Conference Program and Schedule of Events
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THURSDAY, 8/15
8:30-10
Concurrent Virtual Sessions 1
1.A Romanticism and the Colonisation of Australia
Porscha Fermanis: Walter Scott’s Frontier Paradigm and Australasian Settler Fiction
Claire Knowles and Alexis Harley: Romanticism and the City of Gold
Sarah Ailwood: Romanticism and Catherine Helen Spence’s political insurrections
1.B The Romantic in the Victorian
Andrew Sargent, “"Periodization and the Event of Romantic Poetry in Matthew Arnold's Empedocles upon Etna"
Marcus Alaimo, “John Stuart Mill’s Romantic Interpretation of the July Revolution”
Jack Rooney, “I was twain, two selves distinct that cannot join again”: James Thomson’s Post-Romantic Rewritings of the Shelleyan Epipsyche”
10:15-11:45
Concurrent Virtual Sessions 2
2.A The Cambridge History of Women and British Romanticism and Writing Scraps
Julie Carlson
Mai-Lin Cheng
Mary Favret
Kevis Goodman
Theresa Kelly
2.B Epistolary Form, Leonora Sansay, The Woman of Colour
Joey S. Kim, “'My heart revolts': Olivia’s Insurrection in The Woman of Colour, A Tale”
Rachel Canter, “The Novel of Liberalism: Reassessing the Politics of Sensibility in The Woman of Colour
Basak Demirhan, "Horror and Exhaustion: White Witnesses of Slave Revolts in Erle’s Obi and Sansay’s Secret History"
12-1:15
Virtual Plenary: A Conversation with Osama Jarrar and Lucy Perry (Arab American University in Palestine) moderated by Lennie Hanson
1:30-3:00
Concurrent Virtual Sessions 3
3.A Music, Improvisation, Race, Gender
Gerard Holmes, “"American Improvvisatori: Improvisation in the Antebellum U.S."
Katherine Bergren, “Scots Wha Hae” Comes to America”
Mark A. McCutcheon, “Sinning in the name of: constellating Blake, Heart, and LEL”
3.B Domestic Discipline and Perverse Freedom
David Sigler, “Punctuality and Lateness in Mary Brunton’s Discipline”
Shuyu Guo, “Charlotte Smith and Xiao Hong’s Elegiac Poems: A Gendered Home and a (Re)gendered Society”
Shiqi Xu, “Cutting the Maternal Loop: Female Rebellion in Grimms’ Hansel and Gretel”
Lise Gaston, “Insurrectional Failure in Charlotte Smith’s Desmond”
3:15-4:45
Concurrent Virtual Sessions 4
4.A From Haiti to Palestine: CLR James, Edward Said and Lessons on Insurrection and Friendship (Sponsored by the Early Caribbean Society)
Chair: Désha Osborne
Jemima Pierre, “From Haiti to Palestine”
Fadi Ennab, “Reading CLR James’s Insurrection through and contra Edward Said’s writing and friendship”
Kerry Sinanan, “Global Solidarities of Resistance: James and Said Beyond Boundaries and Borders”
4.B Nationalism, Universality, Individualism
Matthew Leporati, “I Go to Eternal Death”: William Blake’s Milton as Underworld Journey”
Jacob Romanow, “Title”
Małgorzata Nowak, “God and Uprisings: Juliusz Słowacki and Polish History”
Kathryn Ready, “Preparing for Insurrection”: William Drennan, the Aikin Family, and the Irish Troubles of the 1790s”
5:00-6:30 In-person
Opening Remarks &
Opening Keynote: Padma Rangarajan (UC-Riverside)
6:30-7:30
Opening Reception
FRIDAY, 8/16
8:00-6:00 Registration Open
8:00 Continental Breakfast (coffee, pastries)
Friday 8:30-10:00
Concurrent Session 4
4.A Climate, Poetics, Abolition
Kir Kuiken, “Can the Earth Speak?: Karoline von Günderrode’s Geo-Poetics Via Olive Senior”
