Program

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Thursday, August 21

Friday, August 22

Saturday, August 23

Sunday, August 24

Thursday, August 21

1. Diverse Publishing
Chair: Alex Watson (University of York)

1. Lindsey Eckert (University of Toronto), “Offering Diversity?: John Clare and Annual Publication”
2. Elizabeth Neiman (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee), “The Working Writers of the Minerva Press: Selina Davenport’s The Hypocrite (1814) and a London Perspective on ‘Incidents and Situations from Common Life’”
3. Jordan Rendell Smith (Queen’s University), “Recovering William Blake’s Bible of Hell”

2. Staging Others
Chair: Melynda Nuss (University of Texas–Pan American)

1. Terry F. Robinson (University of Colorado at Boulder), “Diversifying Despite Itself; or, How Romantic Period Acting Practices Delegitimized the Legitimate London Theater”
2. Joanne Tong (Auburn University), “Diverse Stagings: The Invention of the Stereotype”
3. Amy Garnai (Tel Aviv University), “‘A Lock Upon My Lips’: The Melodrama of Silencing and Censorship in Thomas Holcroft’s Knave or Not?”

3. Visions of Decline
Chair: Jeanne M. Britton (Syracuse University)

1. Andrea Charise (University of Toronto), “State of the Ancient: Nature, History, and the Aesthetics of Senescence in T. R. Malthus and Mary Shelley”
2. Heidi Scott (University of Maryland), “Romantic Apocalypse Narratives and Global Chaotic Systems”
3. Jonathan Sachs (Concordia University, Montreal), “Byron, Modernity, and the Decline of Literature”

4. Kant
Chair: Jacques Khalip (Brown University)

1. J. Jennifer Jones (University of Rhode Island), “Grasping a Rhythm: Meditations on Kant, Deleuze, and Wordsworth”
2. Joel Gladd (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Kant’s [Mediated] Enthusiasm for the French Revolution”
3. Walter Johnston (Princeton University), “Kant’s Unjust Enemy”

5. Romantic Prose for Young People
Chair: Scott Krawczyk (West Point)

1. Robert Anderson (Oakland University), “On the Road with William Godwin: Fleetwood and the Juvenile Library”
2. Katherine Bennett Gustafson (University of Pennsylvania), “New Men of Feeling, or Frances Burney’s Lost Youth”

1. Foreign Affairs: British Romantics and Continental Conventions
Special Session organized by Angela Esterhammer (University of Zurich / University of Western Ontario)
Chair: Angela Esterhammer (University of Zurich / University of Western Ontario)

1. Maximiliaan van Woudenberg (Sheridan Institute of Technology), “The European Identity of Coleridge: The Expatriate Year at Göttingen”
2. Juan Luis Sanchez (University of California, Berkeley), “‘Liberty and Regeneration’: Wordsworth, Spain, and The Convention of Cintra”
3. Andrew Elfenbein (University of Minnesota), “Romanticism’s Foreign Offices”

2. Family Configurations
Chair: Tony Jarrells (University of South Carolina)

1. Eric C. Walker (Florida State University), “Romanticism and Adoption: The Case of Emma Isola”
2. Elizabeth Whitney (University of Maryland), “Reforming the Sentimental Novel: Charlotte Smith’s Mothers-In-Training”
3. William D. Brewer (Appalachian State University), “Lower-Class Miscegenation in William Godwin’s St. Leon and Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda”

3. New Directions in Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Jewish Literature
Special Session organized by Susan David Bernstein (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Chair: Sheila A. Spector (Independent Scholar)

1. Michael Scrivener (Wayne State University), “Rethinking Margin and Center in Anglo-Jewish Literature”
2. Heidi Kaufman (University of Delaware), “Religious Diversity in Maria Polack’s Fiction Without Romance”
3. Judith W. Page (University of Florida), “Grace Aguilar’s Victorian Romanticism”

4. Revisiting Technoromanticism
Chair: Ron Broglio (Georgia Tech University)

1. Marcel O’Gorman (University of Waterloo), “Technoromanticism Reanimated: A ‘Grave’ Approach”
2. Laura Mandell (Miami University), “Casing History: A Romantic Technology”
3. Katherine D. Harris (San Jose State University), “TechnoRomantic Anxieties: Our Hideous Progeny”

5. Women and Natural History
Chair: Jacqueline George (SUNY New Paltz)

1. Melissa Bailes (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), “Britons in the West Indies: Colonial Hybridity and Maria Riddell’s Natural History”
2. Peggy Dunn Bailey (Henderson State University), “Acorn to Oak, Man to Angel: Natural History and Romantic Teleology in Barbauld’s Hymns in Prose for Children”
3. Cecily Parks (CUNY Graduate Center), “The Ecocritical Implications of ‘Literal Nature’ in Dorothy Wordsworth’s Journals”

6. Editorial Initiatives
Chair: Emily Rohrbach (Hamilton College)

1. Michael Johnstone (University of Toronto), “The Prelude and the Problems of Textual Diversity”
2. Thomas McLean (University of Otago), “Joanna Baillie: New Letters and a New Chronology”
3. Thomas Crochunis (Shippensburg University), “There’s performance in my play text; drama, hypermedia, and user engagement with digital texts”

