Session Information
Presentations
1: ‘Killed by the U.S.A!’: Reading James T. Farrell’s Studs Lonigan as an Immigrant Response to John Dos Passos’s U.S.A.
Aaron Babcock, Ohio U, Athens
2: Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha, the Mid-Century American Novel, and Being Human
Marilyn Judith Atlas, Ohio U, Athens
3: Precarity, Violence, and the Structures of Rural Life in Tomás Rivera’s . . . And the Earth Did Not Devour Him
Andy Oler, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical U
4: The Simulacrum and Optimism of Midwestern Maternity in Louise Erdrich’s Future Home of the Living God
Megan Cannella, U of Nevada, Reno
Presider
Marilyn Judith Atlas, Ohio U, Athens