The Digital Americanists Society has organized two panels at this year’s American Literature Association conference (Washington, DC, May 22-25, 2014). Details below; you can see the full program on the ALA conference site. Yes, we’re the first two slots of the conference. Hope to see you there!
Our sessions:
Visualizing Non-Linearity: Faulkner and the Challenges of Narrative Mapping
Session 1-A. Thursday, May 22, 2014, 9:00 – 10:20 am. Columbia B: Ballroom Level.
Organized by the Digital Americanists Society
Chair: Ryan Cordell, Northeastern University
- Julie Napolin, The New School
- Worthy Martin, University of Virginia
- Johannes Burgers, Queensborough Community College
Three members of the Digital Yoknapatawpha project discuss the advantages and challenges of collaboration in negotiating between scholarly readings of Faulkner and what is technically possible.
Digital Flânerie and Americans in Paris
Session 2-A. Thursday, May 22, 2014, 10:30-11:50 am. Columbia B: Ballroom Level.
Organized by the Digital Americanists Society
Chair: Ryan Cordell, Northeastern University
- “Mapping Movement, or, Walking with Hemingway,” Laura McGrath, Michigan State University
- “Parisian Remainder,” Steven Ambrose, Michigan State University
- “Sedentary City,” Anna Green, Michigan State University
- “Locating The Imaginary: Literary Mapping and Propositional Space,” Sarah Panuska, Michigan State University
Four short papers addressing the theoretical and suppositional nature of maps in relation to Alice Kaplan’s Paris memoirs, the relationship between movement and stasis for Ernest Hemingway, a reconfiguration of the woman and the city in Mina Loy’s poetry, and the unmappable locations of James Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room.
Presenters on both panels did an excellent job. Good luck on your projects! – J.D.