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2020 Program Sessions

034. The Work of Feeling in the Age of Deindustrialization

12:00 PM–1:15 PM Jan 9, 2020 (US - Pacific)

WSCC - 4C-1

Session Information

Presentations

1: The Novel as Sensitivity Training: Race and Affective Labor in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah

Deborah Thurman, Washington U in St. Louis

2: Behaving for the Gig Economy: The Fleet, the Property, and ‘the Help’

Michelle Chihara, Whittier C

3: Summer Jobs in the Nostalgia Industry

Shirl Yang, U of Chicago

Related Material: For related material, visit https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/20th-and-21st-century-american/

Presider

Rachel Greenwald Smith, St. Louis U

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