MESEA Conference 2002
Padua June 26-29 2002
Panel Schedule
Thursday morning
1.1
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Room H
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Anthony Marasco
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Liminal Sites: The Spatialization of Difference in a Trans-Atlantic Context
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University of California at Berkeley
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USA
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Shaul Bassi
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The Ghetto: The Ghetto of Venice: From Shylock to Lubavitch
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University of Venice
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Italy
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Anthony Marasco
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The Villa: Jefferson's Villa at Monticello: An Emblem of the Spatialization of Difference Leading to the Waging of a Civil War and the Drawing of a Color Line in America
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University of California at Berkeley
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USA
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Franca Bernabei
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The City: Atlantic Crossings and (Post)-Metropolitan Transitions in Carribean Diasporic Fiction
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University of Venice
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Italy
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Marina Cacioppo
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The Village: Writing Spaces: Italian Americans Writing Home
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Oxford University
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GB
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1.2
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Room F
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Monika Müller
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(Cross)Blood Memories
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University of Cologne
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Germany
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Heather Leigh Johnson
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Theodore Roethke's German Roots
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Georgia State University
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USA
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Harriet Masembe
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August Wilson and James McBride: Two Tales of Euro-Afro Identity among African-Americans
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Norfolk State University
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USA
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Monika Müller
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Race as (Cultural) Alterity?: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and Dred and George Eliot's Daniel Deronda
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University of Cologne
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Germany
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David Cowart
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Ethnicity as Palimpsest in Mylene Dressler's The Deadwood Beetle
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University of South Carolina
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USA
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Martha Montello
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The Dark Legacy of "Bad Blood": European-American Connections through Science and Blues Lyrics
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Harvard University; University of Kansas
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USA
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1.3
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Room C
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Monica Chiu
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Speaking Sites: Translingualisms
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University of New Hampshire
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USA
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Alicia Otano
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"my words will always come out like home": Privileging Non-standard English in Multiethnic Novels
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University of Navarre
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Spain
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Agnieszka Bedingfield
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Trans-Memory and Diaspora: Memories of Europe and Asia in American Immigrant Narratives
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University of Warsaw
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Poland
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Martha Cutter
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Cortes's Legacy: The Politics and Poetics of Voice in Chicano/a Literature
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Kent State University
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USA
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Maria Lauret
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Mary Antin, Eva Hoffman, and Multilingual America
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University of Sussex
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GB
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James Byrne
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Mapping a "Gaelachas" Sensibility: Mr. Dooley's Dialect(ic) as Delineation and Creation of an Irish-American Community
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University College Cork
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Ireland
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1.4
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Room E
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Gita Rajan
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“New Breeds for Old Places”: Postcolonialism (1)
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Fairfield University
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USA
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Laura Harris
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L'Abbandono: Who's (Whose) Meticcio in the Eritrea Italy Diaspora?
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Pitzer College
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USA
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Michaela Mudure
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Comparative Multiculturalisms: USA and Romania
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Babes-Bolyai University
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Romania
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Gita Rajan
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Structuring Race and Subjectivity in the National Imaginary: Divakaruni and Sayal
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Fairfield University
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USA
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Eleanor Ty
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The Inadequacy of the Hyphenated Asian Ethnic Signifier: Reading Asian North American and European Ethnic Narratives as Global Narratives
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Wilfrid Laurier University
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Canada
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Begona Simal Gonzales
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Ethnic and Cultural Border Sites: A Holographic Approach to Zadie Smith and Helena María Viramontes
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University of La Coruña
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Spain
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1.5
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Room D
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Elisabetta Marino
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(Re)imagining the Homeland (1)
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University of Rome, Tor Vergata
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Italy
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Edward Merwin
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Representations of Di Alte Heym (The Old Country) in American Yiddish Drama
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Dickinson College
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USA
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Winfried Herget
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Herman, the Cheruscan and the Search for Symbols of German-American Ethnicity
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University of Mainz
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Germany
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Alan Rice
Angela Leonard
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Remembering Diaspora through Gravesites, Memorials and Performance
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University of Central Lancashire
Loyola University
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GB
USA
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Reshmi Dutt
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Memory as a Site of Abjection: Interrogating What is Lost in Lost in Translation and FaultLines
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University of Minnesota
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USA
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Lene Johannessen
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When Globalization Goes Local: Creating New Homes
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University of Bergen
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Norway
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1.6
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Room G
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Roy Goldblatt
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Disillusionment and Resignation
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University of Joensuu
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Finland
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Roy Goldblatt
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Doctrines of Resignation
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University of Joensuu
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Finland
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Seiwoong Oh
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Dilemma in the Kitchen: Food, Ethnicity and Culture in Timothy Mo's Sweet
Sour and Gish Jen's Typical American
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Rider University
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USA
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Cheryl Alexander Malcolm
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Out of Brooklin or Beijing? Comedies of Resignation in David Henry Hwang's
M. Butterfly
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University of Gdansk
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Poland
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Suzanne Ferguson
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Heartsongs/Artsongs: Native Americans in Europe in the Fiction of James Welch and Leslie Marmon Silko
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Case Western Reserve University
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USA
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1.7
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Room I
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Mark Rozell
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The Evolving Political Roles of Ethnic/Religious Groups in Modern Democracies
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Catholic University of America
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USA
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Joel Fetzer,
J. Christopher Soper
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The Political Impact of Islamic Immigration in France and Great Britain
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Central Michigan University,
Pepperdine University
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USA,
USA
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Michael Foley,
Dean Hoge
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Varieties of Political Experience: Local Worship Communities and the Political Education of New Immigrants
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Catholic University of America,
Catholic University of America
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USA,
USA
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Clyde Wilcox,
Mark J. Rozell
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Comparing and Contrasting Political Attitudes Among White and Black Evangelicals in the United States
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Georgetown University,
Catholic University of America
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USA,
USA
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Thursday afternoon
2.1
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Room H
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Gonul Pultar
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Circumatlantic Cities
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Bilkent University
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Turkey
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David Caldwell
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Venice and Vice: European and American Narratives from the Birthplace of the Ghetto
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University of Northern Colorado
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USA
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Konstanze Kutzbach
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The Hard-Boiled Pattern as Discursive Practice of Ethnic Subalternity in Jakob Arjouni's Happy Birthday, Turk! and Irene Dische's Ein Job
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University of Cologne
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Germany
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Elena Apenko
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"Russian New York", or Russians in New York?
