Syracuse English @ the MLA

Syracuse made an excellent impression at the 2006 annual conference of the Modern Language Association in Philadelphia. Graduate students, faculty, and some recently departed department alumni delivered presentations, interviewed, and crashed an Ivy League party.

• Gina Liotta, MA '06, on the Early Twentieth Century African-American Children's Literature panel, delivered her presentation, "A New Narrative: Reading Langston Hughes Literature for Children as Imagetext". This paper was originally composed for Susan Edmunds' Harlem Renaissance course and was initially delivered in a 2005 Negotiations panel. Gina is currently enrolled in graduate studies at the University of Oregon Education program.

• Professor Susan Edmunds was busy at the MLA--sitting on the "Posthuman, All Too Posthuman" roundtable, as well as giving a paper entitled "A New Beauty: Anzia Yezierska's Immigrant Women and the Making of Modern America".

• Cindy Linden, fresh off her dissertation defense, appeared on the Pain and Disability panel. Cindy presented her paper, "In the Interests of Normativity: A reconsideration of Elaine Scarry's The Body in Pain".
  

• Appearing on the Names, Language, and Theory panel, Amy Leal presented ""The Cockney School of Naming: Keats' Political Allegory in 'Caps and Bells'". Amy has also had an article published in The Chronicle of Higher Ed entitled "Who Killed John Keats?".
  

• Former Emerson Fellow Sarah Brouillette, who is now an Assistant Professor of Literature at MIT, appeared on the Spectacles of Violence panel with her paper, "The Culture Industries of Northern Ireland: Specularity, Violence, and the Conviction Plays".
  

• Professor Monika Wadman chaired a panel on the Native American artist Jimmie Durham. Monika's paper was entitled "Indian Playing Indian? Jimmie Durham's Columbus Day".

• Finally, former EGO facilitator, MA 2006, and current Cornell PhD Jon Senchyne not only delivered a paper entitled "Class, Sexuality, Hypervisibility: Complicating 'Diversity' with Everything I have is Blue", a paper that emerged from his experiences teaching at Syracuse, but also extended the invite to many Syracuseans to Cornell's Friday night party. Thanks, Jon!