Wayne State @ Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture After 1900

The Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture After 1900 (March 18-20 2010, University of Louisville) featured a prominent number of WSU English faculty and graduate students -- Kristine Danielson: "Poetic Space in Pound's Pisan Cantos: Haecceities, Traumatic Bodies, Idealized Realms" (Thursday); renee c. hoogland: "Imploding Communion: Actualized Alienation in Rineke Dijkstra's 'Family of Man'" (Friday); Sarah Ruddy: "Documenting Disappearance: Exhibiting Community in the Work of Nan Goldin" (Friday); Barrett Watten: "Berlin Exhibitions: Between Destruction and Community:Tod--Kein Tod, Palast der Republik, 2005" (Friday); Jenna Gerds: "Sinclair Lewis's Short Fiction and the Art of the Ad" (Friday); Jessamon Jones: "Biopower, Globalization and the Organ Trade in Manjula Padmanabhan's Harvest" (Friday); Joel Levise: "Directions in Music and Literature: The Multiauthorship of Miles: The Autobiography" (Friday); Chinmayi Kattemalavadi: "Mapping Space, History, and People: W. G. Sebald's Rings of Saturn" (Friday); Andy Engel: "Fashion as Infection: Trauma and Capital in William Gibson's Pattern Recognition" (Friday)