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36th Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and

Literatures

Conference Chairs

Juan Camilo Galeano Sánchez

Julie Recoque-Ouvrard

Faculty Advisors

Michael Gott, Conference Director

Anne-Marie Jézéquel, Advisor

Conference Advisors

María del Mar Gámez García

Taylor Larson Jessica Wilson

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Thank You

The 36th Cincinnati Conference on Romance Languages and Literatures would never have happened without the gracious hard work by the following people:

Carlos Gutiérrez, Department Head

Kathryn Lorezn, Logistics

Thérèse Migraine-George, Professor of French

Greg Spillman

Rebecca Dulemba

Connor Boone

The Charles Phelps Taft Research Center

The Charles Phelps Taft Memorial Fund

The RLL Faculty and Graduate Student Body

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An Homage to Emeritus Professor Sanford Ames

Sanford Scribner Ames exemplified the study of 20th-century French literature and civilization as a professor at UC for more than 30 years. A course on New Criticism that Serge Doubrovsky taught while Sanford was at Harvard made him change his major to French. He began devouring Proust, Gide, Surrealist poetry, Artaud, Camus, theater of the Absurd, and colonial travel literature by Cendrars, Ségalen, Céline, Genet, Duras, Leiris, and Lévi-Strauss among others.

Praised by colleagues and students alike, Professor Ames received this tribute from Richard Howard in 1987: "There are not a dozen men and women in the entire country with Sanford Ames's resourcefulness, penetration, and deep understanding of how literature—the art of language—functions in the range and realm of French. . ."

Professor Ames took great joy and pride in investigating and teaching the language that 20th-century writers carved, sculpted, bent, interrogated, and deconstructed to shape human experience and existential questions in literary creations. Among his significant publications include Remains to be Seen : Essays on Marguerite Duras (1988), the first collection of essays in English devoted to the Saigon-born French author and film director (1914-96), L'impensable imaginaire : The Unthinkable Imaginary (1991) another collection of essays and several incisive articles on postmodernist aesthetics.

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The 2016 CCRLL at a Glance Thursday April 7th Friday April 8th Saturday April 9th

12:00 pm

Registration Open Max Kade Center

Old Chem 736

8:30

Coffee and Light Refreshments Served in the Kade Center

Old Chem 736

Sponsored by the UC Center for Film and Media Studies

09:00 – 10:30 am

Sessions #6-8

09:30 – 10:50 am Session #9

8:30

Coffee and Breakfast Pastries Served in the Kade Center

Old Chem 736

09:30 – 10:50 am

Sessions #25-27

09:30 – 11:30 am

Session #28

2:00 – 3:20 pm Sessions #1-4

3:30 – 4:50 pm

Session #5

10:30 – 11:50 am Sessions #10-12

11:00 – 12:20 am

Session #13

12:00 – 1:50 pm Sessions #14-16

2:00 – 3:20 pm Sessions #17-20

3:30 – 4:50 pm Sessions #21-24

09:30 – 12:30pm Session #29

11:00 – 1:00 pm

Session # 30

5:15 pm

Keynote Speaker

Allison James

TUC 400B

5:30 pm

Keynote Speaker

Juan Carlos Galeano

Braunstein Hall 300

7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Opening Ceremony

Cocktail Party Max Kade Center

Old Chem 736

7:15 pm -11:15 pm Conference Banquet

Dinner & Dancing Max Kade Center

Old Chem 736

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Keynote Speakers Biographical Information

Dr. Alison James, University of Chicago

Alison James teaches twentieth- and twenty-first-century French literature at the University of Chicago. In general terms, her work aims to reconnect the experimental literature of the twentieth century to the real-life concerns that it is often assumed to have abandoned. Her research interests include the Oulipo group, representations of everyday life, contemporary nonfiction narrative, and connections between literature and philosophy. She is the author of Constraining Chance: Georges Perec and the Oulipo (Northwestern University Press, 2009), a study of one the major figures of postwar French literature. Her current project, Writing With Facts, identifies the emergence in the twentieth century of a “documentary imagination” that shapes French literature’s relationship to visual representation, testimonial discourses, and autobiographical narrative.

