Victorian Poetry Caucus @ NAVSA
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Victorian Poetry Caucus Meeting
"New Directions for Victorian Poetry"
Online
November 14, 2020
Thursday, October 17th
SESSION 1, 8:30am-10:00am
1b. Animal Forms and Ontologies
Matthew Rowlinson, Western University
“Food, Blood, Voice: Natural Selection and Queer memory in Darwin and Swinburne”
Valerie Stevens, University of Kentucky
“Poet as Medium and Spectral Human-Animal Touch in Michael Field's Whym Chow: Flame of Love”
1E. Mediating Agency with Needlecraft
Elizabeth Howard, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
“Stitched Verse: Dun Emer Industries, Publication, and the Manipulation of Gender Expectations”
1F. Ethics, Theology, Generic Form
Christopher Adamson, Emory University
“The Eternal Process of Burying God: Hardy’s Synthesis of Elegiac and Liturgical Form”
1G. Romantics and Victorians I: Legacies and Divergences
Andrew Elfenbein, University of Minnesota
“What Victorianists Still Don’t Get About Romanticism”
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1H. Melodrama and Musical Theater
Phyllis Weliver, Saint Louis University
“Oliver Twist and Sung Theatre: New Coordinates for the Victorian Novel”
SESSION 2, 10:30am-12:00pm
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2A. Mediated by the Wire: Race, Gender, and Telegraphic Genres
Justin Tackett, Stanford University
“Poetic Wireless”
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2B. Trees: Materiality, Ecology, Aesthetics
Lesley Higgins, York University; Julianna Will, York University
“That “never-ending rustle of poplar trees”: Pater, Hopkins, Monet”
Mary Bowden, Indiana University, Bloomington
“Long-Lived Trees and the Limits of Realism in Hardy's Under the Greenwood Tree and The Woodlanders”
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SESSION 3, 1:30pm-3:00pm
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3F. ROUNDTABLE: Angry Women and the Dramatic Monologue
Lesley Goodman, Albright College
“No Thank You: Polite Anger from Christina Rossetti to Christine Blasey Ford”
Emily Harrington, University of Colorado-Boulder
“'A Merciful Fury Sent to Save Me': Amy Levy’s 'Xantippe' and Women’s Conversations”
Michele Martinez, Boston University
“Browning’s #MeToo Critique in 'Beatrice Signorini'”
Monique Morgan, Indiana University
“The Angry Woman’s Case Against the Mask Lyric”
Lindsey O'Neil, University of Maryland
“E. Pauline Johnson: 'Double Life' and the Dramatic Monologue”
Melissa Valiska Gregory, University of Toledo
“Race and Anger in Dramatic Monologues by Nineteenth-Century Women”
Cornelia Pearsall, Smith College
“Fictitiousness, Fury, and Form”
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3H. Commemorating Ruin and Tragedy in Verse and Photography
Alexie Cash, University of Georgia
“Tragedy and Failure: Matthew Arnold and the Poetry of Ruin”
Anne Sullivan, Caltech
“Incendiary and Feeble Verse: Commemorating the 1834 Parliament Fire”
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3J. ROUNDTABLE: ROUNDTABLE: What Is a Voice?
Gregory Brophy, Bishop's University
“Master Browning Mastered (So to Speak)”
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SESSION 4, 3:15pm-4:45pm
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4B. The Voice of the Periodical: Poetic, Technological, and National Perspectives
Matthew Connolly, The Ohio State University
“The Poetry of the Railway”
Alexis Easley, University of St. Thomas
“The Re-printing of the Brontës' Poetry in Victorian Newspapers and Periodicals, 1846–1860”
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4E. Consumption and the Late-Century Writing Body
Patricia Rigg, Acadia University
“Arthur Symons, French Symbolism, and English Decadence: Seeking an 'Artificial Paradise' in Fin-de-Siècle Poetics”
4K. Measures, Counts, and Combinatorics: Numbers and Victorian Literature
Amy Huseby, Florida International University
“Tennysonian Scale”
Imogen Forbes-Macphail, University of California, Berkeley
“Partition Theory and Poetic Form”
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Friday, October 18th
SESSION 5, 8:30-10:00am
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5B. Feminist and Non-Heteronormative Plotting, Reading, and Intimacy
Elizabeth Shand, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Women’s Reading and Marian Erle’s Repurposing of 'Some Stray Odd Volume' in Aurora Leigh”
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SESSION 6, 10:15am-11:45am
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6H. Surfaces Speak: Architectural and Spatial Epistemologies
Grace Vasington, University of Virginia
"Ekphrastic Evolution: Architectural Surfaces in Tennyson’s Idylls of the King"
Sarah Weston, Yale University
"Hardy’s Ruins: Rocks, Sound, and Architecture in the Poetry and Prose of Thomas Hardy
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6L. Genres and/of Ecological Crisis
Julia F. Saville, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Genre and Experiment in Thomas Hardy's Ecopoetics"
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6M. Victorian Salon: A Live Poetry and Music Gathering
Phyllis Weliver, Saint Louis University; Linda K. Hughes, Texas Christian University; Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, Indiana University East
Offering an alternative experiential learning approach to Victorian cultural history, the salon will feature NAVSA members performing songs with piano accompaniment, poetry recitations, and (from the audience) “salon” conversation.
