Conference Agenda
EC/ASECS November 6 - 9, 2008
Georgetown University
Thursday November 6, 2008
6:30 - 10:00 PM
7:30 - 10:00 PM
- Oral/Aural Experience, Chair: Peter Staffel
Friday November 7, 2008
8:00 AM - 5:00 PM
8:30 - 10:00 AM
Session 1A, 1808 and the Politics of the Hispanic Enlightenment
Chair: Catherine Jaffe, Texas State University
- Elizabeth Franklin Lewis, University of Mary Washington, “The Politics of Women’s Charity in the Spanish Enlightenment: The Junta de Damas as Precursors to the Sección Femenina de la Falange”
- Mark R. Malin, Randolph-Macon College, “Political Genres: The Ideology of Estanislao de Cosca Vayo’s Novelistic Experimentation”
- Catherine Jaffe, Texas State University, “The Politics of Enlightened Matrimony in the Marquesa de Fuerte-Híjar’s El Eugenio”
Session 1B, Texts and Subtexts—When Politics Drive Arts and Literature. Thread I.
Chair, Kelly Malone, Sewanee: University of the South
- Linda L. Reesman, CUNY and Hofstra University, “Godwin, Wollstonecraft, and English and Scottish Marriage Law”
- Suzanne Poor, New York University “Swift and Politics”
- Dale Katherine Ireland, California State University/East Bay and Las Positas College, “Samuel Johnson’s Humanist-Nationalism: The Politics of Order”
Equipment: LCD Projector, screen, transparency projector, table, extension cord, CD player
Session 1C, Does the Political World Have a Gender?
Chair:
- Deborah Kennedy, Saint Mary’s University, “Patriotism and the Female Poet”
- Sarah Fatherly, Otterbein College, “Gendered Passages: Two British Atlantic Journals of the Seven Years’ War”
- Cristina Berdichevsky, Gallaudet University, “Gender and Politics in Revolutionary France”
Session 1D, Visualizing Politics
Chair: Marie McAllister, University of Mary Washington
- Madelyn Gutwirth, West Chester University, “Gender, the Aesthetics of Dissent, and Nascent Romanticism in French Revolutionary Art”
- Ching-Jung Chen, The City College of New York, “Portraying Politeness: Patronage of the Early Georgian Conversation Piece”
- Gillian B. Pierce, Boston University, “Politics in the Salon: Diderot and “la Vérité Russe”
Equipment: LCD Projector, screen, computer
10:00 - 10:30 AM: Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Session 2A, Political Journalism: America, England, and France
Chair:
- Kevin Joel Berland, Penn State University, “Dr. John Tennent’s Rattlesnake Root Cure and Newspaper Promotion”
- Christopher Vilmar, Salisbury University, “Market Rivalry and Critical Genealogy: Parliamentary Debates in the London Magazine and Gentleman’s Magazine, 1728-1743”
- Beverly Jerold, Independent Scholar, “The Story Behind the Founding of the Journal de Paris”
Session 2B, Eighteenth-Century Characters
Chair: Albert J. Rivero, Marquette University
- Henry L. Fulton, Central Michigan University, “Politics & Patronage: Dr. John Moore and the Duchess of Devonshire”
- Miriam Meijer, Independent Historian, “Deciphering the Politics of Petrus Camper”
- Hugh Ormsby-Lennon, Villanova University, “Franklin’s Oldest Mistress?”
Session 2C, Politics and the Representation of Slavery
Chair:
- Vincent Carretta, University of Maryland, “‘Bypath of Misprison’: The Life and Letters of Philip Quaque (c1741 - 1816), the First African Anglican Missionary”
- John Wickersham, Ursinus College, “Phillis Wheatley and the Poetics of Politics, (1753-1784)”
- Jamie Rosenthal, UC San Diego, “Slavery, Radicalism, and the Fates of Working Women”
- Barbara Witucki, Utica College, “Stanislas-Jean de Boufflers, Governor of Senegal 1785-1787: French Hegemony and Native Life”
Session 2D, Texts and Subtexts—When Politics Drive Arts and Literature. Thread II.
Chair: Linda L. Reesman, CUNY, New York, and Hofstra University
- Kelly Malone, Sewanee: University of the South, "Popular Representations of the Stuarts after 1688"
- James M. McGlathery, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Passion and Politics in Gluck's Iphigeniie en Aulide.”
- Janet Leavens, University of Central Florida, "The Emergence of Sentimentalism in Gluck's Alceste."
