernando Varela, Texas Lutheran University
- From Sugarcane to Scuba: Repetition and Rhythm in Cuban Maritime Tourism Karen Ren, University of Toronto
- Reading and Tracing Cadavers in José Luis Villatoro’s "Cantar Ahora" José Rafael Ponciano, Cornell University
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Environmental (In)Justice in African Literatures & Popular Culture

Organizers: Rebecca Saunders, Illinois State University; Paul Ugor, University of Waterloo

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 513B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Adjudicating Climate Injustice in Postcolonial African Environmental Literatures: Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were as Legal Archive and Testimony Paul Ugor, University of Waterloo
- From Pipelines to Possibility: Storytelling, Resistance, and Environmental Justice in Nnedi Okorafor’s “Spider the Artist” Suchetana Sarkar, University of South Carolina
- The Aerial Ecologies of Lesley Nneka Arimah’s What it Means When a Man Falls from the Sky Delali Kumavie, Syracuse University
- The Rhetorics of Sustainability: Cobalt and the Green Transition in DRC Adaobi Ejechi, University of Florida
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Fictions of the Future in Palestine and SWANA: A Critical Reconsideration

Organizers: Shir Alon, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Liron Mor, UC Irvine

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 512F

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Haunted Horizons: Palestinian Speculative Fiction and the Limits of Futurity Nour Zerelli, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Estranging Palestine: SF Tropes in Dog War II Ikram Masmoudi, University of Delaware
- Repetitive Futures: Dreaming of Electric Birds Jala Alarja, University of California Davis (UC Davis)
- Colonial Speculation: The Role of Futurity in the Destruction of Gaza Liron Mor, UC Irvine
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Historicizing and Reframing Media Dispositives

Organizers: Dominique Jullien, UCSB; Peter Bloom, University of California Santa Barbara

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 520F

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Intramedial Patchwork: The multiple dispositifs of lantern devices, 1870-1914. Joe Kember, University of Exeter
- (Inner) Magic Lantern: Materiality, Simulation, and Tropes for Mental Processes in Benjamin, Nabokov, Proust and Woolf Anna Hell, Universität Wien (University of Vienna)
- Kaleidoscope and introspection Dominique Jullien, UCSB
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Imitations–of Life

Organizers: Jonathan Basile, University of Toronto; Eric Reynolds, Emory University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 515A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Biosolar Mimesis: Giordano Bruno, Jacques Derrida, and the True Fable of a Living Cosmos Armando Mastrogiovanni, Baruch College, City University of New York
- Virality as Fecality: Anal Births, of Evelyn Fox Keller and Samuel Beckett Jonathan Basile, University of Toronto
- Deleuze and the Superfold: Toward an Embodied Genome Yousuf Hashmi, Harvard University
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Infrastructure, Security, Sabotage

Organizers: Marc Kohlbry, University of Pennsylvania; Devin Daniels, Bryn Mawr College

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 515B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Extractive Policing: AI Surveillance and the Remaking of Public Space Marc Kohlbry, University of Pennsylvania
- Shrinking World: Climate Migration, Neocolonial Security, and Maryse Condé’s En attendant la montée des eaux John Un
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Jameson, Allegory, and the Work of Art

Organizer: Oded Nir, Queens College, CUNY

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 516B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- A Combinatory of Ideologemes: Structure and Allegory in Fredric Jameson’s Literary Theory Thomas Laughlin, Acadia University
- Fragmentary Totalities: Allegory, Politics, and Utopia in the Work of Fredric Jameson Adam Syvertsen, Northwestern University
- The Tectonic Plates of the Real: Jameson, Kubrick, Kafka José Ramos do Ó, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Allegory and Artistic Autonomy in Grand Theft Hamlet Oded Nir, Queens College, CUNY
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Led in a Word I Got There: 21st-Century Women’s Experimental Poetics

Organizers: Esther Sanchez-Pardo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM); Jeannine M. Pitas, Saint Vincent College

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 523A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Embodiment and Lyric Resistance: Alice Notley’s Notes for the Unborn Second Baby (1979) Revisited Esther Sanchez-Pardo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
- "Whose Myth Are You?": Variations on (Counter)-Epic in Alice Notley's "The Descent of Alette" and Harmony Holiday's "Maafa" Christopher Winks, Queens College, CUNY
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Lyric Thinking

Organizers: Andrew Franta, University of Utah; Daniel Stout, University of Mississippi

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 510D

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- "Negative Thinking" in the Contemporary American Lyric Chelsea Hill, The University of Chicago
- CAConrad and a Poetics of Care: Thinking within the Ritual, Thinking with the Lyric Matthew Robinson, Indiana University Bloomington
- Lyric-Shy: Listening to Listening with The Blunt Research Project Daniel Stout, University of Mississippi
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Marx’s Capital, Between System and Rhetoric

Organizers: Nathan Brown, Concordia University, Montreal; Paul North, Yale

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 510C

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- In the Beginning was the Machine: Capital’s Monstrous Origins Vanessa Gubbins, Cornell University
- As if by Love Possessed: Marx and Faust Joshua Wiebe, Lafayette College
- Alien values Jacques Lezra, University of California Riverside (UC Riverside)
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Mythological Patterns, Themes and Narratives in Modern Literature and Cinema

Organizers: Lily Li, Eastern Kentucky University; Kaby Wing-Sze Kung, Hong Kong Metropolitan University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 518A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Fertility Myth and Autocratic Power in J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Beren and Lúthien” Glen Robert Gill, Montclair State University
- Mythic Contradiction and Narrative Synthesis in the Neo-Mythological Novel Craig Smith, Northwestern Polytechnic
- Aeschylus in Pittsburgh: Echoes of Greek Tragedy in August Wilson's King Hedley II Neil Wright, Eastern Kentucky University
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Narrating Ethics Across Media: Storytelling, Moral Complexity, and the Shaping of Ethical Perception

Organizer: Francesca Medaglia, Sapienza – Università di Roma (Sapienza University of Rome)

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 514B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- New Media, New Morals: Narrating Ethics through Contemporary Television series Francesca Medaglia, Sapienza – Università di Roma (Sapienza University of Rome)
- Ethical Content and Visual Excess Achille Castaldo, Emory University
- Stalking as Vocation: Transmedial Econarratology in the Stalker Storyworld Joseph Boisvere, New York University (NYU)
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Non-Human Archives: (Hi)stories and How We Tell Them

Organizers: Abigail Fields, University of Kansas; Amber Bal, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 512G

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- From Taxonomy to Tactility Kari Weil, Wesleyan University
- Archiving (and) Color: Experimental Epistemologies in Julio Torres’ Surrealist Performance Abigail Fields, University of Kansas
- Tiny, oblique essays toward syncretic methods for knowing the non-human Jacob Spertus, Université de Montréal (University of Montreal)
- “Distension/Expansion; Preservation of Bodies” Emily Mulvaney
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Oceans, or Aquatics, as Critical Method

Organizer: Neelofer Qadir, Georgia State University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 510A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Archipelagic Fractures, Oceanic Afterlives: Rethinking Transoceanic Method through Comparative Literature Sheenjini Ghosh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Colonialism, Capital, and Comparativism: The Suez Canal as History Nesrine Chahine, Texas Tech University
- Controlled Flow and Filipinx/o saltwater literature Trisha Remetir, University of California Riverside (UC Riverside)
- From Sea to State: Shifting Land and Questionable Postcoloniality in Rachel Heng’s The Great Reclamation Bangce Cheng, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
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On (Not) Hating the State

Organizer: Rebecca Oh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 513F

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- On Taxes Bruce Robbins, Columbia University
- The Case of the Disappearing Institution: Reconstruction and the Quicksand of Representation Lisi Schoenbach, University of Tennessee
- Truth and Lying in the Universal Sense: Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction as Philosophy of Right Leif Turner, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
- Texts in Commons: The University Extension Movement and the Pedagogy of Citation Laura Ritland, New York University (NYU)
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Others and Selves: Exofiction, Autofiction, and the Fictions of Truth

Organizers: Lilla Balint, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley); Cornelia Ruhe, University of Mannheim

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 511A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- the space of an I: the queer commons of autofiction? Ellen McCallum, Michigan State University
- Elle et lui (an autofiction-en-abyme) Barbara Browning, New York University
- From the First Person Through the Third: Yoko Tawada and Black Thought John Kim, University of California Riverside (UC Riverside)
- Autofiction in the Archive Louise Curtis, University of Greifswald
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Particularity, Nonnarrative, and Global Poetics: Critical Regions of Cultural Transmission

Organizers: Barrett Watten, Wayne State University; Lauri Scheyer, California State University, Los Angeles

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 522AB

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- The Anti-Bildungsroman in Global Literature: The Example of Alexander Kluge Barrett Watten, Wayne State University
- Robert Glück’s About Ed as Queer New Narrative Anti-Bildungsroman Carla Harryman, Eastern Michigan University
- "The Liquid Textology of Anthony Joseph" Lauri Scheyer, California State University, Los Angeles
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Plasticity: Form, Matter, Method

Organizers: Lou Silhol-Macher, Brown University; Annie Felix, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 513A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Re-Elaborating the Concept of Plasticity for a Marxist Media Theory Cassandra Guan, The University of Chicago
- The World in Pieces: Plasticity, Form, and World in a Damaged Film Tania Sarfraz, University of Southern California
- Plastic Bodies: Squeezing the Commodity Form in Wu Tsang's Moby Dick (2022) Lou Silhol-Macher, Brown University
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Poetry and the State in the 1960s

Organizer: Stephen Ross, Concordia University, Montreal

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 511D

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Poet or Citizen? Muhammad al-Fayturi’s Africa and his National Dilemmas Muhamed Al Khalil, New York University Abu Dhabi
- Non-Aligned Nature: Rethinking Environmentalism with the Afro-Asian Writers' Bureau Samia Rahimtoola, Bowdoin College
- Between Myth and Memory: The Emergence of East German Modernist Poetry in the Shadow of the Berlin Wall Marlene Oeffinger, Université de Montréal (University of Montreal)
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Polemos: The Art of Theory

Organizers: Sorin Cucu, CUNY Graduate Center; Dan Jacobson, Baruch College, City University of New York

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 511F

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Polemos, Evelyn Burg, LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York
- My Nemesis Sorin Cucu, CUNY Graduate Center
- Eating Blake: Pathological Misreading and Psychical Mass Production in Red Dragon Dan Jacobson, Baruch College, City University of New York
- Theory Between "Total System" and "Whole Body" Cameron Sparling, University of Toronto
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Queer Phenomenology at 20

Organizer: Victoria (Tia) Glista, University of Toronto

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 512D

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- "Went Up Slant Just Like Imagination": Illuminating Sara Ahmed's Queer Phenomenology in Richard Bruce Nugent's "Smoke, Lilies, and Jade." Timothy Pantoja, Stanford University
- Do Not Urge Me to Turn Back: Reading the Book of Ruth for Queer (Dis)Orientation Autumn Banks, Concordia University, Montreal
- Toward a Queer Phenomenology of Gesture Victoria (Tia) Glista, University of Toronto
- Queer Phenomenologies and Pedagogy Audrey Ellis
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Queering the Anthropocene: Radical Ecocritical Perspectives on the End of the World in Global Literature and Media

Organizers: Rebecca Ehrenwirth, University of Applied Sciences/SDI Munich; Fareed Ben-Youssef, Texas Tech University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 512E

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Vegetal Intimacies: Forestry, War, and the Queer Ecology of Belonging Sheng Chiang, Washington University in St. Louis
- Imagining Eco-queerly: Bodies and the Aesthetics of Toxicity in The Ozone Layer Vanishes (1990) Qiyan Chen, University of California San Diego (UC San Diego)
- Queering Space in Butler’s Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents and Bloodchild Carlotta Mele, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Monsters and the Monstrous Body in The Humble Words of a Rustic (Yesou puyan 野叟曝言) Ying-hsiu Lu, Tunghai University
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Reading for Pleasure

Organizers: Adeline Soldin, Dickinson College; Amaury Leopoldo Sosa, Dickinson College

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 520E

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Inversion as Form: Historicizing Queer Reading Practices in Proust Mary Mussman, Columbia University
- Reading Aloud for Pleasure: The Case of Proust Adeline Soldin, Dickinson College
- W. E. B. Du Bois and the Interpretive Politics of Play David Faflik, University of Rhode Island
- Negative Capability as Reparative Reading: Navigating the Neoliberal Episteme through the Ethical Sustenance of Jouissance Qi Yang, Universiteit van Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam)
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Reconsidering Selfhood in Fragmented Narratives

Organizers: Daniel Newman, University of Toronto; Rachel Lebovic, University of Toronto

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 520D

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Narraction: Digression as Action and Character in Fragmented, Plotless Fiction Daniel Newman, University of Toronto
- Egocentrism and Terror: The Personal Position and the Virtual Position in Daniel Defoe Alexander Sherman, The University of Texas at Austin
- Expanding the Relational Self: Significant Objects as Agents of Fragmentation in (Auto)Fictional Narratives Rachel Lebovic, University of Toronto
- The Strange Significance of the Vanishing Character Kayla Goldblatt, Ohio State University
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Retheorizing the University: Toward a New Institutionalism

Organizers: Jack Chen, University of Virginia; Maurits van Bever Donker, University of the Western Cape

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 511E

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Institutional Forms, Institutional Thinking Jack Chen, University of Virginia
- Subjectivation and the Institution: Shifting Terrain Maurits van Bever Donker, University of the Western Cape
- The University in Ruins, revisited Delarys Ramos Estrada, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- This University Which Is Not One Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Michigan State University
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Revolutionary Aesthetics: Art, History, and Political Imagination in 20th-Century and Contemporary Latin America

Organizers: John Hurtado Cadavid, The Ohio State University ; Sebastian Hincapie, Stony Brook University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 525B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- From Revolution to Reform: The Popular Culture of Mexico's Transition to Democracy Jacques Coste, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
- The Vegetality of Persons: The Plant Poetics of Marta Aponte Alsina Zilkia Janer, Hofstra University
- "'The Story Will Make It Fit': Creativity and (Re)Production in Mayra Santos-Febres's Writing" Paula Sanmartin, California State University, Fresno
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Sensing Travel in the Hispanic World

Organizers: Cristina Carnemolla, McGill University; Carlos Abreu Mendoza, Texas State University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 513C

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- La frontera que se oye: cartas, escucha y viaje en La viajera de Karla Suárez Sergio Marin-Urriago, University of Oregon
- Categories of the Audible: The Sounds and Silences of War in Mexico and the U.S. Ty West, Saint Mary's College, Notre Dame
- Listening Across Borders: The Sonic Color Line in Mexican Travel Writing on the United States Azucena Hernandez Ramirez, Arizona State University
- Anxieties of Perception: Latin American Travelers and the Sounds of Modernity Carlos Abreu Mendoza, Texas State University
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Situation, Situationism, Situationship

Organizers: Marcie Frank, Concordia University; Ned Schantz, McGill University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 520C

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Genre, Situation, Rule: Some Concepts for Literary History? Marcie Frank, Concordia University
- The Noncommittal Plot and Other Narrative Situationships Kasia Van Schaik, University of New Brunswick
- Carrier Bag Fictions Scott Black, Univeristy of Utah
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Stigma: Writing Abjection, Reimagining Power

Organizer: Sally Hansen, University of Notre Dame

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 525A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Stigma(ta), Wound(ing), and Authorizing the Body: A Disability-Informed Approach to Premodern Authorship Alani Hicks-Bartlett, Brown University
- Cutting, Both Ways: Mental Health and Metaphysics Lacey Jones, Yale University
- Tattooed on Our Bodies: Inscribing Violence and Performing Healing in a Drug Crisis Joachim Ozonze, University of Notre Dame
- Share it with me: isolation, madness, and autobiography in A Question of Power Máire Kayegi, New York University (NYU)
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The Catastrophic Event in Times of Permanent Catastrophe

Organizers: Jonathon Catlin, University of Rochester; Karyn Ball

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 516A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Real, Fictional, Displaced: The Psychopolitics of Catastrophe Today Leerom Medovoi, University of Arizona
- Thinking and Rethinking Catastrophe with Jean-Pierre Dupuy Joelle Vitiello, Macalester College
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The Ljubljana School: Žižek, Dolar, Zupančič

Organizers: Russell Sbriglia, Seton Hall University; Frances Restuccia, Boston College

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 521A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- The Cutting Edge: Theory and the Avant-Garde in Ljubljana Kaitlyn Sorenson, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
- Hegel in the Early Ljubljana School Gregor Moder, Univerza v Ljubljani (University of Ljubljana)
- Gillian Rose: Ljubljana’s Hegelian “silent partner”? Clint Burnham, Simon Fraser University
- Reflections on the Historical and National Contexts for the Development of the Politics and Philosophy of the Ljubljana School Matthew Flisfeder, The University of Winnipeg
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The World in South Asian Literatures

Organizer: Zain Mian, University of Toronto

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 513E

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Dangling Men; or, The Oriental Renaissance in an Age of Mass Migration Vikrant Dadawala, York University
- ‘The Only Country Worth Having Patriotic Feelings About?’: Literature as World-Making Activity in the work of several Indian writer-critics Laetitia Zecchini, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Technospatial Imaginaries of Asian Modernities: Inter-Asian Solidarities and Cold War Geopolitics in Pakistani Pulp Fiction of the 1950s-1970s Nudrat Kamal, University of Pennsylvania
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Theorizing Translation in the Global South: Networks and Sites of World Literary Formations

Organizer: Razieh Araghi, Arizona State University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 520B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- A Girl with a Diploma? The Uses of Women's Education in 19th Century France and the Ottoman Empire A. Holly Shissler, The University of Chicago
- Franklin in Iran: Translation, Transnational Exchange, and the Production of Knowledge Razieh Araghi, Arizona State University
- World-Making through Tales: Translating Children’s Literature for Third-World Solidarity in Cold War Iran Eszter Melitta Szabo, University of Toronto
- Translating Socialism for Kids: Bengali Translations of Soviet Folktales and the Reimagining of World Literature Sampayan Chakraborty, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi
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Thinking Place

Organizer: Jennifer Wenzel, Columbia University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 521C

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Thinking Place Together: Fogo Island, Shorefast, and ZADism Barbara Leckie, Carleton University
- Durable Imaginaries: Visualizing Precarity in Mid-century Fogo Island and Louisiana Caleb Wellum, University of Toronto Scarborough
- Wildfire Time Mark Simpson, University of Alberta
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Thinking the Aesthetic

Organizers: Robert Hughes, The Ohio State University ; Charles Shepherdson, University at Albany (State University of New York)

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 516E

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Re-Imagining the Possibilities of Art based upon Religion Richard Boothby & Julia Kristeva Point the Way Thomas Brockelman, Le Moyne College
- Fear Itself and Otherwise in the Very Long 18th Century Ian Balfour, York University
- The Aesthetic Quest of Desire Megan Hirner, University at Buffalo (The State University of New York)
- Destinies of the Voice: Kant, Heidegger, Lacan Charles Shepherdson, University at Albany (State University of New York)
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Thinking the Literature of Islands

Organizer: Brenda Machosky, University of Hawai`i West O`ahu

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 516D

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Curated Worlds: Gardens and the Architecture of the Miniature Thérèse Migraine-George, University of Cincinnati
- The Mundane Archipelago Li Qi Peh, Nanyang Technological University
- Estrangement On the Islands: A Comparison Between The Dubliners and The Taipei Jen Yuke Song
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Thinking Through/With Dance in Latin American and Iberian Cultural Studies

Organizers: Julian Gutierrez Albilla, University of Southern California; Miguel Caballero, Northwestern University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 511B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- “Embodied Politics through Dance and Emotion in Early Modern Spain” Sherry Velasco, University of Southern California
- Thinking Through/With Ballet Winslow’s La letra escarlata Victoria Fortuna, Reed College
- Beyond Flamenco: Tradition, Experimentation, and the Reframing of Andalusian Dance Sandra Baena Velázquez, New York University (NYU)
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Thought in Revolt

Organizers: Alex Dubilet, Vanderbilt University; Oliver Silverman, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 519B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Political Thought and the Peasants’ War Oliver Silverman, The Graduate Center, CUNY
- A Destituent Form Of Life Out Of The Charred Desert: Popular Insurgency and the Haitian Revolution Alex Dubilet, Vanderbilt University
- Russia’s Haiti? The Pugachev Rebellion (1773-1775) and Indigenous Democracy Kirill Ospovat, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- The 1870 Ghost Dance as Popular Uprising Mark Minch-de Leon, UC Riverside
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Time and Temporalities: Literatures of imperial and anti-imperial politics

Organizers: Leisa Kauffmann, Wayne State University; Peter Hitchcock, CUNY Graduate Center

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 512B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Historical time as accumulated agency in James Baldwin's Evidence of Things Not Seen Justin Rogers-Cooper, LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York
- What Does the Eternal Present Feel Like? The Despair of Uneven Development in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Tambudzai Trilogy Gayatri Mehra
- Mangrove Time in Amitav Ghosh's Gun Island Sharanya Dutta, CUNY Graduate Center
- Coke Studio, the YouTube comment, and the refusal of national time Romy Rajan, Newberry College
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Translation and Memory: Constructing Publics, Pasts, and Cultures

Organizers: Marlene Hansen Esplin, Brigham Young University; Youngmin Kim, Dongguk University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 519A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Reality, Cultural Heritage, and the Ethics of Translation in the Digital Age: Seamus Heaney’s Beowulf and the Poetics of Memory Youngmin Kim, Dongguk University
- Virtual Translation Networks: How Social Media Challenges Traditional Translation Theory Tatjana Soldat-Jaffe, Florida State University
- Translating The Flesh of the Aura: (Inter)subjective Experiences of the Embodied Aura in People of the Book Erica Kath, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
- Migrant self-translation and the making of urban space: Cartographies of memory and belonging in Antwerp’s Red Star Line Museum Anneleen Spiessens, Universiteit Gent (UGent - Ghent University)
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Why Creative Translation Matters

Organizers: Brigitte Rath, Universität Innsbruck (University of Innsbruck); Alexandra Lukes, Trinity College, Dublin

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 510B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Why Creative Translation Matters Brigitte Rath, Universität Innsbruck (University of Innsbruck) Delphine Grass
- Translating kò; or, how to lose your way with words Tyler Grand-Pre, San Diego State University
- Quadruped Sand Dictionary: Translating Less Than All the Matériaux Matt Reeck, St. John's University
- Translating Dada: Added Value in Translating Clément Pansaers Terry Bradford, University of Leeds
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World Socialist Temporalities

Organizers: Daniel Schwartz, McGill University; Isabel Jacobs, Akademie věd České republiky (Czech Academy of Sciences)

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 512C

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- A Timely ‘Mistake of the Living’: Vladimir Kazakov and the Reconceptualization of Modernist Time Matvey Agranovskiy, Brandeis University
- Thinking on the Clock: Saturated Time in Post-Fordist Socialist Work Eliza Rose, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Communism, unreachable: Soviet utopian science fiction in the long 1970s Antony Kalashnikov, University of Waterloo
- 'Unpredictability', 'Discontinuity', and 'Fortuitousness' in the Late Literary Thought of Yuri Lotman (1985-1993) Nikolaos Paraschis, European University Institute (EUI)
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Worlding of Sinophone Cinemas: Textures, Politics, and Aesthetics of the Everyday

Organizers: Jessica Tsui-yan Li, York University; Chialan Sharon Wang, Middlebury College

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 518B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- The Everyday in Hu Tai-Li’s Ethnographic Films Tze-Lan Sang, Michigan State University
- Brotherhood and Legality in "A Sun" (2019) and "Abang Adik" (2023) Chih-chi "Sunny" Tsai, University of South Carolina
- The Everyday Paradox: Jia Zhangke’s Social Realism and Its Limits in Caught by the Tides Jiwei Xiao, Fairfield University
- The Magical and the Mundane: Chloé Zhao’s Modern-Day Westerns Thomas Chen, Lehigh University
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2:00 PM EDT - 3:45 PM EDT

(Dis)enchanting Modernity: Witchcraft, Magic, and the Occult in Global Literatures

Organizer: Kayla Penteliuk, Université de Montréal (University of Montreal)

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 522C

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Consultation with the Devil: Witchcraft and Stolen Land in the Quebecois Colonial Imaginary Adrian Deveau, Concordia University, Montreal
- Disenchantment's Demons Ben LaBreche, University of Mary Washington
- Re-enchanting Modernity: Iranian Post-Coup Poetry as Polycentric Modernism Kara Abdolmaleki
- Mundane Magics: Bureaucratic Enchantment in Gogol’’s “Nos” and “Shinel’” Michaela Telfer, University of Connecticut
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A[sian] I[ntelligence]: Asian-inflected issues pertaining to the imagination and implementation of generative AI

Organizers: Carlos Rojas, Duke University; Eileen Chengyin Chow, Duke University School of Law

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 512E

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Generative AI and Caotai Banzi (“Straw-Stage”) Capitalism: Phantomastic Labor of Chimerican “Prosumaracter” and the Queer Economy of Fantasy Shana Ye, University of Toronto
- The Senses of History in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence: Kling AI and the Shaping of China’s Postsocialist Modernity Qiaoyu Cai, Tsinghua University
- Dialogues with Memory: AI and the Ethical Representation of War Testimonies in East Asia Jie Xu, University of Southern California
- The “Chinese Room” in the Language Machine Jinying Li, Brown University
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Affective Narratives in Times of Environmental Collapses

Organizers: Pascal Schwaighofer, McGill University; Kate Roy, Franklin University Switzerland

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 512H

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Minima Animalia: on Kelly Reichardt's Night Moves Hayden Bytheway, University of Toronto
- Bee Melancholia. A Poetics of Loss Pascal Schwaighofer, McGill University
- Between Knowledge and Oil Rig Sex: China Miéville’s “Covehithe” Against a Fantasy of Environmental Justice Hui Wong, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- The Flattened Self: Tree Planting Labor, Bodily Therapeutics, and the Aesthetics of Disavowal Ari Javidi, McGill University
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After Adab: Loss and Linguistic Re-Imagination in the Postcolonial Present

Organizers: Noman Baig, Habib University; Hamza Iqbal, Arizona State University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 521C

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- The Demon-Deity Undecidable and Persianate Adab Zakir Hussein Gul, Harvard University
- Literary Ethics in Practice: A Perspective on Homā'ī's Reading of Masnavī-yi Maʿnavī Maisam Haider Ali, University of California Riverside (UC Riverside)
- The Ocean of Multilingual Oneness: A Sufi Critique of Linguistic Identity in Saif al-Mulūk Taimoor Shahid, University of Maryland, College Park
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After Autofiction

Organizers: Esme Feurtado, Queen Mary University of London; Grace Brimacombe-Rand, King's College London

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 516D

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- The Commodities of Confession: Autofiction and Abstraction in Helen DeWitt Daniel Chaskes, LIM College
- After Autofiction, After Authenticity: The Autofictional Author as Saint Adam Hammond, University of Toronto
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Archiving Socialisms: Material and Intellectual Legacies

Organizer: María Isabel Alfonso, St. Joseph's University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 512G

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Friends and Enemies: Critique of the Soviet Legacies in Artur Weigandt's "Die Verräter" (2023) Irina Kogan, Colgate University
- An Epistolary File Story from the Romanian Securitate Archive Valentina Glajar, Texas State University
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Art in the Age of Fascist Production

Organizers: Duncan Faherty, Queens College, City University of New York; Michelle Chihara, Whittier College

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 513A

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Ordering Truth and Sanity; or The War on Culture Duncan Faherty, Queens College, City University of New York
- New Money Horizons Michelle Chihara, Whittier College
- The “Uni” Currency Project: Modeling Democratic Finance Scott Ferguson
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Atlantic Africa through Art, Letters, and Archives of the Francosphere

Organizers: A. Véronique Charles, Columbia University; Abigail E. Celis, Université de Montréal (University of Montreal)

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 513B

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Les salons de nattage et la commodification du français aux Etats-Unis Sylviane Greensword, Texas Christian University
- Fighting Exclusion: Generational Black Radicalism in Postcolonial Afropolitan France, 1968-1990 Victoria Dey, Northeastern University
- Du discours caché de résistance des Afropéennes Françaises carmen diop, LEGS . Université Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint Denis France
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Autofiction’s Deceptions: Jewish Self-Writing

Organizers: Ella Elbaz, University of Haifa; Shiri Shapira, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 511A

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- "I have nothing against Jewishness, but": Derrida and the Critique of Community Through Self-Writing Zoé Grange-Marczak, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
- Reading Force: October 7th in Hebrew poetry Shira Stav, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
- “There is No Such Photo”: A Family Portrait as Autofiction in Ronit Matalon’s The Sound of Our Steps Shira Mazuz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- The Implying Author Ella Elbaz, University of Haifa
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Baldwin After BLM

Organizer: Kyle Proehl, Washington University in St. Louis

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 512B

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Baldwinism as Civil Rights Revisionism William Maxwell
- (Re)covering the Black Literary Left Konstantina Karageorgos, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- A Report from the Occupied Judiciary: Baldwin v. the US Supreme Court Remo Verdickt, KU Leuven (University of Leuven)
- Baldwin’s Critical Nostalgia: Historicizing the Present Rohan Ghatage, University of New Brunswick
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Can Dialectics Make Bricks?