7. John Thelwall and the Margins of Romanticism
Chair: Julie Murray (Carleton University)

1. Judith Thompson (Dalhousie University), “Why Kendal? John Thelwall, Lake Poet?”
2. Mary Fairclough (University of York), “John Thelwall and the Politics of Sympathy”
3. John Strachan (University of Sunderland), “John Hamilton Reynolds versus Blackwood’s: The Culture of Late Georgian Cock-Fighting”

1. Romanticism’s Diverse Religions
Special Session organized by Peter J. Kitson (University of Dundee)
Chair: Suha Kudsieh (Trent University)

1. Mark Lussier (Arizona State University), “The Romantic Construction of Buddhism”
2. John Savarese (Rutgers University), “The Orthodoxy of ‘Psyche’ and Keats’s Genealogy of the Secular”
3. Peter J. Kitson (University of Dundee), “China’s Diverse Religions: Protestant Missionary Constructions of Qing Beliefs”

2. Humor, Readers, and Readerships
Chair: Charles Rzepka (Boston University)

1. Sean Dempsey (Boston University), “‘Faultless in spite of all her faults’: Emma’s Comic Economies”
2. Jonathan Mulrooney (College of the Holy Cross), “Lord Byron’s Magic, or, the case of Jonathan Strange”
3. Lisa Vargo (University of Saskatchewan), “Peacock’s Comic Diversity: The Example of Nightmare Abbey”

3. Transatlantic Perspectives in Barbauld and Austen
Chair: Laura Mandell (Miami University)

1. Scott Krawczyk (West Point), “Aikin and Barbauld’s Evenings at Home and the Education of Frederick Douglass”
2. Felicity James (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow), “‘Alternate hope and fear’: The Unitarian Narrative of Anna Letitia Barbauld’s Eighteen Hundred and Eleven”
3. Daniel R. Vernazza (Pennsylvania State University), “‘A young man of an open, pleasant countenance, and frank, unstudied, but feeling and respectful manners’: Jane Austen and the Cultural Sanitization of the Midshipman”

4. Criticism and Conflict
Chair: Frederick Burwick (UCLA)

1. Raimonda Modiano (University of Washington), “Genial Criticism: S. T. Coleridge and Richard Payne Knight”
2. Jennifer Horan (City University Graduate Center), “Staging Violence in Romantic Genre: A Comparison of Shelley and Hölderlin”
3. Nat Leach (Cape Breton University), “‘The so-called German drama’: Coleridge, Maturin, and the Performance of National Identities”

5. Diverse Prosodies
Chair: Marc Redfield (Claremont Graduate University)

1. Laura Quinney (Brandeis University), “Ottava Light and Dark”
2. Steven J. Willett (Shizuoka University of Art and Culture), “Framing Diversity: Wordsworth’s Stanza Art in ‘On the Power of Sound’”
3. William Flesch (Brandeis University), “Prosody and proxy”

6. Diversity of the Romantic Book 1: Romantic Forgery
Special Session organized by Michael Macovski (Georgetown University)
Chair: Michael Macovski (Georgetown University)

1. Angela Esterhammer (University of Zurich / University of Western Ontario), “London Periodicals, Scottish Forgeries, and Italian Improvisations: Andrew of Padua Re-membered”
2. Sharon Ragaz (Independent Scholar), “The Spurious Tales of My Landlord: A Case Study of Spectral Allonymity”
3. Matthew McDonald (University of Ottawa), “Publishing the Private: Hazlitt, Ireland, and the Bookish Confession”

7. Disease and Medicine
Chair: James Robert Allard (Brock University)

1. Tara McDonald (University of Toronto), “‘Endless Dreams of Sickliness’: Embodied Disease and Revolution in Wordsworth’s Prelude”
2. Quentin Bailey (San Diego University), “The Mad, Sad, and Impossible to Know: Depictions of Insanity in Wollstonecraft, Godwin, and Wordsworth”
3. Tristanne Connolly (St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo), “Queering Man-Midwifery”

Chair: Dan White (University of Toronto)
Jeffrey N. Cox (University of Colorado, Boulder), “‘Diverse, sheer opposite, antipodes’: Diversity, Opposition, and Community in Romantic Culture”

Romantic Diversity: A Selection of Items from Rare Books and Special Collections at Victoria College, University of Toronto

Friday, August 22

1. The Diversity of Literature and Medicine
Special Session organized by Tristanne Connolly (St. Jerome’s University in the University of Waterloo)
Chair: Tristanne Connolly (St. Jerome’s, University of Waterloo)

1. James Whitehead (King’s College London), “Classify or console? Romantic psychiatry and poetic madness”
2. Megan Coyer (University of Glasgow), “Metempsychosis and Materialism: Popular Medical Literature and James Hogg’s ‘On the Separate Existence of the Soul’ (1831)”
3. Emily Senior (University of Wisconsin, Madison), “Romantic Medical Geographies: Mapping Disease and the Colonial Picturesque”

