“Engaged Romanticism: The International Conference on Romanticism”
The International Conference on Romanticism
November 9 – 12, 2006

Program (updated November 15, 2006 )

** indicates a change from the printed program

Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday
 
Thursday, November 9th

12:00 – 5:00

** Ventana (MU 226): Registration + Book Exhibit

2:00 – 2:30

** Ventana (MU 226): Welcoming Address

“Engaged Romanticism: Romanticism as Praxis”
            Mark Lussier, Arizona State University

2:45 – 4:15

** Yavapai Room (MU 209): “Engaging Gothic Literature I: In Honor of Eugenia DeLamotte”
Session Chair, Anne Williams, University of Georgia

"Opening Up the Perils of the Night"
            Jerrold E. Hogle, University of Arizona

“Engendering Melancholy: Romantic Gender, Gothic Subjectivity”
            Nowell Marshall, University of California, Riverside

"Counterfeiting Gothic Heroines in Atwood's Lady Oracle"
Miranda Yaggi (Indiana University),  

“‘I say we change the rules’: Mergings of Male and Female Gothic in Buffy the Vampire Slayer”
            Jennifer Santos, Arizona State University

Santa Cruz Room (MU 213): Romantic Critical Praxis
Session Chair, Nicholas Mason, Brigham Young University

“Blackwood’s Magazine and the Ethics of Romantic-Era Criticism”
            Nicholas Mason

“”Romantic Re-Enchantments: The Burden of Poetry and the Engaged Critic”
            Lloyd Davies, Western Kentucky University

‘Is this mine own countrée’: Radical Conservatism in the Lyrical Ballads (1798)”
            Katey Castellano, James Madison University

Pinal Room (MU 215): Performative Praxis in German Romanticism
Session Chair, Christopher Clason, Oakland University

“How to be a Romantic Man,”
            William S. Davis, Colorado College

“Hoffmann’s Chaotic Councilor: Art and Romantic Praxis in ‘Rat Krespel’”
            Christopher R. Clason, Oakland University

“‘Councilor Krespel’ and E. T. A. Hoffmann’s Engaged Artistry”
            Gabriele Dillmann, Denison University

5:00 – 6:30

University Club (South Dining Room): Presidential Address & Reception

Welcoming Comments
Deborah Losse, Division Dean of Humanities, Arizona State University

Presidential Address: “Romantic Praxis: Teaching British Romanticism with Drama”
Marjean Purinton, Texas Tech University

Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday

Friday, November 10th

9:00 – 5:00
Ventana Room (MU 226): Registration & Book Exhibit

9:00 – 10:30

Yavapai Room (MU 209): Engaging Gothic Literature II: In Honor of Eugenia DeLamotte
Session Chair, Anne Williams, University of Georgia

“Anne Lister’s Techniques of Self-Masculinization: The Fashioning of Identity through Ordeal”
            Geraldine Friedman, Purdue University

“Modernizing the Uncanny: How Gothic Ballads Became the 'Lyrical Ballads'”
            Diane Long Hoeveler, Marquette University

"Still Thrilling: Frankenstein and Female Gothic"
           Jacqueline Stocker (University of Georgia),

“What Was the Female Gothic?”
            Anne Williams, University of Georgia

Santa Cruz Room (MU 213): Romanticism and the Body I
Session Chair, Matthew Pangborn, State University of New York, Albany

“What the Body Reveals: Seeing Beatrice Cenci”
            Melynda Nuss, University of Texas, Pan American

“Press Forward to Behold What We Shrink From: Diagnosing the Uncontrollable Body in Joanna Baillie and Dr. John Hunter”
           Daniel Mangiavellano, Louisiana State University

“Reading the Body of Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter”
            Matthew Pangborn, State University of New York, Albany

Pinal Room (MU 215): Aesthetic Practices in Shelley’s Poetry
Session Chair, Cajsa Baldini, Arizona State University

“Portrait of a Wounded Artist: Supernatural Alternatives to Christianity in Shelley’s The Witch of Atlas”
            Cristy Hall, Middle Tennesse State University

“The Aesthetic and ‘politics of practice’: Shelley and the Religion of Beauty”
            Daniel Schierenbeck, Central Missouri State University
 
“Love, Liberty, and Shelley’s Sun Temple in Prometheus Unbound”
            Cynthia Cavanaugh, Kean University

“Imaginary Poetics: Shelley's Re-vision of Social Change in Epipsychidion”
            Paulette Zillmer, Arizona State University

10:45 – 12:15

Yavapai Room (MU 209): Persistence of Romantic Landscape Aesthetics
Session Chair, Julie Codell, Arizona State University

“Beneath the Banyan Tree: Romanticizing the Landscape of British India”
            Romita Ray, Syracuse University