Organizers: Thomas Pringle, University of Southern California; Mal Ahern, University of Washington

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 520A

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- ‘The Work of this Internal Resonance’: Poetics as Politics in Accattone Jenny Gunn, Georgia State University
- The Stream: Allegory and Analogy in Materialist Media History Thomas Pringle, University of Southern California
- Dialectical Cultivation: Soil, Labor, and Media in Maoist Agrarian Science Xin Zhou, Concordia University, Montreal
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Capitalist Realism's Worlds

Organizer: Darwin Tsen, Syracuse University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 511F

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Resolution, Distortion, and The Poor Image in Latin American Cultural Production Carlos Amador, University at Buffalo (The State University of New York)
- Reified Distortions in the Surround: Exploring Dowd's Toxic Sublime Salvador Avalos, University at Buffalo (The State University of New York)
- Palace Intrigue and the Art of Involution Yufan Chen, Harvard University
- Filling technology with emotion in Naughty Dog's The Last of Us Jason Willwerscheid, Providence College
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Challenging "Nation" in World Literature

Organizers: Daniel Pratt, McGill University; Yanli He, Sichuan University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 513F

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Seeing World Literature: printed visual culture in postwar Switzerland Eleanor Xuhui Zhang, Université de Lausanne (UNIL - University of Lausanne)
- Reimagining the self and the other. Bobi Bazlen, Adelphi and the Overcoming of Fascism in Post-WWII Italy Davide Gnoato, Universität Wien (University of Vienna)
- Imagining Community through Intertextuality: Eugene Ionesco’s Rhinoceros in Salman Rushdie’s Quichotte Robert Colson, BYU
- Don Quixote and the “Stateless” Classic: Rethinking the “National” in World Literature Tatevik Gyulamiryan
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Climate Fictions Before Climate Change

Organizer: Patrick Durdel, University of Oxford

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 516A

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- After/Before Patrick Durdel, University of Oxford
- The Afterlife of Ariel. The Atmosphere in Shakespeare’s The Tempest David Gould, Indiana University Bloomington
- Colonial Climates in Swift and Defoe Charlotte Jones
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Contemporary Muslim Writers on Borders

Organizers: Emily Davis, University of Delaware; Samina Gul Ali, Kean University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 523B

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Beyond the Binaries: Framing Contestations of Muslim Female Identity in Kamila Shamsie’s Broken Verses Mariam Khan, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
- Reading Contemporary Muslim American Women’s Poetry as Decolonial Praxis Samina Gul Ali, Kean University
- Shahada and Witnessness: Queer Iranian Muslim Life Writing in the Diaspora Sajad S. Yazdi, Emily Carr University of Art and Design
- “Feeling Human as a Palestinian in Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin” Emily Davis, University of Delaware
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Critical Disaster Studies in Latin American and Caribbean Literature

Organizers: Danielle Dorvil, Sarah Lawrence College; Sahai Couso Díaz, Kenyon College

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 513D

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Between the Occident and Orient: Racialized Futures and Environmental Collapse in A morte e o meteoro Jessica Carey-Webb, The University of New Mexico
- When Worlds End: Climate Apocalypse and Indigenous Futurisms in the Caribbean LU HAN, Cornell University
- Narrating Catastrophes: Black Women as Ecological Archivists in Song of the Water Saints (2002) and Absences sans frontières (2013) Danielle Dorvil, Sarah Lawrence College
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Death, Dying, and Decolonisation: Legacies and Politics of Commemoration

Organizers: Kimmy Clough, Texas A&M University; Devaleena Kundu, South Asian University, New Delhi

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 519A

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Death and Designed Meaning in Videogames Heather Maycock, University of Dundee
- Representation of Indigenous and Colonial Epistemologies in African Mourning Art: The Case of Adada Nsukka Masquerade Ogochukwu Ukwueze, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
- Death Rites of the Khasis of Meghalaya, India Natalie Jo-Anne Diengdoh, National Institute of Fashion Technology
- Death, Trans-corporeality, and Gender in William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury Sarah Tanner, University of South Carolina
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Decolonizing Comparative Methodologies Through Non-Canonical Imaginaries

Organizer: Tamar Barbakadze, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 514A

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Comparative Performativity in Ahmed Abou Dehman’s La Ceinture and Al-Hizam: Rewriting Identity Across Languages sarah ALfaisal, Imam Muhammad bin Saud Islamic University
- Screens, Scripts, and Skins: Violent Visuality and Politics of Decolonization in Lu Xun and Frantz Fanon Tianyi Shou, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- Comparing non-canonical Afrofuturism and Indigenous Futurisms Tamar Barbakadze, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Decoupled Ties, Weak Theory: Weaving a Literary History of the World

Organizers: Zhen Zhang, Renmin University of China; Wen Jin, East China Normal University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 521B

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- “Forced to forget the Motherland”: on hermetic message in the poem by Eugenia Ouliankina and its translation Ivan Alekseev, Southwest Jiaotong University
- When People Become Fish: Rain, Kinship, and Queer Ecologies of the Plantation Huiming LIU, East China Normal University
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Doppelgänger, Mirror Worlds, Twins, and Doubles

Organizers: James Martell, Lyon College; James Martel, San Francisco State University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 514B

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- The Double's Endurance: *Strangers on a Train,* Race, and Queer Temporality David Greven, University of South Carolina
- The Double Aspect of the Vampire: Nosferatu, Cinema, and the Final “Final Girl” Saul Anton, Pratt Institute
- "You always were a better me": Sameness, Mimesis, and Reproduction in Dead Ringers (2023) Madeleine Collier, Duke University
- Belated Violence Between Doppelgängers: Scapegoating and Subjective Collapse in Modern Cinema Yi Sun, University of Georgia
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Forest Stories

Organizers: Caren Irr, Brandeis University; Richard Grusin, Duke University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 515A

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Family Trees: Reading Radical Environmentalism in T.C. Boyle’s A Friend of the Earth, Richard Powers’s The Overstory (2018), and Michael Christie’s Greenwood Heather Hicks, Villanova University
- Ecological Insurrection: Reversing the Gaze and the Power Dynamic in the Southern Reach Series Bidisha Nandi, University of Strathclyde
- Arboreal Archives: Ecologies of Remembering and Forgetting in post-1990s Anglophone African Literatures Deniz Gundogan Ibrisim, Kadir Has University
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Free Indirect Style Across Languages

Organizers: Eve Houghton, University of Cambridge; Colton Valentine, Harvard University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 522AB

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- An Origin’s Foils: Charles Bally and the German Grammarians Colton Valentine, Harvard University
- Kaziemierz Wóycicki and Polish Formalism Katarzyna Bartoszynska, Ithaca College
- Translation, Grammar, and Free Indirect Speech in Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese Spencer Lee-Lenfield
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Global Cosmopolitanisms

Organizers: Joao Marcos Copertino, Harvard University; Alyssa Cottle, University of Western Ontario

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 525A

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- La trajectoire translingue de Sara Guerrero dans le système littéraire galicien Tamara Albarracín Sánchez, Universitat de Barcelona (University of Barcelona)
- Is Exophony Difficult? The Case of Yoko Tawada's Celan Reception Daniel Rees, University of Cambridge
- Envisioning Worldliness in the Hindi Print Sphere: Case Study of a Publishing House in the Early Twentieth Century Shobna Nijhawan, York University
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Global Crime Fiction and the Problem of (In)justice

Organizers: Andrew Pepper, Queen's University Belfast; Nicole Kenley

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 515C

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Domestic Suspense, Social Class, and Justice: The Case of Vera Caspary’s Bedelia (1945) Erin Smith, The University of Texas at Dallas
- Fractured Female Solidarity in Patricia Melo’s The Simple Art of Killing a Woman and Claudia Piñeiro’s Elena Knows Caroline Reitz, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
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India, Poverty, and Western Eyes

Organizers: Priyadarshini Gupta, OP; Muddasir Ramzan, Islamic University of Science & Technology; Shruti Jain, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 513E

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Sonic Colonialism: Power, Noise, and the Politics of Listening Amitabh Vikram Dwivedi, Shri Mata Vaishno Devi University
- Abjection and Orientalism: Deepa Anappara’s Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line Priyadarshini Gupta, OP Muddasir Ramzan, Islamic University of Science & Technology
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Intelligence in the Age of the Artificial - ADPCL Panel

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 515B

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)

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Intersectionality and Disability Studies in Contemporary Comics and Graphic Narrative

Organizers: Kai Qing Tan, Universiteit Gent (UGent - Ghent University); Crystal Yin Lie, California State University, Long Beach

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 512C

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Auto Memory Doll: Prosthetic Embodiment, Emotion, and War Trauma in the “Violet Evergarden” Light Novels Ana Matilde Sousa, Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon
- Crip Time After The Gods: Subtextual Deafness & Posthuman Myth in Pantheon Awet Moges, California State University, Long Beach
- Crip Time, Cold War Histories: Disability, Aging, and Care in Keum Suk Gendry-Kim’s The Waiting Crystal Yin Lie, California State University, Long Beach
- Between Metaphor and Marginalization: The Golem in Contemporary Autofiction Marissa Herzig, University of Toronto
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Jameson, Allegory, and the Work of Art

Organizer: Oded Nir, Queens College, CUNY

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 510A

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Jameson, Lacan, and the Desire Called Psychoanalysis Eleanor Kaufman, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
- The Instance of the Letter in the Political Unconscious Matthew Gannon, College of the Holy Cross
- Revolutionary Allegory Anna Bjork Einarsdottir, Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet (NTNU - Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
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Korea, East Asia, and the Cold War Politics of Comparison

Organizers: HeeJin Lee, University of Pittsburgh; Chris Hanscom, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 521A

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Another Beginning of Comparative Literature in Postwar East Asia Satoru Hashimoto, Johns Hopkins University
- Neither Postcolonial Nor Postwar: Ch'oe In-hun's "Gray Chair" (1963-64) and the Future of Comparing East Asian Literatures HeeJin Lee, University of Pittsburgh
- Articulating Chinese Diaspora Through 1960s South Korean Popular Cinema: The Sino-Japanese War (1965) Muyun Zhou, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
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Law and Literature: Rethinking the Interdiscipline

Organizer: Nimisha Sinha, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 525B

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Legal Fiction: Subjectivity is (Not) a Legal Object Shari Sanders, Independent Researcher
- Enforced (Mis)readings: Theorizing Law and Literature as "Modules" Mason Wong, New York University
- Black Feminist Worldmaking as a Literary and Legal Freedom Practice Faith Barter, University of Oregon
- Literary Representation of Popular Justice in Contemporary Cuban and Spanish Novels (1960-1980) Olga Sanz Casasnovas, Bowling Green State University
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Literature and Solidarity in Times of War

Organizers: Anthony Alessandrini, Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York; Anna Bernard, King's College London

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 520B

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Solidarity and the Combatant Memoir Anna Bernard, King's College London
- Women, Witness, and Solidarity: Narrating Algerian Nurse-Combatants during the Algerian Revolution (1954-62) Maura McCreight, The Graduate Center, CUNY Elaine Mokhtefi
- Combatant Poetry and Transnational Solidarity in El lagrimal trifurca Georgina Fooks, University of Oxford
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Love as Thinking, Thinking as Love

Organizer: Iana Seerung, Brandeis University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 511B

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- A Daughter’s Discourse: the Absent Mother in Barthes and Zapata Mara Gonzalez Gonzalez, Western University
- Keats's Bad Lovers Jonathan Williams, Bilkent Üniversitesi (Bilkent University)
- Can the Sexual Relationship be Written? Promiscuity of Language and the Flesh in Juan Carlos Bautista’s Lenguas en erección (1991 Alfredo Walls, Johns Hopkins University
- love of thinking Moyang Li, California State University
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Modernism Otherwise: Global Modernisms Across Asia and Beyond

Organizers: Enver A. Akova, Stanford University; Luo Jia, Stanford University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 520C

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Mocking Development: Peripheral Modernist Experiments Özen Nergis Dolcerocca, Università di Bologna (UNIBO - University of Bologna)
- Nusantara Modernism: Multilingual Literary Modernism in the Malay Archipelago Yihan Xie, Harvard University
- Yakup Kadri’s Comparative Homeric Poetics Enver A. Akova, Stanford University
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Muslim Cultural Production in the Wake of the "War on Terror"

Organizer: Nasia Anam, University of Nevada, Reno

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 520D

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- “Unveiling as Compliance in Post-9/11 Cultural Production” Ruba Bouzan, University of Connecticut
- Making Monstrous: Gender, Sexuality and the Muslim Figure in Kamila Shamsie’s ‘Home Fire’ Raniya Hosain, Lahore University of Management Sciences
- Forged in the crucible of 9/11: Muslim refugees in Mohsin Hamid's Exit West Rukma Prince, Azim Premji University
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Mythological Patterns, Themes and Narratives in Modern Literature and Cinema

Organizers: Lily Li, Eastern Kentucky University; Kaby Wing-Sze Kung, Hong Kong Metropolitan University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 510D

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Dreaming the Twin Serpents Anew: Mythic Continuity and Feminist Transformation in Lizz Huerta’s The Lost Dreamer Bingli Liu, University of Alberta
- Embodying the Myth, carrying the Nation: Gender, Ritual and Resistance in Ahmed Yerima’s 'Yemoja' and Tunde Kilani’s 'Arugba' Olanireti Falade, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
- From the Classic of Mountains and Seas to Three Lives, Three Worlds, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms: Reinventing Chinese Myth, Cosmology, and Fate Claire Rodan, University of Maryland, College Park
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On Truth-Speaking, Flattery, Lying, and Bullshit

Organizers: Michael Krimper, New York University (NYU); John Ricco, University of Toronto

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 518C

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Jean Genet/Metaphysical Outlaw: On Truth-Speaking, Errancy, and Antifascist Struggle Michael Krimper, New York University (NYU)
- “Listening to Folly: Erasmus’s “Foolosophy” and the Flattered Sovereign in Rachel Harrison’s Friedmann Equations: Emily Apter, New York University
- Parrhesia in the Age of Post-Truth: The Disavowal of Imperialism and the Populist (Pr)Axis of Bad Parrhesia Sania Hashmi, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- Ubu 2.0: Fascist Lies, Games of Truth Lynne Huffer, Emory University
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One Poem: Reading Fast and Slow

Organizers: Nick Admussen, Cornell University; Lea Pao, Stanford University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 511C

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Mimosis: On Hermeneutic Implications of Zang Di’s “Poetic Botany” Joanna Krenz, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan
- Ümit Yaşar's "Saatçi Dükkanı" Margaret Greaves
- “To Each Their Chimera” : Prose Poetry and the Limits of Critical Attention Abigail Culpepper, Brown University
- Rereading Eduard Mörike's "Auf eine Lampe" Lea Pao, Stanford University
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Out of Place: Forced Migration in Literature and Political Theory

Organizers: Florian Grosser, University of Chicago; Nassima Sahraoui, Independent Scholar

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 520F

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Borders and Relational Belonging Yasemin Sari, Seattle University
- Forced Migration Narratives, Affirmative Ethics, and Policymaking Fatima Festić, Universiteit van Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam)
- ‘No country for the little people’: Studying the Politics of Migration, Home and Citizenship in India Arpita Sen, University of Delhi
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Politics of Travel: Mobility, Neoliberal Capitalism, and the Production of Transcultural Knowledge

Organizer: Qian Feng, University of Alberta

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 513C

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- The Diasporic Character and the Burden of Language: An Analysis of Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous Rosemary Kasiobi Nwadike, Carleton University
- Embodied Historiography: Bodily Remembering and Subject Formation in Lin Hwai-min's Dance Legacy Yue Qi, ShanghaiTech University
- Kinesthetic Sketching: Transcribing Movements in Space Fusako Innami, Durham University
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Reconsidering the Ethics of Reading

Organizers: Monique Attrux, York University; Ayse Irem Karabag, York University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 523A

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Six Months in a Leaky Boat : Captain Cook, Tupaia, and Tim Finn Rosemary Peters-Hill, Louisiana State University
- Reading Crisis: Sedgwick, Polyp, and the Book as Environment Katherine Carithers, Duke University
- Cruising the Archive: Approaching a Queer Hermeneutics of Transtextual Reading Noah Aviram, Københavns Universitet (University of Copenhagen)
- “bell hooks in their back pockets”: Performative Males and Hot Girl Readers Lauren Hough, Pacific Northwest College of Art
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Rethinking Literature’s Persons

Organizers: Julie Orlemanski, University of Chicago; Samuel Fallon, SUNY Geneseo

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 511D

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Literary Person: The What and Why of a Too-Big Category Julie Orlemanski, University of Chicago
- Sentience vs. Character: Multispecies Voices in Ducks, Newburyport Elisha Cohn, Cornell University
- Voicing the "Tongue of Oneness" Ifrah Javaid, Brown University
- Ideas and Persons: On Defoe's Serious Reflections Heather Keenleyside, The University of Chicago
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Revolution as Kairos: From Classical Theory to Digital Temporalities

Organizers: Leihua Weng, Kalamazoo College; Paul Allen Miller, University of South Carolina

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 512F

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- The Time to Rise Paul Allen Miller, University of South Carolina
- “La révolution est finie”: reactivating the revolutionary “scenario” through performance Hannah Link
- Poetry of the Present Mahdi Alaoui, Stanford University
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Rot and Renewal: Theorizing Decomposition across Space and Time

Organizers: Christopher Walker, Colby College; Jessica Croteau, Haverford College

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 511E

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Plastic’s A/Objects Rahel von Minden, New York University
- From Residue to Renewal: Transmedia Storytelling and the Afterlives of Extraction Cecily Raynor, McGill University
- Sad aspens, or why history has to die Ariel Ross, Oklahoma State University
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Rubble Poetics: Ecologies of Residual Trauma

Organizer: Gai Farchi, Universität Potsdam (University of Potsdam)

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 448

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Destruction of Self to Become Canadian: Destruction of ‘Old-World’ Jewish Practices in Fiction Louise Laverty, Concordia University, Montreal
- (Im)material Residues of Trauma: The Motif of Evidence in Cinematic and Literary Representations of the Nanjing Massacre Guoyuan Liu, Huron University College
- Inhabited rubble: Postcolonial material reversal in Ami-dong gravestone village YeSeung Lee, Independent Scholar
- Georges Didi-Huberman and the Witnessing of Rubble Gai Farchi, Universität Potsdam (University of Potsdam)
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Shifting Selves: The Complexities of Identity in Displacement

Organizer: Rima Abdallah, Middle Tennessee State University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 514C

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- In between two identities Rima Abdallah, Middle Tennessee State University
- Excavating and Rebuilding from Fragments: The Poetry of Meena Alexander Lane Glisson, Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY)
- Writing in Exile: Language, Memory, and the Traps of Self-Orientalism Aliyah Alsaber, Imam Muhammad bin Saud University
- Daniel Alarcón: Meditations on Displacement Priscilla Archibald, Roosevelt University
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Space, Spatiality, Literature

Organizer: Ato Quayson, Stanford University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 510C

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Traveling through Soyinka’s Literary Spaces—From Forest to Roadside to Shopping Mall Tolulope Akinwole, University of British Columbia
- “Other Markets I Have Known”: Market Cosmologies and the Critique of Indigenous African Spatiality Utitofon Inyang, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
- Forms of space: Spatiality and postcolonial-led comparison Penny Cartwright, University of Oxford
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Textures of Time after 25 years: Histories of “history” in South Asia

Organizers: Julie Vig, York University; Anne Murphy, University of British Columbia

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 518B

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Verse as History: Gender, Genre, and Vernacular Time in the Poetry of Lutf-un-Nisā 'Imtiyāz' Sabeena Shaikh, McGill University
- Stories past: Historicalities in the Punjabi qissā tradition Anne Murphy, University of British Columbia
- Literary and Historical Textures of vilāsa in early modern Sikh contexts Julie Vig, York University
- Enduring Terms of History: Lila in South Asia Shruti A Patel, Salisbury University
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The Labor of Narrating

Organizers: Paola Iovene, University of Chicago; Adhira Mangalagiri, New York University (NYU)

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 512D

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Educating Empire: On the Labor of Teaching One’s Own Language Niloofar Sarlati, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- Solidarity as Fabulation, or How to Rescue Martyrdom from the Nation Kang Kang, Northwestern University
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The Uses of Literature in the Time of War

Organizer: Atefeh Akbari Shahmirzadi, Barnard College

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 516E

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Teaching the Unbearable: Persian Literature and the Poetics of Resistance Fatemeh Shams, University of Pennsylvania
- War, the Language of Authenticity, and the Inverse Martyrdom Mohsen Maleki, University of Toronto
- On Spineless Scarecrows: Unsettling Gendered, Nationalist Discourses in Persian Literary Narratives Atefeh Akbari Shahmirzadi, Barnard College
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The Weird Beyond Weird Fiction: Weirding as Critical Heuristic

Organizer: Robert Baskin, Boston College

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 519B

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- When Weirding Goes Wrong: The Politics of Harman Graham's Weird Ontology Martijn Loos, New York University
- Weirding Off the Familiar: Beyond the Weird as Genre Grant Dempsey, King's University College
- A Compelling Contagious Wrongness: The Flavor of the Weird Johnny Murray, Boston College
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The World of World Literatures: Practices, Pedagogies, and Possibilities

Organizers: Dr. Mir Islam, Nalanda University, India; Arunav Das, University of South Carolina

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 516B

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Provincializing Theory: The Arabic Translation of What Is World Literature? Anas Abu Samhan, Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
- Reading Alharthi’s "Celestial Bodies" in Translation: A Pedagogy of Philological and Philosophical Hospitality Meezan Eglen, York University
- Postcolonial Literary Criticism and New World Literature Studies: A World of Difference Laura Gerday, Université de Liège (University of Liège)
- Faulkner in Africa Duncan Chesney, National Taiwan University
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Vice Presidential Seminar: "After Political Knowledge"

Organizer: Hosam Aboul-Ela, University of Houston

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 520E

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Latin for the Left: Against the false binaries of austerity and cultural capital Ignacio Sanchez Prado, Washington University in St. Louis
- Discipline in the Global South Samah Selim, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
- When Uncle Tom Went to Work for Uncle Sam: Tracing the Cold War Global Politics of African American Literary History Cedric Tolliver, University of Oklahoma
- “‘Literarity’ in the Anti/Post/Decolonial Scene ‘After the Death of a Discipline’” Dina Al-Kassim, University of British Columbia
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Water as Teacher: Pedagogical Practices of Liberation

Organizers: Kate Stanley, University of Western Ontario; Tanner Layton, Western University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 516C

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Rethinking "Criticism" Sarah Dowling, University of Toronto
- Against Enclosure: Undergraduate Pedagogies of Walking Jenny James, Pacific Lutheran University
- What Kind of Human Being Does Water Help Us Become? Pedagogies of Nibi and World-Making Beyond Reconciliation Daniel Roldan, York University
- Liberation through Listening Kate Stanley, University of Western Ontario
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Across Cultures, Across Species: Animals in Women’s Writing

Organizer: Haihong Yang, University of Delaware

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 520E

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Waterfowl and Wet Women: Animal Metaphor for Female Desire in East Lynne Sam Brierley, Arizona State University
- From Stray Dogs to Domestic Hens: Zoomorphic Imagery in Russian and Arab Women’s Writing Maria Swanson, United States Naval Academy
- Finding Humor in Human Hypocrisy: Comparing the Role of Nonhumans in Three Works By 21st-Century Women Writers Lisa Timmermann, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
- “I didn't know her in the way I'd always thought I did”: Conversations with Animal Sidekicks in 21st Century Fiction Alba Elliott, Harvard University
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Ancestral Logics and Transcontinental Cacophony

Organizer: Ethan Madarieta, Syracuse University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 448

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- mam-m’den’dun: story as the breaking apart of colonial policing Margaux L Kristjansson
- Translation and Re-membering: Ancestral Speech in Pueblo and Mapuche Literatures Ethan Madarieta, Syracuse University
- Ancestor Worship & Desecration in Academic Knowledge Production Ruramisai Charumbira, University of Western Ontario
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Baldwin After BLM

Organizer: Kyle Proehl, Washington University in St. Louis

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 516D

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Baldwin, In the Wake Frank Leon Roberts
- Public Intellectual/Private Encounter: Rereading Celebrity in Tell Me How Long the Train's Been Gone John Livesey
- Anybody's Protest Film? Kyle Proehl, Washington University in St. Louis
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Black Reconstruction Revisited

Organizers: Geronimo Sarmiento Cruz, University of Kentucky; Noah Hansen, California State University Monterey Bay

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 512B

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- In re: Dixon's Will Adam Fales
- Abstract Dynasty: Forging Post-Emancipation Whiteness Alírio Karina, University of Warwick
- W. E. B. Du Bois’s Family Romance: From Black Reconstruction to Black Flame Tiana Reid, York University
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Challenging "Nation" in World Literature

Organizers: Daniel Pratt, McGill University; Yanli He, Sichuan University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 513F

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- The Long Way Home: Claude McKay’s Internationalism and the Paradox of Race Consciousness Julia Chan
- The Nobel Prize Complex: Chinese Literature between Nationalism and World Literature Yanli He, Sichuan University
- Literary Migrations: Reading World Literature Beyond the Nation-State Tathagata Som, University of Calgary
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Control, Communication, Cosmos: Systems Thinking and Practices in Asia and Beyond

Organizers: Zichuan Gan, University of Toronto; Rodica-Livia Monnet, University of Montreal

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 518B

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Scientizing Ideological Work: Systems Thinking, Systemic Frictions, and Chinese Reform Novels Ruiying Zhang, Cornell University
- Do Aliens Dream of Virtual Earth? Gaming, Globalization, and Systematic Critique in The Three-Body Problem Zichuan Gan, University of Toronto
- Queering the System of Home: Communicating Family Extraordinariness in Ogawa Ito’s Nijiro gāden Flora Roussel, McGill University
- Automating Affective Feedback in Psycho-Pass (2011) Baryon Tensor Posadas, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
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Decolonizing Comparative Methodologies Through Non-Canonical Imaginaries

Organizer: Tamar Barbakadze, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 514A

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Archipelizing the Self: Creole Autobiographical Voices as Decolonial Method Agathe Dubois, Université de la sorbonne - Paris
- L’ ART DU TÉMOIGNAGE CONTEMPORAIN :EXPRESSIONS DE SOI ET ÉCRITURES DE L’INTIME ARCHIPÉLIQUE Marie JULIE, Artiste Auteure Indépendant
- Indeterminate Orbits: "Another Beautiful Country," "Scratching at the Moon," and an Asian American Aesthetics of Opacity Vanessa Holyoak, University of Southern California
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Emergence of New World Order in the 19th and 20th Century: Mobility and Connections across the Asian Colonies through the Lens of Auto-Biographical Narratives and Travelogues

Organizer: Barnali Chanda, Adamas University, India

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 513C

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Foraging for Diasporic Identity: "Urbanatural Roosting" in Ava Chin’s Eco-Memoir Eating Wildly Xinyue Fu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- The Shell of Romance and the Core of Resistance: Dual Narratives in Petals of Silver Blossom, a Secular Novel in Japanese-Occupied Hong Kong Lin Chaochun, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Starving Voices: Narrative Memory and the Bengal Famine in Colonial India Devansh Shrivastava Ritu Shrivastava
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Forest Stories

Organizers: Caren Irr, Brandeis University; Richard Grusin, Duke University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 515A

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Building Planting Thinking: John Evelyn's Sylvan Imperative Erin Obodiac, University at Albany (State University of New York)
- 'If only this forest were not in the way' - the dialectics of the forest and the sea in Estonian cultural imagination Epp Annus, Tallinna Ülikool (Tallinn University)
- Weaving Root Bridges: Plants, Community, and the Time of Care Pujita Guha, Harvard University
- Redwoods as Storytellers: Fire, Charcoal, and Redwood Agency Sarah Bird, University of California Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz)
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Global Crime Fiction and the Problem of (In)justice

Organizers: Andrew Pepper, Queen's University Belfast; Nicole Kenley

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 515C

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Fiction-ing the (Fictionally) Nonfiction: Crime Fiction and Lying for Justice Michael Harris-Peyton, University of Delaware
- “A Tale Told by a Mad(wo)man” Must Signify Nothing: On Mad Methods and Method in Madness in Piglia’s “La loca y el relato del crimen” Sahil Kumar, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- Untimely Justice: the crime fictions of Marta Sanz Carlos Varon Gonzalez, UC Riverside
- Collages of the ‘Unresolved’: Comparative Aesthetics of Postmodern Crime Detection in Literature and Visual Arts Katerina Gachevska, Leeds Beckett University
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Impudent Flesh: Thinking Bodies & Material Life

Organizers: David Bordelon, Indiana University Bloomington; Britt Zeldenrust, Indiana University Bloomington

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 513A

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Severing the Organism: The Bodily in Kant, de Man, & Wittig Britt Zeldenrust, Indiana University Bloomington
- Re/membering the body: On Limbs, Hunger and Zombies in “It Lasts Forever and Then Its Over” by Anne de Marcken Nia Daskalova, Universiteit van Amsterdam (University of Amsterdam)
- Bodies That Remember: Ageing and the Afterlife of Partition in Select Indian Fiction DEBASHRITA DEY, Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad
- “Lay Out Your Unrest”: Ovidian Dynamics and Body Horror in Mike Corrao’s The Persimmon is an Event Diego Cepeda, Cornell University
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Literature and Solidarity in Times of War

Organizers: Anthony Alessandrini, Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York; Anna Bernard, King's College London

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 520B

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Grenade Philology: The Poetic Life of Solidarity Jeffrey Sacks
- Staging Revolutionary Lives in African Political Theatre, 1970s–1980s Georgia Nasseh, University of Cambridge
- Ishaque Muhammad: Struggle and Solidarity in the Global South Haider Shahbaz, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Literature and the End of Development

Organizers: Lauren Horst, Princeton University; Eleni Coundouriotis, University of Connecticut

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 522AB

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Against Lament: Developmentalism and Fourth-World Perspectives Jody Mason, Carleton University
- Development as Infrastructure: International Funding Systems and the Rise of Creative Industries in Malawi Susanna Sacks, Howard University
- Life in the Present Tense: Tsitsi Dangarembga's This Mournable Body and the End of Development Lauren Horst, Princeton University
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Lyric Thinking

Organizers: Andrew Franta, University of Utah; Daniel Stout, University of Mississippi

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 511A

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- The Snake with Its Tail in Its Mouth: Circularity and Self-Reference in Romantic Lyric Andrew Franta, University of Utah
- Thoughts Don’t Think: Pensiveness as a Lyric Disposition Trevin Corsiglia, Washington University in St. Louis
- Exteriority: Lyric Historicization Jacob McGuinn, Northeastern University London
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Miniature as Method

Organizers: Michelle Chow, Yale; Jane Zhang, Yale University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 525A

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Thinking Small: Leibnizian Miniatures in Benjamin, Uexküll, and Ruyer Christiane Frey, Johns Hopkins University
- Miniature Scores Rosa van Hensbergen, Yale
- The Anecdote as Big as the Anthropocene Alex Benson, Bard College
- “like blood in a dragonfly wing”: Molecular Poetics of Morphogenesis in Mei-mei Berssenbrugge’s Poetry Ada Smailbegovic, Brown University
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Mobile Bodies: Globalization, Travel, and the Environment

Organizers: Priscilla Jolly, Concordia University; Krystale Tremblay-Moll, University of Toronto

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 512H

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Cuban Medical Tourism in Rita Indiana’s Made in Saturn Krystale Tremblay-Moll, University of Toronto
- “A circle opened to infinity:” mobility, re-centering, and the Amazonizing of the self in Eliane Brum’s Banzeiro Òkòtó: The Amazon as the Center of the World" Magali Sperling Beck, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
- A One Way Trip. A Reading of Patricia Esquivias’ Cardón Cardinal [provisional title] Vanessa Badagliacca, Universidad de Oviedo (UNIOVI - University of Oviedo)
- The Robot in the Trading Post: LLM Theater, Arctic Archive, and Colonial Dyschrony Weiling Deng, Champlain College, Vermont
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Modernism Otherwise: Global Modernisms Across Asia and Beyond

Organizers: Enver A. Akova, Stanford University; Luo Jia, Stanford University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 520C

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Neither Now nor New: The Untimely of the Other Modernisms Maziyar Faridi, Clemson University
- Phenomenological Visions of Iranian Modernism: Materiality and Exchange Maryam Athari, Tulane University
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Monocultures in Latin American Cultural Production

Organizers: Mathilda Shepard, Texas Tech University; Catalina Arango-Correa, Princeton University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 513D

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Monocultures and Their Afterlives: Monocultural Systems in Contemporary Latin American Cultural Production Valentina Villarraga, The Graduate Center, CUNY
- Denílson Baniwa’s Colheita maldita (2021): Making-kin with the un-kin at the end of the world Catalina Arango-Correa, Princeton University
- Pentecostalism and Plantations in Simón López Trujillo’s El vasto territorio (2021) Mathilda Shepard, Texas Tech University
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Murmur

Organizers: Thangam Ravindranathan, Brown University; Églantine Colon

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 525B

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Humming Along Against: Ernst Bloch's Utopian Micro-Musicking Joshua Dittrich, University of Toronto
- Urban Murmurs: City Noise and the Unrecordable Karl Manis, Trent University
- The Dune Is On Fire Pierre Cassou-Nogues, Université Paris 8 - Vincennes-Saint-Denis
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Muslim Cultural Production in the Wake of the "War on Terror"

Organizer: Nasia Anam, University of Nevada, Reno

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 520D

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- The Curious Case of the Indian Muslim—A study of Bollywood’s engagement with 9/11 Hiba Ahmed, Ashoka University
- Veil-as-Method: Pathaan and Muslim Futurity in the Wake of War-on-Terror Sahid Mondal, Brandeis University
- The Makhmalbafs in Afghanistan: Anti-Imperial Contradiction in At Five in the Afternoon (2003) Heather King, Rice University
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No Longer in the "Waiting Room of Literary History”: Accounting for Nineteenth-Century Indian Fiction

Organizers: Jesse Cordes Selbin, Gettysburg College; Monika Bhagat-Kennedy, U.S. Naval Academy

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 513E

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Cherukatha Prasthanam: What a 1930s Handbook on Craft Offered Malayalam Fiction Then and Now Nisha Abraham, University of Calgary
- Embodying Anticolonial Form in Dinendrakumar Ray’s Pishach purohit (The Zombie Priest, 1910) Katherine Judith Anderson, Western Washington University
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Nonrelation, Comparison, and Dissensus

