Thursday, November 5
The Graduate Center
 
Welcome and Registration (concourse lobby) – 2:00 to 6:00

 
Session A Thursday: 3:30 – 5:15
 
 
A1. Urban Gothic I (C197)
 
Lisa Plummer Crafton, University of West Georgia, Organizer and Chair (lcrafton@westga.edu)
 
Amy Wong, University of California, Los Angeles, (amy.ruei.wong@gmail.com)
Sound and the Poetics of Urban Terror from William Blake to James Thomson
 
Jennifer Santos, Virginia Military Institute (santosjm@vmi.edu)
Triangulating Terror: The Country and City in Nineteenth-Century Gothic
 
Kellie Donovan, Babson College (kdonovancondron@babson.edu)
Thomas De Quincey, Gothic Flâneur
 
Diane Long Hoeveler, Marquette University (diane.hoeveler@marquette.edu)
The Gothic Chapbook and the Urban Reader
 
 
A2. Wordsworth’s “Residence in London” (C198)
 
Meena Alexander, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY,Chair (meena.alexander@gmail.com)
 
Brad Bannon, University of Western Ontario (bbannon@uwo.ca)
Wordsworth and the Motley Shape of London
 
Laura George, Eastern Michigan University (lgeorge@emich.edu)
 “An Orifice Most Delicate”: Ornament, Rhetoric, and Masculinity in Wordsworth’s Prelude Book VII: “Residence in London”
 
William Galperin, Rutgers University (william.galperin@gmail.com)
Wordsworth's Double-Take
 
 
A3. Hoffmann (C201)
 
Alexander Schlutz, John Jay, CUNY, Chair (aschlutz@jjay.cuny.edu)
 
Christopher Clason, Oakland University (clason@oakland.edu)
City Life and Feline Opinions: an Ecocritical Perspective on the Tomcat Murr and Hoffmann’s Urban Landscape
 
Christa Spreizer, Queens College, CUNY (christine.spreizer@qc.cuny.edu)
 “He will soon come down of his own accord”: The Romantic Hero and Science in ETA Hoffmann’s Postwar Berlin
 
Alexander Schlutz, John Jay, CUNY
An Eye on the Market Place: E.T.A. Hoffmann’s vision of Berlin in "My Cousin’s Corner Window"
 
 
A4. Domestic Disturbances (c202)
 
Eric Eisner, George Mason University, Chair (eeisner@gmu.edu)
 
D. B. Ruderman, Ohio State University, Newark (ruderman.4@osu.edu)
Pent-up Emotions: City Feelings in the Poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge
 
Martha Musgrove, University of Ottawa (martha.musgrove@uottawa.ca)
Female Politicians in Maria Edgeworth's London Drawing Rooms
 
Stephen Hancock, Brigham Young University (hancocks@byuh.edu)
The Fight on the Home Front: Violence, Hospitality, and Beauty in Kant, Burke, and Shelley
 
 
A5. Contesting the Church (C203)
 
Terry F. Robinson, University of Colorado, Boulder, Chair (terry.robinson@colorado.edu)
 
Colin Jager, Rutgers University (colin.jager@gmail.com)
Democrat, Philanthropist, and Atheist
 
Sharon Worley, University of St. Thomas, Houston (sharonworleyprof@cs.com)
Cologne: City of Revolutionary Contradictions and Romantic Missals
 
Terry F. Robinson, University of Colorado, Boulder
The Theatrical Temple: Moral Instruction and the London Theatres Royal
 
5:15 Refreshments (concourse lobby)
 
 
 
6:00 Plenary I
 
Michael Moon,
Emory University
“Idiocies Urban and Rural”
Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center
 
 
 
 
7:30 Reception and Exhibition Opening
The Metropolis Between One’s Ears brings together a major new project by American filmmaker Peggy Ahwesh, titled “The Ape of Nature,” and a new series of sculptures and video sketches by British artist Andrew Lord. Organized by the Graduate Center’s James Gallery in coordination with the conference, The Metropolis Between One’s Ears also features an early video by artist Paul Chan, titled “34 Flower Types for Henry Darger” and variously scored versions of Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand’s 1921 urban homage “Manhatta.”
 
