Fordham University            The Jesuit University of New York
 


Saturday, August 2

 

 

Saturday, August 2   8:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.

 

 

Romantic Places: Wordsworth

 

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

pmanning@notes.cc.sunysb.edu

1. Benjamin Kim, State University of New York, Stony Brook

bekim@ic.sunysb.edu

"Wordsworth: Duddon, Guide to the Lakes, Nationalism"

 

2. Ted Underwood, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

tunder@uiuc.edu

"Wordsworth's Industrial Relationship to Nature"

 

3. Charles Rzepka, Boston University

crzepka@bu.edu

"Place and Place-keeping in Wordsworth"

 

 

Romanticism and Critical Gaming (cp)

 

Chair: Neil Fraistat, University of  Maryland

fraistat@umd.edu

 

1. Ron Broglio, Georgia Institute of Technology

rbroglio@earthlink.net

"Living Inside the Poem"

 

2. Geoffrey Rockwell, McMaster  University

grockwel@mcmaster.ca

"Reflections on Playing McGann and Drucker's IVANHOE Game"

 

3. Steven E. Jones, Loyola University Chicago

sjones1@luc.edu

"Critical Gaming and Romanticism"

 

 

Wordsworth in America I

 

Chair: Joel Pace

 

Session Chair: Stephen Gill, University of  Oxford

Stephen.gill@lincoln.oxford.ac.uk

 

1. Joel Pace, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire

pacejf@uwec.edu

Introduction: "America's Wordsworth: Towards a New Theory of Influence"

 

2. Adam Potkay, College of William and Mary

aspotk@wm.edu

"Wordsworth, Bishop Doane, and Henry Reed: High-Church Romanticism on the Delaware

 

3. Elizabeth Fay, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Elizabeth.fay@umb.edu

"Wordsworth's Prose, Bostonian Chivalry and the Uses of Art"

 

 
Byron and the History of Poetic Language

 

Chair: Mark Phillipson, Bowdoin College

mphillip@bowdoin.edu

 

1.  Laura George, Eastern Michigan University

LGeorge@emich.edu  

"Palpable Poetics: Byron and the Atomism of the Stanza"

 

2. Gary Dyer, Cleveland State University
g.dyer28@csuohio.edu

"The Textual Forms of Byron's Blank Space: Reading ----- and ***** in the Romantic Period"

 

3.  Andrew Elfenbein, University of Minnesota

Elfen00l@umn.edu

"Romanticism and the Place of English"

 

 

Romantic Measures

 

Chair: Charles Mahoney

 

1. Charles Mahoney, University of Connecticut

Charles.Mahoney@uconn.edu

"'Versification in the School of Dryden': Hunt's Renovation of the Heroic Couplet"

 

2. William Flesch, Brandeis University
flesch@brandeis.edu

"Interleavings: Terza Rima and its Analogues"

 

3. Willard Spiegelman, Southern Methodist University

wspiegel@mail.smu.edu / wspiegel@post.cis.smu.edu

"Romantic Quatrains"

 

 

Saturday, August 2  10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Plenary Lecture: Claudia Brodsky Lacour, Princeton University.

 

 

Saturday, August 2  12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Lunch

 

 

Saturday, August 2  1:30 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.

 

 

On the Verge: Bordering Philosophy I

 

Chair: David L. Clark,  McMaster  University

dclark@mcmaster.ca

 

1.  Orrin C. Wang,  University of  Maryland

Orrin_wang@umail.umd.edu

"Mute Bodies: Against Romanticism Beside Theory"

 

2.  Timothy Morton,  University of  Colorado

mortont@stripe.colorado.edu

"Keep off the grass: the existential guide to lawn care"

 

3.  Mark Lussier,  Arizona  State University

Mark.lussier@asu.edu

"The Rise of Tibetan Buddhism: The Dictionary, Grammar, and Codification of Tibetan Buddhism in Nineteenth Century Europe"

 

 

Cities of Empire: Beyond the Metropole

 

Chair: Alan Richardson

 

1. Alan Richardson, Boston  College

richarad@mail1.bc.edu

"Introduction"

 

2. Deirdre Coleman, University of  Sydney

deirdre.coleman@english.usyd.edu.au 
"Freetown, 'A Town of Slavery'"

 

3. Joselyn Almeida, Boston  University

almeidaj@bu.edu

"Kingston, Simon Bolivar, and the Panatlantic"

 

4. Nanora Sweet, University of  Missouri, St. Louis

sweet@umsl.edu

"A most unexpected resemblance to New York: Unromantic Liverpool and its Municipal Culture" (sp)

 

 

Sacred and Profane

 

 

1. J. Robert Barth, S. J., Boston College

robert.barth@bc.edu

"Hopkins and the Romantic Tradition"

 

2.  Dan White,  University of  Toronto

dwhite@utm.utoronto.ca

"Syncretic / Sectarian: Religious Alterity and Romantic Globalism"

 

3.  Michael Suarez, S. J.,  Fordham University 

michael.suarez@campion-hall.oxford.ac.uk

"Where the Sacred Meets the Profane"

 

 

Placing Frankenstein in the 21st Century

 

Panel sponsored by the English Department, Princeton University.

 

Chair: Susan Wolfson

wolfson@princeton.edu

           

            1. Jasper Cragwall, Princeton University  

            cragwall@princeton.edu

"Madness and Monsters"

 

2. John Bugg, Princeton University

jbugg@princeton.edu

"'Master of their language': Alterity, Exile, and the Educations of Frankenstein"

 

3. Roger Schwartz, Princeton University

  rschwart@princeton.edu

"The Disinherited Text and the Monstrous Author"

 

 

Queering Romanticism

 

1. Tom Kenney, Fordham University 

tkenney426@aol.com

"'This Snake of a Poem': Que(e)rying The Giaour

 

2. Geraldine Friedman, Purdue University

gfriedman@sla.purdue.edu

"Sitting Women's Sexuality: The Ladies of Llangollen and the Construction of Place"    

 

3. Christopher Hobson, State University Of  New York, Old Westbury

hobsonc@bway.net

"Blake and Sexuality"

 

 

Material Poetics: Coleridge and Others

1. Jon Farina, New York University
jvf@nyu.edu
"Coleridge's Marginalia"

2. Dominic Micer and Michael Templeton, Miami University of Ohio
micerda@muohio.edu / templemw@muohio.edu
"The Online Bijou Project: Radical Pedagogy, Coleridge's 'Work without Hope'"

3. Dahlia Porter, University of Pennsylvania
"Publishers, Reviewers, and the Curious Public: Marketing Coleridge's 'Christabel'"

 

 

Saturday, August 2   3:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. 

Death's Jest Book by Thomas Lovell Beddoes.  Adapted by Jerome J. McGann.  Directed by Frederick Burwick.

 

 

Saturday, August 2   6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. 

Plenary Lecture: Jerome J. McGann,  University of Virginia.

 

 

Saturday, August 2   8:15 p.m.

Professional  Readingof Samson Agonistes by John Milton.  Directed by Nancy Bogen.

 


 

 

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