MAY 2008

Alexander, Sarah 
"SHOPPING FOR PLEASURE: THE FASHION LOVER IN VICTORIAN FICTION"
Chair: Peter Garrett; and Julia Saville, Hina Nazar, Lauren Goodlad

Dahlquist, Mark 
"FAIRE SEMBLANTS AND SCANDALOUS WORSHIP: ICONOPOBIA AND THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE "
Chair: Achsah Guibbory; and Lori Newcomb, Robert Markley, Caroline Hibbard

Fratz, Deborah
"DISABLED SUBJECTS DISABILITY: GENDER AND ETHICAL AGENCY IN VICTORIAN REALISM"
Chair: Lauren M. E. Goodlad; and Julia Saville, Hina Nazar, Eleanor Courtemanche

Savage, Elizabeth
"NURSERY OF THE NATION: MOTHERS, MIDWIVES AND NATIONAL IDENTITY ON THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY COMEDIC STAGE"
Chair: Suvir Kaul; and Robert Markley, Carol Neely, Tony Pollock

Tracy, Daniel
"MIDDLEBROW MODERNMISM: PROFESSIONAL WRITING, GENRE, AND THE CIRCULATION OF CULTURAL AUTHORITY IN U.S. MASS CULTURE, 1913-32"
Chairs: Stephanie Foote, Siobhan Somerville; and Robert Parker, William Maxwell

Walker, Marilyn
"WRITING RESISTANCE: THE POLITICS AND POETICS OF BRITISH WOMEN'S ANTISLAVERY VERSE, 1785-1865"
Chair: Antoinette Burton; and Robert Markley, Gillen D'Arcy Wood, Ted Underwood

Walter, Christina 
"THE MODERNIST IMAGETEXTt: EMBODYING IMPERSONALITY FROM OPTICS TO AESTHETICS"
Chair: Jed Esty; and Joseph Valente, Jesse Matz, Julia Saville