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SESSION 7, 2:00pm-3:30pm
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7D. ROUNDTABLE: The Victorian Digital Humanities Now
Alison Chapman, University of Victoria
"Poetry, Poetics, Metadata: Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry"
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7F. Emerging Postcolonialisms at the Turn of the Century
Bailey Betik, Emory University
"Ambassadors of the Everywhen: The Poetics and Personas of W. B. Yeats and Sarojini Naidu"
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7J. ROUNDTABLE: The Poetics of Intimacy
Moderator: Amy Huseby, Florida International University
Andrea Gazzaniga, Northern Kentucky University
"Intimacies of Allusion and the Short Lyric"
Ashley Miller, Albion College
"Dead Women in Love"
Erik Gray, Columbia University
"The Erotics of Sprung Rhythm"
Stephanie Johnson, The College of St. Scholastica
"Echo, Ethos, Eros"
Pearl Chaozon Bauer, Notre Dame de Namur University
"All on the threshold, yet all short of life:” Christina Rossetti’s Brides"
Sarah Kersh, Dickinson College
"Articulations of Desire Across Form: Victorian Sonnet Sequences and the Serial Novel"
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7L. Things in Texts: Victorian Objects' Theories, Histories, and Forms
Lee Behlman, Montclair State University
"Edward Lear and the Genre of the Assemblage"
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SESSION 8, 3:45pm-5:15pm
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8I. ROUNDTABLE: Michael Field's Genres: Poetry and Performance
Moderator: Jill Ehnenn, Appalachian State University
Ana Parejo Vadillo, Birkbeck, University of London
"Fair Beginnings"
Jill Ehnenn, Appalachian State University
"Come and sing”: Underneath the Bough and the Renaissance Lyric"
Julie Wise, University of South Carolina, Aiken
"The Provisional Poetics of Underneath the Bough"
Heather Bozant Witcher, Auburn University at Montgomery
"Genre Bending and Affordances in Deirdre: A Story of Sorrow-Telling"
Mackenzie Gregg, University of California, Riverside
"Deirdre’s Ecological Excesses"
LeeAnne Richardson, Georgia State University
"A Form of Authority: Devotional Poems in Couplets"
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8K. Perspectives on/by Children
Alexandra Valint, University of Southern Mississippi
"The Strangest Figure!”: Kate Greenaway’s Illustrations for Robert Browning’s “The Pied Piper of Hamelin"
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Saturday, October 19th
SESSION 10, 10:30am-12:00pm
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10J. Formal Poetics Reconfiguring Genre
Jack Rooney, The Ohio State University
"If I could seize a soul”: Victorian Poetic Theory as the Generic Bridge Between Elegy and Psychography"
Dino Felluga, Purdue University; Emily Allen, Purdue University
"Temporality and the Subject of the Verse-Novel: EBB against Clough"
Bernadette Guthrie, Tulane University
"Leaves Me A Lonely Began”: Madness, Nonsense, and the End(s) of Language in Gerard Manley Hopkins’s “Terrible Sonnets"
Janice Zehentbauer, Sheridan College
"Waiting for the Knife”: W. E. Henley’s Hospital Outlines: Sketches and Portraits and the Sonnet Sequence"
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SESSION 11, 1:45pm-3:15pm
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11B. Poetry/Verse/Rhyme/Song: Generic Debate in the Nursery
Moderator: Lee Behlman, Montclair State University
Elizabeth Helsinger, University of Chicago
"Christina Rossetti's Verses"
Veronica Alfano, Delft University of Technology & Australian Catholic University
"Smallness and Silence in Rossetti’s Sing-Song"
Sarah Weaver, Independent Scholar
"Peter Piper’s Poems?: The Hybrid Genre of Alliterative Tongue-Twisters"
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SESSION 12, 3:30pm-5:00pm
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12D. Women on Neo-Victorian Film and Stage
Barbara Neri, Independent Scholar
"Creating Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Image on Stage and Screen"
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12F. Genre, Authorship, and the Mediating Work of the Periodical Press
Linda K. Hughes, Texas Christian University
"Vernon Lee, Journalist and Slow Serialist"
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12H. Romantics and Victorians II: Poetic Encounters
Rachael Isom, Arkansas State University
"Dramatizing Enthusiasm: L. E. L.'s Later Monologues"
Trevor McMichael, Indiana University
"If thought were vengeance”: Genre, Gender, and Imaginative Revenge in the Poetry of Letitia Elizabeth Landon"
Dan Abitz, Georgia State University
"Performing the Poetess: George Eliot and Felicia Hemans"
Victorians Institute 2018
Asheville, North Carolina
Poetry Panels and Papers*
*In instances where a paper is the only paper discussing poetry and poetics on a panel, that paper is listed alone under the panel title.