 
Friday, November 6
The Graduate Center
 
Welcome and Registration (concourse lobby) – 8:30 to 6:00
Continental Breakfast – 8:30 (concourse lobby)


Session B Friday: 9:00 – 10:30
 
 
B1. MARY SHELLEY (C198)
 
Stuart Curran, University of Pennsylvania, Chair (curran@english.upenn.edu)
 
Jennifer O'Kell, University of Toronto (jenny.okell@utoronto.ca)
The Geneva Convention: Literary Tradition and the Literal City in Frankenstein
 
Nicole Burkholder-Mosco, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania (nicolemosco@aol.com)
The “Wild Dreams” of Mary Shelley: Urbanization and the Re-shaping of Nineteenth-Century Fear
 
Amanda Klinger, University of Oklahoma (amanda_klinger@ou.edu)
Disturbing the Domestic: Urban Alienation and Commodity Culture in Mary Shelley’s Lodore
 
 
B2. ROMANTICISM AND SOME VERSIONS OF PLATO’S CITY (C197)
 
Marshall Berman, City College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, Chair (mberman241@aol.com)
 
Nickolas Pappas, City College and The Graduate Center, CUNY (nickolaspappas60@gmail.com)
Romanticism and Some Versions of Plato’s City I: Nature and Expertise inside the City Walls
 
Timothy Gould, Metropolitan State College, Denver (gould_tim_58@q.com)
Romanticism and Some Versions of Plato’s City II: Platonic Themes, Romantic Variations
 
James Baxendine, Magdalen College, Oxford (james.baxendine@magd.ox.ac.uk)
Wordsworth's Turns From the City: Verse, Retirement, and the Secular
 
 
B3. LAMB (C201)
 
Alan Vardy, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, Chair (avardy@hunter.cuny.edu)
 
Emily Stanback, The Graduate Center, CUNY (emily.stanback@gmail.com)
On Blind Beggars and Chimney Sweepers: Lamb’s Urban Taxonomies
 
Keith Friedlander, University of Ottawa (kfrie074@uottawa.ca)
“This passion for crowds”: Wordsworth, Lamb, and depicting the urban individual
 
Simon Hull, Alfaisal University (shull@hotmail.co.uk)
“Antiquity, what art thou?”: Lamb, Nostalgia, and the Effable City
 
 
B4. SPECTACLES AND SPECTATORS (C202)
 
Christoph Houswitschka. University of Bamberg, Chair (englit@houswitschka.de)
 
Sophie Thomas, Ryerson University (sophie.thomas@ryerson.ca)
Representing Paris at the London Panorama
 
Debra Sowell, Brigham Young University (debra_sowell@byu.edu)
City as Context: The Italian Romantic Ballet in Milan and Naples
 
Theresa H. Nguyen, University of Wisconsin, Madison (thnguyen3@wisc.edu)
You’re Blocking My View! : The Romantic Spectator in London
 
 
B5. THE STAGE AND THE CITY (C203)
 
Jeffrey Cass, University of Louisiana, Monroe, Organizer and Chair (jcass@ulm.edu)
 
Janice Peritz, Queens College, CUNY (Janice.Peritz@qc.cuny.edu)
Wollstonecraft, Siddons, and “The Urbanity of Improved Reason”
 
Jeffrey Cass, University of Louisiana, Monroe
The Lost Transatlantic City: The Case of John Galt's The Apostate; or, Atlantis Destroyed
 
Marjean Purinton, Texas Tech University (marjean.purinton@ttu.edu)
The City as Portal: Women on the Stage, Women in the Public Sphere
 
 
Session C Friday: 10:45 – 12:30
 
 
C1. Cultivation, Settlement, and the Wild (C204-205)
 
Alyson Bardsley, College of Staten Island, CUNY, Chair (bardsley@mail.csi.cuny.edu)
 
Anne-Lise François, University of California, Berkeley, (afrancoi@berkeley.edu)
“Camping as for a Night”: Sojourning without Reserve with Thoreau, Serres and Benjamin
 
Paul Youngquist, University of Colorado, Boulder (paul.youngquist@gmail.com)
Cujo’s Brood
 
Kevin Hutchings, University of Northern British Columbia (hutchink@unbc.ca)
Savagery and Civility in the British Atlantic World
 
Mark Canuel, University of Illinois, Chicago, (mcanuel@uic.edu)
Wollstonecraft and World Improvement
 
 
C2. City Fashion, City Vice (C202)
 
Elizabeth Denlinger, The Pforzheimer Collection, NYPL, Chair (edenlinger@nypl.org)
 
Jonathan Farina, Seton Hall University (jvfarina@gmail.com)
Flash Romanticism: Tom & Jerry and Slang as City Epistemology
 
Nicole Reynolds, Ohio University (reynoldn@ohio.edu)
Suicide and the City
 
Robin Anglin, Indiana University(ranglin@indiana.edu)
“The Rank, Beauty and Fashion of the Capital”: The Silver Fork Novel’s Convergence with the National Tale in Sydney Owenson’s Fiction
 
 
C3. Knowing Your Place: Urban and Rural Landscape in Romantic Literature (C201)
 
Lisbeth Chapin, Gwynedd-Mercy College, Organizer and Chair (Chapin.L@gmc.edu)
 