Equipment: LCD Projector, screen, transparency projector, table, extension cord, CD player
12:00 - 1:30 PM
- Business Lunch. Speaker: Paul T. Ruxin, LL.B. “A Meditation on Collection”
1:30 - 3:00 PM
Session 3A, Revolution, Colonialism, and Political Theory
Chair:
- Erlis Wickersham, Rosemont College and Villanova University, “Lessing’s Emilia Galotti: Setting, Plot and Legend as Contemporary Political Commentary”
- Varad Mehta, George Washington University, “‘The Stone Is Everything’: Sparta and the Individual from Enlightenment to Revolution”
- Edith Moss Jackson, Howard University, “Representing the Bleeding Ulcer: Guerilla Resistance in the Peninsular War”
Session 3B, Teaching the L-O-O-O-N-N-G Eighteenth Century: A Roundtable
Chair: Lisa Berglund, Buffalo State College, SUNY
- Douglas Murray, Blemont University
- Tonya Howe, Marymount University
- Elizabeth Napier, Middlebury College
- Linda Troost, Washington and Jefferson University
- Christopher Vilmar, Salisbury University
Session 3C, Politics and the Historians
Chair:
- Aida Ramos, US Coast Guard Academy, “Changing History: History, Historiography, and Progress in Smith and Steuart’s Political Economies”
- Alex Schulman, UCLA, “Legitimacy in History: Enlightenment History Writing and the Idea of Secular Progress”
- JoEllen DeLucia, John Jay College, CUNY, “Elizabeth Montagu, the Ossian Poems, and the Politics of Feeling”
Session 3D, Electronic Archives in the Classroom: Using ECCO and EEBO in Teaching
Chair: Nancy A. Mace, U.S. Naval Academy
- Eleanor Shevlin, West Chester University, “Exploring Context and Canonicity: Lessons from the ECCO and EEBO Databases”
- Brian Glover, East Carolina University, “EEBO, ECCO, and Eighteenth-Century Novel Course”
- Sayre Greenfield, University of Pittsburgh, “Undergraduate Use of Search Engines in EEBO and ECCO”
- Nancy A. Mace, U.S. Naval Academy, “Using ECCO in Undergraduate Survey Courses”
- Remarks: Scott Dawson, Eighteenth-Century Collections Online
Equipment: Projection system, internet connection, and computer.
3:00 - 4:45 PM
- Break, Coffee will be served from 4:00 - 4:45
4:45 - 6:15 PM
Session 4A, Bibliography, Textual Studies, and Book History, Thread I
Chair: Eleanor F. Shevlin, West Chester University
- Rodney Mader, West Chester University, “Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson, Authorial Responsibility, and the American Revolution”
- Judith Jennings, Kentucky Foundation for Women, “From Pacifism to Patriotism: Mary Morris Knowles in Words, Writings, and Print, 1775-1795”
- Matthew J. Kinservik, University of Delaware, “The Print Culture of Treason in the 1790s”
Session 4B, The Politics of the Canon: Major Authors I
Chair:
- Sayre Greenfield, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, “The History of Futurity: Baxter, Collier, Dennis, Bysshe, and the Repositioning of Shakespeare”
- Anna Foy, University of Pennsylvania, “Epic Design, English ‘Habits of the Mind,’ and the Politics of Dryden’s Virgil”
- Tara Ghoshal Wallace, George Washington University, “Imperial Adventurism in Pope’s Windsor-Forest”
- Rebecca Shapiro, Independent Scholar, "Constant Commenting: Understanding the Novel and Literary Foregrounding in Tristram Shandy"
Session 4C, Swift Research Roundtable
Chair: Donald Mell, University of Delaware
- Paul J. deGategno, Penn State-Brandywine, “’Routing a Cabal of Hated Politicians’: Swift’s Examiner Flays the Whigs”
- Jordana Rosenberg, University of Massachusetts, “Mapping the Middling: Swift’s ‘City Shower’ and Capital Accumulation”
- Patrice Smith, Catholic University
- Hugh Ormsby-Lennon, Villanova University
- David Palumbo, Emmanuel College
- David Venturo, College of New Jersey
Session 4D, The Poetics of Politics
Chairs: Corey E. Andrew, Youngstown State University, and Brijraj Singh, Hostos Community College of CUNY
- Corey E. Andrews, Youngstown State University, “Trees of Liberty: Scottish Polity according to John Tait and Robert Burns”
- James Mulholland, Wheaton College, “Bards in India: Poetry and Politics of Colonialism”
- Brijraj Singh, Hostos Community College of CUNY, “Politics as Patriotism: The Verse of Sir John Malcolm (1769-1833)”
6:30 - 8:00 PM, Friday Night Banquet
Saturday November 8, 2008
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
- “17th and 18th Century Burney Collections Newspapers" This time will be devoted to a thirty-minute presentation with Robert Hume (Penn State University), Ashley Marshall (Penn State University), and Scott Dawson (Gale) on the new Burney Newspapers digital collection. It will be followed by an open house question and answer session until noon.