Organizers: Dima Ayoub, Middlebury College; Na'ama Rokem

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 518C

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Translation Without Reconciliation: The Maktoob Project and the Ethics of Arabic-Hebrew Refusal Dima Ayoub, Middlebury College
- From one Relationality, Another? : Reflections on Modern and Contemporary Arabic Literature Johanna Sellman, The Ohio State University
- The Monologic and the Masses: Bakhtin, Kanafani, and the Poetics of Refusal in Palestinian Counter-Narratives Hamad Ben Eassa, Yale University
- Shabaka/svach, Or Webs of Non-Relation: Blueprint for an Intertwined Hebrew-Arabic Literary History Lilah Nethanel, Bar-Ilan University
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Oceans, or Aquatics, as Critical Method

Organizer: Neelofer Qadir, Georgia State University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 512D

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Oceanic Auto/Biographies: Memory, Photography, and Selfhood in East African Migrant Narratives Sam Otieno, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
- Decolonizing the Blue Humanities: the Palestinian Experience of Expulsion and displacement in Abulhawa’s The Blue Between Sky and Water Wael Salam, Kuwait University
- Charco-Crossers: Oceanic Identities in Contemporary Diasporican Literature Madeline Chanfrau, Wake Forest University
- "She Was Looking for Matthew": Race and Oceanic Memory in Susanna Clarke's Piranesi Semilore Sobande, Brown University
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One Poem: Reading Fast and Slow

Organizers: Nick Admussen, Cornell University; Lea Pao, Stanford University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 511C

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Parallels and Pacing in Tang Poetry (and Translation) Timothy Billings, Middlebury College
- Bei Dao's "The Answer" as Temporal Loop Nick Admussen, Cornell University
- Neuroqueerly Reading Fleming's "Thoughts over Time" (1631) Jennifer Hoyer, University of Arkansas
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Out of Place: Forced Migration in Literature and Political Theory

Organizers: Florian Grosser, University of Chicago; Nassima Sahraoui, Independent Scholar

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 520F

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Forced and Unforced Indigenous Migrations across Time: Riding the Trail of Tears with Blake M. Hausman Philipp Schweighauser, Universität Basel (University of Basel)
- Investigative Narratives along Migration Routes: Fabrizio Gatti’s "Bilal" Federica Franze, Columbia University
- Forced Migration in the Anthropocene: The Politics of Precarity and Bare Life in South Asian Fiction Raihan Rahman, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Goats, Elephants, Survivors: Resilience and the Non-Human in South Asian Narratives of Migration Nisha Kommattam
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Paper Pushers and Ink Suckers: Objectifying the Administrative Subject in Bureaucratic Fiction

Organizers: Karolin Schäfer, Universität Kassel (University of Kassel); Alexandra Irimia, Western University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 516D

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Seat Cushions, Hats, and Suits: Studies in Bureaucratic Objecthood Alexandra Irimia, Western University
- Office Materials: Walter E. Richartz’s "Büroroman" (1976) Roland Spalinger, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
- The Gothic Office: Between Doppelgängers and Bureaucratic Labyrinths Karolin Schäfer, Universität Kassel (University of Kassel)
- Death and Taxes: Bureaucratic Subjects & Administrative Objects from Tanpinar to DFW Brendan Beirne, Norco College
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Performing the Self: Language, Persona, and Cultural Identity

Organizer: Dany Jacob, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 514C

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- “J’ai jamais eu une langue à moi-même”: Jack Kerouac and the Performance of Franco-American Identity Liane Kelly, McMaster University
- The Modernist Pose on Stage: Queer Theatricalities in Djuna Barnes's The Dove and The Antiphon Ben Bert De Witte, Columbia University
- Gender (Mar)Kings: Drag Kings and Linguistic Gender, Between Persona Construction and Misrecognition Jennifer Kaplan, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
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Psychic Need

Organizers: sabine stxrm, Maine College of Art; AJ Baginski

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 512G

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- “She’s Manic”: Sonic Trespass and the Schizo-Spiritual Grammar of Juliana Huxtable Xiomara Cervantes-Gómez, The University of Chicago
- Transness in Transition. Vestida de Azul and the Spanish Transition David Yague Gonzalez, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Trans is a Classed Position Esperanza Santos, Rutgers University, Newark
- Where material and psychoanalytic accounts of transition fail to converge AJ Baginski
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Re-Mapping Contemporary Extractivism

Organizer: Tianren Luo, Brown University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 521A

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Two Logics of Extractive Capital Eli Jelly-Schapiro, University of South Carolina
- The Metal of Speculation: Gold, Finance, and Extractive Value Tianren Luo, Brown University
- Amphibious Tropics: Automation, Extraction, and the Imaging (Making) of Malaysia’s Geospatial Landscape Ann Wang
- Surface/Depth: Reparation, Paranoia, and Bolivian Tin Mining in the works of Alejandro Mario Yllanes Nico Fonseca, Northwestern University
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Realism and Its Discontents

Organizers: Ariel Pickett, McGill University; Ronny Litvack-Katzman, Harvard University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 512E

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- The Transit of Venus and the Fate of Victorian Realism Daniel Hack, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- The Sacred Flesh of the World: Pasolini's Lyric Realism Roberto Viviani, McGill University
- Realism and Prophecy from Blake and Fourier to Zola Reese Armstrong, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- Greek Romance and the Imitation of Farfetched Lives Tonhi Lee, Tufts University
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Reproducing Motherhood: Between the Poles of Natality and Maternity

Organizers: Zhuoran Deng, University of Toronto; Rachel Shields, N/A

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 511F

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Maternal Melodrama in the Multiverse: Barbie and EEAAO Brenda Austin-Smith, University of Manitoba
- Between Natality and Maternity: Ghostly Returns and Disciplinary Mothering Youjin Kim, University of Illinois at Chicago
- Or Rather, Or Instead: Maternal Ethics and Abortion Abby Lacelle, University of Toronto
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Rethinking Literature’s Persons

Organizers: Julie Orlemanski, University of Chicago; Samuel Fallon, SUNY Geneseo

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 511D

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Portrait of a Plaintiff; or, Why Ghalib Still Has the Last, Unintelligible Word Fatima Burney, University of California Merced (UC Merced)
- Modeling the Person: Autofiction, Artificial Intelligence, and the Pragmatics of Literary Character Omri Moses, Concordia University, Montreal
- Corporate Personhood and Impersonal Character Herschel Farbman, University of California Irvine (UC Irvine)
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Romanticism and Media (Theory)

Organizers: Jeremy Arnott, Concordia University; Rowan Melling, Simon Fraser University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 511B

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Poetics of a Damaged Form: 'Beach Head' and the Remains of Romanticism Aubrey Grant, Concordia University, Montreal
- "The barometer of his heart": indices of interiority in Romantic literature Max Kaisler, Amherst College
- Dissecting Knife, Hypodermic Needle, and Media Paroxysms Raj Banerjee
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Rot and Renewal: Theorizing Decomposition across Space and Time

Organizers: Christopher Walker, Colby College; Jessica Croteau, Haverford College

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 511E

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Toxic Bodies: Decay and Burial in a Polluted World Malaika Mitra, N/A
- Decomposition on Its Own Terms: Rereading the Matacāo in Karen Tei Yamashita’s Through the Arc of the Rainforest. Stephanie Sang
- Narrating Rot: Decomposition and the Forensic Archive of Empire Aditi Sen, Queen's University Ontario
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Shared Imaginaries and Intellectual Entanglements Across Latin America/the Caribbean and the Middle East/North Africa

Organizers: Ali Noori, Bard Early College; Elvira Blanco, Columbia University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 513B

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Testimony and the Contemporary Arab Left: Reading Alaa Abdelfattah Iman Al Kaisy, University of Toronto
- The Homeland-Diaspora Literary Continuum: Palestine & Latin America in the Early 20th Century Refqa Abu-Remaileh, Northwestern University in Qatar
- Aesthetics of Alliance: Shi’a Imagery and Bolivarian Solidarity in Caracas Elvira Blanco, Columbia University
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Space, Spatiality, Literature

Organizer: Ato Quayson, Stanford University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 514B

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Cartographies of Becoming: Deleuzian Generative Spatial Politics in Death Stranding Shengke DENG, Tsinghua University
- Spatial Figurations and the Poetics of Land in Canadian Literature Sophie Feng, University of Toronto
- Foregrounding the Background: A. Igoni Barrett’s Blackass and Urban Space Eric Prieto, University of California Santa Barbara
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The Contemporary Intermedial Turn in Literary-Creative Practice

Organizer: Kaiyun Zheng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 523A

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Intermedial Poetics beyond Imperial Poiesis in Jean-Luc Nancy and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha Mayumo Inoue, Hitotsubashi University
- “THE BIG PICTURE:” Geopolitical Poetry and the Imperial Shutter Christian Bischoff, Princeton University
- "Memory's Child": Counter-commemorative Acts through Mutating Forms in Asian Diasporic Poetry Yiyi Liu, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- ‘The islands’ own sound’: Intermedial Routes of Eco-poetic Resistance in Kamau Brathwaite’s The Barabajan Poems (1994) Lily Beckett, University of Bristol
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The Craft of Fiction

Organizers: Daniel Wright, University of Toronto; Thom Dancer, University of Toronto

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 516B

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Density and Velocity: the Promise and Peril of a Democratized Novel Theory Chris Holmes, Ithaca College
- Aspects of the Novel as Theory Andrew Koenig, Harvard
- Novel Theory by Means of a Detour Thom Dancer, University of Toronto
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The Cultural Labor of Internationalism: Reorienting Global South Solidarities in a Time of Struggles

Organizers: Yawen Li, University of Edinburgh; Anup Grewal, University of Toronto Scarborough

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 522C

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Performing Collectivization: Labor, Solidarity, and the Transformation of Workers Theatre in South Africa Sarah Saddler, Baruch College, City University of New York
- China White Maya Singhal, Vanderbilt University
- The Uncertain Afterlives of Third Cinema Caleb Murray-Bozeman, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
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The Intractability of Dialectics

Organizers: Joel Auerbach, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley); Thel Maude-Griffin, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 512F

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- “Decolonization, Dialectical Substitution, and the Question of Transformation: On Fanon’s ‘Stretching’ of Marx and Lacan” Linette Park, Emory University
- African Poiesis and Politics Scholastique Iradukunda, Emory University
- Striving after Freedom: The Non-Dialectic of Postemancipation and the Modality of the Ideal in Du Bois's Black Reconstruction Joel Auerbach, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- Autism and Actuality Thel Maude-Griffin, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
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The Labor of Narrating

Organizers: Paola Iovene, University of Chicago; Adhira Mangalagiri, New York University (NYU)

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 515B

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- #ADayofDeliveryWorker: Narratorial Labor of Express Delivery Worker in China Lizhen Zhao, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- The Aesthetics of the Mental/Manual Division: The Narratives of Labor in Contemporary Chinese Non-Fictions Ling Kang, Fudan University
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The Role of Arabic in Comparative Literature

Organizer: Allison Kanner-Botan, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 523B

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Comparison, Arabic Literature, and the Problem of Justice Hannah Scott Deuchar, Queen Mary University of London
- Texts in Conversation: Kalīlah wa-Dimnah and Banāt ʾāwā wa-l-hurūf al-mafqūdah: ʿan al-haywānāt al-nāṭiqah fī laḥaẓāt al-khaṭar (The Jackal’s Daughters and the Missing Letters: On Speaking Animals in Times of Danger) Radwa El Barouni, The University of Pennsylvania
- Interrogating the Jouissance of being Subalternized: an early Arabic critique of Western comparative literature Mahmoud Al-Zayed, Freie Universität Berlin (Free University of Berlin)
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The Weird Beyond Weird Fiction: Weirding as Critical Heuristic

Organizer: Robert Baskin, Boston College

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 519B

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Bicycles and Nightmares: The Weird Mood of Flann O'Brien Robert Baskin, Boston College
- Oneiric Weirding as Estrangement: Dream Dislocation in Samanta Schweblin Santiago Peña Bossano, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM)
- Cityscapes and Co(s)mic Horror: Lovecraft, Ligotti, and Aristophanes Ben Radcliffe, Loyola Marymount University
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The World of World Literatures: Practices, Pedagogies, and Possibilities

Organizers: Dr. Mir Islam, Nalanda University, India; Arunav Das, University of South Carolina

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 516A

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Towards a Family of Tourist-Translators: Rethinking Critical Translation and Area Studies with Azuma Hiroki Wei Zhao, Yale University
- Relational World Literature: Acts of Reading, Practices of Worlding Abdelrahman Abuabed, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
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Theorizing the Nonfiction Distinction

Organizer: Dana Glaser, University of Chicago

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 521B

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- The Rise of Nonfictionality Dana Glaser, University of Chicago
- Journalistic Faith and Attestations of Truth Tom Leutheusser, The Graduate Center, CUNY
- Nonfiction in France: Theoretical Transformation and Literary Experiment Alison James, University of Chicago
- Fluid Boundaries of Non-Fiction: Memoir as Performative Recollections of Terror in the Post-Truth Age Revathy Krishnan, Indian Institute of Technology Madras
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Translating, Publishing, and Teaching: Canadian Literature as World Literature

Organizers: Nefise Kahraman; Hande Gürses, Capilano University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 516E

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Is Indigenous Literature World Literature? A Critique of Canadian Translation Policy Karolina Roman, McGill University
- Negotiating Proximity and Marginality: Canadian Francophone Literature in the Global Literary Field Lu GAN, East China Normal University
- The Changing Truth of Norman Bethune: Literary Biography, Revision, and the Cold War Archive Martin Breul, McGill University
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Translation and Memory: Constructing Publics, Pasts, and Cultures

Organizers: Marlene Hansen Esplin, Brigham Young University; Youngmin Kim, Dongguk University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 518A

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Dirty Archives, Clean Narratives: Translation, Memory, and the Politics of Curation Paulo Lemos Horta, New York University Abu Dhabi
- Jim Crow De Soto: White Supremacist Futurity in English Translations of La Florida del Inca (1605) from 1835-1951 Jenny Forsythe, Western Washington University
- Translation, Neo-Orientalism, and Ethnographic Narratives of the Arab Spring: A Multidisciplinary Perspective Hajer Ben Hadj Salem
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Translationscapes of Southeast Asia: Rethinking Translation as Regional Method across Text, Voice, and Media

Organizers: Camellia Pham, Harvard University; Yen Vu, Fulbright University Vietnam

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 510B

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- The Soundscape of Translation: Dương Tường’s Musicality and the Politics of Co-Creation Camellia Pham, Harvard University
- Cross-cultural Remakes of Queer Films: Marry My Dead Body (2023) and The Red Envelope (2025) Rex Tsungwei Lin, National Taiwan University
- Ghosts in Translation: Law, Folklore, and the Unseen Southeast Asia Sebastian Hoe Wee Kiat, Singapore University of Social Sciences
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UnReal/Real

Organizer: Huda Fakhreddine, University of Pennsylvania

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 521C

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Including & Distorting Women’s Voices: Storytelling Innovation as Violent Erasure in The Mews Sally Wang, Princeton University
- (Un)Reality Under Siege: Accounting for Reality through Dreams and Unrealism in Conditions of Ongoing Coloniality Jenykha Sangha, The University of British Columbia
- A Call to Tell Impossible Stories: "Everything for Everyone" as Critical Future Fabulation, a Liberatory Praxis of Impossibility Emma Culley, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
- Tomorrow Never Comes: Temporal Arrest and Spectral Preservation in Post-Dam and Asian Postcolonial Fiction Yiyao Sun, University of Chicago
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Ways of Reading Racialized Ecologies 2

Organizers: Cheryl Lousley, Lakehead University; Zishad Lak, Trent University

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 519A

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Where the Camera Cannot Go: Documenting the Atmospheric Terror of Transnational Extractivism in Julien Ellie’s The White Guard Tania Aguila-Way, University of Toronto
- Brown Geographies: Guadalupe Maravilla’s Aesthetic Disturbances amanda macedo macedo, Brown University
- Disrupting Denial: Racialized Knowledge and Formal and Narrative Experimentation in Ian Williams’s Reproduction Zishad Lak, Trent University
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Why Work? Compulsion, Coercion, and Narratives of Labor

Organizers: Thomas Adams, University of South Alabama; Jana Tschurenev, Freie Universität Berlin (Free University of Berlin)

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 510C

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- “Why not have time to think?”: Free time, freedom, and work ethic thinking in the writing of Lowell textile mill operatives Anne Callahan, Boston University
- “Marriage Assistance for the lovely factory girls” Sumangali Scheme and the making a new industrial labour force in the post-liberalization textile industry of Tamil Nadu, 1992-2012 Anusheh Aziz, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen (University of Göttingen)
- Compulsions Without Contracts: Domestic Labor and the Erasure of Leisure in Rural India Mousumi Biswal, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi
- Beyond a Narrative of Success - Workers' Cooperatives in India Nikolay Kamenov
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Worlding of Sinophone Cinemas: Textures, Politics, and Aesthetics of the Everyday

Organizers: Jessica Tsui-yan Li, York University; Chialan Sharon Wang, Middlebury College

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 510D

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)

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4:30 PM EDT - 5:30 PM EDT

Grad Student Cocktail Hour

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 4:30 PM EST - 5:30 PM EST

Location: The Cottage

Stream: 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

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6:00 PM EDT - 7:00 PM EDT

Presidential Address: Under Siege

Organizer: Karyn Ball

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 6:00 PM EST - 7:00 PM EST

Location: 524

Stream: 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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7:15 PM EDT - 8:15 PM EDT

Awards Ceremony

Day: Friday, February 27, 2026

Time: 7:15 PM EST - 8:15 PM EST

Location: 524

Stream: 7:15 PM - 8:15 PM

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SATURDAY February 28th

8:30 AM EDT - 10:15 AM EDT

A New Existentialism

Organizers: Colin Jager, Rutgers University; Yi-Ping Ong, Johns Hopkins University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 510A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Susan Taubes and the Detonating Symbol Sarah Hammerschlag, The University of Chicago
- The Mysticism of Annie Dillard's Holy the Firm Amy Hollywood, Harvard Divinity School
- Authenticity and the Opacity of Literary Character Colin Jager, Rutgers University
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A[sian] I[ntelligence]: Asian-inflected issues pertaining to the imagination and implementation of generative AI

Organizers: Carlos Rojas, Duke University; Eileen Chengyin Chow, Duke University School of Law

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 514A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Generative AI, Digital Media, and Viral Infectiousness: Chinese Art in the Age of Global Pandemic Carlos Rojas, Duke University
- Asian AI Art and the Religious Imaginary Jianing Tang, University of the Arts, London
- From Xerox to AI: Ted Chiang and the Cultural Politics of Generative Texts Rebecca Ning Lee, The University of Texas at Austin
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Aftermaths of the 19th Century

Organizers: Emily Drumsta, The University of Texas at Austin; Tristram Wolff, Northwestern University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 511F

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Romance and fitna: Gendering Arabic Historical Romance Brady Ryan, University of Connecticut
- Antinomies of Utopia: Pauline Roland and the Afterlives of 1848 Victoria Baena, University of Virginia
- The Novel and the Sciences of Talk Vidya Venkatesh, University of Cambridge
- Residues of the Nineteenth Century: Condé’s La Migration des cœurs as Epiphytic Text Kylie Sago, San Diego State University
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Alternative Imaginaries of Transport

Organizer: Arnaud REGNAULD, Université Paris 8

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 513C

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Ecocritical Cartography in JR Carpenter’s This is Not a Good Sign & The Pleasure of the Coast: A Hydro-graphic Novel Arnaud REGNAULD, Université Paris 8
- “Until she chose to be carried away”: metaphors and trains of thought in The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead Sylvie Bauer, Université Rennes 2
- Viator Immobile : Players in Motion Icare Bamba, Université Paris 8 - Vincennes-Saint-Denis
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Anti-Authoritarian Aesthetics: Frontline Art and Performance in the Age of Autocracy

Organizers: Keren Zaiontz, University of British Columbia; Alessandra Santos, The University of British Columbia

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 514B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Insurgent Archives Alessandra Santos, The University of British Columbia
- “Coser, bordar, otra forma de luchar”: Women across Latin America stitch the resistance while the city burns Nathalia Santos Ocasio
- Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages Elena Shtromberg, University of Utah
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Anti-Capitalist Critique and the Fetish

Organizers: Madeleine Reddon, Loyola University Chicago; Jonah Gray, New York University (NYU)

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 510D

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- L’argent et le corps comme objets post-réels dans "Résister ne sert à rien" de Walter Siti Carola Paolucci, Université Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle
- Mourning in the Burned House Rusaba Alam, The University of British Columbia
- Extinction in the Archive: The Selk'nam People, Anthropological Photography, Occupation Sebastián López Vergara, Stony Brook University
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Archiving Socialisms: Material and Intellectual Legacies

Organizer: María Isabel Alfonso, St. Joseph's University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 513F

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Haunted Taxonomies Jacqueline Loss, University of Connecticut
- Raw Matter: The Dissident Enciclopedia Popular del ICAIC Marta Hernández Salván, University of California Riverside (UC Riverside)
- Spectral Cuba María Isabel Alfonso, St. Joseph's University
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Atemporality

Organizers: Jason Gladstone, University of Colorado Boulder; Michael Clune, Ohio State University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 521C

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- The Paltry Consolations of Presence Beth Blum, Harvard
- "The Moore Girl" and the Limits of Comparison Aaron Kunin, Pomona College
- Emma's Timeless Love Michael Clune, Ohio State University
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Black Matter(s): Opacity, Relation, Representation

Organizers: Pragati Sharma, University of Toronto; Matthew Molinaro, University of Toronto

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 512B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- In the Remainder: Black Feminist Refusals of Biostatistical Capture and the Opaque Limits of Enumeration Cornel Grey, University of Western Ontario Jordan Ramnarine, Toronto Metropolitan University
- The Stuttering Archives of Blackness: JJJJJerome Ellis and the In/Articulacies of Opacity Themba Mbatha, Washington University in St. Louis
- “a whole lotta trouble”: Racial Capitalism and Black Feminism’s Impersonal Rehearsals Matthew Molinaro, University of Toronto
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Brazil Inside Out: Tensions between Cultural Singularity and Conceptual Translatability

Organizers: Alfredo Melo, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP); Anita Moraes, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 525B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Crimes Against Humanities: Rubem Fonseca’s O Caso Morel and Its Literary Illusions/Allusions Nicole Sparling Barco, Central Michigan University
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Can Dialectics Make Bricks?

Organizers: Thomas Pringle, University of Southern California; Mal Ahern, University of Washington

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 520B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Capital, Labor, Technics: Or, What Do Brickmaking Machines Make? Reinhold Martin, Columbia University
- The Missing Brickmaker: Organisms and Artifacts in Simondon’s Critique of Hylomorphism Robin Manley, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- A System of Plexiglas Objects: The End of Form and Stylization of Immediacy Tara Murray, Yale University
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Chronotopes of Extinction

Organizers: Timothy Bewes, Brown University; Antoine Traisnel, University of Oxford

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 511D

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- The Novel, Melting Away Oliver Aas, Harvard University
- Novel Totalities Steven Swarbrick, Baruch College, City University of New York
- The Forest as Chronotope: Novelistic Thought and the Climate Crisis Mathias Nilges, St. Francis Xavier University
- The Novel and Stonehenge: Perdurance and Chronotransduction Ian Maxton, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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Close Reading and Comparative Literature: Histories, Debates, and New Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century (A CLS Forum)

Organizers: Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State); Jonathan E. Abel, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 520F

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Close Reading as Technique of the Self: Global Legacies Beyond the Anglophone Orbit Yael Segalovitz, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- Close Reading and Peking Modernism: I.A.Richards, Harold Acton, and Chen Shih-hsiang Zhuoyu Lin, Harvard University
- Invasive Multilingualism: On Close Reading Europe’s Early Modern East Katharina Natalia Piechocki, University of British Columbia
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Comedy Now

Organizers: Huw Marsh, Queen Mary University of London; Andrew Dean, University College London

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 512C

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Joshua Cohen’s Comedy Andrew Dean, University College London
- Flann O’Brien and the comedy of public discourse Catherine Flynn
- Coon, Capital, Comedy: Ernest Hogan's Blackface Bourgeoisie amadi ozier, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Contemporary East Asian Poetics: Technology, Ecology, and Intermedial Fluidity

Organizers: Liu Xiaoyu, Xiamen University; Xuemeng Zhang, SOAS University of London; Shu, Hazel Chen; Huiwen SHI, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (SPEED)

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 518B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Polyphonic Bogs: Seamus Heaney’s Ecological Elegy in Dialogue with Kavanagh, Longley, and Muldoon Huiwen SHI, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (SPEED)
- “Flowers” blooming from layered earth and shifting winds: The later life and writings of Zhou Shoujuan Yi Zheng, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- “Primal Conscience”: Human-Tree Entanglements in Ah Cheng’s The King of Trees (1985) YINYIN XUE, Rhodes College
- Atmospheric and Technological Membranes: The Climate Poetics of Contemporary Chinese Science Fiction Saskia Karsavina
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Cosmologies of Care: Relationality, Environmental Justice, and Cosmovisions

Organizers: Hsinya Huang, National Sun Yat-sen University; Chia-hua Lin, National Sun Yat-sen University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 512H

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- From Climate Fiction to Cosmovisions: Visionary Fictions, Futures Thinking, and Indigenous Scientific Literacy Joni Adamson, Arizona State University
- Reviving Erased Cosmogonies: Environmental Justice and Relational Ethics in Francophone Postcolonial Literature Apolline Lagarde, University of Maryland, College Park
- In Search of Just Futures: Environmental Justice, Collective Imagining and Radical Relationality Karen Salt, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Cross-Border Indigenous Representation: tense and conflicting paths of "visibility”

Organizers: Roberto Viereck Salinas, Concordia University, Montreal; Liz Ann Young, Binghamton University (The State University of New York); Grace Miller, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 513D

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Borders of the Body, Borders of the Land: Sexual Violence and Indigenous Comics Liz Ann Young, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
- Translation and Irreverence: The Paradoxical Aesthetic Proximity between Contemporary Mapuche-Williche and Latin American Avant-Garde Poetry Roberto Viereck Salinas, Concordia University, Montreal
- From Gaucho to Goofy: Disney’s Aesthetic Politics and the Reimagining of Argentina (1942-1955) Pedro Lino, CUNY Graduate Center
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Cultural Legacies of Slavery in Modern Spain and the Global Hispanophone World

Organizers: Aurélie Vialette, Yale University; Akiko Tsuchiya, Washington University in St. Louis

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 448

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Periphery No More: Reclaiming Guanche Indigenous Identity and Colonial Legacies in the Canary Islands. Thenesoya V. Martín De la Nuez, College of William and Mary
- Que lokitas: Performing Cultural Memory as Hyperreal Indianas (Cubanas) Juliana Nalerio, CUNY
- Prison Abolitionism, Slavery, and Memory: a 19th-Century Proletarian Perspective Diego Baena, Trinity College
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Documents

Organizer: Scott Kushner, University of Rhode Island

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 512G

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- The Document We Built: Rickshaw Art Archive and Decolonial Practice Samirah Tabassum, Brac University Mohammad Zaki Rezwan, University of Victoria
- Documents & Apologies: How Layli Long Soldier’s WHEREAS Invites Questioning of Cultural Narratives Katherine Payne, SUNY, Fashion Institute of Technology
- No Ambiguity, Please Meg Worley, Colgate University
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Going Beyond the Literary III : Methods for Caribbean Interdisciplinarity

Organizers: Jeannine Murray-Román, Florida State University; Kavita Singh, University of Houston

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 516C

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- "Gardening as Queer Decolonial Methodology" Rasheed Tazudeen, Yale University
- Vertiginous Histories : Rosario Ferré and Sonia Boyce go into the great house Jeannine Murray-Román, Florida State University
- A Haitian Woman’s Gaze: Kindred Spirits, Hope, and Freedom in Gessica Généus’ "Freda" (2021) Tania Nicolaou, New York University
- Reading Caribbean Literature Theologically: Wide Sargasso Sea and I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem Anne Castro, Florida International University
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Infrastructure Between World-Making and Nation-Building

Organizers: James Daniel Elam, The University of Hong Kong ; Michael Allan, University of Oregon

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 515B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Singha Durbar Burning: Infrastructure and Gen-Z Revolution in Nepal Kritish Rajbhandari, Reed College
- Make Your Radio Trouble Free: Radio Sets and the 20th Century Bengali Listening Public Sunayani Bhattacharya, Saint Mary's College of California
- Climate Science in Antarctica: the Case of the South Orkney Islands Meteorological Station Rosario Hubert, Trinity College
- Bureaucracy and Utopia James Daniel Elam, The University of Hong Kong
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Life writing at the end of the world: evolving genres of the Self

Organizers: Terri Tomsky, University of Alberta; Emily Johansen, Texas A&M University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 511A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- The Saviour in Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Concetta Principe, Trent University
- Autotheorizing Self and Pain Narratives in Asian Diasporic Ethnic Autobiography Qianting Lu, Nagoya University of Commerce and Business
- “Autofictional Interventions about Iraq: Trauma and the fantastical realities of Sinan Antoon and Hassan Blasim” Terri Tomsky, University of Alberta
- “Is There Something You've Been Avoiding?”: COVID-19 and Slow Violence in Couples Therapy (2019) and The Rehearsal (2022) Isabel Ortiz, Amherst College
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Literary Criticism as Composition: Montage, Genre, and the Art of World-Making

Organizer: Thomas Symeonidis, Athens School of Fine Arts

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 521B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Reading with Razor Blades and Rubber Cement: Collage and the Image of Criticism John Lurz, Tufts University
- Writing Assemblage, or Against Relation Martin Harries, UC Irvine
- Montage: Not a Universal Remedy for the Novel’s Crisis Jiaxin xiao, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
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Literary Ethnography

Organizer: Cheng-Chai Chiang, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 513E

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Reconceptualizing Authoritativeness Ethnographically Through Singapore’s Migrant Writing Community Jennifer Silver, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- “Boundless Light of Spring”: Filmic Circulations and the Spatial Bifurcation of Urban Singapore Xinyu Guan
- Ñe’ẽ (Word-Soul) Resistance to Linguistic Conversion: An Ethnography of Contemporary Jopara Literature Elisa Taber, McGill University
- To Affinity and Beyond: An Ethnographic Approach to Creating Interdisciplinary Dialogue between Fanfiction and Christian Apocrypha Studies Acacia Chan, The University of Texas at Austin
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Literary Nonfiction on Health and Medicine

Organizer: Mileta Roe, Simon's Rock at Bard College

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 515C

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- “You can spend a lifetime stitching people up”: A War Surgery Field Manual and Ang Swee Chai’s From Beirut to Jerusalem Joanne Leow, Simon Fraser University
- ‘We Have Taken a City’: Literary Journalism, the 1898 Wilmington Massacre, and the Construction Urban Trauma Josh Roiland, University of North Carolina Wilmington
- The Challenges of Relational Caring Lena Khor, Lawrence University
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Literary Translation and its Institutions

Organizers: Anna Muenchrath, Florida Institute of Technology; Matthew Eatough, Baruch College, CUNY

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 510B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- The role of translation agents when translation functions as cultural engagement. Sonia Broad, The University of Queensland
- Japanese Literature in Transit: The Question of Orientalism in Post-dictatorship Chilean Literature Eiji Yasuhara, University of Kent
- Latin American Penguins: Publishing Latin American Authors for Anglophone Readers Marco Ramirez, City University of New York (CUNY)
- Marlon James and the Contemporary Anglophone Caribbean translationscape in Sweden Yvonne Lindqvist, The institute for Interpreting and Translation Studies,Stockholm University
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Marxism and the Lyric

Organizer: George Kovalenko, New York University (NYU)

