ARCHIVE II--ALA CONFERENCES
Papers presented by the Arthur Miller Society at the American
Literature
Association Conferences.
May 30 1996, in San Diego, CA.
Panel One: Society panel chaired by
Brenda Murphy.
1. "Death of a Salesman and the Poetics of Arthur
Miller," Matthew Roudané.
2. "Who's the Enemy Now?: The Relevance of An Enemy
of the People a Century and a Half, Later," Jane Dominik.
3. "The Holocaust, the Depression, and McCathyism
Haunt Miller in the Sixties," Jan Balakian
May 23-25, 1997.
Panel One: "Arthur
Miller's
Artistry in Drama: A Half Century and Beyond," chaired by Stan
Kozikowski.
1. "'The Hook, the Bridge, and The
Waterfront': Miller, Kazan, and Informers," Brenda Murphy.
2. "Miller's Women and the Roles They Play," Steve
Centola.
3. "The Price: The Continuing Fraternal
Tragedy," Jane Dominik.
May 1998 in San Diego, CA.
Panel One: "Arthur MIller
and the Art of Disconcertion," chaired by Susan C. W. Abbotson.
1. "The Holocaust, the Depression, and McCathyism
Haunt Miller in the Sixties," Jan Balakian.
2. "'Raising Up a Whore': The Dramatic and Cultural
Construction of Abigail Williams," Kim Cook.
3. "'Of course it isn't, but that's where it comes
from': Creation of Hysteria and Other Business in Arthur Miller's Broken
Glass," Kate Egerton.
May 1999
Panel One: "Moral Drama
or Political Allegory: Ways of Seeing the Plays of Arthur Miller,"
chaired
by Jan Balakian.
1. "The Cold War on the Waterfront: Miller's A
View from the Bridge and Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront, "
Robert
Shulman.
2. "Death of a Salesman: The Poetic of the
Colloquial," Stephen Marino.
3. "Living the Wrong Life: Arthur Miller's Danger:
Memory!" Jon Tuttle.
May 26- 27 2001, in Cambridge MA.
Panel One: "This is the land
of the great big dogs, you don’t love a man here, you eat him!":
Friends
and Enemies in the Drama and Fiction of Arthur Miller," chaired by
Stephen
Marino.
1."The Sense of Complicity in Focus and After
the Fall," Ana Lucia Novais.
2."The Common Enemy in Arthur Miller’s and Lillian
Hellman’s Cold War Plays," Richard Brucher.
3."Miller and the Importance of Friendship," Carlos
Campo.
Panel Two: "The Ambiguity of
Thought: Arthur Miller's Psychological Duplicity," chaired by Susan C.
W. Abbotson.
1."Not Only the Inside of Willy’s Head," Stephen
Marino.
2."Sympathetic Objectification: Mistresses in
Miller’s
Plays," Jane Dominik.
3. "Bakhtinian Heteroglossia in The Archbishop's
Ceiling," George Castellitto.
On May 30-June 2, 2002, Long Beach, CA.
Panel One: "Arthur Miller’s Ethical
Engagement:
A Humanist’s Response," chaired by : J. Chris Westgate.
1. "Arthur Miller’s Diasporist Engagements in Incident at Vichy,"
Neamat Imam*
2. "The Dehumanization of the Salesmen: Willy Loman and Gregor Samsa,"
Carlos Campo.
3. "Negotiating an Ethics between Remembering and Forgetting: A Reading
of After the Fall," Ryan Poll.
*Neamat Imam from Aristotle University, coming in from Greece,
was
not allowed a visa
to attend the conference, but his paper was read by the panel chair
On May 22-25, 2003, Cambridge, MA.
Panel One: Seminar on "Teaching Arthur
Miller:
Text, Subtext, and Context."
Panelists: Steven Centola, Millersville University; Stephen Marino,
St. Francis College; Carlos Campo, Community College of Southern
Nevada.
Panel Two: "Radio Drama, Short Stories and
Plays: Connective Relationships in the Works of Arthur Miller," chaired
by
George Castellitto, Felician College
1. "'Family Romances' and the Struggle to Form Desire as Depicted in
Arthur Miller’s Short Story 'I Don’t Need You Anymore,'" Lew
Livesay.
2. "The Nature of the Beast: An Examination of The Pussycat and
the Expert Plumber Who Was a Man,by Arthur Miller," Rick Tharp.
3. "Materialism, Socialism and Paternal Conflict in Arthur Miller’s
All
My Sons," Susan C. W. Abbotson.
On May 27-30, 2004, San Francisco, CA.
Panel One: Seminar on "Teaching Arthur
Miller:
the Usual and the New."
Chaired by: Susan C. W. Abbotson, Independent
Scholar,
RI.
Panelists: Carlos Campo, Community College of Southern Nevada, and
Peter Hays, University of California at Davis.
Panel Two: "Naming, Rituals and
Music--Beyond
the Written Texts of Arthur Miller."
Chaired by Jeffrey D. Mason, University of Oregon.
1. "Arthur Miller's Naming of Names," Steve Marino
2. "Arthur Miller 'Clara': The 'Fine' Line Between Guilt and Blame,"
Susan C. W. Abbotson.