Friday, November 9th
SESSION 1, 9:00am-10:15am
1D. New Approaches to Teaching Familiar Texts (Foxfire II - Sharon E. Kelly as Chair)
Leslie Ann Haines, Auburn University
“Transcendent Translations: Michael Field’s Decadent Androgyny and Undoing Gender in the Contemporary Classroom”
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SESSION 2, 10:30am-11:45am
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2B. Food and Forms (Foxfire I - Claudia Martin as Chair)
Herbert F. Tucker, University of Virginia
“Good Enough to Eat: Orality and Consumption in Victorian Poetry”
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Saturday, November 10th
SESSION 6, 8:00am-9:15am
6A. Consumerism, Consumer Culture (Dogwood - David Latane as Chair)
Lee Behlman, Montclair State University
"Getting and Spending with Edward Lear"
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6B. Natural History (Foxfire I - Keaghan Turner as Chair)
Holly Fling, University of Georgia
"‘They’d Eaten Every One’: Walruses and Victorian Consumption"
SESSION 7, 9:30am-10:45am
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7C. Poetry I (Firefox II - Chris Adamson as Chair)
Casey Cothran, Winthrop University
“Between Consumption and Suicide: Christina Rossetti and the Curious Fates of Female Characters Who Walk in Wet Grass”
Casie Renee Legette, University of Georgia
“Bite-size Wordsworth; or, how the Victorians Consumed The Excursion”
Eliza Wilcox, Winthrop University
“All-Consuming Heterosexuality: Unpacking the Queer Connections Between Gerard Manley Hopkins”
SESSION 8, 11:00am-12:15pm
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8A. Poetry II (Dogwood - John Lamb as Chair)
Nicole Bouchard, Baylor University
“'Sit down and feast with us': Perversion and Restoration of Hospitality in Christina Rossetti”
Jill Ehnenn, Appalachian State University
"'Making all things new': Michael Field's Revisionary Poetics"
Sarah Storti, University of Virginia
“Letitia Landon's poetics of reuse”
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SESSION 10, 3:15pm-4:30pm
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10B. Commodifying the Canon (Firefox 1 - Keaghan Turner as Chair
Amy Wilson, University of Deleware)
"'Give Me Much and Many': Consumption in Christina Rossetti’s 'Goblin Market' and Bram Stoker’s Dracula"
NAVSA 2018, St. Petersburg
Poetry Panels and Papers*
*In instances where a paper is the only paper discussing poetry and poetics on a panel, that paper is listed alone under the panel title.
Ecology and Religion in 19th Century Studies
Waco, Texas
Poetry Events, Panels, and Papers*
*In instances where a paper is the only paper discussing poetry and poetics on a panel, that paper is listed alone under the panel title.
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For the full schedule, visit the conference site.
