Session Information
Description: How might we grasp American literary history from the vantage of the refugee, the political figure of our time? How should we reimagine identity, citizenship, and human rights on global and intimate scales? Americanist scholars from different historical periods recover longer histories of current “crises” around migration and consider ethics of memory and social justice beyond humanitarianism.
Speakers
Stephanie DeGooyer, Willamette U
Hector Hoyos, Stanford U
Carrie Hyde, U of California, Los Angeles
Min Hyoung Song, Boston C
Presider
Yogita Goyal, U of California, Los Angeles