Casie LeGette, “McKay, Shelley, and the Morant Bay Rebellion”
Lauren Cooper, “Hurricane Season at Mansfield Park: Rereading Jane Austen on Slavery through the Lens of Climate”
4.B Coleridge: Crisis, Shame and Leaders
Andrew Franta, “Mental Bombast and the Romantic Lyric”
Tye Landels, “Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the Lyrical ‘We', and the Poetics of National Shame”
Lilach Naishtat, “Until that I, Deborah, arose”: Coleridge’s Deborah as Insurrectionist Leader
4.C “Galt, Scott, and the Historical Novel: Breaking Frames”
Chair: Mark Schoenfield
Anthony Jarrells, “History as a Mass Experience”
Adam Kozaczka, “Anecdote and Law in John Galt’s Middle Ages”
Angela Esterhammer, “Galt, Scott, and Unruly Historical Novels of 1824”
4.D Romantic Embodiment: Hunger, Flesh, Restlessness
Kristin Samuelian, “Hunger striking: the politics of distress in Godwin and Brontë”
Emily A. Bernhard-Jackson, “The Flesh Made Word: The Central Importance of the Authorial Body”
S. Yarberry, “‘When we had given our bodies to the wind’: Skateboarding with William Wordsworth”
4.E The Global and Planetary Poetics of Philis Wheatley
Steven Thomas, “Ethiopianism and Ethiopian Exceptionalism at the Intersection of American Race and African Ethnicity”
Devin Garofalo, “Phillis Wheatley’s Allusions”
Noah Brooksher, “Phillis Wheatley’s Poetics of Incarnation”
4.F Protest Reading and Critical Popular Cultures
Andrew McInnes, “Protest Reading in the Romantic Period”
Kriti, “The Allure of News and Romantic Periodicals”
Ian Newman, “Thomas Spence’s Insurrectionary Tactics”
Talissa Ford, “‘The Black Terror’: Bill Richmond’s Revolution in the Ring”
4.G Romanticism Across the Disciplines
Chair: Larry H. Peer
Jennifer Law-Sullivan and Ashley Shams, “Akram Khan’s Giselle: A Case Study in Ballet as Protest”
Heather Belnap, “Constance Mayer and the Limits of the Romantic Artist as Genius”
James Donelan, “Beethoven After Adorno: The Return to Romanticism”
10:00-10:15: Coffee Break
10:15-11:45
Concurrent Sessions 5
5.A Mary Shelley, Extinction and the Speculative
Chair: Ian Newman
Hannah Blanning, “Mary Shelly’s Spinozian Heroine: Ontological Insurrection in Valperga"
Peter Benson, "‘I have not scrupled to innovate upon their combinations’: Frankenstein, Specters, and the Role of Speculation in the Re-Imagination of the Self”
5.B Ecological Commons and Metabolic Rift
Li Qi Peh, “Quiet Insurrections: Plant-Like Communities and the Figure of the Old Maid”
Johannah King-Slutzky, “Conservation, Crisis, and Romantic Theories of Rhythm”
Tara Lee, "The Virtual and the Vital: Evolution and Embodiment in William Blake”
Benjamin Rosenberg, “Eking Bounds, Threading Woods”
5.C Speculation and Rebellion: India between 1835-1857
Kaneesha Parsard, “Is the Coolie Woman A Banker?
Sujata Chattopadhyay, “‘How all my brain was in tumult, and all my heart in insurrection’: The Deadly Juggernaut and the Militant Missionaries in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre”
Dan White: “Romanticism, Liberal Imperialism, and British India ca. 1835: ‘The all-changing power of steam’”
5.D Moons Hurricanes Shells and Atoms
Noah Comet, “The icy earth swung blind”: The Moon as Troublemaker
Isabel Realyvasquez, "Exploring Esoteric Ecology in William Gilbert's The Hurricane"
Tiffany Rey-Mey Wang, "Architectural Images in Charlotte Smith's Beachy Head."