3. "Music in Miller's Drama," Jane Dominik.
On May 26-29, 2005, Boston, MA
Panel One:
Teaching Panel: Teaching Miller in Multiple Contexts
Chaired by: Lew Livesay, President,
Arthur Miller Society, Saint Peter's College.
1. "Music, Miller and making the classroom sing," Carlos Campo,
Community
College of Southern Nevada. Accompanist: Brett Campo, Sierra Vista High
School, Las Vegas.
2. " Towards a Humanistic Democracy: The Balancing Acts of Arthur
Miller
and August Wilson," Susan C. W. Abbotson, Rhode Island College.
3. " Arthur Miller's New York," Steven Marino, St Francis College.
Panel Two: "Identity in Miller: Communities,
Character and Connections.
Chaired by: Dr. Carlos Campo, Community College
of Southern Nevada
1. "Arthur Miller and Jewish Identity," Ruth Tenenholtz, Haifa
University,
Israel.
2. "The Secret Life of Willy Loman: A Thurber-Miller Connection," Susan
Koprince, University of North Dakota-Grand Forks.
3. " Pray for him: "Communities, Characters, and Chaos in A View
from the Bridge", Elizabeth Osborne, University of Maryland.
• On
May
25-28, 2006, San Francisco, CA.
Panel one: Reading and Response from
selected
Miller plays:
Readers Dr. Carlos Campo, Community College of
Southern
Nevada, Dr. Jane Dominik, San Joaquin Delta College.
Respondent: Lewis Livesay, Saint Peter’s
College
Panel two: The Sociological Impact of
Selected
Arthur Miller Works.
Chair: Dr. Carlos Campo, Community College
of Southern Nevada
1. "Ibsen’s The Wild Duck and Miller’s All My Sons: Social Realism
without a Centering Raissonneur," Lewis Livesay, Saint Peter’s College.
2. "Using Family Systems Theory to Understand the Film Versions of
The Crucible," Nancy Feyl Chavkin and Allan R. Chavkin, Texas State
University—San
Marcos.
3. "Mining the ‘Beauty’ of "Homely Girl": Why Miller’s Small
Masterpiece
Deserves More Recognition," Ellyn Lem, University of
Wisconsin—Waukesha.
• On
May
25-28, 2007, Boston, MA.
Panel one: The Reel Arthur Miller: The
Playwright’s Work on Film.
Chair: Jan Balakian, Kean University
1. "Making Abigail Good: A Different Heroine for Different
Times," Susan C. W. Abbotson, Rhode Island College
2. "Arthur Miller’s 'Dream Tissue': Uncanny Parallels between
Fritz Lang's Testament of Dr. Mabuse and Miller's Everybody Wins,” Lew Livesay, Saint
Peter’s College
3. "'When you look at me, you don't see me': Sight and Self in Miller's
Focus," Carlos Campo,
Community College of Southern Nevada
4. "Re-envisioning Death of a
Salesman: The Politics of the 1951 Film Version," Allan
Chavkin & Nancy Feyl Chavkin, Texas State University-San Marcos
Panel two: Arthur Miller.
Chair: George Castellitto, Felician College
1. "Resurrection Blues:
Miller’s Political Allegory about Imagination and Death," Janet
Balakian, Kean University
2. "Arthur Miller’s West, A Place That Yields Its Resources Only To
Those Who Honor Its Integrity," Stephen Macauley, Utah State University
3. "The Greatest Cars Ever Built: Arthur Miller's Production Line
of Chevrolets, Buicks, Studebakers, Marmons, Porsches and Other
Vehicles of Death and Destruction," Stephen Marino, St. Francis College
• On
May
22-26, 2008, San Francisco, CA.
Panel one:
Miller's
Literary Connections
Chair:
Jan Balakian, Kean University
1.
"Home and Homelessness: Family and Myth in Shepard and Miller," Timothy
O'Grady, University of Washington
2.
"Camus' The Fall and Miller's
After the Fall," Carlos
Campos, The
College of Southern Nevada
3.
"The Metaphor of Time in Arthur Miller and August Wilson," Stephen
Macauley, Utah State University
Panel two:
New Directions in Teaching and Scholarship in Arthur Miller
Studies (A roundtable)
Moderator:
Jane K. Dominik, San Joaquin Delta College
A
Roundtable Discussion examining new lines of scholarly
inquiry of Miller's dramatic and other writings,
their live productions
and film adaptations, and their application to teaching.
Participants: Jan Balakian, Kean University
Carlos Campo, College of Southern Nevada
Kate Egerton, Berea College
Stephen Marino, St. Francis College/Editor of the Arthur Miller Journal
• On
May
21-24, 2009, Boston, MA.
Panel one:
Adaptation and Arthur Miller
Chair: Jan Balakian, Kean University
1. “Amos Poe's Neo-Noir Stage, or, Looking at
Mamet
through Miller's Eyes,” Johan Callens, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
2. “Insisting on the truth: Arthur Miller’s
adaptation of Ibsen’s An Enemy of
the People,” Benedikte Berntzen, University of Oslo.
