ACR Conference Program
Thursday Nov 08
12:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Marcum Lobby Check-in/Registration - Registration throughout
the day
05:00 PM - 07:00 PM
Marcum Room 158 Informal Gathering -
07:00 PM - 08:30 PM
Marcum Room 186 Welcome & Plenary Session -
Chair: Michael Bachem
Friday Nov 09
08:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Marcum Conference Center Lobby Check-In/Registration -
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Marcum Room 112 Session I-A - Italian Romanticism
Chair: Sante Matteo
The Construction of Female Characters in Alessandro
Manzoni's Tragedies
federica deigan, brunori (University
of Pennsylvania)
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Marcum Room 180 Session I-B - Keats
Chair: Lloyd Davies
Non-Mastery and the "Unpoetical" in Keats's
Hyperions
Amanda Bradley (Washington University)
The Ventriloquized Self in Keats and Chatterton
Beth Lau (CSU, Long Beach)
Keats and the Invention of Masculinity
Caroline Wiebe (Tulane University)
Romantic Imperialism and the Hegelian March of History
in Keats's "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer"
Ray Fleming (Florida State University)
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Marcum Room 186 Session I-C - Women Romantics
Chair: Karen Karbiener
Inventing the "Poétesse": New Approaches
to French Women Romantic Poets
Aimée Boutin (Florida State University)
(Re)constructing Barbauld: The Politics and Poetics of
"Failure" in Eighteen Hundred and Eleven
Courtney Wennerstrom (University of Colorado
at Boulder)
Inventing the Individual in Mary Tighe's Lyric Poetry
Harriet Linkin (New Mexico State University)
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Marcum - Room 124 Session I-D - Goethe
Chair: Jocelyne Kolb
Goethe's Model of Individuation
(Robert) Ellis Dye (Macalester College)
Romantic Subjectivity in Goethe's Werther
Richard Eldridge (Swarthmore College)
Subjectivity and the Living Landscape: Goethe, Shelley
William Davis (Colorado College)
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Marcum Room 112 Session II-A - Charlotte Smith
Chair: William Brewer
Sublime Marketing: Charlotte Smith and the Limits of
Individualism
Daniella Mallinick (University of Texas)
Female Subjectivity in Charlotte Smith's -Emmeline-
Maxwell Wheeler (Florida State University)
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Marcum Room 180 Session II-B - French Romanticism
Chair: Scott Hallam
Constructing the Individual: Theodore Gericault's Portraits
of the Insane"
Brett Van Hoesen (University of Iowa)
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Marcum Room 186 Session II-C - Romantic Reconstruction
Chair: Samantha Webb
Romantic Imagining
Jennifer Jones (UC Santa Barbara)
Inventing An Individuality Under the Guise of the Common
Good: Flora Tristan's Identity Crisis
Jennifer Law (Florida State University)
The Role of Individualism in British Romantic Abolition
Literature
Marjean Purinton (Texas Tech)
Michelangelo, Dante, and the Construction of Romantic Genius
Aida Audeh (University of Iowa)
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Marcum Room 124 Session II-D - German Romanticism
Chair: Christopher Clason
Pulling Oneself Together: Mourning and Error Hoelderlin's
"Mnemosyne"
Brian McGrath (Emory University)
Expressive Acts: Individual identity and Language in Novalis'
Allgemeine Brouillon (General Outline)
Catherine Grimm (Wabash College)
Hoelderlin's Mythology of Ideas: A Translation and Interpretation
of Hoelderlin's Fragment 'On Religion'
Nathan Ross (DePaul University)
12:15 PM - 01:45 PM
Marcum Room 158 Lunch Buffet -
01:45 PM - 03:15 PM
Marcum Room 112 Session III-A - ETA Hoffmann
Chair: Richard Eldridge
Deflective Affinities:Inventing the Individual in E.