Louise Akers, “Poetic License: The Limits of the Materiality of Language in Capital”
5.E Insurrection and Public Sphere
Chair: Jacob Leveton
John Gardner, “William Benbow, Francis Macerone and Revolutionary Transmission 1819-1831”
David Collings, “The Luddite Public Sphere”
Ayşe Çelikkol, "Pamphlets on the Swing Riots and the Farm Worker as a Literary Type"
5.F Robert Wedderburn’s Insurrectionary Ecology and Religion
Chair: Katey Castellano
David Diamond, “Toward a Black Postsecularism: Religion and Revolution in Robert Wedderburn’s Axe Laid to the Root”
Alick McCallum, "Uncommoning the British Commons from the Black Plantation: Robert Wedderburn’s Radical Ecologies"
5.G White Feminism, Racialization, Kinship
Taylor Schey, “Little White Similes: The Figure of Comparison and the White Feminist Tradition”
Shruti Jain, “Mary Jemison’s Insurrectionary Kinship”
Kaushik Tekur Venkata, "Lascar, Liberty, and the Para-Lyric"
Melissa Johnson, “‘She may build a new race of new men’: A Legacy of Eugenic Ideology from the Romantic Period Through to the Present”
11:45-1:15
Lunch (attendees on their own)
ERR Board Meeting
Seminar Sessions (refreshments provided)
1:15-2:45
Concurrent Sessions 6
6 .A Sublime Landscapes and the Unknown in Mary Shelley and Anne Bannerman
Chair: Lisbeth Chapin
Hayley Bowen, "Unsettled and Unsettling: Romantic Anxiety and the Failure to Control the Arctic”
Lisbeth Chapin, “The Creature as Political Refugee in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein."
Alex Wagstaffe, “‘The Deserts of the Sea’: Gothic Ocean Depths and Dangerous Women in Anne Bannerman’s ‘The Mermaid’”
6 .B Wordsworth and Clare between Dispossession and Obstinacy
Chair: Tye Landels
Nathan TeBokkel, “Labouring Melancholy and the Milkmaid’s Overturned Pail”
Karen Swann, “Clare's Obstinacy”
Laura Quinney, “Against All Enemies Prepared, All But Neglect”; Wordsworth and the Psychology of Dispossession
6 .C Travel Writing and Pseudo-Letters
Linda Van Netten Blimke, Title?
Michelina Nelson-Olivieri, "Traveling Resistance: Lister, Seacole, and Fuller and Romantic Women's Rebellion Through Travel Writing"
Joel Robert Ferguson, “‘Alone in the Chaise’: Depopulated Prospects, Itineraries, and Imagined Geographies in Sarah Murray’s Scottish Travel Writing”
Brecht De Groote, “The Pseudo-Letter and the Imagination of “Distant Correspondents”
6 .D Insurrectionary Failure and Oppressive Containment
Chair: Andy McInnis
Spencer Dodd, “Unrepresented Insurrections in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man”
Dana Van Kooy, “Living with the Trouble”
Daniel T. Kasper, “‘H. and I are going to rebel’: W.H., E.B., and Queer Theory”
Lisa Kasmer, “Bodily Oppression and Insurrection”
6 .E Global Receptions and Influences of Romanticism
Chair: Kathryn Ready
Leon Wang: “From ‘Lamenting Greece’ to ‘Lamenting China’--Lord Byron at the End of China's Monarchial History”
Jacob Henry Leveton and Tamar Kharatishvili: “Byron in Georgia (the country, not the state): Decolonizing Poetics, Politics and the Critical Case of the 1832 წლის შეთქმულება”
Jane Kim: “Korean Romanticism and the March 1 Movement”
6 .F Orientalism, Eloquence, Recitation
Chair: Shruti Jain
Filiz Turhan, “Byron Burlesque: Moving Out and Moving In”
Shavera Seneviratne, “The Cataract of the Ganges and the Visual Spectacle of Empire”
Supritha Rajan, “Unruly States: Literary Study and the Cures of Poetry in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Theory of Education”
6.G Nationalism, Universality, Individualism 2
Chair: Taylor Schey