3. “Capitalist Community: From Ibsen's Enemy of the People to Miller's Enmity for the People,”Lewis
Livesay, Saint Peter’s College.
Panel two:
Teaching History in American Drama
Chair: George
Castellitto,
Felician College,
New Jersey
1. "Historicizing Tennessee Williams,"
Susan Abbotson, Rhode
Island College.
2. "Adapting to the Times: Salesman and the 1930s Theatres of
Social Protest," Joshua Polster, Department of Performing Arts,
Emerson College.
3. "The Time of Your Life
in Context," Jan Balakian,
Kean University.
•
On
May
27-30, 2010, San Francisco, CA.
Panel one: The Particular and the
Universal in the Plays of Arthur Miller
Chair:
Dr. Jane K. Dominik, San Joaquin Delta College
1.
"Brooklyn's Shakespeare," Stephen Marino, St. Francis College
2.
"Enforcing Universality on Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman: Foreign and
Domestic Perspectives," Ramón Espejo Romero,
Universidad de Sevilla
3.
"Miller’s The
Crucible as a Model for Understanding the Transcendent Nature of
Historical Event," Stephen Macauley, University of Utah
• On
May
26-29, 2011, Boston, MA.
Panel one: Dramatizing
Ideas in the Plays of Arthur Miller
Chair: Dr. George Castellitto, Felician College
1. "Internalizing the Jew: Otherness and Embodiment in Miller's Incident at Vichy." Lew Livesay,
Saint Peter's College
2. "I Still Feel – Kind of Temporary About Myself: The Self, the
Experience of Truth, and Two Visions of Tragedy in the Works of Arthur
Miller." David Palmer, Massachusetts Maritime Academy
3. "Stage For Action: Arthur Miller‘s Social Activist Foundation."
Chrystyna Dail, Pennsylvania State University
Panel two:
Focus on Focus: A Panel on
Arthur Miller's 1945 Novel about Anti-Semitism.
Chair: Dr. George Castellitto, Felician College
1. "In Closer Focus: Book, Film and TV." Sue Abbotson, Rhode Island
College (with clips from the 1962 TV version)
2. "Focus: Teaching Miller's
Neglected Work." Joint discussion by Stephen Marino, St. Francis
College, and Joshua Polster, Emerson College
• On
May
24-28, 2012, San Francisco, CA.
Panel
one: “Uncharted
Territories”
Chair:
Dr. Peter Hays, University of California, Davis
1.
“A Bridge between Peace, Justice, Religion, and Community.” Tamera
Izlar, Goshen College
2.
“All My Sons and the Madoffs
in the Light of Jauss’s Reception Theory
and Bakhtin’s 'Great Time.'” Vivian Casper, Texas Woman’s University
3.
“Witches as excuse: The Crucible
and the preemptive surveillance
methods in the contemporary
American society.” Vanessa Cianconi, Universidade Federal Fluminense
Panel two: “Uncharted Territories” II
Chair:
Dr. George Castellitto, Felician College
1.
“Cold War Politics and the Pathologization of Women in Arthur Miller’s
The Crucible.” Paula
K. Burns, University of South Dakota
2.
“Anagnorisis and Resistance: from Shame and Mutual Mourning to
Responsibility and Political Action in Arthur Miller’s Incident at
Vichy.” Fred Ribkoff, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
3.
“Art, the State, and Ectoplasm: Arthur Miller’s The Archbishop’s
Ceiling.” Jeffrey Clapp, University of California, Irvine
• On
May
23-26, 2013, Boston, MA.
Panel
one: "Arthur Miller’s Perspectives on
Theater and History"
Chair:
Stephen Marino, St. Francis College, Editor of the Arthur Miller Journal
1.
Jane K. Dominik, San Joaquin Delta College.
“From Stage to Page: Re-conceptualizing the Play”
2.
Garin Cycholl, University of Chicago.
“‘The Peculiar Immediacy of Image’: On the Disintegration of Forms
in The Misfits.”
3.
Marla Britton-Johnson, Texas Tech University.
“The Chasm Between History and Character: On the Aufseherinnen of
Playing for Time.”
4.
C. Ryan Knight, Randolph Community College.
“Administrative Evil in Arthur Miller’s Plays.”
Panel two: "Perspectives on Willy
Loman"
Chair:
Susan C. W. Abbotson, Rhode Island College, President of the Arthur
Miller Society
1.
Lewis Livesay, Saint Peter’s University
“Miller’s Tragic Vision and the Phenomenology of Shame.”
2.
Susan Harris Smith, University of Pittsburgh.
“Who Was/Is/Are Willy Loman?
3.
Janet Balakian, Kean University.
“Teaching Death of a Salesman
in 2013.”
Round Table:
"The Theater of Engagement: Arthur
Miller and the Contemporary Mind"
Arthur Miller Society joined with five
other drama societies in
focusing on the theme of “Theater of Engagement: The American Theatre
and Drama Society; The Susan Glaspell Society; The Eugene O’Neill
Society; The Thornton Wilder Society; The August Wilson Society. Arthur
Miller Society was represented by Joshua Polster, Emerson College.