SCSECS Program - Tulsa, Oklahoma

Session I: 9:00 – 10:30 a.m.

1. Race, Authority, and Identity, from Oroonoko to Equiano
Chair: Seung-a Ji, University of Tulsa

Daniel Moore, Jacksonville State University, "Aphra Behn's Oroonoko"
Srividhya Swaminathan, Long Island University, “The ‘Other’ Briton: Inventing National Identity from the Margins”
Althea Tait, Towson University, "Readings from Aphra Behn to Equiano: The Struggle for African Narrative Authenticity"

2. Belief and Disbelief
Chair: Laura McClain, University of Tulsa

David Mazella, University of Houston, "Making the Public, or Making the Public More Cynical?"
Brett McInelly, Brigham Young University, "Method or Madness? Methodist Devotion and the Anti-Methodist Response"

Panel #3 has been cancelled.

4. Approaches to Overlooked Texts, I
Chair: Colby Kullman, University of Mississippi

Elizabeth Bennett, University of North Texas, "The Politics of Virtue: Reconsidering Elizabeth Montagu’s Essays in Lord Lyttleton’s Dialogues of the Dead"
Martha Lawler, James Smith Noel Collection, "Educating William: An Eighteenth-Century Perspective of Personal Reading, Interpretation, and Application"
Gloria Eive, St. Mary's College of California, "Archives, Tax Records, and Account Books—Chasing Hidden Treasures"

5. Hume and Meaning
Co-chairs: Eva M. Dadlez and James W. Mock, University of Central Oklahoma

Michael F. Patton, Jr., University of Montevallo, "Hume and the Limits of Explanation"
Mark Silcox, University of Central Oklahoma, "Was Hume an Expressivist?"
James W. Mock, University of Central Oklahoma, "The Artful Hume"

6. Playboys of the Restoration and their Feminine Counterparts
Chair: Sayanti Ganguly, Oklahoma State University

Jennifer Lynn Marie Szwec, Carleton University, "’Breeching’ Sex: The Cross-Dressed Heroine’s Quest for Sexual Autonomy in the Comedies of Aphra Behn"
Lila Miranda Graves, University of Alabama at Birmingham, "’My Business Ashore’: Libertine Conduct and Maritime Context in Aphra Behn’s The Rover"
Sayanti Ganguly, Oklahoma State University, "The British and the Bengali: Restoration Rakes and Their Colonized Successors"

7. Music, Drama, Art, and Literature--Parts of a Whole in Eighteenth-Century Thought, I
Chair: Gloria Eive, St. Mary's College of California

Jim McGlathery, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana: "Seducer and Seduced in Mozart's ‘Don Giovanni.’"
Kelly Malone, Sewanee: The University of the South: "Baffled Knights and Clever Maids: Gender, Class, and Conflict in English Chapbooks and Ballads"
Gloria Eive, St. Mary’s College of California, “Goldoni, Galuppi, and ‘Dramma Giocoso’: Musical illusions of innocence”

8. A Special Seminar on Work in Progress:
Kevin L. Cope, Louisiana State University, "Now Appearing (or Disappearing) in the Long Eighteenth Century:  How Ulloa’s Iris and Similar Flashes of Brilliance Define ‘The Period.’"
Panel Chair: Richard Frohock, Oklahoma State University

Respondents:
Theodore E.D. Braun, Professor Emeritus of French and Comparative Literature, University of Delaware
Dale Katherine Ireland, Las Positas College

4:30 p.m. buses pick up at Crowne Plaza hotel, 2nd street entrance in lower lobby
5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Reception at McFarlin Library Faculty Study
      Special Collections Exhibit: “’Each Work of Wit’: Reading and Writing in the Long Eighteenth Century”
7:00 p.m. Concert by Trio Tulsa in Tyrell Hall
8:00 or 8:30 buses will return conference participants to hotel

9. Satire, Intertextuality, and Theory:
Chair: Diana Solomon, Duke University

C. Earl Ramsay, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, "’Like…as One Egg to Another’: Montaigne in Pope’s Imitations of Horace"
Lynda Davis, Texas Woman’s University, "Dethroning the Enlightened Man: A Grotesque Analysis of Swift’s ‘The Lady’s Dressing Room’"
Paul McCallum, Pittsburg State University, "Pope, Waugh, and the Problem of Modernist Satire"

10. From Ancient to Modern: Neoclassical Intersections
Chair: Susan Spencer, University of Central Oklahoma

Jerome Brillaud, Indiana University, "Of Monsters and Sacrificial Bulls: Marmontel and Greek Theater"
Masano Yamashita, New York University, "Rousseau and Plutarch: The Writer’s Ethos"
Gordon Appleton, University of Tulsa, "The Rhetoric of Thomas Paine’s Common Sense"

