Report on ATDS Panels for the American Literature Association 21st Annual Conference (San Francisco, CA; May 27-30, 2010)

Organized by James M. Cherry, Wabash College (765-361-6157; cherryj@wabash.edu)

Summary:
By all accounts, the ATDS panels at ALA were a great success. The panelists were a mixture of graduate students and professors, and the conversations were animated and enthusiastic. According to panel chairs Sharon Green and Amy Hughes, the panels were both reasonably well attended, with 15 in the audience at each. No technical difficulties were reported. Contact information for the panelists is listed below.


Panel #1: Intertextual Exchanges: Adaptations and Transformations on the 19th-century American Stage

Chair: Sharon L. Green, Davidson College

1. “Nineteenth-Century Shakespeare Burlesques: New York Audiences and the Emergent Middle Class,” Nicole Boyar, The City University of New York Graduate Center
2. “‘And I am changed too, for a cartinty’: Rip Van Winkle’s Transition to the Stage,” Jason Shaffer, US Naval Academy
3. “In Pursuit of Eliza: Figurations of Fugitive Slaves in Theatrical, Visual, and Print Culture,” Amy E. Hughes, Brooklyn College

Contact Information:
Sharon L. Green: shgreen@davidson.edu
Nicole Boyar: nboyar@gmail.com
Jason Shaffer: tshaffer@usna.edu
Amy E. Hughes: hughes@brooklyn.cuny.edu


Panel #2: Intertextual Exchanges: Gender and Desire on American Stages

Chair: Amy E. Hughes, Brooklyn College

1. “Female Playwrights, Female Killers: Glaspell, Watkins, and Treadwell’s Use of Real Crime to Explore Intersecting Texts on Gender in Early 20th-century American Drama,” Lisa Hall, University of Colorado, Boulder
2. “Stuck on Terry: Ellen Terry’s American Lecture Tour and the ‘Paper Clippings’ of a Fanatic,” Virginia Garnett, University of Delaware
3. “‘The embarrassing prospect of being in the movie version of Cats’: Intertexual Seduction in John Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation,” Graham Wolfe, University of Toronto
4. “Performing the Mommy Wars: Lisa Loomer’s Living Out and Distracted,” Sharon L. Green, Davidson College

Contact information:
Amy E. Hughes: hughes@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Lisa Hall: hall.lisa@gmail.com
Virginia Garnett: vgarnett@udel.edu
Graham Wolfe: graham.wolfe@utoronto.ca
Sharon L. Green: shgreen@davidson.edu


Submitted,

Jim Cherry
BKT Assistant Professor of Theater
Wabash College