10th Annual 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference

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Friday, April 19

8:30-10:00am  Session One

• Moderator: Lisa Schreibersdorf, University of Wisconsin- Madison
• Lynette Felber, Purdue University, "The Literary Portrait as Centerfold: Fetishism and the Victorian Novel" 
• Christopher Frick, University of South Carolina, "To Look, for Pleasure, Power, and Production:  Male and Female Gazing in Mary Tighe's Psyche"
• Eve Herzog, Columbia University, "Preserve Us From the Paragon:  Representations of the Feminine Ideal in the Work of Three Women Writers of the Nineteenth Century"

• Moderator: Theresa Kelley, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Joy M Currie, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "Poet and Lyricist Anne Hunter:  More than 'Haydn's Muse'" 
• Christine A. Colón, Wheaton College, “'Subverting the Idealization of the Home':  Femininity and the Gothic in Joanna Baillie's Plays"
• Patricia Rigg, Acadia University, "Augusta Webster and the Drama of Ideas" 

•  Moderator: Sarah Wakefield, University of Texas at Austin
• Carolyn Betensky, George Washington University, "Knowing and Showing Who Knows in Frances Trollope's Michael Armstrong" 
• Hilda Hollis, Queen’s University at Kingston, "Harriet Martineau's Rhetorical Construction of Self-Interest" 
• Sarah Willburn, Bryn Mawr College, "Rethinking the Body and the Invisible in the Memoirs of Marryatt, Martineau, and Crosland" 

• Moderator:  William Baker, Northern Illinois University
• Linda Hunt Beckman, Ohio University, "Amy Levy and London: Representations of the City in her Late Poetry" 
• Constance M. Fulmer, Pepperdine University, "Edith Simcox's Representation of Place and Person in Episodes in the Lives of Men, Women, and Lovers"
• Kathleen McCormack, Florida International University, "A Holiday in Surrey: Barbara Leigh Smith, Marian Evans, and Bessie Parkes"
• William Baker, Northern Illinois University, “Reflections on writing George Eliot: a Bibliographical History?”

• Moderator: Troy Bassett, University of Kansas
• Kurt Bullock, Grand Valley State University, "Priestess or Jeremiad?:  Marie Corelli's Neo-Christianity of Science and Faith"
• Carol MacKay, University of Texas at Austin, "From Pious to Revolutionary: The Religious Journey of the Victorian Annie Besant" 
• Peaches Henry, Texas A&M University, "'Hush Your Mouth'; Or When Women Write Theology: Frances Cobbe's Intuitive Morals"
• Melissa Schaub, Spring Hill College, "A 'Divine Right to Happiness': Religious Visions and the Woman Reader in Madame Bovary and The Doctor's Wife" 

• Moderator: Kristin Matthews, University of Wisconsin- Madison
• Louise Penner, Transylvania University, "Florence Nightingale's Sensational Narratives of Contagion and Contamination: A Conflict with Her Statistical Arguments on England's Health?"
• Cynthia Huff, Illinois State University, "Midwives to Themselves:  Victorian Women's Autobiography, Childbirth, and the Idea of Audience" 
• Beth E. Torgerson, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, "'Sick of mankind and their disgusting ways': Alcoholism, Social Reform, and Anne Brontë's Narratives of Illness"

10:15-11:45am  Session Two

• Moderator: Hilary Teynor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Laila Ferreira, Simon Fraser University, "Incoherent Beings: Masquerade and Race in Maria Edgeworth's Belinda and Amelia Opie's Adeline Mowbray" 
• Albert Sheen, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Madame Duval's Legacy, Caroline Evelyn's Bequest, Evelina's Will"
• Helen Thompson, Northwestern University, "Frances Sheridan's Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph and the Medium of Feminine Subjection"

