Session Information
Description: This session presents comparisons of discrete approaches to, constructions of, and gazes upon the “Orient,” from the Holy Land to East Asia, medieval and postmedieval, across media, with special attention to the spaces of Spain and England.
Speakers
Erik G. Ekman, Oklahoma State U, Stillwater
Monika Fludernik, U of Freiburg
Susan M. Nakley, St. Joseph’s C, Brooklyn
Tania Nguyen, McGill U
David Reher, U of Chicago
Presider
Shirin Khanmohamadi, San Francisco State U