Dr. Juan Carlos Galeano, Florida State University

Juan Carlos Galeano is a poet, translator, and essayist born in the Amazon region of Colombia. He has published several books of poetry, and has translated North American poets into Spanish. Over a decade of fieldwork on symbolic narratives of riverine and forest people in the Amazon resulted in his production of a comprehensive collection of folktales of the basin and a documentary film. His poetry, inspired by Amazonian cosmologies and the modern world (Amazonia 2003, 2011), has been anthologized and published in international journals such Casa de las Américas (Cuba), The Atlantic Monthly and Ploughshares (U.S.). He lives in Tallahassee, Florida, where he teaches Latin American poetry and Amazonian Cultures at Florida State University.

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36th Annual Cincinnati Conference

on

Romance Languages

and

Literatures Official Program

Thursday, April 7

12:00 pm

Registration Open

Max Kade Center – Old Chem 736

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2:00 p.m. to 3:20 p.m

1. Literatures of the African Diaspora: Orality, Migration and Identity

Chaired by: Julie Recoque Room: Old Chem 727

Abou-Bakar Mamah, University of Minnesota, “L’Afropolitanisme: un néologisme pour caractériser et comprendre le déplacement des populations africaines en Afrique et à travers le monde.” Amanda Stewart, University of Cincinnati, “One Story or Two: A comparative study of Francophone African and African-American Literatures”

2. Crítica Literaria en Hispanoamérica: Colonial

Chaired by: Daniel Torres Room: Old Chem 701

María Gascón Buj, Ohio University, “Aires de Grandeza mexicana: una urbe en lo alto del mundo.” Israel Mendoza Casinos, Ohio University, “Las ideas ilustradas con filtro picaresco en El periquillo sarniento: una popular herramienta de cambio.”

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3. Aproximaciones teóricas a la novela del Boom: Onetti, Cortazar y García Márquez

Chaired by: Nicasio Urbina Room: Old Chem 713

Manuel R. Montes, University of Cincinnati, “Extirpación y methexis platónica como preámbulos a la (no) escritura en La vida breve de Juan Carlos Onetti.” Zurisaday Moreno, The State University of New Yotk at Buffalo, “El poder y el Otro.” Gregory Utley, The University of Texas at Tyler, “Body of Excess, Body of Pleasure: Jouissance in the Fiction of Gabriel García Márquez.”

4. Revisitando a los clásicos: nuevos abordajes del teatro español.

Chaired by: Andrés Pérez-Simón Room: TUC 423

Alejandro Osorio-Hernández, Michigan State University, “El proceso de (des)mitificación en Los áspides Cleopatra de Rojas Zorrilla” Laurie Urraro, Penn State University, “Transformations: Re-zoning Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Spanish Plays” Miriam Yvonn Márquez Barragán, University of Cincinnati, “La triple creación en Bodas de sangre de Federico García Lorca: palabra, escena e imagen.”

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3:30 p.m. to 4:50 p.m

5. Crítica Literaria en Hispanoamérica: Siglos XX-XXI

Chaired by: Daniel Torres Room: Old Chem 701

Alba García Alonso, Ohio University, “Los funerales de la mamá grande de Gabriel García Márquez y una identidad real maravillosa.” Isabel Cabrera Gutiérrez, Ohio University, “El mundo heterocruel de Luis Negrón.” Adobea Nii Owoo, Ohio University, "Identidades en tránsito: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao y Americanah"

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5:15 p.m

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Alison James, University of Chicago

TUC 400B

7:15 p.m – 8:30 p.m

Opening Ceremony – Cocktail Party

Max Kade Center, Old Chem 736

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Friday, April 8th

8:30 - Coffee and Light Refreshments Served in the Kade Center (Old Chem 736)

Sponsored by the UC Center for Film and Media Studies

9:00 a.m. to 10:20 a.m.

6. Literary techniques of the 17th Century Classics

Chaired by: Danielle Baker Room: Old Chem 530

Sean Gower, University of Cincinnati, “La narratrice de Clèves : L’amour, l’éthique, et l’aveu espéré.” Larry W. Riggs, Butler University, “Molière’s Comedy of the Modernizing Self: Dominance, Desire and Repression of the Body from Arnolphe to Argan.” Kathryn Willis Wolfe, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, “Subjecting Religion’s Claims for Its Supreme Being to the Comic Perspective of Carnival in Molière’s Pre-Enlightenment Play, Le Festin de Pierre (Dom Juan)”

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7. Cuerpo, experiencia, identidad: narrativas contemporáneas escritas por mujeres

Chaired by: Camilo Galeano Room: Old Chem 531

Naiara Porras, University of Kentucky, “Hibridez y la representación de la mujer en Lágrimas en la lluvia.” Dijana Šavija, University at Buffalo, “Reconstrucción de la memoria a través de los lentes de la mitología: El mismo mar de todos los veranos.” Jennifer Jouriles, Baldwin Wallace University , “El simbolismo de la casa y el continuo de la identidad femenina en Como agua para chocolate, La casa en Mango Street y Tan lejos de dios.”

