Here are the sessions with Twain I found on the ALA Program page:

Session III: Friday, May 23, 1997, 10:3011:50 a.m.
SOUTHERN LITERATURE I, Maryland F

Chair: John F. Desmond, Whitman College, and the Society for the Study of
Southern Literature

1. "'Unto Caesar What All's Hisn': Cormac McCarthy's Outer Dark," Bill
Koon, Clemson University

2. "Mark Twain's Mother: A Paradigm for Reading Women's Writing on
Slavery," Lucinda MacKethan, North
Carolina State University

3. "'The Delta Is Filled Up with Death': Autobiography in Lewis Nordan's
'A Hank of Hair, a Piece of Bone,'"
Edward Dupuy, St. Joseph's Seminary College

Session I: Saturday, May 24, 1997, 7:308:50 a.m.
RECONSIDERATIONS IN AMERICAN REALISM, Gilford

Chair: James Nagel, University of Georgia at Athens

1. "Mistaken Identity in Twain's Short Fiction," Tom Quirk, University of
Missouri

2. "Edna Pontellier and the New Woman: A Reconsideration," Charlotte Rich,
University of Georgia

3. "Edith Wharton and the New Century," Alfred Bendixen, California State
University at Los Angeles

Session II: Saturday, May 24, 1997, 9:0010:20 a.m.
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE: PRE-TEXTS, INTERTEXTS, AND POST-TEXTS, Federal Hill

Chair: Gloria L. Cronin, Brigham Young University

1. "The Anti-Tom Novel and Dred," Sarah Meer, Selwyn College at Cambridge

2. "Dred: Intemperate Slavery," Cynthia S. Hamilton, Manchester
Metropolitan University

3. "More Stowe than Poe: Twain, Sentiment, and the Law," Judie Newman,
University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Session V: Saturday, May 24, 1997, 1:102:30 p.m.
MARK TWAIN CIRCLE I, Maryland F

Chair: Laura E. Skandera-Trombley, State University of New York at
Potsdam, and the Mark Twain Circle

1. "Mark Twain and the Printed Word," Bruce Michelson, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2. "Mark Twain's Revisions of Violence in Huckleberry Finn," Victor A.
Doyno, State University of New York
at Buffalo

3. "Mark Twain's Object Lesson in Democracy," Kevin J. Hayes, University
of Central Oklahoma

Respondent: James S. Leonard, The Citadel


Session V: Sunday, May 25, 1997, 1:102:30 p.m.
PRAGMATISM OFF THE BEATEN PATH,

St. George

Chair: Elisa New, University of Pennsylvania

1. "Twain's Pragmatic Brothers," Elisa New, University of Pennsylvania

2. "Cornell West and John Dewey," Eddie Glaude, Bowdoin College

3. "Frank O'Hara and the Poetics of Postmodern Pragmatism," Michael Magee,
University of Pennsylvania


Session VI: Sunday, May 25, 1997, 2:404:00 p.m.
GENESIS, COMPOSITION, AND INTERPRETATION, Gibson

Chair: Tom Quirk, University of Missouri at Columbia

1. "Mark Twain's Books Do Furnish a Room, But a Uniform Edition Did Still
Better," Louis J. Budd, Duke
University

2. "Marianne Moore's Revisionist Poetry," Linda Leavell, Oklahoma State
University

3. "Rehearsing the 'Finale': The Drafts of James Merrill's The Changing
Light of Sandover," Timothy Materer,
University of Missouri at Columbia


Session VII: Sunday, May 25, 1997, 4:105:30 p.m.
MARK TWAIN CIRCLE II, Maryland F

Chair: Michael J. Kiskis, Elmira College

1. "The Romantic's Romantic: Twain's Tom Sawyer and Mythic Southern
Notions," Jocelyn Chadwick-Joshua,
Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture

2. "Figuring Tom Sawyer: The Narrator's Metaphorical Vision, Dead and
Alive," John Bird, Winthrop
University

3. "Mark Twain's Motivation for Writing Tom Sawyer," Andrew Jay Hoffman,
Brown University

Hope this is helpful to some,
Michael O'Conner
Millikin University