• Moderator: Emily Auerbach, University of Wisconsin- Madison
• Diane Coppage, George Mason University, "'Brought up for Educating Others':  Education, Class, & Status of the Governess in Emma"
• Christopher Nagle, Western Michigan University, "Jane Austen Unbound"
• Molly Engelhardt, University of Southern California, "Reading Through the Polish:  Jane Austen and the Semiotics of Dance"

• Moderator: Steve Karian, Marquette University
• Carolyn Smith, Somerville College, University of Oxford, "'What can little girls do?': Gender and Power in the Victorian Nursery Rhyme"
• Amy Weldon, University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, "'The Common Gifts of Heaven':  Animals and Moral Education in Anna Laetitia Barbauld's 'The Mouse's Petition' and 'The Caterpillar'" 
• Joel Westerholm, Northwestern College, "Training Up Children:  The Lyric 'I' and The Development of the Christian Self" 

• Moderator: Christine DeVine, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
• Julia Chavez, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "'Light Literature' Periodicals of the 1860s: An Unexpected Guide through the Intellectual Forest" 
• Katherine Frank, University of Southern Colorado, "Defining Authorship and Generating Literary Careers:  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine and the Brontë Juvenilia"
• Julia M. Wright, Wilfrid Laurier University, "Colonial History:  Morgan's Essays for the New Monthly Magazine" 

• Moderator:  Anne Dwyer, Whitworth College
• Alison Booth, University of Virginia, "The Author in the House: A Woman's Guide to British Literary Geography"
• Pamela Corpron Parker, Whitworth College, "Literary Tourism and Charlotte Brontë"
• Alexis Easley, University of Alaska Southeast, "The Woman of Letters at Home: Harriet Martineau and the Literary Tour"

1:15-2:45pm  Session Three

• Moderator: Hilary Teynor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Kristen Hague, Mesa State College, "Situating Elizabeth Hamilton: Letters of a Hindoo Rajah and Eighteenth-Century Educational Philosophy"
• Iona Italia, Carleton College, "Old Maids and the Old Maid"
• Heather King, University of Redlands, "'The Brave Amazon': Charlotte Lennox's Evolving Representation of Feminine Virtue in The Lady's Museum"

• Moderator: Kari Lokke, University of California-Davis
• Claire Knowles, University of Melbourne, "Re-thinking Female Literary Tradition:  Uncovering the Gothic 'Heroine of Sensibility' in Charlotte Smith's Elegiac Sonnets"
• Jeanene Skillen, University of Virginia, "Charlotte Smith and the Politics of Sympathy"

• Moderator: Sharon Twigg, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Bonnie Gerard, Oklahoma Baptist University, "'You don't suppose they take Virgil for gospel?': Romanticism, Pastoralism, and the Power of Words in Gaskell's Cousin Phillis"
• Jennifer Gerstel, University of Toronto, "Elizabeth Gaskell's Darwinist-Feminist Ideology: Natural and Sexual Selection in Wives and Daughters"
• Joellen Masters, Boston University, "'Nothing more' and ‘nothing definite': First Wives in Elizabeth Gaskell's Wives and Daughters"
• Shu-Chuan Yan, University of Manchester, "Gender, Geography and Elizabeth Gaskell"

• Moderator: Elizabeth C. Miller, University of Wisconsin- Madison
• Mary A. Armstrong, California Polytechnic State University, "Reading A Head: Phrenology and Jane Eyre"
• Jill Galvan, University of California, Los Angeles, "Owning the Message: Women's Mediation of Knowledge in the Writings of Marie Corelli" 
• Mary Elizabeth Leighton, University of Victoria, "Victorian Medical Authority and the Question of Female Agency:  Harriet Martineau's Letters on Mesmerism"

• Moderator: May Chan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Diana Pharaoh Francis, University of Montana—Western, "Tangled Gazes: Torn Between Duty and Inclination.  Emily Eden in India and at Home" 
• Priti Joshi, University of Puget Sound, "Imperial Anxiety, Private Panic:  Emily Eden Fails to Sketch the Taj"
• Deborah Pye, University of Kansas, "'Dark Chapters in Human Nature': Mary Elizabeth Braddon's Ghost Stories"
• Andrea Rehn, Cornell University, "Isabella Bird's Travel Narrative in the Age of Reproducible Photography"

