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Friday, August 1


Friday, August 1   8:45 a.m. - 10:15 a. m.

 

 

The Borders of Memory

 

Panel sponored by the English Department, Columbia University.

 

Chair: Ross Hamilton, Barnard College

rhamilto@barnard.edu

 

1. Gerrit Jackson, Columbia University

Gj2005@columbia.edu

"Hart Crane's Allegory of Genre: Whitman in Cape Hatteras"

 

2. Gabby Warshawer, Columbia University

gfw2010@columbia.edu

"To the Grosser Sense but Ill Adapted: Memory Structures and Creativity in Wordsworth's 'The Ruined Cottage'"

 

3. Marilee Scott, Columbia University

Mls286@columbia.edu

"Byron and the Spectacle of Introspection"

 

4. William Davis, Colorado College

wdavis@ColoradoCollege.edu

"On Many Idealism: Fichte vs. Schelling"

 

 

Communal Romanticism

 

Chair: Jeffrey Cox

 

1. Jeffrey N. Cox, University of Colorado

jeffrey.cox@colorado.edu

"Communal Romanticism: Introductory Remarks"

 

2. Susanne Schmid, Princeton University

suschmid@princeton.edu

"Marguerite Blessington's Traveling Salon"


3. Greg Kucich, University of Notre Dame

kucich.1@nd.edu

"Leigh Hunt and the Politics of Romantic Apostasy"

 

4. Paul Youngquist, Penn State University, and James Allard, University of Waterloo

pby1@psu.edu / jrallard@watarts.uwaterloo.ca

"Black Romantics, White Masks"

 

 

Keats and Community

 

Chair: Caroline Wiebe Kimberly

 

1. Caroline Wiebe Kimberly, Tulane University

cwiebe@tulane.edu

"The Keats Circle: The Communal Creator of Genius"

 

2. Dana van Kooy, University of Colorado

dddhall@rmi.net

"Re-Imagining Communities through Collective Praxis: How Keats Illicits from, Reflects, and Re-Produces Interpretive Communities"

 

3. Jonathan Mulrooney, University of Vermont

jonathan.mulrooney@uvm.edu

"Keats in the Company of Kean"

 

 

Percy Bysshe Shelley in Conversation

 

Chair: Robert Koelzer

 

1. Robert Mitchell, Duke University

rmitch@duke.edu

"Romantic Terraforming: Erasmus Darwin and P. B. Shelley"

 

2. Robert Koelzer, Harvard University

koelzer@fas.harvard.edu

"'Our Talk Grew Somewhat Serious': Julian and Maddalo and the Romance of Conversation"

 

3. Maria Schoina, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

schoina@enl.auth.gr

"Shelley, Byron, and the 'sweet abode' of Pisa: Towards an 'Anglo-Italian' Cultural Geography"

 

 

Time, History, and the City in Wordsworth's Prelude

 

Chair: David Sassian, City University of New York Graduate Center

dsassian@wiley.com

 

1. Pamela Buck, Tufts University

pbuck10022@yahoo.com

"Writing an Urban Text: Wordsworth, DeCerteau, and the Rhetoric of Walking"

 

2. Andrew D. Krull, Princeton University

adkrull@princeton.edu

"How Is It Wrought? Spectacleand Uncertainty in the Prelude"

 

3. Priscilla Gilman, Vassar College

prgilman@vassar.edu

"Wordsworth, Lucy and Reception"

 

 

National Identity and Romanticism

 

Chair: Jon Klancher

 

1.   Yoon S. Lee, Wellesley College

ylee@wellesley.edu

"Inverted Sympathy and the Formation of Ethnic Communities: Harrington"

 

2.   Natasha Tessone, Princeton University

ntessone@princeton.edu

"Homage to the Empty Armour: The Politics of National Heritage in Maria Edgeworth's Harrington and Walter Scott's Ivanhoe"

 

3.  Jon Klancher, Carnegie Mellon University

jk2@andrew.cmu.edu

"Cosmopolitan Identification, National Feeling:  The Theme of Lost Writers in Mary Robinson and William Hazlitt"

 

 

 

