Program

The International Conference on Romanticism:

The Work of Romanticism, October 16-19, Oakland University

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16 -- ROYAL PARK HOTEL, ROCHESTER

Thursday Afternoon, 1: 1-2:30 pm

• TC1 - Wordsworth and Keats, Chair: Michael Willett (University of Washington) -- PARLOR B
  • Fay Yao (Durham University), Reading Keats’s Imagination: “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
  • Firat Karadas (Middle East Technical University), Evening and Autumn as Mythemes of Mortality and Transience in Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats
  • Zeng Li (Northeast Normal University), Analysis of Theme and Narrative Technique in Wordsworth’s “The Ruined Cottage”
  
  
• TC2 - Theatre, Chair: Terry Robinson (University of Colorado at Boulder) -- STRATFORD ROOM
  • Marjean Purinton (Texas Tech University), The ‘Workings of the Irish in Romantic Drama”
  • Frederick Burwick (University of California at Los Angeles), Child Labor and the Child Actor: Master Betty as the ‘Villain’ in The Castle Spectre
  • Lisa Crafton (University of West Georgia), ’The subterfuge of law’: Theatricality and Juridical Discourse in Wollstonecraft’s The Wrongs of Woman; or Maria
  • Terry Robinson (University of Colorado at Boulder), Patent-Theater Performance and the Rise of Melodrama
  
  
• TC3 - Crossing Gender, Chair: Barbara Mabee (Oakland University) -- PARLOR C
  • Cherisse Montgomery (Wayne State University), The Masculine Body and Feminine Soul in William Wordsworth’s “Simon Lee”
  • Patricia Matthew (Montclair State University), Edward Ferrars is a Girl: Work and Masculinity in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility
  • Norma Honaker (University of South Carolina), Women on the Field of Battle: Cross-Dressing, Caring, and Providing Logistical Support
  
  
• TC4 - Emotional Work, Chair: Kevin Laam (Oakland University) -- PARLOR D
  • Amy Schoofs-Rahne (Marquette University), In Fear of Fear: Christabel, Coleridge's Unfinished Nightmare
  • Dana Lawton-Balejko (SUNY Albany), ‘But I am chained to Time, and cannot thence depart!’: Shelley’s Adonais and the Elegiac Work of Mourning John Keats

Thursday Afternoon 2: 2:45-4:15 pm

• TD1 - Textual Work, Chair: Laura George (Eastern Michigan University) -- PARLOR C
  • Vincent Bissonette, (St. John Fisher College), ‘Building up the Rhyme’: How Coleridge’s ‘Nightingale; Models the Work of the Lyric
  • Matthew VanWinkle (Ohio University), The Preoccupation of Form in Keats’s ‘When I have fears that I may cease to be’
  • Stefanie Head (University of Rhode Island), Work(ed) Surfaces, Restless Texts
  
  
• TD2 - Keeping Time, Beyond the Literary, Chair: Catherine England (University of South Carolina) -- STRATFORD ROOM
  • Toby Benis (St. Louis University), Byron’s Hebrew Melodies and Regency Musical Nationalism
  • Ann Willison Lemke (Independent Scholar), Hausfrau or Artist? German Women’s Work in Music
  • Christina Fuhrmann (Ashland University), Sir Henry Rowley Bishop: Pervert and/or Prophet
  • Michael Kramp (Lafayette College), William Fox and the Paradox of Early British Photography
  
  
• TD3 - Special Session, Black Romanticism, Chair, Josh Brewer (Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana) -- PARLOR D
  • Christian Campbell, “My Country Heart": Derek Walcott, Romance-Work and “the Folk”
  • Hilary N. Fezzey (University of Wisconsin-Superior), Sailors, Tailors, and Slaves: Connecting Chattel and Wage Slavery in Austen, Pasley, and Wedderburn
  • Jeffrey Cass (University of Louisiana at Monroe), Making the Subaltern Speak: Mary Prince’s Confessional Moment
  • Katrina Smith (University of Miami), The Body as Testament: The Case of Mary Prince
  
  
• TD4 - Reception, Chair, Ed Haeworth-Hoeppner (Oakland University)-- PARLOR B
  • Paul Westover (Brigham Young University), Writing Yourself to Death and Related Morbid Symptoms of the Romantic Culture of Posterity
  • Justin Prystash (Wayne State University), Temporality, Work, and Subjectivity in Goethe and Carlyle