“Aesthetic Identities in Marcella: The Function of Art and taste”
            Julie Codell, Arizona State University

“Nature in Paint and Print: The Dialectic between Romanticism and the Opening and Close of the Nineteenth Century”
            Anne Helmreich, Case Western Reserve University

Santa Cruz Room (MU 213): Dramatic Engagements
Session Chair, Nancy Moore Goslee

“Grahame’s Wallace; a Tragedy: Cross-Dressed Purpose for Border Crossing Liberty”
            Nancy Moore Goslee, University of Tennessee

“From the Associationist Subject to the Aesthetics of the Death Drive in Thomas Lovell Beddoes’ The Brides’ Tragedy”
            David M. Baulch, University of West Florida

Pinal Room (MU 215): Italian Romanticism
Session Chair, Larry Peer, Brigham Young University

“The Myth of Venice in Italian Romanticism”
           Franca Barricelli, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh

“Garibaldi’s Malpractice Suits”
            Sante Matteo, Miami University of Ohio

12:30 – 2:00 Lunch (Free Time)

12:30 – 1:30

ICR Board Meeting (Yavapai Room - MU 209)

2:00 – 3:30

Yavapai Room (MU 209): Romanticism and the Body II
Session Chair, Matthew Pangborn, State University of New York, Albany

“A Monstrous Beauty: Performing Freakishness in Byron’s Don Juan”
            Tracey Colvin, University of Maryland, College Park

"Form and Phantasm: The Poetry of Blake's Eternal(ly) Slender Bodies"
            Angela O’Neal, Arizona State University

“Postmortem Co-Optation, or The Role of the Effeminate in Shelley’s Adonais”
            Caroline E. Kimberly, Georgia Institute of Technology

Santa Cruz Room (MU 213): Room Four: Engaging Romantic Ecology
Session Chair, Gary Harrison, University of New Mexico

"The Nature of Ecology in Wordsworth’s Early Poetry”
            Bruce Matsunaga, Arizona State University

“The Sublime Imagination and the Subjunctive Voice in ‘Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey’”
            Ron Kaiser, University of New Hampshire

“William Wordsworth’s Environmental Legacy”
            Scott Hess, Earlham College

“The Poetics of Acknowledgement: John Clare”
            Gary Harrison, University of New Mexico

Pinal Room (MU 215): Textual & Sexual Politics in Blake
Session Chair, Harriett Linkin, New Mexico State University

“In Enormous Labors Occupied: Gnosticism, Alchemy, and Blake’s Quaternity”
            Michael Sean Bolton, Arizona State University

“Blake's Vision of Female Characters: Oothoon and Thel”
            Oksun Kang, Doneseo University (South Korea)

“William Blake and Romantic Women Poets: ‘Then what have I to do with thee?”
            Harriett Linkin, New Mexico State University

3:45 – 5:15

Yavapai Room (MU 209): Engaged Orientalism
Session Chair, Padma Rangarajan, University of Colorado

"Metanoia: Radical Translations and Cultural Compromise in The Missionary"
            Padma Rangarajan, University of Colorado

“Mysticism: Wordsworth’s ‘Immortality’ Ode and The Bhagavad-Gita”
            Mrinalkanti Ray, Université Laval

“Coleridge and The Arabian Nights”
           Timothy Fulford, Nottingham Trent University

Santa Cruz Room (MU 213): Romanticism and the Other Arts
Session Chair, Courtney Wennerstrom, Indiana University

“The Sketch and the Imagination in the Travel Notebooks of Romantic Painters”
            Verónica Uribe, Universidad Pompeu Fabra (Spain)

“‘Voice’ and the Virtuoso/a in Romantic Instrumental Opera Variations”
            Douglass Seaton, Florida State University

“Performing Culture: Eisteddfodau and the Welsh Cultural Revival”
            Shawna Lichtenwalner, East Tennessee State University

“Legacies of Tortured Sensibility; or What Shakira Learned from Sade”
            Courtney Wennerstrom, Indiana University

Pinal Room (MU 215): Reform, the Social Sphere, and Romantic Cultural Praxis
Session Chair, Paul Michael Privateer, Arizona State University

“The Degradation of Women under British Law and Customs in Maria”
            Petra Landfester, University of Colorado

“The Utility of Ghosts and Bibliomaniacs: John Ferriar and the Public Perception of Moral Management”
            Michelle Faubert, University of Manitoba

“Terminal Uniqueness: Romanticism, Isolation, and Addiction”
            Tom Schmid, University of Texas, El Paso

6:00 – 7:30

University Club/South Dining Room: Plenary Lecture One

“Engaged Romanticism—Romantic Engagements”
           Stephen Behrendt, University of Nebraska

Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday

Saturday, November 11th

9:00 – 5:00
Ventana Room (MU 226): Registration + Book Exhibit

9:00 – 10:30

Yavapai Room (MU 209): Feminist Praxis: Gender and the Engagement of Women Writers with Race and Sex
Session Chair, James McGavran, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

“‘A manly beauty strange’: Mary Tighe and the Beautiful Male Object”
            Erin M. Goss, Loyola College, Maryland

“Intergenerational Issues in Charlotte Smith’s Fiction”
            James McGavran, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

“The Countess of Merlin’s Memoirs and Travelogues: Voicing Gender and Race in Cuba”
            Claire Emilie Martin, California State University, Long Beach

Santa Cruz Room (MU 213): The European Context of English Romanticism
Session Chair, Jonathan Drnjevic, Arizona State University

“Revolutionizing the Common Ground: Wordsworth’s Career, Rousseau’s Social Contract”
            Zoe Beenstock Rivlin, McGill University

“Byron and the Russian Revolution”
            Sheila Spector, Independent Scholar

“The Social Contract" and Shelley's Poet as Legislator of the World”
            Amy Gibb, Clemson University

“On the Theory and Practice of the Ordinary: Aristotelian Themes in Wordsworth and Lessing”
            Jonathan Luftig, Morgan State University

** Yuma Room (MU 211): American Romanticism
Session Chair, Joe Lockard, Arizona State University

“‘Buried, With Formalities’: Unearthing Irving’s ‘Money Diggers’”
            Carl H. Sederholm, Brigham Young University

“(Post)modern Psychoanalysis: A Re-vis(ion)ing of Poe”
            Kirsti Cole, Arizona State University

“To Strike the First Blow: The Romantic Liberalism of Thomas Wentworth Higginson and martin Delany in the 1850s”
            Ethan J. Kytle, College of Charleston

“From Missolongi to Harper’s Ferry: Samuel Gridley Howe and the Ethics of Self-Sacrifice”
            Joe Lockard, Arizona State University

10:45 – 12:15

Yavapai Room (MU 209): Romanticism in Music
Session Chair, Theodore Solis, Arizona State University

“Dungeons, Caverns, Prisons, Towers: The Use of French Rescue in Vienna as Anti-French Propaganda”
            Carol Padgham Albrecht, University of Idaho

“From Villoteau to Bourgault-Ducoudray: Nineteenth-Century French Engagement with Byzantine Chanting”
            Alexander Lingas, University College, London

“Arnold Schoenberg—Modernist or Romantic?”
            Sabine Feisst, Arizona State University

Santa Cruz Room (MU 213): ‘Are You on the Bus’: Engaged Pedagogy and Romantic Literature”
Session Chair, Julie Kipp, Hope College

"Making Monsters: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and Undergraduate Creatures"
            Cajsa Baldini, Arizona State University

“For the First Time”
            Paul Davis, University of Ulster

“Ulster and Monsters: Teaching Frankenstein in Northern Ireland”
           Willa Murphy, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland

“Are you part of the revolution?”
            Jennifer Young and Julie Kipp, Hope College

** Yuma Room (MU 211): Revolutionary Romanticism/Victorian Conservatism
Session Chair, Daniel Bivona, Arizona State University

“The ‘Camelion’ and the Critic: Arnold on Keats”
            Dana Tait, Arizona State University

‘So still, so calm, so purely beautiful’: Byron’s Posthumous Rehabilitation”
            Tom Mole, McGill University

“Goblin Waste”
            Christopher Rovee, Stanford University

“Barrett Browning and Georgic Modernity”
            Karen Hadley, University of Louisville

12:30 – 2:00 Lunch (Free Time)

2:00 – 3:30

Yavapai Room (MU 209): Madame de Staël and European Romantic Praxis
Session Chair, Eugene Stelzig, State University of New York, Geneseo

“Henry Crabb Robinson as Madame de Staël’s Philosophical Informant in Weimer”
            Eugene Stelzig, State University of New York, Geneseo

“The Groupe de Coppet on Italy: Forging a Collaborative Myth”
            Clorinda Donato, California State University, Long Beach

“Shelley Engages Staël; or The Rise of the European Hero”
            Michael Eberle-Sinatra, University of Montreal

Santa Cruz Room (MU 213): Romantic Colonial Engagements
Session Chair, Beth Tobin, Arizona State University

“Charlotte Smith’s Indian Encounters”
            Chris Valeo, Eastern Washington University

“Engaging the Colonial Caribbean: ‘Three-Fingered Jack’ (the Terror of Jamaica) in London”
            Frances Botkin, Towson University

“Colonial Engagement and Religious Conversion in Hartly House, Calcutta”
            Dan White, University of Toronto