8:30 - 10:00 AM
Session 5A, Texts and Subtexts—When Politics Drive Arts and Literature. Thread III.
Chair: Gloria Eive, Saint Mary’s College of California
- Francien Markx, George Mason University, “‘Was wir in Gesellschaft singen, wird von Herz zu Herzen dringen.’ Johann Friedrich Reichardt and the Spirit of Song.”
- Stacey Jocoy, School of Music, Texas Tech University, “‘The World Turned Upside Down’: Mad Songs as British Political Commentary, from Lawes to Handel”
- Gloria Eive, St. Mary’s College of California, "Rage and Passion—Donizetti and the ‘Mad Bride’ of the Lamermoors”
Equipment: LCD Projector, screen, transparency projector, table, extension cord, CD player
Session 5B, The Politics of Travel-Writing: From Action to Page
Chair: Calhoun Winton, University of Maryland
- Calhoun Winton, University of Maryland, “Richard Steel, Grandfather and Grandson, and Travel Writing”
- Franklin Parks, Frostburg State University, “Travel Narratives and the Press on Both Sides of the Atlantic in the Early Eighteenth Century”
- Kathy O. McGill, George Mason University, “SLEBER and SDNEIRFSGNKIK: The Lacunae of Travel Writing in an Age of Revolution”
Session 5C, Bibliography, Textual Studies, and Book History, Thread II
Chair: Eleanor F. Shevlin, West Chester University
- Molly O’Hagan Hardy, University of Texas at Austin, “The Textual Body in Daniel Defoe’s Colonel Jack”
- Lisa Maruca, Wayne State University, “Primers, Politics and Print: Hierarchies of Authorship in Robert Dodsley’s Preceptor”
- Bridget McFarland, NYU, “‘The Great Number of Songs:’ Popular Songbooks and the Capacity of Collection”
Session 5D, The Ephemeral Body in the 18th Century
Chair: Beth Kowaleski Wallace, Boston College
- Alyssa Connell, University of Pennsylvania, Shifting Whiteness in West Indian Travel Texts.”
- Sarah Cote, Cornell University, “Tracing the Fop”
- Amy Witherbee, Boston College, “Public History on Stage in John Home’s Douglas”
- Respondent: Stuart Sherman, Fordham University
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Session 6A, Lust and Gust in Swift and Defoe: A Study in Political Contrasts
Chair: Geoffrey Sill, Rutgers University
- Brean Hammond, University of Nottingham, “The Irish Swift”
- Ashley Marshall, Penn State University
Session 6B, Politics, Identity and Culture in Early America
Chair: Alison Games, Georgetown University
- Brad A. Jones, California State University, Fresno, “A United Front?: The Stamp Act in the British Atlantic World”
- Thomas J. Humphrey, Cleveland State University, “Ritualized Crowds in Colonial New York”
- Susan Branson, Syracuse University, “Jefferson’s Mammoth Cheese: Natural History and National Politics”
Session 6C, Graduate Student Work-in-Progress
Chair: Aimee Levesque, Buffalo State College
- Danielle Spratt, Fordham University, “From Bear-Men to No Men: Emasculating and Eradicating Men in Cavendish’s Blazing World”
- Jennifer Miller, University of Arkansas, “How to Be a Man: Homosocial Friendships in The Monk”
- David Brumbley, Salisbury University, “Pointless Pleasure: An Epicurean Explanation of ‘A Ramble in St. James Park’”
- Gamil Alamrani, University of Arkansas, “The East: The Politics of the Erotica”
Session 6D, A Roundtable in Honor of Betty Rizzo
Chair: Nora Nachumi, Stern College for Women
12:00 - 1:30 PM: Lunch Break
1:30 - 3:00 PM
- Plenary Session: J. Paul Hunter, Professor at University of Virginia, Professor Emeritus at the University of Chicago
3:15 - 4:45 PM
Session 7A, Didacticism
Chair:
- Elizabeth Veisz, University of Maryland, “Nurses of Statesmen or Schools for Scandal? The Public School in 18th-Century British Literature”
- Sylvia Marks, Polytechnic University, “Thackeray’s The Rose and the Ring: A Piece of the Longer Eighteenth-Century?”
