Schedule



All panels will take place in Buttrick Hall, Room 102.

Friday, February 20

3:00-6:00—Conference check-in
6:00-8:00—Welcome dinner

Saturday, February 21

9:00-10:00
Panel I: Collaborative Intertextualities
Moderator: Jonathan Farina (Vanderbilt University)
Presenters:

  • Victoria Ford Smith (Rice): Mapping Treasure Island: Robert Louis Stevenson’s Collaborative Landscape
  • Bo Jacks (UT Austin): Deadly Duels and Scotch Hangovers: the problem of periodicity in Romantic Periodicals
  • Lisa Moody (LSU): “I see it warn’t nothing but a dictionary”: The Bible’s Diminishing Role in Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

10:10-11:20
Panel II: Material Matters
Moderator: Rachel Teukolsky (Vanderbilt University)
Presenters:

  • Sarah Sheridan (Rutgers): The Moonstone and the Object as Context
  • Ryan Fong (UC Davis): “Please Sir, May I Have Some More?”: Consuming Dickens in Contemporary Britain
  • Deborah Manion (Univ. of Iowa): Dickens’ Painterly Prowess: Lady Dedlock’s Uncanny Portrait in Bleak House
  • Dan Matlock (UC Irvine): Degeneracy, Art, and Individualism in The Picture of Dorian Gray

11:30-12:30
Panel III: Narrative and Strategic Ambiguity
Moderator: John Jordan (UC Santa Cruz)
Presenters:

  • Adam Grener (Cornell): Strangers, Neighbours, and the Ties of Coincidence in Martin Chuzzlewit
  • KatharineBeutner (UT Austin): Modal Ambiguity and the Ends of Persuasion
  • Gretchen Braun (UC Davis): “The Dread of Being Misremembered”: Retrospection in Great Expectations

12:20-1:30—Lunch

1:30-2:30
Panel IV: Subjective Economies
Moderator: Teresa Mangum (Univ. of Iowa)

  • Andrew Grace (Univ. or Oregon): Gothic Poverty in Mary Barton and “The Poor Clare”
  • Jake Jewusiak (Univ. at Buffalo): Poetics of Administration in Little Dorrit
  • Grace Wetzel (Univ. of S. Carolina): Civil Wars and the Politics of Self-Making in Lady Audley’s Secret

2:40-3:40
Panel V: Dangerous Liaisons
Moderator: Ella Dzelzainis (King’s College London)
Presenters:

  • Sophie Weeks (Rice): Corruptible Bodies: Romance and the Schoolgirl
  • Corrie Kiesel (LSU): Bluebeard in the Public Sphere: Dangerous Marriages in David Copperfield and Jane Eyre
  • Rory Moore (UC Riverside): The Mark of a Gentleman and the Will(ingness) of a Lady: Duplicity and Dickens

3:50-4:50
Panel VI: Art Forms and the Individual
Moderator: Catherine Robson (UC Davis)
Presenters:

  • John Savarese (Rutgers): From Empodocles on Etna to “The Harp-Player on Etna”: Arnold, the Excerpt, and Lyric Afterlife
  • Sarah Kersh (Vanderbilt): Drawing on the “tomb for text”: Marriage and Poetic Form in George Meredith’s Modern Love
  • Maggie Gover (UC Riverside): Seeing Separate Spheres in Tennyson's "The Lady of Shalott"

5:00-6:00
Panel VII: Disenchantments
Moderator: Carol MacKay (UT Austin)
Presenters:

  • Tim Gilmore (UC Santa Barbara): Tears of a Clown: Mourning the Loss of Fantasy in Hard Times
  • Matthew Fellion (Cornell): Education, Quotation, and Waverley’s Roynish Clown
  • Lara Rutherford (UC Santa Barbara): At the Brink of the Unutterable: Language and Vulnerable Subjectivity in Wuthering Heights

6:00-8:00—Dinner on your own

8:00-11:00—Dessert party

Sunday, February 22

10:30—Checkout from Scarritt Bennett

10:00-11:00
Farewell breakfast, with closing remarks by Tricia Lootens and Helena Michie