Thursday Evening: 5:00 - 6:00 PM

Thursday Evening: 6:00 - 7:00 PM

Thursday Evening: 7:00 PM -

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17 -- ROYAL PARK HOTEL, ROCHESTER

Friday Morning 1: 9-10:30 AM

• FA1 - Special Session, Jews and the Work of Romanticism, Chair, Sheila Spector (Independent Scholar) -- PARLOR D
  • Michael Scrivener (Wayne State University), “The Jewish Pedlar in Romantic-Era English Culture"
  • Jeremy W. Webster (Ohio University), “English Masculinity and the Cultural Work of Jews in Maria Edgeworth’s Harrington”
  • Anne Nichols (Rochester College), “Grace Aguilar: Working the Scriptures, Working the Home”
  
  
• FA2 - Science Work, Chair: Michelle Faubert (University of Manitoba) -- PARLOR C
  • C.C. Wharram (Eastern Illinois University), Improving the Romantic Body: Works of Inoculation and Translation
  • Thomas Schmid (University of Texas at El Paso), Bitter Chill and Warm Love: Keats, Temperature, and the Work of Poetry
  • Garrett Brown (University of Illinois at Chicago), Imagining Science in Queen Mab
  
  
• FA3 - Poetry’s Work: Chair, James Rovira (Tiffin University) -- PARLOR B
  • Alastair Hunt (University of Wisconsin-Madison), The Rights of Poetry
  • Andrew Winckles (Eastern Michigan University), The Prophetic Imagination of PB Shelley
  • Michael Demson (CUNY Graduate Student University Center), ‘Tis ye are culprits!’: The Radical Work of Shelley’s The Cenci
  
  
• FA4 - The Work of Gender: Chair: Susan Hawkins (Oakland University) -- STRATFORD ROOM
  • Erin K. Johns (West Virginia University), Raping Prejudice: Mary Hays’s The Victim of Prejudice, Gender, and Rape
  • Catherine England (University of South Carolina), The Economics of Flirtation: Social Capital, Reading Practices, and the Marriage Market in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey
  • Maggie Sloan (University of South Carolina), Re-Writing The Wrongs of Woman: Romantic Reform in the Work of Mary Wollstonecraft and May Hays

Friday Morning 2: 10:45 pm-12:15 pm

• FB1 - Special Session, The Labor of Lyric, Chair, Magdalena Ostas (Florida Atlantic University) -- STRATFORD ROOM
  • Magdalena Ostas (Florida Atlantic University), The Labor of Interiority: Crafting the Vocative in Keats’s Odes”
  • Allison Dushane (Arizona State University), Evolutionary Nature and Human Will in Coleridge’s Lyrics
  • Gabriel Cervantes (Princeton University), Convicts and the Work of Memory in Early Romantic Lyrics
  
  
• FB2 - Blake, Chair: John H. Jones, (Jacksonville State University) -- PARLOR D
  • David Shakespeare (University of Waterloo), The Spectre of Marx in Blake’s Milton
  • Claudia Stumpf (Tufts University), ‘The Printing Press of Los’: The Disruptive Work of Reading Blake’s Illuminated Books
  • John H. Jones (Jacksonville State University), The Work of Reading Multiple Copies of Blake’s Illuminated Books
  
  
• FB3 - Special Session, Romantic Travel 1: The Traveling Woman, Chair, Jennifer Law-Sullivan (Oakland University) -- PARLOR C
  • Caralyn Bolte (University of Florida), Mapping the World through Narrative: The Liberating and Powerful Voice of the Female Traveler
  • Meera Jagannathan (Columbia University), "The Eternal Romantic: Yours Truly, Toru Dutt from France and England."
  • Erin Webster Garrett (Radford University), "White Paper and Black Figures: Mary Shelley Writing America."
  