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Wednesday, September 18th
PANEL 1, 9:00am-10:30am (CDT)
1. Ordained Destinies and National Ecologies in Three 19C British Poems (Susan Oliver as Chair)
Allison Dushane, Angelo State University
“‘Preternatural Agency’: Coleridge’s Sybilline Leaves and Ethics in the Anthropocene"
Same Baker, University of Texas at Austin
“Ann Radcliffe’s Stonehenge: A Gothic Poem for a Secular Age”
Devin Griffiths, University of Southern California
"Walking Dover Beach"
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Panel 2, 2:30pm-4:15pm (CDT)
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2. Ecological Interconnection and Sociality (Sean Dempsey as Chair)
Matthew Whelan, Baylor University
“John Clare’s Ecotheological Critique of Enclosure”
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Thursday, September 19th
Keynote PANEL , 11:30am-1:30pm (CDT)
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Ecology and Religion in 19C Literary Studies - Four Case Studies
Joshua King, Baylor University
“Christ and Carbon: Earth as Human in Aurora Leigh”
Emma Mason, University of Warwick
“Divine Pastoral: Wordsworth and the Weak Things of the World”
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Friday, September 20th
Roundtable, 2:15pm-4:15pm (CDT)
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Poetry, Religion, and Ecology in 19C Studies
Joshua King, Baylor University
Emma Mason, University of Warwick
Joshua King, Baylor University
Emma Mason, University of Warwick
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Saturday, September 21st
PANEL 6, 8:45am-10:30am (CDT)
6. Victorian Poetry, Ecology, and Religion (Lesa Scholl as Chair)
Christopher Adamson, Emory University
“Nature’s Eschatological Transcendence in Hardy’s ‘Aquae Sulis’”
Melinda Creech, Independent Scholar
“Hopkins and Ecotherapy”
Esther Hu, Boston University
“Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Ecotheological Poetry”
Justin Sider, University of Oklahoma
“Landscapes of Pre-Raphaelite Literalism”
Todd O. Williams, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
“Strategic Trans-Species Empathy and Divine Mercy in Christina Rossetti’s ‘Brother Bruin’”
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PANEL 7, 1:30pm-3:15pm (CDT)
7. Imagining and Responding to Natural Disaster (Justin Sider as Chair)
Elizabeth Howard, University of Minnesota
“Catastrophic Glories: Natural Disasters and G.M. Hopkins’s Aesthetic Theodicy”
Alicia McCartney, Baylor University
“Shipwreck Ecotheodicy in Wordsworth’s Later Poetry”
Mischa Willet, Seattle Pacific University
“Archives of the Universe: Earth as the Burned Up Book of G-D in Philip James Bailey’s Festus”
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Ecology and Religion in 19th Century Studies
Waco, Texas
Poetry Events, Panels, and Papers*
*In instances where a paper is the only paper discussing poetry and poetics on a panel, that paper is listed alone under the panel title.
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For the full schedule, visit the conference site.
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Wednesday, September 18th
PANEL 1, 9:00am-10:30am (CDT)
1. Ordained Destinies and National Ecologies in Three 19C British Poems (Susan Oliver as Chair)
Allison Dushane, Angelo State University
“‘Preternatural Agency’: Coleridge’s Sybilline Leaves and Ethics in the Anthropocene"
Same Baker, University of Texas at Austin
“Ann Radcliffe’s Stonehenge: A Gothic Poem for a Secular Age”
Devin Griffiths, University of Southern California
"Walking Dover Beach"
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Panel 2, 2:30pm-4:15pm (CDT)
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2. Ecological Interconnection and Sociality (Sean Dempsey as Chair)
Matthew Whelan, Baylor University
“John Clare’s Ecotheological Critique of Enclosure”
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Thursday, September 19th
Keynote PANEL , 11:30am-1:30pm (CDT)
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Ecology and Religion in 19C Literary Studies - Four Case Studies
Joshua King, Baylor University
“Christ and Carbon: Earth as Human in Aurora Leigh”
Emma Mason, University of Warwick
“Divine Pastoral: Wordsworth and the Weak Things of the World”
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Friday, September 20th
Roundtable, 2:15pm-4:15pm (CDT)
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Poetry, Religion, and Ecology in 19C Studies