3:00-4:30   Session Four

• Moderator: Elizabeth Evans, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Miriam Elizabeth Burstein, SUNY-Brockport, "The Shallow Brook and the Noble River: Writing the History of Women in Public, 1867-1900" 
• Andrea Kaston Tange, Eastern Michigan University, "'For a woman who feels that she is a Power, there are so few other outlets': Redefining Female Power through Redesigning the Drawing-room" 
• Nancy Mayer, Northwest Missouri State University, "Landscapes, Cityscapes, and Drawing Rooms: Aurora Leigh's Common Place Sublime" 
• Carla Coleman Prichard, University of North Carolina —Chapel Hill, "'Her voice and manner announces reality': Performance as self-revelation in the Victorian Actress Novel" 

• Moderator: Matthew Stratton, University of Wisconsin- Madison
• Rebecca Hussey, Fordham University, "Anne Finch and the New Consumer Culture" 
• Mark Wildermuth, University of Texas—Permian Basin, "Feminized Conception of Nature: The Chaotic Epistemologies of Anne Finch and Anne Conway"
• Jodi Lustig, New York University, "’O! Eyes! . . . Why are thou chang’d?’:  The Look of a Woman: Mary Robinson's Sappho and Phaon and the Female Gaze" 

• Moderator:  Beth Dolan-Kautz, Lehigh University
• Alexis Petri, University of Missouri-Kansas City, "Literary Memoir as a Tool for Re-Composing Anna Letitia Barbauld's Reputation"
• Margot Stafford, University of Missouri-Kansas City, "From Celebrity to Genius:  Recreating L.E.L. for the Victorian Literary Marketplace" 
• Megan Bolinder Urbanek, Kansas State University, "'This World of Duplicity. . .':  Recasting the Woman Writer in Mary Robinson's Memoir" 

• Moderator:  Amy Feinstein, University of Wisconsin- Madison
• Kathleen Vejvoda, Metropolitan State University, "A Spicy Onion: Tractarianism and the Marriage Plot in 'Silly Novels by Lady Novelists' and 'The Sad Fortunes of the Rev. Amos Barton'" 
• Maria LaMonaca, Columbia College, "From Idolater to Agnostic Madonna: Reading George Eliot's Romola as a Secular Hagiography" 
• Dawn Coleman, Stanford University, “Dinah Morris is Dead:  Middlemarch and the Mid-Nineteenth-Century Sermon”
• Jill Rappoport, University of Virginia, "Myth-making in Middlemarch: Regendering Religious Humanism" 

• Moderator: Julie E. Fromer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Rachel Ablow, University of Rochester, "Fictional Guilt: George Eliot's Representation of Authorship" 
• Christine DeVine, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, "'Is the pen a metaphorical penis?': Narrating Gender, Negating Sex in Charlotte Brontë's The Professor" 
• Patricia Murphy, Missouri Southern State College, "'Escaping’ Gender: The Neutral Narrative Voice in Marianne North's Recollections of a Happy Life"

• Moderator: Alisha Siebers, University of Wisconsin-Rock County
• Ahmed Idrissi Alami, Université Abdelmalik Es Saadi, "Abolitionism and the Rhetoric of Female Emancipation in Amelia Perrier's A Winter in Morocco (1873)" [Read by proxy]
• Theresa L. Cowan, Simon Fraser University, "Birds of a Feather:  Gender and Slavery in Patricia Rozema's Mansfield Park" 
• Edlie Wong, University of California, Berkeley, "Turned Out of Doors:  Figuring England and the West Indies in the Case of Mary Prince"
• Teresa Mangum, University of Iowa, "Flora Annie Steel: The Colonial Woman in Macmillan's Empire" 

