TITLE: Approaches to Overlooked Texts I

CHAIR: Colby Kullman, University of Mississippi

PANELISTS:

1. Elizabeth McIngvale, Rhodes College, "The Reformed Duke Vincentio of D’Avenant’s The Law Against Lovers"
2. Mimi Gladstein, University of Texas at El Paso, "Aphra Behn’s Anachronistic Constructions of Gender:
3. Steven Price, Mississippi College, "Edward Bysshe’s Art of English Poetry (1702) and Samuel Richardson’s Manipulation of ‘the Most Natural, Agreeable, and Sublime Thoughts’"
4. Stephen A. Raynie, Louisiana State University, "Francis Hayman’s Visual Commentary on Women’s Issues in Moore and Brooke’s Fables for the Female Sex"

ROOM 404:

TITLE: The "Other" in the Religions of the Eighteenth Century

CHAIR: Dr. Irving N. Rothman, University of Houston, Houston TX

PANELISTS:

1. Prof. Dr. Fritz-Wilhelm Neumann, Erfurt University/Erfurt College, "Ned Ward’s Polemic Against Dissent"
2. Dr. Kathryn Duncan, Henderson State University, "The Ax Laid to Root: ‘Ridding the Church of the Malignancy of Methodism’"
3. Dr. Frieda Koeninger, Sam Houston State University, "The ‘Other’ Brother: The Persecution of Friars within ‘the Church’ in Late 18^th Century Mexico"
4. Dr. Jose E. Santos, Rhodes College, "The ‘Other’ within Catholicism and the Spanish Englightenment"

TITLE: British Women Dramatists 1677 – 1850

CHAIR: LuAnn Venden Herrell, Walla Walla College

PANELISTS:

1. Mary Sue Ply, Southeastern Louisiana University, "Mary Pix’s Ibrahim as an Oriental Tale"
2. Margo E. Collins, Iona College, "’Revenge is God like all, and shows command’: Authority and Violence in the Plays of Mary Pix"
3. Julie Aipperspach Anderson, Texas A&M University, "The Pen Shou’d Know No Distinction: Gender, Nationality, and Nature in the Paratexts of Delariver Manley’s Plays"

TITLE: "The Eighteenth Century On Line"

PRESENTER: Susan Spencer, University of Central Oklahoma

ROOM 409:

TITLE: "Slouching towards Wordsworth: Non-Classical Attitudes in the Late Eighteenth Century"

CHAIR: Kathleen Holcomb, Angelo State University

PANELISTS:

1. Charles Stewart-Robertson, University of New Brunswick at Saint John, "The Quieter Revolution: ancient solitudes and inner discourses"
2. James Kilfoyle, Southwestern University, "Revolution in Taste, or Some Cold Sheep’s Head for Breakfast"
3. Kevin Cope, Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, "Slouching Toward Cherry Trees: The Romantic George Washington"

Friday, March 2, 2001:

ROOM 402:

TITLE: Approaches to Overlooked Texts II

CHAIR: Colby Kullman, University of Mississippi

PANELISTS:

1. Rebecca Jordan, Washburn University, "The Peripatetic Celia Finnes"
2. Karen V. Zagrodnik, Stephen F. Ausen State University, "A Journey to the Beginning: Early Eighteenth-Century Travel Narratives and the Origins of the English Novel"
3. Deborah Needleman Armintor, Rice University, "’Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophy Explained for the Use of Ladies’: An Early Instance of Feminist Milton Criticism"
4. James G. Buickerood, Washington University, "Self as Consciousness, Self as Sui Generis: John Locke and Charles Mein on the Nature of Selves"

TITLE: "Perspectives on the Industrial Revolution"

CHAIR: Irving Rothman, University of Houston

PANELISTS:

1. Dr. Will Rogers, Austin TX, "The Privatization of Virtue: The Jacobin Novel of the Middle-Class Notion of Virtue in Late Eighteenth-Century England"
2. Irving Rothman, University of Houston, "Inheriting the 18^th-Century Shop: Family Conflicts in The Family Instructor"
3. Tami Slankard, University of Tulsa, "'Strange Fits of Passion Have I Known': Revisiting the Wollstonecraft Debate in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein"

ROOM 405:

TITLE: The London Theatre World

CHAIR: Rima Abunassar, University of North Texas

PANELISTS:

1. Paul McCallum, Pittsburg State University, "’Tis your business to be couz’ned here: Prologues, Epilogues, and Poetic Authority In Restoration England"
2. LuAnn Venden Herrell, Walla Walla College, "Theatre Revolution: The Patentees vs. the Rival Company"
3. Jay Oney, Furman University, "Politics, Patronage, and Publication: How Susanna Centlivre Earned a Living Writing Plays"

ROOM 407:

TITLE: Genres Undone: Formal Innovations in 18^th Century British Fiction, Autobiography and Performance

CHAIR: Margaret George, City University of New York Graduate Center

PANELISTS:

1. Melissa Bloom, City University of New York Graduate Center, "’Dying Half a Maid’: The Political, the Sensational, and the Grub Street Opera"
2. Margaret George, City University of New York Graduate Center, "Secrets and Lies: Mary Hay’s Emma Courtney and the Discourse of Sexual Sincerity"
3. Elizabeth Hollow, City University of New York Graduate Center, "’Yet Must I Resolve Again’: Chronic Writing and Serial Suffering in Boswell and Johnson"
4. Jennifer Gentry, University of Maryland College Park, "Jane Austen as a Political Novelist"

ROOM 409:

TITLE: Moral Economics: The Unstable Union of Finance and Faith in Eighteenth-Century Britain

CHAIR: Michael Berglund, University of Tulsa

PANELISTS:

1. Rosary Fazende, University of Tulsa, "’Advertising the Perfect Wife’: Conduct Manuels and the Marriage Market in Eighteenth-Century Britain"
2. Althea Tait, University of Tulsa, "My Own Mistress or Death"
3. Matthew Perry, University of Tulsa, "Morality, Power, and Prestige in Tom Jones"
4. Olivia C. Martin, University of Tulsa, "Pious Capital: Morals and the Middle Class In Moll Flanders and Clarissa"

Friday, March 2, 2001:

ROOM 402:

TITLE: Captivity, Liberty, and Self Promotion in Early American Print Culture

CHAIR: Dan Williams, University of Mississippi

PANELISTS:

1. Salita Bryant, University of Mississippi, "Good for the Soul: Confessions in Criminal Narratives"
2. Christina Riley Brown, University of Mississippi, "To Redeem the Enslaved, And Shiver in Pieces the Rod of Oppression: Struggles for Liberty in James Riley’s Authentic Narratives"
3. Dan Williams, University of Mississippi, "Where Liberty Dwells, There is My Country: The Narratives of Three American Sailors Impressed into British Men-of-War"

TITLE: "ENVISIONING BLAKE: Interconnections of Blake’s Prophetic Voice"

CHAIR: Joann Allen, University of Tulsa

PANELISTS:

1. Ben Robertson, University of Tulsa, "William Blake’s Sublime, Sexy, Serpentine Lines; or Just How Do We Read This Stuff?"
2. Michael Berglund, University of Tulsa, "Bodies in Conflict: The Slippery Hermaphrodite in Blake’s Milton"
3. Joann Furlow Allen, University of Tulsa, "A Voice that Cried Alone in the Wilderness: Blake as True Visionary in the Time of the False Prophets, Fin de Siecle 1790’s"
4. Jeffrey Longacre, University of Tulsa, "An Embryology of Form: Blake, Birth and the Labor of Creation"

ROOM 407:

TITLE: "The Fruits of the Noel Foundation Fellowships: A Panel Discussion"

CHAIR: Robert C. Leitz III, Louisiana State University in Shreveport

PANELISTS:

1. Kathryn Duncan, Henderson State University
2. Alexander Pettit, University of North Texas
3. Stephen Raynie, Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge

Friday, March 2, 2001:

3:30pm – 5:00pm

TITLE: New Directions in Early American Print Culture

CHAIR: Christina Riley Brown, University of Mississippi

PANELISTS:

1. Cheryl Hall, University of Mississippi, "The Citizen is the State: The Use of Personal Narratives in Nation Building"
2. Dixon Bynum, University of Mississippi, "Discovery and Loss in Early American Mississippi River Narratives"
3. Frank Ridgeway, University of Mississippi, "William Bartram and the Development of Utopian Thought"

