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Plenary Speakers
- Anne Mellor, UCLA
- Anne K. Mellor is Distinguished Professor of English at UCLA. She is the author of five books - BLAKE'S HUMAN FORM DIVINE, ENGLISH ROMANTIC IRONY, MARY SHELLEY, ROMANTICISM AND GENDER, and MOTHERS OF THE NATION - and numerous edited volumes, articles, encyclopedia entries and reviews on British Romantic writing, art and culture. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, NEH, ACLS, Rockefeller Foundation, and the Australian National University. Both Stanford University and UCLA gave her awards for excellence in teaching. She is currently editing Lucy Aikin's EPISTLES ON WOMEN for Broadview Press and completing an essay on the female-authored elegy for Oxford UP.
- Ray Fleming, Florida State University
- Ray Fleming is the John Francis Dugan Professor of Modern Languages and Humanities at Florida State University. He is a Fulbright scholar and has been the recipient of a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (Harvard), an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship (Germany-England), a Ford Foundation Fellowship for African-Americans (Harvard), an American Council of Learned Societies Grant, two NEH summer fellowships, and a fellowship to the School of Criticism and Theory at Northwestern University. He is also a past recipient of an Ingram-Merrill poetry grant and in 2003 he was an Artist in Residence at the Djerassi Foundation and Ranch in northern California. In 2004 his five-poem sequence was a finalist for the Paumanok Award, and his poem, “Easy,” received Honorable Mention for the Ann Stanford Award from the University of Southern California.
His books include poetry, Ice and Honey and Diplomatic Relations, and a book of criticism, Keats, Leopardi, and Hölderlin: The Poet as Priest of the Absolute. Most recently he has published book chapters and articles on Keats, Hegel, Thomas Mann, William Wordsworth, Eurocentrism, Afrocentrism, and Multiculturalism. From 1998 - 2000 he served as president of the International Conference on Romanticism (ICR).
His present work centers on the roles of gender, politics, and ‘race’ in the Western cultural tradition from Dante to Thomas Mann and Toni Morrison, and he is also at work on Verità di uno, the late work of the Italian poet Diego Valeri.
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