Saturday, April 20

8:30-10:00am  Session Five

• Moderator: Albert Sheen, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• David Nunnery, University of Wisconsin—Madison, "Carceral Correction in Elizabeth Inchbald's A Simple Story (1791)" 
• Orianne Smith, Loyola University, Chicago, "Hester Piozzi at the End of the World" 
• Johanna M. Smith, University of Texas—Arlington, "Slavery and Anti-Slavery in Priscilla Wakefield's Travel Books for Children" 
• Julie Straight, University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, "Jane West's Use of Ecclesiastical, Political, and Maternal Authority in Letters to a Young Man" 

• Moderator: Theresa Kelley, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Julie A. Carlson, University of California—Santa Barbara, "Facts of Fancy in Wollstonecraft and Shelley" 
• Elizabeth Delaney, University of Tasmania, "Radical Moments:  Jane Barker and Mary Shelley on incest" 
• Amanda E. Himes, Texas A&M University, "The Textual Evidence for Mary Shelley's Changing Relationships to Her Novels, 1818-1831" 
• Jan Plug, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Ends and Debts-of History:  The Last Man"

• Moderator: Carol MacKay, University of Texas at Austin
• Kabi Hartman, Temple University,  "'Enthroned in the editorial chair': autobiographical writing in fin-de-siècle socialist women's columns" 
• Ann Frank Wake, Elmhurst College, "Victorian Memoir and Canon-formation: The Case of Amelia Alderson Opie" 
• Sarah R. Wakefield, University of Texas at Austin, "Questions of Genre in Rhoda Broughton's Cometh Up as a Flower: An Autobiography"

• Moderator: Nancy V. Workman, Lewis University
• Cynthia Turner Camp, University of Ottawa, "'As though thy song could search me and divine’: Intersubjectivity and the Mother-Child Relationship in Augusta Webster's Mother and Daughter" 
• Geraldine Friedman, Purdue University, "The Queer Uses of Knowledge in the Diaries of Anne Lister"
• Lee Talley, California State University, Dominguez Hills, "The Word Made Phantom Flesh: Corporeality and Knowledge in Wuthering Heights" 

• Moderator: Jesse Wolfe, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• June Foley, New York University, The Gallatin School, "Gaskell's Cranford as Dialogue with Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent" 
• Joyce Kelley, University of Iowa, "Revealing 'Lady Disorderly's Secret': Satirizing Sensation, from Sigismund Smith to the 1860's Comic Journal" 
• Berendina Piets Saunders, Acadia University, "Entering the Domain of the Ecclesiastic: Re-writing an Imitatio Christi-Dora Greenwell's Carmina Crucis as a feminist version of the Passion of Christ"

• Moderator: Laura Vorachek, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Ann Heilmann, University of Wales, Swansea, "Visionary Desires: Theosophy, Auto-eroticism and the Feminist Artist in Sarah Grand's New Woman Fiction" 
• Lisa Surridge, University of Victoria, "Marital Rape in Mona Caird's The Wing of Azrael" 
• June M. Yoshii, University of California, Berkeley, "Rethinking 'Nature': Gender and Evolutionary Theory in Mona Caird's The Daughters of Danaus"
• Melissa McLeod, Georgia State University, "The Voice in Charlotte's Mew's 'A White Night'"

10:15-11:45am  Session Six

• Moderator: Elizabeth Rivlin, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Julie Aipperspach Anderson, Baylor University, "A Modest Playwright and the True English Gentleman: Gender Performance and Artistic Criticism in the Paratexts of Mary Pix" 
• Elizabeth Palmberg, Scripps College, "Theatrical Women in Maria Edgeworth's 'The Will' and Thomas Dibdin's 'Thirty Thousand'" 
• Diana Solomon, University of California—Santa Barbara, "The Restoration Actress's Comic Delivery of Prologues and Epilogues"