Oishani Sengupta, “Byronic Bengalis: Romantic Poetry and Political Feeling in the Bengal Renaissance”
Arun Sood, “Scott, Scotland, and Cuba: Transnational Literary Entanglements and a Cuban Anti-Slavery Novel”
Isabel Bielat, "Glory and Nationhood: British Romanticizations of Revolutionary Latin America”
2:45-3:00
Coffee Break (coffee, pastries)
3:15-4:45
Concurrent Sessions 7
7.A Gender and Subjectivity Between Excess and Quietude
Irene Fizer, “A ‘Most Exquisite Enjoyment’: Neoclassical Cults, Bacchanalian Ecstasy, and Women out of place in Austen’s Sense and Sensibility”
Jordan Green, “The Lady's Revolt Against Reason: The Obsessive Mind and Creative Power in 1790s Literature”
Renissa Gannie, “Quite Defiance: Unveiling Agency, Resistance and Rebellion in The Woman of Colour and Jane Eyre”
Elizabeth Neiman, “Sighting the Body's Illegibility in Cecilia: Burney's Surprising Spectral Turn in Her Most Sentimental of Novels”
7.B Revised Histories: the Wordsworths and the Aikens
Nicholas Mason, “What We’ve Gotten Wrong about Dorothy Wordsworth: New Perspectives from the Rydal Journals”
Christopher Rovee, "Overturning the Field: Dorothy Wordsworth and the New Professionalism"
Tim Fulford, “Visionary Boys and Spots of Time: Kirke White, Wordsworth – the Romantic Child and the Memorialising Poet”
Lisa Ann Robertson “Scientific Siblings: Anna Laetitia Barbauld and John Aikin, Jr.”
7.C Making (Gender) Trouble
Chair: David Signer
Orianne Smith, “Satirizing Southcott: Gender, Microaggressions, and Millenarianism
Sonia Hofkosh,“Wollstonecraft’s Ugly Feelings”
Daniel O’Quinn, “Travesty Unbound: Dorothea Jordan’s Counter-Masculinities”
Jill Heydt-Stevenson, “Trans-Insurrection: The Chevalière/Chevalier d’Éon”
7.D William Blake’s and Insurrectionary Poetics and Politics
Chair: S. Yarberry
Daeun Kim, “Little People that Matter: Arabesque of the Marginalized in William Blake’s America a Prophecy”
Robert Miles, “Imaginary Insurrections and Romanticism”
Peter Otto, “Morning, Mourning, the experience of Los(s), and Blake’s ‘nervous fear’”
7.E Temporal Insurrections: Romanticism in Contemporary Movements
Amanda Jo Goldstein, “Ulterior to ‘Man’: Cooperative Evolution from Kropotkin’s Anarchist Ecology to Grigg’s Black Utopias”
Caroline Anjali Ritchie, “The Reception of William Blake’s Engravings for Stedman’s ‘Narrative’ (1796) in Contemporary Activist and Protest Art”
Lily Gurton-Wachter, “Temporal Dissent in the Age of Abolition (following JJJJJerome Ellis)”
7.F Indigenous Insurrection
Mark Lounibos, “The War that Gained England the Loss of her Colonies”: Robert Bage’s Hermsprong and the Legacy of Pontiac’s Rebellion.
Lucien Meadows, “Action and Resistance in The Cherokee Phoenix”
Diana Little, “‘Upon whose rest he tramples’: William Cullen Bryant’s Visions of Uplift ”
7.G Insurrectionary Transmission: Vaccines, Madness, Magic
Carlisle Yingst, “Abolition, Inoculation, and Print in William Sancho’s Edition of The Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho”
Esska Joshua, "’An Infectious Madness’: Disability and the Epidemiology of Social Unrest in Dickens’s Barnaby Rudge”
Hannah Markley, “‘An apocalypse of the world within me’: Insurrection and Sobriety in Thomas De Quincey’s Confessional Writings"
Carolina Fautsch: “Form as Spellcraft: Materialism, Grimoires as Genre, and The Lay of the Last Minstrel”
5:00-6:30
Keynote Address: Grégory Pierrot (UConn-Stamford)
6:30pm
Interactive Workshop:
Playing the Romantic: Integrating Games into the Classroom
(pre-registration required)