ROOM 404:

TITLE: Colloquium with Daniel Garber

• Sponsored by the Philosophy Department of the University of Arkansas

ROOM 405:

TITLE: "Enlightened Religion"

CHAIR: Kevin Dodson, Lamar University

PANELISTS:

1. Kenneth Buckman, University of Texas-Pan American, "Hume’s Fideism"
2. Michael Matthis, Lamar University, "Kant and the Possibility of God"
3. Kevin Dodson, Lamar University, "Moral Faith and Religious Pluralism"
4. Richard Owsley, University of North Texas, "Immanuel Kant and Rudolf Otto: Noumenon and Numinous"

TITLE: "Revolutions in Print Culture: The Popular Press and Innovations in Book Publishing"

CHAIR: Kathryn Duncan, Henderson State University

PANELISTS:

1. Daniel Gonzalez, Louisiana State University, "Abandoned to Dissipation: The Criminal Biography and the Culture of Crime"
2. Sean C. Goodlett, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, "The Many Deaths of Rousseau, 1776-1778"
3. Grant Campbell, University of Western Ontario, "Global-Local Processing and Print Culture in the Eighteenth Century"

Saturday, March 3, 2001:

TITLE: "Heroic Figures, Great Leaders, and Other Examples of Dynamic Individuality or Personal Ambition, from Charles Stuart and Louis Bourbon to George Washington and Frederick II, in Literature and Art as well as in Politics"

CHAIR: Kevin Cope, Louisiana State University

PANELISTS:

1. Michael Schwartz, New York University, "How Goldsmith ‘Trace (s Truths) through the Prospect as it Lies’ with an Addisonian Eye, and Why He Does So Repeatedly"
2. Gail Shivel, University of Miami, "The Invention of Journalistic Criticism: Joseph Addison’s Periodicals"
3. Megan Conway, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, "Rockets in her Head: The Dynamic Singularity of Olympe de Gouges"
4. Suzanne Poor, Seton Hall University, "The Revolutionary Role of Venus, Athena, and other Goddesses in Swift’s ‘Cadenus and Venessa’"
5. Barbara Anderman, Rutgers University, "Greuze's Academy Reception of 1769 and the Case for Genre Painting"

ROOM 404:

TITLE: British Comedy

CHAIR: Jacqueline Vanhoutte, University of North Texas

PANELISTS:

1. Marjorie Hayes, University of North Texas, "The Performance of Language in the Country Wife"
2. Denara Hill, University of North Texas, "Resisting Construction: The Changing Woman in the Restoration Comedies of Etherege and Behn"
3. Debra Leissner, Louisiana Tech, "MacHeath Tamed: Alliance and Filiation in Gay’s The Beggar’s Opera"

ROOM 405:

TITLE: Eliza Haywood

CHAIR: Becky Hanson, University of North Texas

PANELISTS:

1. Anna Patchias, University of Virginia, "Eliza Haywood’s Conduct Literature: Betsy Thoughtless Meets The Wife"
2. Kathryn R. King, University of Montevallo, "Eliza Unplugged"
3. Margaret Case Croskery, Ohio Northern University, "Author-izing Dunces: Eliza Haywood’s A Spy upon the Conjuror"
4. Alex Pettit, University of North Texas, "Uncooked Meat and Other Mixed Messages"

ROOM 407:

TITLE: "Engendering the Empire: Agency, Gender, and Society in 18^th Century (Con)texts"

CHAIR: Olivia Martin, University of Tulsa

PANELISTS:

1. Kara Ryan-Johnson, University of Tulsa, "Trouser-Clad Women Waving Guns: Or, Maria Edgeworth Decolonizes the Novel"
2. Marilyn Dallman Seymour, University of Tulsa, "Arabella’s Narrow Escape: Reading and Madness in The Female Quixote"
3. Lisa Wellinghoff, University of Tulsa, "Breaking the Silence: Agency and Autonomy in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s ‘Wednesday: The Tete a Tete’"
4. Allen Bauman, University of Tulsa, "Professional Men, Professing Men: Masculinity and Profession in Mansfield Park"

ROOM 409:

TITLE: "It is a Truth Universally Acknowledged": Perspectives, Lenses, and Filters in (and used on) Jane Austen’s Novels

CHAIR: Kit Kincade, Stephen F. Austen University

PANELISTS:

1. Sue Parrill, Southeastern Louisiana University, "Through a Glass Darkly: Slavery in the Film Mansfield Park"
2. Ernelle Fife, State University of New York at New Paltz, "Filming Jane Austen’s Ironic Narrator"
3. Stephanie Oppenheim, City University of New York Graduate Center, " ‘Just Nothing at All’: Emma’s Spinster Narrative"
4. Sonia Kane, City University of New York Graduate Center, "Suppressed Sorrow and Contagious Feelings: Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and Brunton’s Self-Control"

Saturday, March 3, 2001:

ROOM 402:

TITLE: "Unfamiliar Enticing Habitats: Representations and Evaluations of Expectations and Experiences in the Air, Under the Sea, Out in Space, or Anywhere other than on Campus"

CHAIR: Kevin Cope, Louisiana State University

PANELISTS:

1. Roseanne Carrara, University of Toronto, "Resigned to the Tyranny of the Climate: John Gay’s Trivia"
2. Patrick Brady, University of Tennessee, "Rococo at the Millennium: The Present State of Studies"
3. Shannon McCabe, University of New Mexico, "All the News That’s (Not) Fit to Print: Alexander Exquemelin, William Dampier, and the Buccaneer Narrative"
4. Peter H. Pawlowicz, East Tennessee State University, "Erotic Architecture and the Urban Pastoral"

ROOM 404:

TITLE: British Comedy II

CHAIR: Jacqueline Vanhoutte, University of North Texas

PANELISTS:

1. Becky Hanson, University of North Texas, "Educating away Agency: The Shift from Empowering Informal Education to Stifling Formal Education in Epicoene, The Country Wife, and The Rivals"
2. Elizabeth Martinez, University of North Texas, "Non-Negotiable Funds?: Reconfiguring Gender in The Roaring Girl and The Way of the World"
3. Karen Ray, "The Multicultural Mosaic of Aphra Behn’s Continental Comedies"

ROOM 405:

TITLE: "Superstition in the Age of Reason: How ‘Reasonable’ Were the Georgians?"

CHAIR: Christopher Brooks, Wichita State University

PANELISTS:

1. Philippe Seminet, Texas A&M University, "A Microcosm of the Sadean Universe"
2. William Buchhorn, Wichita State University, " ‘From Reverie to Rest’: Reason and Superstition in Swift’s Day of Judgment"
3. Christopher Brooks, Wichita State University, "Things Indifferent: How Reasonable Was the Age of Reason?"

ROOM 407:

TITLE: Editing the Eighteenth Century

CHAIR: Jim S. Borck, Louisiana State University

PANELISTS:

1. Jim S. Borck, Louisiana State University, "Editing the Eighteenth Century"
2. James G. Buickerood, Washington University, "An Argument for Editorial Intrusion in an Otherwise Unproblematic Clear Text Annotated Edition of an Obscure Eighteenth-Century Philosophical Work; or, Why Charles Mein’s Two Dissertations Concerning Sense, and the Imagination; with an Essay on Consciousness (1728) Requires Organizational Intervention"
3. Kathleen Kincade, Stephen F. Austen State University, "Apparitions in Defoe’s History of Apparitions"
4. Frieda Koeninger, Sam Houston State University, "The Mexican Inquisition and the French Revolution: Where are the Archives?"
5. Dr. Karen V. Zagrodnik, Stephen F. Austen State University, "Editing Penelope Aubin and ‘The Life of Charlotta du Pont"

TITLE: Anne Finch and the Voice of the Woman Poet

CHAIR: Mary Sue Ply, Southeastern Louisiana University

PANELISTS:

1. Joyce Cornette Palmer, Texas Women’s University, "Anne Finch Surveys Womankind"
2. Aimee Jenkins, Southeastern Louisiana University, " ‘Reverie’ According to Anne Finch and Joanna Baillie"
3. Amy Clifton, Southeastern Louisiana University, "Reading Lessons: Anne Finch’s Fables in Miscellany Poems"
4. Mark Wildermuth, University of Texas-Permian Basin, "Emergent Order and Voice in the Chaotic Matrix of Anne Finch’s Poetics"