THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11
12:15 PM
WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS / Steven Trout, University of South Alabama
12:30 PM
Moderator: Frye Gaillard, University of South Alabama
Becky McLaughlin (University of South Alabama)
“A New Way to Be Free?: Amputation, Live Burial, and the Captive Body of the Apotemnophile”
J. Kathryn Cook (University College London)
“‘Invisible Captivity’: Jean Rhys’s Quartet and the Prison of Captivity”
Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze (Northeastern University)
“Daniel Deronda and Coercive Intimacy”
2:00 PM
Moderator: Bob Coleman, University of South Alabama
Cindy Ferrere (University of Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines)
“Subverting the Bounds of Captivity in Henry Bibb’s, Sarah Wakefield’s, and Sarah Winnemucca’s Narratives”
Katherine Grandjean (Wellesley College)
“A History of Violence: Remembering the Captivity of Hannah Dustan”
Edward Robinson (California State-Fullerton)
“An African Narrative of Captivity: Lucy Terry, ‘Bars Fight,’ and the Developing Black Colonial Voice”
3:30 PM
Moderator: Zoya Kahn, University of South Alabama
Bonnie Hanson (University of Wyoming)
“Trauma, Convention, and Redemption: Emma Donoghue’s Room”
John Miles (University of Memphis)
“Susan Faludi’s Nightmare of Captivity: 9/11, Mary Rowlandson, and the Uneasy Straightjacket of Genre”
David Moberly (University of Minnesota)
“Mary Rowlandson, William Okeley, and the ‘Goodness of God’: The Transatlantic Migration of the Captivity Narrative”
5:00 PM
KEYNOTE ADDRESS @ USABC Performance Center
111 St. James Avenue
Michelle Burnham (Santa Clara University)
“Going Off the Map: The Geopolitics of Captivity from Cabeza de Vaca to Katniss Everdeen”
6:00 PM
RECEPTION @ Pinzone’s Italian Downtown
312 Fairhope Avenue
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12
9:00 AM
Moderator: Justin St. Clair, University of South Alabama
Heidi LaVine (Westminster College)
“Filling the White Spaces in Black Caribbean History: Maryse Condé’s Acts of Historiographic Metafiction”
Laura Clapper (Indiana University)
“Diagnosing Nervous Conditions: Rethinking Captivity and Narrative Recovery of the Captive Subject”
Joshua Murray (Kent State University)
“‘The Thing that Bound and Suffocated Her’: Psychological Captivity in Nella Larsen’s Passing”
10:30 AM
Moderator: John Halbrooks, University of South Alabama
Jeanne Holland (University of Wyoming)
“The Captor Redeemed: Reinvigorating British Masculinity in E.M. Hull’s The Sheik”
Jane Huber (Union Theological Seminary)
“Unfolding Song: An Analysis of HSA B2916, an 11th-Century Mozarabic Codex from the Hispanic Society of NY”
Omar Siddiqi (University of North Texas)
“Transcultural Fear and the Renegade in Early American Dramas of Barbary Captivity”
1:00 PM
Moderator: Ellen Harrington, University of South Alabama
Joy A.J. Howard (Saint Joseph’s University)
“Making Sense of the Pieces: Identity After the 1704 Deerfield Raid and Mohawk Captivity”
Elizabeth Thompson (Ohio University)
“Redeeming Male Captives: Maternal Love and White National Purity in Lydia Maria Child’s ‘Willie Wharton’”
Emily Wardrop (University of Oklahoma)
“Captivity, Authority, and Memory: The Stories of Mary Schwandt”
2:30 PM
Moderator: Sue Walker, University of South Alabama
Dan Collins (Nichols School, Buffalo, NY)
“Underground”
Joe Conway (University of Alabama-Huntsville)
“Bound by Sound: Poe and the Captivating Voice of Ideology”
Kandace Geldmeier (Syracuse University)
“Uterine Captivity: Motherhood, Stillbirth, and the Abject”
4:00 PM
Moderator: Cris Hollingsworth, University of South Alabama
Ethan Bumas (New Jersey City University)
“Time Undone: Tropes of Colonial Captivity Narratives in Contemporary Prison Writing”
Victoria Duncan (McMaster University)
“Seventeenth-Century English Prison Writing and Identity Formation”
Hussein Zamani (University of Isfahan)
“Irish Prison Writing and the Victorian Penitentiary”
5:30 PM
RECEPTION @ Tamara’s Downtown
104 North Section Street
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13
9:00 AM
Moderator: Chris Raczkowski, University of South Alabama
Richard Bell (University of Maryland-College Park)
“On the Road to the Dismal Gulf: Free Blacks’ Journey into Slavery”
Kristen Brill (University of Cambridge)
“The Enslaved Plantation Mistresses: The Rhetoric of Captivity in Women’s Civil War Narratives, 1861-1865”
Anne Matthews (Millikin University)
“‘To go back where I came from’: Wallace Turnage and Primo Levi’s Concept of Shame”
10:30 AM
Moderator: Julian Knox, University of South Alabama
Christopher Cowley (SUNY Buffalo) + Justin Litaker (Purdue University)
“Apparatuses of Capture: Capitalism and the Primitive Accumulation of Debt”
Heather Hathaway (Marquette University)
“Ethnicity and Captivity in the United States: Literary Responses to Japanese American Internment”
Steven Trout (University of South Alabama)
“Held Captive by a Narrative?: The Angel Fire Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the MIA/POW Issue”