SATURDAY, 8/17
8:00-6:00 Registration Open
8:00 Continental Breakfast (coffee, pastries)
8:30-10:00
Concurrent Sessions 8
8.A Keatsian Revolutions: Embodied, Revolving, Multiplied
Holly Coleman, “Sounding Collective Resistance: Keats’s Poetic Structures and the Aesthetics of Revolution”
Gabriella Zurlo, “Radical Discomfort: How John Keats Employs a Gory Pot of Basil to Inspire an Empathetic Revolution”
Tammuz Frankel, “Looking Exhausted: ‘Ode on Indolence’ and Revolution”
Elena Rotzokou: “Aching Time, Slow Time: Temporality, Poetry, and Revolution in Keats”
8.B Justice and Repair
Chair: Alexander Schlutz
Adam Komisaruk, “What Should Beatrice Have Done? Toward Romantic Forgiveness”
Adam Nadir Mohamed, “Fascistic Aspirations of Promethean Work: Rethinking Prometheus Unbound’s Revolution on a Plane of Immanence”
Daniel Parker, “Whither Accountability? Caleb Williams, Resistance to Punishment, and the Search for Repair”
Michael Tomko, “‘Different from a mere tale of enchantment’: Leigh Hunt, Political Enchantment, and Insurrectionary Interruption”
8.C Austen Insurrection Repression
Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud, “Title”
Nick Bujak, “Realism, Probability, and Pessimism: The Case of Lydia Bennet”
Toby R. Benis, “Matrimonial Insurrections”
Daniela Garofalo, “Hobbesian Comedy: Persuasion or How Austen Tells a Dick Joke”
8.D The Romantic in the Victorian
Abraham Luis Davila Corujo, "'Those Who Have Been Chosen': Romanticism and Narratives of Victorian Reception in Penny Dreadful"
Hannah LeClair, “Alas! Romance can make no head against the riot act”: Civil Unrest and Civic Development in the ‘May Day’ Sketches of Leigh Hunt and Charles Dickens”
8.E Public-Facing Projects Roundtable
Devoney Looser
Tilar Mazzeo
Patricia A. Matthew
8.F Plantations, Police, Insurrection
Ayendy Bonifacio, “Migrancy and Haitian Landscapes in Victor Séjour’s ‘Le Mulâtre’ and S’s ‘Theresa, A Haytien Tale’”
Mark Canuel, “John Thewall and the Genres of Revolt”
Ryan Kaveh Sheldon, “Two Novellas and the Police”
8.G Introducing the Complete Frankenstein Variorum: Navigating Five Versions of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (panel attendees may benefit from bringing a laptop or tablet to interact with the variorum edition, which can be found at https://frankensteinvariorum.org)
Elisa Beshero-Bondar
Raffaele Viglianti
Yuying Jin
10:00-10:15
Coffee Break (coffee, pastries)
10:15-11:45
Concurrent Sessions 9
9.A Theorizing and Writing History
Maia McAleavey, “John Galt and the Long Term”
Kin Fai Hao, “Mary Wollstonecraft’s Historical Sensibility in Narrating the French Revolution”
Robert O. Steele, “Joseph Fiévée’s Post-Revolutionary Fictions: The "Trois Nouvelles" of 1802”
9.B Plotting Insurgency in a Caribbean Epi-Center (Early Caribbean Society)
Ty Blackerby, “Chimeric & Protean Symbols: Pirates & Archival Insurgency in Maxwell Philip’s Emmanuel Appadocca”
Joshua Lawson, “Object of Desire: Resistance and Masculinity in Hamel, the Obeah Man”
Chelsea Stieber, “1804/1806 and the Limits of an Insurgent Republic”
Candace Ward, “‘Insurrection on the Wild Coast’: Novelizing Rebellion in the Guianas”
9.C Citizenship, Nationality, and Disability: Romanticism and Beyond (International Conference on Romanticism)
Moderator: Kathleen Béres Rogers
Matthew Reznicek, “Contaminated by the Epidemic Infection”
Kathy Béres Rogers, “Alternative Intelligence and/as National Identity in Walter Scott's Waverly”
Rebecca Nesvet, “Carers doing it for Themselves: The Romantic Revolution in Penny Fiction”
