The Washington Area Modernist Symposium is an annual, one-day event where teachers and advanced students of the more innovative forms of twentieth century literature can meet, present ongoing research, and discuss current trends in the study of modernism. It is open to all approaches and definitions, canonical and revisionary, though the more flexible conceptions that include authors from Gustave Flaubert to Nadine Gordimer are preferred. It is hoped that this will be a site where the study of innovative literature of historically marginalized groups will occur, and papers that discuss experimental women writers, the Harlem Renaissance, Asian modernism, and postcolonial experiments are especially invited. The Symposium is free and open to all.

Date and Place:

1120 Susguehanna Hall

University of Maryland

College Park MD 20742

Saturday, Septemper 25, 1999, 11:45-5:45

Panels I and II. Moderns and Modernisms:

Jessica Berman, UMBC, "Intimate Others: Gertrude Stein's Lesson for Levinas"

Roberta Rubenstein, American U, "The Grammar of Negation: Kate Chopin's The Awakening"

Carla Peterson on modernity and turn of the century African American authors

Ann Ardis, U of Delaware, "Marketing Modernism? Rethinking the New Age under Orlan"

Nels Pearson, UM, "Beckett, Intertextuality, and Postcolonial Criticism"

*Jahan Ramazani, U of Virginia, on postcolonial poetry

David Dougherty, Loyola College, "Toni Morrison, Modernism, Postmodernism, and Commitment"

Virginia Bell, UM/Georgetown,

Crystal Parikh, UM, "Betraying Identity: Contradictory Articulations in U.S. Ethnic Literature"

Rob Doggett, UM, "Yeats and Nationalism"

Alison Booth, U of Virginia, "Those Well-Lit Corridors of History"

Morton P. Levitt, Temple University, "Reforming the Canoneers"

*Kathy O'Dell, UMBC, on performance art and emergent canons

Moderator and Respondent, Bonnie Kime Scott, Delaware

Madeleine Hage, French, UM

James Harding, Mary Washington College

David Kadlec, Georgetown

Claire MacDonald, editor, Performance Research

Catherine Schuler, Theatre, UM

Ernest Suarez, Catholic University

Reception (In Susquehanna 2113)

* denotes possible speaker

Directions:

From the Beltway: Take the College Park exit (25B); go south on Route One (Baltimore Ave) for about 1.8 miles. The university will be on your right hand side. Drive just past it and turn right on Knox Road. Follow Knox Road up and down a slight hill. Turn right at the stop sign, go 30 feet and turn right again, go 20 feet and turn right once more. The 4 storey brick building in front of you is Susquehanna Hall; park in front or behind it.

From Baltimore and points north: Take 95 south until you near the intersection with the Washington beltway (495/95). Follow the signs to College Park; hed south on Route 1 (Baltimore Ave). Follow the directions above.

From the Baltimore-Washington Parkway: Take the Greenbelt exit. Go west on Greenbelt Ave (193) for a couple of miles; follow the signs to Route One (Baltimore Ave.) and go south on it for approximately 1 mile. Turn right on Knox Road; follow directions above.

From downtown Washington: Drive north to Military Road/Riggs Road. Follow it westbound until you reach University Avenue. Turn right on University, going south and east on it for about a mile and a half. At the top of the small hill, a few yards before the main road veers left at intersection with Adelphi Road, stay in the right hand lane and keep going straight (east). Enter the university on this street (be in the center lane), follow it (now called Campus Drive) for about a mile until it comes to a T. Turn right. Go downhill for 150 yards, and pull into any of the parking lots to your left. Susquehanna is the medium sized brick building rising above these lots.

By Metro: At the station, go right; through the tunnel and walk west on Calvert some six blocks until you reach and cross Baltimore Ave (Route 1). Go north (right) 3 blocks to a small street at the edge of the campus called Lehigh. Go left and take this to the campus and continue in the same direction over a small incline and back down on the other side. The large building in front of you is Susquehanna.