** Yuma Room (MU 211): Affective Women and the Discipline of Sympathy”
Session Chair, Donelle Ruwe, Northern Arizona University

“Germaine de Staël’s Enthusiasm, Eternity, and ‘les armes du temps’”
            Kari Lokke, University of California, Davis

“Mechanical Keyboards: Rousseau, Genlis, and Logier’s Music for Girls”
            Donelle Ruwe, Northern Arizona University

“A Legacy for Young Ladies: Women’s Education Practices and the Political Use of History”
            Greg Kucich, University of Notre Dame

3:45 – 5:15

Yavapai Room (MU 209): Critical Engagements with Wordsworth
Session Chair, Charles Rzepka, Boston University

“Activating ‘Tintern Abbey’ in 1815”
            Brian Bates, University of Denver

“The Green Man and the Rosetta Stone”
            Marilyn Gaull, New York University

“To Be a Thing”
            Charles Rzepka, Boston University

Santa Cruz Room (MU 213): Novel Engagements with Romantic Culture
Session Chair, Jillian Heydt-Stevenson, University of Colorado

"Prostituting Kitty: Sexuality, Landscape, and the Imagination in Austen's 'Catharine, or the Bower'"
            John C. Leffel, University of Colorado

“A Felt Relation: Genre as Cultural Dialogue in Walter Scott’s Waverley”
            Daniel Block, Brown University

“Engaging with Incandescent Things: Women and Objects in Romantic Literature”
            Jillian Heydt-Stevenson, University of Colorado

** Yuma Room (MU 211): Godwinian Practices
Session Chair, Rob Anderson, Oakland University

“Skewed Justice: Sympathy and the Corruption of ‘Reason’ in Godwin’s Caleb Williams”
            Amy Louise Brady, University of Missouri, Kansas City

“The Calamity of Labor: Godwin and Romantic Leisure”
            Rob Anderson, Oakland University

‘Impossible Practice’: Godwin’s Ambivalent Influence on Percy Bysshe Shelley”
            Michael Demson, City University of New York

6:00 – 9:00

University Club/South Dining Room: Banquet, Awards and Plenary Lecture 2

Graduate Student Awards

“Transplanting Natures”
Alan Bewell, University of Toronto

Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday

Sunday, November 12th

9:00 – 10:30

Yavapai Room (MU 209): Engaging Romantic Women Writers
Session Chair, Terry Robinson, University of Colorado

‘Manliness enough’: Alternative Masculinities in Charlotte Smith’s The Young Philosopher”
            Bert Wray, University of South Carolina

‘A fine beginning of a romance with a shipwreck’: Allusiveness and Cosmopolitanism in Maria Edgeworth’s Patronage”
            Jeffrey Cass, Texas A&M International University

“Mary Robinson and the Art of the Dramatic Comeback”
            Michael Gamer, University of Pennsylvania
            Terry Robinson, University of Colorado

Yuma Room (MU 211): Communal Romanticism
Session Chair, Jeffrey Cox, University of Colorado

“Opening Remarks: Communal Romanticism as Engaged Romanticism”
            Jeffrey Cox, University of Colorado

“The Politics of Collaboration: John Thewall and the Wordsworth Circle”
           Judith Thompson, Dalhousie University

“Beyond Truth and Lie: The Place of Fiction in Friedrich Schlegel’s Political Philosophy”
           Nathan Ross, DePaul University

“Common Zombies”
            Paul Youngquist, Pennsylvania State University

10:45 – 12:15

Yavapai Room (MU 209): Romanticism, Classical Philosophy, History
Session Chair, Al Drake, University of California, Irvine

“From Equipoise to Paralysis: The Revival of Skepticism in German Romanticism”
            Michael Kirkwood House, Princeton University

“A Rhetorics to Live By: Adam Müller’s Recasting of Plato”
            Ellwood Wiggins, Johns Hopkins University

“German Political Romanticism”
            Gabriele de Angelis, Sant’Anne School of Advanced Studies (Pisa, Italy)

Yuma Room (MU 211): Re/Forming Romantic Literature
Session Chair, Mark Lussier, Arizona State University

“‘Tous les homes sont frères’: Flora Tristan’s Call to Socialist Republicanism in Pérégrinations d’une paria”
            Jennifer Law-Sullivan, Oakland University

“Lamartine’s Real Ideal: Social Engagement through a Non-Reductive Didacticism”
            Peter Hutchings, University of Colorado

“The Politics of Disengagement in George Crabbe’s The Borough: rethinking Crabbe and Romanticism”
            Travis W. Feldman, University of Washington

“The Rhetoric of Repetition: Romantic Theory and Second-Generation Reform”
            Jonathan Ewell, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday