2nd Interdisciplinary and Multicultural
Conference
Department of Modern Languages
and Literatures
College of Liberal and Fine
Arts
Registration: 5:00 p.m.-8:00
Dr. Alan Craven, Dean of The College of Liberal and Fine Arts: Welcoming Remarks: 7:00 p.m
Darra
Goldstein, Editor of Gastronomic: Lecture
Reception: 8:00 p.m.-9:00 p.m.
Friday, February 15.
8:15 a.m.-9:30 a.m. Session
I
Panel 1
Moderator
Nadel, Ira B. The University of British
Columbia
“MFK Fisher: The Hunger Artist”
Díaz-Marcos, Ana
María. Darthmouth College
“Delicias
Victorianas: La cocina enciclopédica de Isabella Beeton”
McLean, Alice. University of California at Davis
“Transforming Corporal Discipline into Sensual Pleasure: The Culinary Legacy of Elizabeth David.”
Panel 2: The Underbelly of Nineteenth-Century French Gastronomy Poverty, Prostitution and the “Body Gastronomic”
Organizer and Moderator: Michael D. Garval
Schehr, Lawrence R. University of Illinois
“Food for the Poor.”
Wettlaufer, Alexandra K. University of Texas at Austin
“Food, Whore-ious Food.”
Garval, Michael D. North Carolina State University
“The Body Gastronomic”
Panel 3
Moderator
Kennedy, Joy. Texas Lutheran University
“Artistry of Hunger: Appetite and Desire in Desert Solitaire”
Agnew, Jennifer. Marquette University
“From Naked Chefs to Gastronomica: The Necessary Symbiotic Relationship in Food
Representation between Popular and Literary Poles”
Poulter, Phil. Texas State Technical College
“Why is a Vegetable Something to Hide? Food as Nonsequitur in
the songs of Frank Zappa”
Panel 4
Moderator
Medina-Rivera,
Antonio. Cleveland State University
“La tradición y el rompimiento en Rosario
Ferré y Esmeralda Santiago”
Bosch, Nina. University of Indiana
“Cocinando con Elisa: Images of Death and Oppression in the Kitchen”
Wood, Delma. Castleton College of Vermont
“Woman on Top: La prostitución de
la comida brasilera a través de la visión mediática de
Isabella”
Friday, February 15
9:45 a.m.-11:15 a.m. Session II
Panel 5
Moderator
Renaudin, Christine. Sonoma State University
“Quand le Philosophe se met a table”
Hoy, Lise Rempel. Creighton University
“Feeding the Body or the Soul? Digestion and Indigestion in Huysmans' Decadent Novels”
Weitzel, William. UTSA
“The Dual Role of Cuisine
in A la recherche du temps perdu”
Stegman, Dorothy. University of Puerto Rico-Mayagüez
“Tupinamba Table Manners: Eating with Montaigne and Dos Santos”
Panel
6: Love of Food, Food of Love
Moderator
Moulin, Sylvie R. Ball State University
“Isabel Allende's Aphrodite: Celebrating the Food of Love and the Love of Food”
Niño, Miguel A. St. Edward's University
“La comida y el amor
en El amor en los tiempos del cólera”
Prieto, Char. Valparaiso University
“Como agua para
chocolate, novela ambigua”
Torres Caballero, Benjamín. Western Michigan University
“Abundance and Scarcity: The Function
of Food in Contemporary Puerto Rican and Cuban Narrative”
Panel 7: Desire, Denial, Death: Eating Disorders in Literature
Organizer and Moderator: Sylvia Henneberg
Deppman, Jed. Tinity University
“’I had been hungry, all the years’: The Starvation of Emily Dickinson”
Deppman, Hsiu-Chuang. Trinity University
“The Empty Feast: Representations of Food and Revolution in Eileen Chang’s Rice Sprout Song”
Henneberg, Sylvia. Morehead State University
“Positive Disfigurements: Literary Indirection in Frank Bidart’s ‘Ellen West’”
Netherton, Mary Jo. Morehead University
“Different Destinies of Denial: Asceticism, Appetite, and
Ambivalence in Medieval and Contemporary Literature of Anorexia”
Panel
8: The Classical World
Moderator
Kimball, Susanne. UTSA
“Odyssey: Ritual of Dining, Entertaining and Storytelling During the Heroic Period”
Serghidou,
Anastasia. Paris
« Prestations
nourricieres et rejet social dans la tragédie grecque »
Rudin, John. UTSA
“Empedocles’ Cannibalistic Tragedies”
Kantzios, Ippokratis. University of South Florida
“The Hungry Muse: Food in the Poetry of Hipponax”
Friday, February 15
11:30 a.m.-12:45 a.m. Session III
Panel 9: Hispanic Film
Moderator: Nancy Membrez
Schiminovich, Flora. Barnard College
“La torta de cumpleaños: Abyección, crimen y
liberación en The hour of the Star, Erendira y Confesion a
Laura”
Kales, Emily Fox. Northeastern University
“Controlling Appetite: Food Denial and Asceticism in Buñuel's Simon of the Desert”
Splittgerber, Lisa. St. Cloud State University
“El secreto está
en mezclarlo bien: Gazpacho in Almodovar's Tres mujeres al borde de un
ataque de nervios”
Panel 10
Moderator
Mothion, Patrice.
Centre College
“Ingrédients pour
une mauvaise recette: Balzac et la ‘cuisine’ des bretons
Running-Johnson, Cynthia. Western Michigan University
“Competing Strains in the
Construction of French Identity: The Rabbit Element in Renoir, Godard and
Ophuls”
Higginson, Francis. Bryn Mawr College
“Martinican author Patrick Chamoiseau’s
novel Solibo Magnifique”
Bénayoun-Szmidt,
Yvette. Université York/York University
“Le boire et le
manger comme expression identitaire chez des écrivains judéo-marocains
Panel 11
Moderator: Maria I Duke dos Santos
Duchovnay, Gerald. Texas A&M University-Commerce
“Food Taboos and Politics in Latin American Cinema”
Blanco, Jorge M. University of Texas at Austin
“La Comida en la literatura para niños”
Duke dos Santos,
Maria I. Texas A&M University-Commerce.
“El Guardián del
sustento cotidiano”
Panel 12
Moderator
Woods, William. Schreiner College
“Feeding the Professional Assassin: The Importance of Food in William Goldman's Brothers”
Nichols, William John. Texas A&M International University
“Killing, Cannibalism and the Culture of Cooking In Vázquez Montalbán’s Carvalho Series"
Kelly, Siobhan. Wayne State College
“Scones or Donuts: the Role of Food in the Series Mystery Novel”
Hawlitschka, Katja. Wayne State College
“Crabmeat Mousse, Steak Diane, and Foie Gras Ravioli:
Domestic Comforts, Sexual Politics, and Academic Hierarchies in Lev Raphael’s
Nick Hoffman Mysteries”
Friday, February 15
1:00 p.m.-2:15 p.m. Session IV
Panel
13
Moderator
Kolich, Augustus M. Saint Xavier University
“Notes Toward a Theory of Food and Literature”
West, Lucy Fischer.
“Loaves of Bread and Hyacinths”
Kreitz, Kelley
“At the Contemporary Kitchen Table: Food and Consumption in Postmodern Literature”
Tomasik, Wojciech. Instytut Filologii Polskiej
“Drink, Drugs and the “Pure Form’ (In the Witkacy’s Theater”
Panel 14
Moderator
Ho, Gigi T. Y. University of Hong Kong
“Food, Sensuality and Everyday Life in Miyazaki-Takahata Anime.
Kern, Adam. University of Washington
“Eat, Drink, Monster, Noodle: Food Fights in Japan as Depicted in Adult Comic Books, Circa 1776”
Mannur, Anita. University of Massachusetts Amherst
“Cooking, Domesticity and Challenges to Heteronormative
Familiality in South Asian Cultural Production.”
Panel
15
Moderator
Candelaria, Matthew Benjamin. University of Kansas
“The Fly in the Ointment: Appetite and Impurity in Portrayals of Verminous Animals”
Brucato, Maria J. Wheaton College
“Food and the Unconscious: From Surrealism to the Supernatural.”
Seaman, David W. Georgia Southern University.
“Do Surrealists Eat Real Food? An Exploration of Cuisine and the Avant-Garde from Duchamp' Chocolate Grinder to the Surreal Gourmet”
Panel
16:
Moderator:
Abreu, Dixon. University of Richmond
“Eating ‘In-Between’: Caribbean Food and Traveling Identities”
Walford, Lynn. Louisiana State University in Shreveport
“El Gusto real de
ese animal desconocido: Cannibalism in Juan José Saer’s El entenado”
Umpierre, Luz Maria
“The Real Kiss of the Spider Woman”
Friday, February 15
3:00 p.m-6:00 p.m. Session V
Panel
17: Looking at Food
Moderator:
Long-Solis, Janet. Universidad Nacional Autónoma
de México
“American plants and Foods Represented in European Art”
Malewska, Monika”
“The Beautiful and te Repulsive: Reinventing the Seventeenth Century Stillife Genre through Photography and Painting”
Pampel, Madeline L. Emory University
“Of Food, Narrative and Embodiment in Chardin's Still-Life Paintings”
Carter, Ivy V.
Food Representation in the Visual Arts from the Western Perspective
Panel
18: The Pleasures of Food
Moderator
Hochstrasser, Julie Berger. University of Iowa
“Dutch Still Life: A Conundrum”
Humphreys, Norma J. Ohio University
“The Vice of Gluttony: A Feast of Imagery”
Bendiner, Kennetth. University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
“Fetish and Satisfaction: The Food Market in Western Painting”
Friday, February 15
6:00 p.m
Art Exhibit
Reception
Friday, February 15
6:45 p.m.-8:00 p.m. Session
VI
Panel 19: A Celebration of Food: A Reading by UTSA Creative Writing Faculty
Organizer and Moderator: Catherine Kasper
Baker, Wendy. “Food at Home and Abroad”
Cantú, Norma. “Sopa de fideo or sopa de arroz, and
Diamond’s Enchiladas”
Lyons, Bonnie. “Biblical Nourishment”
Vance, David. “The Flawless Shot: Perfect Espresso in an Imperfect World”
Kasper, Catherine. “Lethal Appetites: The Significance of Prisoners’ Last Meals”
8:15 a.m.-9:30 a.m. Session
VII
Panel
20
Moderator
McGee, Diane. John Abbott College
“Modernist Meals: The Short Stories of Katherine Mansfield”
Dwyer, June. Manhattan College
“Feast and Famine: James Joyce and the Politics of Food”
Tarpley, Joyce K.
“The Hegemony of Gruel: Mr Woodhouse And Dietary Domination In Jane Austen’s Emma”
Panel 21: Bread and Chocolate
Moderator
Durham, Carolyn A. College of Wooster
“The Contemporary Novel as Cosmopolitan Confectionery: Joanne Harris’ Chocolat”
LeBlanc, Ronald D. University of New Hampshire
“Changing the Meaning of Sweetness: Chocolat vs. Shokolad”
Ritterbusch, Rachel. Southern Illinois University
“Seduction and Sustenance: The Symbolism of Bread in Marcel Pagnol’s “La femme du boulanger”
Panel
22: Eating in Latin America
Moderator
Jiménez, Enrique. Goucher College
“Los alimentos en la obra La aventura
equinoccial de Lope de Aguirre”
García, Gustavo
V. Indiana University-Purdue
University
“Comida y representación negativa del ‘indio’ en
la novela indigenista: el caso de Raza de bronce”
Suárez, Juana. University of Nofth Carolina-Greensboro
“’Si como camina cocina...’: la construcción
turística de América Latina a partir de la relación comida y sexo”
Panel
23: Culture, Politics, and Food in Latin America and Spain
Organizer and Moderator: Juan J. Daneri
Daneri, Juan J. Marquette University
“Writing theApple of the Empire’s Eye. Fernández de Oviedo’s Natural History”
Stephanis, Rebecca M. University of California
“Breaking the Mold: Liberation and the Last Supper in Contemporary Spanish and Cuban Film”
Valko, Jennifer M. University of California
“You Are What You Eat? Identity and Food Preparation--A
German Immigrant’s Struggle to Digest the Patagonia”
9:45 a.m.-11:15 a.m. Session
VIII
Panel
24: Ethnic Identities
Moderator:
Chow, Sung Gay. Indiana University of Pennsylvania
“The Role of Food in Fifth Chinese Daughter”
Abbey, Kristen L. Rutgers State University of New Jersey
“Postmodern Spice: Food and the Fantastic in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s Mistress of Spices”
Clark, Patricia. Miami University
“Recipe as Motif and Mode for Self-Creation in Ntozake Shange’s Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo”
Lynn, Amy. Texas Tech University
“Reservations--Living on , Dining out, and Other Hesitations: The Hunger for a Native American Identity”
Panel 25: Travelers
Moderator:
Sanchez-Barbas,
Santiago. Dartmouth College
“La mágica despensa de Genghis Khan:
banquete y ritual en el Libro de las maravillas”
Williams, Jerry M. West Chester University
“Food as a Civilizing Force in Two Letters of Discovery”
Krummrich, Philip. Catawba College
“Depictions of Cannibalism in an Imaginary Place called Brazil”
Krüger, Reinhard. Technische Universität Berlin
“Vegetarianos y carnívoros indígenas en las relaciones de los misioneros españoles (siglo xiv-xvi)”
Panel
26: Americana
Moderator:
Perkin, Judy E. University of North Florida
“Food in Contemporary Southern Literature-Cultural Identity and Health”
Shostak, Debra. The College of Wooster
“An Appetite for America: Jews, Food, and Assimilation in the Fiction of Philip Roth”
LeJeune, Keagan. McNeese State University
“Fast, Hearty, and Everything American: The Social Polarization of Joel Barlow’s ‘The Hasty Pudding’ and a Few Pervading Concepts of American Foodways”
Madden, Etta. Southwest Missouri State University
“Native, Anglo, and Franco: Food in U.S. Fiction of the 1820s”
Panel
27: Costumbrismo
Moderator:
Forrest, Beth Marie
“Travelers Consuming Cultures: Richard Ford and Nineteenth-Century Spain”
Vásquez, Félix. College of Charleston
“Representación de las comidas y
comensales en Lima por dentro y fuera”
Cano, Vicente. Morehead State University
“Aspectos
gastronómicos en los artículos costumbristas de Larra, Mesonero Romanos y
Estébanez Calderón”
11:30 a.m.-12:45 p.m.
