Rima Abunasser, University of North Texas, "‘How Lovely the Adriatique Whore’: National Identity and the Female Body in Thomas Otway's Venice Preserv'd or A Plot Discovered"

Jay Oney, Furman University, Title TBA; topic, William Burnaby, Thomas Baker, and Thomas Dilke

Andrew Tash, Wichita State University, "‘And on the Seventh Day He Rested’: A Historical Marxist Analysis of Robinson Crusoe"

Andrea Bradley, Vanderbilt University, "’Tis the voice of a woman! Where can be the danger?’: Representations of the Woman Author in the Novels of Frances Burney"

Lisa Niles, Vanderbilt University, "‘Un Vieux Celibataire’ and Blue Stocking Ladies: Re-writing Intellectuality as Domesticity in Blackwood’s Magazine"

Anne Barbeau Gardiner, John Jay College of the City University of New York, "Tom Brown was Right! Or, A Neglected Source of Dryden’s Satire"

Diana Solomon, University of California—Santa Barbara, "Provisions for Comedy: The Comic Proviso Scenes in Dryden’s Secret Love and Marriage à la Mode"

Karen Zagrodnik, Stephen F. Austin State University, "Masking and Unmasking Penelope Aubin’s The Merry Masqueraders: Or, Why Penelope Aubin is a Better Novelist than Playwright"

Vivien Beasley, University of Alberta, "Across the Ocean, Across the Channel: Voltaire's Alzire Translated and Transformed"

Christina Ionescu, University of Toronto, "The Illustrated Series of Madame de Graffigny's Lettres d'une Peruvienne"

Anja Mueller-Muth, University of Greifswald, "Picturing Aesop for Children: Revisions and Rewritings of Aesop's Fables from L'Estrange to Newberry"

Brigitte Glaser, Katholische Universität Eichstätt, "Reader Guidance on the Continent: Illustrated Editions of Eighteenth-Century English Novels"

Jeanetta L. Calhoun, University of Texas—Permian Basin, "21st Century Physics and the Representation of the Feminine in Tristram Shandy"

Kathleen "Kit" Kincade, Stephen F. Austin State University, "What a Work is Likely to Turn Out! Tristram Shandy, Todorov, and the Grammar of Writing a Life"

Robert Corbett, University of Washington, "Radical Abjection: Irony and Sentiment in Sterne's The Sentimental Journey and Godwin's Caleb Williams"

Stephen Donahue, Idaho State University, "Sentimental Constructions and Indeterminate Meanings: Thomas Jefferson and the Works of Sterne"

Virginia Hollingsworth Cope, "A Simple Story Complicated: Historicizing Inchbald’s Heiress"

Joseph Rudman, Carnegie Mellon University, "Unediting and De-Editing Defoe for Non-Traditional Authorship Attribution Studies"

Maria Cecilia Herrera Astua, California State University at Chico, "Valmont as the Seduced Libertine: Reconciling the Libertine"

Rebecca Jordan, Washburn University, "The Indomitable Charlotte Charke"

Marilyn Robitaille, Tarleton State University, "Things Women Do: A Performance of The Parson´s Wedding Revisited"

Joan Hunt, University of Toronto, "The Association of Death with Money in the Writings of Marie Jeanne Riccoboni"

Roberta C. Martin, East Carolina University, "The ‘Common Shore’: Behn’s Tub and Wilmot’s Terror"

Salita Bryant, University of Mississippi, "‘Putting my mouth in the dust’: Criminals, Visible Saints and the Search for Miraculous Conversions in Patience Boston and Joseph Moody"

Laura M. Stevens, "‘God Gave Me to Wrestle Earnestly for Others’: American Indians and Editing of Emotion in David Brainerd's and John Sergeant's Missionary Journals"

Shila Houshmand, Canada, "Diderot's Novel: The Nun"

Brett C. McInelly, Brigham Young University, "Redeeming Religion: Wesleyan and Calvinistic Methodism in Humphry Clinker"

RESPONSE: John Panagiotou, Greek Orthodox Diocese of Pittsburgh, "Religion and Eighteenth-Century Studies: Revelatory Remarks"

David Paxman, Brigham Young University, "The Fame Game: Originality and the Dynamics of Literary Notice"

Christopher Vilmer, English Department, Emory University, "Satire and Rhetoric in The Vanity of Human Wishes, or, Don't Satirists Always Make Great Whales Out of Little Fishes?"