  
• FB4 - The Work of Editing Collecting, Chair, Rachel Smydra (Oakland University) -- PARLOR B
  • Teemu Manninen (Tampere University), What’s New in Romantic Invention? The Mechanical Reproduction of Feeling and Some Other Problems for a Material History of Romantic Writing Practices
  • James Najarian (Boston College), Thomas Hood and the Labour of Poetry
  • Ben P. Robertson (Troy University), Elizabeth Inchbald’s Experiment with Independence: Evidence from the Pocketbooks

Lunch: 12:30-1:45 PM
PARLOR F

Friday Afternoon 1: 2-3:30 pm

• FC1 - Special Session, Lyric and the Resistance to Work: 2, Chair, Eric Lindstrom (University of Vermont) and Eric Idsvoog (University of Vermont) -- PARLOR D
  • Ryan Dirks (Cornell University), Wordsworth’s Laborious Tautologies
  • James Castell (University of Cambridge), Indolence and the 'something given' in Thomson, Wordsworth, and Keats
  • Willis Scilacci (University of California at Santa Barbara), “In life there is no present”: Indolence, Genre, and Time in Byron’s Manfred
  • Onita Vaz-Hooper (Davidson College), Working the Imagination: Coleridge’s Revisions to “Kubla Khan”
  
  
• FC2 - Work of Revision: Chair: -- PARLOR C
  • Amy Gates (University of Illinois at Chicago), The Work of Revision: Maria Edgeworth’s The Modern Griselda
  • Richard Gibson (University of Virginia), Not so ‘dizzy’ after all? Second Impressions of ‘Mont Blanc’
  • Gabriele Dillmann (Denison University), From Ghost Story to Schicksalstragödie: The Re-Working and Fate of Grillparzer’s Die Ahnfrau
  
  
• FC3 - TransAtlantic: Chair: Kathleen Pfeiffer (Oakland University) -- STRATFORD ROOM
  • Jessica Damian (Georgia Gwinnett College), The Work of Teaching Transatlantic Romanticism
  • Diana Koretsky (Bucknell University), ‘O a new song, a free song’: Revolution, Utopia, and the Work of Poetry in Shelley and Whitman
  • Christopher Hanlon (Eastern Illinois University), Eloquence, Embodiment, and the Transatlantic Cable
  
  
• FC4 - Special Session, Creative Labor and the Female Body, Chair: Pamela Tesch (Oakland University) -- PARLOR B
  • Pamela Tesch (Oakland University), Female Figures of the Past: Dorothea Schlegel
  • Barbara Mabee (Oakland University), 'Double Focus' and the Dialogical Reader in Rahel Varnhagen's Letters to Women and in Sarah Kirsch's Cyclical Poem “Wiepersdorf 1-11”
  • Astrid Weigert (Georgetown University), From conception to abortion: Aesthetic reflections on the creative process in Dorothea Veit-Schlegel’s Florentin (1801)

Friday Afternoon 2: 3:45-5:15 pm

• FD1 - Special Session, Real Workers Writing Romantically, Chair, Cassandra Falke (East Texas Baptist University) -- STRATFORD ROOM
  • Jason Goldsmith (Butler University), The Work of Romantic Authorship in the Age of Literary Celebrity; or Consuming John Clare
  • Cassandra Falke (East Texas Baptist University), The Not Quite Autonomous Artisan: Selfhood in Working Class Autobiography
  • Jim Rovira (Tiffin University), Working Class William Blake
  
  
• FD2 - Special Session, Japanese Romanticism, Chair: Stephen Filler (Oakland University) -- PARLOR B
  • Seigo Nakao (Oakland University), Tanizaki Jun’ichiro’s Heroes under the Spell of European Masochism
  • Kyoka Kurita (Pomona College), Romance in Midair: The Future of Women in 19th Century Japan
  • Richard Torrance (Ohio State University), Rich Japanese Romanticism in the late 1930s
  • Stephen Filler (Oakland University), Romance and Social Activism in the Autobiographical Fiction of It? Noe
  
  
• FD3 - Wage Labor, Chair, Nick Mason (Brigham Young University) -- PARLOR D
  • Brian Goldberg (University of Minnesota), Getting Paid in Count Robert of Paris
  • Kelly Rynearson (University of Indianapolis), Caleb Williams: The Masses at Work
  • Doris Runey (Oakland University), Ca vis al mortii lumii-nintregi
  
  
• FD4 - Oceans, Chair: Pier Raimondo Baldini (Arizona State University) -- PARLOR C
  • F. W. Siegmund (Southern Methodist University), Outlaw Genealogies: Re-working the Radical Hydrarchy in Byron’s The Corsair
  • Frank Mabee (Fitchburg State College), Mutiny without Country: Nationalism in Byron’s The Island
  • Bo Jacks (University of Texas at Austin), Reworking the Romantic Mediterranean: Liberty and Labor from Scotland to Corsica

Friday Evening: 5:30-6:45 PM

Friday Evening: 7:00 PM -

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18 -- OAKLAND CENTER, OAKLAND UNIVERSITY