8. Narrativas urbanas y novela negra: perspectivas peninsulares

Chaired by: Giovanni Bello Room: Old Chem 623

Kalen Oswald, Albion College, “Crime, Detectives and Identity in Andreu Martín’s Barcelona Connection and Por el amor de Dios.” Dan Treber, Taylor University, “Shadows of a Coming Wind?: The Early Work of Carlos Ruiz Zafón.” Giovanni Bello, University of Cincinnati, “Una propuesta de lectura literaria desde la contracultura: el caso de Historias del Kronen y Lo peor de todo.”

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9:30 a.m. to 10:50 a.m.

9. Practical application of Pedagogical Theories

Chaired by: Cristina Kowalski Room: Old Chem 602

Andrew J. Deiser, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, “Rethinking the Undergraduate Language Curriculum and Assessment in the Twenty-First Century” Eva Villaverde Krieg, University of Cincinnati, “Inclusion in the Classroom through Collaborative Learning Assessment in Higher Education”

10:30 a.m. to 11:50 a.m.

10. El imaginario bélico, la identidad y la tragedia en el teatro

español

Chaired by: Alexander Selimov Room: Old Chem 530

Antonio Gines Collado, University of Delaware, “El imaginario militar áureo en Don Juan Tenorio y Don Álvaro o la fuerza del sino.” Abigail McCalister Guerrero, University of Delaware, “Don Alvaro o la Fuerza devastadora del sino.” Alexander Selimov, University of Delaware, “La identidad femenina, el romanticismo y la tecnología de (in)subordinación.” José Antonio Franquelo, University of Delaware, “El perfil donjuaniano: la masculinidad transgresora y su confirmación psicoanalítica como modelo de transición.”

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11. Migración y producción cultural desde la frontera

Chaired by: Eugenia Mazur Room: Old Chem 513

Joshua D. Martin, University of Kentucky, “‘No hay frontera si no existe la necesidad de cruzar’: Deconstructing Stereotypes of Immigrant Border Crossers in Instrucciones para cruzar la frontera (2011) by Luis Humberto Crosthwaite.” Constantin C. Icleanu, University of Kentucky, “Standing Up for Immigration Rights: Hip Hop’s Discourse of Inclusion in Spain.” Martha Kosir, Gannon University, “Flores de otro mundo – The Concept of Transculturality in Spanish Cinema.”

12. La experiencia urbana en la creación literaria argentina.

Chaired by: Yvonn Márquez Room: Old Chem 713

Paula Fecay, Wayne State University, “Marginalización, autoficción y la recuperación de la memoria en El común olvido.” Zaida Villanueva García & Cecilia Battauz, West Virginia University, “Cuando el Margen Becomes el Centro: función semiótica en La virgen cabeza de Gabriela Cabezón Cámara.”

11:00 a.m. to 12:20 p.m.

13. New Tools in the Spanish Classroom

Chaired by: Fenfang Hwu Room: Old Chem 623

Olivia Cole & Ksenia Bonch Reeves, Wright State University, ““Ocho apellidos vascos” (Spain, 2014) as a Teaching Tool in the Spanish Classroom” Fenfang Hwu & Cristina Kowalski, University of Cincinnati, “Developing Receptive Practice for the Acquisition of Spanish Past Tenses in the Conversational Discourse”

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12:00 p.m. to 1:50 p.m.

14. Narrativas del cuerpo, el género y la sexualidad

Chaired by: Camilo Galeano Room: Old Chem 530 Judit Fuente Cuesta, Michigan State University, “The First ‘Chica Almodóvar’, Carmen Maura, as the Enforcer of the Symbolic Order in the Post-dictatorship in Spain.” Natalie Nagl, Wayne State University, “Film as Narrative of the Outsider: Marginalization in La ciénaga and El niño pez” Luis Miguel Estrada, University of Cincinnati, “El boxeador: de la caricatura del ídolo caído al héroe trágico.”

15. El despertar de la memoria histórica en el cine y la

literatura

Chaired by: Alba Fernández Fernández Room: Old Chem 531

Alba Fernández Fernández, Western Michigan University, “La voz dormida: reconstrucción de un pasado traumático.” Manuela Olaru, Western Michigan University, “La violencia institucional en Los girasoles ciegos.”