- Walter Gershuny, Northeastern University, “The Poet’s Pose in Eighteenth-Century French Descriptive Poetry”
Session 7B, The Politics of the Canon: Major Authors II
Chair:
- Joanne Roby, University of Maryland, “Richardson’s Lovelace: A Rake on the Loose or Reform Gone Bad?”
- Brett D. Wilson, College of William & Mary, “Unbiass’d yet by Party-Rage”: James Thomson’s Patriot Stage”
- Rivka Swenson, University of Virginia, “The Modern Author in Tom Jones”
- John O’Brien, University of Virginia, “Police, Insurance, Smollett”
Session 7C, Bibliography, Textual Studies, and Book History, Thread III
Chair: Eleanor F. Shevlin, West Chester University
- George Williams, University of South Carolina, Upstate, “21st-Century Information Visualization and 18th-Century Print Culture”
- James Tierney, University of Missouri-St. Louis, “The Digitized Burney Collection: Strengths and Weaknesses”
- James E. May, Penn State, Dubois, “The Printing and Publication of the Three Folio Editions of George Lyttelton’s To the Memory of a Lady Lately Deceased”
Session 7D, Theater
Chair: Marie Wellington, University of Mary Washington
- Cheryl Wanko, West Chester University, “The Audience, the Patron, and the Fan”
- William Hendel, University of Memphis, “The Cave and the Circle: The Politics of Viewing Space in Rousseau”
- Laura J. Rosenthall, University of Maryland, "Upon the Town"
- Sarah Benharrech, University of Maryland, “The Politics of Taxonomy: Hybridity as Subversion”
5:00 - 6:30 PM
Session 8A, Strangers and Outliers
Chair:
- Moonjoo Kim, Emory University, “Edmund Burke’s Irish Letters”
- Joanne Myers, Valparaiso University, “A Strange Public: Imagining Strangers in the Early Eighteenth Century”
- Peter Briggs, Bryn Mawr, “Reclaiming Ned Ward’s Unhappy Harlot”
Session 8B, Georgetown Grad Student Panel
Chair: Lisa Chinn
- Melissa Parrish, Georgetown University, "Ambivalent Pineapples: Identity and Libido in Frances Burney's Evelina"
- Alexis Chema, Georgetown University, "Tattlers, Gossips, Countrymen: The Role of the English Public in Fielding's Criminal Justice"
- Kate Middleton, Georgetown University, “Imagined Travels”
- Lisa Chinn, Georgetown University, "Collecting Englishness, Containing Language: Samuel Johnson's Imagined 'Dictionary of the English Language'"
Session 8C, Greening the Eighteenth Century
Chair:
- Peter F. Perreten, Ursinus College, “Hemp: The Tie that Binds; Or, Grow More Cannabis, Please”
- Giulia Pacini, College of William & Mary, “Tree Planting and French Environmental Politics”
Session 8D, The Politics and Poetry of Law in Eighteenth-Century Britain and America
Chair:
- Sara D. Schotland, Georgetown University, “Cause Lawyering Then and Now: Using Cultural Study of the Law for Normative Purposes”
- Erica Burleigh, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, “Converting Pirates”
Sunday November 9, 2008
9:00 - 10:30 AM
Session 9A, The Catholic Enlightenment
Chair: Theodore E. D. Braun, University of Delaware
- Frederic Conrod, Creighton University, "Desolation Beyond the Pyrenees: Voltaire's Representation of Spain as Land of Darkness"
- Robert Frail, Centenary College, "Clerical Strategies: Defrocked Priests and the Enlightenment"
- Mark Malin, Randolph-Macon College, "The Novel and the Spanish Catholic Enlightenment"
Session 9B, Reevaluating Jane Austen
Chair: Temma Berg and Beth Lambert, Gettysburg College
- Beth Lambert, Gettysburg College, "Raising Demons: Children in Austen's Novels"
- Manuel Schonhorn, "Sites of Value in Mansfield Park"
- Temma Berg, Gettysburg College, "Austen's Daughters, or, A Little Literary History"
- Ellen Moody, George Mason University, "The Ungothic Northanger Abbey; or, It's surprising what tricks memory plays on us when it comes to the Gothic"
