The Society for Critical Exchange Presents
Image and Imagination in the Visual and Verbal Arts
A Working Conference
49th Annual Convention of the Midwest Modern Language Association
November 8-11, 2007
Cleveland, Ohio
Society for Critical Exchange
Saturday, Nov. 10, 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. (Stouffer)
Image and the Imagination in the Visual and Verbal Arts
Organizer: Chalet Seidel, Case Western Reserve Univ.
Session A
8:30.-10:00 a.m. (Stouffer)
Writing / Drawing / Seeing the Image: Subjectivity and Objectivity
Moderator: Danielle Nielsen, Case Western Reserve Univ.
1. “Superheroes and Naked Ladies: Reading the Body and Reviewing the Canon” by Theresa M. Tensuan, Haverford Coll.
Discussant: Joi Tribble, Independent Scholar
2. “Visualizing the Immigrant at the Turn of the Twentieth Century,” by Joan Fragaszy, George Washington Univ.
Discussant: Joi Tribble, Independent Scholar
3. “Provincializing the Media Studies Classroom: Narratives of Property and Re-envisioning Student Identity through Postcolonial Theory,” by Jamie McDaniel, Case Western Reserve Univ.
4. “Another Window: Panoramic Narrative, Domesticity, and Rereading E.T.A. Hoffman’s Des Vetters Eckfenster,” by Vance Byrd, Grinnell Coll.
Session B
10:15-11:45 a.m. (Stouffer)
Subtopic: New Methodologies for Media Criticism
Moderator: Jason Stuart, Case Western Reserve Univ.
1. “Rhetoric and the Cult of Mac,” by Michael Moss, Case Western Reserve Univ.
3. “Digitization of Medieval Manuscripts: Navigating New Digital Environments,” by Julia Finch, Univ. of Pittsburgh
Session C
12:30-2:00 p.m. (Stouffer)
Subtopic: Intertextuality / Intermediality: Text, Image, and Remediation
Moderator: Jamie L. McDaniel, Case Western Reserve Univ.
1. “A New Scientific World in Images: John Fryer’s Chinese Scientific and Industrial Magazine (Gezhi Huibian), 1876-1892,” by Liangyu Fu, Univ. of Pittsburgh
Discussant: Brandy L. Schillace, Case Western Reserve Univ.
2. “Stilling the Image: The Symbiotic Relationship between Frank Herbert’s Novel Dune and David Lynch’s Film Dune,” by Joi Tribble, Independent Scholar
Discussant: Jamie L. McDaniel, Case Western Reserve Univ.
3. “Visual Cognition and the Picture Book: Brian Selznick’s Illustrations for The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins,” by Robin Veder, Penn State Univ., Harrisburg
Discussant: Brandy L. Schillace, Case Western Reserve Univ.
4. “I’d like to see the book reintroduced for all it really is”: House of Leaves as an Image,” by Allyson Whipple, Case Western Reserve Univ.
Discussant: Jamie L. McDaniel, Case Western Reserve Univ.
Session D
2:15-3:45 p.m. (Stouffer)
Subtopic: Transcultural Images: Exposing Colonialism and Beyond
Moderator: Asdghig Karajayerlian, Case Western Reserve Univ.
1. “A Fall from Grace: A. D. Hope, Gauguin and the Politics of Ecphrasis,” by Jennifer Howell, Univ. of Iowa
Discussant: Kristine Kelly, Case Western Reserve Univ.
2. “Concealing Rhetoric Reveals the Colonized: Frank Cundall’s Reminiscences of the Colonial and Indian Exhibition and the Politics of Aesthetics,” by Danielle Nielsen, Case Western Reserve University
Discussant: Kristine Kelly, Case Western Reserve Univ.
3. “Unveiling the East: Cultural Imperialism and Gertrude Hoffmann's Interpretation of ‘Salome,’” by Melissa Peck, Purdue Univ.
Discussant: Asdghig Karajayerlian, Case Western Reserve Univ.
4. “The Wild-Gentleman: Portrayal of the Amer-Indian in El Nuevo Mundo,” by Jacqueline Barber, Univ. of South Florida
Discussant: Asdghig Karajayerlian, Case Western Reserve Univ.
Session E
4:00-5:30 p.m. (Stouffer)
Subtopic: Political Imagery and Ideology
Moderator: Allyson Whipple, Case Western Reserve Univ.
1. “An Organic Solution to ‘A Foolish Form of Government’: Facist Themes in The Plumed Serpent,” by Christopher Mays, Case Western Reserve Univ.
2. “Body Politics: Depictions of Lynching in Black Panther and Anarchist Texts,” by Ursula McTaggart, Indiana Univ.
3. “Introducing “The World’s Strangest Heroes” in The Doom Patrol: Anxious Desires for Normative Bodies and Families in 1960s America,” by Dax Jennings, Univ. of Kentucky
4. “When the Streets Belong to the People: imagining 60s Youth Culture through the pages of Time and Life,” by Devon Bissonette, Binghamton Univ.
Discussant: Rachel Benish, Case Western Reserve Univ.