• Moderator: Christopher Scalia, University of Wisconsin- Madison
• Elisa E. Beshero-Bondar, Penn State University, "Romantic Women Bards and Revolutionary Epic Heroines:  The International Diplomacy of Feminine Desire" 
• Jennifer Martin, Northeastern University, "The Time-Space Connection in Travel Writing:  The Event and the Literary Image of the French Revolution as Experience by English Women Romantic Writers" 
• Julie Shaffer, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, "Heraline:  Laetitia Matilda Hawkins' Own Revolution" 

• Moderator:  Johanna Smith, University of Texas-Arlington
• Troy Bassett, University of Kansas, "The Value of a Name: Lanoe Falconer's Mademoiselle Ixe and T. Fisher Unwin's Pseudonym Library"
• Kay Boardman, University of Central Lancashire, "The Pen as Social and Economic Weapon: Eliza Meteyard and the Journalism of Reform"
• LeeAnne Marie Richardson, Georgia State University, "Representing Women: The Society of Authors and the 'Authoress'" 
• Lisa M. Wilson, Winona State University, "'Writing Beauties':  Imaging Women's Authorship in the Romantic Period" 

• Moderator: Rowena Fowler, University of Bristol
• Meegan Kennedy, Trinity College, Connecticut, "'A true prophet': Gothic medicine and the limits of vision in George Eliot's 'The Lifted Veil'" 
• Nicola Spunt, York University, "Branding Judgments and Defiant Discourses in Villette" 
• Carolyn Jacobson, University of Pennsylvania, "'Some Natures Catch No Plagues': Immunity and Morality in Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh" 

• Moderator:  Barbara Tilley, University of Florida 
• Barbara Tilley, University of Florida, "'anything but a monster': New Manhood in Sarah Grand's The Heavenly Twins" 
• Christine Roth, University of Wisconsin-Oskosh,  "Holy Gender Bending!  Julia Margaret Cameron's Angelic Boy Waifs"
• Meg Norcia, University of Florida,  "Rewriting Robinson: Reconstructions of Masculinity and Whiteness in Barbara Hofland's The Young Crusoe"

• Moderator:  Carol Sklenicka, Indepenent Scholar 
• Susan Morgan, Miami University of Ohio, "Come With Me:  The British East India Company Travel Guide to Interracial Sexuality" 
• Mary Jean Corbett, Miami University of Ohio, "'Real Affinities' and Family Likenesses in Wives and Daughters" 
• Elsie Michie, Louisiana State University, "Fanny Trollope’s Vulgarities" 
• Anca Vlasopolos, Wayne State University, "Sucking Oranges:  Alternative Sexualities and the Repressed Body in Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford" 
• Deborah Denenholz Morse, College of William and Mary, "'A fierce, pitiless, wolfish man':  Wolf-Men as Sites of Erotic Religious Encounter in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights and Hesba Stretton's Half-Brothers"

3:00-4:30pm  Session Seven

• Moderator: J. Ereck Jarvis, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Rowena Fowler, University of Bristol, "Women Writers and Readers in the Oxford English Dictionary"
• Karen Cajka, University of Connecticut, "'Intelligible and useful to the mere English Scholar': The First Women Grammarians of English"
• Pat Michaelson, University of Texas at Dallas, "Wit and Women"
• Lisa Kasmer, University of California, Los Angeles, "Figuring Eighteenth-Century Female Intellectuals"

• Moderator: Theresa Adams, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Linda Peterson, Yale University, "Redefining Authorship:  Harriet Martineau in the Literary Marketplace of the 1820s and 1830s" 
• Michele Martinez, Trinity College, Hartford, "Memorials or Memoirs?:  The Afterlife of Felicia Hemans" 
• Elizabeth Teare, University of Dayton, "Catherine Gore, Jane Austen, and the 'labour of representation'"

• Moderator: Julie Pfeiffer, Hollins University 
• Sara R. Danger, University of Kansas, "Problem Children: Visual and Textual Discord in Kate Greenaway's Under The Window" 
• Elisabeth Gruner, University of Richmond, "Ritchi's 'Cinderella': Realism and Romance in the Fairy Tale Form" 
• Mary Lenard, University of Wisconsin—Parkside, "Unknown to History: Charlotte Yonge as a Historian, Novelist, and Writer for Children" 