Shuttle bus from hotels to the Oakland Center

Saturday Morning 1: 9-10:30 am

• SA1 - Special Session, The Text as Political Work 1, Chair, Sharon Joffe (North Carolina State University) -- GOLD ROOM A
  • Sharon Joffe (North Carolina State University), "The Text As Political Work: Literary Production in Early Nineteenth-Century South African Literature."
  • Kristin Samuelian (George Mason University), "The Political Work of Blackmail: The Case of Thomas Ashe"
  • Mark Lounibos (University of Wisconsin), "'Deep in the Negative Series': The Work of Dissent in Burke, Godwin, and Hazlitt"
  
  
• SA2 - Leisure, Chair, Andrea Knutson (Oakland University) -- GOLD ROOM B
  • Eugene Stelzig (SUNY Geneseo), Wordsworth and the Work of Leisure: Narrative Identity in Home at Grasmere
  • Ron Rapin (Oakland University), Games of Chance as Metaphor in Two Spanish Romantic Works and one Realistic Novel
  • Cajsa Baldini (Arizona State University), ‘Employ a little of my leisure’: Hawthorne’s Negotiation of Work and Play in The Marble Faun
  
  
• SA3 - Consumption and Production, Chair: Brian Connery (Oakland University) -- GOLD ROOM C
  • Amanda Klinger (University of Oklahoma), Labor of Love: Production and Consumption in Keats’ ‘Isabella, or the Pot of Basil”
  • Nicholas Mason (Brigham Young University), Romantic-era Advertising and the Development of the ‘Peasant-Poet’ Brand
  • Daniela Garofalo (University of Oklahoma), ‘Give me that voice again . . . Those looks immortal’: Gaze and Voice in Keats’ ‘Eve of St. Agnes’
  
  
• SA4 - Sensuality and Sexuality, Chair: Nowell Marshall (University of California Riverside) -- OAKLAND ROOM
  • Brian Rejack (Vanderbilt University), ‘Jaw-work’: The Pains and Pleasures of Gastonomy
  • Eric Lindstrom (University of Vermont), Godwin’s Elated Work
  • Michael Robinson (University of Southern California), A Gentle Obsession: Sexual Deviance and the Romantic Bibliomania
  • James Rasmussen (Indiana University), The Work of the Dancer in Kleist and Kierkegaard
  
  
• SA5 - Labor of Love, Chair: Ingrid Rieger (Oakland University) -- OC 128-130
  • Ingrid Rieger (Oakland University), The Work of Creating Intimacy in Goethe’s Novella “The Man of Fifty Years”
  • Kathleen Conway (Molloy College), Negotiating the Sexual Contract: The Heroine’s Labor in a Jane Austen Novel
  • Stacey Hahn (Oakland University), Love as Work in Balzac’s La Duchesse de Langeais

Saturday Morning 2: 10:45am-12:15pm

• SB1 - Special Session, The Text as Political Work 2, Chair, Sharon Joffe (North Carolina State University) -- OC 128-130
  • Sean Dempsey (Boston University), "'One Little Word'" The Work of Justice in The Cenci"
  • Ayanna Jackson (Texas Tech University), Olaudah Equiano, Ottobah Cugoano, and the Legacy of the Noble Negro
  • Kir Kuiken (SUNY-Albany), "Work of the Imagination: Difference and Repetition in Blake's Illuminated Manuscripts
  
  
• SB2 - Nature/Ecology, Chair: Dahlia Porter (Vanderbilt University) -- OAKLAND ROOM
  • Jeremy Bassetti (Florida State University), The Guinea in the Sun: Blake, Clare, and Nature
  • Rachel Swinkin (University of California Davis), Wordsworth’s Echo Language: Sound and Sense in ‘The Idiot Boy’
  • Scott Hess (Earlham College), A Home of Leisure in a Landscape of Work: the Cultural and Environmental Politics of Wordsworth’s Home at Grasmere
  
  
• SB3 - The Work of Literature, Chair: Sharon Setzer (North Carolina State University) -- GOLD ROOM A
  • Dimitri Karkoulis (University of Western Ontario), The Last Man(uscript): The Impossible Work of Writing in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man
  • Laura George (Eastern Michigan University), ‘Words doing their own work’: Poetry and Work in Wordsworth’s Second ‘Essay Upon Epitaphs’
  • Michael Willett (University of Washington), Theatricality and Imaginative Failure in Keats
  • Brian McGrath (Clemson University), Lyric Yawns
  
  
• SB4 - Special Session, Romantic Travel 2: Defining the Travel Text Chair, Jennifer Law Sullivan (Oakland University) -- GOLD ROOM B
  • Frank Duba (Millersville University), ‘Objects of Admiration’: Travel Guides and the Lake District, 1770-1800
  • Hans-Peter Soder (University of Munich), From TRISTES TROPIQUES to Postcolonial Melancholy: Travelling towards World Culture."
  
