American Literature Association Annual Conference
May 23-26, 2019
Westin Copley Place, Boston
Session 1: Vonnegut and Race
Chair: Nicole Lowman, State University of New York at Buffalo
- “Technological Progress and Anatomical Regression in Galapagos,” Julia Lindsay, University of Georgia
- “Vonnegut and the Space Aliens,” Susan Farrell, College of Charleston
- “’Bringing Chaos to Order’: Kurt Vonnegut and a Postmodern Resistance to Settler Colonialism in the United States,” Scott Nelson, University of Minnesota
- “The Almost End-Times: The Threshold of Annihilation in Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle,” Zachary Perdieu, University of Georgia
Session 2: Vonnegut in Crisis and Tranquility
Chair: Zachary Perdieu, University of Georgia
- “Bad Chemicals and Toxic Masculinity: The Post-War Crisis of Manhood in Breakfast of Champions,” Miranda Corcoran, University College Cork
- “The Tranquility of Influence: Mark Twain and Kurt Vonnegut,” Richard Coronado, South Texas College
- “Germs of Some Loathsome Disease: Kurt Vonnegut and Guns,” Chuck Augello, Independent Scholar
- “Vonnegut the Economist: Jailbird and the Economic Crisis of the 1970s,” William M. Etter, Irvine Valley College