2. Romantic Feelings
Chair: Thomas Pfau (Duke University)

1. Ildiko Csengei (Pembroke College, Cambridge), “The Politics of Sympathy: War and Feeling in the Romantic Period”
2. David Collings (Bowdoin College), “Troping Mood: Pfau, Wordsworth, Hegel”
3. Jacques Khalip (Brown University), “Sympathy and the ‘Mist of Nothing’ of Romanticism”

3. Collecting Diversity
Special Session organized by Sophie Thomas (University of Sussex)
Chair: Noah Heringman (University of Missouri)

1. Pamela Buck (Tufts University), “Collecting an Empire: The Napoleonic Louvre and the Cabinet of Curiosities in Catherine Wilmot’s An Irish Peer on the Continent”
2. Jillian Heydt-Stevenson (University of Colorado, Boulder), “‘A goddess of four years standing! incredible!’: The Dazzling Collectibility of the Venus de Medici”
3. Sophie Thomas (University of Sussex), “‘Things on Holiday’: Collections, Museums, and the Poetics of Unruliness”

4. Edinburgh Reading
Chair: Sharon Ragaz (University of Toronto)

1. Jacqueline George (SUNY New Paltz), “Avatars in Edinburgh: The Virtual Lives of Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine”
2. Jeffrey E. Jackson (Rice University), “‘Congenial Wildness’: William Collins’s ‘Ode on the Popular Superstitions of the Highlands of Scotland’ (1788) and the Royal Society of Edinburgh”
3. Miranda Burgess (University of British Columbia), “Scott, Scotland and Romantic Information Culture”

5. Brunton and Smith, Gender and Genre
Chair: Karen Hadley (University of Louisville)

1. Alyson Bardsley (College of Staten Island, City University of New York), “The Body as Valuable Object in Brunton’s Discipline”
   
2. Jeremy Wear (University of Tennessee), “Just the Good Ol’ Boys: Gender Performance in Charlotte Smith’s Emmeline”
3. Jacqueline Labbe (University of Warwick), “The hybrid poems of Smith and Wordsworth: Questions and Disputes”

6. Romantic Drama: Diversity on Stage
Special Session sponsored by European Romantic Review
Chair: Frederick Burwick (UCLA)

1. Marjean Purinton (Texas Tech University), “Diversity on the Stage: Romantic Hellenism”
2. Regina Hewitt (University of South Florida), “The Passion and Principle of Hope in Joanna Baillie’s Plays”
3. John-David Lopez (UCLA), “Remorse and Radical Spain”

7. Editing and Teaching Transatlantic Romanticism
Special Session organized by Chris Koenig-Woodyard (University of Toronto)
Chair: Jennifer N. Wunder (Georgia Gwinnett College)

1. Joel Pace (University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire), “‘Only Connect’: Towards a Teachable Taxonomy of Transatlantic Romanticisms”
2. Amy C. Branam (Frostburg State University), “New Formalism: Seeking a Balance between Formalist and Historicist Readings in the Transatlantic Classroom”
3. Nicholas Mason (Brigham Young University), “Transatlantic Diversity in Edward Kimber’s Mr. Anderson”
   

1. Leigh Hunt’s Examiner in Context
Special Session organized by Michael Eberle-Sinatra (Université de Montréal)
Chair: Nikki Hessell (Massey University)

1. Michael Tomko (Villanova University), “Coleridge’s ‘Crowd of Fiends’: Religious Diversity, Catholic Emancipation, and the Culture Wars”
2. David Stewart (University of Glasgow), “Periodical Diversity: The Examiner, Blackwood’s and the Reform of the Miscellany”
3. Michael Eberle-Sinatra (Université de Montréal), “The Examiner in Leigh Hunt’s 1850 and 1860 Autobiography”

2. Romanticism’s Theoretical Diversity
Special Session sponsored by The German Society for English Romanticism
Chair: Katharina Rennhak (Munich University)

1. Gerold Sedlmayr (University of Passau), “Mary Wollstonecraft, Judith Butler and Their Critiques of Originality”
2. Samuel Baker (University of Texas at Austin), “As the Worlds Turn: Historical Cosmology, Herder, and the Lake Poets”
3. Stefanie Fricke (Munich University), “Sir Bertram’s slaves and King Richard’s crusade – post-colonial readings of Romantic novels”

3. The Orient 1
Chair: Jeffrey Cass (University of Louisiana at Monroe)

1. Naqaa Abbas (University of Western Ontario), “The Pasha Writes Back: Ali Pasha’s Manipulation of ‘Orientalism’”
2. Dana Van Kooy (University of Colorado), “The Haunting Specters of State Violence: Byron’s Sardanapalus and Modern Dilemmas of Countering Terrorism”

4. Percy Shelley
Chair: Brian Goldberg (University of Minnesota)

1. Alan Weinberg (University of South Africa), “Diversity in Shelley”
2. Nahoko Miyamoto Alvey (University of Tokyo), “The Labrador Colony as a Contact Zone in ‘The Triumph of Life’”
   
3. Giffen Mare Maupin (Cornell University), “‘False to Their Deserted Selves’: Sympathetic Perversion and Mistranslation in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s The Cenci”