Joshua King, Baylor University
Emma Mason, University of Warwick
Joshua King, Baylor University
Emma Mason, University of Warwick
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Saturday, September 21st
PANEL 6, 8:45am-10:30am (CDT)
6. Victorian Poetry, Ecology, and Religion (Lesa Scholl as Chair)
Christopher Adamson, Emory University
“Nature’s Eschatological Transcendence in Hardy’s ‘Aquae Sulis’”
Melinda Creech, Independent Scholar
“Hopkins and Ecotherapy”
Esther Hu, Boston University
“Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Ecotheological Poetry”
Justin Sider, University of Oklahoma
“Landscapes of Pre-Raphaelite Literalism”
Todd O. Williams, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
“Strategic Trans-Species Empathy and Divine Mercy in Christina Rossetti’s ‘Brother Bruin’”
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PANEL 7, 1:30pm-3:15pm (CDT)
7. Imagining and Responding to Natural Disaster (Justin Sider as Chair)
Elizabeth Howard, University of Minnesota
“Catastrophic Glories: Natural Disasters and G.M. Hopkins’s Aesthetic Theodicy”
Alicia McCartney, Baylor University
“Shipwreck Ecotheodicy in Wordsworth’s Later Poetry”
Mischa Willet, Seattle Pacific University
“Archives of the Universe: Earth as the Burned Up Book of G-D in Philip James Bailey’s Festus”
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Thursday, October 11th
SESSION 1, 2:00pm-3:30pm
1D. Economics(Hilton Training Center 3)
Lesa Scholl, University of Adelaide
“Ethical Fasting in an Age of Excess: Christina Rossetti’s Lenten Poems and The Face of the Deep”
1E. Book History(Hilton Training Center 4*)
Jennifer Rabedeau, Cornell University “Poems by Walt Whitman: Translating an
American Poet for a British Audience”
1G. Religion(Williams)
Ben Wiebracht, Stanford University
“Excavating the Pit: Hell, Geology and Religious Hope in Tennyson's Poetry”
Veronica Alfano, Delft University of Technology / Australian Catholic University
“The Neologistic Imagination: Hardy and Hopkins Beyond Language”
Bernadette Guthrie, Tulane University
“‘Now burn, new born to the world’: Poetic Time and the Re-Marking of Tradition in The Wreck of the Deutschland”
SESSION 2, 4:00pm-5:30pm
2A. Women Writers Looking Outward I: the East, the Caribbean, and Mexico (St. Petersburg I**)
Marjorie Stone, Dalhousie University
“‘Affective Piracy’? Elizabeth Barrett Barrett’s ‘The African,’ Richard Barrett’s ‘Jamaican Slavery,’ and the Contradictions of Abolitionism”
Heidi Hakimi-Hood, Texas Christian University
“New Directions for Life in Mexico (1843): Moving West with Fanny Calderón de la Barca”
Beverly Taylor, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
“Cosmopolitan EBB, Looking Eastward”
2G. Legacy of Slavery(Skyway)
Valerie Stevens, University of Kentucky
“Looking Beyond Maternal and Authorial Silence: Elizabeth Keckley's Behind the Scenes and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's ‘The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point’”
Melissa Gregory, University of Toledo
“Slavery and the Ballad (Frances Ellen Watkins Harper)”
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Friday, October 12th
SEMINARS, 8:30-10:30am
Poetics(Hilton Training Center 2*)
Seminar Leader: Linda Hughes, Texas Christian University
Thomas Berenato, University of Virginia
"Verse 'for charity's sake': Bridges, Hopkins, Hill"
Ben Richardson, Duke University
"Inward Forms: Alfred Tennyson, William Whewell, and the Poetics of Science"
Aran Park, University of California- Riverside
“Savages around the Broken Hearth: Race and Maternity in Alfred Tennyson’s ‘Locksley Hall’”
Holly Spofford, Baylor University
“G.M. Hopkins: A Voice in the Wilderness, Voicing the Wilderness”
Jerome Wynter
“‘I read that I might write’: The influences of Milton, Behn, and Byron on Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Libertarian Poetics in her Antislavery Juvenilia"
Mihye Bang, University of Florida
Philip Hewson’s Romantic Schooldays: Weaving Recollections of a Mutable Past in The Bothie of Toper-Na-Fuosich”
SESSION 3, 11:00am-12:30pm
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3D. Digital EBB: Teaching, Scholarship, and Collaboration(Harborview*)
Meredith Martin, Princeton University “Teaching EBB Then and Now”
Natalie Houston, University of Massachusetts Lowell
“A Distant Reading of EBB's Rhymes”
Dino Felluga, Purdue University
“Can Elizabeth Barrett Browning Save the Humanities?”
