Friday, 07 January
359. Infrastructures of Transport
3:30–4:45 p.m., Olympic I, J. W. Marriott
A special session
Presiding: Marit J. MacArthur, California State Univ., Bakersfield
Speakers: David Alff, Univ. of Pennsylvania; Elizabeth Evans, Penn State Univ., DuBois; Monika Gehlawat, Univ. of California, Berkeley; Marit J. MacArthur; Franklin Ridgway, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana
Respondent: Michael Daniel Rubenstein, Univ. of California, Berkeley
This roundtable draws together scholars at work on the representation of several forms of transportation infrastructure at key moments in Anglo-American literary history, to allow insights and questions to be shared by scholars working in different periods with common interests in the new field of infrastructure studies, more narrowly that of transport.
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