Lesley Thulin, “William and Ellen Craft’s Subversions”
9.D Insurrection and Drama
James Armstrong, ““Lucky in Being Massacred”: Re-evaluating Hemans’ The Vespers of Palermo”
Yasser Shams Khan, “Tippoo Saib on the London Stage: Exploring the Scenic Atmosphere of Theatrical Orientalism”
9.E Teaching Keats, the Shelleys, and their Circles in Troubling Times Roundtable (KSAA Session)
Presenters: Oliver Bedard, Mark Canuel, Brian Bates, Michele Speitz, Devin Garofalo, Lily Gurton-Wachter, and Brian Rejack
9.F Global Internationalism and Abolition
Haider Shahbaz, “The Romance of Internationalism”
Psyfun Mustary, ““Those Iron Gates of Prisons’: Romantic Insurrections, William Blake’s The French Revolution, and the Anticolonial Poetry of the Bengali Rebel Poet Kazi Nazrul Islam”
Suleiman Hodali, “Occasional Poetics and Romantic Mediations of Insurrectionary Politics”
Matt Sandler, “"Messianic Time Again: On Abolition, Zionism, and Apocalypticism"
9.G Literary and Visual Abolitionism
Chair: Joseph Albernaz
Julian S. Whitney, "Black Methodologies: Ottobah Cugoano and the Power(s) of (Anti)Racial Resistance"
Jeanne Britton, “Fiction, Fact, and Abolition: The Printing History of Ignatius Sancho’s Correspondence with Laurence Sterne”
Julia S. Carlson, “Visualizing Revolution: Thomas Clarkson’s Riverine Timeline of Abolition”
Lawrence Evalyn, "Subscribing to the 'Sons of Africa': Olaudah Equiano and Ottobah Cugoano's Fundraising Audiences"
11:45-1:15
Catered Lunch for Caucus Meetings
1:15-2:45
Concurrent Sessions 10
10.A Insurrectionary Concepts of Nature (GER panel)
Chair: Alexander Schlutz
Joseph Albernaz, “Revolutionary Pastoral: Temporalities of Nature and Insurrection”
Matthew Rowney, “From Plantation to Resort: Touring the Plantationocene with Frankenstein”
Leila Walker, “Resurrecting Nature with Charlotte Smith and Ebony Patterson”
10.B Theorizing and Writing Revolutionary History
Gwénaël Jouin, “Victor Hugo’s Ninety-Three (1874): Philosophical Insurrection, Political Conscience, and the Genre of Novel”
Grace Rexroth, “Poetic Insurrections: the battle between Samuel Rogers and Robert Merry in the wake of the Reign of Terror”
Anne Frey, “What we hold in common: Natural law, revolutionary politics and social norms”
Lindsey Chappell,“Telling Time, Telling Empire: Poetry, Revolution, and the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean”
10.C Romantic Aesthetics and Evolutionary Events
Kristina Huang, “Undoing the Plot in William Earle’s Obi, or Three Fingered Jack”
Bakary Diaby, “Failing the History of Black Freedom”
Imani Tucker, “Oversights: Supervising the Victorian Governess”
10.D Posthumous Publications: the Shelleys, Editing, and History
Lucy Morrison, Real Madness: “Julian and Maddalo” and Mary Shelley’s Posthumous Poems (Lucy Morrison)
Joel Faflak, Shelley and the Disaster of History
Lisa Vargo, Countering the Counter-Insurrectionary Shelley: A Reconsideration of the Posthumous Poems
Benjamin Colbert, Shelley’s Quiet Insurrection: The Beauties of Percy Bysshe Shelley Reconsidered
10.E Revising Romantic Orientalism
Chair: Sören Hammerschmidt
Arif Camoglu, “The Spectacle of Revolution in Romantic Poetry”
Souad Baghli Berbar, “Orientalist Insurrections in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s The Revolt of Islam"
Alex Watson, “Transforming Romantic-period British Orientalism: Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's Construction of Hindu Nationalism in "Ānandamath" (1882)
10.F Emigration, Empire, Movement