11. Panel: Women Writing Women
Chair: Margo Collins, Jacksonville State University

Martha F. Bowden, Kennesaw State University, "Women Writing: Aubin and the Critics"
Grace Waitman, Washington University, “All You Need is (Self-)Love: (Re-)Reading Sentimental Novels through Sympathy and Ambition in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Maria”
Rebecca Hanson, University of North Texas, "Aphra Behn's Writing Women"
Elson Bond, Shorter College, "The Trans-Atlantic Novel"

12. Importing and Exporting National Identity
Chair: Eugenia Zuroski, University of Arkansas

Natalie Bayer, Rice University, "‘Assert our Noble Cause’: Foreign and Russian Interactions in Russian Masonic Lodges in the Eighteenth Century"
Elizabeth Thompson, University of Tulsa, "The Rise of the Indian Princess: Intermarriage Fantasies in Early America"
Jason Solinger, The Citadel, "India and the Return Home in Guy Mannering"
Amanda Hines, John Brown University, “Tea and Sympathy: Shifting English Identities in the 18th Century”

13. Hume: Comparisons and Influences
Co-chairs: Eva M. Dadlez and James W. Mock, University of Central Oklahoma

Eva M. Dadlez, University of Central Oklahoma, "Pride in the Philosophy of David Hume and the Literature of Jane Austen"
Max Hammond, University of Chicago, From Edinburgh to Königsberg: Kant’s and Hamann’s Reception of Hume
Erin Makulski Sandler, University of Houston, "Navigating Britishness: The Responses of Hume and Macpherson"

14. Approaches to Overlooked Texts, II
Chair: Colby Kullman, University of Mississippi: 

Joyce Cornette Palmer , Texas Women’s University, "From Earth to Heaven: Music in Selected Poems of Anne Finch, Countess of Winchelsea"
Connie and Jim Thorson, University of New Mexico, "’Inquiring Minds Want to Know’: Narcissus Luttrell’s Collection of Uncensored Newsletters from the Popish Plot Era"
Louise Barnett, Rutgers University, "Patrick Delany and Jonathan Swift: A Friendship in Poetry"

15. The Gothic, I
Chairs: Franz Potter, National University, and James D. Jenkins, University of Chicago

Elin Dowdican, Independent Scholar, "Wollstonecraft's Gothic: A Revolution in Genre"
Ya-feng Wu, National Taiwan University, "Chiaroscuro of Bodies: An Affective Reading of The Monk"
James D. Jenkins, University of Chicago, "’No author more Gothic, more Romantic’: Rediscovering the Life and Works of T. J. Horsley Curties"

16. Deciphering Goethe: Revolutionary Optics, the Kabbalah, and the Eternal Feminine.
Chair: Heather I. Sullivan, Trinity University

Heather I. Sullivan, Trinity University, "The Revolution of Colors: Goethe's Conversations of German Refugees as a Call to Overthrow Newton's Optics"
Karin Schutjer, University of Oklahoma, "Kabbalah and Creation in Goethe"
James van der Laan, Illinois State University, "Goethe's Enigmatic Eternal Feminine"

17. Novels and Novelists in the Latter Eighteenth Century
Chair: Kit Kincade, Indiana State University

Leah Higgins, Indiana State University, "Curiosity and Coincidence in Ann Radcliffe's A Sicilian Romance"
Garaly Anderson, Indiana State University, "Cleland and his Novels"
Rachelle Wedding McClelland, Indiana State University, "Walpole's Women"
Sara Davis, Indiana State University, "Imaginary Realities in M.G. Lewis's The Monk"

Plenary Panel, 1:00 – 2:15 p.m.
Women Authors and Gender Study: Past, Present, and Future, Promenade Ballroom C
Chair: Laura M. Stevens, University of Tulsa

Speakers:
Susan Staves, Professor Emeritus, Brandeis University
Maram Epstein, University of Oregon
Carla Mulford, Pennsylvania State University

18. Gender and the Novel:
Chair: Brett McInelly, Brigham Young University

Sarah Moersch, Jacksonville State University, "The Ravaging Effects of Identity Crisis and Gender Reversal in Delarivier Manley's The Wife's Resentment"
Margo Collins, Jacksonville State University, "Writing Gender in Haywood's Jenny and Jemmy Jessamy"
Rebecca Jordan, Washburn University, "Mary Robinson’s The Natural Daughter"