Friday, August 1  10:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

 

 

Romantic Places: Versions of Literary History in Relation to Matters of Fact

 

Chair: Peter Manning, State University of New York, Stony Brook

pmanning@notes.cc.sunysb.edu


1. Kevis Goodman, University of California, Berkeley

kgoodman@uclink4.berkeley.edu

"Magnifying Small Things: Displacement and Georgic Modernity"

 

2. Karen Weisman, University of Toronto

karen.weisman@utoronto.ca

"The Bounds of Lyric: Romantic Grasps Upon the Actual"

3. Theresa M. Kelley, University of Wisconsin, Madison
tkelley@facstaff.wisc.edu

"Mimic Forms and the Romantic Matter-of-Fact: The Case of Beachy Head"

 

 

American Romanticism

Chair: Virginia Jackson, New York University

vwj1@nyu.edu


1. Bryan Waterman, New York University
bryan.waterman@nyu.edu 
"Revolutionary Romanticism and American Poetry in Late-Eighteenth-Century New York"

2. Meredith McGill, Rutgers University

mlmcgill@rci.rutgers.edu

"Recirculating Romanticism"


3. Anne-Lise Francois, University of California, Berkeley

afrancoi@uclink.berkeley.edu

"The Starring of Loss in Wordsworth and Dickinson"

 

 

Irish Romanticism

 

Chair: Julia M. Wright

 

1.  Julia M. Wright, Wilfrid Laurier University

jwright@wlu.ca

"National Erotics and Political Theory in Morgan's The O'Briens and The O'Flahertys"

 

2.  Jane Moore, Cardiff University

Jane.moore2@ntlworld.com

"Regency Feasts, French Food, and Irish Famine in the Satires of Thomas Moore"

 

3.  Michael Tomko, Notre Dame University

mtomko@nd.edu

"Locating Inchbald's A Simple Story: The National Tale, Internal Colonialism, and Catholic Emancipation"

 

 

Romantic Bordering of Science and Mathematics

 

Chair: Josh Wilner

 

1. Christina Root, St. Michael's College

croot@smcvt.edu

"'All things live in us and we shall live in all things that surround us': Wordsworth's Development of an Ecological Method"

 

2. Alex Dick, University of British Columbia

alexdick@interchange.ubc.ca

"Wordsworth and the Difference Engine"

 

3. Josh Wilner, City College & Graduate Center, City University of New York

jowcc@cunyvm.cuny.edu

"Wordsworth and Mandelbrot on the Coastline of Britain"

 

 

German Romanticisms

 

Panel sponsored by the Literary Studies Program, Fordham University.

 

Chair: Susan Bernstein

 

1.  Stuart Peterfreund, Northeastern University

s.peterfreund@neu.edu

"Goethe's Role in Carlyle's Critique of Science on the Basis of Ontological Bad Faith"

 

2.  Thomas Kuplic, University of Wisconsin

tbkuplic@students.wisc.edu

"A Border Dispute: Heinrich von Kleist and Romanticism"

 

3.  Norbert Puszkar, Austin Peay State University

teresa_norbert@hotmail.com

"Market and Scenery: The City in E. T. A. Hoffmann's 'My Cousin's Corner Window'"

 

4.  Susan Bernstein, Brown University

Susan_Bernstein@Brown.edu

"Freud's House in Ruins: The Romantic House and Poetic Displacement"

 

 

Mary Shelley: Texts and Intertexts

 

Chair: Ashley Cross, Manhattan College

ashley.cross@manhattan.edu

 

1.  D. L. Macdonald, University of Calgary

macdonal@ucalgary.ca

"Ghosts of Memory: Phantasmagoriana as Hypo-text for Frankenstein and The Vampire"

 

2. Patricia Peek, Fordham University

peek@fordham.edu

"Mary Shelley's Literary 'Progeny': Comments on Primogeniture and the Rights of Man, Woman, and Monster"

 

3. Sharon Twigg, University of Wisconsin, Madison

smtwigg@facstaff.wisc.edu

"The Redemptive Contract in Mary Shelley's Valperga"

 

 

Friday, August 1   12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. 