5. Text and Notes
Chair: John Strachan (University of Sunderland)

1. James Robert Allard (Brock University), “Darwin’s Paratextual Authority”
2. Annika Mann (Indiana University), “That ‘strange and awful hour / of vast concussion’: Reading Time in Beachy Head”
3. Alex Watson (University of York), “Margins and Marginality: Sydney Owenson’s Footnotes for The Wild Irish Girl”

6. Representing America
Chair: Joel Pace (University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire)

1. Tilar J. Mazzeo (Colby College), “Fashion and Revolution on the London Stage”
2. Robin Jarvis (University of the West of England), “Reading English Writers on America”
3. Mary Anne Lutz (Frostburg State University), “Of Specters and Speculation: Washington Irving’s ‘The Money Diggers’”

7. Genres of Death 1
Chair: Ian Balfour (York University)

1. Karen Swann (Williams College), “Countering the Arts of Death, in Albion and Elsewhere”
2. Forest Pyle (University of Oregon), “The Still Life of Dying: Two Icons”
3. Mary Jacobus (Cambridge University), “The Breath of Life: Wordsworth and the Gravity of Thought”

Chair: Deidre Lynch (University of Toronto)
Alex McKay (Independent Scholar and Artist) and Suzanne Matheson (University of Windsor), “The Claude Mirror and the Picturesque”

NB: Seminar Participation by Advance Registration Only
1. Marshall Brown (University of Washington), “Music and Fantasy”
    Chair: Andrew Elfenbein (University of Minnesota)
2. Adriana Craciun (University of California, Riverside), “Heterogeneous Polar Print Culture”
    Chair: Ron Broglio (Georgia Tech University)
3. Leith Davis (Simon Fraser University), “Diverse Subjects: Scotland and Transnational Identity in the Long Romantic Era”
    Chair: Sharon Alker (Whitman College)
4. Denise Gigante (Stanford University), “Smart’s Powers: Jubilate Agno”
    Chair: Thomas Pfau (Duke University)
5. Anne Janowitz (Queen Mary, University of London), “Newton for Poets: Stellar Poetics & the Night Sky–The Plurality of Worlds”
    Chair: Heather Jackson (University of Toronto)
6. Paul Keen (Carleton University), “Fashionable Subjects: Literature, Commerce, and the Spectacle of Modernity, 1750-1800”
    Chair: Deidre Lynch (University of Toronto)
7. Charles Mahoney (University of Connecticut), “Romanticism and the Forms of Surmise”
    Chair: Karen Weisman (University of Toronto)
8. Jane Moody (University of York), “Censorship, Law, and Romantic Writing”  
    Chair: Jeffrey N. Cox (University of Colorado, Boulder)

1. Genres of Death 2
Chair: Ian Balfour (York University)

1. Cynthia Chase (Cornell University), “Essays upon Epitaphs and ‘Human Understanding’”
2. Rei Terada (University of California, Irvine), “Mourning against Nature: De Quincey Beyond the Worst”
3. Anne-Lise François (Cornell University), “‘Things violently destroyed or silently gone out of mind’: Slow Death and Naturalist Time-Keeping”

2. Metrical Diversity
Chair: J. Jennifer Jones (University of Rhode Island)

1. Ross Wilson (University of Cambridge), “Clare’s Indistinct Array”
2. Joann Kleinneiur (Stanford University), “The Chemical Revolution in Coleridge’s Compositional Poetics”
3. Mark Jones (Queen’s University), “‘Feed deep, deep’: Reading Diversity in Keats’s Eyes”

3. Stage and Page
Chair: Daniel O’Quinn (University of Guelph)

1. S. Camilla Eckbo (University of Toronto), “George Colman’s The Iron Chest (1796): The Impact of Stage Adaptations within Review Culture”
2. Nancy Moore Goslee (University of Tennessee), “Regency Liberty? William Wallace in South London”

4. Women’s Destinies
Chair: Elisa E. Beshero-Bondar (University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg)

1. Julia List (University of Melbourne), “Discourses of Sexuality in Imitations of Darwin’s Loves of the Plants by Charlotte Smith, Frances Rowden and Maria Montolieu”
2. Jennifer Pangman (McGill University), “The Victorian Afterlife of Giselle”
3. John C. Leffel (University of Colorado at Boulder), “‘Where woman, lovely woman, for wealth and grandeur comes from far’: Representations of the Colonial Marriage Market in Gillray, Starke, and Austen”

5. Percy Shelley, Politics, and Reception
Chair: Alan Weinberg (University of South Africa)

1. Brian Goldberg (University of Minnesota), “Late Victorian Socialism and the Diversity of Queen Mab”
2. Susan Peterson (Curry College), “Reconciling Life’s Unquiet Dreams: Shelley’s Enduring Legacy of Non-violence”
3. Colin Jager (Rutgers University), “Shelley and Reconciliation”

6. Diverse Legacies of Romanticism 1: The Nineteenth Century
Special Session organized by Tom Mole (McGill University)
Chair: Tom Mole (McGill University)