Jacqueline George, State University of New York, New Paltz (georgej@newpaltz.edu)
“On Top of a Wild Height Called Cowan’s Croft”:  The Place(s) of Hogg’s Ettrick Shepherd
 
Lisbeth Chapin, Gwynedd-Mercy College
“Hell is a city much like London”: Shelley’s Urban and Rural Landscapes in “Peter Bell the Third” and “Letter to Maria Gisborne”
 
Maria Svampa, Columbia University (mps2161@columbia.edu)
God Made the Country, But Man Made the Town – Letitia Landon, the Urban Literary Landscape, and the Refusal of the Retreat
 
Shawna Lichtenwalner, East Tennessee State University (lichtenw@etsu.edu)
Loving and Hating Wild Wales: The Paradox of Urban and Rural in Walsingham
 
 
C4. Austen (C197)
 
Rachel Brownstein, Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, Chair (rbrownstein@gc.cuny.edu)
 
James Thompson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (uthomp@email.unc.edu)
The Country and the City: the Strange Case of Emma
 
John Leffel, University of Colorado, Boulder (John.Leffel@Colorado.edu)
 “A Day Well Spent”: Transgressing Gender and Genre in Jane Austen’s “The Beautifull Cassandra”
 
Rachel Brownstein, Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Austen’s Bond Street
 
 
C5. Sex and the City (C198)
 
Diana Koretsky, Duke University, Organizer and Chair (diana.koretsky@duke.edu)
 
Kristin Samuelian, George Mason University (ksamueli@gmu.edu)
Lost in London: Mary Robinson’s Theatrical Wanderings
 
Mary Anne Myers, Fordham University (maryannemyers@mac.com)
From Body to Mind: Mary Robinson’s Moves in London’s Field of Cultural Production
 
Scott Hagele, University of Colorado, Boulder (Scott.Hagele@Colorado.edu)
No Sex in the City:  The Eunuch on the London Stage
 
Vania Sciolini, California State University, Northridge (vania.sciolini@gmail.com)
The City as the Panopticon of Sex: The Man-Forged Manacles in Mary Hays’s The Victim of Prejudice
 
 
Lunch Break 12:30 – 2:00 (on your own)
 
[ICR ADVISORY BOARD MEETING - DINING COMMONS, 8^th fl. rm. 8301]
 
 
Session D Friday 2:00 – 3:45
 
 
D1. WORDSWORTH’S URBAN AESTHETIC (C197)
 
Emily Stanback, The Graduate Center, CUNY, Chair (emily.stanback@gmail.com)
 
Hyeuk Kyu Joo, Gyeongsang National University (hyeuk001@hanmail.net)
The City and the Rural: Wordsworth’s Error in Ghostly Demarcation
 
James O'Rourke, Florida State University (jorourke@fsu.edu)
"Something" in “Tintern Abbey”
 
Scott Hess, Earlham College (hesssc@earlham.edu)
"In Lonely Rooms": Constructing Romantic Nature from the City
 
Seth Reno, Ohio State University (reno.30@buckeyemail.osu.edu)
“Something far more deeply interfused”: Wordsworth and the Urban Aesthetic
 
 
D2. ROMANTICISM TO MODERNISM (C201)
 
William Davis, Colorado College, Chair (WDavis@ColoradoCollege.edu)
 
Elizabeth Rousselle, Xavier University of Louisiana (esrousse@xula.edu)
Impossible Romantic Flâneur: The Role of Madrid in José Mariano de Larra's Suicide
 
Filomena Vasconcelos, University of Porto, Portugal (fvasconc@letras.up.pt)
 “London Bridge is falling down falling down falling down”:  Poetics of poetry and poetics of prose in Post-Romantic and Modernist Representations of the City
 
William Davis, Colorado College
Literary Berlin: From Romanticism to Modernism
 
D3. INFERNAL CITIES  (C198)
 
Larry Peer, Brigham Young University, Chair (larry_peer@byu.edu)
 
Ernesto Livorni, University of Wisconsin, Madison (elivorni@wisc.edu)
Alessandro Manzoni’s View of the City: Renzo in Milan
 
Eugene Stelzig, State University of New York, Geneseo (stelzig@geneseo.edu)
Wordsworth’s Invigorating Hell: London in Book 7 of The Prelude (1805)

Michael Verderame, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (mverder2@illinois.edu)
“Portentous, Unexampled, Unexplained”: Climate and the City in Cowper’s The Task
 
Andrew Winckles, Wayne State University (awinckles@gmail.com)
William Blake and the Urban Landscape of Apocalypse
 
 
D4. URBAN PLANNING IN THE ROMANTIC ERA (C202)
 