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State University of St. Petersburg
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Russia
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Gonul Pultar
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The Metropolis as Site of Ethnic Identity: Bharati Mukherjee’s New York and Buchi Emecheta’s London
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Bilkent University
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Turkey
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2.2
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Room F
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Richard Serrano
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Shifting Locations: Americans in Paris
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Rutgers University
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USA
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Lynn Weiss
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The Fortune Teller: Victor Séjour and the Mortara Affair
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College of William and Mary
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USA
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Elèna Mortara
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African Americans, Jews and Catholic Creoles: A Descendant's Response to the Mortara Affair and Its Literary Representation
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University of Rome, Tor Vergata
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Italy
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Carla Cappetti
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An American in Paris: Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue"
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City College of New York - CUNY
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USA
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Richard Serrano
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"You're the Top, You're the Eiffel Tower": Interracial Gay Couples in Baldwin and Ouologuem
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Rutgers University
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USA
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2.3
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Room C
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Alison Goeller
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Strangers in a Strange Land
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University of Maryland in Europe
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Germany
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Kul Rai
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Doctorates Earned by Black, Asian, and White Women at American and British Universities: A Comparison
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Southern Connecticut State University
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USA
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Norma Hervey
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Local Multi-Faced European Ethnicity in the United States: 20th Century Celebrations and Challenges in Iowa
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Luther College
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USA
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Dorothea Löbbermann
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Making Strange in Tourism: Europeans in Harlem
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Center for Literary Studies, Berlin
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Germany
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Alison Goeller
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Strangers in a Strange Land: Civil Rights and The NAACP in Europe
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University of Maryland in Europe
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Germany
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Martin Fischer
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Charles Taylor's Communitarism: Establishing a Francophone Collective Self in Quebec
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University of Mainz
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Germany
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2.4
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Room E
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Yonka Krasteva
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(Cross)Blood Interactions
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University of Veliko Turnovo
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Bulgaria
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Glenn Deer
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Eating the Eurasian Literary Text: Food, Sex, and Trans-Cultural Desire in Fred Wah's Diamond Grill, Sigrid Nunez's A Feather on the Breath of God, and Juzo Itami's Tampopo
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University of British Columbia
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Canada
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Cassandra Jackson
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Unnatural Union”: Race and the Colonial Past in The Last of the Mohicans
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Northeastern University
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USA
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Yonka Krasteva
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Post-ethnic Performativity and Multicultural Ambivalence: Testing the Limits of Borderlands in Gish Jen's Mona in the Promised Land and Meera Syal's Anita and Me
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University of Veliko Turnovo
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Bulgaria
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Martino Marazzi
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"Brushing the boots of a colored man": Italian Americans and African Americans
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Columbia University
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USA
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Joonok Huh
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A Chinese Woman Becoming Honorary Irish?: Reading Gish Jen's "Who is Irish?"
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University of Northern Colorado
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USA
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2.5
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Room D
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Rocio Davis
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“New Breeds for Old Places”: Postcolonialism (3)
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University of Navarra
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Spain
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Grace Kyungwon Hong
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Immigration, Tourism, Consumerism: Shani Mootoo's Cereus Blooms at Night and Hanif Koureshi's The Buddha of Suburbia
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Princeton University
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USA
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Dorothy Wang
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Hip, Young, and Exotic?: Diasporic Writing in San Francisco and London
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Northwestern University
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USA
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Amaia Ibarraran
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Redefining Conquest in Ana Castillo's Sapogonia
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University of País Vasco
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Spain
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Rosa Maria Diez
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Rosario Ferre's The House on the Lagoon: Puerto Rican Ethnical and National Identities under Construction
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University of Leon
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Spain
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Amrit Singh
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South Asians in the North American and European Diasphora: Before and After September 11
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Rhode Island College
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USA
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2.6
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Room G
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Cathy Covell Waegner
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Double Mirrors: American Ethnicities Looking toward Europe
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University of Siegen
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Germany
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Lee Schweninger
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Claiming Europe: Native American Literary Responses to the Old World
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University of North Carolina
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USA
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Steven Mailloux
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"What the colour of my skin meant": Tracking the Rhetorical Paths of Thought in the Performance of Racial Identities in Nineteenth-Century America and Europe
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University of California, Irvine
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USA
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Danuta Pytlak
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Laying the Foundations for a Polish-American Identity: Polish and American Literary, Cultural and Social Inspirations in the Fiction of Helena Stas
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University of Warsaw
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Poland
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Iping Liang
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European Plays and American Ethnics: A Study of the Concept of Play in Ishmael Reed and Gerald Vizenor
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National Taiwan Normal University
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Taiwan
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Cynthia Tolentino
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Looking toward Europe: Refiguring Race, Literary Citizenship, and Cold War Culture in America is in the Heart
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Vassar College
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USA
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