PAMLA

2022, Los Angeles, California, November 11-13

 Geographies of the Fantastic and the Quotidian

2021, Las Vegas, California, November 11-14

I. In-person: Temporal Alterities
Chair: Sara Giguère, University of Montréal

• “Identités métisses et crise de la sensibilité: habiter l’espace temporel d’entre-deux dans un contexte de post-exil.” Elise Warren, Université du Québec à Montréal.
• “Corps-violé, corps-étranger : dissociation et reconstruction dans les récits d’agression sexuelle.” Naomi Jouan, Université du Québec à Montréal.
• “Marginalité (in)temporelle: Génération oubliée de la République, Les Misérables-Ladj Ly (2019).” Emma Chebinou, Allegheny College.

II. In-person: Violence against Women in French and Francophone Literature and Film
Chair: Francis Mathieu, Southwestern University

• “Wahiba Khiari’s Our Silences: Writing Trauma au féminin.” Christa Jones, Utah State University.
• “La Vie d'Adèle.” Lupina Farhana, University of California, Riverside.

III. Virtual: Gendered Confinement (Roundtable)
Chair: Youna Kwak, University of Redlands

• “Race and Racism in Morocco: The Enslaved Dada in Moroccan Francophone Novels.” Angelica Maria DeAngelis, American University of Kuwait.
• “Writing from Dedans: Cixous’s Confinement as Literary Crypt.” Laura Hughes, New York University.
• “Listen, Al! (Giraudon, Touam, André).” Yasser Elhariry, Dartmouth College.
• “Behind the Colonial Mansion: Confinement, Postpartum and Resistance in 'The Yellow Wallpaper'.” Ananya Sasaru, University of Calcutta.

IV. Virtual: Re-theorizing the jeune-fille
Chair: Youna Kwak, University of Redlands

• 1. “La jeune fille abîmée.” Maria Gonnella-Traub, Neumann University.
• “Portrait de la jeune fille en collectionneuse de cartes postales.” Virginie Duzer, Pomona College.

2019 Special Sessions

I. Women's Infidelity
Presiding Officer&Chair: Francis Mathieu, Southwestern University

• "Vies secrètes et compulsions silencieuses." Maria Gonnella-Traub, Neumann University.
  

• "The Failure of Law in Sophie Cottin's Claire d'Albe: Contextualizing the French Revolution's Laws of Rape and Divorce." Brad Tepper, University of New Mexico.
• "Shameful Words: Literature and Other Acts of Infidelity in Marguerite Duras’s La Douleur." Youna Kwak, University of Redlands.
• "A Lover’s Discourse in Eric Rohmer’s Work." Nathalie Burle, University of Southern California.

II. Voyageurs et voyageuses au 19^e siècle et au-delà: Regards croisés
Presiding Officer & Chair: Anne Donadey, San Diego State University

• "Germaine de Staël and Women’s Expatriation." Karen Manna, University of Central Oklahoma.
  
• "Aoua Kéita: Autobiography of a 'voyageuse' in West Africa." Cheryl Toman, Case Western Reserve University.

III. Women's Agency in Wartime
Presiding Officer & Chair: Youna Kwak, University of Redlands

• "Au seuil de la porte: les femmes à la marge de la mémoire de la Résistance." Christophe Corbin, Haverford College.
• "Collaborator or Resister? The French Female Concierge in 21st-Century Film and Literature." Mariah Devereux Herbeck, Boise State University.
• "Valentine Penrose: poétesse et soldat durant la seconde guerre mondiale." Severine Orban, College of Idaho.
• "Algerian Women’s Agency after the War of Independence in the Films Voyage à Alger and Le Choix de Myriam." Anne Donadey, San Diego State University.

IV. La pièce avant tout
Presiding Officer & Chair: Maria Gonnella-Traub, Neumann University

• "Nique-ta-mère: ni sainte ni barjo, la M.I.L.F. de Marjolaine Beauchamp." Sara Giguère, University of Montreal.
• "Marie Ndiaye et son double." Raphael Sigal, Amherst College.
• "D'Avignon à Saigon: Voyage scénique et nostalgique dans le temps." Michele Chossat, Seton Hill University.