Crossing Over International Symposium

Imágenes de la voz: dislocaciones luciferinas y milagrosas en Fernández de Oviedo, Zárate y Guamán Poma de Ayala

Maria G. Marin, Baldwin Wallace University

MC 102

9:00 AM - 9:20 AM

La representación de los inmigrantes cubanos en la época de Mariel The Perez Family

Valerie Kryc, Cleveland State University

MC 102

9:20 AM - 9:40 AM

Paradojas de la revolución cubana en Antes que anochezca y Fresa y chocolate: El falso hombre nuevo y la loca audaz

Yorki Encalada Egusquiza, University of Kentucky

MC 102

9:40 AM - 10:00 AM

Ecofeminism and the Salta Films of Lucrecia Martel

Katherine M. Gatto, John Carroll University

MC 104

10:50 AM - 11:10 AM

Trauma and Exiled Identity

Jaclyn Salkauski, Indiana University

MC 104

11:10 AM - 11:30 AM

Human Nature and the Post-Colonial Landscape: An Ecocritical Reading of Encounters, Conflicts, and Solutions in Mariama Bâ’s Lo Long a Letter and Scarlet Song

Marnie Sullivan, Mercyhurst University

MC 104

11:30 AM - 11:50 AM

The India-Bangladesh Border

Debdatta Chowdhury, School of Law, University of Westminster, London

MC 102

2:00 PM - 2:20 PM

Borderline Existence: Burmese Chin in Mizoram State, India

Steven Rubin, Penn State University

MC 102

2:20 PM - 2:40 PM

Crossing over into No Man’s Land… How Borders, Boundaries and Bedlam Define Story in Saadat Hasan Manto’s Story “Toba Tek Singh”

Pushpinder Walia, Dav College for Women, Ferozepur, Punjab, India

MC 102

2:40 PM - 3:00 PM

Super Iron Fist: Salvadorian Youth, Security, Discourse, and the Uncanny

Miranda Cady Hallet, Otterbein University

MC 104

3:45 PM - 4:05 PM

Negotiating Foreign Perspectives in the Aftermath of December 21st, 2012

Elizabeth R. Bell, The Ohio State University

MC 104

4:05 PM - 4:25 PM

Performing Violence in Post-Civil War El Salvador: Subtle Campaigns of Social Cleansing in Political and Media Discourses

Stephanie Aubry, The Ohio State University

MC 104

4:25 PM - 4:45 PM

Special Presentation : In Conversation with Junot Diaz

Junot Diaz

Main Classroom Auditorium

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM

De manzanas malas y paraísos perdidos: Lo carcelario en la narrativa cubana contemporánea

Jorge Marturano, University of California - Los Angeles

MC 102

9:00 AM - 9:20 AM

Minerva Mirabal Frente a la dictadura de Trujillo: En el tiempo de las Mariposas de Julia Álvarez

Rosa Mejia, Cleveland State University

MC 102

9:20 AM - 9:40 AM

La escritura metaficcional y el proceso de construcción de la identidad femenina en Hot Sur de Laura Restrepo

Nohora Viviana Cardona Nunez, University of Ottawa

MC 102

9:40 AM - 10:00 AM

Before ‘Latino’: la ilustre pero ignorada historia de las letras hispanas en EE.UU.

Kenya C. Dworkin y Mendez, Carnegie Mellon University

MC 102

10:00 AM - 10:20 AM

Remediating a Refusal of History: Arturo Islas’s The Rain God

John E. Dean, Texas A & M International University

MC 104

10:45 AM - 11:05 AM

The Body as Politic in the work of Guillermo Gómez-Peña

Dana Cole, University of Illinois at Chicago

MC 104

11:05 AM - 11:25 AM

(Im)migrant Experiences and Cultural Citizenship in Ramon “Tianguis” Pérez’s Diario de un mojado

Megan Thornton, John Carroll University

MC 104

11:25 AM - 11:45 AM

Crossing the Borders of Everyday Life: The N’Ko Language of Guinea as a Means of Positive Cultural Identity

Sondra Fischer, Cleveland State University

MC 102

2:00 PM - 2:20 PM

Language on the Line: Canadian English and Identity in a Border Town

Laura Baxter, York University

MC 102

2:20 PM - 2:40 PM

It’s Now or Never: Interrogating Youth Culture in the Oil Rich Niger Delta Region of Nigeria

Chris Mbah Ekene, University of Tromso, Norway

MC 102

2:40 PM - 3:00 PM

Memorias prestadas: Jenni Rivera’s Journey as a Dead Latina Icon

Amanda Matousek, The Ohio State University

MC 102

3:50 PM - 4:10 PM

Gangs, Spanish and Slurs: Reading Flexible Latinidad on U.S. Daytime Soap Operas

Doug Bush, The Ohio State University

MC 102

4:10 PM - 4:30 PM

Transmedial Bodies: Kat Von D Illuminating the Borderlands of Tattoo Culture

Theresa Rojas, The Ohio State University

MC 102

4:30 PM - 4:50 PM