Session Information
Description: How do travel narratives shape the fantasies of empire? Panelists consider the delusions, enchantments, and romances of empire in travel writing across a range of genres (new journalism, film, woodcuts, fiction, ambassador’s prose), periods (from sixteenth-century Spain to post-Colombian Brazil to Cold War United States), and literatures (Nepali, South African, North and South American).
Speakers
Pushpa Acharya, U of Toronto
Marlena Cravens, U of Texas, Austin
Kristin J. Jacobson, Stockton U
Alexandra Méndez, Columbia U
Russell Samolsky, U of California, Santa Barbara
Karen Steigman, Otterbein U
Presider
Karen Steigman, Otterbein U