Presenters and Presentation Titles
Steve Bartels
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
Sprachfest! Exploring Culture through Cliche at High School Foreign Language Competitions.
Daniel Bowman
University of Maryland
Bizet in Africa: The Localization of Narrative in Joseph Gaï Ramaka’s Karmen Geï
Andrzej Brylak
University of Illinois at Chicago
Jews and Poles and the Ukrainaian Barricades? A Transnational Perspective on “Maidan” Counterculture.
Dylan Burns
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“This Poverty is Hurtin’ My Pride:” British Post-Imperial Identity and Working Class detachment in the Music of Ray Davies.
Amalia Cantisán Muñoz
University of Illinois at Chicago
Haunted by History: transatlantic first person narratives in Bolaño’s Nocturno de Chile and Cercas’s Soldados de Salamina.
Priscilla Charrat
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Words, Faces, Images: Giving the Nation's "Mohammeds" More Than a Voice.
Renata Fuchs
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Global Dis/Connections through Literal and Metaphorical Borders in Terézia Mora’s Das Ungeheuer
Elvira Godek-Kiryluk
University of Illinois at Chicago
Platonov’s The Foundation Pit: The Politics of Superfluity in the Soviet State.
David Hullinger
Loyola University
Every Man A King: Personal Responsibility in All the King’s Men
Catherine Kirchman
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
"Europeana and the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek: EU Cultural Policy through Digital Libraries"
Max McKenna
University of Chicago
“Zigzagging in the Motor Age: Automobility and Errant Mobility in The Crying of Lot 4”
Mark Moll
Indiana University
"The Disillusionment of an Arbeiterdichter: The Two Lives of Maurice Reinhold von Stern"
Kristina Pilz
University of Washington
BlackWhite Narratives: Reading Afro-German Configurations of Cultural Identity.
Jessica Schook
University of Illinois at Chicago
Reading Melancholy into la Movida: Counter-Culture Identity Loss in Alberto García-Alix’s No “Me Sigas... Estoy Perdido” and “Tres Videos Tristes”
Christina Schultz
University of Illinois at Chicago
“There’s No Place Like Home: Globalization and Rootedness in Modern Society”.
Gokce Tekeli
University of Kentucky
“The Quest for the “I” in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”
Serhii Tereshchenko
University of Illinois at Chicago
“Russian misogyny and Western homosexuality: What is to live around idiots?”
Jonathan Tillotson
University of Illinois at Chicago
Smallpox and the Narrative of Conversion in the Autobiographies of Giacomo Casanova and Franz Xaver Bronner
Jenna Veren
University of Illinois at Chicago
Punished or Chosen?: Freud's Castration Anxiety and Circumcision.
Irina Yakubovskaya
Tufts University
Devalued trophy of the Tsarist era: the return of Alexander Vertinsky to the Soviet land.
Szymon Zuberek
University of Illnois at Chicago
Amerika, du hast es besser? - The image of America in the post-second world war German poetry"
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
Sprachfest! Exploring Culture through Cliche at High School Foreign Language Competitions.
Daniel Bowman
University of Maryland
Bizet in Africa: The Localization of Narrative in Joseph Gaï Ramaka’s Karmen Geï
Andrzej Brylak
University of Illinois at Chicago
Jews and Poles and the Ukrainaian Barricades? A Transnational Perspective on “Maidan” Counterculture.
Dylan Burns
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“This Poverty is Hurtin’ My Pride:” British Post-Imperial Identity and Working Class detachment in the Music of Ray Davies.
Amalia Cantisán Muñoz
University of Illinois at Chicago
Haunted by History: transatlantic first person narratives in Bolaño’s Nocturno de Chile and Cercas’s Soldados de Salamina.
Priscilla Charrat
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Words, Faces, Images: Giving the Nation's "Mohammeds" More Than a Voice.
Renata Fuchs
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Global Dis/Connections through Literal and Metaphorical Borders in Terézia Mora’s Das Ungeheuer
Elvira Godek-Kiryluk
University of Illinois at Chicago
Platonov’s The Foundation Pit: The Politics of Superfluity in the Soviet State.
David Hullinger
Loyola University
Every Man A King: Personal Responsibility in All the King’s Men
Catherine Kirchman
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
"Europeana and the Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek: EU Cultural Policy through Digital Libraries"
Max McKenna
University of Chicago
“Zigzagging in the Motor Age: Automobility and Errant Mobility in The Crying of Lot 4”
Mark Moll
Indiana University
"The Disillusionment of an Arbeiterdichter: The Two Lives of Maurice Reinhold von Stern"
Kristina Pilz
University of Washington
BlackWhite Narratives: Reading Afro-German Configurations of Cultural Identity.
Jessica Schook
University of Illinois at Chicago
Reading Melancholy into la Movida: Counter-Culture Identity Loss in Alberto García-Alix’s No “Me Sigas... Estoy Perdido” and “Tres Videos Tristes”
Christina Schultz
University of Illinois at Chicago
“There’s No Place Like Home: Globalization and Rootedness in Modern Society”.
Gokce Tekeli
University of Kentucky
“The Quest for the “I” in Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic”
Serhii Tereshchenko
University of Illinois at Chicago
“Russian misogyny and Western homosexuality: What is to live around idiots?”
Jonathan Tillotson
University of Illinois at Chicago
Smallpox and the Narrative of Conversion in the Autobiographies of Giacomo Casanova and Franz Xaver Bronner
Jenna Veren
University of Illinois at Chicago
Punished or Chosen?: Freud's Castration Anxiety and Circumcision.
Irina Yakubovskaya
Tufts University
Devalued trophy of the Tsarist era: the return of Alexander Vertinsky to the Soviet land.
Szymon Zuberek
University of Illnois at Chicago
Amerika, du hast es besser? - The image of America in the post-second world war German poetry"