ALA 2013 Panels on W. D. Howells
Saturday May 25, 2013 2:00-3:20 pm
Session 18-H William Dean Howells: Open Topic (St George C 3rd Floor)
Organized by the William Dean Howells Society
Chair: Dan Mrozowski, Trinity College
1. “Dialectic, Interrupted: In Conversation with Howells’s A Traveller from Altruria,” Cristina D’Amico, University of Toronto
2. “The American Tolstoy: Spatial Boundaries and Class in Annie Kilburn,” Scott Reznick, Boston College
3. “’I’ll be dogged!’: Evolution and Imbrutation in A Hazard of New Fortunes,” Henry Wonham, University of Oregon
Saturday May 25, 2013 3:30-4:50 pm
Session 19-I William Dean Howells & Memory (Great Republic 7th Floor)
Organized by the William Dean Howells Society
Chair: Dan Mrozowski, Trinity College
1. “A Charge That Staggers: Howells’s Standards for Reviewing the Civil War,” Aaron Shackelford, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2. “Ambivalent Amnesia and Dubious Memory in Howells’s ‘A Sleep and a Forgetting’,” Lance Rubin, Arapahoe Community College
3. “Civil War Bodies and the Sacrificial Enterprise: Negotiating Mutilation in William Dean Howells’s A Hazard of New Fortunes,” Joseph Darda, University of Connecticut
Session 9-P Business Meeting: William Dean Howells Society (Baltic 7th Floor)
ALA 2011 in Boston Panels on W. D. Howells
Friday, May 27, 2011 11:10 am – 12:30 pm
Session 9-H Business and Ethics in William Dean Howells (St George C)
Organized by the William Dean Howells Society
Chair: Lance Rubin, Arapahoe Community College
1. “Agency and Ethics of Reading in Howells‘s Poverty Fiction,” Benjamin Sammons, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
2. “The Crime of Books: William Dean Howells‘s The Quality of Mercy and the Taxonomy of Nineteenth Century Commercial Ethics,” Daniel Mrozowski, Trinity College
3. “The Awakening: H.D. Lloyd Sounds the Alarm for Howells in the Gilded Age,” Sanford Marovitz, Kent State University
Friday, May 27, 2011
12:40 –2:00 pm
Session 10-B The Overlooked Work of William Dean Howells (St George C)
Organized by the William Dean Howells Society
Chair: Lance Rubin, Arapahoe Community College
1. "William Dean Howells: Realist Poet,” Elizabeth Renker, The Ohio State University
2. "Rhetorics of Invisibility: Anaesthetized Landscapes in Howells‘s Suburban Sketches,” Maura D‘Amore, St. Michael‘s‘ College
3. "Discovering Howells‘s The Undiscovered Country,” Susan Goodman, University of Delaware
Friday, May 27, 2011
3:40 – 5:00 pm
Session 12- N Business Meeting: William Dean Howells Society (Helicon 7 th Floor)
ALA 2010 Panels on W. D. Howells
Thursday, May 27, 2010 1:30 - 2:50 pm
Session 4-C New Perspectives on Howells’s A Hazard of New Fortunes (Seacliff A)
Organized by the William Dean Howells Society
Chair: Lance Rubin, Arapahoe Community College
- “The Hazard of Economic Modernity in A Hazard of New Fortunes,” Christopher Raczkowski, University of South Alabama
- “The Aesthetics of the Witness: Mobility and Encounter in A Hazard of New Fortunes,” Will Lombardi, California State University
- “Howells’ Literary-Philosophical Form,” Brian McGrath, Rutgers University
Thursday, May 27, 2010 3:00 - 4:20 pm
Session 5-C Howells’s Aesthetics and Influences (Pacific I)
Organized by the William Dean Howells Society
Chair: Lance Rubin, Arapahoe Community College
1. “Moral Suspension and Aesthetic Perspectivalism in ‘ Venice in Venice,’” Christine Holbo, Arizona State University
2. “Neighborhood Tourism in Howells’ Boston Writing,” Monica Kathryn Zaleski, University of Delaware
3. “‘The Greatest Pathos and the Highest Tragedy’: William Dean Howells’s Letters to Harvey Greene,” Donna Campbell, Washington State University
Thursday, May 27 4:30-5:50
Session 6-M Business Meeting: Howells Society (Pacific B)
ALA 2009 Panels on W.D. Howells
Session 5-B Howells and His Contemporaries
Organized by the William Dean Howells Society
Chair: Rob Davidson, California State University, Chico
1. “‘The Exploitation of History’: Howells, Neo-Romanticism, and the Failure of Local Color,” Nathaniel Cadle, Florida International University
2. “Seeing with a New Lens: The Influence of William James on London Films,” Owen Clayton, University of Leeds
3. “The American Joke,” Marcella Frydman, Harvard University
Session 6-L Business Meeting: William Dean Howells Society
Session 20-I William Dean Howells
Organized by the William Dean Howells Society
Chair: Rob Davidson, California State University, Chico
1. “Howells in Bohemia,” Joanna Levin, Chapman University
2. “‘Absorbing the Colored Race’: Heterosexual Cross-Racial Desire and the Value of Black Womanhood in William Dean Howells’s An Imperative Duty,” Kerstin Rudolph, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
3. “‘Talking Horse’ and ‘House’ in The Rise of Silas Lapham,” Frederick Wegener, California State University, Long Beach
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