Lunch

 

 

Friday, August 1  1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

 

 

Borders of Knowledge: Encyclopedic Thinking in Romanticism

 

Chair: Tilottama Rajan

 

1. Tilottama Rajan, University of Western Ontario

trajan@uwo.ca

"The Infinite Folding of Knowledge: Romanticism and Encyclopedic Thought"

 

2. David S. Ferris, University of Colorado

david.ferris@colorado.edu

"The Conflict of Discipline and the End of Romanticism"

 

3. Paul Hamilton, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London

hamilton341@aol.com

"Encyclopedic Fragments: Friedrich Schlegel's Mischedicht and Schelling's Weltalter"

 

 

The Private Collection in Romantic Studies

 

Panel sponsored by The Keats-Shelley Association of America.

 

Chair: Stuart Curran, University of Pennsylvania

1. Donald H. Reiman, University of Delaware
dhreiman@udel.edu
"A Scholar's Library"

 

2. Marsha M. Manns, Society of Fellows, Columbia University

"'To have when the original is dust': Creating the Byron Society Collection"

 

3. William T. Buice III, Keats-Shelley Association

vze43jt3@verizon.net

"An Endless Road: The Journey of a Romantics' Collector"

 
Transatlantic Conversations I

 

Panel sponsored by the English Department, Rutgers University.

 

1. Lisa Vargo, University of Saskatchewan

vargo@sask.usask.ca

"(Re)placing a Site of Friendship: Frances Wright and Mary Wollstonecraft"

 

2. George Grinnell, McMaster University

domesticity@sympatico.ca

"The Ends of 'Health' in Shelley's The Last Man and Brown's Arthur Mervyn"

 

3. William Galperin, Rutgers University

whg1@ix.netcom.com
"Lord and Lady Byron and Mrs. Stowe"

 

 

Placing John Clare

 

Chair: J. Nathaniel Goldsmith, University of Virginia

Jng2d@virginia.edu

 

1. Bridget Keegan, Creighton University

bmkeegan@creighton.edu

" 'the genius of the brook': John Clare's Rivers"

 

2. Theresa Adams, University of Tennessee

tadams1@utk.edu

"John Clare and Literary Friendship"

 

3. Paul Chirico, Jesus College, Cambridge University

pac17@cam.ac.uk

" 'a space in time' : Clare's Rural Muse"

 

 

Wordsworth and Others

 

Chair: Aria Chernik, North Carolina State University

a.f.chernik@worldnet.att.net

 

1. Markus Poetzsch, Dalhousie University

poetzsch@dal.ca

"'Insect Views'; or, Romanticism's Minute Aesthetic"

 

2.  Noel B. Jackson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

njackson@mit.edu

"Reason to Lament: Wordsworth and the Pains ofThought"

 

3. Brian Goldberg, University of Minnesota

goldb016@umn.edu

"Cowper's Melancholy, and Peter Bell's"

 

4. Vincent Atchity, Fordham University

atchityv@earthlink.net

"The Great Business of Man': Francis Jeffrey, Writing, and the End of Happiness"

 

 

Placing Blake

 

Chair: Magnus Ankarsjo, Goteborg University

magnus.ankarsjo@hb.se

 

1.  Jennifer Santos, Arizona State University

jennifer@java2000.com

"Erasmus Darwin's Influence on Blake"

 

2.  Philip Cardinale, Oxford University

philip.cardinale@st-edmund-hall.oxford.ac.uk

"William Blake's Copy of Mystical Initiations"

 

3.  Lisa Crafton, State University of West Georgia
lcrafton@westga.edu
"’A Sick Man’s Dream’: Jeptha, Judges, and Blake’s Visions of the Daughters of Albion"

 

 

 

Friday, August 1  3:15 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.