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 510C

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- How Verses are Made and Sold: Mayakovsky, Materialism, and Early Soviet Culture Dominick Lawton, Stanford University
- Linton Kwesi Johnson's Social Lyric: Between Commitment and Abstraction Nate Schmidt, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- The Pen as Weapon: Towards a Marxist poetics in Roque Dalton’s Oeuvre Jose Jarquin, University of California Riverside (UC Riverside)
- Avalanche of the Lyrics: Nâzım Hikmet’s lyrical reports on Eastern European countries Murat Narcı, Özyeğin Üniversitesi (Ozyegin University)
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On A (Not-So) Global Scale: Dissecting the Spatio-Temporal Complexities of Slow Violence

Organizers: Jordan Grunawalt, Illinois State University; Asmita Saha, Illinois State University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 511C

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Caught in the Web: Body as the Site of Mediating Violence in Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were Asmita Saha, Illinois State University
- Fresh/Kills, a Barren Island: Cannibalized Infrastructures, Looped Waste Streams, and Scavenger Methodologies Janell Tryon, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Waldo Frank's Sirenic Ocean Cyraina Johnson-Roullier, University of Notre Dame
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Palestinian American Literature and its Others

Organizers: Benjamin Schreier; Danielle Haque, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 512F

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Place & Movement: Developing a Radical Reading Practice Across Palestinian Literature Amanda Batarseh, University of California San Diego (UC San Diego)
- We Are Here to Disappear: Palestinian Art and the Visual Politics of Erasure Danielle Haque, Minnesota State University, Mankato
- Literature as Resistance: Edward Said and the Palestinian American Intellectual Tradition Silvia Ammary, University
- Coming Out as Palestinian: Home, World, and the Space in Between Eman Ghanayem, University of San Diego
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Performativity and the Performed: Voice, Ritual, and Representation in Arabic Literature and Culture

Organizer: Ali Alnahhabi, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University - IMSIU

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 523B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Masked Poetry and the Bardic History Script in Adonis' al-Kitaab Ams al-Makaan al-'Aan Clarissa Burt, U.S. Naval Academy
- Ziad Rahbani: Numbed Rage on Stage Tahani Alghureiby, Princess Noura bint Abdulrahman University
- From Crucifixion to Immortal Memory: Poetic Performance and the Ritual Reframing of Crucifixion in al-Anbārī’s Elegy for Ibn Baqqiyyah Mustafa Binmayaba, King Abdulaziz University
- Performing Gender and Memory: Voice and Cultural Negotiation in Contemporary Saudi Women’s Fiction Ibrahim Alfraih, King Saud University
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Poetry and the Choreography of the Body

Organizers: Elizabeth Fowler, University of Virginia; Carmen Faye Mathes, McGill University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 511B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- See Life First: Mark Turbyfill and the Poem-Dance Matthew Kilbane, University of Notre Dame
- Technoscores: Flamenco, Poetry, and Embodied Informatics Emily Murphy, The University of British Columbia Katherine McLeod, Concordia University, Montreal
- Poetry’s Green Screen: Literary Postures in Digital Media Landscapes Steven Maye, Capilano University
- Paul Auster and Patrick Bossatti’s White Papers: Defining a Choreo-graphy in a Liminal Space Claire Massy-Paoli, Princeton University
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Post-Millennial Speculative Fiction from the Global South

Organizers: Amit Baishya, University of Oklahoma; Hanan Jasim Khammas, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 520C

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Genre Rebellions in Egypt’s Species of Arab Futurism Emad El-Din Aysha
- Maghrebi Speculative Fiction and the Absent Nation Erin Twohig, Georgetown University
- Rupturing Realism: The Supernatural Scale of Human-made Horror in Yousri Alghoul’s Gaza Graham Liddell, Hope College
- The End of the Middle East: Speculative Fiction and the Unmaking of the Nation-States Hanan Jasim Khammas, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
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Prompting Comparison: Technological Horizons of Poetics Today

Organizers: Moira Weigel, Harvard University; Anne Dymek, Harvard University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 522AB

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- A Future Poetic Imagination? Anne Dymek, Harvard University
- Stay With Me: Evocative Objects After AI Julie Beth Napolin, The New School
- All You Need is Direction: The Role of Isotopy in Literary Applications of Generative AI Mehmet Yıldız, Bilkent Üniversitesi (Bilkent University)
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Racial Formlessness: Multiethnic Fiction after the Method Wars

Organizers: Henry Ivry, University of Glasgow; Timothy Lem-Smith, Saint Michael's College

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 520A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- New Weird and the Strategic Formlessness of Racial Critique Betsy Huang
- Embracing the Black Weird and the Politics of Negativity Farai Chipato
- Jeringonza and the Enactment of Blackness: Language Politics in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao John Brooks, The Ohio State University
- Ante-form: Percival Everett’s James, Race, and Democracy Dean Franco, Wake Forest University
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Reel/Repeat/Rupture: Digital Selves, Algorithms, and the Infrastructures of Online Community

Organizer: Manvendra Singh Thakur, Université de Montréal (University of Montreal)

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 515A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Remembrance of selves past: an exploration of social media as identity montage and memory practice Amélie Lapointe, Université de Montréal (University of Montreal)
- Meme-ing Sadness. Digital Discourses of Mental Health and Relatability through Repetitions Aleksandra Kamińska, Uniwersytet Warszawski (University of Warsaw)
- Cringestalgia: Choreographing Nostalgia and Cringe in the Age of Short-Form Video Manvendra Singh Thakur, Université de Montréal (University of Montreal)
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Renegotiating Ethics in Literature and Film

Organizer: Chia-Chieh Mavis Tseng, Taipei Medical University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 520E

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- The Mixing Is the Message: My Year of Meats’s Theory of Ethical Communication Daniel Valella, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- Bringing Home the Holocaust: Fascism, Fairy Tale, and Family Space in Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest Rachel O'Brien, McMaster University
- Adaptation as Spectacle: Janetsa Keovorabouth, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)
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Representing Aging: Literature, Film, and the Demographic Shift

Organizer: Stefano Rossoni, University College London

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 520D

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Escaping the Nursing Home in East and West: A Comparative Study of Full Circle and Cloudburst Yusi Chang, Trent University
- Reimagining Resilience: Older Women’s Agency and Community-Driven Justice in Select Indian Films Debashrita Dey, Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad
- Castration and Impotent Aging Body in Post-Occupation Japan: Kawabata Yasunari's Cultural-Aesthetic Fascism/Nationalism in *House of the Sleeping Beauties* (1961) Yingzhi Lu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Reproducing Motherhood: Between the Poles of Natality and Maternity

Organizers: Zhuoran Deng, University of Toronto; Rachel Shields, N/A

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 523A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Taking the Count (The Woman Hagar and the Monomaternalist Religion) Gil Anidjar, Columbia University
- Holding methods: How to care for what we can't yet name Nicolette Bragg
- Mobile Maternity: Unfixing the Mother-Child Relation in Kazuo Ishiguro’s A Pale View of the Hills and Klara and the Sun Rachel Shields, N/A
- The Mother as Stranger: The Unknowable Maternal in Poems by Ross Gay and Sabrina Orah Mark Destry Sibley, CUNY Graduate Center
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The Beauty of Killing Fascism

Organizer: Lupina Farhana, University of California Riverside (UC Riverside)

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 516A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Requiem in Now-Time: Poetry as Theatre in the Beautiful Death of Fascism Scott Ennis, Independent Scholar
- The Pillowman and the Creative Writing Classroom: How the Playwright Can Kill Fascism Abaigeal Uphoff, Illinois State University
- “A Dramaturgy of Interruption: Fascism, Gender, and Gore Capitalism in The Breach” EmiLee Brown, Auburn University
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The Comparison of African Literature

Organizers: Duncan Yoon, New York University (NYU); Kirk Sides, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 513B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Narratives of Enslavement and Return: Historical Fiction across the Black Atlantic Antje Ziethen, The University of British Columbia
- Weapons to Confront Neocolonial Reality: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o’s Adaptation of the Pansori Tradition Thuyen Truong, University of Toronto
- Finance Imperialism: Comparing Literary Histories through Changes to the Mechanisms of Power Kyle Wanberg, New York University (NYU)
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The Difference Accent Makes

Organizers: Pavitra Sundar, Hamilton College; Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Rice University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 511E

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- The White Aurality of Intelligibility Vijay Ramjattan, University of Toronto
- Translating Accent Laura Brueck, Northwestern University
- Accented Echoes: Lithium, Silver, and the Colonial Reverberations of Extraction Junting Huang, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
- Radio Relationality in Samuel Beckett's All That Fall Emma Herndon, University of Notre Dame
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The Future is Past: Rethinking Dystopia in Contemporary Film and Literature

Organizers: Elif Sendur, Rutgers University; Allison Mackey, Universidad de la República (Uruguay)

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 522C

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Cosmic Coexistence Versus Capitalist Science Fiction: Reanimating the Future Through the Past in Michel Nieva's "Dengue Boy" Allison Mackey, Universidad de la República (Uruguay)
- Entangled Fictions: Ecofeminist Imaginaries in Women’s Dystopias at the Edge of Collapse Natália Fontes de Oliveira, Federal University of Viçosa
- Exhausted Futures: Necropolitics and 'Bare Life' in Bazterrica's Tender Is the Flesh Sarah Thompson, University of California Riverside (UC Riverside)
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The Knowledge of Art: Aesthetics and Epistemology

Organizers: Robert Lehman, Boston College; Jess Keiser, Tufts University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 516B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Danto’s Art World(s) and the Irrelevance of Philosophy Ben Roth, Emerson College
- DeLillo, Theatricality, and the Absence of Art Jess Keiser, Tufts University
- Philosophy, The State of the Art, circa 1933: Wittgenstein and Collingwood Nancy Yousef, Yale University
- Why Art Isn't Epistemologically Distinctive and Why We Shouldn't Care Alex King, Simon Fraser University
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The Long 1990s: Queer Theory in the Archive

Organizers: Heather Love, University of Pennsylvania; Robyn Wiegman, Duke University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 513A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Hypocrisy’s Critics: Outing and the AIDS Roman à Clef Sylvie Thode, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- Screwed Secular Samuel Catlin, Trinity College
- Revisiting Queer Theory's Franco-American Roots Blase Provitola, Trinity College
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The Manifesto and Postcolonial Thought

Organizers: Yogita Goyal, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA); Peter Kalliney, University of Kentucky

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 519B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- The Manifesto of the Senegalese Cultural Front : Contours of a Genre Fatoumata Seck, Stanford University
- Manifesto, De-Manifestation, and the General Strike Arnav Adhikari, Mount Holyoke College
- Rumor as Manifesto: Rewriting Legacies of Emancipation and Property in 1938 Jamaica Kaneesha Parsard, The University of Chicago
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Transgender Storytelling: Accounts of Oppositional Being and Becoming

Organizers: Clarke Crockett, Florida State University; Ezekiel Greenwood, Florida State University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 512D

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Trans Theologies and Racial Onto-Epistemologies, from Daniel Paul Schreber to Akwaeke Emezi Misha Stekl, Brown University
- The Fabulous Technologies of the Trans Voice in Aoki's Light from Uncommon Stars Tp Coughlin, University of California - Davis
- From Precarity to Possibility: Trans Storytelling in Abril Zamora's Todo lo otro (2021) Daniel Everhart, Lake Forest College
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Translating beyond humans: translation as an ecological encounter between humans and non-humans

Organizers: Edith Adams, Bowdoin College; Hongyang Ji, University of Alberta

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 512E

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Beyond Decoding: Mapuche Cosmologies and the Ethics of Interspecies Translation Edith Adams, Bowdoin College
- Fluid Translations: Reading Contemporary West Coast Texts as Translations of Local Waters Marina Klimenko, University of Toronto
- Translating Nature Eco-Responsibly Marc Charron, University of Ottawa
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Unresolved Feeling, Fragments of Belonging: Emotion Across Text and Screen

Organizer: Bora Kang, SUNY Binghamton

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 525A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Deterritorialising Diaspora: Towards Eco-Affective Belongings Asra Jafarey, Institute of Business Administration
- Looping Longings and Fragmented Homes: Emotion and Belonging in Fruit Chan’s Durian Durian Chen Xing, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
- Belated Ambience: Cinema and the Textures of Contemporaneity in Early 2000s Beijing Estelle Zhang, Duke University
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Uses and Abuses of History in Literary Narratives

Organizers: Ishan Mehandru, Northwestern University; Nisarg Patel, University of Southern California

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 519A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- The Minimal Topographies of Nasreen Mohamedi and Zarina: Abstraction, History, and Anti-Colonial Flight Ronjaunee Chatterjee, Queen's University Ontario
- Unlived Experience: Narrative as Historical Effacement Andrew Clark, Brown University
- Homeland Landscapes Cullen Goldblatt, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
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Versatile Bodies in Global Asia

Organizers: Yucong Hao, Vanderbilt University; Yihui Sheng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 516D

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Separating Technique from Repertoire: Fang Chuanyun and "Movement Sequences" Hanyang Jiang, UBC
- Reimagining “Body Writing”: A Feminist Analysis of Post-80s Female Writers: Sun Pin, Yan Ge, Zhang Tianyi YUSHANG NI, The University of Hong Kong
- Choreographing Postsocialist Dissensus: Reconfiguring the Realist Emotional Governance in Transition迁徙 (2019) Yao Xu, Temple University
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Visible and Invisible Wounds: Trauma and Representation in Global South Diasporic Literature

Organizer: Abhik Banerjee, Georgia State University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 516E

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Navigating Traumas and Unfolding Herstory in Grace M. Cho's Tastes Like War: A Memoir Jeeeun Jung, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
- The Spectres of Trauma: a Hauntological Reading of Ocean Vuong’s "On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous" Tucker Lloyd, Université de Montréal (University of Montreal)
- Becoming Modern: Modernist Poetry in the Memory of the Iranian Diaspora Laura Catterson, University of California Davis (UC Davis)
- Redefining Trauma: Temsüla Ao's Testimonio Poetics and the Interconnectedness of Gendered and Environmental Suffering Anmol Sahni, Emory University
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W(h)ither Identity?: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Unselving

Organizers: Suchismito Khatua, Stanford University; Jenny Andrine Madsen Evang, Universiteit Utrecht (Utrecht University)

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 514C

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- In the Cut: Shirin Neshat’s Two-Channel Video Installations and the Question of Identity Karla Oeler, Stanford University
- Angela Putino and the Rhythm of Transformation Nicole Trigg, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- Efface-Value: Sunil Gupta’s Exiles, 1987 Suchismito Khatua, Stanford University
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Why Work? Compulsion, Coercion, and Narratives of Labor

Organizers: Thomas Adams, University of South Alabama; Jana Tschurenev, Freie Universität Berlin (Free University of Berlin)

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 518C

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- What Compels Care? Affective Economies of Labor in Contemporary Latin American Narrative Faith Blackhurst, Brigham Young University
- From #Girlboss to #Tradwife: Compulsion, Nostalgia, and Women’s Domestic Labour in Crisis Capitalism Chloe Dolgin, McGill University
- A Calligraphic Performance Against Slavery: Penmanship and Intellectual Labor in Juan Francisco Manzano Emmanuel Velayos Larrabure, Hostos Community College, City University of New York
- Narrative Compulsion and Coercion in Chekhov Samuel Karagulin, Yale University
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World Cinema in Theory

Organizer: Sarah Hamblin, University of Massachusetts Boston

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 518A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- World cinema as televised cinéma-monde? Tomas Elliott, Northeastern University London
- World Cinema as Universal Stephen Woo, Marist College
- World Cinema as Content Lisa Patti, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
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Writing the Impossible in Eastern Europe: Biography and Autobiography Amid Trauma

Organizer: Eva Hudecova, University of Minnesota Twin Cities

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 521A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Fission of the Self: Nuclear Trauma and the Limits of Biography in Benjamín Labatut’s The MANIAC Kirill Veselkin, The University of Texas at Austin
- How to Survive a Russian Invasion: Understanding 2022 Through the Lens of 1968 Eva Hudecova, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
- Bless the Beasts and the Children: Posthuman Reflections on the War in Ukraine Thomas Jesús Garza, The University of Texas at Austin
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10:30 AM EDT - 12:15 PM EDT

Alphabets and AI

Organizers: Christopher Jimenez, Stetson University; Katia Schwerzmann, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Ruhr-University Bochum)

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 514A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Toward Universal Translatability: On the Statistical Ontology of Generative AI Katia Schwerzmann, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Ruhr-University Bochum)
- Practice or Product? Translation, Labour, and the “Ethics” of AI William Tilleczek, Université de Montréal (University of Montreal)
- Capital and Language in the Age of AI Alwin Franke, Stetson University
- Notation as a School of Thought Lucas Bang, Harvey Mudd College
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Anti-Socially Necessary Labour Time

Organizers: Rob Jackson, University of Wyoming; Anisha Sankar, York University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 518C

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Between Two Dead Labours Anisha Sankar, York University
- Depreciated Machinery Fintan Calpin
- The Other Side of Totality: Labor and Nonidentity in Unpayable Debt Ben Read, New York University
- Figures of the Territorial Edge: Race and the limits of social form in Marx’s labor theory of value Sam Nimmrichter, Princeton University
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Asia, the Middle East, and the Caribbean

Organizers: XU PENG, University of Connecticut; Peiyu Yang, George Mason University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 516C

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Spectral Histories in Eka Kurniawan's Beauty is a Wound and Ahmad Sa'adawi's Frankenstein in Baghdad Khairi Irwan, New York University (NYU)
- Secularization and Division Between ‘Moro’ and ‘Indio’: Contesting Nation in the Philippines Yei Won Lim, University of Oregon
- She Would Have Worked Until She Dropped: Gendered Racializations of South Asian Women Workers from Trinidad and Pakistan Amal Zaman, Fordham University
- Performing Return: Sinophone Documentary and Transpacific Historiography Crystal Xinjie Wang, The University of Hong Kong
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Bodies under Test

Organizers: Ana Ugarte Fernandez, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA); Ana Maria Pozo, Agnes Scott College

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 515C

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Pathologized Bodies, Defiant Minds: Early Neuroscience and Incarcerated Women Noami Sanabria Aldana, Northwestern University
- Access Denied: Locating Disability in Robert Walser’s Microscripts Felix Roessler, University of Toronto
- Habeas Corpus: How Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song exposes that corporal existence is dependent upon a hegemonic social construct. William Dwyer, Trondheim International School
- Experimenting with Survival: The Body in Contemporary Arabic Fiction Linda Istanbulli, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
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Capitalist Realism's Worlds

Organizer: Darwin Tsen, Syracuse University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 523B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Beyond Belief: Melancholia and Revolution Robin Blyn, University of West Florida
- The End of the World is a Product: Fallout and the Transaction of Gaming IP Maria Bose, Providence College
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Categorical Criticism

Organizers: Michael Dango, Rice University; Dora Zhang, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 521B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Generalizing About Groups: on Type and Stereotype Dora Zhang, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- Categorically Trans: Print Cultures Taxonomies and the Circulation of Gender-Sexual Variation Connor Spencer, Columbia University
- Formalism and Content Anna Shechtman, Cornell University
- Badness circa 2025 Mitch Therieau, West Virginia University
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Chronic Catastrophes and Precious Species

Organizers: Isabel Lane, Harvard University; Jennie Snow, Montclair State University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 511C

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Decolonizing Ecology in ‘the land that never settles’: Discard and Extinction in the Sundarbans Ayla McCullough, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
- Multispecies Energy Justice and "Electrocuting an Elephant" Isabel Lane, Harvard University David N. Pellow, University of California Santa Barbara
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Complaint, Queerness, and Killjoys: Engaging Sara Ahmed’s Theory

Organizers: Dîlan Canan Çakir, University of Cambridge; Alrik Daldrup

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 514C

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Dwelling in the Bruise: Complaint, Trauma, and Persistence in Ocean Vuong’s On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous Lara Mazurski, Amsterdam University College
- “Forgetting is a gift”: Rape culture and the Feminist Killjoy in Blink Twice (2024) Zoulikha Saidi, Université de Montréal (University of Montreal)
- The Aesthetics of Suspicion Ervin Malakaj, University of British Columbia
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Complex Relationalities, Encounters, and Solidarities in Settler Colonial Contexts

Organizers: Bruno Cornellier, University of Winnipeg; Dallas Hunt, University of British Columbia

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 513D

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Queer Urban Experiments in Decolonization Beenash Jafri, University of California Davis (UC Davis)
- Zonbi Glissant: Writing Blackness and Relationalities Beyond the Living Philippe Néméh-Nombré, Saint Paul University
- Decolonizing Worldmaking through Media as Transitional Justice: The Case of Nikan Productions Andrew Jones, Ursinus College
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CONSPIRACISM

Organizers: Sarah Brouillette, Carleton University; Lee Konstantinou, University of Maryland, College Park

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 520A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Space Racialization: Paranoid Alien/Asian Encounters at the Final Frontier Timothy Lem-Smith, Saint Michael's College
- I want to believe (that the truth is out there): mapping neoliberal conspiracism in The X-Files Flora Arnold, Pacific Northwest College of Art
- Against Connection: Paranoid Plotting and the Narration of Social Totality Zoe Hu, CUNY Graduate Center
- Conspiracy Care Work: Gender, Labor, and The Paranoid Style in Homecoming (2016) Hanne Nijtmans, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen (RUG - University of Groningen)
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Documenting Damage: Zones of Human and Environmental Violence

Organizers: Hannah Cole, University of California Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz); Pierre-Elliot Caswell, University of Notre Dame; Shabana Sayeed; Shahab Nadimi

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 512H

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- After Cocoa: Reading Environmental Damage in Lovelace's Salt Hannah Cole, University of California Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz)
- Lament of Sītā, Iphigenia and Cassandra: A Comparative Survey on the Memories of 'Blameless Wives' (Handuo Sun) Handuo Sun, Swarthmore College
- The Silent Duality of Conflict in Luz Arce’s The Inferno: a story of terror and survival in Chile Tiffany Sidders, The University of Texas at Dallas
- Sacred Silence and Memory: Notre-Dame du Nil and the Politics of Forgetting in Postcolonial Rwanda Rume Kpadamrophe, University of South Carolina
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Doppelgänger, Mirror Worlds, Twins, and Doubles

Organizers: James Martell, Lyon College; James Martel, San Francisco State University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 522C

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- My other/ my self; how the figure of the doppelganger helps us to discover what we are (and what we are not) James Martel, San Francisco State University
- David Lynch as America’s Unresolved Mirror Stage James Martell, Lyon College
- State melodrama, popular conspiracism, and fascism James McNaughton
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Ecologies of Grief: Water, Memory and the Afterlives of Extraction

Organizers: Marta Sierra, Kenyon College; Elizabeth Pettinaroli, Rhodes College

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 448

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- River Memories: Decolonial Artivism and Ecologies of Grief in Uýra Sodoma and Carolina Caycedo Marta Sierra, Kenyon College
- Dismembered bodies and water geographies: reconfiguring corporeal resistances in the Colombian Caribbean in Vanessa Londoño’s "El asedio animal" Maria Paula Lizarazo, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
- Remediating Water’s Memory: Revisiting the Museum in Natalie Diaz’s “exhibits from The American Water Museum.” Georgiana de Rham, University of California - Davis
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Environmental (In)Justice in African Literatures & Popular Culture

Organizers: Rebecca Saunders, Illinois State University; Paul Ugor, University of Waterloo

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 513B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Dances with Elephants: Animal Rights Activism and African Literature Supriya Nair, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- Wasted Lives: Ecological degradation in Deaathscape sites Sandrine Ndahiro, Maynooth University
- Precarious Refuge: Environmental and Social Degradation in Nathacha Appanah’s Le dernier frère Rebecca Saunders, Illinois State University
- Reimagining Garbage in Africa: An Analysis of Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were Samuel Ikueze, McMaster University
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Fictions of the Future in Palestine and SWANA: A Critical Reconsideration

Organizers: Shir Alon, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Liron Mor, UC Irvine

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 512F

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- The Palestinian Family: Time, Displacement, and Palestinian Future(s) Maurice Ebileeni, University of Haifa
- Temporalities of Return in Palestinian Speculative Fiction Sabreen Rashmawi, New York University
- Interrupted Futures: Speculation and Survival in Contemporary Palestinian Performance Marina Johnson, Stanford
- Speculative Choreography and Choreographic Impolitical: Farah Saleh’s Balfour Reparations Melissa Melpignano, The University of Texas at El Paso
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Historicizing and Reframing Media Dispositives

Organizers: Dominique Jullien, UCSB; Peter Bloom, University of California Santa Barbara

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 520F

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Rearticulating Power Figures in the Colonial Collection of nkisi iron nail sculptures Peter Bloom, University of California Santa Barbara
- Between discovery and imagination: the telescope as scientific and literary instrument Naama Rotem, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- The Camera Obscura in the Pampa Brendan Lanctot, University of Puget Sound
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Imitations–of Life

Organizers: Jonathan Basile, University of Toronto; Eric Reynolds, Emory University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 515A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Constructing Life: Biopolitics and Biological Narratives in Turn-of-the-Century Polish Writings Katarzyna Muszynska, University of Toronto
- "Caged Suns," Fallen Earth(s) Ren Ellis Neyra, Wesleyan University
- Outside Imagination: The Strange Mortalism of Blanchot’s Garden Emile Levesque-Jalbert
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Infrastructure, Security, Sabotage

Organizers: Marc Kohlbry, University of Pennsylvania; Devin Daniels, Bryn Mawr College

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 515B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Paranoid Infrastructure and Decaying Modernity in Contemporary US Fiction Devin Daniels, Bryn Mawr College
- "The Eye of My Apple: Escaping Surveillance in Moshfegh's My Year of Rest and Relaxation and Metcalfe's Chrysalis" Julia Isler
- Via Rupta: Media and Infrastructure Along the TCH Meghan Romano, University of Toronto
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Jameson, Allegory, and the Work of Art

Organizer: Oded Nir, Queens College, CUNY

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 516B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Allegory sans Ideology Ashwin Bajaj, Williams College
- The Nation as Allegory and the Historical Logic of Hindi Literary History Paresh Chandra
- Exile, Secularity, and Cosmopolitanism: On the Limits of Allegory G.S. Sahota, University of California Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz)
- Periodizing “Third World Literature” Today Ericka Beckman, University of Pennsylvania
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Led in a Word I Got There: 21st-Century Women’s Experimental Poetics

Organizers: Esther Sanchez-Pardo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM); Jeannine M. Pitas, Saint Vincent College

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 523A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- "Where Is My Life": Transnational Feminist Poetics in Negroni and Notley Michelle Gil-Montero
- Secession/Insecession: Galician poet Chus Pato and Poetry's Trans-Border Passage Erín Moure, Unaffiliated
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Lyric Thinking

Organizers: Andrew Franta, University of Utah; Daniel Stout, University of Mississippi

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 510D

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Allusion and Recognition: Phillis Wheatley's Wartime Daniel O'Quinn, University of Guelph
- ‘In lovely Lesbos’: Meter as Sex in Late Victorian Poetics Frank Cahill, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- The Power of Not Knowing: On Cultivating Epistemic Humility in Lyric and Thought Joseph Acquisto, University of Vermont
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Marx’s Capital, Between System and Rhetoric

Organizers: Nathan Brown, Concordia University, Montreal; Paul North, Yale

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 510C

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- The Head, the Kernel, and the Husk William Ross
- Debunking the Magic of Capital Sara Sanchez-Zweig, Auburn University
- "An enormous accumulation of commodities": Marx's Capital and the Problem of Scale Chris Hoffman, Columbia University
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Mythological Patterns, Themes and Narratives in Modern Literature and Cinema

Organizers: Lily Li, Eastern Kentucky University; Kaby Wing-Sze Kung, Hong Kong Metropolitan University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 518A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Rewriting Monkey King: Memory, Amnesia and the Double in Jin Hezai’s Novel Wukong Zhuan Lily Li, Eastern Kentucky University
- Reimaging Chinese Mythology and Reshaping Chinese Diasporic Identities in Pixar’s Turning Red (2022) Kaby Wing-Sze Kung, Hong Kong Metropolitan University
- Waterways as the last grand narratives: Myth and contemporary mythmaking of love and conquest in Yang Chao’s "Crosscurrent" (2016) Fei Shi, Douglas College
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Narrating Ethics Across Media: Storytelling, Moral Complexity, and the Shaping of Ethical Perception

Organizer: Francesca Medaglia, Sapienza – Università di Roma (Sapienza University of Rome)

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 514B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Influencer Ethics in the Digital Age: Dissecting Deception and Media Narratives Mara Lixandru, Universitatea din București (University of Bucharest)
- Transmedia recasting of alterity: Ethical Affordances from Educational Canons to Online Polarization Adriana Ștefănel, Universitatea din București (University of Bucharest)
- The New History Teachers: Rap, Postmemory, and Vernacular Historiography in Contemporary France Priscilla Charrat Nelson, Providence College
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Non-Human Archives: (Hi)stories and How We Tell Them

Organizers: Abigail Fields, University of Kansas; Amber Bal, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 512G

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Ferns, moths – and cats? The uncanny work of the non-human archive in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles and the Soviet TV adaptation, Sobaka Baskervilej Katy Brundan, University of Oregon
- Pamela, the Horse; Pamela, the Human: Biopolitics, Species, and Sexuality in Pamela and The General Stud Book Kayla Adgate, University at Albany (State University of New York)
- The Zoo as Archive: Colonial Narratives and Animal Alternatives Genevieve Creedon, Indiana University Bloomington
- Caring for the Passenger Moth: Entomological Literature and Ecologies of Collecting Pierre Forfert, Yale
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Oceans, or Aquatics, as Critical Method

Organizer: Neelofer Qadir, Georgia State University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 510A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Liminal Gatherings: Coalescing Architectural Passageways between the Mangapwani Slave Chamber and Indian Ocean Pooja Shah, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Imagining the Slave Ship Julia Bernier, Washington & Jefferson College
- Shipwreck as Method: place and perception at sea Grace Monk, Princeton University
- What the Ocean Makes Possible: Or, A Potential Method for Charting the Long Bale Struggle Ashley May
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On (Not) Hating the State

Organizer: Rebecca Oh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 513F

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Reading Better States: Environmental Harm and Utopian Method in the Global South Rebecca Oh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Archives of Welfare in Zadie Smith’s NW Janice Ho, The University of British Columbia
- On (Not) Addressing the State: South African Service Delivery and Magogodi Makhene's Innards Arielle Stambler, Mercer University
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Others and Selves: Exofiction, Autofiction, and the Fictions of Truth

Organizers: Lilla Balint, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley); Cornelia Ruhe, University of Mannheim

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 511A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Writing the utopian self through (re)writing alterity: processes of meaning negotiation in Real Person Fiction Júlia Zen Dariva, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
- Impossible Depictions: Incest and the Limits of Autofiction Madeline Zimring, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- Generative Proximities and Inter-Authorial Conversations in Contemporary German Literature Clara Busch, University of Cambridge
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Particularity, Nonnarrative, and Global Poetics: Critical Regions of Cultural Transmission

Organizers: Barrett Watten, Wayne State University; Lauri Scheyer, California State University, Los Angeles

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 522AB

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Heavenly Chicken: Why and How to Translate Experimental Belarusian Poetry into Russian Elizaveta Kheresh, Harvard University
- Preserving the Particular: Bae Suah and the Translation of the 'Un-Korean' Anna Hall-Taylor, University of Oregon
- Diremption, no end of diremption, only, not for us?: Susan Howe, Dieletheia, and the Future. Christopher Chapman
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Plasticity: Form, Matter, Method

Organizers: Lou Silhol-Macher, Brown University; Annie Felix, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 513A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Memes of Subjection Rahma Haji, Brown University
- Plastic is Pedagogy: Puppetry in Film as Cadaver Epistemology Heather Glenny, Johns Hopkins University
- Aging: On the Plasticity of Living Media Weihong Bao, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
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Poetry and the State in the 1960s