Joshua King, Baylor University
“Emplaced Networks: “‘The Cry of the Children’ and Local-Virtual Pedagogy and Scholarship”
3K. Women and Sexuality(Bayboro)
Doreen Thierauf, North Carolina Wesleyan College
“A Robe, of Purity”: The Hard Whiteness of EBB’s “Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave”
3L. Religion and Poetry(Williams)
Alicia McCartney, Baylor University
“‘If you would teach a man to pray, send him to sea’: Shipwreck Narratives and Imagined Religious Community in Victorian Evangelical Tracts”
Emily Madsen, University of Alaska- Anchorage
“Thomas Nettleship Staley's ‘Five Years' Church Work in the Kingdom of Hawaii’ and William Ellis's ‘A Journal of a Tour Around Hawai'i, the Largest of the Sandwich Islands’: Writings from Britain's Anglican and Evangelical Missionaries in Hawai‘i”
Alison Booth, University of Virginia, “‘World Mothers’ and Missionaries”
CAUCUS MEETING, 12:30-2:30pm in the Harborview Room
SESSION 4, 2:30pm-4:00pm
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4C. Women Writers Looking Outward II: Looking North and West(Demens*)
James Diedrick, Agnes Scott College “Expatriate Against Empire: Mathilde Blind, Heather on Fire, and ‘A Carnival Episode’”
4J.
Ecopoesis(Skyway)
Julia Saville, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Bugs, Birds, and Woodland Spaces: Thomas Hardy’s Ecopoesis”
4K. Poverty and Politics(Bayboro)
Caolan Madden, Rutgers University
“Looking Outward at the Audience in Aurora Leigh”
Lucy Hartley, University of Michigan- Ann Arbor
“From the local to the colonial: Toynbee Hall and the politics of poverty”
Rebekah Phillips, University of Delaware
“‘The Devil’s Own Brigade’: Commonality in ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’”
4L. Religion and Spiritualism II(Williams)
Karen Dieleman, Trinity Christian College
“The Commonwealth of Life in Elizabeth Barrett's ‘A Drama of Exile’”
Saturday, October 13th
SESSION 5, 8:30am-10:00am
5A. Adaptation and Narrative (St. Petersburg I**)
Mary Arseneau, University of Ottawa
“Outward and Forward: Christina Rossetti and the Role of Musical Settings”
5B. Organicism Beyond Bounds(St. Petersburg II*)
Deanna Kreisel, University of British Columbia
“The Machine in the Ghost: Mechanism and Organicism in Two Victorian Poems”
SESSION 6, 10:30am-12:00pm
6A. Sound and Vision (St. Petersburg I**)
Phyllis Weliver, Saint Louis University
“Faith, Music and the Liberal Vision: Robert Elsmere and The Commonwealth Magazine” (with possible announcement regarding 3 previously unknown, published poems by the Michael Fields, Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper)
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6C. Roundtable: Empire and Form (Demens*)
Amy Martin, Mount Holyoke College “Famine and Form: Irish Poetry during the
Great Famine in Ireland”
6I. Pre-Raphaelite Modernism(Hilton Training Center 5*)
Elizabeth Helsinger, University of Chicago
"On the Wings of Song: Pre-Raphaelite Poetry in the Early Twentieth Century"
Justin Sider, University of Oklahoma
“Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Romance of Genre”
Naomi Levine, Harvard Society of Fellows
"The Fiery Moment: Pound and H.D. Read William Morris"
6J.
Caribbean(Skyway)
Casie LeGette, University of Georgia
“British Poems at Sea: Poetry and Colonial Education in the Caribbean”
6K. Natural Boundaries(Bayboro)
Herbert Tucker, University of Virginia
“Marginalia: The Littoral Figure in Victorian Poetry”
Ashley Miller, Albion College
"Ripeness and Waste in Christina Rossetti"
Sunday, October 14th
SESSION 8, 8:00am-9:30am
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8K. Women’s Art and Poetry(Boardroom)
Francesca Colonnese, San Francisco State University
“Farewell to the Private Self: The Departing Gaze and the Public Act of Self-Creation for Tennyson’s Guinevere and Elaine”
LeeAnne Richardson, Georgia State University
“Looking Back to Move Forward: Michael Field’s Sonnet Sequences”
Heather Bozant Witcher, Saint Louis University
"‘Art of the Future’: Pre-Raphaelite Poetry and Photography”
SESSION 10, 11:30am-1:00pm
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10H. Temporality and Poetry(Skyway)
Sarah Kersh, Dickinson College
Pearl Chaozon Bauer, Notre Dame de Namur University
“Beyond the Borders of Victorian Poetics on Marriage: Reframing the Amatory Sonnet Sequence and the Epithalamium”
Rebecca Ehrhardt, University of Southern California
“Referring to the Dead: Elegy and Ontology in In Memoriam”
Emily Harrington, University of Colorado- Boulder
“Longing Homeward: Delayed Returns in Tennyson and Procter”
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