Monday, August 4
Monday, August 4 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.
Women Writers and the Historical Imagination
Chair: Jo Smith, Manchester Metropolitan University
josmithandco@yahoo.co.uk
1. Colin Harris, Boston University
colinabharris@yahoo.com
“The Place of the Page: Dramatic Discontinuity in Joanna Baillie's The Homicide”
2. Thomas Mclean, University of Iowa
thomas-mclean@uiowa.edu
“From Poland to Scotland: Jane Porter and the Historical Novel”
3. Deirdre Gilbert, University of Denver
michael-gilbert@msn.com
“Cloistered Virtue: Masquerade in Joanna Baillie's Count Basil”
4. Scott Hallam, Duquesne University
hallam40@stargate.duq.edu
“Relocating History: Ann Yearsley's Construction of a Pacifistic Vision”
Romanticism and Science
Chair: Timothy Fulford
1. Timothy Fulford, Nottingham Trent University
timothy.fulford@ntu.ac.uk
Introduction: “From the Fossils to the Clones”
2. Anne Janowitz, Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London
a.f.janowitz@qmul.ac.uk
“Adam Smith, Astronomy, and the Sublime”
3. Marilyn Gaull, New York University
mg49@nyu.edu
“From the Prototypes to Stereotypes, from Fossils to Clones”
Placing Keats
1. Virginia Hromulak, Fordham University
hromulv@ncc.edu / vhromulak@aol.com
“The Romantic Fragment: or the Genesis of Modern Epic”
3. Mark John Raymond, New York University
mqr4101@nyu.edu
“Between Pleasure’s Temple and the Temple of Delight: Keats and the Place of ‘Sleep and Poetry’ in the ‘Ode on Melancholy’”
4. Mark Bruhn, Regis University
mbruhn@regis.edu
"Place Deixis and the Pragmatics of Imagined Space"
Transatlantic Conversations II
1. Kathryn Ready, Georgia Tech
kate_ready@hotmail.com / kathryn.ready@lcc.gatech.edu
"Dissenting Sociability and the Anglo-American Context: The Correspondence of William Ellery Channing and Lucy Aikin"
2. Jessie Beall Dubreuil, University of Virginia
jbd4f@virginia.edu
“The Task of Poetry: Imagining Theory and Creating Criticism in Coleridge and Poe”
3. Ashley Shannon, University of Texas
ashannon@mail.utexas.edu
"'At the Border of Nationhood: Lydia Maria Child and the Romantic Novel"
Surveying India: Colonialism and Identity
Chair: Lisa Nevarez, Siena College
lnevarez@siena.edu
1. Frances Botkin, Towson University
fbotkin@towson.edu
"Idolatry and Imperialism: Issues of Identity in Lady Morgan's 'The Missionary'"
2. Elizabeth Mjelde, De Anza College
Elizabeth_mjelde@yahoo.com
" 'The Only Life She Likes': Off-Road Sketching in British India"
3. Jeffrey Cass, Texas A&M International University
jcass@tamiu.edu
"Philip Meadows Taybr and 'Confessions of a Thing': Thugee Theatricality and the Horror of the Oriental Other"
Placing Godwin's Fiction: Caleb Williams and Beyond
1. Ranita Chaterjee, California State University, Northridge
Rc54653@csun.edu
“Filial Ties: Mary Shelley and the Composition of Godwin’s Deloraine”
2. Rob Anderson, Oakland University
r2anders@oakland.edu
“Godwin’s Machines: Fleetwood, Mechanical Subjectivity and the Rejection of Sociability”
3. Arnold Markley, Penn State University, Delaware County
aam2@mail.de.psu.edu
"Homosocial Desire and the Destructiveness of Masculinity in Godwin's Fleetwood, Mandeville, and Cloudsley"
4. Elaine Ayers, Creighton University
eayers@creighton.edu
"'Repeating a half-told and mangled tale': Reading Caleb Williams Through Emily Melvile"
Monday, August 4 10:15 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
The Drama and Theatre of Joanna Baillie
Chair: Catherine Burroughs, Wells College
cb64@cornell.edu
1. Kathryn Pratt, Auburn University
kathrynjanepratt@hotmail.com
"Joanna Baillie's Dramatic Rhetoric and the Theater of History"
2. Marjean Purinton, Texas Tech University
mpurinto@ttacs.ttu.edu
"Placing and Performing Female Sexuality in Joanna Baillie's Comedies"
3. Regina Hewitt, University of South Florida
hewittrdr@earthlink.net
"Humanity-Mongers and Sympathy Brokers: Placing Joanna Baillie in the History of ‘Reformance'"
The Origins and Ends of Empire
Chair: Ian Balfour
1. Zak Sitter, Brown University
exitr@yahoo.com
“The Orthography of Empire”
2. Esther Wohlgemut, Georgetown University
esw6@georgetown.com
“The Idea of a Universal History in Southey’s Colloquies and Shelley’s The Last Man”