Rocío Saucedo, “Nationalism and the Rhetorical Structure of Sympathy in Charlotte Smith's The Emigrants”
Irina Neacsu, “The Romantic Genealogy of Walking as Aesthetic Practice”
Kyle McAuley, “Romantic Sea Fiction’s Insurgent Forms: Frederick Marryat’s Oceanic Realism”
Jennifer Hargrave, "Anticipatory Returns: Epistolary Novels and the Vision of Empire"
10.G Mechanization and Automatons
Jamison Kantor, “Romantic Automation: Three Theses”
Asko Nivala, “The Gears of Discontent: Mechanical Automata and Societal Upheaval in the Romantic Era"
Noah Gallego, "Toward Liberté, Egalité, and Fraternité: François-Félix Nogaret and the Other Frankenstein"
2:45-3:15
Coffee Break (coffee, pastries)
3:15-4:45
Concurrent Seminar Sessions 11
11.A Race and Empire: Roundtable on the Cambridge Companion to Ignatius Sancho
Atesede Makonnen
Kristina Huang
Amit Yahav
Sören Hammerschmidt
Lawrence Evalyn
David Mark Diamond
11.B Cheap Print, Cheap Romanticism I (Book History Caucus)
Chair: Julia S. Carlson
Ian Haywood, “‘Reduced thus to their quintessence’: The Radical Canonization of Revolutionary Texts 1790-1850”
Katey Castellano, “Robert Wedderburn, ‘Cheap’ Publications, and the Abolitionist Grotesque’
Thora Brylowe, “The High Cost of Cheap Print”
11.C The Resistance of Thought (Theory and Philosophy Caucus)
Chair: Soelve I. Curdts, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf,
Elizabeth Fay, “Northanger Abbey as the Resistance of Thought”
Stefan H. Uhlig, “Dinner with Kant”
Thomas Pfau, “Hölderlin’s Rhythms: the Movement of the logos”
John Park, “Production as Form of Resistance”
11.D Workshop: Playing the Romantic: Integrating Games into the Classroom
11.E Percy Shelley: Temporality, Counter-insurrection, Unmasking
Steve Tedeschi, “Time Together: The Texture of Time in The Triumph of Life”
Pauline Hortolland, “'The man of thousands thrones': Shelley, Byron, and the Fall of Napoleon ”
Piper Winkler “Title”
Sungkyung Cho, “Unruly Laughter: Shaftesbury and Shelley's Satire upon Satire”
11.F Involution Animacy and Stimulation
Chair: Michelle Faubert
Rajarshi Banerjee, “Involution of Suspension in Blake’s Fungal Resistance”
Jacob Myers “Fascination, Obeah, and the Animacy of Performance”
Chandrica Barua, “Monsters and Intellectuals: Tea, Race, and 19th-Century Stimulant Cultures”
11.G Spheres of Knowledge in Romantic-Era Anishinaabewaki: A Conversation
Kai Pyle, “Reading for Romanticism and Biskaabiiyang: European and Indigenous Social Movements in Jane Johnston Schoolcraft’s poetry”
Nikki Hessell, “Treaty-Making, Walter Scott, and Romantic Waterways”
5:00-6:30
Keynote Address: Lisa Lowe
8-10pm
NASSR Performs and Graduate Student Social
SUNDAY, 8/18
8:30-9
Continental Breakfast (coffee, pastries)
9:00-10:30
Concurrent Sessions 12
12.A Cheap Print, Cheap Romanticism II (Book History Caucus)
Chair: Tim Fulford
Gary Dyer, “Cheap Byron”
Paul Hamann-Rose, “Remediating Byron: Early Illustrated Piracies of Don Juan”
12.B Insurrectionary Voices: Romanticism and the Female Citizen
Daniel Gilman, “‘An Absurd Rage for Public Speaking’: Anonymous Women Speakers Against the Slave Trade”
Emily Dolive, “Revolutionary Mouths: Placing Mary Robinson in Dialogue with John Thelwall”
Judith Thompson, “John Thelwall and the Female Citizen”
12.C Romanticism and Disability Studies
Laura Kremmel, “The power of repelling old age and disease”: Temporal Resistance and Anxieties about Dementia in the Romantic Gothic”
Fuson Wang, “History for Dummies: Lucy Aikin, Idiocy, and the Birth of Historical Fiction”
Emily B. Stanback, “Race and the Horizons of Romantic Disability”