1. Dino Felluga and Emily Allen (Purdue University), “The Sensation of Byron”
2. Casie LeGette (University of Michigan), “Harriet Beecher Stowe, Caleb Williams, and the Vindication of Lady Byron”
3. Katherine Bergren (UCLA), “The Politics of the Epigraph: Wordsworth in Lydia Maria Child’s Anti-Slavery Writing”
   

Chair: Karen Weisman (University of Toronto)
Esther Schor (Princeton University), “Universal Romanticism”

Saturday, August 23

1. Diversity of the Romantic Book 2: Authorial Identity and Self-Presentation
Special Session organized by Michael Macovski (Georgetown University)
Chair: Michael Macovski (Georgetown University)

1. Julia Carlson (University of Cincinnati), “‘Prose Mesurée’ in the Lakes Tour and Guide: Re-quoting and Recalibrating English Blank Verse”
2. Lisa M. Wilson (SUNY College at Potsdam), “Mary Robinson and her Portrait-Frontispieces”
3. Michelle Levy (Simon Fraser University), “Romanticism and Manuscript Culture: The Case of Jane Austen”

2. On the Critique of Violence 1
Special Session organized by David L. Clark (McMaster University)
Chair: David L. Clark (McMaster University)

1. Tilottama Rajan (University of Western Ontario), “Excitability: Schelling’s Volatile History”
2. Marc Redfield (Claremont Graduate University), “Peacetime”
3. Deborah Elise White (Emory University), “Burning Down the Library: Hugo, Benjamin and the Violence of Literature”

3. Diverse Sociabilities
Chair: Felicity James (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow)

1. Emily Sun (Colgate University), “The Writing of the Miraculous and the Politics of Friendship in Lyrical Ballads”
2. Seth Reno (Ohio State University), “Shifting Audiences: Shelley’s Godwinism in Queen Mab and The Mask of Anarchy”
3. Jennifer N. Wunder (Georgia Gwinnett College), “Temples of Diversity–Freemasonry and Romanticism”

4. Climatic Past / Ecological Futures
Chair: Adriana Craciun (University of California, Riverside)

1. Ron Broglio (Georgia Tech University), “Camouflage: Romantic Animal Poetics then and now”
2. Eric Gidal (University of Iowa), “‘O happy Earth, reality of Heaven!’: Utopia and Melancholy in Romantic Climatology”
3. Gillen Wood (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign),“Selling the East Indies: Climate, Commerce, and the Slave Trade in Raffles’s ‘History of Java’ (1817)”

5. Coleridge
Chair: Heidi Thomson (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand)

1. D. B. Ruderman (University of Michigan), “Coleridge’s Diverse Dialectic: the ‘Theory of Life’ and Its Challenge to Postmodern Theories of the Self”
2. J. Mark Smith (Grant MacEwan College), “Desynonymization Revisited”
3. Sarah M. Zimmerman (Fordham University), “Coleridge and Campbell at the Lecture Desk”

6. Race, Romanticism, and the Atlantic
Special Session organized by Paul Youngquist (Pennsylvania State University) and Frances Botkin (Towson University)
Chair: Paul Youngquist (Pennsylvania State University)

1. Frances Botkin (Towson University), “Rewriting the Black Atlantic”
2. Gregory Pierrot (Pennsylvania State University), “The Making of Toussaint Louverture into a British Hero”
3. S. Adair Rispoli (University of North Carolina), “Yaws: The Bodies of Revolution”

7. Alternative Perception
Chair: Jonathan Mulrooney (College of the Holy Cross)

1. Rory Moore (University of California, Riverside), “A World Upside-Down: The Gothic Carnivalesque”
2. Martha Musgrove (University of Ottawa), “The Semi-Detached Flâneuse: Feminine Diversity in Romantic London”
3. Emily B. Stanback (CUNY Graduate Center), “Peripatetic in the City: The Birth of the Flâneur”

1. Slave Passages
Chair: Frances Botkin (Towson University)

1. Paul Youngquist (Pennsylvania State University), “The Mothership Connection”
2. Lissette Szwydky (Pennsylvania State University), “Maroons at the Margins: Jamaican Maroons, the Haitian Revolution, and the ‘History’ of Three-Fingered Jack in English Popular Culture, 1799-1800”
3. Joselyn M. Almeida (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), “Translating a Slave’s Life: Richard Robert Madden and the Post-Abolition Trafficking of Juan Manzano’s Life and Poems of a Cuban Slave”

2. Archeologies of Knowledge 1
Special Session organized by Tilottama Rajan (University of Western Ontario)
Chair: Tilottama Rajan (University of Western Ontario)

1. David L. Clark (McMaster University), “Kant’s Wartime and the Tremulous Body of Philosophy”
2. Theresa M. Kelley (University of Wisconsin, Madison), “Restless Romantic Plants and Philosophers”
3. Joel Faflak (University of Western Ontario), “‘Was It For This?’: Romantic Psychiatry and the Addictive Pleasures of Moral Management”

