Textual Studies at MLA 2006, Philadelphia
Panels of potential interest, compiled by Eleanor Shevlin

Thursday, 28 December
173. Textual Materialities
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Grand Ballroom Salon I, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the Society for Textual Scholarship

Presiding: Neil Fraistat, Univ. of Maryland, College Park

1. “Save As: Textual Studies and the Challenges of Born-Digital Literature,” Matthew Gary Kirschenbaum, Univ. of Maryland, College Park

2. “Picture Criticism: Textual Studies and the Image,” Kari M. Kraus, Univ. of Rochester

3. “Textual Studies and the Book,” Peter Bigland Stallybrass, Univ. of Pennsylvania

Thursday, 28 December
174. Early Modern Women’s Manuscripts
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Grand Ballroom Salon K, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the Renaissance English Text Society

Presiding: Margaret P. Hannay, Siena Coll.

1. “Petitioning Power: The Rhetorical Fashioning of Elizabethan Women’s Letters,” Erin Anne Sadlack, Marywood Univ.

2. “‘Leaven for a Suspitious Jealous Cake’: Cooking, Cash, and Civil War in Jane Cavendish’s Manuscript Poetry,” Emily Smith, Decatur, GA

3. “‘Saturn (Whose Aspects Soe Sads My Soul)’: Lady Hester Pulter’s Feminine Melancholic Genius,” Alice Eardley, Warwick Univ.

Respondent: Elizabeth H. Hageman, Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham

Thursday, 28 December
193. Wikis, Authority, and the Public Sphere: Examining the Impact of Dynamic, Multiauthored Digital Texts
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Grand Ballroom Salon L, Philadelphia Marriott

A special session

Presiding: Amit Ray, Rochester Inst. of Tech.

1. “The Digital Palimpsest: Reviewing the Author Function in the Age of Wikis,” Erhardt Graeff, Rochester Inst. of Tech.; Amit Ray

2. “Wikipedia: The University and the Open Archive,” David Parry, Univ. at Albany, State Univ. of New York

3. “Rewriting Hejinian’s My Life: Authorship, Gender, and Drag on a Collaborative Wiki,” Leisha J. Jones, Penn State Univ., University Park

For copies of abstracts and working papers, visit http://honors.rit.edu/~wiki.

Thursday, 28 December
246. Reading and Writing in Nineteenth-Century Concord
1:45–3:00 p.m., 302, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the Association for Documentary Editing

Presiding: Joel Myerson, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia

1. “Letting Them Down Gently: Rejection Slips in Nineteenth-Century Concord,” Barbara Lee Packer, Univ. of California, Los Angeles

2. “Hawthorne’s Reading of His Neighbors’ ‘Words That Burn,’” Larry J. Reynolds, Texas A&M Univ., College Station

3. “Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: The Concord Writers in the Wider World,” Robert Gross, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs

Thursday, 28 December
318. Cold War–Era American Publishing and Ideas of Cultural Democracy
7:15–8:30 p.m., 302, Philadelphia Marriott

A special session

Presiding: Greg Barnhisel, Duquesne Univ.

Speakers: Brett Gary, New York Univ.

Lisa Gitelman, Catholic Univ. of America

Daniel Raff, Univ. of Pennsylvania

Trysh Travis, Univ. of Florida

John Hench, American Antiquarian Soc.

Respondent: Catherine Turner, Coll. Misericordia

Friday, 29 December
383. Hidden Transcripts: Recovering Underrepresented Literatures
10:15–11:30 a.m., 307, Philadelphia Marriott
Program arranged by the Division on Methods of Literary Research

Presiding: Laurie Anne Finke, Kenyon Coll.

1. “A Rationale of Recovery,” Jean Lee Cole, Loyola Coll.

2. “Literature of the Dawn: Recovering Indigenous New England,” Siobhan Senier, Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham

3. “Artless Stories, Simple Facts: Editorial Practices and the Misreading of Nineteenth-Century African American Literature,” John Ernest, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown

4. “Vestiges of Old Madras: Epistemological Encounters in the Archives of Fort Saint George,” Rajani Sudan, Southern Methodist Univ.

Friday, 29 December
388. Print Cultures in the Atlantic World
10:15–11:30 a.m., 406, Philadelphia Marriott
Program arranged by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing

Presiding: Melissa J. Homestead, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln

1. “English Imprints in the Atlantic World, 1620–88,” Jennifer Mylander, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana

2. “Trading Bodies, Stealing Texts: Richard Cumberland’s The West Indian,” Molly O’Hagan Hardy, Univ. of Texas, Austin

3. “Literary Pirates of the Caribbean: Emmanuel Appadocca and Atlantic World Print Culture,” Marcy J. Dinius, Univ. of Delaware, Newark

Respondent: Melissa J. Homestead

Friday, 29 December
398. Reading Code
10:15–11:30 a.m., 306, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the Discussion Group on Media and Literature

Presiding: Rita M. Raley, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara

1. “Code? (((Who?) Reads?) What?),” John Cayley, London, England

2. “Becoming Encoded,” David A. Golumbia, Univ. of Virginia

3. “Exe.cut(up)able Statements: Algorithmics as a Structural Dimension of Literature,” Florian Cramer, Piet Zwart Inst.

Respondent: Mark Marino, Univ. of Southern California

Friday, 29 December
420. Tenure, Promotion, and Textual Studies
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 302, Philadelphia Marriott
Program arranged by the College English Association

Presiding: Maura Carey Ives, Texas A&M Univ., College Station

1. “Tenure, Promotion, and Textual Editing at the Teaching Institution,” John M. Ulrich, Mansfield Univ.

