Redirected Energy 1: Emendations, Evolutions, Eruptions
Stephen F. Austin Room
Chair: Susan Spencer, University of Central Oklahoma
Phillip Harvey, University of Central Oklahoma, “Tangled: Keats and Wordsworth's Theories of Composition”
Lisa Sikkink, University of Memphis, “Altering Aphra: the Afterlife of Aphra Behn’s The History of the Nun”
Frances Singh, City University of New York, “The Whirlwind Who Reaped the Whirlwind: Introducing Miss Jane Pirie, 'lately residing at Edinburgh.'”

Novel Energies: Forces that Fueled Female Fiction Writers
Ann Milligan Gray Room
Chair: Elizabeth Tasker Davis, Stephen F. Austin State University
Rhanda McGee, Stephen F. Austin State University, “Subversive Satire Through Patriarchal Submission in The Female Quixote”
Elizabeth Tasker Davis, Stephen F. Austin State University, “The Explained Re-explained: Supernatural Signs in Eighteenth-Century Oriental Fiction”
Renee Williams, Stephen F. Austin State University, “Burney's Evelina: Humor and Violence in a Culture of Manners”
Lauren Hawkins, Stephen F. Austin State University, “Voluntary Spies: Surveillance and Observation in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey”

The Ephemeral and the Enduring: Cultural Monuments, Symbols, and Memories in Literature and the Arts [Part I]
Stephen F. Austin Room
Chair: Gloria Eive, ECCB Fine Arts Field Editor
Maia Adamina, University of Texas at San Antonio, “John Gay's The Shepherd’s Week and the Festive Spirit: ‘Jack-pudding’ in his Parti-Coloured Jacket.”
Linda Reesman, CUNY—Brooklyn, “Making Memories through Poetic Form”
Jim McGlathery, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, “The Eighteenth Century’s Magical Seductresses”  
 

Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
Ann Milligan Gray Room
Chair: Brett McInelly, Brigham Young University
John J. Burke Jr., University of Alabama, “Milton, Dryden and Their Conflicting Uses of the Bible During the English Restoration”
Shayda Hoover, Tri-County Technical College, “Light and Heat, But Not Noise: Kindling Devotion in Young's Night-Thoughts”
Brett C. McInelly, Brigham Young University, “Methodist In-fighting and the Making of Methodism”

Approaches to Overlooked Texts
Samuel May Williams Room
Chair: Colby H. Kullman
Theresa Shaw, Sam Houston State University, “The Effect of Wharburton's Emendations on Pope’s Satire”
Victoria Warren, Binghamton University, “English Politics, Class, and the Pleasures of Restoration Comedy”
Gloria Eive, ECCB Fine Arts Field Editor, “The Tale of a Bell: Franciscan Friars, California Missions, and Saint Mary’s College of California”

When Energy Becomes Perpetual Motion: Finite Men and Women Pen—and Sell—Immortal Works
Davidson Ballroom South
Chair: David Paxman, Brigham Young University
Susan Spencer, University of Central Oklahoma, “Saikaku’s Schemers: Crass Commercialism in Tokugawa Japan”
Bill Knight, Portland State University, “Crusoe, Debt, and Teaching”
Mark Pedreira, University of Puerto Rico, “Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare’s ‘Diction of Common Life’”

Hume and the Usual Suspects [Part I]
Stephen F. Austin Room
Chair: James Mock, University of Central Oklahoma
Darian De Bolt University of Central Oklahoma, “Hume and Smith on the Original Contract”
Stefan B. Forrester, Montevallo University, “Thomas Reid on Metaphor”
Michael F. Patton, Montevallo University, “The Meaning of Life, Hume’s The Skeptic, and Private Languages”

Energized or Exhausted: The Political Culture of Eighteenth-Century France
Samuel May Williams Room
Chair: Megan Conway
Melissa Wittmeier, Independent Scholar, “Energy: A Political Tool Then and Now”
Tali Zechory, Harvard University, “Energy, Exhaustion, and Economies of Narrative and Desire in Denon’s Point de lendemain”
Megan Conway, Louisiana State University in Shreveport, “Unquenchable Enthusiasm, Inexhaustible Energy: Olympe de Gouges and Revolutionary Fervor”

Energy, Action, and Lethargy in Eighteenth-Century Philosophy
Stephen F. Austin Room
Chair: Michael Matthis. Lamar University
Kevin Dodson, Lamar University, “The Origins of Conservative Thought: Skepticism, Relativism, and Identity”
Michael Matthis, Lamar University, “The Power of Indolence: Kierkegaard’s Reflections on Kant's Ever-Active Self”

