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Spring
2005 Schedule
FASHIONS
Panel
Thursday February 24, 2-3:15pm
MEM 048
Cheryl Wilson, University Dissertation
Fellow, English: "Almack's, or, A Regency Love
Affair"
Nick Schonberger, Lois F. McNeil
Fellow, Winterthur Program in Early American
Culture:“The Unspoken Other: Understanding
the Tattoo in Haggard’s Mr. Meeson’s
Will”
Christine Kortsch,
English: "Working Women: Dress-Culture,
Literacy and Social Activism in New
Woman Novels."
NAVIGATING
19th-C SPACES Panel
Monday, March 7th, 3:00-4:15
MEM 123
Anna Marley, Art History: " The
Parlor Car and the Pappoose: Viewing class,
race, and domesticity in Gilded Age Transcontinental
Tourist Guides and Travel Literature."
Mike Edson, English: “Space
and Self in Mary Shelley’s Mathilda”
Heather Boyd,
History of American Civilizations: “Cigar
Stores and Their ‘Indians’:
The Consumption and Nostalgia
of Race in Late Nineteenth Century
Urban Commercial Art.”
GUEST
SPEAKER
Monday March 21, 3:30-4:30
MEM 127
John Richetti, University
of Pennsylvania: "Is There a New
Eighteenth-Century?"
The author of several books on the 18th-century novel, Dr. Richetti
is the editor of the Restoration and Eighteenth-Century volume of the
New Cambridge History of English Literature (2005) and will talk to
us about the process of compiling such a volume.
EPISTOLARY
Panel
Monday April 4th 3:30-4:30
MEM 127
Jodi Devine, University Dissertation
Fellow, English: “Multiplicity of Styles:
Dickens’s Use of Letters in Bleak House"
Bob Klevay, English: " The
Literary Heroine and the Epistolary Hero in Howells'
Indian Summer".
FACULTY
PROJECT
Monday, May 2nd 3:30-4:30
MEM 127
Matt Kinservik and Max White,
English: “Treason, Terror, and Treatises:
William Jackson’s Answer to Paine’s
Age of Reason”
FALL
2004 Colloquium
Presentation Schedule
Thurs.
Oct. 21st
An Americanist Discussion
Mem. 110
3:30-4:30
Forrest
Lehman, “The Rhetoric of Perseverance:
Elizabeth Graeme Fergusson and Columbian Magazine, 1786-1792.”;
Joel Worden, “Melville's Encantadas”
Thurs.
Nov. 11th
Guest speaker Heather Schell
Mem. 110
3:30-4:30
Heather
Schell, George Washington University,
“Tiger Boys”
Wed., Dec. 8th
A Lunchtime, Cross-Colloquium Foods Panel
Mem. 127
12:15-1:15
Julian
Yates, “On the Unnatural History of Food”;
Tara
Stern, “Food and Identity in Victorian Christmas Books”;
Darlene Farabee, “‘Knowledge is as Food’ in Paradise
Lost”
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Spring
2004 Colloquium
Presentation Schedule
Thursday,
February 26:
with the Crossing Borders Colloquium, two presentations
on “Reading Prostitution.”
- Michelle
Mormul, from the History Department, will present “Prostitution
and Political Change in 18th Century Paris,”
- Heather
Griffiths, from the Sociology Department, will present “Reel
Prostitution: Representation and Archetypes in American Film,1960-2000.”
This
event will take place at 3:30 in 123 Memorial Hall.
Thursday,
March 11: Don Reiman, “Editing and Textual
Theory: The Care and Feeding of Oxymorons”
Thursday, April 15: Margaret Stetz, “Ballads
in Prose: Genre Crossings in Women's Poetry of the 1890s”
We will meet from 3:30 to approximately 4:45 to allow for questions
and discussion.
Tuesday, April 27: Cultural Studies and
the Academy: a panel featuring Martin Brückner, Barbara
Gates, Tom Leitch, and Julian Yates
Place
TBA
Unless
otherwise announced, all meetings will take
place on Thursdays at 3:30 in Memorial 113.
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Fall
2003 Colloquium
Presentation Schedule
Thursday,
October 16: Cheryl Wilson, "To Make a Landscape
from a Post: Literary Satires of the Picturesque"
Thursday,
October 30: 18th-19th Century and 20th Century
Colloquia panel on writing biography, with Carl Dawson,
Susan Goodman, Leo Lemay, and Tom Pauly
Thursday,
November 6: 18th-19th Century and 20th Century
Colloquia Dr. Larry Hass, Associate Professor of
Philosophy at Muhlenberg College in Allentown,
Pennsylvania, will present "The Phenomenology of Magic."
MEM 049
12:30pm
Thursday,
November 13: Therese Rizzo, "Narrative Rebirth and
the Power of the Narrator in E.A. Poe's 'Ligeia.'"
Thursday,
November 20: W. Barksdale Maynard, who teaches in
the Art History Department at the University of Delaware,
will discuss his forthcoming book, Walden Pond: A
History
Thursday,
December 4: David Demare Stivers, "Secret Letters,
Hidden Motivations: The Illuminations of Weishaupt, Robison
and Brown."
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Spring 2003 Colloquium
Presentation Schedule:
Thursday
2/20 Kathryn
Temple, Georgetown University
3:30 PM “The ‘Sounds
Uncouth’ of Westminster Hall:
Memorial 112 Law,
Women, and Commerce”
Thursday 3/6 Maria
Palacas, University of Delaware
3:30 PM “The
Importance of Being Ernest in Mary Shelley’s
Memorial
112 Frankenstein: A Study in Literary Onomastics”
Thursday 4/10 Cynthia
Munro, University of Delaware
3:30 PM “Literacy,
Identity, and the Tradition of the Marking Sampler”
Memorial
112
Tuesday 4/15 Karen
Schultz, New York University
3:30 PM “‘I
am Buried Now’: Secrecy and Concealment as Female
Memorial
124 Empowerment in The Tenant of Wildfell
Hall and Villette”
Thursday 4/24 Meredith
Wunderlich, University of Delaware
3:30 PM “Spectacles
and the Reading Body in The Pickwick Papers”
Memorial
112
Thursday 5/15 David
DeMare Stivers, University of Delaware
3:30 PM “Narrating
Causality in the Laboratory of Human Motivation:
Memorial
112 The Dilemma of C.B. Brown’s Ormond, or, The
Secret
Witness.”
Fall
2002 Colloquium Presentation Schedule:
Thursday 9/26 Rob
Larocque, University of Delaware
Memorial 113 “Man
Without a Cross: What Makes
3:30 PM Hawkeye
Our Hero”
Tuesday 10/1 David
Satran, Temple University
Memorial 048 “Queen
Victoria's Chocolate Soldiers: Victoria's
12:30 PM Chocolate
Gift to Soldiers of the Boer War (1899)”
Thursday 10/10 Kainoa
Harbottle, University of Delaware
Memorial 113 “A
Mere Affair of the Alphabet: Conjuring, Visuality,
3:30 PM and
Language in Gaskell’s Cranford”
Thursday 10/24 Don-John
Dugas, Towson University
Memorial 113 “Restoring
Pericles: The Business of Canon Formation
3:30 PM in
the Early 1660s”
Thursday 11/7 “Revisioning
Victorian Poetry”: A Panel & Discussion
Memorial 113 Darlene
Farabee, Therese Rizzo, Tara Stern
4:00 PM Chair:
Corey Taylor
Thursday 11/21 Gerald
Cloud, University of Delaware
Memorial
113 “Story
and the Sarcophagus of History in Balzac’s
3:30 PM Le
Colonel Chabert”
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