Sean Barry,Chair, and John Saverese, Rutgers University, Organizers (sean.barry@rutgers.edu, john.savarese@rutgers.edu)
 
Christine Lai, University College, London (christine.lai@ucl.ac.uk)
Building Romanticism: Regency London and the Architectural
 
Eric Hood, University of Kansas (erichood@ku.edu)
"The Blessing of Equality": Questions of Ownership and Utopia in Paul and Virginia
 
Justin Eichenlaub, Stanford University (justin5@stanford.edu)
Wordsworth and Lamb in the Suburbs of the Mind
 
Stephen Tedeschi, Yale University (stephen.tedeschi@yale.edu)
Coleridge’s Sphere of Action in Bristol 1795-96
 
 
D5. ROMANTIC SCIENCE AND THE CITY (C203)
 
Marilyn Gaull, The Editorial Institute at Boston University, Organizer and Chair (marilyn.gaull@gmail.com)
 
Elisa Beshero-Bondar, University of Pittsburgh, Greensburg (ebb8@pitt.edu)
Humphry Davy and Robert Southey in Transit: Thalaba’s Gothic Science
 
Marilyn Gaull, The Editorial Institute at Boston University (marilyn.gaull@gmail.com)
Natural History in Urban Life
 
Robert Gunn, University of Texas, El Paso (rlgunn@utep.edu)
Science and the City Bookshop: J. R. Bartlett’s New York
 
Tom Schmid, University of Texas, El Paso (tschmid@utep.edu)
London’s Immortal Druggists: The Urban Science and Business of Pharmaceuticals in the Romantic Period
 

Session E Friday 4:00 – 5:30
 
 
E1. ROUSSEAU (C198)
 
John Brenkman, Baruch College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, Chair (John_Brenkman@baruch.cuny.edu)
 
Carol Ann Bärtges, The Graduate Center, CUNY (c.bartges@att.net)
Rousseau's Urban Landscapes and the Search for Authenticity
 
Nancy Yousef, Baruch College and The Graduate Center, CUNY (Nancy_Yousef@baruch.cuny.edu)
Phenomenal Beauty – Rousseau in Venice
 
Ellen S. Burt, University of California, Irvine (esburt@uci.edu)
The Urban Army and the Stranger in Rousseau
 
 
E2. SEDGWICK IN THE CITY - a panel and roundtable organized in tribute to Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (C204-205)
 
Ghislaine McDayter, Bucknell University, Moderator (mcdayter@bucknell.edu)
 
Diana Koretsky, Duke University (diana.koretsky@duke.edu)
"The hundreds and hundreds that cross": Que(e)ring Romanticism in Whitman
 
Ghislaine McDayter, Bucknell University (mcdayter@bucknell.edu)
"In my Father's house": Flirting with the Law in Inchbald's A Simple Story
 
Guinn Batten, Washington University in St. Louis (mgbatten@artsci.wustl.edu)
Seeing Shame: The Cosmopolitical Sedgwick and the Knowledge of Power
 
Robert Anderson, Oakland University (r2anders@oakland.edu)
Jeffrey Insko, Oakland University (insko@oakland.edu)
Building the City of Poetry: Labor and Friendship in Blake and Whitman
 
 
E3. ROME (C201)
 
Christopher Clason, Oakland University, Chair (clason@oakland.edu)
 
Lloyd Davies, Western Kentucky University (Lloyd.davies@wku.edu)
Byron’s Celestial City: Childe Harold in Rome
 
Sandra Hughes, Western Kentucky University (sandy.hughes@wku.edu)
When in Rome: Hawthorne’s Response to the Eternal City
 
Tatiana Barnett, Independent Scholar (bookattic@sbcglobal.net)
Rome Above Rome: Nikolai Gogol’s Romantic Vision Of The Eternal City
 

E4. URBAN POLITICAL ECONOMIES (C202)
 
Jonathan Farina, Seton Hall University, Chair (jvfarina@gmail.com)
 
Hilary N. Fezzey, University of Wisconsin, Superior (hfezzey@uwsuper.edu)
The Industrialized City in Malthus, Godwin, and Place
 
Joel Faflak, University of Western Ontario (jfaflak@uwo.ca)
"one ample cemetery": De Quincey and the Urban Space of Moral Management
 
 
E5. IMPERIAL CITIES (C197)
 
Dan White, University of Toronto, Chair (daniel.white@utoronto.ca)
 
Jeanne Moskal, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (jmoskal@email.unc.edu)
Serampore in the Romantic Period
 
Laura Rutland, Gannon University (rutland001@gannon.edu)
The City of the Other: Sacrificial Order in Hemans’ “The Indian City”
 
Michele Speitz, University of Colorado, Boulder (Michele.Speitz@Colorado.edu)
Lives of Quiet Medtiation: Hazlitt's London in "The Indian Jugglers"
 