Organizer: Stephen Ross, Concordia University, Montreal

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 511D

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- "Government is not where it's at": Diane di Prima and Poetry as Overthrow Jane Malcolm, Université de Montréal (University of Montreal)
- Ghost Bullets, or, The Sixties (Dub Version) Anthony Reed, Vanderbilt University
- Universalist Singularity: Celan, Yevtushenko, and "Babi Yar" Stephen Ross, Concordia University, Montreal
- What is "the State"? Joshua Kotin, Princeton University
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Polemos: The Art of Theory

Organizers: Sorin Cucu, CUNY Graduate Center; Dan Jacobson, Baruch College, City University of New York

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 511F

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- On Naming Anthropos John Brenkman, CUNY Graduate Center and Baruch College
- Heidegger, Nietzsche, and the Limits of Humanism—Critically Reading John Brenkman’s Mood and Trope Jason Ciaccio, Hunter College, City University of New York
- "Critique is a Troll Fest": On the Fragility of Criticism Roland Vegso, University of Georgia
- Kant's Sublime and Recuperable Disharmony Jin Chang, None
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Queer Phenomenology at 20

Organizer: Victoria (Tia) Glista, University of Toronto

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 512D

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Gender-Transcendent Consciousness in Rooms of Desire: Reading Chen Ran’s A Private Life with Queer Phenomenology Ziwei Jiang, McGill University
- "YOU DISGUST ME!" "I HATE YOU!" "YOU ARE RUINING MY LIFE!": I Killed My Mother and the queer aesthetics of family abolition Alejandra Mena, New York University (NYU)
- Writing against the institution: Queer phenomenology, autoethnography, and the politics of institutional critique Eden Kinkaid, University of Toronto Scarborough
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Queering the Anthropocene: Radical Ecocritical Perspectives on the End of the World in Global Literature and Media

Organizers: Rebecca Ehrenwirth, University of Applied Sciences/SDI Munich; Fareed Ben-Youssef, Texas Tech University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 512E

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Composting the Anthropo-Capitalocene: Life at the End of the World in Ling Ma's "Severance." Ozichukwu Ifesie, McMaster University
- Toxic Attachments and Queer Survival: Ecological Estrangement in the Works of Mu Cao Rebecca Ehrenwirth, University of Applied Sciences/SDI Munich
- Ecocritical Camp and the Mode of Excess Victoria Olwell, University of Virginia
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Reading for Pleasure

Organizers: Adeline Soldin, Dickinson College; Amaury Leopoldo Sosa, Dickinson College

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 520E

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- The Space of Meaning: Distance and Openness in the Act of Reading Josh Sutcliffe, Indiana University Bloomington
- When Characters Feel Too Real: Fictional Immersion and Reader Engagement in the YA novels Fangirl by R. Rowell and All the Feels by D. Stone Marion Velain, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
- “de los oídos del teatro…a la censura de los aposentos”: Miguel de Cervantes, Lope de Vega, and Play Watching/Reading Amaury Leopoldo Sosa, Dickinson College
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Reconsidering Selfhood in Fragmented Narratives

Organizers: Daniel Newman, University of Toronto; Rachel Lebovic, University of Toronto

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 520D

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- The Materiality of Earnest Self-Fragmentation in Catherine Lacey’s The Möbius Book Virginia Pignagnoli, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB - Autonomous University of Barcelona)
- Endangered Self and Fragmented Narrative in McConaghy's Migrations Sun Jai Kim, Konkuk University, Seoul
- House Rules: Self-Narration, Palimpsest Selves, and Interminable Trauma in House of Leaves Alex Story, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- "No Character" Left to Tell: Caleb Williams and the Limits of Narrative Kathleen E. Urda, Bronx Community College, CUNY
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Retheorizing the University: Toward a New Institutionalism

Organizers: Jack Chen, University of Virginia; Maurits van Bever Donker, University of the Western Cape

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 511E

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- New Visions for the University and PK-12: Continuity or Discontinuity? Victor Luftig, University of Virginia
- Writing Campus Crisis Writing Cole Adams, Duke University
- Deracializing Academic Freedom Tamara Levitz, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
- The Classroom and the Cell: Prison, Education & The American University Mia Florin-Sefton, Columbia University
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Revolutionary Aesthetics: Art, History, and Political Imagination in 20th-Century and Contemporary Latin America

Organizers: John Hurtado Cadavid, The Ohio State University ; Sebastian Hincapie, Stony Brook University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 525B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- La imaginación transnacional de la revolución colombiana: una mirada a través de las películas Riochiquito y Golpeando en la selva Sebastian Hincapie, Stony Brook University
- The Aesthetics of Survival in Iñárritu Shannon Dowd, Niagara University
- Cinectivity: Strengthening Social Ties Through Community Cinema in Medellín John Hurtado Cadavid, The Ohio State University
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Sensing Travel in the Hispanic World

Organizers: Cristina Carnemolla, McGill University; Carlos Abreu Mendoza, Texas State University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 513C

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- “The Pilgrim Gaze: Colombian Travel Writing to the Holy Land and the Catholic Imagination (1848-1875)” Alejandro Quintero, Harvard University
- Unrequited Journeys: Travel, Marriage, and Juridical Critique in Tomás Michelena’s "Margarita Rubinstein" (1891) Mauricio Oportus Preller, Northwestern University
- Female Agency as a Sensual Sensory Journey: Emilia Pardo Bazán's "Sur Express" Cristina Carnemolla, McGill University
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Situation, Situationism, Situationship

Organizers: Marcie Frank, Concordia University; Ned Schantz, McGill University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 520C

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- The Extreme Weather Situation Adam Hill, McGill University
- 1970s New York and the Spatial Politics of Conceptual Art Eliot D'Silva, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- Between Talk-Poems & Constructed Situations: towards a situational poetics Lonnie Monka, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Stigma: Writing Abjection, Reimagining Power

Organizer: Sally Hansen, University of Notre Dame

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 525A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Lucrece’s Letter and the Stigma of Print Margaux Delaney, Cornell University
- Toward an Erotics of Intersex: Locating Sexuality in Narratives of Ambiguous Sex Cedar Lensing-Sharp, UCLA
- Bacon Agonistes: Eliotic Melodrama, Queer Transmediation, and Stigma’s Aura Brandon Menke, University of Notre Dame
- Tear Me Apart: Poiesis of Trans of Color Flesh, a Living Laboratory Istifaa Ahmed
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The Catastrophic Event in Times of Permanent Catastrophe

Organizers: Jonathon Catlin, University of Rochester; Karyn Ball

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 516A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Gaza and the Myth of Myth in Arabic Poetry Huda Fakhreddine, University of Pennsylvania
- The Image After Gaza Hatem Akil, Embry Riddle University - Daytona Beach
- Proximities of Disaster John Culbert, The University of British Columbia
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The Ljubljana School: Žižek, Dolar, Zupančič

Organizers: Russell Sbriglia, Seton Hall University; Frances Restuccia, Boston College

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 521A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Sublating Christianity or Christ and 'Sex' Frances Restuccia, Boston College
- (Courtly) Love and Death (Drive) in the American Novel; or, Leslie Fiedler Goes to Ljubljana Russell Sbriglia, Seton Hall University
- Kafka's "The Trial": Ideology, Interpellation, Repetition, Jouissance, and Repetition Melanie Renaudin, Villanova University
- The Void of Value: Blackness, Jouissance, and the Value-Form Nam Do, University of Southern California
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The World in South Asian Literatures

Organizer: Zain Mian, University of Toronto

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 513E

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Worlding Different Outsides: Urdu Magazines and World Literature Shaiq Ali, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
- White Snow along the Volga: History, Race, and the Imagination of Eurasia Gregory Goulding, University of Pennsylvania
- Between ‘Ajam and Hindustān: The Erupted City in N. M. Rashid’s Iran meñ ajnabī Zain Mian, University of Toronto
- Global Flows, Local Currents: Reading Angaarey (1932) as a Transnational Event Utkarsh Sharma, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
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Theorizing Translation in the Global South: Networks and Sites of World Literary Formations

Organizer: Razieh Araghi, Arizona State University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 520B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Bringing Kurdish Women’s Prison Writing to English: Translation as/in Feminist Solidarity Emek Ergun, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Mapping Academic and Cultural Reception of Igiaba Scego's Literary Work in Brazil: Perspectives from a Global South Archive Francesca Cricelli, Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
- The Motarjem as Institution in Mid-Twentieth Century Iran Kamran Rastegar, Tufts University
- Contrapuntal World Literary Formations: Translational Economies of the Novel Between 19th century Cairo and Lucknow Jaideep Pandey
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Thinking Place

Organizer: Jennifer Wenzel, Columbia University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 521C

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- On the annihilation of time by place Hannah Tollefson, University of Toronto
- Location, scale, place: Infrastructural Remediation at Churchill, Manitoba Darin Barney, McGill University
- Thinking (No)Place: Onondaga Lake Crystal Bartolovich, Syracuse University
- Coal Folk: Sheldon’s King Coal and Rural Placemaking Sarah MacDonell, McGill University
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Thinking the Aesthetic

Organizers: Robert Hughes, The Ohio State University ; Charles Shepherdson, University at Albany (State University of New York)

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 516E

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Adriana Caverero and the inclination to art Robert Hughes, The Ohio State University
- Reverie and the Default Mode Network: Notes toward an embodied and intersubjective aesthetics Valerio Amoretti, UC Santa Barbara
- Back to Affective Immanence: Thinking-Feeling with Cixous, Lispector, and Rilke François-Nicolas Vozel, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV)
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Thinking the Literature of Islands

Organizer: Brenda Machosky, University of Hawai`i West O`ahu

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 516D

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Thinking Small: Islands and the Imperial Logics of Scale Joseph Keith, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
- The Posthuman Polyphony of the Dys/Utopia: The Entangled Sea/Landscape of the Global Anglophone’s Isolated Islands Jace Jung, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- Hang Tuah in a Sea of Islands: Archipelagic Readings of the Malay Hikayat Hang Tuah Solihin Bin Samsuri, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
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Thinking Through/With Dance in Latin American and Iberian Cultural Studies

Organizers: Julian Gutierrez Albilla, University of Southern California; Miguel Caballero, Northwestern University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 511B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Silent Cinema’s Dance: The Vulnerable, Expressive Body in Segundo de Chomón’s Trick Films Leigh Mercer, University of Washington Seattle
- Dance in the Times of Chronic Medicalization Miguel Caballero, Northwestern University
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Thought in Revolt

Organizers: Alex Dubilet, Vanderbilt University; Oliver Silverman, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 519B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Iran and the Future of Critique Parisa Vaziri, Cornell University
- Bolshevik Laboratory of Anti-Colonial Thought Udeepta Chakravarty, New School for Social Research
- Strike Democracy: The Case of Reconstruction Jess Feldman, Bard College
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Time and Temporalities: Literatures of imperial and anti-imperial politics

Organizers: Leisa Kauffmann, Wayne State University; Peter Hitchcock, CUNY Graduate Center

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 512B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- "Critical Chronotopes" Peter Hitchcock, CUNY Graduate Center
- Imagining the Temporal and Spatial Dimensions in Palestinian Speculative Fiction ASMA BAHADAR, The Graduate Center, CUNY
- Temporalities of Anti-Imperialist Storytelling in Mati Diop's Dahomey (2024) Jessica Copley, University of Lethbridge
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Translation and Memory: Constructing Publics, Pasts, and Cultures

Organizers: Marlene Hansen Esplin, Brigham Young University; Youngmin Kim, Dongguk University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 519A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Memory, Translation, and the Possibility of Reconciliation in El lugar de la memoria Marlene Hansen Esplin, Brigham Young University
- Translating the Unspeakable: Intersemiotic Translation, the Performing Body, and the Ethics of Traumatic Memory in Pinter's Ashes to Ashes Xinyi Zhao
- Reconstructing Fragmentary Memories in the Translation of María Teresa León’s Feminist Memoir of Resistance. Laura Woolley-Núñez, University of Warwick
- Can a Spanish Knife Draw Blood in Bangla? Toward a Conductive Translation Model through El Rayo Que No Cesa Debasmita Sarkar, SRM University Sikkim
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Why Creative Translation Matters

Organizers: Brigitte Rath, Universität Innsbruck (University of Innsbruck); Alexandra Lukes, Trinity College, Dublin

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 510B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Voltaire and the practice of creative translation (Historical lessons for contemporary debates) Rita Bueno Maia, Universidade Católica Portuguesa (UCP)
- Writing in "Queerspeak": Scott Moncrieff, Proust, and the Condition of Translation Simon Leser, New York University (NYU)
- Translation, Creativity, and the Genesis of Chinese Science Fiction: Xinyi's The War of the Worlds in Late Qing China Yunfan Cheng, Zhejiang University
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World Socialist Temporalities

Organizers: Daniel Schwartz, McGill University; Isabel Jacobs, Akademie věd České republiky (Czech Academy of Sciences)

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 512C

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Estranging Moscow and Shanghai in the 1920s: Ethnographic Fiction as a Revolutionary Genre Yang Hua, Yale University
- Sorrows of the Rising Path: Marxist Eschatology and Anticolonial Struggle in Egypt Michael Ernst, New York University (NYU)
- A Maoist Theory of Media: Revolutionizing the Retail Worker in Socialist China Yihang Zhang, Harvard University
- Distance Viewing: Artavazd Peleshyan and the Cosmic Documentary Daniel Schwartz, McGill University
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Worlding of Sinophone Cinemas: Textures, Politics, and Aesthetics of the Everyday

Organizers: Jessica Tsui-yan Li, York University; Chialan Sharon Wang, Middlebury College

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 518B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Eileen Chang’s Love Everlasting (1947) and the Aesthetics of Everyday Life in Postwar Shanghai Jessica Tsui-yan Li, York University
- Everyday Tactics on Screen: Eileen Chang’s Scripts for the Motion Picture General Investment Company in Cold War Hong Kong Nim Yan Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Women in Shades: Female Agency and Visual Strategies in Wong Kar-wai’s Chungking Express Hsiu-Chuang Deppman, Oberlin College & Conservatory
- Speculation is Retrospection: A Buddhist Take on Speculative Media by Contemporary Hong Kong Image-Makers Victor Fan, King's College London
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12:30 PM EDT - 1:45 PM EDT

ICLA Translation Studies Committee Business Meeting

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 12:30 PM EST - 1:45 PM EST

Location: 519A

Stream: 12:30 PM - 1:45 PM

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2:00 PM EDT - 3:45 PM EDT

(Dis)enchanting Modernity: Witchcraft, Magic, and the Occult in Global Literatures

Organizer: Kayla Penteliuk, Université de Montréal (University of Montreal)

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 522C

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- The Spells We Speak: Gender, Signs, and Ritual in We Have Always Lived in the Castle Amelia Reardon, Concordia University, Montreal
- Telepathic Objects: Transcendence and Enchantment within Conceptual Art Rhiannon Vogl, University of Toronto / York University
- Of the Tilism of Tilismi Dastan: Nested Worlds, Talismanic Ritual and the Gendering of the Occult in the Indo-Islamicate Dastan Tradition Sana Akram, York University
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Affective Narratives in Times of Environmental Collapses

Organizers: Pascal Schwaighofer, McGill University; Kate Roy, Franklin University Switzerland

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 512H

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Ecoaesthetics and the Postmemory Devin Griffiths
- Closing the Door on Collective Trauma in Suzume Locks Up Emily Lowman, University of Rochester
- “My heart has long been yearning for the blow of a stone”: Material affect in poet-artist works from Pakistan Kate Roy, Franklin University Switzerland
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After Adab: Loss and Linguistic Re-Imagination in the Postcolonial Present

Organizers: Noman Baig, Habib University; Hamza Iqbal, Arizona State University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 521C

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Islamic Adab in Muhammad Iqbal’s Javednama Alexander Jabbari, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
- Rumi’s Divine Flame: Literary Imagination and the Ethical Public Noman Baig, Habib University
- The Culture Wars of the 1970’s: The Faiz Report & Jaun Elia’s Response Hamza Iqbal, Arizona State University
- Archaism in Neologism: Uncanny Return of Suppressed Words in “New Literature” Monica Katiboglu, İstanbul Bilgi Üniversitesi (Istanbul Bilgi University)
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After Autofiction

Organizers: Esme Feurtado, Queen Mary University of London; Grace Brimacombe-Rand, King's College London

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 516D

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- From 'the locus of impossible speech': Sexual Violence and the Limits of Auto-fiction Grace Brimacombe-Rand, King's College London
- Beyond the Self: The EPIC Chorus After the Autofictional Loop Shenhao Bai, Teachers College, Columbia University
- Don’t Do It For the Plot: Resisting Autofiction in Sarraute and Garréta Korinne Hensley, Stanford University
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Art in the Age of Fascist Production

Organizers: Duncan Faherty, Queens College, City University of New York; Michelle Chihara, Whittier College

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 513A

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Fiscal Chronotopes: #ZcavengerHunt, the Zetro Card, and the New Finance Franchise Will Beaman
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Atlantic Africa through Art, Letters, and Archives of the Francosphere

Organizers: A. Véronique Charles, Columbia University; Abigail E. Celis, Université de Montréal (University of Montreal)

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 513B

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Embodied Archives: Women’s Masquerade in Togolese Sacred Art and Fabiola Jean-Louis’s Marie Antoinette is Dead Elyan Hill, Southern Methodist University
- Haiti and Africa: Bernard Dadié’s "Iles de tempête" as a theatrical afterlife of the Haitian Revolution on the African Continent Soraya Limare, The University of Texas at Austin
- Planetary Négritude in Translation: Sense and Bearing Léopold Sédar Senghor, Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine, and Édouard Glissant Baba Badji, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
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Autofiction’s Deceptions: Jewish Self-Writing

Organizers: Ella Elbaz, University of Haifa; Shiri Shapira, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 511A

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- (Auto)Fiction Without Narrativization: A Holocaust Survivor Whose Story Could Not Be Told Ethan Pack
- The Autofiction of Return: Making and Masking the Self in The Glatstein Chronicles Yaakov Herskovitz, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
- Simulated Autofiction in Joshua Cohen’s Work Shiri Shapira, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
- Immigrant Mothers of the Second Wave: Jewish-American Feminist Autofiction Sandra Chiritescu, New York University
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Challenging "Nation" in World Literature

Organizers: Daniel Pratt, McGill University; Yanli He, Sichuan University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 513F

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- The Asses Manifesto: The Farce of Nation in Witold Gombrowicz’s Ferdydurke Yixuan Jiang, Duke University
- Translingual Writing from Eastern Europe: Reconceptualising National Literature Ola Sidorkiewicz, Université libre de Bruxelles
- Jasieński: Internationalist Daniel Pratt, McGill University
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Climate Fictions Before Climate Change

Organizer: Patrick Durdel, University of Oxford

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 516A

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Without Beams: Water as Catastrophe, Power, and Resource in 19th-Century German Literature Isabell Meske
- The Ghosts of Nature - Violence against Nature in 19th century German Literature Benjamin Sauvé, McGill University
- Imagining the Unimaginable: Drought in early 20th c. writing by Roumain, Platonov, and Rulfo Ilse Meiler, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Contemporary Muslim Writers on Borders

Organizers: Emily Davis, University of Delaware; Samina Gul Ali, Kean University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 523B

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Prayers and Robes: Rethinking Faith, Gender, and Displacement in Mohsin Hamid’s Exit West Eman Al-Drous, Haverford College
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Critical Disaster Studies in Latin American and Caribbean Literature

Organizers: Danielle Dorvil, Sarah Lawrence College; Sahai Couso Díaz, Kenyon College

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 513D

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Petrocultural Exile in Dany Lafferiére’s The Return Cornel Bogle, Simon Fraser University
- ‘Dry Weather Houses/ Are Not Worth a Cent’: Catastrophic Home-Spaces in Caribbean Disaster Narratives Alexandra Rahr, University of Toronto
- The Literary and Archival Landscapes of Catastrophe in the 18th-Century Spanish Caribbean Sahai Couso Díaz, Kenyon College
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Death, Dying, and Decolonisation: Legacies and Politics of Commemoration

Organizers: Kimmy Clough, Texas A&M University; Devaleena Kundu, South Asian University, New Delhi

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 519A

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- A study of contemporary death practices and research in Singapore Kit Ying Lye, Singapore University of Social Sciences
- The Karbala Paradigm as Counter-Narrative: An Ethnographic Inquiry into Shi'ite Mourning Practices Aliza Mehdi
- “Guttural and Deep and Primal”: Performing Decolonial Grief in Crying in H Mart Kimmy Clough, Texas A&M University
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Decolonizing Comparative Methodologies Through Non-Canonical Imaginaries

Organizer: Tamar Barbakadze, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 514A

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Sustainable Identities in Diasporic Literatures of Québec Joanna Cumyn, Cégep de la Gaspésie et des Iles
- The silenced voices of the Rubber Boom Felipe Román Lozano, Université de Lausanne (UNIL - University of Lausanne)
- Equity as Development: Confronting Neoliberal Inequality Through Shared Lessons Jana Konstantinova, Geneva School of Diplomacy
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Decoupled Ties, Weak Theory: Weaving a Literary History of the World

Organizers: Zhen Zhang, Renmin University of China; Wen Jin, East China Normal University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 521B

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- World Literature and the Perpetuation of “National” Literature Todd Foley, New York University
- The Ecological Chronotope in Contemporary Chinese Novel as World Literature Chang Chen, Nanjing University
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Eileen Chang as World literature

Organizers: Xiaolu Ma, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Nicole Huang, The University of Hong Kong

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 515B

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Transwriting as Method: Eileen Chang’s “She Said Smiling” (Xiangjian huan) Ursula Friedman, Harvard University
- Beyond the Cultural Other: Exploring the Lives of Russian Emigrés in Eileen Chang’s Shanghai Stories Xiaolu Ma, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Autumn Rain and The Sun Parlor: Eileen Chang’s Early Bilingual Works in Phoenix Carole Hang-fung Hoyan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
- Trapped Embroidered Birds and Flowing Family Tapestries: A Comparative Study of Eileen Chang, Ling Shuhua, and Other Bilingual Autobiographical Women Writers Limeng Xiong, University of Edinburgh
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Forest Stories

Organizers: Caren Irr, Brandeis University; Richard Grusin, Duke University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 515A

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Disorientation and Environmental Storytelling in Video Game Forests Marco Caracciolo, Universiteit Gent (UGent - Ghent University)
- “Living Deliciously: Queer Disturbances in Over the Garden Wall and The Witch” sean grattan, Quincy University
- Dead Tree: Documenting Deforestation and Coauthoring Survival Franny Nudelman, Carleton University
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Free Indirect Style Across Languages

Organizers: Eve Houghton, University of Cambridge; Colton Valentine, Harvard University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 522AB

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Thomas Nashe, Orality, and the Tense of Narration Eve Houghton, University of Cambridge
- Failed Narrative Resurrection in Adania Shibli's 'Minor Detail'. A Reconsideration of FIS in Light of Epistemic Injustice Miriam Schwarz, University of Cambridge
- When Free Indirect Style Becomes Tense-Free Olivia Lingyi XU, Yale University
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Global Cosmopolitanisms

Organizers: Joao Marcos Copertino, Harvard University; Alyssa Cottle, University of Western Ontario

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 525A

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Writing Prague: Cosmopolitanism, Latin American Intellectuals, and the Cold War Marcos Padron Curet, Princeton University
- Language and the Democratization of Opera in Allende’s Chile, 1970-1973 Alyssa Cottle, University of Western Ontario
- Nationalism of Mourning: Narrating Collectivity in Gillian Slovo’s Red Dust and Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire Arooj Zubair, Koç Üniversitesi (Koç University)
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Global Crime Fiction and the Problem of (In)justice

Organizers: Andrew Pepper, Queen's University Belfast; Nicole Kenley

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 515C

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Navigating (In)/Justice in Eco-Horror Crime Fictions from Postcolonial Bengal Swarnima Banerjee, Indian Institute of Technology Jodhpur
- Disrupting the ‘Big Reveal’ in Something New Under the Sun (2021) by Alexandra Kleeman Louise Wigglesworth, University of Kent
- Contextualising the Global North narrative of global ecological disasters in contemporary crime fictions Angus Nurse, Anglia Ruskin University
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India, Poverty, and Western Eyes

Organizers: Priyadarshini Gupta, OP; Muddasir Ramzan, Islamic University of Science & Technology; Shruti Jain, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 513E

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Dalit Muslims, a tragedy: Between the Annihilation of Caste and the invisibilization of castes Badusha Peer Masthan, Texas Tech University
- Gendering Caste: Understanding (Im)Moral Foundations of Caste Sruthi Sasidharan T V, English and Foreign Languages University (EFLU)
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Intersectionality and Disability Studies in Contemporary Comics and Graphic Narrative

Organizers: Kai Qing Tan, Universiteit Gent (UGent - Ghent University); Crystal Yin Lie, California State University, Long Beach

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 512C

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Comics, Social Media, and Indeterminate Chronicity: Long COVID Webcomics in the Blue Age Lauren Chivington, Ohio State University
- Do You See What I See? Standpoint Cripepistemology in Boum’s The Jellyfish Dorothy Woodman
- Focalizing Disability Experiences and Shared Affect in Asian American Graphic Narratives Kai Qing Tan, Universiteit Gent (UGent - Ghent University)
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Jameson, Allegory, and the Work of Art

Organizer: Oded Nir, Queens College, CUNY

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 516B

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Readers Writing: Allegory and Interpretation Davis Smith-Brecheisen, The University of Texas at Dallas
- Rift and Shift: Metabolic Allegory and Modernist Autonomy Chris Gortmaker, University of Chicago
- The Existence of Brazil Emilio Sauri, University of Massachusetts Boston
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Korea, East Asia, and the Cold War Politics of Comparison

Organizers: HeeJin Lee, University of Pittsburgh; Chris Hanscom, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 521A

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Entanglement of Victimhood/Perpetration and Non-human Beings in the Intersection of Colonialism and the Cold War in East Asia Ji Young Shin, Yonsei University
- Non-Aligned and Alternate: Pasts and Futures Imagined Aliju Kim, University of Toronto
- Genre as Method: Korean Crime Fiction and Decolonial Approaches to Comparison Jiyon Byun, University of California Irvine (UC Irvine)
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Law and Literature: Rethinking the Interdiscipline

Organizer: Nimisha Sinha, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 525B

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- The Child Contradiction: Examination of the Rights of the Displaced Child in Octavia Butler’s “Lilith’s Brood: The Xenogensis Trilogy” and the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act Yasmin Mendoza, University of California - Davis
- Cowboys and ICE Agents: The Western Roots of Border Enforcement Narratives Stephen Park, Loyola University Maryland
- Intimate Privacy jason potts, St. Francis Xavier University
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Legacies of Literary Heresies, sponsored by ICLA Research Committee on Religion, Ethics, and Literature

Organizer: Kitty Millet

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 448

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Families Lost and Found: Heretical Imaginings in Eloghosa Osunde’s Necessary Fiction, Gerardo Sámano’s Monstrilio, and Ron Hansen’s Mariette in Ecstasy John Hawley, Santa Clara University
- A Possible Ethical and Literary Theoretical Origin of Literary Heresies: the Parabasis Marton Hoványi
- The Vacant Space of the World: Heresy, Literature, and the Horizon of Modernity in Nachman of Braslav Yitzhak Lewis, Duke Kunshan University
- The Letter Phenomenology of Bruno Schulz Kitty Millet
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Literature and Solidarity in Times of War

Organizers: Anthony Alessandrini, Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York; Anna Bernard, King's College London

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 520B

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Massacre, Memory, and Justice: The Limits of “Revisionist” History Stefan Aune, Williams College
- Maghrebi Literary Solidarity with the Tel el-Za’tar Refugee Camp and its Resistance: Tahar Ben Jelloun and Noureddine Aba Sarah Leila Bounabat, Université de Montréal (University of Montreal)
- Weapons of Minor Destruction: U.S. Counterinsurgency and Protest after 1965 Meghan Tibbits-Lamirande, University of Ottawa
- Writing Palestine: Genre Resistance and the Poetics of the Ongoing Nakba Sara Abou Rashed, The Ohio State University
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Love as Thinking, Thinking as Love

Organizer: Iana Seerung, Brandeis University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 511B

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- (Un)knowing Fanon: Ironic Methodologies and the Dialectic of the Loving Self Vasantha Sambamurti, Tufts University
- To Love World Literature: Ontological, Epistemological, and Phenomenological Pathways Azadeh Yamini-Hamedani, Simon Fraser University
- The Act of Writing and the End of Love: Messianic Time and Duras’ Emily L. Kat Matson, Boston College
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Miniature as Method

Organizers: Michelle Chow, Yale; Jane Zhang, Yale University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 511F

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- From Delta Lines to Dyke World: The Catalyzation and Neutralization of Toxic Spaces in Miniature Railroading Kayle Avery, University of Delaware
- Surface Tensions: Iridescence and the Optics of Colonial Pearl Economies in the Dutch Republic Caroline LaPorte-Burns, McGill University
- Toy Worlds in Miniature: Bestelmeier’s Catalogs and the Culture of Play in Eighteenth-Century Germany Stella Rossikopoulou Pappa, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Playing with Scale: Empire and Military Masculinity in Miniature Julia Chang, Cornell University
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Modernism Otherwise: Global Modernisms Across Asia and Beyond

Organizers: Enver A. Akova, Stanford University; Luo Jia, Stanford University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 520C

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Post-Ottoman Modernisms: The Imperial Past and the Global Literary Field C. Ceyhun Arslan, Koç Üniversitesi (Koç University)
- Modernism’s Margins: Rethinking the Ottoman Empire’s Place in Global Aesthetic Networks Demet Karabulut Dede, İstanbul Bilgi University
- Ecopoetics and the Transnational Avant-Garde: Modernist Experimentation and Ecological Imaginaries in Jane Nardal’s Poetics Sarah María Medina Pérez, Washington University in St. Louis
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Murmur

Organizers: Thangam Ravindranathan, Brown University; Églantine Colon

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 511E

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- The Murmuring Superego Xinyu Zhang, Cornell University
- "Whatever Being" Tianmo Wang, University of California Irvine (UC Irvine)
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Muslim Cultural Production in the Wake of the "War on Terror"

Organizer: Nasia Anam, University of Nevada, Reno

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 520D

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- “Draw the Line Wherever You Need It”: Seeing and Doing in the First Person Shooter Maryam Khan, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- “TSA always wanna burst my bubble”: Rap responses to post-9/11 racial profiling Sara Grewal, MacEwan University
- Newsroom Justice and Detention Aesthetics: Reading Law as Spectacle in Saeed Naqvi’s 'The Muslim Vanishes' and the 9/11 Military Commissions Iqra Raza, University of Houston
- Naming Home: On Multivalent Name Meanings in Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire Diana Filar, United States Merchant Marine Academy
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Oceans, or Aquatics, as Critical Method

Organizer: Neelofer Qadir, Georgia State University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 510A

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Spirals and Star Maps: Visual Languaging in Albert Wendt’s The Book of the Black Star Kristin Emanuel, Washington University in St. Louis
- Kent Monkman's Littoral Erotics: Indigenous Artistry & Turtle Island's Queer Ecologies Jeremy Chow, Bucknell University
- Ecofeminist, Women’s Body and Sea: Contemporary Chinese Women Artists’ Ocean Metaphors Keni LI, University of Glasgow
- Sea Life, Shore Life Neelofer Qadir, Georgia State University
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On Truth-Speaking, Flattery, Lying, and Bullshit

Organizers: Michael Krimper, New York University (NYU); John Ricco, University of Toronto