3. Tourism, Poetry, and Painting
Chair: Sharon Alker (Whitman College)

1. Theresa Adams (Westminster College), “Travel and Difference in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage and Keats’s Scottish Tour”
2. Melissa M. Whalen (Fordham University), “Keats’s Travel Letters from Scotland: Robert Burns and the ‘Divisions of Life’”
3. Susan B. Egenolf (Texas A&M University), “Maria Graham’s Aesthetic Mapping of Chile”

4. The Genres of Romantic Drama
Special Session organized by Melynda Nuss (University of Texas–Pan American)
Chair: Melynda Nuss (University of Texas–Pan American)

1. Frederick Burwick (UCLA), “Comic and Tragic, Gothic and Anti-Gothic in The Castle Spectre and The Haunted Tower”
2. Wendy C. Nielsen (Montclair State University), “Olympe de Gouges, Friedrich Schiller, and the Politics of Genre in European Romantic Drama”
3. Heather Anne Wozniak (UCLA), “Queering the Canon of Gothic Drama”

5. New Light on Blake’s Milton
Chair: Sheila A. Spector (Independent Scholar)

1. Travis Duncan (McMaster University), “Blake’s Economies of Time: Commerce and Temporality in Milton”
2. John H. Jones (Jacksonville State University), “Blake’s Diverse Texts: Milton”
3. Annalisa Volpone (Università degli Studi di Perugia), “Overcoming Diversity: The Mechanics of the Mind in William Blake’s Last Prophecies”

6. Humor and Diversity
Special Session organized by Charles Rzepka (Boston University)
Chair: Charles Rzepka (Boston University)

1. Gary Dyer (Cleveland State University), “What was Funny about the Prince of Wales?”
2. Misty Beck (University of Maine at Farmington), “Satires of Class and Gender in Scenes of Laboring-Class Poetry Production”
3. Anya Taylor (John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY), “Ludic Coleridge and ‘Culpable Levity’: ‘Fire, Famine, Slaughter’ and its Prologue”

7. Diversity and the Canon
Special Session organized by Michelle Levy (Simon Fraser University)
Chair: Michelle Levy (Simon Fraser University)

1. Sharon L. Joffe (North Carolina State University), “Diversifying the Canon: Literary Production in early Nineteenth-Century South Africa”
2. Beth Lau (California State University, Long Beach), “Male and Female Romantic Writers: Diversity and Continuity in the Romantic Canon”
3. Anne K. Mellor (University of California, Los Angeles), “Defying the Can(n)on – The Female-Authored Elegy”

1. Romantic Poems, Diverse Readerships
Special Session organized by Gary Dyer (Cleveland State University)
Chair: Gary Dyer (Cleveland State University)

1. Christopher C. Nagle (Western Michigan University), “‘Soils Luxuriant’: The Diverse Pleasures of Ann Batten Cristall”
2. Joshua David Gonsalves (Rice University), “Absolute Antipodes? Austen, Byron, and the Possibility of Romantic Diversity”
3. Sheila A. Spector (Independent Scholar), “Byron’s ‘The Prisoner of Chillon’: Diverse Jewish Readerships”

2. Interdisciplinary Forms
Chair: Charles Mahoney (University of Connecticut)

1. Thomas Pfau (Duke University), “Longing (Sehnsucht): of Human Time and Elegiac Form in early Romanticism”
2. Michael T. Williamson (Indiana University of Pennsylvania), “Alternative Immortalities, Diverse Conservatisms: Felicia Hemans’s Praise Poetry and Winckelmann’s History of Ancient Art”
3. Nicholas Halmi (University of Washington), “A Fortunate Fall: Goethe and Moritz in Rome”

3. Scotland and the Idea of Culture
Special Session organized by Ina Ferris (University of Ottawa)
Chair: Leith Davis (Simon Fraser University)

1. Pam Perkins (University of Manitoba), “‘Like nothing else I have ever seen or read of’: Francis Jeffrey’s European Journal”
2. Ina Ferris (University of Ottawa), “Urban Traditions: Edinburgh and the Question of Public Space”
3. Ann Rigney (Utrecht University), “How Remembering Scott Helped (Re)Populate Scotland”

4. Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley
Chair: Amy Garnai (Tel Aviv University)

1. Zoe Beenstock (McGill University), “The Wrongs of Rousseau: Mary Shelley on Wollstonecraft and the Social Contract”
2. Eliza O’Brien (University of Glasgow), “Generic Diversity and Patterns of Return in Wollstonecraft’s Fiction”
3. Mark McCutcheon (University of Western Ontario), “Frankenstein and the Invention of ‘Technology’”

5. Canadian Reincarnations of Romanticism
Special Session organized by D. M. R. Bentley (University of Western Ontario)
Chair: Joel Pace (University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire)

1. Shalon Butt (University of Western Ontario), “Charles Sangster’s Genius Canadae”
2. Jane Moore (Cardiff University), “Thomas Moore in Canada”

6. On the Critique of Violence 2
Special Session organized by David L. Clark (McMaster University)
Chair: David L. Clark (McMaster University)

1. George C. Grinnell (University of British Columbia – Okanagan), “‘Identify Yourself’: Political Violence and Practices of Identification in Equiano”
2. Joshua Lambier (University of Western Ontario), “From Catastrophic Lisbon to Revolutionary France: Kant’s Disaster Writing”
3. Mark Algee-Hewitt (New York University), “‘Sleeping the Lap of Horror’: Representations of Violence in the Aesthetics of the Picturesque”