 
E6. DE QUINCEY AND GODWIN (C203)
 
Eric Lindstrom, University of Vermont, Chair (elindstr@uvm.edu)
 
Leila Walker, The Graduate Center, CUNY (leilaswalker@yahoo.com)
The Architecture of Urban Childhood in Thomas De Quincey’s Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
 
Jennifer Lokash, Memorial University (jlokash@nf.sympatico.ca)
Urban and Rural Bodies: The Naked, the Clothed, and the Animal in Godwin’s Caleb Williams
 
Michael Quilligan, University of Maryland (mquillig@yahoo.com)
 “[H]iding...amongst the crowds of the metropolis': The Romantic Beginnings of Urban Gothic in Caleb Williams and Confessions of an English Opium Eater
 
 
 
 
6:00 Plenary II
 
Marjorie Levinson
University of Michigan
“Clouds and Crowds, Solitude and Society: Revisiting Romantic Lyric”
Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center
 
 
 
 
 
Saturday, November 7
city college
 
Hospitality and Registration (NAC 6/219) – 9:15 to 5:30
Continental Breakfast – 9:15 (NAC 6/219)
 
 
Session G Saturday 10:00 – 11:45
 
 
G1. THE WEAKENED BODY (NAC 6/308)
 
Ashley Cross, Manhattan College, Chair (ashley.cross@manhattan.edu)
 
Angie O'Neal, Shorter College (aoneal@shorter.edu)
“Hardly any figure at all”: Pain, Poetry, and the Romantic Body
 
Ashley Cross, Manhattan College
Keats, Robinson, and the “Forlorn” Body
 
Michelle Faubert, University of Manitoba (faubert@cc.umanitoba.ca)
Nerve theory, Sensibility and Romantic Metrosexuals
 
 
G2. THE MEDIA OF THE CITY (NAC 1/202)
 
Peter Manning, Stony Brook University, Chair (peter.manning@sunysb.edu)
 
Andrew Piper, McGill University (andrew.piper@mcgill.ca)
City of Paper: Goethe, Print and Urbanism
 
Melissa Whalen, Fordham University (mewhalen@fordham.edu)
 “Immortal Scraps”: Keats’s Theatrical Reviews in The Champion
 
Michael Gamer, University of Pennsylvania (mgamer@english.upenn.edu)
Performing Cities, Living Canons, National Repertories
 
Peter Manning, Stony Brook University
Wordsworth's "Illustrated Books and Newspapers" and the Media of the City
 
 
G3. ROMANTIC EXCESS AND THE CITY (NAC 1/203)
 
Carl Watson, The Graduate Center, CUNY, Organizer and Chair (cw.viator@verizon.net)
 
Amy Brandt, The Graduate Center, CUNY (brandtal@yahoo.com)
Hitting the Streets: Urban Excess and the "Chiffonnier(e)"
 
Carl Watson, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Excess as Sublimity: Henry Darger and the Hoarding of the Self
 
James Feast, Brooklyn Rail (max4oreo2@verizon.net)
Clayton Patterson’s Front Door series and the Hegelian Sublime
 
Peter Heymans, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (pheymans@vub.ac.be)
Deleuze and Guattari’s Becoming-Molecular and the Urban Sublime in Wordsworth’s Prelude
 

G4. BYRON (NAC 6/316)
 
Anya Taylor, John Jay College, CUNY, Chair (anyataylor1@juno.com)
 
Jonathan Sachs, Concordia University, Montréal (jsachs@alcor.concordia.ca)
London in Ruins: Barbauld, Byron, and Decline
 
Joselyn Almeida-Beveridge, University of Massachusetts, Amherst (almeidab@english.umass.edu)
 “A New World Without Slavery”: Ghosts of Atlantic Finance in Byron's “The Island"
 
Jack Wasserman, Byron Society of America (jgwasserman@yahoo.com)
Homosexuality in Venice in the Time of Lord Byron
 
Sein Oh, University of Illinois, Chicago (soh23@uic.edu)
The Conflict Between Utopian Idealism and Civic Authority in Byron's “The Island”
 
 
G5. CITIES AND EMPIRES (NAC 4/220)
 
Walter Cohen, Cornell University, Organizer and Chair (wic1@cornell.edu)
 
Dana Van Kooy, University of Colorado (dana.vankooy@colorado.edu)
Staging Cities under Siege: London’s Cockneys, Spain’s Patriots, and the Romantic Comedy of Colman’s Africans
 
Dan White, University of Toronto (daniel.white@utoronto.ca)
Imperial Spectacles: Panoramas in and of Calcutta
 
Elizabeth Chang, University of Missouri (change@missouri.edu)
Wordsworth’s Dream of Gehol
 
