Session 1-B Transnational Community in Multi-Ethnic American Women’s Literature (Pacific I)  Thursday, May 26, 9-10:20 a.m.

Organized by the Society for the Study of American Women Writers

Chairs: Emily VanDette, SUNY-Fredonia

1. “It Means Loving Someone You Don’t Know: Transculturation and Marriage in Bengali-American Fiction,” Sandra M. Cox, Pittsburg State University

2 “Joyce, Race, and (American) Empire in LeAnne Howe’s Shell Shaker,” Alyssa Hunziker, University of Florida

3 “Feminist Symptomatics in Rose Pastor Stokes’ The Woman Who Wouldn’t”: A cool and deliberate sort of madness,” Rachel Nolan, University of Connecticut

Session 5-A The Geography of Transnational Identity in American Women’s Writing (Pacific I) Thursday, May 26, 3:00-4:20 p.m.

Organized by the Society for the Study of American Women Writers

Chair: DoVeanna S. Fulton, University of Houston-Downtown

1. “Third Things: Tracking the Errant Productivity of Translation in Susan Choi’s The Foreign Student,” Susan Edmunds, Syracuse University

2. “Transnationalism and transgressions, borders and betrayal: the migrant woman in contemporary American literature,” Héloïse Thomas-Cambonie, Université Bordeaux Montaigne

3. “‘You speak voices hidden’: The Transnational Self in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée,” Cristina Rodriguez, Providence College

Session 6-L Business Meeting: Society for the Study of American Women Writers (Bay Level: Golden Gate Room) Thursday, May 26, 4:30-5:50