FRIDAY APRIL 12
Panel 1A: Hypertexts and Textual Studies
- "Romanticism on Its Own Terms: Hypertext as
Scholarly Medium"
Bethany Nowviskie, Wake Forest University
- "The Four Zoas Fetishized: Using Blake's Poetry as a
Model for Hypertext Design"
F. William Ruegg, University of Florida
- "Natural History and Textual Nature: Illustration and
Insecto-Theology in Blake's Thel"
Dave Lashmet, University of Florida
Respondent:
Nelson Hilton, University of Georgia
Panel 1B: Romanticism in the Americas
- "Byronism in Brazil: Alvares de Azevedo, Dreamstates and Metaphors of Homosexuality,"
Todd Irwin Marshall, University of North Carolina
- "Sites of Authority: Genre and the American Revolution,"
Michael Drexler, Brown University
- "Anti-Sublime in Appalachia: Memories, Mountains and
Mines in Growing Up in Harlan County,"
Elana Spandri, University of Florence
Respondent:
Robert Anderson, University of North Carolina
Panel 1C: Gothic Transformations
- "'Thunder of Thoughts, & flames of fierce desire':
William Blake's Transformation of the Gothic Tradition,"
Jennifer Randonis, Arizona State University
- "Maria Edgeworth and Gothic Imprisonment,"
Kellie Donovan Wixson, Boston College
- "National Bodies: Blood and Sexuality in Poe's Gothic Horror,"
Stephen Dougherty, Indiana University
Respondent:
Elizabeth Kraft, University of Georgia
Panel 1D:Romantic Legacies
- "Negative Capability: Modernism and the Unknowable"
Davida Pines, Brandeis University
- "Homoerotic Romanticism and the Poetry of Walt
Whitman, Hart Crane, and Allen Ginsberg"
James T. Stevens, Indiana University
Respondent:
Mark Bauerlein, Emory University
Panel 1E: Romanticism & History
- "'We are all Greeks': Hellas, The Persians, and
Artistic Persuasion,"
Kimberly Jacobs, Miami University
- "Containment Undone: Blake Re-Radicalizing Paine,"
Ron Broglio, University of Florida
- "Cameos, Coins and Character: Sir Walter Scott and the
Invention of the Ballad Tradition,"
Joyce Huff, George Washington University
Respondent:
Daniel O'Quinn, University of Guelph
Panel 2A: Romantic Space
- "The Poetics of Place and Time in Wordsworth's 'Tintern
Abbey',"
Zachary Sng
- "'And seal the hushed casket of my soul': The
Enchantment of the Tomb in John Keats's 'Eve of St.
Agnes',"
Nicole Reynolds, University of Georgia
- "Wordsworth and Romantic Geography,"
Nahoko Miyamoto, University of Totonto
Respondent:
John Waters, Wake Forest University
Panel 2B: Revolutionary Ferment and Jacobin Fear
- "Necessary Discriminations between Liberty and
Licentiousness: Jacobin Fear and Radical Support in the
Reviews of Coleridge's Early Poems"
David S. Hogsette, Ohio State University
- "'Everything that Lives is holy': Millenialism in the
Revolutionary Visions of William Blake and Thomas
Paine,"
Elisa E. Beshero, Pennsylvania State University
- "Historicising Orthodoxy: Burke's Reflections and Conservative Ideology,"
Edward W. Fox Jr., Indiana University
Respondent:
Nick Williams, Indiana University
Panel 2C: Intertextuality
- "The Writer Becomes Narcissus: The Letter in Chapter 13
of Coleridge's Biographia Literaria,"
Martha Kalnin, Baylor University
- "Locating the Mocks and Knaves: A Textual Study of
William Blake's Marginalia to Sir Joshua Reynolds'
Discourses on Art,"
Steven R. Price, Louisiana State University
- "The Animal and the Self: Coleridge's 'Rime of the
Ancient Mariner' and Poe's 'The Raven',"
Carlo Martinez, III University of Rome
Respondent:
Alan Rauch, Georgia Institute of Technology
Panel 2D: Romantic Mothering
- "Wordsworth's Mother Tongue: Mourning, Language, and
Identity in 'The Emigrant Mother',"
Robert C. Hale, Louisianna State University
- "Creative Anxiety and Appropriation of the Feminine in
Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads,"
Danielle E. Conger, Pennsylvania State University
- Defining Romanticism: The Implications of Nature
Personified as Female on Motherless Characters in Jane
Eyre and Frankenstein,"
Alicia Mischa Renfroe, University of Tennessee
Respondent:
Laura Dabundo, Kennesaw College
First Live Plenary Address
"The Laws of Cool: Literature on the Line"
Alan Liu,
University of California Santa Barbara