Walter Cohen, Cornell University
Empires of the (Not-too-far) East
 
Lunch Break 11:45 – 1:15 (on your own)
 
Session H Saturday 1:15 – 3:00
 
 
H1. CITY RHYTHMS (WORDSWORTH) (NAC 6/316)
 
Nancy Yousef, Baruch College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, Chair (Nancy_Yousef@baruch.cuny.edu)
 
Stefanie Head, University of Rhode Island (stefanie_head@mail.uri.edu)
Wordsworth at Speed: The Pace of (City) Life
 
Christopher Stokes, University of Exeter (C.R.Stokes@exeter.ac.uk)
Wordsworth and Rhythmanalysis: Semantic and Semiotic Experience in Book VII of The Prelude
 
Eric Lindstrom, University of Vermont (elindstr@uvm.edu)
 “Dog Sleep”: Animals, Exposures, and London
 
Kir Kuiken, State University of New York, Albany (kkuiken@albany.edu)
On the Threshold: London and the (Missing) Experience of Being-in-Common in Wordsworth’s Prelude


H2. SIGHT/SEEING (NAC 1/202)
 
Sonia Hofkosh, Tufts University, Organizer and Chair (sonia.hofkosh@tufts.edu)
 
Jillian Heydt-Stevenson, University of Colorado, Boulder (Jill.Heydt@Colorado.edu)
Zenobia, or the Fall of Palmyra
 
Mary Favret, Indiana University, Bloomington (favretm@indiana.edu)
 “In city pent” and “cloisters dim”: Sight in the City
 
Sonia Hofkosh, Tufts University
What the Camera Sees
 
 
H3. HUNT AND THE COCKNEY SCHOOL (NAC 4/220B)
 
Jeffrey Cox, University of Colorado, Boulder, Chair (Jeffrey.Cox@Colorado.edu)
 
Charles Mahoney, University of Connecticut (charles.mahoney@uconn.edu)
Leigh Hunt’s Literary Cartography of London
 
Michael Nicholson, University of California, Los Angeles (californiabear@gmail.com)
The Living And: Suburban Spatial Irony in the Cockney School
 
Paul Westover, Brigham Young University (paw@byu.edu)
Magical Objects, Books, and the Romantic Cityscape in Leigh Hunt's Wishing-Cap Papers
 
 
H4. THE CITY AS HISTORICAL TOPOLOGY (NAC 1/203)
 
Kyle Grimes, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Chair (kgrimes@uab.edu)
 
Kyle Grimes, University of Alabama, Birmingham
The City as History: Urban Historiography in the Romantic Period
 
Kurtis Hessel, University of Colorado, Boulder (Kurtis.Hessel@Colorado.edu)
Byron's Romance Historiographies: Knowing and Experiencing Ruin(s)
 
Tom Mole, McGill University (tom.mole@mcgill.ca)
Romanticism and the Memorial City
 
Walter Reed, Emory University (wlreed@emory.edu)
London Calling: The Urban Chronotype of Romanticism
 
 
H5. URBAN MASSES (NAC 6/308)
 
Michael Demson, The Graduate Center, CUNY, Chair (mdemson@earthlink.net)
 
Daniel Schierenbeck, University of Central Missouri (schierenbeck@ucmo.edu)
Representing the Urban Mob: Jane West, The Priestley Riots, and “Mass” Confusion
 
Heather Hamilton, (hamil014@hotmail.com)
Politics, Aesthetics, and the “Pestilential Masses”: Wordsworth's Urban Poor
 
Jennifer Law-Sullivan, Oakland University (law@oakland.edu)
London, Lima, Paris: Flora Tristan’s Cities as Impetus for Social Change
 
Michael Demson, The Graduate Center, CUNY
“Rise like lions”: Percy Shelley's “The Mask of Anarchy” and the Organization of Labor in New York City, 1910-1930
 

Session I Saturday 3:15 – 5:00
 
 
I1. ROBINSON (NAC 6/308)
 
John Bugg, Fordham University, Chair (bugg@fordham.edu)
 
Daniel Robinson, Widener University (darobinson@mail.widener.edu)
Mary Robinson’s “Tabitha Bramble Visits the Metropolis”
 
Iman El Bakary, Ain Shams University (imanpiano@yahoo.com)
Seeking Refuge in the Quotidian: Mary Robinson’s “London’s Summer Morning”
 
William Brewer, Appalachian State University (brewerwd@appstate.edu)
Egalitarianism in Mary Robinson’s “Metropolis”
 
 
I2. THE COUNTRY AND THE CITY I (NAC 4/220B)
 
Charles Carroll, University of Toronto, Chair (charles@literatureinreview.com)
 
