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University of Texas at El Paso
PROGRAM SCHEDULE (Draft Version: Subject to Change)
October 26-‐28, 2017
ICR 2017: Romantic (In) Security
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2017 International Conference on Romanticism
Conference Organizers Tom Schmid, UTEP Department of English Brian Yothers, UTEP Department of English
Administrative Coordinators
Alexandra Garcia, UTEP Office of University Relations Mitzel Aveytia, UTEP Department of English
Jorge Delgadillo, UTEP Office of University Relations
Centennial Lecture Coordinator Estrella Escobar, Assistant to the President
ICR Executive Board
President: Jennifer Davis Michael, University of the South Executive Director: Larry H. Peer, Brigham Young University
Advisory: Lloyd Davies, Western Kentucky University
James H. Donelan, University of California, Santa Barbara Richard Eldridge, Swarthmore College Cassandra Falke, Tromsø Universitet
Hollie Markland Harder, Brandeis University Jennifer Law-‐Sullivan, Oakland University
Ex Officio, Alan Vardy Student Representative, Matthew Kershaw
Thank you to the following
Sponsors:
UTEP Office of the President UTEP Office of the Provost UTEP College of Liberal Arts UTEP Department of English
UTEP Center for Inter-‐American and Border Studies Colorado College Department of English
Liverpool University Press Edinburgh University Press
4 “Romantic (In) Security” Thursday, October 26 12:00-‐4:00 pm Registration Union East, 3rd Floor Lobby 2:00-‐3:30 pm Concurrent Sessions (I) [All panels will be held in the Ray, Smiley, Elkins, and Wiggins rooms, located on the third floor of University Union East] 1. Romantic Suffering (Ray)
Chair:
Crystal Veronie, University of Southern Mississippi “‘I am faultering, sinking on my way': Sara Coleridge’s Poems as Illness Narrative" Zachary Suetta, Southern Illinois University
“The Byron of Allen’s Madhouse: Anger, Identity, and Satire in John Clare”
Kevin Saylor, University of Dallas “‘Tears Such As Angels Weep’: Keats and Suffering” 2. (In) Secure Bodies (Smiley) Chair: Emily Zarka, Arizona State University “A.B. Granville’s Mummy Autopsies and British Bodily Insecurity” Anna Shajirat, University of Washington “The Maternal Inheritance of Loss: Eighteenth-‐Century Matrophobia in the Female Gothic” Laura J. George, Eastern Michigan University “Lord Byron’s Chewing Gum: Body Anxiety and the Poet’s Flesh” 3. (In) Secure Faith (Elkins) Chair: Brian Yothers, University of Texas at El Paso
Paul Yoder, University of Arkansas, Little Rock “Sometimes Satan Comes as a Man of Peace: William Blake, Bob Dylan, and the Insecurity of Faith” Matt Kershaw, Brigham Young University
“‘I Am The Real:' Transcendental Transgressions of Subjective Borders in Islam, Sufism and Romanticism"
Daniel Schierenbeck, University of Central Missouri
“Romantic (In) Security” 5 “Religious Insecurity in Frances Trollope's Fiction”
4:00-‐5:00 pm UTEP CENTENNIAL LECTURE* Undergraduate Learning Center 106 Jeff Cowton, Curator of The Wordsworth Trust Library and Dove Cottage Museum “‘Work That Might Live’: The Value of Literary Archives for Future Generations” *Sponsored by the Office of the President 5:00 pm Opening Reception Undergraduate Learning Center Lobby
Friday, October 27 8:30 am-‐4:00 pm Registration Union East, 3rd Floor Lobby 8:00-‐9:00 am Continental Breakfast Union East, 3rd Floor Lobby 9:00-‐10:30 am Concurrent Sessions (II) 4. Autobiographical (In) Security (Wiggins)
