5:00 pm-7:30 pm: Registration. BV 1.338

7:00 pm-9:00 pm: Welcoming reception

Dean Alan Craven, College of Fine Arts and Humanities
Lecture by Carmen Tafolla

Panel 1: Food and Anorexia.

Moderator:

Isabelle Meuret. Facultés Universitaires Catholiques de Mons, Belgium and Université Catolique de Louvain, Belgium.

"Skinny Sisters under the Skin."

Denise Guidry. University of Oklahoma.

"Linkings of Food and Female Sexuality in Bronte’s ‘Shirley’ and Rossetti’s ‘Goblin Market.’"

Valerie Henitiuk. University of Alberta.

"Virgin Territory: Anorexia as Resistance in The Tale of Genji."

Panel 2: Food and Language.

Moderator:

Gary D. Keller. Arizona State University.

"Literary Strategies in the Representation of Food in Bilingual and Multicultural Poetry and Prose."

Sonja Bertucci. Miami University, Ohio.

"Digestión e indigestión: Metaforas ejemplares de la alimentación en Montaigne y Nietzche."

José Madera-Fernández and Roy I. Mumme. Florida Gulf Coast University.

"Somatic and Nutritional Tropes and Metaphors in the Discourse of Scholarship, Teaching, Writing, and Publishing."

Moderator:

Susan L. Stewart. Southwest Missouri State University.

"Crossing Cultural and International Barriers: Food Obsession in Children’s and Young Adult Literature."

Alba Nora Martínez. The University of Arizona.

"Dulces, confites y canelones: Las golosinas y las pócimas secretas. Deleite, oralidad y pensamiento mágico en la literatura infantil mexicana actual."

Eva-Maria Metcalf. The University of Mississippi.

"Cabbage Soup and Chocolate: Food in Children’s Literature."

Moderator:

Tobias Wachinger. Ludwig Maximilians Universität, München.

"Spicy Pleasures: Contemporary Indian Writing in English and the Politics of Food"

Barbara Hiles Mesle. Graceland College.

"Political Implications of the Representation of Food in Manlio Argueta’s novels."

Margot Versteeg. University of Amsterdam.

"The Representation of Food in Madrid Cómico (1880-1923)".

Inge Aures. DePauw University.

"’Heimwehküche:’ Culinary Experiences and Overcoming Homesickness in Exile."

Panel 5: The Banquet in Literature and Society.

Moderator:

Sarah Sceats. Kingston University.

"Better than Sex: An Exploration of Some Changing Significances in the Representation of Food and Eating."

Kennenth C. Pellow. University of Colorado, Colorado Springs.

"The Banquet in Babettes’s Feast and The Dead."

Reinhard Krüger. Humboldt University, Berlin.

"From Petronius to Rabelais, or: Food, Literary Anthropology and the Metabolism of Man and Nature."

Moderator:

Carolyn A. Durham. The College of Wooster.

"A Menu for All Seasons: John Lanchester’s The Debt to Pleasure and the European Novel."

Traci Kelly. University of Minnesota-Crookston.

"Until Thoroughly Blended: Culinary Autobiographies by Women."

Marcia K. Chamberlain. Rice University.

"What’s Cooking in U.S. Literature? New Recipes for ‘The American Woman.’"

Panel 7: Food and Ethics.

Moderator:

Ramona Lagos. University of South Carolina.

"Food, Latino Stereotypes, International Business: Carmen Miranda’s Case."

Maggie Dunn. Rollins College, Brevard Campus.

"‘Meat is the Message’ in Literature and Art: Ruth Ozeki and Sue Coe Update Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle."

Ellyn Lem. De Paul University.

"Living on Pepsi and Potatoes: Sherman Alexei as an ‘Artist’ and Politician of Hunger."

Panel 8: Food in Early Modern Literature and Culture I.

Moderator: Barbars Simerka, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Pina Palma. Southern Connecticut State University.

"Of Ladies and Whores: Eating in the Furioso and the Sei Gionate."

Lisa Splittgerber. Angelo State University.

"Sexy Secrets of the Serranas: Food Magic in the Libro de buen amor."

John Gardner. University of Colorado at Boulder.

