American Literature Association Annual Conference
May 24-27, 2018
Hyatt Regency, San Francisco
Session 1: Vonnegut and Trump’s America
Chair: Nicole Lowman, State University of New York at Buffalo
- “Kurt Vonnegut’s Apocalyptic Masculinities,” Sanna Melin Schyllert, Independent Scholar
- “Only Winners and Losers: Vonnegut’s Political Anthropology in Trump’s Dystopia,” Francis X. Altomare, University of Miami
- “Machines and the Loss of Moral Agency: Why Trump’s America Should Frighten Everyone,” Richard Coronado, South Texas College
Session 2: Trauma, Masculinity, and the Human Condition in the Work of Kurt Vonnegut
Chair: Zachary Perdieu, University of Georgia
- “The Masculinity of Labor in Kurt Vonnegut’s Player Piano,” Esteban Rojas Castro, Independent Scholar
- “Kurt Vonnegut & Carl Sagan: A Tale of Two Assholes,” Ben Reed, Texas State University
- “Tethered, Untethered: Coping and the Mythic Collective in Ceremony and Slaughterhouse-Five,” Zachary Perdieu, University of Georgia
- “‘I’ll Call it the Children’s Crusade’: Historical Trauma in Slaughterhouse-Five,” Kerstin Tuttle, University of South Dakota