12.D Romanticism and Malevolence
Maya Hernandez, “The Master-Piece of an Autonomous Villain: A Rethinking of Matthew Gregory Lewis’s Female Villain Matilda”
Stacy Stingle, “Thus Spoke Satan!— ‘Evil be thou my good!’—in John Martin’s Pandemonium and John Milton’s Paradise Lost”
Alisa Chen, “Exposing Religious Exploitation: William Blake’s Deconstructive Split Screen of The Two “Holy Thursday”
Liam Rockall, "James Hogg and Divisive Moral Philosophy"
12.E Insurrection in German Romantic Literature and Art (International Conference on Romanticism)
Rob Mottram, “The Subtlest of Impositions: Noncoercive Relation in Mörike’s “Auf einer Wanderung”
Joe Rockelmann, “Rebellious Art and Viewing in Ludwig Tieck’s The Scarecrow (Die Vogelscheuche, 1834)”
William Davis, “Novalis and the Scientific Revolution”
12.F Revolutionary History and Constructing Race & Gender
Rachael Nebraska Lynch, “Regulating Britishness: Sharon Turner’s History of the Anglo-Saxons, Racial Anglo-Saxonism, and the Undisciplined”
E. Paige Oliver, “True Sincerity and The Memoir of Toussaint Louverture”
Oliver Bedard, “Charlotte Smith’s The Banished Man (1794) and the Eighteenth-Century Archive of the Oubliette”
Em Nordling, “Black Without Remedy”: Carlyle’s Monstrous Revolutionary in France and Haiti”
10:30-10:45
Coffee Break (coffee, pastries)
Sunday 10:45-12:15
Concurrent Sessions 13
13.A Poetic Insurrections: Formalist and Political
Chair: Michael Macovski
Greg Kucich, "Cockney School Insurrections: Keats, Hunt, and Byron in the Same Class?"
Orrin Wang, "Keats, Fantasy, and Escapism"
Duncan Wu, "Wordsworth in 1795"
13.B Continental Romanticism
Chair: Larry H. Peer
Kathleen Béres-Rogers, “Will We Be Slaves or Free? Sandor Petöfi and Contemporary Nationalism(s)”
Christopher Clason, “E.T.A. Hoffman’s Non -Insurrection: A Tempest in a Teapot, or What is the Best Insurrection We Can Have?”
Richard Johnston, “Byron’s Cain and the Unearthing of the Sublime”
Lori Yamato, “The Emperor Has No Clothes and Little Musical Sensibility: Propping Up the Rulers of Hans Christian Andersen’s ‘Emperor’s New Clothes’ and ‘The Nightingale’”
13.C Walter Scott Across Space and Time
William D. Brewer, “The Brave Coward’s Insurrectionary Selfhood in Walter Scott’s The Fair Maid of Perth”
Sophie Thomas, “Domesticating Insurrection: Walter Scott and the Romantic Armoury”
Orianne Smith, “Walter Scott Bewitched: Revolution, Witchcraft and Romantic Disorder”
Christopher Cappello, “Scott’s Redgauntlet and the Exhaustion of Insurrection”
13.D Byron’s Insurrection: Book History and Marino Faliero (Book History Caucus)
Chair: Michael Macovski
Respondent: Greg Kucich
Jeffrey Cox, “Marino Faliero on Page and Stage: Linking Book History and Theater History”
Michael Macovski, “Reading Marino Faliero: Editions, Apparatus, Texts”
Peter Manning, “Marino Faliero on and as Insurrection”
13.E Teleology, Fragment, Vitalism
Jonathan Crimmins, “An Insurrection of Ends”
Catherine Engh, “Coleridge's Irritability”
Kimberly Maslin, “Disputing Unity, Completion and Wholeness: Feminine Fragmentation in Early German Romanticism”
13.F. Revolutionary Psychologies (Science, Technology, Medicine Caucus)
Michelle Faubert, “Thomas Trotter: Alcoholism, Disease, and Trauma”
Julia Tejblum, "Romantic Illeism: William Wordsworth, Augusta Webster, and the Third Person Self"
Matthew Ryan, “Enclosure in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda: Psychological, Epistemic, and Moral"
Amanda Auerbach, “The Positive Psychology of Jane Austen’s Emma”