2. “Putting an End to Textual Exploitation, Discrimination, and Abuse,” John Gouws, Rhodes Univ.

3. “Confessions of a Fence-Sitter: A Graduate Student Perspective on Textual Studies,” Christopher E. Garrett, Texas A&M Univ., College Station

Respondent: Maura Carey Ives

Friday, 29 December
448. Electronic Literature and Textual Scholarship
12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Commonwealth Hall D, Loews

Program arranged by the Division on Methods of Literary Research

1. “Typee, Revision, and Editing a Fluid Text: Making the Invisible Visible,” John Bryant, Hofstra Univ.

2. “Human Computer Collaboration: Literary Interpretation as Provocation and Response,” Tanya Clement, Univ. of Maryland, College Park

Friday, 29 December
475. The History of the Book in Early Modern Britain III: Modes of Literacy
1:45–3:00 p.m., 411–412, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the Divisions on Seventeenth-Century English Literature and Literature of the English Renaissance, Excluding Shakespeare

Presiding: Nigel S. Smith, Princeton Univ.

1. “Manual Labor: Learning to Read the First Literacy Textbooks,” Gwynn A. Dujardin, Queen’s Univ.

2. “Printers, Paratexts, and Visual Translation of French Gender Discourses in Early Renaissance England,” A. E. B. Coldiron, Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge

3. “Reading for Revenge: The Trial of Stephen Colledge and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion,” Steven Zwicker, Washington Univ.

Respondent: Kevin Sharpe, Univ. of London, Queen Mary Coll.

Friday, 29 December
486. Interrogating Reading Nation with William St. Clair
1:45–3:00 p.m., 201-B, Convention Center

Program arranged by the Division on Late-Eighteenth-Century English Literature

Presiding: Clifford Haynes Siskin, New York Univ.

Interrogators: Jon P. Klancher, Carnegie Mellon Univ.

Maureen Noelle McLane, Harvard Univ.

Respondent: William St. Clair, Univ. of Cambridge, Trinity Coll.

Friday, 29 December
516. Electronic Textual Editing: What’s Next?
3:30–4:45 p.m., 203-A, Convention Center

Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions

Presiding: Martha Nell Smith, Univ. of Maryland, College Park

Speakers: Julia H. Flanders, Brown Univ.

David Lee Gants, Univ. of New Brunswick, Fredericton

Steven E. Jones, Loyola Univ., Chicago

For copies of abstracts visit www.mith.umd.edu/CSE/MLA2006 after 1 Dec.

Friday, 29 December
30. Literature and the New Media Economy
3:30–4:45 p.m., Washington A, Loews

Program arranged by the Division on Luso-Brazilian Language and Literature

Presiding: Peggy L. Sharpe, Florida State Univ.

1. “The Erotic and Exotic Lure: A Cultural Decoy,” Maria José Somerlate Barbosa, Univ. of Iowa

2. “The Material Girl’s Digital Archive: Literature and New Media Economy in Clarah Averbuck’s Máquina de pinball,” Leila Maria Lehnen, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque

3. “A hora da estrela: A doméstica no cinema brasileiro contemporâneo,” Sonia M. Roncador, Univ. of Texas, Austin

4. “Singing under Siege: Resistance Music in Portugal and Brazil,” Patricia I. Vieira, Harvard Univ.

Saturday, 30 December
649. Meet the Bloggers: Blogging and the Future of Academia
8:30–9:45 a.m., 308, Philadelphia Marriott

A special session

Presiding: Scott Kaufman, Univ. of California, Irvine

1. “Instantaneous Citation Index,” Michael F. Bérubé, Penn State Univ., University Park

2. “I’m Nobody! Who Are You?” Tedra S. Osell, Univ. of Guelph

3. “Form Follows the Function of the Little Magazine,” John Holbo, National Univ. of Singapore

4. “The New Interdisciplinary,” Scott Kaufman

Respondent: Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Ed

For copies of abstracts, visit http://acephalous.typepad.com/abstract.html.

Saturday, 30 December
662. Editing Is Interpretation: American Literary History
10:15–11:30 a.m., 306, Philadelphia Marriott
Program arranged by the MLA Committee on Scholarly Editions

Presiding: John Bryant, Hofstra Univ.

1. “William Stanley Braithwaite and the Impressions of Type,” Susanna Margaret Ashton, Clemson Univ.

2. “Revision and the Question of History in Henry James’s New York Edition,” J. Stephen Murphy, Univ. of California, Berkeley

3. “Re-presenting Willa Cather,” Marilee Lindemann, Univ. of Maryland, College Park

For copies of abstracts, visit www.mith.umd.edu/CSE/MLA2006 after 10 Dec.

Saturday, 30 December
684. Early Modern Englishwomen in the Book Trades: A Session in Honor of Katharine F. Panzer
10:15–11:30 a.m., Grand Ballroom Salon K, Philadelphia Marriott
Program arranged by the Division on Methods of Literary Research

Presiding: Elizabeth H. Hageman, Univ. of New Hampshire, Durham

1. “Women and Patronage in the Early Modern Book Trades,” Helen Smith, Univ. of York

2. “Joan Brome and the Lyly Plays: A Feminist History of the Book,” Tara Lyons, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana

3. “Printing and Bookselling Preferences of Women in the Early Modern London Book Trade,” David Lee Gants, Univ. of New Brunswick, Fredericton; Sarah Neville, Univ. of New Brunswick, Fredericton