South Central Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies

Lost and Found in the Eighteenth Century
February 6-8, 2025

Thursday, February 6

Friday, February 7

8:15-9:15 a.m.: Tracing Spaces and Silences: Gender, Empire, and Cultural Encounters

Yazdan Mahmoudi, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
"Montagu's Romanticization of the Persian as a Subversion of Orientalist Tropes in The Turkish Embassy Letters"

Negar Noofeli, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
"Negotiating Third Spaces: Gender, Empire, and Resistance in the Travel Writings of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Jemima Kindersley"

Susannah Sanford McDaniel, Texas Christian University
"'I am none of those sort of women who Puther their Brains with Politicks': Archival Erasure as Constructive Work of British Imperialism"

9:25-10:40 a.m.: Lost and Found Subjects in Eighteenth-Century Art and Material Culture

Denise Amy Baxter, University of North Texas
"Menswear Lost and Menswear Found: Eighteenth-Century Suits in the Texas Fashion Collection"

Amy Freund, Southern Methodist University
"The Name of a Dog: Finding the Animal Subject in Oudry's Dogs Playing with Birds in a Park (1754)"

Jessica Fripp, Texas Christian University
"Finding the Forty-Year-Old Woman in Eighteenth-Century France"

Chloe Northrop, Tarrant County College
"Rodney Resurfaces: The Journey of Robert Edge Pine's Lord Rodney Aboard the Formidable (1784)"

10:50-11:50 a.m.: Negotiating Identity, Expression, and the Ephemeral in East Asia and Beyond

Raven Johnston, Tyler Junior College
"Crude Incorporations: Marginalia in Edo-Period Japanese Books"

Susan Spencer, University of Central Oklahoma
"Lost at Sea, Discovered on Land: A Chinese Gulliver's Journey Through Postwar Vietnam"

Anna Penkała-Jastrzębska, University of the National Education Commission, Krakow
"Power, Politics, and Material Prestige: Asian Influences on Court Culture in Saxony and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth"

12:30-1:30 p.m.: Lunch and plenary address

Brett McInelly, Brigham Young University
"Performing Methodism and the Eighteenth-Century Stage"

1:40-2:40 p.m.: Intercultural Dialogues, Translations, and Philosophies

Clare Byers, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Knowledge Found, People Lost: Printing the History of Louisiana in 1763"

Risako Nomura, Oregon State University
"Creative Translation and the Emergence of Feminism in Late Eighteenth-Century England: The Translation of German Children's Literature by Mary Wollstonecraft"

Linda Reesman, Queensborough Community College/Hofstra University
"Coleridge's Autobiographical Implications in The Friend"

2:50-3:50 p.m.: Rhetorical Maneuvers: Strategies of Persuasion and Representation

Jonathan Pike, Brigham Young University
"The Hemphill Affair and Benjamin Franklin's Lockean Defeat"

Brian Fehler, Texas Woman's University
"Tongue-in-Cheek Diplomacy: Wit as Weapon in Benjamin Franklin's 'An Open Letter to Lord North'"

Charles Tita, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
"A semiotic of signifyin[g] in Ignatius Sancho's Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho"

4:00-5:00 p.m.: Holding Power to Account: Institutions, Law, and Interpretation

Duane Coltharp, Trinity University
"Taylor versus Trinity House: Exploring Institutional Dysfunction in Eighteenth-Century England"

Paul E. Kerry, Brigham Young University
"The First Amendment and Eighteenth-Century Intertextuality"

J.T. Scanlan, Providence College
"The Legal Education of Henry Fielding"

5:10-6:10 p.m.: Ghosts of Artists Past: Finding Lost Sources for Artworks Created during the Long Eighteenth Century

Mackenzie Clayton, UT Tyler
"The Bodies of Michelangelo Rediscovered in the Works of Jacques-Louis David"

Daedalus Boney, UT Tyler
"What Jean Siméon Chardin May Have Found in Caravaggio"

Elizabeth Lisot-Nelson, UT Tyler
"'Live, my good mother whom I love, but of whom I haven't any news': Finding the Lost Inspiration for Élisabeth Vigée LeBrun's Marie Antoinette and Her Children (1787) from Family Portraits by Peter-Paul Rubens"

Saturday, February 8

8:00-9:00 a.m.: Relocating and Reimagining the National Ballad

Francien Markx, George Mason University
"Songs of Selma: The Scottish Highlands in the German Musical Imagination around 1800."

Stacey Jocoy, Library of Congress, and Kelly Malone, Sewanee: The University of the South
"Ballads as Immigrants: Translating and Localizing the Ballad Hero."

9:10-10:10 a.m.: Women Writers and the Marketplace

Leah Orr, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
"The Lost and Found History of Women and Copyright"

Catherine Parisian, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
"Profit and Loss: Publishing Frances Burney's The Wanderer"

Samara Cahill, University of North Texas
"Romancing the Providential Novel: Penelope Aubin's Cave of Montesinos"

10:20-11:20 a.m.: New Destinations in Under-Charted Places: Surprises and Revelations of the Dynamic Landscape and its Vivid Place

Colin Ramsey, Appalachian State University
"La Conquistadora: 'Our Lady the Conqueror' v. 'Our Lady of Conquering Love'? America's Oldest Marian Icon and the Continuing Challenge of Public Commemoration"

C. Earl Ramsey, U of Arkansas-Little Rock
"'First a brave place, and then as brave a mind': a 'quick Poetick sight' in Sir John Denham's 'Cooper's Hill'"

Safi Ullah, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
"The Wedding Guest's Agency and European Expansionist Narrative in 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'"

11:30 a.m.-12:10 p.m.: New Perspectives on Canonical Authors

Bilal Ansar Khan, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
"The Economic Driving the Political: The Difference in Defoe's Exploration of the Colonizer's Psychology in Robinson Crusoe and Captain Singleton"

Mithila Mumtaz, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
"Beyond the Border of Self: Escapism in the Quest for the Other in Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy"

12:30-1:45 p.m.: Lunch on your own
12:40-1:45 p.m.: SCSECS Business meeting

2:10-3:10 p.m.: Les Objets (indigènes) trouvés: Indigenous lost and found along the Mississippi in 18th-century French documents

Mara Stevens, University of Central Oklahoma
"Locating Native Populations: A Study of Tribal Movements through Eighteenth-century French Maps"

Skye Rustad, University of Central Oklahoma
"Lost and Found in La Louisiane: Discovering Indigenous Customs in the History of the Talon Brothers"

Catherine Webster, University of Central Oklahoma
"All is not lost: An Appeal for Mercy by Tribal Leaders"

3:20-4:00 p.m.: The Far Future and the Recoverable Past: French Wayfinders Wandering between Calamity and Utopia Chair: Samara Cahill, University of North Texas

Emily Kangerga, UT Tyler
"Jean-Baptiste Greuze's Broken Women, Virginity Lost and Morality Found"

Reuben Lamb, East Texas A&M University
"The Phenomena of Future Predictions: Mercier and The Year 2440"

4:15-5:30 p.m.: Finding "Death Writing": Gender, Race, and the Emergence of a Literary Category in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World

Anna Anderson, Texas Woman's University
"No Body, No Crime: Grieving a Fictional Corpus in the Long Eighteenth Century"

Christopher Wells, Texas Woman's University
"African Americans and Necropolitics"

Lissandra Alvarado, Texas Woman's University
"'Hierarchies of Grief' in The Female American (1767)"

Stephanie Ray-Gibson, Texas Woman's University
"Recovering Emily Dickinson's (d. 1830) Queer Identity through the Concept of 'Death Writing'"