Chair:
Sean Nolan, The Graduate Center, CUNY “‘Present Gifts of Humbler Industry': Autobiography, Acedia, and the Quotidian in William Wordsworth's The Prelude”
Amelia Worsley, Amherst College “Loneliness and the Poet’s Insecurity”
John T. Booker, University of Kansas “Stendhal, Insecure Autobiographer”
Melissa Hurwitz, Fordham University “Dorothy Wordsworth and the Tall, Beggar Woman”
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5. Rhetorical Instabilities I (Smiley) Chair: Erin Goss, Clemson University
Katie Homar, University of Pittsburgh “‘Acting a Charity’: Paradoxical Encomium and The Instability of Lamb’s Elia”
Erin Goss, Clemson University “Insecure Metaphors in Blake’s Visions of the Daughters of Albion”
Todd Osborne, University of Southern Mississippi “‘Why is this so, ah God! why is this so?’: Obsession and Repetition in the Poetry of Charles Lamb”
6. Percy Shelley and Revolutionary States (Ray) Chair:
Omar Miranda, University of San Francisco
"Percy Shelley’s Philosophy and Poetics of Intertranspicuity" Charles Hunter Joplin, University of Southern Mississippi
“‘Revolutions in Opinion’: A Historical Study of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s ‘A Poetical Essay on the Existing State of Things’”
Emily Sun, Barnard College/National Tsing Hua University “Shelley’s Voice: Poetry, Internationalism, and Solidarity”
7. Musical Memory in German Romanticism: Excess, Oblivion, and Loss ((Smiley) Chair: Joseph Rockelmann, Hampden Sydney College
Beate Allert, Purdue University
“The Lorelei in German Poetry: Excess of Memory.” Robert Mottram, Oakland University
“Novalis’ Song of the Hermit: Memory, Oblivion, and the Phonotext.”
Jehnna Lewis, University of Pennsylvania “Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert’s Sphärenmusik & German Romantic Fiction.”
10:30-‐11:00 am Morning Break 11:00 am-‐12:30 pm Concurrent Sessions (III)
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8. Shifting Territories (Elkins) Chair: Michael Demson, Sam Houston State
Amelia Greene, The Graduate Center, CUNY
“‘And now they’ve got the land’: Enclosure and an Aesthetics of Eco-‐Apocalypse”
Michael Demson, Sam Houston State “‘Possess this charming territory…annihilate its inhabitants’; Gilbert Imlay on the Security of Ohio in The Emigrants (1793)”
Toby R. Benis, Saint Louis University “Secure Spaces: Customary Practice and Cartographic Certainty”
9. Nature and Human Insecurity (Smiley) Chair:
Kent Linthicum, Arizona State University
“Climate Insecurity and Culture, 1816-‐19” Christopher Stampone, Southern Methodist University
“The slave of low desires”: Wordsworth, North American Indians, and the “beautiful and permanent forms of nature”
Richard Johnston, United States Air Force Academy “Human and Aesthetic Insecurity in Charlotte Smith’s Beachy Head”
10. Colonial/Capitalist Insecurities (Ray) Chair:
Yin Yuan, Boston College “‘Unimaginable Horror' as Sublime Selfhood: Transnational Dependency and Exotic Ingestion in Confessions of an English Opium-‐Eater”
Lisa Kasmer, Clark University “Romantic Affective Networks: The Sino-‐Indian Opium Trade”
James Rovira, Mississippi College “Anxiety, Insecurity, and Anti-‐Capitalism in William Blake’s Thel and Oothoon”
11. Policing the Security State (Wiggins)
Chair: Samantha Webb, University of Montevallo