  
• SB5 - Special Session, Working the Body, Expanding the Mind, Chair, Erin Goss (Loyola College) -- GOLD ROOM C
  • Erin M. Goss (Loyola College), The Work of the Body: Burke's Aesthetics
  • Elisa E. Beshero-Bondar (University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg), Southey and Blake: Building and Destroying Human Forms Divine
  • Steve Tedeschi (Yale University), “Los’s Labors and Golgonooza”
  • Kyle Grimes (University of Alabama Birmingham), “Fit Audience though Few”: Romantic Phys Ed

Lunch: 12:30-1:45 PM
Oakland Center

Saturday Afternoon 1: 2-3:30pm

• SC1 - Theory Work, Chair: Fran Meuser (Oakland University) -- GOLD ROOM A
  • Nowell Marshall (University of California Riverside), Oriental (Con)texts: Erotic Emulation and Rivalry in Beckford, Southey, and Byron
  • Lloyd Davies (Western Kentucky University), Poet’s Work, Critic’s Work: Keats and the Desolation of Textual Presence
  
  
• SC2 - Special Session, The Work of Reading: Romanticism and the Aesthetics of Difficulty 1, Chair, Darren Howard (Willamette University) -- OC 128-130
  • Charles Rzepka (Boston University), "Lyrical Ballads and the Work of Detection"
  • Caroline Kimberly (University of Houston Downtown), The 'Painful Toil' of Reading Endymion
  • Darren Howard (Willamette University), "The Gender Politics of Difficult Poetry: Anna Barbauld and the "tangled mazes wrought" of Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
  
  
• SC3 - Chapin, Working Animals in Romantic Poetry, Chair, Lisbeth Chapin (Willamette University) -- OAKLAND ROOM
  • Alan Bewell (University of Toronto), Hyena Trouble
  • Katey Castellano (James Madison University), ‘When wolves and tygers howl for prey”: Ontology, Ecology, and Dwelling in Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Experience
  • Kathryn Mapes (University of Wisconsin/Stout) Byron's ‘Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog’ as a Votive Offering
  • Lisbeth Chapin (Gwynedd-Mercy College), Beasts and Their Burdens in Shelley's Prometheus Unbound
  
  
• SC4 - The Subaltern, Chair, Ron Rapin (Oakland University) -- GOLD ROOM B
  • Mumia G. Osaaji (University of Nairobi), Okot P’Bitek and the Idealization of the ‘Pumpkin in the Old Homestead’
  • Fran Botkin (Towson University), Thiefin' Three-Fingered Jack: Transnational Appropriations of a Jamaican Outlaw
  
  
• SC5 - Psychological Work, Chair, Stacey L. Hahn (Oakland University) -- GOLD ROOM C
  • Eun Ju Suh (University of Munich), The Return of the Repressed Father in E.T.A.Hoffmann’s “Der Sandmann”
  • Suzie Park (Eastern Illinois University), ‘O! for time to write out my Brain’: Neural and Manual Labors in Charles Bell’s New Anatomy of the Brain
  • Michelle Faubert (University of Manitoba), The Work of Romantic-Era Psychologist’s Poetry

Refreshments
3:30 PM

Saturday Afternoon 2: 3:45-5:15

• SD1 - Special Session, Lyric and the Resistance to Work: 2, Chair, Eric Lindstrom and Eric Idsvoog -- GOLD ROOM A
  • Paul H. Fry (Yale), Time to Retire: Coleridge and Wordsworth Go to Work
  • Sara Guyer (University of Wisconsin), Lyric Inoperativity
  • Anne-Lise Francois (University of California, Berkeley), respondent
  