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16. Nuevas perspectivas en indigenismo y conciencia social latinoamericana

Chaired by: Stephanie Alcantar Room: Old Chem 602

Diego Mora, University of Cincinnati, “De Zeus a Sibú: el concepto de oralitura en la poesía indígena bribri.” Mary-Garland Jackson, Central Michigan University, “Marginalization and Misery in Julio Ramón Rubeyro’s Urban Narrative, ‘Los gallinazos sin plumas’.” Alberto Rivera Vaca, University of Central Arkansas, “Learning Poetry Pedagogy Categories and Methods through Latin American Poetry.”

2:00 p.m. to 3:20 p.m.

17. Poetry and Religion, Perspectives on French Literature

Chaired by: Jessica Wilson Room: Old Chem 530

Edward Tabri, University of Texas at Tyler, “Jean de Rouvroy: Scholastic and Humanist” Elizaveta Lyulekina, The Graduate Center, CUNY, “Maurice Scève et Louise Labé : l’approche masculine et l’approche féminine à création de la poésie amoureuse de la Renaissance.” Angelo Metzidakis, Sweet Briar College, “Lire Les Châtiments de Victor Hugo aujourd'hui”

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18. La creación del personaje femenino, aproximaciones criticas

Chaired by: Mar Gámez Room: Old Chem 531

Julianna Coleman, Ohio University, “Esposada al abuso: infidelidad e independencia en el cuento ecuatoriano femenino ‘Leda’.” Kathleen Thompson-Casado, University of Toledo, “The Evolution of Bruna Huskey.” Alrick C. Knight, Jr., Loyola University Chicago, “Subversions of Beauty in Benito Pérez Galdós’ Marianela”

19. Interpretación estética de la realidad social en la literatura peninsular

Chaired by: Andrés Pérez-Simón Room: Old Chem 623

Antonio Parrilla-Recuero, Indiana University-Bloomington, “(Sur)realismo en la novelística de Jesús López Pacheco.” Stephanie Alcantar, University of Cincinnati, “Apología y petición, un análisis de la aparición de la sextina de Jaime Gil de Biedma dentro del contexto de su obra poética y de la tradición literaria española.” Bruce Milton Cole II, Univesity of Tennessee-Knoxville, “Una aproximación al poeta popular Ventura Ruíz Aguilera y la poesía social en Ecos nacionales.”

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20. Iberian and Latin American Philosophy: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Chaired by: Vicente Raja Room: Old Chem 713

Alberto Fernández-Diego, Western Michigan University, “El sistema filosófico de Gustavo Bueno Martínez: su desarrollo a través de las humanidades digitales.” Vicente Raja, University of Cincinnati, “¿Es posible una filosofía en español?” Guilherme Sanches de Oliveira, University of Cincinnati, “Philosophy in Brazil, Brazilian Philosophy, and Latin American Context.”

3:30 p.m. to 4:50 p.m.

21. Silence in Art: Representation of different Francophone Worlds.

Chaired by: Michael Gott Room: Old Chem 713

Elizabeth Willis, The Ohio State University, “Can the Québécoise speak? Insurgent re-membrance in La Fin des étés by Anne Claire Poirier” Virginie Jubeau, Michigan State University, “Cinéma et Histoire coloniale Néo-Calédonienne : L’ordre et la Morale de Mathieu Kassovitz : Traumatisme et expression de l’indicible au pays du non-dit.” Jessica Wilson, University of Cincinnati, “Le silence profond de Code Inconnu” Claire-Marie Brisson, Wayne State University, “Fashioning a Collective Perception: Decoding Fascist Aesthetics in Occupied France”

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22. Reflexiones en torno a los subalternos en la literatura del Siglo de Oro

Chaired by: Carlos M. Gutiérrez Room: Old Chem 530

Isaac Veysey-White, Western Michigan University, “La historia como instrumento de crítica sociopolitical: La desgraciada Raquel y la caracterización de los judíos.” Gemma Rodríguez Ibarra, University of Cincinnati, “EL monólogo de Laurencia en Fuenteovejuna: la imagen de una mujer del Siglo de Oro.” Patricia María Gamboa, University of Kentucky, “¿Pueden hablar las mujeres?: Dorotea, Marcela y la artificiosidad del discurso.”