Brian Rejack, Vanderbilt University (brian.j.rejack@vanderbilt.edu)
Keats’s “Cursed Oatcake”: Urban Eating and Rural Indigestion
 
Charles Carroll, University of Toronto
Inner Lives, Outer Spaces: Romanticism and Urban Life
 
Francesco Crocco, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY (frankcrocco@gmail.com)
The Country and the City in Wordsworth’s National Imaginary
 
Matthew Borushko, Stonehill College (mborushko@stonehill.edu)
Wordsworth in the Country and the City
 
 
I3. THE STREET (NAC 1/203)
 
Marlene Clark, City College - CUNY, Chair (westgate63@yahoo.com)
 
Charlotte Deaver, The Graduate Center, CUNY (charlottedeaver@gmail.com)
Wall Street Transactions: Locating Sites of Exchange in Bartleby the Scrivener
 
Jerry Weng, Yale University (jerry.weng@yale.edu)
Blake's Streets of Woe: Synecdoche and Figuration
 
Christoph Houswitschka, University of Bamberg (englit@houswitschka.de)
“Circling from London and her crowded streets” - Urban Topography and the Literature of Democratisation in the 1790s
 
Kristin O'Rourke, Dartmouth College (Kristin.O'Rourke@Dartmouth.edu)
Delacroix’s Urban Landscape: Revolutionary Painting and the City
 
 
I4. THE JOURNEY TO THE CITY: ROMANTICISMS IN AFRICAN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN LITERATURES  (NAC 6/316)
 
Victoria Chevalier, Furman University, Chair and Organizer (victoria.chevalier@furman.edu)
 
Jessica Damián, Georgia Gwinnett College (jdamian@ggc.usg.edu)
 “Tracing upon an old map the route to England”: Mary Seacole’s London and the Circum-Caribbean Market
 
Nicole Rizzuto, Oklahoma State University (nicole.rizzuto@okstate.edu)
Impasse as Passage: Aporetic Journeys in Lamming and Rhys
 
Richard Perez, John Jay College, CUNY (profperez@msn.com)
Reading the City, Imagining futures: The Black Flâneur in Patrick Chamoiseau’s Texaco
 
 
I5. REAL, IMAGINARY AND SYMBOLIC CITYSCAPES (NAC 1/202)
 
Mark Lussier, Arizona State University, Organizer and Chair (mark.lussier@asu.edu)
 
Jeffrey Cox, University of Colorado, Boulder (Jeffrey.Cox@Colorado.edu)
Cockney Cities
 
Anne Mellor, University of California, Los Angeles (mellor@humnet.ucla.edu)
Byron and Turner in Venice: Desire, Decadence and Romantic Irony
 
Mark Lussier, Arizona State University
Blake’s Golgonooza: London and/as the Eternal City of Art
 
 
 
5:30 Plenary III
Alexander Gelley
University of California, Irvine
“Entering the Passagen: On Benjamin's Arcades Project”
The Great Hall, Shepard Hall, City College
 

 
7:00 Conference Banquet and Presidential Address
Faculty Dining Room, NAC 3^rd Floor
City College
 
 
Nancy Moore Goslee
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
“Scott's Rhyming Reconsidered:
Nationalisms, Romanticisms, and (maybe) Aesthetics”
 
 
 
Presentation of the
2008 Jean-Pierre Barricelli Book Prize
to
James Donelan,
University of California, Santa Barbara
 
Poetry and the Romantic Musical Aesthetic
Cambridge University Press
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
sunday, November 8
city college
 
 
Hospitality and Registration (NAC 6/219) – 9:15 to 2:00
Continental Breakfast – 9:15 (NAC 6/219)
 
 
Session J Sunday 10:00 – 11:45
 
 
J1. CHANNELING PARIS  (NAC 6/316)
 
Audrey Murfin, Binghamton University, Chair (bg21251@binghamton.edu)
 
David Sigler, University of Idaho (dsigler@uidaho.edu)
Helen Maria Williams in Paris: “that den of carnage, that slaughterhouse of man”
 
Jenn Blair, University of Georgia (celery@uga.edu)
No Sidewalks in Sodom: The Visible and Invisible Subject in Arthur Young’s Travels in France and Charlotte Smith’s Desmond

Julie Kipp, Hope College (kipp@hope.edu)
Liberté, Égalité, and (United) Irish Fraternité in Romantic Belfast
 

J2. DE QUINCEY (NAC 6/308)
 
Alan Vardy, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY, Chair (avardy@hunter.cuny.edu)
 
Alan Vardy, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY (avardy@hunter.cuny.edu)
De Quincey and the Bounds of Sanctuary
 