  
• SD2 - History and Historicists, Chair: Allison Dushane (Arizona State University) -- OAKLAND ROOM
  • Seth Reno (Ohio State University), Beyond New Historicism: Percy Shelley's Godwinism in Queen Mab and The Mask of Anarchy
  • Daniel Block (Brown University), Where I Come from Antiquarians have More Fun: The Historian’s Work and its Pleasures
  • Jackie George (SUNY New Paltz), ‘A wandering shade of the ancient times’: The Intellectual Labors of Mary Shelley’s Valperga
  • John M Peck (Emory University), Painting and the Work of History in Scott’s Bride of Lammermoor
  
  
• SD3 - Special Session, Love’s Labors: Romantic Polyamorousness, Chair Courtney Wennerstrom (Indiana University) and Christopher Nagle (Western Michigan University) -- GOLD ROOM C
  • Stephen Grandchamp (Western Michigan University), From Life to Literature: Beckford’s Fictionalized Cultural Critique
  • William S. Davis (Colorado College), “In many mortal forms”: Polyamory as a Strategy of Masculinity
  • Melissa Adams (Indiana University), Multiple Attachments: Colonial Relations, Race, and Bigamy in The Woman of Color
  
  
• SD4 - Gothic, Chair: Jennifer Santos (Virginia Military Institute) -- OAKLAND ROOM
  • Gretchen M. Cohenour (Wartburg College), Propriety and Property: Udolpho’s Real Mysteries
  • Anna Bennion (University of South Carolina), The Workings of the Gothic: The Rise of the Novel, Fictionality, and Gothic Conventions
  • Jennifer M. Santos (Virginia Military Institute), Unnaturally Natural: An Alternate View of Reviewer Response to 1790s Gothic
  
  
• SD5 - Periodical Work, Chair: -- OC 128-30
  • Sharon M. Setzer (North Carolina State University), Mary Robinson’s ‘Harvest Home’ and the Historical Method
  • Shelley Jones (University of South Carolina), The Mythic and the Immediate in Mary Robinson’s ‘The Storm’
  • Traynor Hansen (University of Washington), Thomas DeQuincey and the Work of Reporting

Saturday Evening: 5:30-6:45 PM

7:15 PM - Shuttle departs to MBH

Saturday Evening: 8:00-10:00 PM

10:00 PM Shuttle departs to hotels

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 19 -- OAKLAND CENTER, OAKLAND UNIVERSITY

Shuttle bus from hotels to the Oakland Center

Sunday Morning 1: 9:30-11 AM

• SuA1 - Special Session, The Work of Reading: Romanticism and the Aesthetics of Difficulty 2, Chair, Darren Howard (Willamette University) -- GOLD ROOM A
  • Amelia Klein (Harvard University), "The Difficult Changes: Wordsworth, Shelley, and the Poetics of Mutability"
  • Christopher Jackson (University of Virginia), ‘And what a world we make’: Revenge, Reading, and Moral Imagination in Shelley's The Cenci"
  • Nick Chuha (University of Cincinnati), The Unpopular Pleasure Dome: Early Critical Reactions against 'Kubla Khan'
  
  
• SuA2 - Special Session, Romantic Empire, Chair, Stephen Hancock (Brigham Young University-Hawaii) -- GOLD ROOM B
  • Alex Grammatikos (Simon Fraser University), Subverting Byron: The British as the True Descendants of the Ancient Greeks in Felicia Hemans’s Modern Greece, A Poem
  • Josh Brewer (Purdue University), Black Wordsworth: The Slavery Sonnets and Caribbean F(r)iction
  • Stephen Hancock (Brigham Young University-Hawaii), “Only a dead albatross”: Romantic Discourse and Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day
  
  
• SuA3 - Women Working, Chair Bailey McDaniel, (Oakland University) -- GOLD ROOM C
  • Margaretmary Daley (Case Western Reserve University), A Woman’s Work is Never Done: Gendered Laboring in Goethean Fiction
  • Samantha Webb (University of Montevallo), “The Ruined Cottage” and the Labor of Consumption
  • Geraldine Friedman (Purdue University), Maria Graham’s South American Activities
  
  
• SuA4 - Intertextuality, Chair: Diana Koretsky (Bucknell University) -- Heritage Room
  • Char Watch (Independent Scholar), Elizabeth Barrett Browning Meets Hector, Frankenstein and her Father in her Garden
  • Kari Lokke (University of California Davis), Esoteric Work: Count Saint Germain and Bulwer Lytton’s Zanoni

Sunday Morning 2: 11:15 am-12:45 pm