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American Literature Association A Coalition of Societies Devoted to the Study of American Authors 19th Annual Conference on American Literature May 22-25, 2008 Hyatt Regency San Francisco In Embarcadero Center 5 Embarcadero Center San Francisco, CA 94111 Conference Director Maria Karafilis California State University, Los Angeles Registration Desk (Pacific Concourse) Wednesday, 8:00 pm – 10:00 pm Thursday, 8:00 am - 5:30 pm Friday, 7:30 am - 5:00 pm Saturday, 7:30 am - 3:00 pm Sunday, 8:00 am - 10:30 am Book Exhibits (Pacific Concourse L through O) Thursday, 10 am – 5 pm Friday, 9 am – 5 pm Saturday, 9 am – 1 pm ALA Author Societies Business Meeting, Saturday, 5:00-6:20pm (Pacific E) Receptions and Readings Welcome Reception (Atrium), Thursday, 6:00-7:00pm SEA/SSAWW Morning Coffee Reception (Pacific E), Thursday, 7:45am-8:45am Reading by Lorna Dee Cervantes (Pacific J), Thursday, 4:30-5:50pm African American Literature and Culture Society Reception (Marina Room) Friday, 5:00pm-6:30pm Bharati Mukherjee Reading and Reception (Seacliff CD), Friday, 6:30-8:00pm Reading by Asian American Writers (Pacific F), Saturday, 5:00-6:20pm Closing Reception (Seacliff), Saturday, 6:30pm-7:30pm Reading from two newly-published volumes of Beat Poetry, Sunday, 5:00pm, City Lights Books, 261 Columbus Avenue @ Broadway Thursday, May 22, 2008 Registration (Pacific Concourse): 8:00 am - 5:30 pm Book Exhibits (Pacific Concourse L - 0): 10 am – 5 pm Thursday, May 22, 2008 9:00 – 10:20 am Session 1-A Gilman and the Public Sphere (Pacific B/C) Organized by the Charlotte Perkins Gilman Society Chair: Sari Edelstein, Brandeis University 1. “Moving on By Turning Back: Charlotte Perkins Gilmans Intervention into 21st-Century Feminist Theory,” Jen McDaneld, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2. “Books vs. Babies: Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the Public Sphere, and Postbellum American Women’s Writing,” Cynthia Davis, University of South Carolina 3. “Redefining Categories of Home a