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 518C

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Horsemint: Putting Foucault's Toronto on Screen John Greyson, York University
- ‘Sex is not harmless’: Discourses on sexual harm regulations in queer French literature Airelle Amedro
- Truth in the Surround, or, How to Believe in Exocerebral Ecologies Etienne Turpin
- Aesthetic Truth of the Ecological Subject John Ricco, University of Toronto
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One Poem: Reading Fast and Slow

Organizers: Nick Admussen, Cornell University; Lea Pao, Stanford University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 512D

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Moving Poetry: Li Bai’s “Changgan Memories” Leaves for the West Ross Etherton, Denison University
- The Occasion of the Poem: “Beyond the Alps” Oren Izenberg, University of California, Irvine
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Out of Place: Forced Migration in Literature and Political Theory

Organizers: Florian Grosser, University of Chicago; Nassima Sahraoui, Independent Scholar

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 514B

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- How the Land Lies: Displacement and Disorientation in Saadat Hasan Manto's Fiction Arnav Sibal, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- Displacement, Disorientation, Disappearance: Günther Anders and Tayeb Salih on the Forced Migrant Experience Florian Grosser, University of Chicago
- "Creative Power in the Desert of Exile": Józef Czapski’s Representations of Displacement Monika Zaleska, CUNY Graduate Center
- Displacement, Identity, and Ethical Belonging in Ana Menéndez’s Fiction Ana Luszczynska, Florida International University
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Politics of Travel: Mobility, Neoliberal Capitalism, and the Production of Transcultural Knowledge

Organizer: Qian Feng, University of Alberta

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 513C

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Literature Against Empire: Federico García Lorca and the African-American Radical Tradition Luis Gonzalez Barrios, Spelman College
- Travel Meets Politics Meets Tech: Black Expats and Black Digital Nomads and Freedom and Identity Russell Stockard, California Lutheran University
- Mask, Inter-iconicity and Surreal Dreams in Sascha Hommer’s In China (2016) Qian Feng, University of Alberta
- Death, despair and U.S. travelers in Woody Allen's European sojourn Ana Paula Bianconcini Anjos, University of Distrito Federal
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Reconsidering the Ethics of Reading

Organizers: Monique Attrux, York University; Ayse Irem Karabag, York University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 523A

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)

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Rethinking Literature’s Persons

Organizers: Julie Orlemanski, University of Chicago; Samuel Fallon, SUNY Geneseo

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 519B

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Boring Backstories and Character Constitution in the Long 20thC Christina Fogarasi, Københavns Universitet (University of Copenhagen)
- Tragicomic Character and the Cruelty of Optimism Nathaniel Likert, College of the Holy Cross
- Shunzei's Plural Persons Ryan Hintzman, Indiana University Bloomington
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Revolution as Kairos: From Classical Theory to Digital Temporalities

Organizers: Leihua Weng, Kalamazoo College; Paul Allen Miller, University of South Carolina

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 512F

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Revolution as Recurrence: Chinese Modernity, Global Crisis, and the Futures of History Leihua Weng, Kalamazoo College
- Kairos and Liminality: Miss Sophia's Diary as a Critique of the Unfulfilled May Fourth Liberation Xiaoqing Liu, Butler University
- Dialectically Evolving Idea Systems and Time: Some Notes on Postmodern China Gordon C. Chang
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Rot and Renewal: Theorizing Decomposition across Space and Time

Organizers: Christopher Walker, Colby College; Jessica Croteau, Haverford College

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 520F

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Zombie Poiesis Sharon Kunde, Maine College of Art
- Embodied Ecologies: Women and Plants in South Korean Literary Horror Kimberly Chung, McGill University
- Un-becoming: Human Decay in Latin American Weird Fiction Elisabetta Rodio, Cornell University
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Shifting Selves: The Complexities of Identity in Displacement

Organizer: Rima Abdallah, Middle Tennessee State University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 514C

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Dispossession and the Language of Resistance in Tara June Winch’s The Yield Laura White, Middle Tennessee State University
- From Fear to Belonging: The Ethnic-Place Emotional Community and Identity Construction in Alistair MacLeod’s Fictions Shiyuan She, Shanghai International Studies University
- Re-mapping Routes of Leaving and Returning Home: Painful Exilic Narratives and Imaginative “Homecomings” in Nazım Hikmet, Shen Congwen, and Tezer Özlü April Tong, University of Washington Seattle
- Exile and Selfhood of the Russian Intelligentsia, 1936-1950: Perspectives from Gaito Gazdanov’s Literary Criticism and Ivan Bunin’s Memoirs Maryam Pashali, University of Toronto
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Space, Spatiality, Literature

Organizer: Ato Quayson, Stanford University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 512E

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- The Urban-Rural Nexus in South African Literature Mpho Molefe, Stanford University
- Spaces of Resistance in Mahasweta Devi's Literary Works Debarati Das, Tripura University
- Spatial Concepts for Literary Urban Studies Ato Quayson, Stanford University
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Textures of Time after 25 years: Histories of “history” in South Asia

Organizers: Julie Vig, York University; Anne Murphy, University of British Columbia

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 518B

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Poeticizing History: The Role of Poetry in Early Arabic Historiography Hussain Alqarni
- Authorial Voice in History: Expressions of Self in Medieval Kashmiri Mahākāvya (9th-12th centuries) Sloane Geddes, University of Toronto
- Literature, History and Historical Consciousness: Reading Odiā Bhāgabata of Jagannātha Dāsa with Śrīmad Bhāgavatam Abinash Dash Choudhury, University of Georgia
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The Contemporary Intermedial Turn in Literary-Creative Practice

Organizer: Kaiyun Zheng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 511D

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Countervisual Afterlives: Critical Carceral Heritage in a Puerto Rican Photo-Text Michael Reyes Salas, Vassar College
- “Like a pinprick”: intermedial power and ‘potential history’ in Teju Cole’s Blind Spot Andrew Clarke, Maynooth University
- Photopoetry as Intermedial Care and Correspondence: A Creative Autoethnography Kaiyun Zheng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
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The Cultural Labor of Internationalism: Reorienting Global South Solidarities in a Time of Struggles

Organizers: Yawen Li, University of Edinburgh; Anup Grewal, University of Toronto Scarborough

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 511C

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Translating in solidarity, solidarity in translation: Panjabi literary production in the long sixties in British Columbia Ajay Bhardwaj
- Among Saboteurs and Spies: The Translatability of Gendered Labor and Solidarity in A Hora Próxima by Alina Paim Hongyang Cai, University of Toronto
- The Ambivalence of Solidarity: Representing Palestine in Contemporary China Yawen Li, University of Edinburgh
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The Labor of Narrating

Organizers: Paola Iovene, University of Chicago; Adhira Mangalagiri, New York University (NYU)

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 512G

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Mehfils and Margins: Gendered Narratorial Labor and Testimony in Amrita Pritam and Noor Zaheer Aditi Saraswat, Rutgers University
- Live to Narrate Death: The Gendered Labor of Writing in Ding Ling's "Suicide Diary" Yanqing Shen, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
- Radiographic Vision: Technologies of Vision and Narration in Radiograph of a Family (tentative) Mandana Naviafar, New York University (NYU)
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The Manifesto and Postcolonial Thought

Organizers: Yogita Goyal, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA); Peter Kalliney, University of Kentucky

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 510C

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Lumumba's Speech Yogita Goyal, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
- Novel Reports: nonfiction and sentimentality in Richard Wright and Edward Jenkins Anna Thomas, University of Toronto
- The Poetics of the Manifesto: Protest Verse from Punjab Sara Kazmi, University of Pennsylvania
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The Uses of Literature in the Time of War

Organizer: Atefeh Akbari Shahmirzadi, Barnard College

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 516E

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Silence as Rot, Silence as Archive: Birangona and the Afterlives of War Raisa Rasheeka, Trent University
- Reactions to death in time of conflict Mitul Joseph Koickakudy, Manipal University
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The World of World Literatures: Practices, Pedagogies, and Possibilities

Organizers: Dr. Mir Islam, Nalanda University, India; Arunav Das, University of South Carolina

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 520A

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Offerings of a Peripheral Literature: Central American Literary Production at the Margins David Rozotto, University of Waterloo
- Cosmopolitanism in two African Writers: Chinua Achebe and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Wari Gálvez Rivas, University of South Carolina
- Qissa as Performance: Oral Traditions, Novel Forms, and the Reworlding of Literature Rajni Mujral, SRM University-AP (India)
- Magic Doors as Capitalist Chronotopes: Dreams and Displacement in Exit West Arunav Das, University of South Carolina
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Theorizing Translation in the Global South: Networks and Sites of World Literary Formations

Organizer: Razieh Araghi, Arizona State University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 518A

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Vernacular Theory at Midcentury: Persian Balāghah and Persian Falsafah in Anticolonial Philology and European Philosophy Samuel Hodgkin, Yale University
- Word-Image Translation and the Senses of Decolonization Rebecca Johnson, Northwestern University
- Muallim Naci (1850-1893) and Translation as Community Mehtap Ozdemir, Emory University
- Hydropolitics, Folk Song, Translation: The Punjabi River as Institution Supriya Dhaliwal, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Thought in Revolt

Organizers: Alex Dubilet, Vanderbilt University; Oliver Silverman, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 510D

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Revolution and Resurrection: Badr Shakir al-Sayyab's Mythopoetics of Pan-Arabism Laila Riazi, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- Sufi Singularity: Islam and the Psychoanalytical Deconstruction of Sovereignty Ali Mian, University of Florida
- Revelation of the Repressed: Reading Norman O. Brown with The Blood of Hussain Noor Asif, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
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Vice Presidential Seminar: "After Political Knowledge"

Organizer: Hosam Aboul-Ela, University of Houston

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 520E

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- Public Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Critique against Empiricism's Empire Subramanian Shankar, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
- Academic Tomorrowland: Literary Knowledge at the Ends of the Neoliberal University Jini Kim Watson, New York University (NYU)
- Law and Order and the Humanities in Higher Education: Language 101, Translation, and the End of Area Studies? Huda Fakhreddine, University of Pennsylvania
- Against Restructuring: The University as Political Bond Julie Beth Napolin, The New School
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Water as Teacher: Pedagogical Practices of Liberation

Organizers: Kate Stanley, University of Western Ontario; Tanner Layton, Western University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 2:00 PM EST - 3:45 PM EST

Location: 516C

Stream: Stream C (2:00 PM - 3:45 PM)
- The Sources of Meaning in Higher Education Tanner Layton, Western University
- Theory of Water and the Legal Imaginary Sherally Munshi
- Love & theory vs. settler realism Susie O'Brien
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Across Cultures, Across Species: Animals in Women’s Writing

Organizer: Haihong Yang, University of Delaware

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 520E

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Retreat as Resistance: Mourning with the Mice in Charlotte Wood’s Stone Yard Devotional Melanie Doherty, Wesleyan College
- Disenchanting Carnophallogocentrism: Animal Representation and Resistance in Latin American Women’s Writing Maria de los Angeles Aldana Mendoza, University of California Riverside (UC Riverside)
- Transformative vs. Revolutionary: Ecofeminist Ethics of Care in Holland's Adaptations of Burnett’s "The Secret Garden" and Tokarczuk’s "Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead" Magdalena Cabaj, University of Toronto
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Ancestral Logics and Transcontinental Cacophony

Organizer: Ethan Madarieta, Syracuse University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 511A

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- When the Shadow is the Substance: Sojourner Truth as a Hauntodicean Figure Biko Gray, University of Houston
- “‘reverberating through a succession of female bodies:’ the keen's invocation of the ancestor in Doireann Ní Ghríofa’s A Ghost in the Throat” Kate McCullough, Cornell University
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Anti-Authoritarian Aesthetics: Frontline Art and Performance in the Age of Autocracy

Organizers: Keren Zaiontz, University of British Columbia; Alessandra Santos, The University of British Columbia

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 522C

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Aesthetics of Subjectivity: Art, War, Articulation Asia Bazdyrieva, University of Applied Arts Vienna
- Re-Signified Spaces: Apartment and Non-Institutional Exhibitions in Ukraine during the Full-Scale Invasion Anna-Mariia Kucherenko, Independent Researcher
- Curation of Ukrainian Art as an Act of Resistance Alina Senchenko
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Black Reconstruction Revisited

Organizers: Geronimo Sarmiento Cruz, University of Kentucky; Noah Hansen, California State University Monterey Bay

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 512B

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- On Distortion Geronimo Sarmiento Cruz, University of Kentucky
- On “White Privilege” and the Counter-Revolution of Property: Du Bois, Ignatiev, and the System of White-Skin Privileges Noah Hansen, California State University Monterey Bay
- The Souls of Black Reconstruction: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Afro-Atlantic Dialectical Humanism Saheed Adejumobi
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Challenging "Nation" in World Literature

Organizers: Daniel Pratt, McGill University; Yanli He, Sichuan University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 513F

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- The Other World Literature: Friedrich Schlegel’s World Poetics Madigan Haley, College of the Holy Cross
- Prizing Relationality: How Saša Stanišić and Kim de L'Horizon Redefine German Literature for the World Frauke Matthes, University of Edinburgh
- "Splitting the Nation From Within – The Power of Migrant Narratives" Imke Brust
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CONSPIRACISM

Organizers: Sarah Brouillette, Carleton University; Lee Konstantinou, University of Maryland, College Park

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 516C

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Not So Far Out As You Think: Diane di Prima's Planet Eaters Sean Lovitt, Rutgers University, Camden
- The Individual vs. Society: Doublethinking High School English Alexander Manshel, McGill University
- Independent Thought: Epistemic Individualism and Liberal Cognition Rhona Jamieson, University College Dublin
- The Man in the White Sweater Andrea Gadberry, New York University
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Control, Communication, Cosmos: Systems Thinking and Practices in Asia and Beyond

Organizers: Zichuan Gan, University of Toronto; Rodica-Livia Monnet, University of Montreal

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 518B

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- A System of Fakery: Performing Fake Queerness on Chinese Social Media and Beyond Siyun Pan, University of British Columbia
- Soft Voice, Cool Diva: Faye Wong and China’s Affective Sound System of Propaganda Junshen Wu, University of British Columbia
- DzogchenThought and the Postapocalyptic Mindplex in LuYang's Doku:The Creator Rodica-Livia Monnet, University of Montreal
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Decolonizing Comparative Methodologies Through Non-Canonical Imaginaries

Organizer: Tamar Barbakadze, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 514A

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Queer Phenomenology and Assemblages in "Drinking Coffee Elsewhere" by ZZ Packer Dana Nevels
- Orality and the Performativity of the Verbal Act of Apology and Conversion: Ibn al-Zibi‘rā’s Apologetic Address to the Prophet Lubna Alshanquitiy, King Abdulaziz University
- Going Dark: Visual, Racial, and Poetic Abstraction in Ekphrasis Yichu Wang, Cornell University
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Eileen Chang as World literature

Organizers: Xiaolu Ma, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; Nicole Huang, The University of Hong Kong

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 515B

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- From State Sponsorship to Market Refusal: Eileen Chang and the Fractured Logics of Cold War Cultural Diplomacy Rachel Yifei Liu, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- A Husband's Two Bits: What Ferdinand Reyher Did for Eileen Chang Karen Kingsbury
- Return to Reality: Eileen Chang’s Transpacific Literary Trajectory Myron Chun-Chieh Tsao, The University of Texas at Austin
- Adapting Eileen Chang to the Silver Screen: Reflections on Love After Love Nicole Huang, The University of Hong Kong
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Emergence of New World Order in the 19th and 20th Century: Mobility and Connections across the Asian Colonies through the Lens of Auto-Biographical Narratives and Travelogues

Organizer: Barnali Chanda, Adamas University, India

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 513C

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Tracing Colonial Memory Through Travel: Reconfigurations of Identity in a Transnational Frame Pooja Mohanty, Kent State University
- The Representations of Northeast China in English Travel Writing, 1860-1910 Dingying Wang, Northeastern University
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Forest Stories

Organizers: Caren Irr, Brandeis University; Richard Grusin, Duke University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 515A

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Forest phronēsis Karl Dahlquist, University West
- “Roaring in the Forest Further Out”: Stories of Collective Forest Consciousness Emma Knickelbine, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- Writing the Taiga: Kerstin Ekman’s Boreal Imaginary Caren Irr, Brandeis University
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Global Cosmopolitanisms

Organizers: Joao Marcos Copertino, Harvard University; Alyssa Cottle, University of Western Ontario

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 525A

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Uncannily Bad: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism in Brazilian modernist music Joao Marcos Copertino, Harvard University
- Graça Aranha’s Malazarte: The Dialectics of the Cosmopolitan and the National Daniel Polleti, Casa de Velázquez
- Performing cosmopolitanism, staging nationalism: the Brazilian revue and theatrical modernities in the 1920s João Victor Silva, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Global Crime Fiction and the Problem of (In)justice

Organizers: Andrew Pepper, Queen's University Belfast; Nicole Kenley

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 515C

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Ilustrado, Injustice, and Postmodern Corruption Nicole Kenley
- Nordic Crime: Polar Fiction and Colonial Injustice Brian Martin, Williams College
- Late liberalism and the enduring problem of racial injustice: Attica Locke and Steph Cha Andrew Pepper, Queen's University Belfast
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Impudent Flesh: Thinking Bodies & Material Life

Organizers: David Bordelon, Indiana University Bloomington; Britt Zeldenrust, Indiana University Bloomington

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 513A

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Between Body and Spirit: Theorizing Gesture and History in Walter Benjamin David Bordelon, Indiana University Bloomington
- Kamila Shamsie’s Home Fire: From Corporeal Agency to Embodied Politics Syeda Nadia Hasan, East West University Bangladesh
- Embodied Defiance: The Female Body and Acts of Survival in Mushtaq’s Heart Lamp Priyanka Tripathi, Indian Institute of Technology Patna
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Law and Literature: Rethinking the Interdiscipline

Organizer: Nimisha Sinha, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 525B

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Before the Law: Kafka, Arendt and Eichmann in Jerusalem Eric Kligerman, University of Florida
- “Narrating Energy through Mariana Valverde’s Chronotopes of Law” Michael Malouf, George Mason University
- Contingency Spaces: Black City Literature and Law Cait Jones, Carleton University
- “People just started disappearing”: Reading 'Anil’s Ghost' as Detective Fiction Nimisha Sinha, Binghamton University (The State University of New York) Michael Williamson, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
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Literature and Solidarity in Times of War

Organizers: Anthony Alessandrini, Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York; Anna Bernard, King's College London

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 520B

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- The Rhetoric of Solidarity, Mourning and Exile in You Must Live Tayseer Abu Odeh
- Revolutionary Filiations: Narrating Cultures of Afro-Arab Solidarity Sara Hussein, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
- "Once revolution was a possibility and it was beautiful:" Turkish Literary Resistance and Its Discontents Başak Çandar, Appalachian State University
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Literature and the End of Development

Organizers: Lauren Horst, Princeton University; Eleni Coundouriotis, University of Connecticut

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 522AB

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Using Literature to Understand Development Robert Rooks, Clark Atlanta University/Emory University
- The Hospital After the End of Development Eleni Coundouriotis, University of Connecticut
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Miniature as Method

Organizers: Michelle Chow, Yale; Jane Zhang, Yale University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 511F

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Proustian Interruptions: A Study of Miniaturization BRANDON BORCOMAN, CUNY Graduate Center
- “The Earth, a tourmaline reduction”: Lichtenberg’s Diminishing Glass Bryan Klausmeyer, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)
- On Reciprocal Violence in Alberto Giacometti's Figurines Joanna Fiduccia, Yale University
- The Signature of (Sm)All Things: Miniature and Method Melinda Rabb, Brown University
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Mobile Bodies: Globalization, Travel, and the Environment

Organizers: Priscilla Jolly, Concordia University; Krystale Tremblay-Moll, University of Toronto

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 512H

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- In Between: (Un)Earthing Bodies and Landscapes in Aavasavyuham Priscilla Jolly, Concordia University
- “The Twenty Chō Between Us”: The Colonial Flâneuse, Unequal Mobility, and Gustatory Flânerie in Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s Taiwan Travelogue Yuan Liu Yidan Hu, University of Glasgow
- Exploring the Potential of the Road Movie Genre as Global Cinema: Comparative Analysis of Yoji Yamada’s _Where Spring Comes Late_ (1970) Nakagaki Kotaro, Senshu University, Japan
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Modernism Otherwise: Global Modernisms Across Asia and Beyond

Organizers: Enver A. Akova, Stanford University; Luo Jia, Stanford University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 520C

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Transpacific Imperial Fictions: Latin American Modernists and Their Response to Japanese Imperialism at the Turn of the Century Sebastian Diaz Martinez, CUNY Graduate Center
- Sea Routes to Modernist Asia: Imperialist Critique in Maugham and Conrad Ray Zhou, The University of Sydney Dongyang Li, Education University of Hong Kong
- “Exile was his life”: Exilic Cosmopolitanism in Helon Habila’ s Travelers Daniel Dufournaud, University of Macau
- Afro-Modernism in Driss Chraïbi's "Le Passé Simple" Sylvanna Baugh, University of Toronto
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Monocultures in Latin American Cultural Production

Organizers: Mathilda Shepard, Texas Tech University; Catalina Arango-Correa, Princeton University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 513D

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Indigenous Girls’ Resistance to Monocultures in Santa sombra by Sukermercado Victoria Jara, University of Western Ontario
- Rewriting the "Capital Fictions" of Sugar and Cotton: PR 3 Aguirre and Autobiografía de algodón Sofie Brown, Georgetown University
- Ecological Approaches into Contemporary Latin American Horror Literature Diana Roig Sanz, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalonia) Martí Jareño
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Murmur

Organizers: Thangam Ravindranathan, Brown University; Églantine Colon

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 511E

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- On Listening: Murmurs and the Topology of the Ear Rachit Anand, American University of Armenia
- Nouadhibou murmuration Jill Jarvis
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Muslim Cultural Production in the Wake of the "War on Terror"

Organizer: Nasia Anam, University of Nevada, Reno

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 520D

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Making and Unmaking the Borders of the War on Terror Zainab Abdali, Rice University
- The Refugee Encampment as a Theater of the War on Terror Nasia Anam, University of Nevada, Reno
- The Narratives of Safety in Post 9/11 Pakistani Urban Literature Muhammad Hassan Qadeer Butt, Åbo Akademi University
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No Longer in the "Waiting Room of Literary History”: Accounting for Nineteenth-Century Indian Fiction

Organizers: Jesse Cordes Selbin, Gettysburg College; Monika Bhagat-Kennedy, U.S. Naval Academy

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 513E

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Anticipating the Avant Garde: Cornelia Sorabji's Short Fiction Jesse Cordes Selbin, Gettysburg College
- A Neglected Genre: Theorizing the Early Indian Novel in English Monika Bhagat-Kennedy, U.S. Naval Academy
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Nonrelation, Comparison, and Dissensus

Organizers: Dima Ayoub, Middlebury College; Na'ama Rokem

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 518C

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Refusing Recognition David Markus, New York University (NYU)
- Relationality Otherwise: Affinity, Nonrelation, and the Possibilities of Comparison Amal Eqeiq, Williams College
- Shabaka/svach in Action: Khalīl Baydas’s The Heir and Y.H. Brenner’s Breakdown and Bereavement as Case Study for Mutual Entanglement Daniel Behar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- One Rape Victim, Two Texts Na'ama Rokem
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Oceans, or Aquatics, as Critical Method

Organizer: Neelofer Qadir, Georgia State University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 510A

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Unborn Again: Shoals of Amniotic Memory in Salvage the Bones Mia Alafaireet, The University of Texas at Austin
- Halogenesis: Blackness, Disability, Salt Prathna Lor
- Beyond the Ephemeral: Decay, Encounter, and Rossella Biscotti’s Mediterranean Performance QIAN LIU, Ohio State University
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One Poem: Reading Fast and Slow

Organizers: Nick Admussen, Cornell University; Lea Pao, Stanford University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 512D

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- "The Unthinkable Is a Good Place to Start": Reading John Yau's "Exhibits" in the Classroom Daniel Heffernan, Fordham University
- ‘It’s incomplete, perpetually’: Lyn Hejinian’s Rearranging Texts Serafina Lee, Royal Holloway, University of London
- "A Vanishing Line": On Airea D. Matthews' "Ars Poetica, 1979" Chi Le, Brown University
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Out of Place: Forced Migration in Literature and Political Theory

Organizers: Florian Grosser, University of Chicago; Nassima Sahraoui, Independent Scholar

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 514B

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- The Lyric in Exile: Günther Anders's 'Die Totenpost'. jorg kreienbrock, Northwestern University
- Suspicious Bodies in Abdalrahman Alqalaq’s Flüchtlingslager, schau durch meine Augen (Refugee camp, look through my eyes) Irene Kuo, Wake Forest University
- Dante/Exile Nassima Sahraoui, Independent Scholar
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Paper Pushers and Ink Suckers: Objectifying the Administrative Subject in Bureaucratic Fiction

Organizers: Karolin Schäfer, Universität Kassel (University of Kassel); Alexandra Irimia, Western University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 516D

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Power in the office. The signature as a partial object of sovereignty Jan-Henrik Witthaus, Universität Kassel (University of Kassel)
- “Weaponizing Office Equipment”: On the Material Culture of Severance in Fact and Fiction Rachel Rosengarten Hunnicutt, College of William and Mary
- Labour Transformations and Globality in Mohsin Hamid's Exit West (2017) Michael Boog, Universität Bern (University of Bern)
- Doomed Aspirations: Civil Service in No Longer at Ease and The Golden Child Heather McNaugher, Chatham University
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Performing the Self: Language, Persona, and Cultural Identity

Organizer: Dany Jacob, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 514C

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Inventing a Multilingual Self: Identification with Language in Elias Canetti, Emil Cioran, and Gaston Miron Louise Sampagnay, Université Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle
- Witty Words, Bold Identities: Language and Performativity in the Dandy Tradition Dany Jacob, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
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Post-Millennial Speculative Fiction from the Global South

Organizers: Amit Baishya, University of Oklahoma; Hanan Jasim Khammas, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 518A

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Politics of the Flesh: Embodiment and Resistance in Arab Speculative Fiction Manzura Hoque, UBC
- Space and Subjectivity in Contemporary Pakistani Speculative Fiction in English Shazia Sadaf, Carleton University
- Diasporic Futures: Fragmented Mythologies in Vandana Singh’s Short Stories Uttara Rangarajan, Fordham University
- "The Murky Backwaters of the Bengali Consciousness": Weirding National Architectures in Babu Bangladesh! Amit Baishya, University of Oklahoma
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Precarious Mediations: Queer Bodies in Virtual Spaces

Organizer: Elizabeth Richmond-Garza, UT Austin

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 448

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Facebook + Feminism + Cartesian Dualism: Resurrecting ‘the Ghost in the Machine’ Tegan Zimmerman, Mount Saint Vincent University
- “Unhappy Princes and Melancholy Puppets: The Queer Nostalgia of Wilde’s Posthuman Bodies” Elizabeth Richmond-Garza, UT Austin
- Risky Bodies: Disability, Accessibility, and Consent in Contemporary Circus Jordana Greenblatt, York University
- “Untranslatable Bodies: Precarious Mediations in Missaghi’s Trans(re)lating House One” Mélanie Heydari, Barnard College
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Psychic Need

Organizers: sabine stxrm, Maine College of Art; AJ Baginski

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 512G

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Access, Trespass: Cross-Disability Aesthetics and Navigational Poetics Amalle Dublon, The New School
- State Fetish: University Need Williston Chase, Southwestern College
- Bodies in Transition: Ontolgical Migration in "What the Tapster Saw" Sieun Cha, Emory University
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Re-Mapping Contemporary Extractivism

Organizer: Tianren Luo, Brown University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 521A

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Practices and Poetics of Extraction: From German Romanticism to Mid-19th-Century Indian Literature Philipp Sperner, Universität Wien (University of Vienna)
- (De-)colonializing the Cloud: Digital Extractivism and its Discontents, or Koli Jean Bofane’s Congo Inc. Yixuan Hu, Cornell University
- Gentrifying Choice and (Un)Freedom: Selling Out to Survive in Gentefied John Riofrio, College of William and Mary
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Realism and Its Discontents

Organizers: Ariel Pickett, McGill University; Ronny Litvack-Katzman, Harvard University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 512E

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- (His)Storytelling & the Rhetoric of Realism's Others Sonia Werner, New York University (NYU)
- Beyond André Bazin: Edouard de Laurot’s Theory of Dynamic Realism in Cinema Lukasz Kielpinski, Uniwersytet Warszawski (University of Warsaw)
- Mystical Realism, or, What Happened to Sophie Wilder Matthew Wickman, Brigham Young University
- Naguib al-Kilani and the Ambiguities of Islamic Realism Ahmed Elbenni, Princeton University
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Rethinking Literature’s Persons

Organizers: Julie Orlemanski, University of Chicago; Samuel Fallon, SUNY Geneseo

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 519B

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Spenserian Character and the Ultimate Species Samuel Fallon, SUNY Geneseo
- The Enfleshment of Personified Figures in Biblical Literature Jacqueline Vayntrub, Yale University
- Types or Blurs: On Character and Subjectivity in Contemporary Fiction Katie Ebner-Landy, Universiteit Utrecht (Utrecht University)
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Romanticism and Media (Theory)

Organizers: Jeremy Arnott, Concordia University; Rowan Melling, Simon Fraser University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 511B

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Picturing the Invisible – The Romantic Roots of Photography Antje Pfannkuchen, Dickinson College
- Romantic data Rowan Melling, Simon Fraser University
- Organic Adaptations to Algorithmic Otherness: Walter Benjamin's Theory of Mimesis in the Age of Digital Capitalism John Vanderheide, Huron University College
- Romantic Siren Songs: Adorno and Kittler on Technology Jeremy Arnott, Concordia University
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Rot and Renewal: Theorizing Decomposition across Space and Time

Organizers: Christopher Walker, Colby College; Jessica Croteau, Haverford College

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 520F

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Breakdown: Our Uncomfortable Intimacy with Decomposers Christopher Walker, Colby College
- In Praise of Decomposition: Rethinking Growth through Consumption and Compost Jessica Croteau, Haverford College
- Slow Entanglements: Spider/Web Aesthetics and Multispecies Collaborative Decay Anne Merrill, Johns Hopkins University
- Aesthetic Wilting and Sapphic Anxieties: Decomposition as Transnational Feminist World-Travelling Shivangi Sengupta, Case Western Reserve University
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Shared Imaginaries and Intellectual Entanglements Across Latin America/the Caribbean and the Middle East/North Africa

Organizers: Ali Noori, Bard Early College; Elvira Blanco, Columbia University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 513B

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Poetic Visuality and Decolonial Politics: A Comparative Analysis of ʿĀṭif Naṣṣār’s Mythical Realism and Carpentier's Marvelous Real Jesús Muñoz, Northwestern University
- Where Exotic Species are Native: Zoo and Animal Connections in Argentina and North Africa Ashley Kerr, University of Idaho
- Chelo Alonso: Cuban H-Bomb, Cleopatra, and the New Josephine Baker: the Fetish and Morenidad Juliana Fadil-Luchkiw, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- Shakira’s Latinidad: Crossover, Contradiction, and Cosmopolitanism Teresita Goyeneche Perezbardi, CUNY Graduate Center
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Space, Spatiality, Literature

Organizer: Ato Quayson, Stanford University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 510D

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)

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The Contemporary Intermedial Turn in Literary-Creative Practice

Organizer: Kaiyun Zheng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 511D

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Correspondences: Collaboration and Hybrid Identity in the Video Poem, “some sundays/I AM born again” CR Grimmer, Utah State University
- “An object charged with poetic substance”: The many materialities of Madeline Gins’ WORD RAIN (1969) Daniella Sanader, York University
- Towards Critical Intermedia Jay Ritchie, Bishop's University
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The Craft of Fiction

Organizers: Daniel Wright, University of Toronto; Thom Dancer, University of Toronto

