ASA 2019: UT Austin Faculty and Graduate Student Presenters
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The 2019 American Studies Association Annual Meeting (ASA) will take place in Honolulu, Hawaii from Thursday, November 7th through Sunday, November 10th. Faculty members and graduate students across several disciplines at UT Austin will chair panels, speak on roundtables, and present papers reflecting on the year's theme "Build As We Fight."Below is a list of all UT Austin presenters in alphabetical order. All events take place at the Hawai'i Convention Center. Micah Bateman
Paper presenter, Polyqueer Anti-Nationalism in Juliana Spahr's Post-9/11 Poetry and Prose, Sunday, November 10th, 10:00 am to 11:45am, Meeting Room 318 A
Nicholas Bloom
Paper presenter, Total War and the Quotidian Plantation: Reframing the 1811 German Coast Uprising, Thursday, November 7th, 2:00 pm to 3:45pm, Meeting Room 325 B
Simone Browne
Paper presenter, Ecologies of Surveillance: Waste, Extraction and Resistance, Saturday, November 9th, 12:00 pm to 1:45pm, Meeting Room 317 B
Leah Butterfield
Paper presenter, Backpack Warriors: Soul-Searching and Solidarity in Solitary Women’s Travel, Thursday, November 7th, 8:00 am to 9:45am, Meeting Room 308 B
Kristin L. Canfield
Paper presenter, Mickey Mouse and Bigger Thomas in Nazi Germany: Walter Benjamin, Richard Wright, and Geographies of Anti-Black Racism, Friday, November 8th, 10:00 am to 11:45am, Ballroom C
Beth Eby
Paper presenter, “Health Education for Indian Girls”: Ella Deloria, Gender, and Physical Culture at Haskell Institute in the 1920s, Friday, November 8th, 2:00 pm to 3:45pm, Meeting Room 317 B
Kate Grover
Paper presenter, Country Labor Feminism and Precarious Intersectionality in Margo Price’s “Pay Gap,” Friday, November 8th, 8:00 am to 9:45am, Meeting Room 323B
Siri Gurudev
Paper presenter, Performance Studies Genealogies: A U-Turn Away from Whiteness, Friday, November 8th, 2:00 pm to 3:45pm, Meeting Room 302 B
Laura Gutiérrez
Panelist, Queering Nostalgia and Time: Affective Registers of Resistance in Casa De Las Flores, Saturday, November 9th, 8:00 am to 9:45am, Meeting Room 319 A
Kerry Knerr
Panelist, Occupied Archipelagos: Visions of Militarism, Indigeneity, and Racialization in the Pacific, Friday, November 8th, 12:00 pm to 1:45pm, Meeting Room 319 A
Marison Lebron
Paper presenter, Feminist Praxis in Puerto Rico, Thursday, November 7th, 2:00 pm to 3:45pm, Meeting Room 313 C
Panelist, Resisting Carceral Empire: Rethinking American Studies Approaches to the Carceral State, Saturday, November 9th, 2:00 pm to 3:45pm, Meeting Room 304 B
Tia C. Madkins
Paper presenter, Black Teachers' Protection of Black Students in STEM Learning Environments: Disrupting AntiBlack Climates, Thursday, November 7th, 10:00 am to 11:45am, Meeting Room 319 B
Minkah Makalani
Panelist, Haunted Objects and Contingent Futures: Archives, Methods, and Desire in History, Friday, November 8th, 12:00 pm to 1:45pm, Meeting Room 317 A
Jennifer McClearen
Paper presenter, “I Think the Whole Reservation Was Here!”: The Promises and Pitfalls of Visibility in Sports Media, Thursday, November 7th, 12:00 pm to 1:45pm, Meeting Room 302 B
Carlisia McCord
Paper presenter, (Black) American Heritages: How the Discourses of Public History Shape Contemporary Belonging in America, Friday, November 8th, 10:00 am to 11:45am, Meeting Room 307 A
Julia Mickenberg
Paper presenter, Communist Proto-Feminism, Archive Fever, and the Attractions of Biography, Saturday, November 9th, 10:00 am to 11:45am, Meeting Room 317 A
Aris Moreno Clemons
Paper presenter, Racialized Bilinguals in U.S. Spanish Language Learning Classrooms, Friday, November 8th, 8:00 am to 9:45am, Meeting Room 302 B
Curran Nault
Paper presenter, The Femmepire Strikes Back: Call Her Ganda and the Activist Afterlife of Jennifer Laude, Thursday, November 7th, 10:00 am to 11:45am, Meeting Room 318 A
Tabias Olajuawon Wilson
Paper presenter, Beyond Fugitivity: BlaQueer Furtivity As Intervention, Thursday, November 7th, 10:00 am to 11:45am, Meeting Room 304 B
Elena Perez-Zetune
Paper presenter, Her Body, God, and Horror: Speculative Latina Fiction Then and Now, Thursday, November 7th, 8:00 am - 9:45 am, Meeting Room 303 A
Samantha Pinto
Paper presenter, Black History, Black Brains, and the Embodied Futures of Anti-Racism, Friday, November 8th, 4:00 pm to 5:45pm, Meeting Room 318 B
Andrea Remoquillo
Paper presenter, Messing with Mess: Old and New Formations of the Colonial Discourse of Mess, Thursday, November 7th, 8:00 am to 9:45am, Meeting Room 304 A
Circe Sturm
Panelist, Black and Red Call and Response: Grounds We Build and Fight On, Friday, November 8th, 10:00 am - 11:45 am, Meeting Room 304 A
Eric Tang
Panel chair, Unsettling Displacement: Critical Refugee Narratives Against State Violence, Friday, November 8th, 2:00 pm to 3:45pm, Meeting Room 319 A
Lisa B. Thompson
Panelist, Resistance through Performing Black Feminism and Desire: 20 Years of Lisa B. Thompson’s Single Black Female, Saturday, November 9th, 2:00 pm to 3:45pm, Meeting Room 306 B
Panel chair, The Measure of a Life: A Celebration of Nobel Laureate Toni MorrisonSaturday, November 9th, 6:00 pm to 7:45pm, Meeting Room 324
Omise’eke N. Tinsley
Paper presenter, PYNK is Where the Future is Born, Friday, November 8th, 10:00 am to 11:45am, Meeting Room 313 C
Panelist, Sex and Gender as Racial Projects: A Roundtable on Feminist, Queer, and Trans Theories, Friday, November 8th, 12:00 pm to 1:45pm, Meeting Room 323B
Pavithra Vasudevan
Paper presenter, “In the Crucible”: Rethinking Racial Capitalism through Black Feminist Materialism, Saturday, November 9th, 4:00 pm to 5:45pm, Meeting Rm 308 A
Kristen Wilson
Paper presenter, “Wonderful Sights”: The Collision of American Cultural Imperialism and Declining Hawaiian Autonomy at the Honolulu Music Hall, 1881-1917, Saturday, November 9th, 2:00 pm to 3:45pm, Meeting Room 301 B