7. Global Diversity
Chair: Juan Luis Sanchez (University of California, Berkeley)

1. Greg Kucich (University of Notre Dame), “Lady Morgan and the Global Borders of Feminist Cosmopolitan History”
2. Geraldine Friedman (Purdue University), “Maria Graham Writes South America”

1. Archeologies of Knowledge 2
Special Session organized by Tilottama Rajan (University of Western Ontario)
Chair: Tilottama Rajan (University of Western Ontario)

1. Jared McGeough (University of Western Ontario), “‘The more effectively I hide these pursuits ...’: The Significance of Godwin’s Missing Alchemical Machinery in St. Leon”
2. Chad Wellmon (University of Virginia), “On the Romantic and Encyclopedic Impulses of Kantian Anthropology, or an Anthropology of Disciplinarity”
3. Andrew Warren (University of California – Irvine), “Shelley’s Adjectival Human: Knowledge and Problematization, 1815-17”

2. State and Self
Chair: Jonathan Sachs (Concordia University, Montreal)

1. Joseph Byrne (University of Maryland), “The Trial of Joseph Johnson and the Closure of the Enlightenment Public Sphere in Britain”
2. Julie Murray (Carleton University), “Diverse States”
3. Daniel O’Quinn (University of Guelph), “The Cleft Stick and the Shatter’d Vet’ran”

3. Revising Metropolitan Romanticism
Special Session organized by Gregory Dart (University College London)
Chair: Anne Janowitz (Queen Mary, University of London)

1. Ben Bakhtiarynia (Queen’s University), “Diverse Objects and Labyrinthine Pathways: the Urban Muse in De Quincey’s Confessions”
2. Bruce Wyse (Wilfred Laurier University), “From Social and Discursive to Visionary and Microscopic Diversity in Bulwer’s Asmodeus at Large”
   
3. John Whale (University of Leeds), “Metropolitan Violence: the Culture of Pugilism in Late Georgian London”

4. Adaptations and Transformations in the Work of British Romantic Women Writers
Special Session organized by Gillian Dow (University of Southampton and Chawton House Library)
Chair: Gillian Dow (University of Southampton and Chawton House Library)

1. Elisa E. Beshero-Bondar (University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg), “An Italian Stage for Pacific Island Romance: Mitford’s Melodramatic Maid of the South Seas”
2. Laura Kirkley (Trinity Hall, Cambridge), “Original Spirits: the creative translations of Wollstonecraft and Williams”
3. Katharina Rennhak (Munich University), “Catherine Lara’s Louis de Boncoeur (1796): Adapting French Politics to Transform British Sensibilities”

5. Natural History and the History of Aesthetics
Special Session organized by Nicholas Halmi (University of Washington)
Chair: Nicholas Halmi (University of Washington)

1. Noah Heringman (University of Missouri), “Vesuvius in Action: The Vases, Volcanoes, and Human Collaborators of Sir William Hamilton”
2. Robert Mitchell (Duke University), “Individuation, Alterity, and Orientation in the Romantic Era”
3. Thomas Stuby (University of Washington), “Buffon and the Anthropology of Aesthetic Pleasure”

6. Blake
Chair: Kevin Hutchings (University of Northern British Columbia)

1. George S. Erving (University of Puget Sound), “Fearful Symmetry: Mimetic Desire, Reciprocal Violence, and the Significance of 18^th Brumaire in Blake’s The Four Zoas”
2. Daniel Burgoyne (Malaspina University-College), “Oothoon’s Diverse Joy: Blake’s Stedman Engravings and Unchained Orc”
3. Elaine Wood (Bucknell University), “Touching the Divinity Within: Autoeroticism as Blake’s Utopian Ideal in Visions of the Daughters of Albion”

7. Oral Cultures, Folk Literatures, and the Culture of Print
Special Session organized by Marilyn Gaull (The Editorial Institute, Boston University)
Chair: Jane Moody (University of York)

1. Marilyn Gaull (The Editorial Institute, Boston University), “Oral Cultures, Folk Literatures, and the Culture of Print”
2. Joep Leerssen (University of Amsterdam), “Sublime voices from the Scottish to the Dalmatian Highlands: The emergence of ‘Oral Epic’ as a national-romantic genre”
3. Terence Hoagwood (Texas A&M University), “‘Ballad Deception’ and Romantic Pseudo-Songs”

Chair: Alan Bewell (University of Toronto)
Linda Colley (Princeton University), “Trans-Continental Romances, Gender, and Power: The World-Wide Political Thought of Philip Francis”

Presentation of Awards
Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies Award for Best Paper by a Graduate Student
Prize for the Best Article Published in European Romantic Review in 2007

Sunday, August 24

1. Translation and Adaptation
Chair: Laura Kirkley (Trinity Hall, Cambridge)

1. Guinn Batten (Washington University in St. Louis), “The Romantic Revivals of Contemporary Irish Poetry: Melancholia, Violence, and States of Emergency”
2. Nikki Hessell (Massey University), “Romantic Literature and Indigenous Languages: Reading Felicia Hemans in Te Reo Maori”