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 516B

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- From Disillusion to Dada: The Avant-garde Antinovel and/as Theory of the Novel James Sullivan, CUNY Graduate Center
- The Good Enough Novel Daniel Wright, University of Toronto
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The Cultural Labor of Internationalism: Reorienting Global South Solidarities in a Time of Struggles

Organizers: Yawen Li, University of Edinburgh; Anup Grewal, University of Toronto Scarborough

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 511C

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Moments of Left Feminism and China: Transnational Connection and Political Possibility Anup Grewal, University of Toronto Scarborough
- The Ante-Colonial: A Grassroots Discourse of Korean Diasporic Trans-Indigenous Relationality Sandra Kim, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York)
- Postcolonial Feminist Praxes of Liberation: Intertextual Strategies "For The Survival And Care Of All People" Laiba Paracha, Northwestern University
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The Intractability of Dialectics

Organizers: Joel Auerbach, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley); Thel Maude-Griffin, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 512F

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Genealogy of Hegel’s dialectic: Nietzsche’s revaluation of the origin of the struggle for recognition. Maksim Vak, Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY)
- An Active Melancholy, Or, Does Adorno Have a Theory of Tragedy? Jim Hansen
- Un-Dialectical Dust: The Vanishing Mediation in Benjamin’s Passagen-Werk Andre Flicker, University of Toronto
- Disciplined Indeterminacy in the Writings of Hans-Jürgen Krahl and Oskar Negt Julia Landmann
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The Labor of Narrating

Organizers: Paola Iovene, University of Chicago; Adhira Mangalagiri, New York University (NYU)

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 512C

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Preferring Not To: The Figure of Narrative Indescribability Adele Kudish, Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY)
- “J.G. Ballard’s Seductive Villains and the Labor of Narrative Resistance” Stanka Radovic, University of Toronto
- Narration and Nothingness Toral Gajarawala, New York University
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The Role of Arabic in Comparative Literature

Organizer: Allison Kanner-Botan, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 523B

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Crafting the Madman: Majnūn’s Persona in Early Arabic adab Allison Kanner-Botan, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
- Iḥsān as a Decolonial Ethos in the Arab-Islamic Intellectual Tradition Jad Kiadan, Stanford University
- Comparison and Comparativity in Ḥadith ‘Īsa ibn Hishām Elizabeth Benninger, New York University
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The Weird Beyond Weird Fiction: Weirding as Critical Heuristic

Organizer: Robert Baskin, Boston College

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 520A

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Weird Marketing: Jade Song's Chlorine and the Problem of Categorisation Abigail Mills, Loughborough University
- The Emergence of Weird Fiction as a Weirding of the Canon Soenke Parpart, Brown University
- Weird Genealogies: Inherited Monstrosity in Persian Epic and Lovecraft Robert Ames
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The World of World Literatures: Practices, Pedagogies, and Possibilities

Organizers: Dr. Mir Islam, Nalanda University, India; Arunav Das, University of South Carolina

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 516A

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Queering Devotion: Bhakti, Gender Fluidity, and Resistance in Bengal Amrita Ghosh
- Migration, Circulation, and Pedagogy: Rethinking World Literatures through Diasporic Narratives Ankit Jaiswal, Chaudhary Charan Singh(CCS) University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India
- White Horse Inn: A Poem and Soundscape K.J. Carlson, Yale University
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Theorizing the Nonfiction Distinction

Organizer: Dana Glaser, University of Chicago

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 521B

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- “The Truth Is…”: Feminist Non-Fictional Filmmaking and the Real Shilyh Warren, The University of Texas at Dallas
- Fictionality as Insurance: Genre-Blurring in Fan Fiction as an Agent of Authenticity Danielle Wohl, University of Toronto
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Translating, Publishing, and Teaching: Canadian Literature as World Literature

Organizers: Nefise Kahraman; Hande Gürses, Capilano University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 516E

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Alternative Flavors: Culinary Writing and Citizenship Transformation in Mãn Lu Yu, Nanjing Normal University
- Building a Community: The Book Club Culture and the Role of Translated Literature M. Sevgi Sen
- Imagining the World: Ecocritical Approaches to World Literature in Canadian Classrooms Hande Gürses, Capilano University
- Margins that Matter: Independent Small Presses, Translation, and Cultural Diversity in Canada Nefise Kahraman
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Translationscapes of Southeast Asia: Rethinking Translation as Regional Method across Text, Voice, and Media

Organizers: Camellia Pham, Harvard University; Yen Vu, Fulbright University Vietnam

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 510B

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Facts of Life, Time for Writing: Translating the Modern Subject in Myanmar MK Long, Dartmouth College
- Rerouting the Border War: Transpacific Publication and Translation of Nguyễn Bình Phương’s Mình và họ Lillian Ngan, University of Southern California
- From Le Boujoum to Thái Huyền, self-translation in the Vietnamese Francophone context Yen Vu, Fulbright University Vietnam
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Ways of Reading Racialized Ecologies 2

Organizers: Cheryl Lousley, Lakehead University; Zishad Lak, Trent University

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 519A

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Frack and Forage: Palestinian Feminist Film Practices in a Fraught Landscape Sherena Razek, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
- The Ocean, Trauma, and Postcolonial Reconstruction in Namwali Serpell’s Novels Jinmei Tian, Ocean University of China
- Wild Race: Lawless Bodies of Empire Zeenat Zeenat, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
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Why Work? Compulsion, Coercion, and Narratives of Labor

Organizers: Thomas Adams, University of South Alabama; Jana Tschurenev, Freie Universität Berlin (Free University of Berlin)

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 4:00 PM EST - 5:45 PM EST

Location: 510C

Stream: Stream D (4:00 PM - 5:45 PM)
- Working toward a known world: Risk, uncertainty and unfree labor Eric Allina, University of Ottawa
- The work of African women artisanal miners: On coercion, freedom, and representation Blair Rutherford, Carleton University
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5:45 PM EDT - 6:45 PM EDT

ICLA Gender Studies Research Committee Business Meeting

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 5:45 PM EST - 6:45 PM EST

Location: 448

Stream: 5:45 PM - 6:45 PM

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6:00 PM EDT - 7:45 PM EDT

Presidential Plenary Panel: "Precarious Civilities"

Day: Saturday, February 28, 2026

Time: 6:00 PM EST - 7:45 PM EST

Location: 524

Stream: 6:00 PM - 7:45 PM

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SUNDAY March 1st

8:30 AM EDT - 10:15 AM EDT

A New Existentialism

Organizers: Colin Jager, Rutgers University; Yi-Ping Ong, Johns Hopkins University

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 510A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Identity as Destiny: Fanon & Beauvoir Nasrin Olla, University of Virginia
- Complicity and the New Existentialism Rachel Greenwald Smith, Saint Louis University
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A[sian] I[ntelligence]: Asian-inflected issues pertaining to the imagination and implementation of generative AI

Organizers: Carlos Rojas, Duke University; Eileen Chengyin Chow, Duke University School of Law

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 514A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Accented AI Labor across Borderlands: Epistemic Erasure and Algorithmic Futurism in Southwest China Wenxian Zhang, University of Southern California
- Virtuality in AI and Literature Alexa Alice Joubin, George Washington University
- Deprovincializing the Chatbot: DeepSeek and the Cultural Politics of AI Creativity Richard So, Duke University
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Aftermaths of the 19th Century

Organizers: Emily Drumsta, The University of Texas at Austin; Tristram Wolff, Northwestern University

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 511F

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Shadow Celebrity: An Introduction Omar Miranda, University of San Francisco
- The Monstrous Intimacies of Imperial Gothicism Agam Balooni, Northwestern University
- Black Wretches and White Robots in 1970s Prison Writing Johannah King-Slutzky
- A Low for the Heights: Racial Myopia in Emma Rice's Wuthering Heights (2021) Emma Adler, Harvard University
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Alternative Imaginaries of Transport

Organizer: Arnaud REGNAULD, Université Paris 8

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 513C

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Bodies in Transit: Negotiating Systems and Reboots in Never Let Me Go and Zone One Gwen Le Cor, Université Paris 8 - Vincennes-Saint-Denis
- Arrested Movement and Passages of Memory in Christian Petzold’s Transit Michael McGillen, Dartmouth College
- « Holodecks and holosuites in Star Trek : transport without movement. » Hélène Machinal, Université Rennes 2
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Anti-Authoritarian Aesthetics: Frontline Art and Performance in the Age of Autocracy

Organizers: Keren Zaiontz, University of British Columbia; Alessandra Santos, The University of British Columbia

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 514B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Against the Biometric, For Refugee Aesthetics and Representation Jennifer Gully, College of William and Mary Lynn Mie Itagaki, Claremont McKenna College
- Wet Witches and Rewilded Biotech: Bastard Protocols for How to Grow a Homunculus (Badly) WhiteFeather Hunter, Simon Fraser University
- “Exilic Performances of Ukrainian Solitude in the Public Realm” Keren Zaiontz, University of British Columbia
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Anti-Capitalist Critique and the Fetish

Organizers: Madeleine Reddon, Loyola University Chicago; Jonah Gray, New York University (NYU)

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 510D

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- The anti-capitalist and decolonial power of Silko’s fetishes Sheila Giffen, Capilano University
- Adaptation as Method: Commodified Bodies in Beau Travail and Atlantics Deena Dinat, University of British Columbia
- Vernacular Fetishes of Evil: From Taussig’s Devil to Indian Subaltern Imaginaries Vibha Poriya, Maharaja Sayajirao University Of Baroda
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Archiving Socialisms: Material and Intellectual Legacies

Organizer: María Isabel Alfonso, St. Joseph's University

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 513F

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Archiving Socialisms at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, 1962: A Global Network Katya Lopatko, University of California Santa Barbara
- Impossible archives of transnational solidarity Michele Hardesty, Hampshire College
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Atemporality

Organizers: Jason Gladstone, University of Colorado Boulder; Michael Clune, Ohio State University

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 521C

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Detemporalization and Anonymity in Bernadette Mayer Griffin Shoglow-Rubenstein, Johns Hopkins University
- Getting All Time from No Time: Atemporality in Modernist Künstlerromans Charlie Ericson, Oberlin College
- On de Quincey and Baudelaire's Shame of the Present Elaine L. Wang, The University of Chicago
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Black Matter(s): Opacity, Relation, Representation

Organizers: Pragati Sharma, University of Toronto; Matthew Molinaro, University of Toronto

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 512B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- "Have You Eyes?": Representing Criminal Whiteness through Portraiture and Ekphrasis in The Tragedy of Hamlet Camille Lopez, The University of British Columbia
- Let Me Be Misunderstood: Opacity and Dissemblance in Gayl Jones' Eva's Man Angel Ogoemesim, Brown University
- The Alibi of Looking: Performance in Saidiya Hartman’s _Scenes of Subjection_ Santiago Pierre-Neptune, Emory University
- The Matter and Metaphor of Black Life Pragati Sharma, University of Toronto
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Brazil Inside Out: Tensions between Cultural Singularity and Conceptual Translatability

Organizers: Alfredo Melo, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP); Anita Moraes, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF)

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 525B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)

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Can Dialectics Make Bricks?

Organizers: Thomas Pringle, University of Southern California; Mal Ahern, University of Washington

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 520B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- "Workers Want to Learn": Real Subsumption and Technical Knowledge Mal Ahern, University of Washington
- Simondon After Best: Figures of Collective and Psychical Individuation in Capital Vol. 3 Jason Han, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Communism From the Garbage Hills: On Technology and Ecological Struggle Burc Kostem
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Chronotopes of Extinction

Organizers: Timothy Bewes, Brown University; Antoine Traisnel, University of Oxford

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 511D

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Climate Counterfactuals Jean-Thomas Tremblay, York University
- On Nietzsche’s Fable of Extinction Joshua Schuster, Western University
- Archive, Extinction, Apocalypse adam rosenthal, Texas A&M University
- Ecological Return: Species Reintroductions and Reparative Justice Tobias Menely, University of California Davis (UC Davis)
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Close Reading and Comparative Literature: Histories, Debates, and New Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century (A CLS Forum)

Organizers: Magalí Armillas-Tiseyra, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State); Jonathan E. Abel, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 520F

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Spaces of non-equivalence: on multi-lingual close reading Soelve Curdts, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
- Comparison as Disposition Rose Casey, West Virginia University
- The Ethnographer and the Close Reader Ashley Brock, University of Pennsylvania
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Comedy Now

Organizers: Huw Marsh, Queen Mary University of London; Andrew Dean, University College London

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 512C

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Fascist Clowning Daniel Lukes, University of Ottawa
- We All Go a Little Mad Sometimes: Charting the Turn Towards Madness in Contemporary Male-Led Comedy Films Tamar Hanstke, University of Toronto
- The Dada-Meme: Reanimating Humor in the Digital Age Michael Wagner, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
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Contemporary East Asian Poetics: Technology, Ecology, and Intermedial Fluidity

Organizers: Liu Xiaoyu, Xiamen University; Xuemeng Zhang, SOAS University of London; Shu, Hazel Chen; Huiwen SHI, Hong Kong Polytechnic University (SPEED)

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 518B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Chinese "Citywalk" in the Global New Media: A Neo-Modernist Poetics of Digital Urban Ecologies Zhongzhi Chen, The University of Chicago
- Why Do We Celebrate Nonsensical Gibberish? A Comparative Study of Chinese Internet “Chouxiang Culture” and Italian Brainrot Xuemeng Zhang, SOAS University of London
- Technology-Ecologies of Management: Negotiating the Occupational Turn in Contemporary Chinese Labor and Industrial Poetics Casey Tilley, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
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Cosmologies of Care: Relationality, Environmental Justice, and Cosmovisions

Organizers: Hsinya Huang, National Sun Yat-sen University; Chia-hua Lin, National Sun Yat-sen University

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 512H

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- "This is how the world change(s)": the Ecocritical Pedagogy of Black Feminist Fantasy Shannon Potter, The University of Texas at Austin
- Mourning the Future: Ecological Inevitability, Fungal Ontology, and Eco-Feminist Grief in The Last of Us (TV Series) Adarsh singh chauhan, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology, Nagpur
- Migrant Mobile Commons, and Rethinking Environmentalism: What Undocumented Central Americans Teach Us about Sustainability Aimee Trivino, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
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Cross-Border Indigenous Representation: tense and conflicting paths of "visibility”

Organizers: Roberto Viereck Salinas, Concordia University, Montreal; Liz Ann Young, Binghamton University (The State University of New York); Grace Miller, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 513D

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Mokõi Tekoa Peteī Jeguata (2008): The Cinematics of Land Dispossession Sofía Fernández, Yale
- Desplazamientos y migraciones indígenas en el cine latinoamericano Gaston Lillo, University of Ottawa
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Cultural Legacies of Slavery in Modern Spain and the Global Hispanophone World

Organizers: Aurélie Vialette, Yale University; Akiko Tsuchiya, Washington University in St. Louis

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 448

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Sub-Saharan Indocumentados in Spain or Migrant Nu? Literary Fantasy as a Decolonial Archive of The Iberians' Slave-owning Past Jeanne Rosine Abomo Edou, Washington University in St. Louis
- Migrant Women from Africa and Challenging the Legacies of Colonialism in 20th Century Spain: Remei Sipi Mayo Silvia Bermúdez, University of California Santa Barbara
- Legacies of Slavery and the Role of Art in Reparations: The Case of Idrissa Diallo Akiko Tsuchiya, Washington University in St. Louis
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Documents

Organizer: Scott Kushner, University of Rhode Island

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 512G

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Intimate Skin, Inked Desire: Japan’s Fetishist Modernism in “Tattooer” and Irezumi Preeshita Biswas, Texas Christian University
- Zhang Hongzhao and the Documentation of the Dragon Fossil (1915-1919) Joy Zhu, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
- Facial recognition: Body as Document Deepak Prince, IIIT-Delhi
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Going Beyond the Literary III : Methods for Caribbean Interdisciplinarity

Organizers: Jeannine Murray-Román, Florida State University; Kavita Singh, University of Houston

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 516C

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Political Discourse and Literary Diplomacy: Methods for Reading Anglophone Caribbean-Cuban Relations in the 1970s Amanda Perry, Champlain College – Saint-Lambert
- The figure of Caliban as a framing for Caribbean comparative perspectives Andreu Gesti Franquesa, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
- Caribbean Literary Bricolage Kavita Singh, University of Houston
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Infrastructure Between World-Making and Nation-Building

Organizers: James Daniel Elam, The University of Hong Kong ; Michael Allan, University of Oregon

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 515B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Arrested Development: Railway Infrastructures and Coming of Age Fictions in Hindi Cinema Preeti Singh, Duke University
- Arts of Darkness: Contemporary South African Photography and Infrastructural Collapse Anna Stielau, Ontario College of Art and Design University
- Railroads to Nowhere: Infrastructure and Speculative World-Making in Nineteenth-Century Latin America VALERIA SEMINARIO, University of Pennsylvania
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Life writing at the end of the world: evolving genres of the Self

Organizers: Terri Tomsky, University of Alberta; Emily Johansen, Texas A&M University

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 511A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Feminist vs “Female” Texts: Michelle Tea’s Black Wave and Doireann ní Ghríofa’s Ghost in the Throat Mary Holland, SUNY New Paltz
- Autofiction as Transfixion: Remaking Reality in Aurora Mattia's The Fifth Wound and Chris Bergeron's Valid Eamon Schlotterback, Northeastern University
- Autofiction and the Task of Representing Immaterial Labor Emily Johansen, Texas A&M University
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Literary Criticism as Composition: Montage, Genre, and the Art of World-Making

Organizer: Thomas Symeonidis, Athens School of Fine Arts

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 521B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Compositional Criticism: Beckett and the Architectures of Sentiment Thomas Symeonidis, Athens School of Fine Arts
- Romantic irony: beyond modalities of figuration Miklos Gaál, University of the Arts Helsinki / Fine Arts Academy
- Rearranging Shields Paul Woolridge, Qatar University
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Literary Ethnography

Organizer: Cheng-Chai Chiang, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 513E

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Death of the Author, LLMs, and a Problem of Radical Translation Jennifer Y Pan, Syracuse University
- Money-ish: Scrip and the Politics of Payment Shirl Yang, New York University
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Literary Nonfiction on Health and Medicine

Organizer: Mileta Roe, Simon's Rock at Bard College

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 515C

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- The Interpreter of Maladies: Rachel Aviv Reporting on Mental Illness Isabelle Meuret, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
- Vital Signs and Desires: Cancer-stricken Body in Barbara Hammer’s Late Films Merve Sen, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
- Gendered Embodiments, Multimodal Life-Writing, and the Collective Fight for Health Justice in and beyond the 2020s Sarah Brophy, McMaster University
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Literary Translation and its Institutions

Organizers: Anna Muenchrath, Florida Institute of Technology; Matthew Eatough, Baruch College, CUNY

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 510B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Translated Literature and Contemporary Irish Publishing Tim Groenland, University College Dublin
- The NGO-ification of Translation Matthew Eatough, Baruch College, CUNY
- Translating Translation Data on Amazon Anna Muenchrath, Florida Institute of Technology
- Fervent and Utopian: The Scale of Publishing Literary Translations at an Independent Press Rebekah Smith, N/A
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Marxism and the Lyric

Organizer: George Kovalenko, New York University (NYU)

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 510C

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- On “Radical Openness”: Cecilia Vicuña’s Lyric of the Disappeared Stephen Ellis, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
- Singing an Honorable Caste: Form and Ideology in Reformist Bhajans from Colonial India (1910-30) Sthira Bhattacharya, The University of Chicago
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On A (Not-So) Global Scale: Dissecting the Spatio-Temporal Complexities of Slow Violence

Organizers: Jordan Grunawalt, Illinois State University; Asmita Saha, Illinois State University

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 511C

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- A Creosote Parable: Reflections on the Slow Violence of a Wood Preservative Aaron Ambroso, Western University
- Radioactive Realities: Dissecting an Eco-Crip (for the Time Being) Jordan Grunawalt, Illinois State University
- Runa Pacha Sapi: Slow Violence, Territory and Culture in the Kichwa Cinema of RUPAI Peter Baker, University of Stirling
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Palestinian American Literature and its Others

Organizers: Benjamin Schreier; Danielle Haque, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 512F

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Fractured Genres: Repair Work in the Form of Vocabulary for the Reverberations of Catastrophe Helen Makhdoumian, Vanderbilt University
- The Coerced Imagination: Orientalism and Self-Critique Nouri Gana, UCLA
- Imperial Diaspora: Gender, Childhood, and Empire in "Palestinian-American" fiction Sreeparna Das, University of Cincinnati
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Performativity and the Performed: Voice, Ritual, and Representation in Arabic Literature and Culture

Organizer: Ali Alnahhabi, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University - IMSIU

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 523B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Performing Continuity: Oral Repertoire and the Reproduction of Social Life in Palestinian Wedding Ritual Mariam Abdelrahman, The University of Chicago
- Saudi Folktale: Between Oral Narrative and the Construction of Cultural Identity Rasmyah alaybani, Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University - IMSIU
- “The Camel is the Beloved of the Rider”: Performativity, Orality, and Bedouin Identity in the Saudi film Hajjan Maha Alatawi, Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz university
- Staging Power: Gender, Class, and Environment in Contemporary Arabic Texts Samaher Aldhamen, King Saud University
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Poetry and the Choreography of the Body

Organizers: Elizabeth Fowler, University of Virginia; Carmen Faye Mathes, McGill University

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 511B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Palms that Receive, Palms that Speak: on Gestural Poetics in José Ángel Valente and Hugo Mujica Celia Carrasco Gil, Western University
- The Immigrant’s Squat: Postural poetics of schizophrenia in Bhanu Kapil’s Schizophrene Sreemoyee Bhattacharyya, Brandeis University
- Faces and Facing: ‘Elelegy’ and Lyric Fragmentation Tara M. Holman, Hamilton College
- Sightlines: The Reader’s Body and The Image Elizabeth Fowler, University of Virginia
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Post-Millennial Speculative Fiction from the Global South

Organizers: Amit Baishya, University of Oklahoma; Hanan Jasim Khammas, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 520C

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Anxieties of a Bodily Kind: Post-COVID Science Fiction from India Suparno Banerjee, Texas State University
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Prompting Comparison: Technological Horizons of Poetics Today

Organizers: Moira Weigel, Harvard University; Anne Dymek, Harvard University

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 522AB

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Latin American AI Literary Vernacular? Claire Solomon
- Reading Tin Moe’s “Great Guest” with Burmese LLMs Rachel Wong
- When AI Becomes a Comparative Reader: Jin Ping Mei Across Languages Junjie Luo, Gettysburg College
- Separating LLM Discursive Reproduction from Exegetical Capability in Chinese Poetics Daniel Fried, University of Alberta
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Racial Formlessness: Multiethnic Fiction after the Method Wars

Organizers: Henry Ivry, University of Glasgow; Timothy Lem-Smith, Saint Michael's College

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 520A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Miniature Objects, Miniaturized Lives: Affective and Aesthetic Labor under Neoliberal Precarity Stephanie Ng, School of Advanced Study, University of London
- Minimalist Form(lessness) Connor Bennett, University of Toronto
- "Tell all the truth but tell it slant": Pessimistic Futures in Contemporary Indigenous Narratives James Donahue
- The Non-sense of an Ending Rebecca Ballard, Florida State University
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Reel/Repeat/Rupture: Digital Selves, Algorithms, and the Infrastructures of Online Community

Organizer: Manvendra Singh Thakur, Université de Montréal (University of Montreal)

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 515A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Affective Reframing and Subcultural Solidarity: Archive of Our Own (AO3) in China Ye Jiang
- The immagined communities of political satirical television Olivera Tesnohlidkova, Institute of Czech Literature of the CAS
- Instinct and Intimacy at the Borderlands of Imagination: How Saltation by momora Engages Colonial Tropes through Omegaverse Ann Alex, University of Maryland, College Park
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Renegotiating Ethics in Literature and Film

Organizer: Chia-Chieh Mavis Tseng, Taipei Medical University

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 520E

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- DEATHBOUND EASE Damilare Bello, Duke University
- Narrativizing Ethics of Forgiveness in Alice Walker's Meridian Jein Kim, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
- Thorns of Complicity and Reparative Justice: The Vexed Ethics of Homecoming and a Black Male Subject’s Phenomenological Bildungsroman in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace Choa Choi, Brown University
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Representing Aging: Literature, Film, and the Demographic Shift

Organizer: Stefano Rossoni, University College London

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 520D

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Aging in Amharic and Tigrigna Proverbs Tesfaye Mesele Zinabu, Mekelle University
- "Death and the Gardener": the process of aging as a collective image of all ages Emanuela Tchitchova, New Bulgarian University
- Documenting aging and ailing: Sunada Asami’s Ending Note (2011) Miyo Inoue
- Portrait of an Artist as an Old Woman in For Your Peace of Mind, Make Your Own Museum (Pilar Moreno & Ana Endara, 2021) Aarón Lacayo, Gettysburg College
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Reproducing Motherhood: Between the Poles of Natality and Maternity

Organizers: Zhuoran Deng, University of Toronto; Rachel Shields, N/A

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 523A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)

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The Beauty of Killing Fascism

Organizer: Lupina Farhana, University of California Riverside (UC Riverside)

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 516A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Dramaturgies of Aporia: Pause, Hesitation, and Civic Judgment on the National Stage John Bessai, Independent Scholar
- Fascism, Mimesis, and Theatricalized Mass Media: Karl Kraus and Elfriede Jelinek Ryan Hacek, Indiana University Bloomington
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The Comparison of African Literature

Organizers: Duncan Yoon, New York University (NYU); Kirk Sides, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 513B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Comparative Animisms: Ecology and Cosmology in Gabriel Okara’s and Christopher Okigbo’s Poetry Ryan Topper, Western Oregon University
- “fallen halfway across the planet”: Tolu Oloruntoba’s Planetary Poetics Nathan Suhr-Sytsma, Emory University
- DEGRADING THE FEMALE, REWRITING IDENTITIES, RE-READING HISTORIES: A CASE STUDY OF TIERNO MONENEMBO’S THE LIVES AND DEATHS OF VÉRONIQUE BANGOURA. Jean Hugues BITA'A MENYE, University of Arkansas
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The Difference Accent Makes

Organizers: Pavitra Sundar, Hamilton College; Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Rice University

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 511E

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Reading with an Accent, Writing without AI Ragini Tharoor Srinivasan, Rice University
- The Terrorist’s Accent: Sonic Racialization and the Phenomenology of the Iranian Diaspora in Keshavarz’s The Persian Version Azra Ghandeharion, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad
- Listening to the Cultural Acoustics of Accented Difference Tanvi Solanki, Underwood International College, Yonsei University
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The Future is Past: Rethinking Dystopia in Contemporary Film and Literature

Organizers: Elif Sendur, Rutgers University; Allison Mackey, Universidad de la República (Uruguay)

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 522C

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- The End of the Anthropocene in Yoko Tawada’s The Emissary Myles Chilton, Nihon University
- “Bad Time 1st and bad times after”: History as Myth in Riddley Walker Kirsten Bussière, University of Ottawa
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The Knowledge of Art: Aesthetics and Epistemology

Organizers: Robert Lehman, Boston College; Jess Keiser, Tufts University

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 516B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- The Affected Fallacy Joshua Gang, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- Epistemology or Pathos: The Emotional Life of Art Between Walter Pater and Aby Warburg Jonah Siegel, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
- The Experience of Meaning in Stanley Cavell's "Music Discomposed" Samara Michaelson
- Knowing Possibilities By Knowing Jane Austen Samantha Matherne, Harvard University
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The Long 1990s: Queer Theory in the Archive

Organizers: Heather Love, University of Pennsylvania; Robyn Wiegman, Duke University

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 513A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Trapped in Our Own Theory: Trans(gender) Studies and the Disavowal of Origins Joshua Falek, Duke University
- Invisibility and Investment: Logics of the Lost Trans Object from the 1990’s to the Present Nora Fulton
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The Manifesto and Postcolonial Thought

Organizers: Yogita Goyal, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA); Peter Kalliney, University of Kentucky

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 519B

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Postcolonial Futures and the Battle for Meaning: Reimagining the Manifesto between Literature and Protest from Jakarta to Cairo Annette Lienau, Harvard University
- Film as Manifesto, Manifesto as Film: The Politics of an Emergent Genre in the Global Sixties and Cultural Cold War in South Asia Moinak Banerjee, McGill University
- From One World to Three: Rethinking the Third World Asha Nadkarni, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Transgender Storytelling: Accounts of Oppositional Being and Becoming

Organizers: Clarke Crockett, Florida State University; Ezekiel Greenwood, Florida State University

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 512D

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Mise-en-Partage: The Being of Sharing in Something you Said Last Night Roshaya Rodness, University of Toronto
- Planetary Transition in Dysphoria Mundi and Beyond Ezekiel Greenwood, Florida State University
- The Myth of Passing: Transvestigation in Coralie Fargeat’s Reality+ and The Substance Liam Kusmierek, University of Rochester
- "The changes would be so erotic to me:" Desire in Narratives of Medical Transition Teddy Shusterman, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
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Translating beyond humans: translation as an ecological encounter between humans and non-humans

Organizers: Edith Adams, Bowdoin College; Hongyang Ji, University of Alberta

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 512E

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Deafness as Hetero-Affection: David Bergelson and Translational Self Nobuto Sato, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Translation as a Troubling Transformation: Empathy for Kafka’s Gregor Across Iterations and Languages Sophia Lencioni, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
- More-than-Human Songs in the Garden of 'Nightingales': The Kashmiri Rishinamas an an Islamic Ecopoetics Peter Dziedzic, Harvard University
- Feminist Framings for Eco-Translation Carolyn Shread, Mount Holyoke College
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Unresolved Feeling, Fragments of Belonging: Emotion Across Text and Screen

Organizer: Bora Kang, SUNY Binghamton

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 525A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- "A Deep Purple Feeling": Queer Affect in Ocean Vuong's On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous Chet Lisiecki, Colorado College
- Unresolved Rhythms of Racial Melancholia: Repression and Repetition in Gregg Araki’s The Doom Generation Xinting Chen, Duke University
- Streaming Heritage and the Circulation of Feeling Bora Kang, SUNY Binghamton
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Uses and Abuses of History in Literary Narratives

Organizers: Ishan Mehandru, Northwestern University; Nisarg Patel, University of Southern California

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 519A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Histories and Hagiographies of the Norman Conquest Ella Jando-Saul, McGill University
- The Leakiness of History: Figuring the Effaced Victim of Catastrophe Ishanika Sharma, University of North Texas
- History’s Spectacular Doubles: Haunting and Misuse in Cinematic Fantasy Shiv Datt Sharma, Emory University
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Versatile Bodies in Global Asia

Organizers: Yucong Hao, Vanderbilt University; Yihui Sheng, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 516D

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Performing Emotion: Body, Mirror and Illusion in Further Adventures on the Journey to the West (Xiyou bu 西游補) Yaxuan Zhu, University of Southern California
- Plastic, Cartoon, Flesh: The Nonfiction Manga Body JS Wu, University of Pittsburgh
- “Becoming a tree”: Dramatizing the disabled body in nature and the nature of the disabled body in Our Unwritten Seoul Sheetal Majithia, The Juilliard School
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Visible and Invisible Wounds: Trauma and Representation in Global South Diasporic Literature

Organizer: Abhik Banerjee, Georgia State University

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 516E

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Psychological Hybridity: Madness, Trauma, and Postcolonial Subjectivity in T.J. Benson’s The Madhouse Julie Williams, University of Sheffield
- Family Dynamics and Humor as Tools of Resisting Erasures of the Sri Lankan Tamil Identity in Shankari Chandran's Song of the Sun God Bhawana Pillai, Texas Tech University
- A Psychopathological Assessment of the Trauma Behind the Parsi Zoroastrian Diasporic Subjectivity in Rohinton Mistry’s Fiction Abhik Banerjee, Georgia State University
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W(h)ither Identity?: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Unselving

