Contesting Transoceanic Natural Histories
Seminar Organizers: Adam Miyashiro and Oscar Fernandez
Affiliations: The Pennsylvania State University and Portland State University
The American Comparative Literature Association (ACLA)
Annual Meeting 2007: Puebla, Mexico
April 19-22, 2007
Submission Deadline: November 1, 2006
Description: This interdisciplinary panel seeks to address
critical issues in the theory and practice of “natural history,†a formal
mode of encyclopedic writing that described everything perceived as
“natural†from the perspective of their writers.