MLA 2008
San Francisco, CA
Naming and Not Naming
Saturday, 27 December, 5:15–6:30 p.m., Union Square 9, Hilton
Program arranged by the American Name Society
- “Naming the Dead: Elegiac Ritual and Onomastic Intervention in Hemans, Landon, Barrett, and Rossetti,” Brandy Ryan, Univ. of Toronto
- “‘Making His Name a Name without a Family’: English Onomastic Schemes and the Cree Tradition in Three Day Road,” Joanie Crandall, Univ. of Saskatchewan
- “On Not Naming: Onomastic Absence in Cather’s My Ántonia,” Kerry Manders, York Univ.
Naming the Self, the Namer, and the Other
Monday, 29 December, 10:15–11:30 a.m., Union Square 2, Hilton
Program arranged by the American Name Society
Presiding: Anjanette Darrington, Southern Connecticut State Univ.
- “Who Are Alaska Young, Hope Yancey, and Primrose Squarp? Names and Naming in Young-Adult Literature,” Anjanette Darrington
- “Global Gogol: Patronymy, Heteronomy, and The Namesake,” Christian Moraru, Univ. of North Carolina, Greensboro
- “‘What the F— Was Your Name?’: Examining the Politics of Linguistic Denigration in Twenty-First-Century Hollywood,” Anjali Pandey, Salisbury Univ.