Thursday, May 23, 2024 10:00-11:20 am Session 2-A

Gods, Monsters, and Hauntings in the African American Novel (Kimball) Organized by the African American Literature and Culture Society

Chair: Jean-Philippe Marcoux, Université Laval

1. “Monsters and Gods: Naturalist Racial Constructions from Stephen Crane to Richard Wright,” Justin Smith, Randolph-Macon College

2. “Translatable Gods: Reconsidering Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo After 50 Years,” Christopher Douglas, University of Victoria

3. “Haunted Space as Representational in Kalynn Bayron’s You’re Not Supposed to Die Tonight and Vincent Tirado’s We Don’t Swim Here,” Melanie A. Marotta, Morgan State University

Session 14-B On American Literary Naturalism: Commerce, Comedy, and Uncanny Doppelgangers (Indiana)

Sponsored by the Society for the Study of American Naturalism

Chair: Eric Link, University of North Dakota

1. “Gender, Art, & Commerce in Stephen Crane’s The Third Violet.” Jennifer Moffitt, Florida Southern College

2. “Hysterical Fiction: Neurasthenic Comedy in Turn-of-the-Century Magazines.” Yair Solan, Nova Southeastern University

3. “Beyond the Divided Self: Permutations of Doubleness in Jack London’s Naturalist Speculations.” Anita Duneer, Rhode Island College

Saturday, May 25, 2024 8:30-9:50 am

Session 16-A Naturalism the Other: Immigrants, Indians, and Jews (Kimball)

Sponsored by the Society for the Study of American Naturalism

Chair: Adam H. Wood, Valdosta State University

1. “Images of Excess Consumption and the Urban Immigrant in Norris, Crane, and Dreiser,” Stephanie Batterson, Texas A&M University

2. “Not Much of a Hero: Stephen Crane, Tom Quick, and the Indian Hater Tradition,” Edward Watts, Michigan State University

3. “The Jewish Journey in Literary Naturalism.” Cara Kilgallen, Sacred Heart University