• Moderator: Dorice Williams Elliott, University of Kansas
• Andrea Austin, Trent University, "The Afterlife of Ada:  Ada Byron, Artificial Intelligence, and the Language of Generation" 
• James Diedrick, Albion College, "A Pioneering Female Aesthete: Mathilde Blind in the Dark Blue" 
• Kristine Swenson, University of Missouri-Rolla, "Male Ugliness and the Physiological Aesthetics of Arabella Kenealy" 
• Diane Long Hoeveler, Marquette University, "Marriage and Inheritance Laws:  Amelia Opie and The Novelistic Evidence" 

• Moderator:  Susan Bernstein, University of Wisconsin- Madison 
• Nadia Valman, Southampton University, "Amy Levy's Reuben Sachs and the fin-de-siècle critique of Judaism" 
• Emma Francis, University of Warwick, "Evading the Shadow of the harem: Amy Levy's Urban Aesthetic" 
• Naomi Hetherington, Southampton University, "New Woman, New Boots: Amy Levy as Child Journalist" 

Sunday, April 21

9:15-10:45am   Session Eight

• Moderator: Amanda Kenny, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Erik Bond, Hofstra University, "'The Change is in the Place, not in Me': Londonization, Epistolarity, and Frances Burney's Alternative Mode of Interiority" 
• Elizabeth Bridgham, University of Virginia, "Public Scandal in Private Gardens: Eliza Haywood's Politics of Reputation in Love in Excess" 

• Moderator: Michelle Sizemore, University of Wisconsin- Madison
• Tone Irene Brekke, University of California-Davis, "'I could not exist in rooms thus closed up':  Wollstonecraft's discourse on bodies and reconstruction of the sublime gaze in Letters Written During A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark" 
• Carolyn Sigler, University of Minnesota-Duluth, "'I Am Not I; Pity the Tale of Me':  The Rhetoric of Sensibility in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters to Gilbert Imlay"
• Candace Hull Taylor, University of California—Davis, "Failure and Contradiction as Catalyst:  The Liminal Experience in Mary Wollstonecraft's Personal Letters and Travelogue:  A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark" 

• Moderator: Sharon Twigg, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Erik Simpson, Grinnell College, "Women Writing the New Britain:  William Wallace and Romantic-era History" 
• Kara M. Ryan, University of Tulsa, "The Erotics of Maternal Martyrdom:  A Discussion of Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna's Writings on Ireland" 
• Anne McKee Stapleton, University of Iowa, "Sarah Green's Cocknied Critique of 'Caledonia Mania'" 

• Moderator: Jacob Maas, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Barbara T. Gates, University of Delaware, "Louisa Anne Meredith:  At 'Home' in Australia" 
• Dorice Williams Elliott, University of Kansas, "Reformed Convicts Make Good Servants: Mary Vidal's Tales for the Bush" 
• Robert P. Fletcher, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, "'Heir of All the Universe': Evolutionary Epistemology in the Colonialist Poetry of Mathilde Blind" 
• Chris Foss, Mary Washington College, "'This tragic exotic blossom of song': Voice and Authenticity in Toru Dutt's Ancient Ballads" 

• Moderator: Elizabeth Evans, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Samuel Lyndon Gladden, University of Northern Iowa, "Dishevelings: Comings-Undone and the Maintenance of Social Order" 
• Lisa Hager, University of Florida, "The Sleeper Has Awakened: Feminine Desire and Subjectivity in Ouida's Princess Napraxine" 
• Scott Rogers, Oklahoma State University, "'Beyond the Tinsel Sentiment': Navigating the Rhetoric of Fallenness in Dora Greenwell's 'Christina'" 
• Christopher Matthews, University of Michigan, "Julia Wedgwood and the Invention of Moral Heterosexuality"