T. A. Hoffmann's Kater Murr
Christopher Clason (Oakland University)
Beyond idée fixe and Freud: An Empathic Reading
of ETA Hoffmann's "The Sandman"
Gabriele Dillmann (Denison University)
01:45 PM - 03:15 PM
Marcum Room 180 Session III-B - Wordsworth
Chair: Scott Hess
The Vagrant Father in Wordsworth's Early Poetry
Dan Ferguson (Texas Tech University)
Not with these began our song,/ And not with these our
song must end": Wordsworth and Pound Creating the Poetic
Self
David N. Wright (McGill University)
01:45 PM - 03:15 PM
Marcum Room 186 Session III-C - Mary Robinson
Chair: Aimée Boutin
Masculine Form, Feminine (Dis)Content: Sexual Politics
in Mary Robinson's 'Legitimate Sonnets'
James Harris (University of South Carolina)
Slavery and the Gothic in Mary Robinson's "The Negro
Girl"
Mary Husemann (South Carolina University)
Subverting Individuality: Mary Robinson and Polygraphs"
William Brewer (Appalachian State University)
01:45 PM - 03:15 PM
Marcum Room 124 Session III-D - Romantic Individualism
Chair: Jennifer Law
Inventing the Scottish Individual: Sympathy and Community
in the Blackwood's Circle"
Charles Snodgrass (Xavier University)
Inventing the Gothic Individual: Revolution, Secularization
and Suffering
Diane Long Hoeveler (Marquette University)
Out in Left Field: Archibald Lampman, the Politics of Nature,
and the Individual in Nineteenth-Century Canada
Joel Baetz (York University)
03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Marcum Room 112 Session IV-A - Jane Austen and Emily Brönte
Chair: Harriet Linkin
Individualism and Gender Relations in Austen's Emma
and Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
Cynthia Cavanaugh (Kean University)
Up from Nothing: Individualism in Austen's "Mansfield
Park"
Rodney Farnsworth (Indiana University-Purdue
University Fort Wayne)
Reading Heathcliff
Larry Peer (Brigham Young University)
03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Marcum Room 180 Session IV-B - Romanticisms
Chair: Catherine Grimm
Milton's Satan and Dacre's Zofloya: Orientalist Camp
Jeffrey Cass (Texas A & M Int'l University)
Inventing the Evil Chechen
Margaret Ziolkowski (Miami University)
Russia's Romantic Culture of Xalat (Dressing Gown): (Ad)dressing
Romantic Identity in the Poetry of AlePetr Viazemskii
Stephanie Merkel (Ohio Wesleyan University)
03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Marcum Room 186 Session IV-C - Godwin and DeQuincey
Chair: Daniel Foster
Confessional "Self-Othering" in DeQuincey
and Rousseau
Brian Burns (Michigan State University)
Effacements and Aggrandizements :Autobiographical Strategies
in 'Caleb Williams'"
Dan Kline (Ohio State University)
03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Marcum Room 124 Session IV-D - Byron
Chair: Laura George
Mrs. Baillie's testicles: Byron's reading of De Monfort
Ann Hawkins (Austin Peay State University)
The gloomy vanity of 'drawing from self': Byron and Romantic
Self-Fashioning
Jay Ward (Thiel College)
07:00 PM - 09:00 PM
Marcum Room 158 Banquet, Presidential Welcome and Remarks
-
Chair: Michael Bachem
Saturday Nov 10
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Marcum Room 112 Session V-A - Romanticisms
Graetz, Treitschke, and Romanticism: The Debate on Anti-Semitism
robert southard (Earlham College)
Politics and Perspectives: Subjectivity and Alienation
in Selected Poems of Carolina Coronado and José de Espronceda.
Thomas Regele (University of Oregon)
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Marcum Room 180 Session V-B - Women Romantics
Chair: Samantha Webb
Men Stand Alone and Women Stand Together
Ingrid Martinez-Rico (Florida Gulf Coast
University)
Where the Boys are: Hemans, Howitt, and the American Literary
Marketplace
Karen Karbiener (Columbia University)
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Marcum Room 186 Session V-C - Wordsworth
Chair: Rodney Farnsworth
Individual Transcendence or Romantic Thin Air?: The
Uplifting Conclusions of Wordsworth's PRELUDE a
Eugene Stelzig (SUNY Geneseo)
I speak of one from many singled out":Individuation,
Singularity and Agrammaticality in Wordsworth
Joshua Wilner (CCNY/GradCtr.-CUNY)
Wordsworth's Theory of Sympathy and the Age of Napoleon:
Restraining Arbitrary Authority
Rick Incorvati (University of North Carolina)
09:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Marcum Room 124 Session V-D - Queer Romanticism
Chair: G. Todd Davis
Queer Identification: The Diaries of Anne Lister
Geraldine Friedman (Purdue University)
Sexualising the Individual: A Queer Reading of Austen's
Frank Churchill and Heckerling's Clueless
Michael Eberle-Sinatra (Montréal)
(In)visible Homosexuality? Estébanez Calderón
and 'los llamados atrás'
mehl penrose (Miami University)
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Marcum Computer Room Romantic Technology: Using the Romantic
Circles MOO: A Demonstration - Laura Mandell, Michael Eberle-Sinatra,
Ron Brogio
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Marcum Room 112 Session VI-A - Coleridge
Chair: John Rieder
Freeing The Slaves Of The Ancient Mariner: Coleridge
As A Political Crusader
Christopher Jones (Miami University)
Imagining Himself: Autobiography and Authorship in Coleridge's
"Biographia Literaria"
Ken A. Bugajski (Texas A&M University)
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Marcum Room 180 Session VI-B - Romantic Music
Chair: Juilee Decker
Escaping the Individual: A Noumenal Journey in Franz
Schubert's Winterreise
Daniel Foster (University of Chicago)
Schelling and Beethoven: The Birth of the Individual Out
of the Spirit of Music
Robin James (DePaul University)
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Marcum Room 186 Session VI-C - Keats
Chair: Caroline Wiebe-Kimberly
Feasting Philosophers/Unruly Guests: Indulgence and
Self-Consumption in Kant's "Anthropology"
Peter Melville (McMaster University)
The Auditor in Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale'; or,
Why Am I Sitting in the Dark Listening to this Bird?
