Beat Studies Association Conference: The Jack Kerouac Centenary
Palatine, IL, November 3-4
American Literature Association Conference, Chicago, May 26-29
Kerouac and Friends: Jack Kerouac’s Relationships with Writers Reassessed at His Centenary.
A discussion session with an emphasis on audience participation.
Chair: John Whalen-Bridge, National University of Singapore
1. Erik Mortenson, Lake Michigan College
2. Maggie McKinley, Harper College
3. Robert W. Jones II, Louisiana State University, Eunice
4. Kurt Hemmer, Harper College
Louisville Conference on Literature and Culture Since 1900, February 20-22
Beat Generation Writers and the Visual Arts
Chair: Deborah R. Geis, DePauw University
1. “The Visual Art of Ted Joans: The Hipsters and the Beats, “Leslie Curtis, John Carroll University
2. “Robert Crumb and the Beats, “David Calonne, Eastern Michigan University
3. “Harvey Pekar’s Cranky Graphic History of the Beats,” Deborah R. Geis, DePauw University
American Literature Association Conference, Boston, May 23-26
Gender and Genre in Ginsberg, Kyger, and Whalen
Chair: John Whalen-Bridge, Univ. of Singapore
1. . “Body Politics in Allen Ginsberg’s Howl,” Ashley Thorup, McGill Univ
2. “Allen Ginsberg’s Weird Ecology,” Todd F. Tietchen, Univ. of Massachusetts-Lowell
3. “`trying to open/the path of rhythm with rhythm’: Joanne Kyger’s Prosodic Revelations,”
Timothy Gray, College of Staten Island-CUNY
4. “Philip Whalen’s Novels: `A Vision of the Total Book,’” Jane Falk, Univ. of Akron
(Re)visions of Kerouac
Chair: Ronna Johnson, Tufts Univ.
1. “Jack Kerouac’s On the Road Revisions and `the Magic Mothswarm of Heaven,’” Ryan Slesinger, Oklahoma State Univ.
2. “Manufacturing Meaning: Altering Perspectives and Shifting Contexts in Desolation Angels,”
Steven Defehr, Univ. of British Columbia
3. “Beat Buddhist Poetics: Paradoxical Forms in Ginsberg and Kerouac,” Michael Sanders, Washington Univ.-St. Louis
Beat Poetry and the Cultural Imagination
1. “Becoming Ted Joans: A Radical Transformation into a Beat Poet, “Kurt Hemmer, Harper College
2. “Prometheus Revisited: On the Modernism of Gregory Corso’s Bomb, “Gregor Baszak, Univ. of Illinois-Chicago
3. “Feed Your Head: Allen Ginsberg’s Poetry and the Beat Recipe Book, “Deborah R. Geis, DePauw University \
Modern Language Association Annual Meeting, New York City, Jan. 4-6
American Literature Association Annual Conference, San Francisco.
Beat Roots: Burroughs, Kerouac, di Prima, and Self-Identification
Organized by the Beat Studies Association Chair: Todd Hoffman, Augusta University
“New Directions in Beat Studies”
Chair: Ronna Johnson, Tufts University
“Kerouac and Kerouac: Legacies”
Chair: Nancy Grace, College of Wooster
Sponsored by the Beat Studies Association
Presiding: Deborah Geis, DePauw University
Beat Writing and the American Counterculture Organized by the Beat Studies Association
Chair: Tatum Petrich, Montclair State University
The Beats and Public/Private Identities Organized by the Beat Studies Association
Chair: John Whalen-Bridge, National University of Singapore
New Beat Archaeologies : Friday, May 24
Organized by the Beat Studies Association
Chair: Ronna C. Johnson, Tufts University
1. “Trial by Fire: Animating Ginsberg’s Howl,” Deborah R. Geis, DePauw University
2. “On the Notion of ‘After-Beats’: Maxine Hong Kingston Considered,” John Whalen-Bridge, National University of Singapore.
3. “Antonin Artaud, Black Power, and the Worldling of Beat Literature,” Jimmy Fazzino, University of California, Santa Cruz.
New England Beat Writers and Poetics: Friday, May 24
Organized by the Beat Studies Association
Chair, Deborah R. Geis, DePauw University