 

 

Gothic/Romanticism: Toward a Unified Field Theory

 

Chair: Diane Hoeveler

 

1.  Diane Hoeveler, Marquette University

diane.hoeveler@marquette.edu

"Dying Brides: The Demonization of Gothic Fertility"

 

2. Robert Miles, University of Stirling

r.d.miles@stir.ac.uk

"Gothic: the New Romanticism"

 

3. Diana Edelman-Young, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Diana_young@mindspring.com

"Romanticism and Medicine: Fertile Bodies in Ann Radcliffe's The Italian"

 

4.  Michelle Landauer, University of Melbourne

m.landauer@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au
"The Boundaries of the Imagination: Reading Gothic Fiction and the Evolution of Modern Subjectivity"

 

Romantic Places: Place and Elsewhere, Place and Past

 

Chair: Peter Manning, State University of New York, Stony Brook

pmanning@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

 

1. Maureen McLane, Harvard University

mclane@fas.harvard.edu

"Tuning the Multi-Media Nation: or, Minstrelsy of the Afro-Scottish Border"

 

2. Sophie Thomas, University of Sussex

s.h.l.Thomas@sussex.ac.uk

"Sights of Rome"

 

3. Meg Russett, University of Southern California

russett@usc.edu

"Scott, Hogg and the Border"

 

 

Virtual Places: Romantic Technology

 

Chair: Laura Mandell, Miami University of Ohio

mandellc@muohio.edu

1. Joseph Viscomi, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

jsviscom@email.unc.edu

"Digital Representation, Editorial Fidelity, and the William Blake Archive"

 

2. Michael Eberle-Sinatra, University of Montreal

michael.eberle.sinatra@UMontreal.CA

"Staging Texts in Cyberspace: Baillie and the British Women Playwrights around 1800 Project"

 

3. Jerome McGann, University of Virginia

jjm2f@virginia.edu

"It's [not] the technology, stupid!"

 

 

Romantic Philosophies I

 

Chair: Arkady Plotnitsky

 

1.  Arkady Plotnitsky, Purdue University

aplotnit@sla.purdue.edu

"Venice: Time and Space, Poetry and Architecture, Romanticism and the Baroque"

 

2.  Ross Hamilton, Barnard College

rhamilto@barnard.edu

"Deep History"

 

3.  Colin Jager, Rutgers University

cjager@rci.rutgers.edu

"Romanticism and the Argument for Design"

 

4.  Susan Eilenberg, State University of New York, Buffalo

sre@buffalo.edu

"Keats and the Relation of Knowledge"

 

 

Hidden Places in Romanticism: The Manuscript Collections of Shelley, Godwin, and their Associates

 

Panel sponsored by The Keats-Shelley Association of America.

 

Chair: Pamela Clemit

 

1.  Michael Rossington, University of Newcastle upon Tyne

michael.rossington@newcastle.ac.uk

"Commemorating the Relic: The Beginnings of the Bodleian Shelley Collections"  (sp)

 

2.  Pamela Clemit, University of Durham

p.a.clemit@durham.ac.uk

"William Godwin's Papers in the Abinger Deposit: An Unmapped Country"

 

3.  Daniel Dibbern and Doucet Devin Fischer: Shelley and his Circle Publication Project, The Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation, Inc.

ddibbern@nypl.org / dfischer@nypl.org

"'The Evidence of Things Not Seen': Reading the Paper in the Pforzheimer Collection"

 

 

The Language of Terrorism

 

Chair: William Keach, Brown University

William_keach@brown.edu

 

1. A. C. Goodson, Michigan State University

goodson@pilot.msu.edu

"Peninsular Excursions: Carl Schmitt's Romantic Partisans"

 

2.  Marc Redfield, Claremont Graduate University

Marc.Redfield@cgu.edu 

"Romanticism, Terror, and the State of Emergency"

 

3.  Alistair Heys, Liverpool University

alhsheys@tesco.net

"The Trope of the Tiger" 

 

 

Friday, August 1   5:00 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. 

The Keats-Shelley Association of America Lecture: Stuart Curran, University of Pennsylvania, "Anchors Aweigh: British Romanticism in America."

 

 

Friday, August 1   6:30 p.m. - 7:45 p.m. 

The Keats-Shelley Association of America: Gala Opening Reception.

 

 

Friday, August 1  8:15 p.m.

Professional Reading of The Election, by Joanna Baillie.   Directed by Mallory Catlett.

 

 

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