23. Identity in Latin American Literature and Film

Chaired by: Francisco Cabanillas Room: Old Chem 727

Jessica Jacques, Bowling Green State University, “La metáfora de Calibán.” Ryder Cunningham, Bowling Green State University, “Yo quiero ser mujer: la mujer como un microcosmos de represión en El beso de la mujer araña de Manuel Puig.” Nanosh Lucas, Bowling Green State University, “Silencio, identidad y heterogeneidad: temas en el ambiente literario lésbico-gay.”

24. Historia de la literatura española y literatura comparada.

Una discusión histórico-teórica a partir de Drama, literatura, filosofía: Itinerarios del realismo y modernismo europeos, de Andrés Pérez-Simón.

Roundtable with Andrés Pérez-Simón (University of Cincinnati) and Mar Gámez (University of Cincinnati). Room: Old Chem 602

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5:30 p.m

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Juan Carlos Galeano, Florida State University

Braunstein Hall 300

7:15 p.m – 11:15 p.m

Banquet & Party

Max Kade Center, Old Chem 736

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Saturday, April 9th

8:30 - Coffee and Breakfast Pastries Served in the Kade Center (Old Chem 736)

9:30 a.m. to 10:50 a.m.

25. Cinematografía y representaciones discursivas.

Chaired by: Maricarmen Hernández Room: Old Chem 530

Ana Ruiz Alonso-Bartol, West Virginia University, “Surrealism in 8½: Fellini’s transgressor avan-garde.” Hunter Lang, University of Cincinnati, “Hypothetical Minds: The Problem of Adapting the Narrative Perspective of Vargas Llosa’s novel Los cachorros to Film.”

26. Luis Estrada: hacia la construcción de una impronta

mexicana en el cine.

Chaired by: Luis Estrada Room: Old Chem 531

Héctor Garza, Southwestern Oklahoma University, “¿El Charlie mexicano o un nuevo Germán Valdés?: la lucha proletaria como un continuum de la historia.” Cynthia Peña, Southwestern Oklahoma University, “Porque cuando despertamos de la pesadilla panista el dinosaurio todavía estaba allí: La dictadura perfecta y La ley de Herodes de Luis Estrada.” Katie Moran, Bowling Green State University, “Los olvidados en Un mundo maravilloso: la continuación de la ilusión democrática.”

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27. Short-story telling. Creative Writing Session.

Chaired by: Milagros Quiles Room: Old Chem 713

María del Mar Gámez, University of Cincinnati, “La primera víctima.” Eugenia Mazur, University of Cincinnati, “La noche derramada.” Milagros Quiles, University of Cincinnati, “Mi querido Don Quijote: te escribo del discurso de las armas y las letras.”

9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

28. Roundtable: Enlightening and Exchanging Ideas on the Current Events: (D)Jihadism and Global (Mis)Interpretation / (Mis)Understanding

Room: Old Chem 623

Ismael Chartier, Current Imam at the Clifton Mosque. Abdelghader Ould Siyam, Former Imam of Clifton Mosque and Former Imam of West Chester Mosque Shaykh Mahdmoud Khalil, Quran Recitation and Memorization Scholar - Clifton Mosque

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9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

29. Reaffirming Identity in the Contemporary Francophone World

Chaired by: Sammy Belhafian Room: Old Chem 602

Adrianne Barbo, Oberlin College, “Privileged Silence: A Former Rapper’s Art of Identity Negotiation.” Roger Pieroni, Middle Tennessee State University, “Kiffe-Kiffe demain de Faiza Guène : un kaléidoscope littéraire, culturel et linguistique représentatif de la vision fragmentée du monde des «djeuns » ” Violeta Mitrovic, University of Buffalo, “L’« extime » dans l’œuvre de Camille Laurens: Philippe (1995), Dans ces bras-là (2000), L’Amour, roman (2003)” Xinyi Tan, Ohio State University, "Ru by Kim Thúy: a flowing tale of maternal legacy and transcultural migration" Erik Nesse, University of Colorado at Boulder, “To Leave is to Vanish – Migration and Disappearance in Tahar Ben Jelloun’s Partir”

11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.

30. Breaking Barriers: el arte de la traducción poética / First English-Spanish Encuentro of Poetical Translation

Chaired by: Paola Cadena Room: Old Chem 713

From the Department of English and Comparative Literature: Ondrej Pazdirek, Linwood Rumney, Caitlin Doyle, Brenda Peynado, Laura Thompson, Sarah Ann Strickley. From the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures: Eugenia Mazur, Paola Cadena-Pardo, Diego Mora, Stephanie Alcantar, Giovanni Bello.

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