Frances R. Botkin, Towson University “Tales of a Colonial Police State: Prose Accounts of Three-‐Fingered Jack in 1800”
Samantha Webb, University of Montevallo
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“‘The Incendiary: A Country Tale’: Mary Russell Mitford and the Captain Swing Riots”
Arden Hegele, Columbia University “Romantic Espionage: A Fictional History”
Brian Yothers, University of Texas at El Paso “Melville’s Martial Insecurities: The French Revolution and the Revolutions of 1848 in Mardi and Israel Potter
12:30-‐1:45 pm Lunch on your own 2:00-‐3:30 pm Concurrent Sessions (IV)
12. Gender (In) Security (Ray) Chair:
Halina A. Adams, University of Delaware
“Insecure in His Voice: Performance, Gender, and Generation in Lyrical Ballads”
Patricia A. Matthew, Montclair State University “Maria Edgeworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and the Ameliorative Impulse: Abolitionist Genres, Gender, and the Body”
Chris Washington, Francis Marion University “Quantum Extinction: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Posthuman Feminism”
Kathleen Béres Rogers, The College of Charleston “Monstrous (Male) Sexuality and the ‘Idiot Girl’”
13. Domestic Security and Insecurity (Smiley) Chair: Jennifer Law-‐Sullivan, Oakland University
Brittany Pladek, Marquette University
“Domestic Apocalypse in The Last Man” Jennifer Law-‐Sullivan, Oakland University
“Mothering and Marriage: Familial (In)Security in the Novels of Félicité de Genlis”
Kathy Eickmeyer, The Graduate Center, CUNY “Paint me an eternal tea-‐pot”: De Quincey’s Household Refuges
14. Wordsworth and Postsecularism (Elkins) Chair: Jeffrey Barbeau, Wheaton College
Joshua King, Baylor University
“Liturgy, Sacred Places, and Ecology in Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical Sonnets”
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Jeffrey W. Barbeau, Wheaton College “Wordsworth, Nature, and Peter Bell”
Lori Branch, University of Iowa “Reading Wordsworth Postsecularly”
3:30-‐4:00 pm Afternoon Break
4:00-‐5:30 pm Concurrent Sessions (V)
15. (Un) Safe/(Un) Familiar Austen (Wiggins) Chair: Devoney Looser, Arizona State University
Amanda Auerbach, Harvard University
“Defending Partialities in Austen” Devoney Looser, Arizona State University
“When Fame is All in the Family: Jane Austen and Her Victorian Descendants”
Bruce Graver, Providence College “Austen’s Odyssey”
Theresa Adams, Westminster College “‘All is safe with a lady engaged’: Jane Austen’s (In)secure Engagements”
16. Insecure Heroes (Smiley) Chair: Ashley Shams, St. Thomas University
Mary Beth Tegan, Saint Xavier University
“‘His Thoughtless Vanity’: The Insecurity of Selfhood among Austen’s Errant Heroes”
Ashley Shams, St. Thomas University “It’s not You, It’s Me: Vampiric Love and the Insecure Hero in Theophile Gautier’s La Morte Amoureuse”
James H. Donelan, University of California-‐Santa Barbara “Unacknowledged Legislators and Insecure Kings: Rhetoric and Debate in Byron’s ‘The Vision of Judgment’”
17. The Tales of Hoffmann: Matters of Insecurity and Subjectivity (Ray) Chair: Christina Weller, Purdue University
Christina Weiler, Purdue University
“Insecure Memory Spaces in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s ‘Die Bergwerke zu Falun’”
Joseph Rockelmann, Hampden Sydney College
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“The Effect of Memory Embellishments on Reality in ETA Hoffmann’s ‘Des Vetters Eckfenster.’”