2. Defining Nations
Chair: Ina Ferris (University of Ottawa)

1. Sharon Alker (Whitman College) and Holly Faith Nelson (Trinity Western University), “Empire and the ‘Brute Creation’: The Limits of Language in James Hogg’s ‘The Pongos’”
2. Lily Gurton-Wachter (University of California, Berkeley), “‘An Enemy that Nature has made’: Charlotte Smith and the Natural Enemy”
   
3. Zia Gluhbegovic (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), “Behind the Veil of a Vale: Gender, Nation and Community in Grace Aguilar’s Vale of Cedars; or, the Martyr”

3. Commodifying Byron
Chair: Nat Leach (Cape Breton University)

1. Christopher Laxer (University of Toronto), “Hurling Lawful Genius from the Throne: Byron and Literary Branding”
2. Hadley J. Mozer (Flagler College), “Advertising Don Juan: Hype, Humbug, and the Barnumization of Culture”
3. Orrin Wang (University of Maryland), “High Theory, Cultural Studies, and Don Juan”

4. Reading Novels
Chair: Gillian Dow (University of Southampton and Chawton House Library)

1. Tony Jarrells (University of South Carolina), “Novels and Tales: A Theory of Diversity”
2. Jeanne M. Britton (Syracuse University), “The Novel in Pieces: Sentimental Extracts in the Romantic Period”
3. Michael Wells (University of British Columbia), “Practising Judgment: Godwin’s Approach to Form and Reading in Caleb Williams and Fleetwood”

5. The Human Animal
Chair: Marilyn Gaull (The Editorial Institute, Boston University)

1. Alastair Hunt (University of Wisconsin at Madison), “The Romantic Right to Being Human”
2. Dana Lawton-Balejko (State University of New York, Albany), “A Diversity of Species: Hatred and the Animal-Human in Joanna Baillie’s De Monfort”
3. Kevin Hutchings (University of Northern British Columbia), “Animality, Race, and Native American Culture in Romantic-Era Discourse”

6. Reconsidering William Wordsworth
Chair: Michael Johnstone (University of Toronto)

1. Sean Barry (Rutgers University), “Wordsworth’s Downward Eye”
2. Heidi Thomson (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand), “The Pious Man and the Lovely Courtesan: William Wordsworth and Annette Vallon in 1802”
3. Brian Folker (Central Connecticut State University), “Wordsworth’s Militia: Irreducible Violence and the Dissemination of Power”

1. Diverse Legacies of Romanticism 2: The Twentieth Century
Special Session organized by Tom Mole (McGill University)
Chair: Tom Mole (McGill University)

1. Kelvin Everest (University of Liverpool), “Shelley and the Stones”
2. Sarah Wootton (Durham University), “‘Here then is a maze to begin, be in’: Byronic Legacies in Michael Ondaatje’s Fiction”
3. Karen Hadley (University of Louisville), “William Blake and William Blake’s Inn: Proprietary Remarks”

2. Atlantic Identities
Chair: Paul Youngquist (Pennsylvania State University)

1. Michele Speitz (University of Colorado, Boulder), “Blood Sugar and Salt Licks: Corroding Bodies and Preserving Nations”
2. Dustin Kennedy (Pennsylvania State University), “Propagating Singularity: The Cumulative Effects of Atlantic Trade in the Writings of John Gabriel Stedman”
3. James G. Masland (UCLA), “Vectors of Circum-Atlantic Revolt: Robert Wedderburn and Olaudah Equiano”

3. The Difference of Death
Chair: Ian Balfour (York University)

1. Sara Guyer (University of Wisconsin, Madison), “Natural Born Poets: Clare’s Grave and the Politics of Life (and Death)”
2. Joshua Wilner (City College and The Graduate Center - CUNY), “Dwelling with the Dead: Two Wordsworth Texts”
3. Reeve Parker (Cornell University), “Drinking Up Whole Rivers: Facing Wordsworth’s Watery Discourse”

4. The Orient 2
Chair: Michael Tomko (Villanova University)

1. Jennifer O’Kell (University of Toronto), “Consuming Kashmir: Nature, Empire, and the Education of Lalla Rookh”
2. Suha Kudsieh (Trent University), “British Nationalism and Romantic Othering: Jews, Muslims, and Scotsmen in Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe and The Talisman”
3. Jeffrey Cass (University of Louisiana at Monroe), “‘Orientalised at All Points’: Resisting Orientalism in Hartly House, Calcutta”

5. Corinne and Her Legacy
Chair: Heather Jackson (University of Toronto)

1. Jessica Citti (University of Wisconsin at Madison), “Staël’s Corinne, or Italy and the ‘Natural’ History of National Character”
   
2. Scott Hagele (University of Colorado at Boulder), “‘Something immortal of my heart and mind’: Hemans, Landon, and the Aesthetics of Improvisation”
3. Ghislaine McDayter (Bucknell University), “Diversifying the Role of the Poet: Letitia Landon’s Improvisatrice and the Material Memory”