19. Color: In Writing, Science, and Speculation as Well as in the Arts
Chair: Kevin L. Cope, Louisiana State University

Suzanne Poor, "A Modest Proposal in Black and White: Color in Jonathan Swift"
Chad Stewart, University of Alabama at Birmingham, "Yorick’s Black Page: Laurence Sterne’s Typological and Typographical Palette"
Karin Dannehl and Nancy Cox, University of Wolverhampton (Great Britain), "Colors in Trade: The Palette of the Goods and Commodities of Early Modern England"

20. Education, Conduct, and Advice
Chair: Sheila Black, University of Tulsa

Rama Janamanchi, Oklahoma State University, "’To instruct the erring children of this generation’: Maternal Advice in Lucy Hutchinson’s Memoirs of Colonel Hutchinson"
Mary Ann Rooks, Kent State University, "Duty and Desire: Women in Kaibara Ekken’s Greater Learning for Women and Chicamatso Monzaemon’s Love Suicides at Amijima"
Sara Beam, University of Tulsa, "Institutionalized Education in Blake’s Jerusalem"

21. The Wide World of Eighteenth-Century Theatre
Chair: Rebecca Hanson, University of North Texas

Diana Solomon, Duke University, "Prologues and Epilogues to Closet Dramas"
Logan Connors, Louisiana State University, "Power with Sympathy, Sensibility, and Reason--Three images of Women in Eighteenth-Century French Theatre"
Chris Brooks, Wichita State University, "The Revolution in Comic Drama: A Case of Penitent Art?"

22. Music, Drama, Art, and Literature--Parts of a Whole in Eighteenth-Century Thought, II
Chair: Gloria Eive, St. Mary's College of California

Colby H. Kullman, University of Mississippi, "Tony Lumpkin: A Man for All Seasons"
Frieda Koeninger, Sam Houston State University, "Gambling Salons in Late Colonial Mexico"
Linda Reesman, CUNY/Hofstra University, “The Theatrical as Suicidal Agency”

23. A Special Panel on Pedagogy
Researching and Teaching Material Culture: A Roundtable Discussion
Co-Chairs: Christine Jones, University of Utah, and Julia Abramson, University of Oklahoma

Speakers:
Julia Abramson, University of Oklahoma
Stephanie Baker, Jewish Community High School of the Bay
Susan Dixon, University of Tulsa
Gloria Eive, St. Mary's College of California
Christine Jones, University of Utah
Holly Kruse, University of Tulsa
Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz, New Jersey City University

24. What’s Novel About the Novel? New Approaches to Old Favorites
Chair: Elson Bond, Shorter College

Chava Roth, Louisiana State University, "’Laughter of All the People’: The Eighteenth-Century Inn, Polyglossia, and Society Rebirth in Henry Fielding’s Joseph Andrews"
Marta Kvande, Valdosta State University, "Eliza Haywood: Theatrical Narrative and Ideas of the Public"
Helen McCourt, Texas Woman’s University, "In Want of a Wife: A Look at the Ideas of Marriage in the Eighteenth Century as Portrayed in Richardson’s Clarissa and Austen’s Pride and Prejudice"

25. Childhood and Children’s Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century
Chair: Sara Beam, University of Tulsa

Dr. Eckhard Rölz, South Dakota State University, "Engendering Childhood: Narrative Literature and the Case Study in Eighteenth-Century German Literature."
Ben Smallwood, Illinois State University, "’My Dear Glumdalclitch’: Swift, Gulliver, and the Child Body"
Erin Gore-Wilson, University of Tulsa, "How Little German Girls Lose Limbs: The Female Body in Grimm’s Fairy Tales"

26. The Gothic, II
Chairs: Franz Potter, National University, and James D. Jenkins, University of Chicago

Curt Herr, Kutztown University, "From the Flames Reborn: Varney, The Vampire, and Death's Refusal"
H. Erik Butler, Emory University, "Vampire Country: Contested Borders in Eighteenth-Century Europe"
Jeffrey Cass, Texas A&M International University, "Queering Kahler: Licit and Illicit Homosocieties in The Necromancer"
Katherine D. Harris, San Jose State University, "New Gothicism Infests Literary Annuals! Maniacs, Smugglers, Banshees and Elves in the 1831 Forget Me Not"

27. No Island is an Island
Chair: Linda Troost, Washington and Jefferson College

Sayre Greenfield, Washington and Jefferson College, "’To Be or Not to Be’: Hamlet’s soliloquy in France and North America"
Kay B. Meyers, Oral Roberts University, "Rowlandson to Rowson: Shifting Readings of Indians in the English Atlantic"
Baerbel Czennia, Georg-August-Universitaet, Goettingen, "The Whole World His Monument: Multinational Poetic Commemorations of an Island Collector"