Julian Knox, University of South Alabama “Hoffmann, Bergson, and the Matter of Memory”
6:00-‐7:00 pm PLENARY ADDRESS Tomás Rivera Conference Center, Union East 3rd Floor Jill Heydt-‐Stevenson and Jeffrey Cox, University of Colorado-‐Boulder "Living through Insecurity: Mary Shelley and Percy Shelley”
Saturday, October 28 8:30 am-‐12:00 pm Registration Union East, 3rd Floor Lobby 8:00-‐9:00 am Continental Breakfast Union East, 3rd Floor Lobby 9:00-‐10:30 am Concurrent Sessions (VI)
18. ROUNDTABLE—Triggered: (In) Security in the Romanticism Classroom (organized by Romantic Circles Pedagogy Commons)—(Ray)
Co-‐Chairs: D. B. Ruderman, The Ohio State University, Newark Kate Singer, Mount Holyoke College Emily Stanback, University of Southern Mississippi
“Trauma, Anxiety, and Wordsworthian Love in the Post-‐November Classroom”
Stephanie Youngblood, Tulsa Community College “Writing Trauma with Romanticism: Reframing the Composition Classroom”
Christopher Stampone, Southern Methodist University “‘[E]ither fear or wonder’: Sublime Moments in Romantic Literature and the Classroom”
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Matt Kershaw, Brigham Young University “Hailing the Beauty of the Fall: The Music of Aesthetic Education”
Olivera Jokic, John Jay College, CUNY “Triggers of History: Romanticism, Revolutionary Time, and the Unallied Remembrance of Injury”
19. Securing Theories of Romanticism (Wiggins) Chair:
Conor Hilton, Brigham Young University
“Phantasmagoria as Romantic Miscellany: Working Towards a Unifying Theory of Romanticism”
Judyta Frodyma, University of Northern British Columbia “National Anthologies, International Forms: A Romantic Legacy”
Devin Gott, Sam Houston State University “Political Romanticism in Emily Lawless’ Nature Poetry”
20. Animal/Human (In) Security (Smiley) Chair: Cassandra Falke, University of Tromsø
J. Jennifer Jones, University of Rhode Island
“Cuckoo for Cuckoo Birds: Wordsworth, Consolation, and the Chaucerian Translations”
Cassandra Falke, University of Tromsø “Clare’s Small Birds and the Vulnerable Self”
Shawna Lichtenwalner, East Tennessee State University “Equine Insecurities: Riding and Wrecking in Regency England”
21. Epistemology/Science/Perception (Elkins) Chair
Jason Pearl, Florida International University
“Aerial Cosmopolitanism” Cynthia Schoolar Williams, Wentworth Institute of Technology
“Interrogating Light: Visibility and the Insecure Subject in the Work of Felicia Hemans”
Lisa Ann Robertson, University of South Dakota “At the Border of Knowledge, or, Babies in the Romantic Scientific Imagination”
10:30-‐11:00 am Morning Break
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22. Anxieties of Authorship (Smiley) Chair: Michelle Faubert, University of Manitoba
Lloyd Davies, Western Kentucky University
“Against Cartesian Certitude: Romantic Vulnerability and ‘the burden of the Mystery’”
Elizabeth Weybright, The Graduate Center, CUNY "Ghostly Echoes, Muted Voices: Recording Insecurity in John Clare’s Poetry"
Michelle Faubert, University of Manitoba “Mary Shelley’s ‘The Mourner’ as Mathilda’s Ghost: Authorial Insecurity about Suicidal Contagion”
Myra Lotto, York College, CUNY “Bloomfield in Stereotype”
23. Wordsworthian Sureties/Securities (Elkins) Chair:
Joseph DeFalco Lamperez
‘”Profaner Rites’ and ‘Potent Enginery’: Paganism and Technology in Wordsworth’s Excursion”
Christopher Flynn, St. Edward’s University “Wordsworth’s Sonnets of 1802 as Political Declarations”
Robert Anderson, Oakland University “Lambs and Slaves: Wordsworth’s ‘The Pet-‐Lamb’”
24. Blakean Subversions (Ray) Chair: Sheila Spector, Independent Scholar
Allison Dushane, Angleo State University
“William Blake and the Essential Spectre” David Smith, Baylor University
“Female Ventriloquism as Radical Subversion in Blake’s Europe: A Prophecy”
Sheila Spector, Independent Scholar “The Insecurities of Blake’s Myth”
Jennifer Davis Michael, University of the South “Blake’s Silences and the Border between Speaking and Listening”