Samantha Webb (University of Montevallo)
10:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Marcum Room 124 Session VI-D - Romantic Sketches
Chair: Daniella Mallinick
Hazlitt's The LIfe of Napoleon: Failed Heroes, Circulating
Images, and Mass Publicity
Daniela Garofalo (University of Maryland)
Of Slide Shows and Web Pages: Illustrating Mungo Park's
Travels, 1799-1903
kate marsters (Gannon University)
Romanticism and The Cultural (Dis)Enfranchisement of the
Individual in Wide Saragasso Sea
Safoi Babana (University. of Maryland)
12:15 PM - 01:45 PM
Marcum Room 158 Lunch Buffet -
12:30 PM - 01:30 PM
To be announced ACR Advisory Board Meeting -
01:45 PM - 03:15 PM
Marcum Room 112 Session VII-A - Romantic Imaginings
John Constable's English Landscape: Visions of the Artist
or Transcripts of Nature?
Juilee Decker (Case Western Reserve University)
Radical, Reactionary, or Rational: Adeline Mowbray and
the Dangers of Excessive Passion
Scott Hallam (Duquesne University)
Inventing the Artist: Mythology, Pop Culture & Bohemianism"
Kristin O Rourke (University of Iowa)
01:45 PM - 03:15 PM
Marcum Room 180 Session VII-B - Romantic Minds
Chair: Ingrid Martinez-Rico
Madeline's Hystera
Tamara Knowlton (Oakland University)
What could she possibly mean?": The Free Indirect
Style and the Problem of Other Minds
Terrance Riley (Bloomsburg University)
01:45 PM - 03:15 PM
Marcum Room 186 Session VII-C - Wordsworth
Chair: Isis Leslie
Like Something Fashioned in a Dream: Wordsworth, Scotland,
and the Picturesque Individual
Ryan Shirey (Washington University)
Print Culture, Wordsworth, and the Authorial Self
Scott Hess (Earlham College)
The Osorio/Borderers Volume and the Tragedy of Masculine
Individuation
Scott Simpkins (University of North Texas)
01:45 PM - 03:15 PM
Marcum Room 124 Session VII-D - Byron
Chair: Jay Ward
This Rage for Imitation": Fashioning Byron's Early
Poetic Persona
Laura George (Eastern Michigan University)
Byron's Everlasting Influence: The Modern Byronic Hero
in Andrei Bely's "Petersburg" and T. S. Eliot's
Leslie Worthington (Auburn University)
The Disarticulation of the Subject: Individuality in St.
Preux, Werther, and Childe Harold"
Lloyd Davies (Western KY University.)
03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Marcum Room 112 Session VIII-A - The Shelleys
Chair: Ann Hawkins
Dissolved into one lake of fire: Crossing the Boundary
in Shelley's 'Julian and Maddalo'
Inchol Yoo (Michigan State University)
Inventing the Mad Scientist: Victor Frankenstein and the
Figure of Genius
John Rieder (University of Hawai'I)
03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Marcum Room 180 Session VIII-B - Wordsworth and Southey
Chair: Mary Husemann
The Non-Proprietary Wordsworth and the Economy of Gift
Exchange
Todd Witte (Ohio State University)
Wordsworth's Construction of an Older Self: "The Prelude"
of 1805 and Other Early Works
Walter Minot (Gannon University)
03:30 PM - 05:00 PM
Marcum Room 186 Session VIII-C - Romantic Races
Chair: kate marsters
Transportation and the Reform of Political Narrative
Toby Benis (Saint Louis University)
The matchless race of Albion": Social Hierarchy and
British Anti-Slavery Poetry
Terry Robinson (University of Colorado
at Boulder)
Enlightened" Exotic?: Racial Identity and the Early
French Romantics
Pratima Prasad (Butler University)
05:00 PM - 06:30 PM
Free Time -
07:30 PM - 09:30 PM
Souers Hall Franz Schubert's Winterreise -
Sunday Nov 11
09:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Marcum Room 180 Executive Board Breakfast -
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Marcum Room 180 Executive Board Meeting -
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