2024

SCS-5: The Politics of Reception

In-Person SCS Session Session

Salon A-1, Lower Level

Chairs
Caroline Stark, Howard University

01 - Achilles and Romulus in México: Mythopoiesis in María Cristina Mena’s Short Fiction

Leanna Boychenko, Loyola University, Chicago

02 - The Homeric Framing of Phillis Wheatley’s “Infant Muse”

David Petrain, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY

03 - Translating Aristotle’s Rhetoric in 1950s-1960s China: Politics and Translator’s Autonomy

Mengzhen Yue, Shandong University

04 - “Their rest could benefit humankind:” Seneca and W. E. B. Du Bois on Leisure as a Political Project

Harriet Fertik, The Ohio State University

05 - Athenoanchoring: Nicknaming Settlements as ‘Athens’ in the American Midwest

Robert Barnes, Wabash College