3. Ian Balfour, York University
ibalfour@yorku.ca
“Theory and History in Volney's Allegory of Empire”
Placing Jane Austen
1. Beth Lau, California State University, Long Beach
Blau@csulb.edu
“Placing Jane Austen in the Romantic Period: Self and Solitude in the Works of Austen and the Male Romantic Poets”
2. Courtney Wennerstrom, Indiana University
cwenners@indiana.edu
“Marriages and Carriages: Staging the Borders of Gender Performativity in Jane Austen's Emma”
3. Patricia Comitini, Quinnipiac University
Patricia.comitini@quinnipiac.edu
“The Novel's Excessive Possibilities and Austen's Northanger Abbey”
4. Sonjeong Cho, Texas A&M University
sjcho@tamu.edu
“‘Faultless in Spite of All Her Faults’: Emma, an Imaginist, a Heroine Whom No One but Jane Austen Likes”
The Borders of Poetry: Romantic Poetry and the Matter of Fact
Chair: Seamus Perry
1. Seamus Perry, Balliol College, Oxford University
seamus.perry@balliol.ox.ac.uk
"Romantic Poetry and the Matter of Fact"
2. Matthew Scott, Hertford College, Oxford University, and visiting scholar at Brown University 2002-3
thomas.scott@hertford.ox.ac.uk
Title TBA
3. Mina Gorji, Wadham College, Oxford University
mina.gorji@lady-margaret-hall.oxford.ac.uk
"Romanticism and the Familiar Detail: Clare, Particularity and the Dynamics of Intimacy"
4. Jason Beardsley, State University of New York, Stony Brook
jbeardsl@ic.sunysb.edu
"To Fix or Fixate Upon: Knowledge and Desire in Wordsworth's 'The Thorn'"
Placing Walter Scott
1. Andrew Piper, Columbia University
akp10@columbia.edu
" 'My tongue is mine ain': Books and Borders in Walter Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border"
2. Michael Wells, University of British Columbia
mwells@look.ca
"Romantic Home Theater: Orality and Nationhood in Walter Scott's The Antiquary"
3. Ann Marie Ross, California State University, Dominguez Hills
annrossphd@hotmail.com
"Scott's 'History of Europe' : Revolution and History in Old Mortality"
On the Verge: Bordering Philosophy II
Chair: David L. Clark, McMaster University
dclark@mcmaster.ca
1. Joan Steigerwald, York University
steiger@yorku.ca
“At the Boundary of Reason: The Place of the Abject Object in German Idealism”
2. Nicholas Halmi, University of Washington
nh2@u.washington.edu
“Romanticism, Mythology, and the Work of Reason”
3. Alexander Glage, Duke University
glage@yahoo.com
“Going from One Thought to Another: The Writing of Logic in Kant, Coleridge, and Hegel”
4. Mark Algee-Hewitt, New York University
mah310@nyu.edu
"On the Borders of Transcendence: The Liminality of Trauma in the Philosophical Sublime"
Monday, August 4 12:15 p.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Lunch
Monday, August 4 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Sites of Recreation
Chair: Julie Carlson
1. Luisa Cale, University College, Oxford University
luisa.cale@university-college.oxford.ac.uk
"Exhibitions as Sites of Cultural Production: The British Institute and the National Gallery"
2. Thomas Crochunis, Brown University
Crochunis@brown.edu
"Pedestrianism as Performance in Late-Eighteenth and Early-Nineteenth Century Britain"
3. Daniel O'Quinn, University of Guelph
doquinn@uoguelph.ca
"Recreational Alterity: Imperial War and the Art of Juggling"
4. Julie Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara
jcarlson@english.ucsb.edu
"In the Black: Race, Profit, Theater"
Touring Romanticism
Chair: Nicola Trott, University of Glasgow
n.trott@englit.arts.gla.ac.uk
1. Peter Manning, State University of New York, Stony Brook
pmanning@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
"Home Thoughts From Abroad: Wordsworth's 'Musings Near Aquapendente"
2. Nancy Moore Goslee, University of Tennessee
ngoslee@utk.edu
“Shifting Borders: Shelleyan Ekphrasis in England and Italy”
3. Rebecca Potter, University of Dayton
Rebecca.potter@notes.udayton.edu
"'Among the untrodden ways': William and Dorothy Wordsworth in Goslar"
Placing Psychoanalysis in Nineteenth-Century Studies
Panel sponsored by the Literary Studies Program, Fordham University.
Chair: Joel Faflak
1. Patrick O’Malley, Georgetown University
pro@georgetown.edu
"Back to the Future in Loudon's The Mummy!"