25. Memory, Trauma and Reception in Tieck and Hoffmann: the (Non-‐) Persistence of Memory (Wiggins) Chair: Christopher Clason, Oakland University
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Nadia Schuman, SUNY Binghamton
“Memory and Eternal Return: Trauma, Taboos, Reciprocal Violence and Despair in Tieck’s ‘Der blonde Eckbert’”
Shaun Hughes, Purdue University “The Failure of Historical Recall in the Icelandic Translation of ‘Der Blonde Eckbert’ (1835) and its Rejection by the Icelandic Reading Public”
Christopher R. Clason, Oakland University “Insecure Memory and Bad Quotation: Plagiarism, Satire, and Reception in Hoffmann’s Kater Murr”
12:30-‐1:45 pm Lunch on your own ICR BOARD LUNCHEON Cactus Flower, Union East 1st Floor 2:00-‐3:30 pm Concurrent Sessions (VIII)
26. German Romanticism (Wiggins) Chair:
Amy Emm, The Citadel
“Martin Luther and the German Romantic Theater, or Clowning Around with German National Identity”
Ruth Kellar, University of Wisconsin-‐Madison “‘Conventional’ Realities: The Social Perception of Actuality in Goethe’s Elective Affinities”
William Davis, Colorado College “Goethe and the Beneficent Medusa”
27. Romantic Theatre (Elkins) Chair: Marjean D. Purinton, Texas Tech University
Marjean D. Purinton, Texas Tech University
“British Romantic Crime Dramas and the Insecurities of Law and Order”
Michael Gamer, University of Pennsylvania “‘And the explosion immediately takes place’: Romantic Tragedy and the End(s) of Melodrama”
Peter Spearman, Tufts University “Baillie’s Plays on the Passions”
28. American Literary Engagements (Ray) Chair: Brian Yothers, University of Texas at El Paso
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Jonathan Murphy, Texas A&M International University
“Hawthorne’s ‘Awful Hieroglyphics’ in The Scarlet Letter” Holly Dykstra, Laredo Community College
“Returning to the Private Space: A Dialogue in the Margins and on the Border”
Sherry R. Truffin, Campbell University "Democracy, Education, and Insecurity in American Gothic from Edgar Allan Poe to Donna Tartt"
Jordan Greenwald, University of California-‐Berkeley “‘A Wiser Sympathy’: Dickinson’s Companionship and the Poetics of Nature”
29. Scholarly Borderlands: Popular Keats (Elkins) Chair: Brian Bates, Cal Poly State University
Brian Bates, Cal Poly State University
“Scholarly Borderlands: Popular Keats” Betsy Tontiplaphol, Trinity University
“Bright Star and The Etsy Effect” Brian Rejack, Illinois State University
“Quoting Keats” 3:30-‐4:00 pm Afternoon Break 4:00-‐5:30 pm Concurrent Sessions (IX)
30. Rhetorical Instabilities II (Wiggins) Chair:
Annika Mann, Arizona State University
“Textual (In)Security: Textual Infections and Sanitation Movements in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man”
Anastasia Stelse, University of Southern Mississippi “The Security of Memory and Archive: Patterns of Writing in Dorothy Wordsworth's Later Journals”
Rasheed Hinds, The Graduate Center, CUNY “‘The Festering Arms” of Techne’: Evolution, Eros, and Thanatos in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man”
31. Fragile Futures (Ray) Chair:
Lori Yamato, Queens College, CUNY
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“'Someone is Dying Now': The Fragility of Life in 'The Little Match Girl'”
Daniel Larson, Fresno Pacific University “Demogorgon and the Fall of the Gods: the Challenge of Eschatology in Prometheus Unbound”
Benjamin Kim, Independent Scholar “(Un)requited Love and Society’s Future: Mary Hays’s Revision of Godwinism in Memoirs of Emma Courtney”
32. Generic (In) Security (Elkins) Chair: Sean Barry Isaac Cowell, Rutgers University
“Gothic Disavowals,” D.B. Ruderman, Ohio State University
“(In)Security in Keats and Lyric” Sean Barry, Longwood University
“Austen’s Grace” 6:00-‐7:00 pm PLENARY ADDRESS Union Cinema Samuel Otter, University of California-‐Berkeley "Moby-‐Dick Meets Frankenstein"
7:15 pm Closing Banquet, Awards, Presentations Tomás Rivera Conference Center, Union East 3rd Floor