MLA 2012

MLA 2012

Seattle, WA

The Poetry of Names: Onomastic Investigations into the Work of Gertrude Stein

Saturday, 7 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 306, WSCC

Program arranged by the American Name Society

Presiding: Iman Makeba Laversuch, Univ. of Cologne

  1. “No Rectification or There about It: Gertrude Stein’s Improper Names,” Merrill Cole, Western Illinois Univ.
  2. “Reconfiguring Identities: Naming and Repetition in Canonical Works by Gertrude Stein,” Julie Elaine Goodspeed-Chadwick, Indiana Univ.–Purdue Univ., Columbus
  3. “Queer Onomastics: Naming the Unnameable in Gertrude Stein,” Allen Durgin, Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York