Leslie H. Palmer, University of North Texas, and Joyce Palmer, Texas Women’s University, "By the Sea with Boswell and Johnson"

James Kim, University of Virginia, "Generic Hybridity and Gender Anxiety: Satire and Sentimentality in Tristram Shandy"

Linda Reesman, Hofstra University, "The Downfall of Domesticity and the Rise of Virtue in the Fair Sex"

Fritz Fleischmann, Babson College, "Masculinity in Charles Brockden Brown"

Kathleen Holcomb, Angelo State University, "Burns and Jacobite Song"

Charles Stewart-Robertson, University of New Brunswick, "A Thatch in Time Screens Nine: the woeful case of Mrs D and her ‘dr Burns’"

Elizabeth Ellington, Brandeis University, "Making Sense of Austen's Endings: Closure as Collaboration"

Sheila M. Hwang, University of California—Santa Barbara, "Hybrid Constructions and Conventional Forms in Northanger Abbey"

Minu Tharoor, New York University, "Domestic Versions of Colonial Vices: Moral Syntax and Sinning in Jane Austen’s Fiction"

James Tierney, "British Periodicals, 1660-1800: An Electronic Index."

James W. Mock, University of Central Oklahoma, "Humean Artistry"

Kimberly Lockwood, Cazenovia College, "Hume's True Judges, Just Evaluation, and the Possibility of Epistemic Privilege in Æsthetic Judgments"

Eva Dadlez, University of Central Oklahoma, "Merry and Tragical: Hume on the Pleasures of Tragedy"

Ken L. Buckman, Pan American University, "Hume and Rousseau on Sexuality"

David Radcliffe, Virginia Tech University, "Augustan Elizabethans: the Pastoral Revival"

Kay Gilliland Stevenson, University of Essex, "Recollections Literary and Historical: The Cleopatra Plays of Sir Charles Sedley and Colley Cibber"

Steven Gores, Northern Kentucky University, "‘The Depredations of Time’: Teaching Elizabethan History in Sophia Lee's The Recess"

Sayre Greenfield, University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, "The Bard's Best Bits: How Shakespeare's Lines Became Famous"

Barbara Benedict, Trinity of Hartford, "Sailing above Worldly Cares in the Hot Air Balloon"

Bruce Mayer, Lynchburg University, "Fénelon’s Télémaque: Discovery of Self in a Maritime Narrative Space"

Yvonne Noble, Independent Scholar, Canterbury, England, "The Hurricane of 1703 and Its Literary Aftermath (With Special Reference to the Poetry of Anne Finch)"

Frieda Koeninger, Sam Houston State University. "Ships, Shipments, and Sedition: The Commerce and Distribution of Prohibited Works in New Spain in the 1790s"

Bärbel Czennia, Universität Göttingen, "A Poetic Atmosphere: Erasmus Darwin’s Revisions of a Century of Meteorological Speculation"

Glen Colburn, Morehead State University, "Hysteria, Gender, the Rage for Order: Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister, Tom Jones, Sense and Sensibility"

Elena Olsen, University of Washington, "Excessive Authority in Lady Dorothy Bradshaigh’s Annotations to Clarissa"

"Hans Turley, University of Connecticut, TITLE TBA; topic, Robinson Crusoe and The Female American

Keith Sandiford, Louisiana State University, "The Perils of Tourism: The Monk Revisits and Revises The Tempest"

Kathryn Prince, University of Ottawa, "Ideological Differences Between the English and American Editions of Elizabeth Hanson's Captivity Narrative, 1728–1824"

Keith Fudge, Henderson State University, "No Longer Afraid to Love: The Seduction of Jane McCrea"

Dan Williams, University of Mississippi, "Confession, Conversion, and Counterfeiting: Motivation and Fabrication in Post-Revolutionary Criminal Narratives"

Hans-Ulrich Mohr, Technische Universität Dresden, "Æsthetics, Nature, and History: Barlow’s Changing Definitions of America’s Mission"

J. Karen Ray, Washburn University, "The Rovers Abroad"

Ayanna Thompson, University of New Mexico, "Does Fairie Power Exist?: Restoration Tempests"

Jan Widmayer, Boise State University, "Wycherley's Ramble in St. James's Park"

Thomas Urban, Northwest College/HCCS, "The Power of Positive Critique: Mary Wollstonecraft and Enlightened Aesthetic Education"

Nancy Ellis, Mississippi State University, "Zealous for a Voice: The Public and Private Writings of Judith Sargeant Murray"

Lesley H. Walker, Indiana University South Bend, "A Gothic Education: The Uses of Terror in the Writings of Madame de Genlis"

Glenn H. Utter, Lamar University, "The Thirst for Education: Abigail Adams and Her Sisters"

Michael Schwartz, New York University, "'What's Love Got to Do with It?': Shenstone, Hammond, and the Sense of Love Elegy"

Amy E. Harris Tan, University of Houston, "Gendered Virtue in Two Sentimental Novels: Richardson's Clarissa and Fielding's Tom Jones"

Chris Brooks, Wichita State University, "Goldsmith's 'Sensibility'/Mr.Hyde: Burchell and Thornhill"

