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The topic of the conference, Romanticism and the Physical, is designed to encourage interdisciplinary explorations of Romanticism's relationship to all aspects of physicality.
Potential topics include (but are not limited to):
- Romanticism and the Body (e.g. Gender, Race, and Sex)
- Mind/Matter Relations (e.g. physiology, psychology, phrenology)
- Romanticism and the Physical Sciences (e.g. Geography, Geology, Medicine, Biology, Physics)
- Romantic Ecologies
- Romantic Responses to Industry and Technology
- Romantic Aesthetics and Representation
- Epistemologies of Romanticism
- Romanticism and Nationalism
- Romanticism and Empire
- Romanticism and Travel
- Realism in Art and Literature
- Transatlantic Connections
- Romanticism and War
- Naturphilosophie
For open or special sessions please submit papers (15 - 20 minutes in length) or a detailed 500 word abstract by January 15, 2000.
Special Sessions:
Romanticism and the Great West
The Rhetoric of New World Romanticism
America ReaApril 1, 2005t face="Arial">Bryan Short
Department of English
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, AZ 86011
bryan.short@nau.edu
New Perspectives on the Picturesque: Ecology, Travel, Space
Gary Harrison
Department of English
Humanities #217
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-1106
garyh@unm.edu
And (please send proposals to both)
Jill Heydt-Stevenson
Department of English
Hellems 101, Campus Box 226
University of Colorado
Boulder, Colorado 80309-0226
jill.heydt@colorado.edu
Sexuality and Romanticism
Richard C. Sha
Department of English
American University
Washington DC 20016
rcsha@american.edu
Romantic Labor/Romantic Leisure
Robert Frost Anderson
Department of English
Oakland University
Rochester, MI 48309-4401
r2anders@oakland.edu
The Scourge of Satire
Steven Jones
Department of English
CC 402
Loyola University Chicago
6525 N. Sheridan Rd.
Chicago, IL 60626
sjones1@orion.it.luc.edu
Romanticism and Organicism: New Approaches
Willard Spiegelman
Department of English
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, Texas 75275
wspiegel@post.cis.smu.edu
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New Special Sessions (Not in the printed pamphlet):
The Aesthetics of Eating in Romanticism
Denise Gigante
Department of English
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-1016
dgigante@princeton.edu
Athleticism and Romanticism: Sport, Exercise, and Exertion and Public Performance and Physicality: Training, Skills, and Technique (two sessions)
Tom Crochunis
Northeast Islands Regional Educational Laboratory
Brown University
222 Richmond Street, Suite 300
Providence, RI 02903-4226
Thomas_Crochunis@brown.edu
Corporeal Minds, Nervous Bodies: Romantic Anti-Dualism
Alan Richardson
Department of English
Boston College
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
alan.richardson@bc.edu
The Embodied Word: The Transfer of Poems to Music in Romanticism
Thomas Pfau
Department of English
Duke University
Durham, NC 27708
tpfau@sprintmail.com
Gender and the Resistance to Nationalism in the Romantic Period
Andrew Elfenbein
Department of English
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
elfen001@tc.umn.edu
Jane Austen and the Physical
Vivien Jones
School of English
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
vjones@english.novel.leeds.ac.uk
Materialism, Theory, and the Social Body in Romanticism
John Rieder
Department of English
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, HI 96822
rieder@hawaii.edu
The Materiality of Romantic Texts
Neil Fraistat
Department of English
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
nf5@umailsrv0.umd.edu
Romanticism and Speech
Judith Thompson
Department of English
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 3J5
llyswen@cnova.net
Romantic Opera
Anne Williams
Department of English
University of Georgia
Athens, GA 30602
awilliam@parallel.park.uga.edu
New Perspectives on European Romanticism
Michael Eberle-Sinatra
Northrop Frye Center
Victoria University
73 Queen's Park Crescent
Toronto, Ontario M5S 1K7 CANADA
michael.eberle.sinatra@utoronto.ca
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Conference organizers welcome additional session proposals by July 30th, as well as single-paper submissions by January 15th. Those submitting session and seminar proposals should submit panel participants and abstracts by the submission deadline to the NASSR 2000 address below. When submitting proposals for special sessions, please submit proposals to the appropriate session leaders and the NASSR 2000 address. Papers that cannot be accommodated in special sessions will be considered by the general conference committee for open sessions. All participants must be members of NASSR by the time of the conference.
The registration fee for NASSR 2000 is $70 (US dollars) before July 31, $80 thereafter. For accommodation information see the NASSR 2000 information page.
Contact Information:
To submit proposals by mail, fax or e-mail:
NASSR 2000
C/O Jerrold Hogle
Department of English
PO Box 210067
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ 85721
Fax: 520-621-7937
E-mail: hogle@u.arizona.edu
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