"How (not) to Carve Meat: The Libro de Buen amor’s ‘Exiemplo de como el león estava doliente’ in Light of Villena’s Arte cisoria."

Panel 9: Food and Post Colonial Perspectives.

Moderator:

Mary Ane Harsh. The Ohio State University.

"The Growling of Rebellion: Hunger and Plenty in La grande maison of Mohammed Dib and Le passé simple of Driss Chraïbi."

Simon Richter. University of Pennsylvania.

"Food, Ethnicity and Minority Culture in German Film: Fassbinder’s Ali: Fear Eats the Soul and Schütte’s Dragon Chow."

Panel 10: Food and Social Class I.

Moderator:

L. W. Johnson. University of California, Berkeley.

"Boileau’s Ridiculous Repast: Taste and the Invention of ‘Good Taste.’"

Maida Watson. Florida International University.

"Costumbrismo y comida: Food in the XIXth Century. Hispanic Sketch of Customs and Manners."

John P. Gabriele. The College of Wooster.

"The Hungry Protagonist and Narrative Famine: Villaamil as Anthropofagus in Galdós’ Miau."

Moderator:

Jane Oyarzun. Hiram College.

"The Empanada Chilena: More Dangerous than an Apple in the Wrong Hands."

Russel O. Salmon. Indiana University.

"The Comestible Odes of Pablo Neruda."

Juan Loveluck. University of South Carolina.

"La ‘Oda al hígado’ de Pablo Neruda."

Lunch Break

"Pico de Gallo Restaurante"

2:30 pm-3:45 pm: Session IV

Panel 12: Food and Social Class II.

Moderator:

Anne Lair-Baylocq. The Ohio State University.

"Les classes sociales et la nourriture dans À vau-l’eau."

Rosa Stewart. University of Victoria.

"The Insatiable Hunger: Power and Prowess in The Death of Artemio Cruz."

John F. Buckley. The Harker School.  San Jose, California.

"Meals, Meat, and Sweet Oblivion: Consumption and Community in Carver."

Moderator:  

María del Carmen Simón Palmer. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas. Madrid.

"Realeza, diplomacia y gastronomía."

Oscar Brenifier. Independent Scholar, Paris.

"Le paradoxe de la nourriture chez François Rabelais."

Roy E. Schreiber. Indiana University, South Bend.

"Samuel Pepys and His Cookbooks."

Moderator: Bernardette Andrea. The University of Texas at San Antonio.

Robert Gibbs. The University of Texas at San Antonio.

"Cannibalism as ‘A Modest Proposal’ in Three Films."

Kathryn Radford. Université de Montréal.

"Interpreting the Cannibal: Table d’hote of the film The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover."

Moderator:

Sharon Hudgins. Former Editor of Chile Pepper Magazine.

"From Kunst to Kitsch: The Chile Pepper Motif in Art, Craft and Commerce."

Thomas Hudgins C. Collin County Community College.

"Capitalization on Chiles: The Marketing of Chile Pepper Images in the USA."

Christopher Brown. University of Colorado at Boulder.

"Chromatic Dinners."

Panel 16: Food and Contemporary American Culture.

Moderator:

Patricia E. Clark. Miami University, Ohio.

"Grammar Over Easy: The Language-Games of Food and Foodways in Dom DeLillo’s White Noise."

Annick Tréguer. Université de la Sorbonne.

"Comidas, frutas y verduras en los murales chicanos.  Significado cultural y político."

Debra B. Black. Arizona State University.

"Are We What We Eat?: Food and Cultural Identity in Bless Me, Ultima, Alburquerque, and Zia Summer by Rudolfo Anaya."

Panel 17: Feminist Approaches to Food and Culture.

Moderator: Barbara Simerka. The University of Texas at San Antonio.

Sharon Keefe Ugalde. Southwest Texas State University.

"Pain and Pleasure: Food Imagery in the Poetry of Isla Correyero and Juana Castro."

Hanna Furrow.

"Food as Woman’s Identity in Woolf and Chopin."

Gérald Duchovnay. Texas A & M University-Commerce.

"What Man Can Excite Me as Much as a Baked Potato?: Henry Jaglom’s Exploration of Eating."

Luis Dávila. Indiana University.