Identity Politics in the Americas and Beyond

Ana Cruz García, University College Cork:
A Borderland Consciousness: Una conciencia de mujer in Borderlands/La frontera

Stephen Joyce, Bielefeld University:
The Link and the Chain: The Individual and Communal Self in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictee

Madeleine Lyes, Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College Dublin:
Unsettling New York Settlement from the Inside: Maeve Brennan, the Long-Winded Lady, and the Urban Dream of the New Yorker

Sarah-May O’Sullivan, University of Dublin:
The Monstrous-Masculine: Adolescence, Abjection, and the Screen Male in Denys Arcand’s Les Invasions barbares (2003) and Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Amores perros (2000)

Pia Wiegmink, Siegen University:
Turning the Test Beds: Performance Art and Genetic Engineering