Request for projector that attaches to laptop

28. Religion and the State
Chair: Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz, New Jersey City University

Frieda Koenniger, Sam Houston State University, "’Political Prisoners or Religious Heretics?’ The Crisis of 1794 in New Spain."
Susan Staves, Brandeis University, "Religion and the State in Colonial Jamaica"

29. Representations of Eighteenth-Century Expectations of Being Abroad
Chair: Dale Katherine Ireland, Las Positas College

Joshua Grasso, East Central University, "’Behould These Medows Stocked With Cattle’: Expectations of Englishness in the Journals of Captain Cook"
Dale Katherine Ireland, Las Positas College, "Be Not a Gadder: Samuel Johnson on Going Abroad"
Richard Frohock, Oklahoma State University, "Courteous Thieves: Representing Captain Henry Morgan’s Expedition to Panama"

30. Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Long Eighteenth Century, I
Co-Chairs: Kathryn Duncan, Saint Leo University, and Michael J. Stasio, University of Tampa

Michael Austin, Shepherd University, "Typology and Theory of Mind: Milton, Bunyan, and the Cognitive Basis of Figural Narrative"
Christopher Reid, Northwestern University, "At the Crossroads between Religion and Capitalism in Eighteenth-Century Germany: Karl Philipp Moritz’s ‘Anton Reiser’"
Kathleen Béres Rogers, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "The Rhetoric of the Gentleman Physician"

31. Boundaries and the Novel:
Chair: Anne Widmayer, University of Wisconsin at Washington County

Lara Sisk, Jacksonville State University, "Mystery and Illusion: Hidden Aspects of Sexuality in the Eighteenth-Century Novel"
Thomas Webb, Jacksonville State University, "Unsexing Oroonoko: The Sexual Politics of Oppression"
Dwight Codr, Tulane University, "The Novel in Exile"

32. The Sublime, The Beautiful, and The Grotesque
Chair: Ken Buckman, University of Texas-Pan American

Ken Buckman, University of Texas-Pan American, "The Alterity of the Grotesque"
Kevin Dodson, Lamar University, "Kant After Goya"
Michael Mathis, Lamar University, "Sublimity and Infinity: Kant and the Foundations of Morality"

33. Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Long Eighteenth Century, II
Co-Chairs: Kathryn Duncan, Saint Leo University and Michael J. Stasio, University of Tampa

Leslie Richardson, Xavier University New Orleans, "Why Do We Teach the British Eighteenth Century at an HBCU?"
Cornelia Lambert, University of Oklahoma, "Making Robert Owen Interdisciplinary"
Matthew Landers, Louisiana State University, "’The Anatomy of the World’: Donne and the Critique of System in the Long Eighteenth Century"

34. Eighteenth-Century Theater
Chair: Margo Collins, Jacksonville State University

LuAnn Marrs, Mississippi College, "Family Matters: The 1796 Production of The London Merchant"
Debra Leissner, "Sexual Differentiation in All For Love"
Jay Oney, "She Ventures and He Wins, the Play that Almost Closed Betterton's Booth"

35. The Eighteenth-Century Grand Tour in British Literature and History
Chair: J. Karen Ray, Washburn University

Anne Widmayer, University of Wisconsin at Washington County, "Gulliver's Grand Tour: Journeys into the Interior"
Jan Widmayer, Boise State University, "The Grand Tour Revisited"
J. Karen Ray, Washburn University, "In Search of Eighteenth-Century Paris: The Grand Tour Redivius"

36. Thieves, Murderers, and other Criminals in Eighteenth-Century America
Chair: Richard Frohock, Oklahoma State University

Lexi Stuckey, University of Central Oklahoma.  "Thomas Tew: The Dread Pirate of...Rhode Island?"
Kay B. Meyers, Oral Roberts University, "Liars, Seducers, Tricksters, and Murderers: The Fun of Reading the Early American Novel"
Christopher Fritsch, Independent Scholar, "Convicting the Traitor, Creating the Empire: Governor Nicholls, English Law, and the Trial of John Binkson"

request for computer with PowerPoint software, a projector, and a screen.

37. Scary Women:  Entrepreneurs and Engenues in Gothic Fiction and Beyond
Chair: Deborah Christie, University of Miami

Curt Herr, Fordham University, "The Screaming Stops Now: Gender and Empowerment in Elizabeth Bonhote's Bungay Castle"
Kaley Kramer, University of Leeds, "Property and Genre in Charlotte Smith's The Old Manor House (1794)"
Franz Potter, National University, “Selling your Demons: Sarah Wilkinson and the art of desperation”
Deborah Christie, University of Miami, "Pettycoat Peripeteia:  Issues of Gender and Conflict in Early Gothic Fiction"

4:45 buses will transport to Gilcrease museum, leaving from entrance on 2^nd street, accessible from lower lobby