The Energy of Insubordination, Disobedience, and General Naughtiness in the Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century
Davidson Ballroom North
Chair: Alice Cushman, Tarleton State University
Alistaire Tallent, Colorado College, “Manon Lescaut: A Body in Motion”
Marilyn Robitaille, Tarleton State University, “A Bad Girl's Open Book: The Memoirs of Ms. Laetitia Pilkington”

Culminations, Decoctions, and Deviations: Energies of the Ultimate
Samuel May Williams Room
Chair: Kathryn R. King, Montevallo University
Judith Broome, William Paterson University, “London Poisonings Tried at the Old Bailey”
Kelcie Jones, University of Toronto, “Body Talk: Exquisite Physical Expressions in Evelina”
Kimberly Davis, Sam Houston State University, “Lunatics or Luminaries: The French Revolution through the Eyes of William Blake and Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin”
Kathryn King, Montevallo University, “Coming to the End: The Late Writings of Eliza Haywood”

The Ephemeral and the Enduring: Cultural Monuments, Symbols, and Memories in Literature and the Arts [Part II]
Ann Milligan Gray Room
Chair: Madeline Sutherland-Meier, University of Texas
Frieda Koeninger, Sam Houston State University, “Political Correctness on the Mexican Stage in a time of Rising Nationalism”
Stacey Jocoy, Texas Tech University-Lubbock, “William Boyce, the Apollo Academy, and Contested Cecilia”
Francien Markx , George Mason University, “Capricious Encounters: Image, Text, and Music in E.T.A. Hoffmann’s Prinzessin Brambilla”

Energizing Spirits: Beverages, Geniuses, Vehicles Chair: Bärbel Czennia

Samuel May Williams Room
Jessika Wichner, DLR Göttingen (Germany), “Fuel for Thought and Fuel for Flight: From Icarus to the First Balloon”
Katie Arens, University of Texas at Austin, “Energy and Energeia: Objects and the Imagination”
Baerbel Czennia, McNeese State University, “Imbibing the East: Punch Lines in Eighteenth-Century Literature”

Early Modern Humanistic Endeavor: Communities and Discontinuities from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century
Stephen F. Austin Room
Chair: Jessika Wichner, DLR Göttingen (Germany)
Eric Carlsson, University of Wisconsin, “Christian Humanism and Neology: The Development of a Theological Tradition”
Frederic Clark, Princeton University, “Late Humanist Historical Scholarship and Enlightenment Perceptions of the Past”
Ulrich Groetsch, University of North Alabama, “The Devil in the Details: Secularization in Footnotes”

Energy from and to Islands and Mountains Davidson Ballroom North Chair: Frieda Koeninger, Sam Houston State University
Andrés Ruiz Olaya, Arizona State University, “The Petition of Chief Turmequé, from Bogotá to Madrid and Back”
Mary Jenke, Sam Houston State University “Transplanting Roots: From the Canaries to Louisiana”
Caroline Crimm, Sam Houston State University “From Peasant to Peer: Canary Islanders in San Antonio, 1732"
Rafael Saumell-Muñoz, Sam Houston State University, “Slavery, Technology and Capital: Energy Sources on the Eighteenth-Century Cuban Plantation”

Redirected Energy 2: Imitations, Adaptations, Innovations
Samuel May Williams Room
Chair, Susan Spencer, University of Central Oklahoma
Richard Serrano, Rutgers University, “Admonishing 18th-Century Koreans with Ancient Chinese Greens”
Susan Spencer and Nhu Nguyen, University of Central Oklahoma, “The Patriotic Resonance of Everyday Things in Ho Xuân Huong’s Poetry: Betel, Bánh trôi, and the Landscape of Vietnam”
Suzanne Poor, Montclair State University, “Jonathan Swift—Under the Covers—A New Look at Boudoir Poetry”

The Ephemeral and the Enduring: Cultural Monuments, Symbols, and Memories in Literature and the Arts [Part III: The Texas Collection of Comedias]
Ann Milligan Gray Room
Chair: Gloria Eive, ECCB Fine Arts Field Editor
Madeline Sutherland-Meier, University of Texas, “Hidden Treasures: Introducing the Texas Collection of Comedias Sueltas”
Gloria Eive, ECCB Fine Arts Editor, “Beaumarchais and Auber in Zarzuela ‘Attire’ for Popular Spanish Lyric Theater”