Organizers: Suchismito Khatua, Stanford University; Jenny Andrine Madsen Evang, Universiteit Utrecht (Utrecht University)

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 514C

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- Identity Papers: On Infrastructures of Becoming Sayan Bhattacharya, University of Maryland, College Park
- Vital Plastic: Thinking with the Duppies of Milk White Steed Tony Wei Ling, UCLA
- The Self That Remains: Alzheimer’s and the Reimagining of Personhood in Gospodinov’s Time Shelter Debashrita Dey, Indian Institute of Technology Dhanbad
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Why Work? Compulsion, Coercion, and Narratives of Labor

Organizers: Thomas Adams, University of South Alabama; Jana Tschurenev, Freie Universität Berlin (Free University of Berlin)

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 518C

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- From Being Wanted to Work to Wanting To Work: China's Forced Labor System and Manufacturing the Desire to Work Laura Murphy, Harvard University
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World Cinema in Theory

Organizer: Sarah Hamblin, University of Massachusetts Boston

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 8:30 AM EST - 10:15 AM EST

Location: 518A

Stream: Stream A (8:30 AM - 10:15 AM)
- World Cinema as Revolution Sarah Hamblin, University of Massachusetts Boston
- World Cinema as Infrastructure Elena Razlogova, Concordia University, Montreal
- World Cinema as Confrontation Mazyar Mahan, The University of Texas at Dallas
- World Cinema as Solidarity Jose Miguel Palacios, California State University, Long Beach
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10:30 AM EDT - 12:15 PM EDT

Alphabets and AI

Organizers: Christopher Jimenez, Stetson University; Katia Schwerzmann, Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Ruhr-University Bochum)

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 514A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Regexes, Strings, and Other Postprocessing Things: Language Ideology in Text Normalization Practices Travis Bartley, CUNY Graduate Center
- Tuning Curves: A neuroqueer exponential heuristic for un-understanding interpersonal hermeneutics Sean Yeager, Kenyon College
- Finding Common Ground: Interdisciplinary Dialogue as 'Translation' Jana Hecktor, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (University of Tübingen) Lisa Koeritz, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen (University of Tübingen)
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Anti-Socially Necessary Labour Time

Organizers: Rob Jackson, University of Wyoming; Anisha Sankar, York University

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 518C

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Socially Non-Necessary Labor-Time: Angela Davis and the Invaluable Ingrid Diran, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Sinners and Liberal Negation Shama Rangwala, York University
- Figures of Negation Brent Bellamy, Trent University
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Asia, the Middle East, and the Caribbean

Organizers: XU PENG, University of Connecticut; Peiyu Yang, George Mason University

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 516C

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- On Asian Caribbeanist Critique XU PENG, University of Connecticut
- Seeking Ties in Ambivalent Encounters: Chineseness in Selvon’s A Brighter Sun and V.S. Naipaul’s Guerrillas Kyungjin Jung, Washington University in St. Louis
- The Unhomed Search for Home: The Chinese Creole in Michelle Jana Chan’s Song Scott Ting-A-Kee, University of Guyana
- Between the Old and the New Cuba: A Testimonial Writing Haiqing Sun, Texas Southern University
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Bodies under Test

Organizers: Ana Ugarte Fernandez, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA); Ana Maria Pozo, Agnes Scott College

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 515C

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Must Her Grief Look Innocent to Be Seen?: Grievability of AIDS Deaths and Visibility of Adolescent Grief in Alice Hoffman’s At Risk and Carol Rifka Brunt’s Tell the Wolves I’m Home Haizhi Wu, University College London
- Beyond the Body: Dismembered and Augmented Corporeality in Andrea Chapela’s Ansibles, perfiladores, y otras máquinas de ingenio (2020) Ana Maria Pozo, Agnes Scott College
- Wounded from within: The Biology of Trauma in Yesika Salgado and Rigoberto González's Life Writing Aitor Bouso Gavin, Harvard University
- Archives of the Occult: Verifying (In)Corporeality in Puerto Rican Fiction Ana Ugarte Fernandez, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
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Capitalist Realism's Worlds

Organizer: Darwin Tsen, Syracuse University

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 523B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Literary Representations of Chronic Illnesses as New Forms of Capitalist Realism Victoria Lupascu, Université de Montréal (University of Montreal)
- At a Loss for Words: Illustrating Political Writers’ Wordlessness in Times of Social Struggles Chloé Leclerc-Gareau, Université de Montréal (University of Montreal)
- Gentle, Pessimistic, Tender Darwin Tsen, Syracuse University
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Categorical Criticism

Organizers: Michael Dango, Rice University; Dora Zhang, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 521B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- The Poetic Curation of “Asian American” Michael Dango, Rice University
- Reading Romance in the Capitol Patricia Stuelke, Dartmouth College
- “Categorical Pork Waves, or, The Age of the Imp (2019-2023) After the Age of ‘The Age of’” David Hobbs, University of Lethbridge
- Obviousness and Judgment Violet Spurlock, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
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Chronic Catastrophes and Precious Species

Organizers: Isabel Lane, Harvard University; Jennie Snow, Montclair State University

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 511C

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Captive Labor and the State in 21st Century US Agriculture Tristan Call, Southern Crossroads
- Where Life is Not Precious: The Paradoxes of Prison Education Chiara Benetollo, The Petey Greene Program
- Algal Aesthetics: Negotiating Extraction, Toxicity, and Precarity in Latin American and Middle Eastern Contemporary Visual Culture Alexia Bozas, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
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Complaint, Queerness, and Killjoys: Engaging Sara Ahmed’s Theory

Organizers: Dîlan Canan Çakir, University of Cambridge; Alrik Daldrup

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 514C

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)

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Complex Relationalities, Encounters, and Solidarities in Settler Colonial Contexts

Organizers: Bruno Cornellier, University of Winnipeg; Dallas Hunt, University of British Columbia

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 513D

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- “A deep, narrow chasm”: Settler colonial relation and appropriation in Jordan Abel’s Empty Spaces Brennan McCracken, Concordia University
- Settler Fantasies, Genre, and Artificial Intelligence in "Westworld" Kester Dyer, Carleton University
- Intercultural Encounters on Native Land: The Case of Contemporary Quebec Cinema Bruno Cornellier, University of Winnipeg
- The Relational Work of Inscription Tavleen Purewal, University of New Brunswick
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CONSPIRACISM

Organizers: Sarah Brouillette, Carleton University; Lee Konstantinou, University of Maryland, College Park

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 520A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Transvestigation and The Mediations of the Transgender V Lundquist, Rice University
- Performing Deep State Resistance: Conspiracism and the Alt-Right’s Narrative of Betrayal Alexander Lowie, University of Florida
- Who built the food pyramid? Kyle Kubler, McGill University
- Embodied Horror: Transvestigation and the Gender Reveal Plot Jo Giardini, Allegheny College
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Documenting Damage: Zones of Human and Environmental Violence

Organizers: Hannah Cole, University of California Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz); Pierre-Elliot Caswell, University of Notre Dame; Shabana Sayeed; Shahab Nadimi

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 512H

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Unseen Clouds: Modernity and Invisibility in Marc Ferrez’s Skyscapes Paulo Lorca, University of Notre Dame
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Doppelgänger, Mirror Worlds, Twins, and Doubles

Organizers: James Martell, Lyon College; James Martel, San Francisco State University

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 522C

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Through the Ai’s Looking Glass: Machinic Imagoes and Uncanny Reflections Maddalena Cerrato, Texas A&M University
- Don’t Follow Me, Please Follow Me: On the Double-Edged Desire of Contemporary Subjectivity Eyal Bassan, University of Haifa
- Philosophy’s Lookalike: Notes on the Clone in Non-Philosophy Jonathan Fardy
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Environmental (In)Justice in African Literatures & Popular Culture

Organizers: Rebecca Saunders, Illinois State University; Paul Ugor, University of Waterloo

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 513B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Journalism, Activism, and Environmental Justice Sule Egya
- Who Dey Eat? OR Good for Food or Something Else or Nothing: Towards An-Other Utilitist Orientation To Gender and Garden in Environmentalism and Eco-Feminism. Sheilla A. Nelson, Illinois State University
- The Rough Aesthetics of Extraction: Literature in the Mode of Imperfect Media Ozzy Ejechi, Texas A&M University
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Fictions of the Future in Palestine and SWANA: A Critical Reconsideration

Organizers: Shir Alon, University of Minnesota Twin Cities; Liron Mor, UC Irvine

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 512F

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Desert Futures and Speculative Labor Shir Alon, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
- Fire, Acid, and Palm Trees: The Role of Ecofeminist Theology in Arabfuturism Danah Alfailakawi, University of California Irvine (UC Irvine)
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Historicizing and Reframing Media Dispositives

Organizers: Dominique Jullien, UCSB; Peter Bloom, University of California Santa Barbara

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 520F

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Peep Media, Dispositifs, and Cross-Cultural Communication Erkki Huhtamo
- The social media dispositif in Yellowface (2023) Benjamin Goh, National University of Singapore
- Scanning the Frequencies: The Ironic Occult in the Work of Paul DeMarinis Mark Bartlett, Independent Scholar
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Imitations–of Life

Organizers: Jonathan Basile, University of Toronto; Eric Reynolds, Emory University

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 515A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Mimesis Meta Physics Eric Reynolds, Emory University
- Chemistry, Biology and Figural Mediation: Early Experiments in Synthetic Biological Staining Nicole Liao, University of Toronto
- Toward a Critique of the Uterine Imaginary Elizabeth Berman, Brown University
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Infrastructure, Security, Sabotage

Organizers: Marc Kohlbry, University of Pennsylvania; Devin Daniels, Bryn Mawr College

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 515B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Choreographing Alternatives: Infrastructure, Rhythm, and Resistance in Ema Sam Carter, Dartmouth College
- Urban Struggle and Potentiality in Sophie Yanow's War of Streets and Houses Marisa Lewis, University of Ottawa
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Jameson, Allegory, and the Work of Art

Organizer: Oded Nir, Queens College, CUNY

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 516B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Reading to Live: From Symbolic Act to the Activity of Form Jensen Suther, Harvard University
- Allegory or Exemplification: The Warhol Machine and Automation Today Jose Arellano, United States Air Force Academy
- Fictionality contra Allegory Andrew Haas, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley) Naima Karczmar, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
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Led in a Word I Got There: 21st-Century Women’s Experimental Poetics

Organizers: Esther Sanchez-Pardo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM); Jeannine M. Pitas, Saint Vincent College

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 523A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Rom Freschi and the Rioplatense Neobarroque Jeannine M. Pitas, Saint Vincent College
- Experimental and “Cannibal”: Women’s Poetry from the Francophone Caribbean Elise Finielz
- Finding Each Pearl: Desire as Resistance in the Poetry of Chloé Savoie-Bernard Jennifer O'Connor, York University
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Lyric Thinking

Organizers: Andrew Franta, University of Utah; Daniel Stout, University of Mississippi

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 510D

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Translating Ghazal, Thinking Lyric Taymaz Pour Mohammad, Northwestern University
- The Ghazal and Global Lyric Thinking Manan Kapoor, Harvard University
- Realizing the Lyric Text Cristina Caracchini, Western University
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Marx’s Capital, Between System and Rhetoric

Organizers: Nathan Brown, Concordia University, Montreal; Paul North, Yale

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 510C

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Capital and the Genesis of Romantic Irony Nathan Brown, Concordia University, Montreal
- Marx’s Poetic Dimension of Labour and The German Aesthetic Tradition Liam Barer, University of Toronto
- The Work of Concepts: Pierre Macherey on Marx's 'Process of Exposition' in Capital I Michael Giesbrecht, Duquesne University
- “Society Isn’t a Hard Crystal”: Reading Capital after the U.S. Civil War Ryan Moore, San Francisco State University
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Mythological Patterns, Themes and Narratives in Modern Literature and Cinema

Organizers: Lily Li, Eastern Kentucky University; Kaby Wing-Sze Kung, Hong Kong Metropolitan University

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 518A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Casting Spells and Making Potions: Exploring the Post-Mythological Era in Miller’s Circe vasiliki kotini, Zayed University
- Inter-text and inter-time in Dung Kai-cheung’s The Young Shennong Yee kwan Wong, University of California Irvine (UC Irvine)
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Narrating Ethics Across Media: Storytelling, Moral Complexity, and the Shaping of Ethical Perception

Organizer: Francesca Medaglia, Sapienza – Università di Roma (Sapienza University of Rome)

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 514B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Video Game Mechanics: How Time Rewind Shapes Ethical Experiences During Play Rebecca de Heuvel, Concordia University, Montreal
- Of Twins and Foils: The Paradox of Painful Art Between Literature and video games Francesca De Agnoi, Università degli Studi di Milano (UNIMI - University of Milan)
- Playing with evil: Examining the narrative structure of the deliberate ‘evil playthrough’ in Baldur’s Gate 3 Hannah Puchelt, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck (University of Innsbruck)
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Non-Human Archives: (Hi)stories and How We Tell Them

Organizers: Abigail Fields, University of Kansas; Amber Bal, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 512G

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Archiving the Arctic: Making Multispecies Histories in Northern Lands Nicole Emanuel, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
- The Atlantic Ocean: Tales of a Toponym. Amber Bal, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- Visual Testimonies and Natural Archives Irene Rihuete Varea, Brown University
- Celluloid Archive and Geographies of Solitude (2023) Ennuri Jo, University of Pennsylvania
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Oceans, or Aquatics, as Critical Method

Organizer: Neelofer Qadir, Georgia State University

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 510A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Aqueous Logics: Towards a Hydro Feminist Approach to Hong Kong’s Futurisms Carissa Ma, Florida Atlantic University
- Staying Under: Asian American Imaginaries of the Transpacific Abyss Christine Xiong, Stanford University
- Hydroterrestrial Uncertainties: The Pacific Islands and Sea-Levels in Nineteenth-Century Imperial Imagination Soham Sinha, Syracuse University
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On (Not) Hating the State

Organizer: Rebecca Oh, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 513F

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Who’s Got the Kids? Feminist Writing and State Daycare. Christina Lupton, University of Pennsylvania
- "Pedagogic State"?: Cultural Institutions for Children in Postcolonial India (1940s to 1960s) Anju P Biju, University of Pennsylvania
- The Migrant Mother and the Fetus: Reproductive Politics in Nieh Hualing’s Mulberry and Peach and Mo Yan’s Frog Amanda Su, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
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Others and Selves: Exofiction, Autofiction, and the Fictions of Truth

Organizers: Lilla Balint, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley); Cornelia Ruhe, University of Mannheim

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 511A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Narrating mistrust. Class and origin in German-language autofictional texts Thomas Wortmann, University of Mannheim
- Portrait of a Mother Fabienne Steeger, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (University of Munich/LMU Munich)
- Shifting forms of fiction: Self and other in autosociobiographical writing in French and German Marieke Mueller, Manchester Metropolitan University
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Particularity, Nonnarrative, and Global Poetics: Critical Regions of Cultural Transmission

Organizers: Barrett Watten, Wayne State University; Lauri Scheyer, California State University, Los Angeles

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 522AB

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- “Umbra Latin/Soul and the Radical Particularities of Third World Internationalism” Jean-Philippe Marcoux, Université Laval (Laval University)
- Project Poetics and Late Capitalism David Lau, University of California Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz)
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Plasticity: Form, Matter, Method

Organizers: Lou Silhol-Macher, Brown University; Annie Felix, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 513A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Plasticity beyond Violence Kalpana Seshadri, Boston College
- Plasticity and Play in Mita Mahato's Poetry Comix Emmy Waldman, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)
- Visual Mobility and Volution: Orientalist Perception in Neo-Moorish Ornament and the Kaleidoscope in Mid-19th c. England Annie Felix, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
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Poetry and the State in the 1960s

Organizer: Stephen Ross, Concordia University, Montreal

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 511D

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Poetry and Dissidence in the Chilean Revolution: Enrique Lihn and Nicanor Parra Gonzalo Montero, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)
- John Sinclair’s Total Assault on the Culture Rebecca Kosick, University of Bristol
- "In the Graves of my Desk": On Avot Yeshurun's '30 Pages' Ariel Resnikoff, Litmus Press
- Kamau Brathwaite, Literary 'Material' and the Postcolonial State. Hector Macdonald, Concordia University, Montreal
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Polemos: The Art of Theory

Organizers: Sorin Cucu, CUNY Graduate Center; Dan Jacobson, Baruch College, City University of New York

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 511F

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Falling into Polemics: On the Analogy of Facts Benjamin Robinson, Indiana University Bloomington
- If the moment of polemics in theory is art, is the art in/of Affect (Theory) polemical? Drishadwati Bargi, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
- A Polemos on Neutrality? Nasrin Qader, Northwestern University
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Queering the Anthropocene: Radical Ecocritical Perspectives on the End of the World in Global Literature and Media

Organizers: Rebecca Ehrenwirth, University of Applied Sciences/SDI Munich; Fareed Ben-Youssef, Texas Tech University

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 512E

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- A Taste After Nuclear Disaster - Food in Hamaguchi Ryūsuke's "Asako I & II" Fareed Ben-Youssef, Texas Tech University
- Dreaming Beyond Collapse: Reading J.G. Ballard’s The Drowned World through Indigenous Dream Theory and Land Relationality Shangrila Plaza, Simon Fraser University
- Queering an Urban Monument: Freedom Tower and the Performance of Resistance Ali Reza Shahbazin, Athabasca University
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Reading for Pleasure

Organizers: Adeline Soldin, Dickinson College; Amaury Leopoldo Sosa, Dickinson College

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 520E

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)

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Reconsidering Selfhood in Fragmented Narratives

Organizers: Daniel Newman, University of Toronto; Rachel Lebovic, University of Toronto

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 520D

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- The Hyper-fragmented Self in Sheila Heti's Alphabet Diaries (2024) Sonia Scarlat, Universidad de Salamanca
- Re-storying the self: The affordance of fragmentation in Otoniya J. Okot Bitek’s We, The Kindling (2025) Mathuri Sivanesan, Simon Fraser University
- Unresolved: Elliptical Narration and Fragmentation in Contemporary Literature Charlotte Frank, McGill University
- Porous and Fractured, Shared and Distributed: Minds in Modernist Narrative Fiction Lindsay Holmgren, McGill University
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Retheorizing the University: Toward a New Institutionalism

Organizers: Jack Chen, University of Virginia; Maurits van Bever Donker, University of the Western Cape

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 511E

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Fictional University, Real Concerns: Hong Kong Academic Fiction as an Account of Institutional Rearrangement Roman Lashin, N/A
- Rules of Formation: (Re)Routing Institutional Crisis via Anarchic Study Tim Roberts, np:
- The Promise of Centers Katharine Wallerstein
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Revolutionary Aesthetics: Art, History, and Political Imagination in 20th-Century and Contemporary Latin America

Organizers: John Hurtado Cadavid, The Ohio State University ; Sebastian Hincapie, Stony Brook University

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 525B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- The Dogs of Deng Xiao Ping: Sendero Luminoso and the Photograph Anthony Pearce, The Ohio State University
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Sensing Travel in the Hispanic World

Organizers: Cristina Carnemolla, McGill University; Carlos Abreu Mendoza, Texas State University

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 513C

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- El Periquillo Sarniento: Transpacific Studies, Comparative Literature, and Close Reading Blake Seana Locklin, Texas State University
- The Unpayable Debt: Gender, Land, and Extractive Capitalism in Martín Morúa Delgado’s Novels Rafael Nunez Rodriguez, Independent Researcher
- Realigning Las Hurdes: Ramón Carnicier's Sense of Social Injustice McKew Devitt, University of Vermont
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Situation, Situationism, Situationship

Organizers: Marcie Frank, Concordia University; Ned Schantz, McGill University

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 520C

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Situated Architectural Practice Kai Wood Mah, Université Laurentienne (Laurentian University) Patrick Rivers
- The Contracted Situation Ned Schantz, McGill University
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Stigma: Writing Abjection, Reimagining Power

Organizer: Sally Hansen, University of Notre Dame

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 525A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- The Paradox of Authenticity and the (Hopeless) Search for Identity in the Novels of Vladimir Sharov Cameron Manley, Princeton University
- Pan-African Martyrdom Against Abjection: Ntozake Shange's Lumumba Jeremy Glick, Hunter College CUNY English Department
- Rejecting Narratives of Contempt: Escaping Death in Neorrealism Andrés Misnaza, University of California Riverside (UC Riverside)
- Poetics of the Cut: Stigmatization in Douglas Kearney's "Stagger Put Work In" and "Ecce Cuniculus" Sally Hansen, University of Notre Dame
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The Catastrophic Event in Times of Permanent Catastrophe

Organizers: Jonathon Catlin, University of Rochester; Karyn Ball

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 516A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- "SOS" from Paris: Negritude and the Specter of Fascism Ben Ratskoff, Occidental College
- Irreversible Thresholds: Trauma, Tipping Points, and Indigenous Narratives of Catastrophe Kanza Mirza, West Virginia University
- On the Way Home: Post-Apocalyptic Sensibility and Taoist Ecology in Ursula K. Le Guin’s Always Coming Home Fang Gao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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The Ljubljana School: Žižek, Dolar, Zupančič

Organizers: Russell Sbriglia, Seton Hall University; Frances Restuccia, Boston College

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 521A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Is Trauma a Transcendental Category? On Alenka Zupančič’s Ontological Materialism Boštjan Nedoh, Institute of Philosophy ZRC SAZU
- On the Manic "Yes!": Rumors, Disavowal, and the Not-Quite Psychotic Subject Scott Krzych, Colorado College
- Can Philosophers Think about Quantum Physics? Katherine Everitt, Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
- "...but all the same": Immediacy and Stagnation in Zupančič's Disavowal Jake McDonald, Simon Fraser University
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The World in South Asian Literatures

Organizer: Zain Mian, University of Toronto

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 513E

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)

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Theorizing Translation in the Global South: Networks and Sites of World Literary Formations

Organizer: Razieh Araghi, Arizona State University

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 520B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Luso-Hispanic Translingual Translation in 20th-Century Argentina Thomas Genova, University of Minnesota Morris
- Mediating World Literature Through Oral Translations: The Case of Dars System in Kerala Ibrahim Badshah, University of Houston
- World Literatures, World Religions, and the Translation of Islam Francesca Chubb-Confer, Oberlin College
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Thinking Place

Organizer: Jennifer Wenzel, Columbia University

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 521C

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Making Place: Fermentation as Praxis Saskia Cornes, Duke University
- Cedar Point Park: An Experiment in Creative Scholarship Anna Hill, Clemson University
- Geocultures After Coal: Minewater Geothermal and Place-based Energy Laura Pannekoek
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Thinking the Aesthetic

Organizers: Robert Hughes, The Ohio State University ; Charles Shepherdson, University at Albany (State University of New York)

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 516E

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Aesthetics of Ruination: On the Unpleasures of the Colonial Imagination Nathan Gorelick, Barnard College
- Dance, Among Others Urvi Vora, Brown University
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Thinking the Literature of Islands

Organizer: Brenda Machosky, University of Hawai`i West O`ahu

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 516D

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- It’s the Pirate’s Life for Me: The Ship as Maritime Island in Espronceda's "Canción del pirata" and Beyond Ethan Hill, Stanford University
- H. T. Tsiang, Angel Island Poet? Jeff Noh, University of Toronto
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Thinking Through/With Dance in Latin American and Iberian Cultural Studies

Organizers: Julian Gutierrez Albilla, University of Southern California; Miguel Caballero, Northwestern University

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 511B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Queering the 1980s and 1990s Valencian Club Subculture: The Micro-politics of Improvised Social Dancing Julian Gutierrez Albilla, University of Southern California
- Choreographed Reading and Hybridity in "Ya (no) seremos esclavos" Robert Myak, Binghamton University (The State University of New York)
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Thought in Revolt

Organizers: Alex Dubilet, Vanderbilt University; Oliver Silverman, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 519B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Suspended Death: Insurgent Kashmiri Movement and its Funerals Salik Geelani, Vanderbilt University
- Queer Recursions: Wittig, Chile, and the Revolutionary Horizon Chloe Tsolakoglou, Columbia University
- The Natures of Insurrection Joseph Albernaz
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Time and Temporalities: Literatures of imperial and anti-imperial politics

Organizers: Leisa Kauffmann, Wayne State University; Peter Hitchcock, CUNY Graduate Center

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 512B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Lascasian time: contact, colonization, and the point of inflection Molly Borowitz, Georgetown University
- Reading the Past, Understanding the Present. The Título de Totonicapán and the Maya-K’iche’ or Colonial Highland Guatemala Néstor Quiroa
- La derrota de Wuqub Kaki’x: Examinando el Popol Vuh escrito y la película de Patricia Amlin Asmaa Ebeid, Wayne State University
- Whose Time?: The Double Chronotope and Uncertain Future of the Annals of Cuauhtitlan Leisa Kauffmann, Wayne State University
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Translation and Memory: Constructing Publics, Pasts, and Cultures

Organizers: Marlene Hansen Esplin, Brigham Young University; Youngmin Kim, Dongguk University

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 519A

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Transforming Biblical Memory: The Sacred Narratives of Early Modern Women Jane Tylus, Yale University
- Hebrew to Latin, Latin to French: The Politics of Memory of Medieval French Biblical Translations Chiara Visentin, Cornell University
- Translating Cultural Memory and Myth: Reconstructing the past through J.F.Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales Nurgul Saparkhojayeva, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University; Satbayev University
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Ways of Reading Racialized Ecologies 2

Organizers: Cheryl Lousley, Lakehead University; Zishad Lak, Trent University

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 512D

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- "White Civility" and Shamelessness: Reconciliation Realism, Prairie Ecologies, and Populist Violence Cheryl Lousley, Lakehead University
- Reading the kisiskâciwani-sîpiy: Treaty, Legibility, Matthew James Weigel's "Whitemud Walking" Max Karpinski, Trent University
- Ecological Colonialism and the Impact of the ‘Englishman’s Foot’: A Literary Ecology of an Invasive Species Meaghan Sych, University of Alberta
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Why Creative Translation Matters

Organizers: Brigitte Rath, Universität Innsbruck (University of Innsbruck); Alexandra Lukes, Trinity College, Dublin

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 510B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Toying with intentional incompleteness in literary translation Julia Pelosi-Thorpe, University of Pennsylvania
- Let’s Experiment Together – Creativity and Closelaboration in Translation Audrey Coussy, McGill University
- Translating to Transgress Nichole Gleisner, Yale University
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World Socialist Temporalities

Organizers: Daniel Schwartz, McGill University; Isabel Jacobs, Akademie věd České republiky (Czech Academy of Sciences)

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 512C

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Negotiating the Past in New Romanian Cinema Lucian Țion, Universitatea Babeș-Bolyai (Babeș-Bolyai University)
- In Search of a Mature Language: Bato Čengić’s Little Soldiers and the Trope of the Child in Yugoslav New Film Filip Sestan, University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley)
- Keeping Caucasian Time in the Pyrenees: Layered Temporalities in Otar Ioseliani’s "Euzkadi" (1983) Brian Fairley, University of Pittsburgh
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Worlding of Sinophone Cinemas: Textures, Politics, and Aesthetics of the Everyday

Organizers: Jessica Tsui-yan Li, York University; Chialan Sharon Wang, Middlebury College

Day: Sunday, March 1, 2026

Time: 10:30 AM EST - 12:15 PM EST

Location: 518B

Stream: Stream B (10:30 AM - 12:15 PM)
- Unarchiving trauma in an open text: Lou Ye’s An Unfinished Film Chialan Sharon Wang, Middlebury College
- The Everyday Under Lockdown: Affective Resistance and the Politics of Pain in Ai Weiwei’s Coronation (2020) Anqi Liu, DePauw University
- The Everyday as Agitated: Reading Post-Pandemic Chinese Films Yige Wu, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
- Navigating Filial Relations in Sinophone Cinema Christopher Lupke, University of Alberta
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THURSDAY February 26th

4:00 PM EDT - 5:45 PM EDT

Pre-conference workshop: “How Do I Design a Successful Collected Volume? – A Publisher-led Workshop”

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6:00 PM EDT - 7:30 PM EDT

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8:30 AM EDT - 10:15 AM EDT

A New Existentialism

A[sian] I[ntelligence]: Asian-inflected issues pertaining to the imagination and implementation of generative AI

Aftermaths of the 19th Century

Alternative Imaginaries of Transport

Anti-Capitalist Critique and the Fetish

Archiving Socialisms: Material and Intellectual Legacies

Atemporality

Black Matter(s): Opacity, Relation, Representation

Brazil Inside Out: Tensions between Cultural Singularity and Conceptual Translatability

Can Dialectics Make Bricks?

Chronotopes of Extinction

Close Reading and Comparative Literature: Histories, Debates, and New Perspectives for the Twenty-First Century (A CLS Forum)

Comedy Now

Contemporary East Asian Poetics: Technology, Ecology, and Intermedial Fluidity

Cosmologies of Care: Relationality, Environmental Justice, and Cosmovisions

Cross-Border Indigenous Representation: tense and conflicting paths of "visibility”

Cultural Legacies of Slavery in Modern Spain and the Global Hispanophone World

Documents

Going Beyond the Literary III : Methods for Caribbean Interdisciplinarity

Infrastructure Between World-Making and Nation-Building

Life writing at the end of the world: evolving genres of the Self

Literary Criticism as Composition: Montage, Genre, and the Art of World-Making

Literary Ethnography

Literary Nonfiction on Health and Medicine

Literary Translation and its Institutions

Marxism and the Lyric

On A (Not-So) Global Scale: Dissecting the Spatio-Temporal Complexities of Slow Violence

Palestinian American Literature and its Others

Performativity and the Performed: Voice, Ritual, and Representation in Arabic Literature and Culture

Poetry and the Choreography of the Body

Post-Millennial Speculative Fiction from the Global South

Prompting Comparison: Technological Horizons of Poetics Today

Racial Formlessness: Multiethnic Fiction after the Method Wars

Reel/Repeat/Rupture: Digital Selves, Algorithms, and the Infrastructures of Online Community

Remnant Forms: Vulnerable Bodies and Interstitial Aesthetics in Brazilian Narrative and Art

Renegotiating Ethics in Literature and Film

Representing Aging: Literature, Film, and the Demographic Shift

Reproducing Motherhood: Between the Poles of Natality and Maternity

The Beauty of Killing Fascism

The Comparison of African Literature

The Difference Accent Makes

The Future is Past: Rethinking Dystopia in Contemporary Film and Literature

The Knowledge of Art: Aesthetics and Epistemology

The Long 1990s: Queer Theory in the Archive

The Manifesto and Postcolonial Thought

Transgender Storytelling: Accounts of Oppositional Being and Becoming

Translating beyond humans: translation as an ecological encounter between humans and non-humans

Unresolved Feeling, Fragments of Belonging: Emotion Across Text and Screen

Uses and Abuses of History in Literary Narratives

Versatile Bodies in Global Asia

Visible and Invisible Wounds: Trauma and Representation in Global South Diasporic Literature

W(h)ither Identity?: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Unselving

Why Work? Compulsion, Coercion, and Narratives of Labor

World Cinema in Theory

Writing the Impossible in Eastern Europe: Biography and Autobiography Amid Trauma

10:30 AM EDT - 12:15 PM EDT

Alphabets and AI

Anti-Socially Necessary Labour Time

Asia, the Middle East, and the Caribbean

Bodies under Test

Capitalist Realism's Worlds

Categorical Criticism

Chronic Catastrophes and Precious Species

Complaint, Queerness, and Killjoys: Engaging Sara Ahmed’s Theory

Complex Relationalities, Encounters, and Solidarities in Settler Colonial Contexts

CONSPIRACISM

Documenting Damage: Zones of Human and Environmental Violence