2. Eva Badowska, Fordham University
badowska@fordham.edu
"The Bourgeois Interior: Charlotte Bronte and the City of Things"
3. Joel Faflak,Wilfrid Laurier University
jfaflak@wlu.ca
"Romanticism and the Pornography of Talking"
Urban Locations
1. Judith Thompson, Dalhousie University
jthompso@is.dal.ca
“From Forum to Repository: the Beaufort Buildings as Textual and Cultural Space”
2. Nikki Hessell, University of Toronto
nikki.hessell@utoronto.ca
“STC: A Bridge Between Fleet Street and Westminster”
3. Eric Eisner, Harvard University
eeisner@fas.harvard.edu
“A poet’s house who keeps the keys of pleasure’s temple”: Sleep and Poetry and the Scenes of Authorship”
Placing the Periodical Review
1. Kim Wheatley, College of William and Mary
kewhea@mail.wm.edu
“The Arctic in the Quarterly Review”
2. Juan Sanchez, University of Notre Dame
Jsanche1@nd.edu
“A New Age in Periodical Writing: Blackwood's and the Formulation of a New Cultural Consciousness”
3. Jacqueline Belanger, Cardiff University
belangerj@cardiff.ac.uk
“Flim-flamming: Parody, Reviewing, and the Romantic-Era Novel”
Scottish Romanticism
1. Susan Oliver, University of Cambridge
susan.oliver1@ntlworld.com
“Antiquarianism and Borders in Scott’s Minstrely”
2. Charles Snodgrass, Xavier University
charles-s@xu.edu
“'Let Glasgow Flourish': John Galt's Colonizing Career”
3. Julia Kipp, Hope College
kipp@hope.edu
“Communal Politics and the Bardic Nation: Ireland, Scotland, and Romanticism”
Monday, August 4 3:15 p.m. - 4:45 p.m.
Placing Music in Romantic Studies I
Chair: Lawrence Kramer
1. Janet Schmalfeldt, Tufts University
jschmalf@emerald.tufts.edu
"Music that Turns Inward"
2. Marshall Brown, University of Washington
mbrown@u.washington.edu
"Haydn's Whimsy: Pastoral Ideology in the Piano Trio no. 21 in C"
3. Lawrence Kramer, Fordham University
lkramer@fordham.edu
Saving the Ordinary: Beethoven's 'Ghost' Trio and the Wheel of History"
Romanticism, Race and Gender
Chair: Anne K. Mellor
1. Catherine Addison, University of Zululand
caddison@pan.uzulu.ac.za
"Gender and Race in Byron's ‘The Island’ and Mitford's ‘Christina’"
2. Nicole Reynolds, Ohio University
reynolds@ohio.edu
"Empires of the Heart"
3. Anne K. Mellor, University of California, Los Angeles
mellor@humnet.ucla.edu
"Liberating Female Desire: Elizabeth Hamilton's ‘Memoirs of a Hindoo Rajah’”
Wordsworth, Holderlin, and the Redemptive
1. Wolfgang R. Mann, Columbia University
wrm4@columbia.edu
“Wordsworth/Holderlin”
2. Susan Nurmis-Schomers, University of Tubingen
snurmi@gmx.de
“‘A River Runs Through It’: Topologies of Poetic Recollection in William Wordsworth and Friedrich Holderlin”
3. Richard Eldridge, Swarthmore College
reldrid1@swarthmore.edu
“Holderlin’s Poetology as a Response to Philosophical Problems”
Placing Coleridge
1. Maximiliaan van Woudenberg, Acadia University
maximiliaan@sympatico.ca
“The Circulating Libraries at Gottingen During Coleridge's Second University Career in 1799” (cp)
2. Mark Barr, Vanderbilt University
mark.l.barr@vanderbilt.edu
“The New Forms of Justice: Coleridge's Invocation of Legal Communities in the Biographia Literaria”
3. Felicity James, Christ Church, Oxford University
felicity.james@christ-church.oxford.ac.uk
“Coleridge, Lamb, and the ‘Faery Bowers’: Communal Strategies of Reading, Revision and Response Explored”
Revisioning Romanticism and Romantic Revision
Panel sponsored by the English Department, Rutgers University.
Chair: William Galperin, Rutgers University
whg1@ix.netcom.com
1. Scott Campbell, State University of New York, Stony Brook
sccampbell@notes.cc.sunysb.edu
"Scars, Not Healing: Godwin's Response to Scott"
2. Sharon McGrady, Rutgers University
SAMcgrady@aol.com
"Revising the Deity: Wordsworth and the 'Spots of Time'"
3. Richard Squibbs, Rutgers University
squibbs77@hotmail.com
"Cowper, Clare and the Georgic"
Respondent: Michael Gamer, University of Pennsylvania
mgamer@dept.english.upenn.edu
Receiving Byron
Chair: James Snowden, University of Washington
jsnowden@u.washington.edu
1. Ghislaine McDayter, Bucknell University
mcdayter@bucknell.edu
" 'Not in Nature to Resist': Byron, Femininity, and Fans"
2. Jared Richman, University of Pennsylvania
richman@english.upenn.edu
"A Pilgrimage of Exile: Frances Calderon de la Barca and the Ruins of Romanticism"
3. Nicholas Mason, Brigham Young University
nick_mason@byu.edu
"Byron, Blacking, and the Romantic Origins of the Ad-Man/ Author"
Monday, August 4 5:00 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.
Greeting: Catharine Stimpson, Dean, New York University.
Plenary Lecture: Marilyn Butler, Rector, Exeter College, Oxford University.
Monday, August 4 6:30 p.m.
Conference Cruise and Gala Banquet.
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