Eugenia Zuroski, Brown University, "From Sensibility to Subjectivity: How Jane Austen Wrote Us into the Nineteenth Century"

Alex Pitofsky, Appalachian State University, "What Do You Think Laws Were Made For?: Prison Reform and the British Novel in the 1790s"

Srividhya Swaminatham, Penn State University, "Redefining Subjecthood: Proslavery Rhetoric Before and After the Somerset Decision, 1769–1775"

Megan Conway, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, "Defending the Underdog, Teaching a Moral, and Bucking the System: The Strange Case of Olympe de Gouge’s Antislavery Play"

Margo Collins, Iona College, "Violent Women in Delarivière Manley’s The Power of Love"

Bernadette Andrea, University of Texas at San Antonio "Gendering the Oriental(ist) Household in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters"

Anne Chandler, Southern Illinois University "The Alchemist in the Summerhouse: Godwin's Fractured Pastorals"

Leigh Eicke, Grand Valley State University, "Wearing a Blue Dress: Jacobite Domesticity in Fact and Fiction"

John Burke, University of Alabama. "Are Swift's Houyhnhnms Racists?"

Suzanne Poor, Seton Hall University. "Swift: Far More than a White Elephant."

Clement Hawes, Pennsylvania State University, "Soyinka's Gulliver and Swift's Enlightenment."

Todd Parker, DePaul University, "Is Houyhnhnm Sex Necessary?"

RESPONSE: Louise K. Barnett, Rutgers University

Thomas P. Scheck, University of Iowa, "The Importance of the Delarue Edition of Origen (1712)"

Raymond D. Tumbleson, Kutztown University, "The Primitive Church, the Reign of Antichrist, and Anglicanism’s ‘via media’"

John C. English, Baker University, "The Duration of the Primitive Church: An Issue for Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Anglicans"

Katherine M. Quinsey, University of Windsor, "Lodged in a Scurvy Tenement: Pope, Patristic Tradition, and the Body"

Lars Troide, McGill University, "Fanny Redivia, Or the Return of Frances Burney?"

Sarah Spence, Southeastern Louisiana University, "The Wanderer: Fanny Burney’s Novel Spans the Channel"

Pamela Washington, University of Central Oklahoma, "‘As We Write for the Many’: Facts and Evidence in Judith Sargent Murray’s Observations on Female Abilities"

Peter Pawlowicz, East Tennessee State University, "The Submerged Eighteenth Century: Opinion and Association in Enlightenment Art"

Pam Lieske, Kent State University—Trumbull, "Female Anatomical Waxes in Polite and Popular Culture"

Linda Troost, Washington and Jefferson College, "The Fall of the Bastille and the 1789 London Theater Season"

Tim Crain, Florida State University, "‘If it won’t interrupt you, I’ll entertain you with a Song’: A Musical Analysis of Congreve’s Songs in Love for Love"

Michael F. Patton, Jr., University of Montevallo, "Perceptions and Dimensionality: Hume's Metaphysics of Externality"

William L. Vanderburgh, Wichita State University, "Of Miracles: Hume’s ‘Abject Failure’ Reconsidered"

Arthur F. Stewart, Lamar University, "David Hume Redivivus: Charles Sanders Peirce"

Darian DeBolt, University of Central Oklahoma, "Hume on Popular Sovereignty"

Rebecca Sayers Hanson, University of North Texas, "Subversive Penetration and Ingestion: Haywood’s Sexed Violence"

Christine Blouch, Bradley College, "Breaking News: London Newspapers and The Parrot in 1746"

Amy Earl, University of Texas—Austin, "Gendering the Text: Counter-Narratives of the Female Body in Defoe and Haywood"

Chad Thomas, University of North Texas, "Negotiating the Interregnum: The Political Works of William Davenant and John Tatham."

Elaine Anderson Phillips, Tennessee State University, "Richardson Reads the Renaissance: The Use of Renaissance Narrative Theory in the Novels and Prefaces"

Jennifer Newton, Baylor University, "‘The Best Monument’: The 1722 Poems on Several Occasions as Pope's Elegy to Thomas Parnell"

Irving Rothman, University of Houston, "Richard Baxter and Theological Foregrounding for Defoe's Family Instructor"

Karen Kornweibel, Stephen F. Austin University, "Conflicting Colonialism(s) in The Mission"

Ernelle Fife, State University of New York—New Paltz, "Filming Austen: Re-Creating Eighteenth-Century Sensibilities"

Katherine Arens, University of Texas—Austin, "Castrati and the Masquerade of the Eighteenth Century: Farinelli and Sitwell"

Gloria Eive, St. Mary’s College of California, "Music, Musicians, and sub-rosa protest in the Vatican State"

Philip Dow, St. Mary’s College of California, "The Politics and Literature of Ugo Foscolo"