ATDS Panel on “Performing the Politics of Gender and Ethnicity in America” Presiding: Verna A. Foster (Loyola University Chicago) Also including “Mae West and the Theatrics of the Law.” Lesley Broder (Kingsborough Community College – The City University of New York) “A Creative Poetics: Ayad Akhtar’s Use of Violence to Interrogate the Politics of Gender and Ethnicity in _Disgraced_.” Richard Gilbert (Loyola University Chicago)