Session IX
Panel
28: Latin American Narrative
Moderator
Vallejos-Ramírez, Mayela. University of Nebraska
“La comida como elemento subversivo en la
narrativa femenina latinoamericana del siglo xx”
Corvalán,
Graciela N. Vico. Webster University
“De lo ‘Crudo’ a lo ‘Quemado’ en ‘Lección
de cocina’ de Rosario Castellanos”
Ostrov, Andrea. Universidad de Buenos
Aires
“La cocina de la
escritura: sobre Rosario Castellanos y Tununa Mercado”
Andre, Maria Claudia. Hope College
“Speaking Through Our Scents: Cooking as an Act of Feminine,
Familiar and Cultural Bonding in the Works of Contemporary Latinas, Chicanas
and Mexican Women Writers”
Panel 29
Moderator:
McKeough, Paul K. UTSA
“Culinary Acculturation in
Spanish Colonial Texas as Reflected in Extant, Early Journals, Diaries, Reports
and Records”
Abarca, Meredith E. University of Texas at El Paso
“Authentic or Not, It’s Original”
Torres-Robles,
Carmen L. Purdue University Calumet
“Dieta y diáspora:
alimentando las raíces culturales puertorriqueñas”
Cuadra, Ivonne. University of Iowa
“Between Salsa and
Blood: el menu latino en la literatura en los Estados Unidos”
Panel
30: US Films
Moderator:
Netherton, William. Amarillo College
“Food as Prop: The Use of Food in Silent Comedy”
Moore, Matthew. Roberts Wesleyan College
“In Bad Taste: Food as Morbid and Mundane in Alfred Hitchcock’s
Films”
Clark, Randall. Southern Methodist University
“Apple Dumplings, Gang: Food Representation in Two Disney Westerns”
Grawe, Paul H. Winona State University
“Food Polarities In Oscar and Father of The Bride”
Panel 31: Food Courses
Syllabi
Organizers
and Moderators: Nina M Scott and Santiago Daydí-Tolson
General discussion and comparison of syllibi for courses on food in literature and the arts.
Panel 32: Food in Early European Literature
(Extended to Session X)
Moderator:
Sprecher, Krista. The University of Charleston
“Fruyt or Chaff? The Significance of Bread in The Canterbury Tales”
Klaus, Carrie F. DePauw University
“The Taste of Earth and Heaven in Marguerite de Navarre’s Prisons”
Musser, Sonja M. University of Arizona
“Cardiophagy: The Eaten Heart”
Burde, Mark. Yale University
“The Cuisine of Domesticity in the Late Medieval Ménagier de Paris”
Lynn, Brent. Texas Tech
“Figurative Feasting on Female Saints: The Medieval Holy Woman
as Dionysus”
Saturday, February 16
1:00 p.m.-2:15 p.m. Session X
Panel
33
Moderator
Strand, Cheryl M. Western Oregon University.
“Paradox and Omission as Strategy: Representation of Food and Hunger in Carmen Laforet's Nada.”
Gabriele, John P. The College of Wooster.
“Fowl Deeds: Anthopophagy and the Politics of Eating in Manuel Martínez Mediero's El último gallinero”
Charlebois, Lucile C. University of South Carolina
“La cocción celiana
de Madera de boj: entre el placer gastronómico y el arte narrativo”
Lynch, Jim. University of Indiana
“‘Como un perro de
caza’: Prey and Predation in Cela’s La familia de Pascual Duarte”
Panel
34
Moderator
Stanley, Patricia. The Florida State University
“A German Food Printer”
Aures, Igne. DePauw University
“Recipes for a New
Identity: Jeannette Lander’s ‘Leftovers. A Little Erotic Tale From the
Kitchen’”
Cieszynska, Beata. Darwin College, Cambridge
“Coffee-Cola. Two pages of Polish ideological cookbook”
Panel 35
Moderator
Davis, Kathleen E. Tulane University
“Torquemada at The Table: The Rivalry Between French and Spanish
Cuisine”
Coyle, Margaret A. University of Maryland
“The Performance of Food: Eighteenth Century Dining Practices and Menus and the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Carlo Goldoni's The Servant to Two Masters”
Cellinese, Anna. Stanford University
“Pellegrino Artusi e ‘La cienza in cucina e l’Arte
di mangiar bene’: La nascita della koine gastronomica italiana”
Saturday, February 16
Buses leave for “Ranch Don
Strange”: 3:30
Texas Barbecue at
“Don Strange Ranch” 4:00
p.m.-8:00 p.m.
Buses return to San
Antonio: 8:00 p.m.