Jonathan Luftig, Morgan State University (jonathan.luftig@MORGAN.EDU)
Kant in London:  Freedom and the Texture of Time in De Quincey’s Confessions of an Opium Eater

Onita Vaz-Hooper, Davidson College (onvazhooper@davidson.edu)
The Technology of Reverie: The Mechanization of the De Quinceyan Imagination
 
Tim Fulford, Nottingham Trent University (timfulford@tiscali.co.uk)
Babylon and Jerusalem on the Old Kent Road
 
 
J3. URBAN GOTHIC II (NAC 6/304)
 
Jennifer Santos, Virginia Military Institute, Chair (santosjm@vmi.edu)
 
Deborah Russell, University of York, UK (der104@york.ac.uk)
The City and the Nation: 1790s Gothic Fiction
 
Erica Aguillon, San Diego State University (erica.ruchman@gmail.com)
Urban Monstrosity in the Gothic Novel: A Look at How Space and Place Engender Gothic Anxieties,
 
John Savarese, Rutgers University (john.savarese@rutgers.edu)
The Monk, Poetic Insertion, and the Social Mind
 
 
J4.  JEWS AND THE CITY (NAC 4/220B)
 
Sheila Spector, Independent Scholar, Organizer and Chair (sheilaspector@msn.com)
 
Daniel Monterescu, Central European University (monterescu@gmail.com)
New Jews, Old Jews: Gentrification and the Romantic Imagination of Jaffa
 
Emma Peacocke, Carleton University (epeacock@connect.carleton.ca)
Integration through the Gallery: Edgeworth’s Harrington and Jews in the City of London
 
Saskia Coenen Snyder, University of South Carolina (saskiacs1@yahoo.com)
 “A Wintry Town Scene”:  Romantic Representations of Jewish Life in Nineteenth-Century Amsterdam
 
Beornn McCarthy, University of Melbourne (beornnm@unimelb.edu.au)
The Jew in the Metropolis: From Rags to Romantic Collecting in Isaac D’Israeli’s Curiosities of Literature


Session K Sunday 12:00 – 1:45
 
 
K1. LITERATURE AND THE URBAN READER   (NAC 6/304)
 
Diane Long Hoeveler, Marquette University, Chair (diane.hoeveler@marquette.edu)
 
Elizabeth Neiman, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (eaneiman@uwm.edu)
Selena Davenport’s The Hypocrite (1814): Davenport’s London Perspective on the Wordsworthian Ethos of Poetic Genius
 
Lisa Kirch, University of Maryland (lkirch@umd.edu)
“Christabel,” “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,” and the Power of Spectacle
 
Virginia Hromulak, Nassau Community College (Virginia.Hromulak@ncc.edu)
Hemans and Abdy in the Literary Annual: The Aestheticizing Dynamic of the Commercial Imperative
 
 
K2. CITIES AND CITIZENS: ROMANTICISM IN THE LIBERAL METROPOLIS (NAC 6/303)
 
Anahid Nersessian and Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud, University of Chicago, Chairs and co-Organizers (anahid@uchicago.edu, gerard@uchicago.edu)
 
Anahid Nersessian, University of Chicago
"The Street without Speaking": Hazlitt’s Liber Amoris
 
Cassandra Falke, East Texas Baptist University (cfalke@etbu.edu)
Wooden Souls: Liberal Subjectivity and Work in the Romantic Period
 
Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud, University of Chicago
Fire in the Islamic City: Shelley and the Exotic Aesthetics of Liberalism
 
 
K3. THE CITY AND THE SUBLIME (NAC 6/308)
 
James Hatch, Hunter College – CUNY, Chair (jch10025@aol.com)
 
Matt Lorenz, Stony Brook University (matthewrlorenz@gmail.com)
Wordsworth’s Subtle Hedonism: The Wonder of Poetic Pleasure, the Sublimity of Frantic Novels and Cities
 
Peggy Dunn Bailey, Henderson State University, Arkansas (baileyp@hsu.edu)
Leaving the City—and the Suburbs:  Barbauld’s Astronomical Journey in “A Summer Evening’s Meditation”
 
Rachel Feder, University of Michigan (refeder@umich.edu)
Urban Infinity, Rural Sublime
 
Rainer J. Hanshe, The Graduate Center, CUNY (romanexile@hotmail.com)
Wordsworth as Physician of Culture: Towards the Configuration of a Healthy Sublime
 
 
K4 .THE COUNTRY AND THE CITY II (NAC 4/220B)
 
Michelle Faubert, University of Manitoba, Chair (faubert@cc.umanitoba.ca)
 
Frank Duba, Millersville University (Frank.Duba@millersville.edu)
A Sentimental Tour:  Newbiggin visits London
 
Myra Lotto, University of Pennsylvania (mlotto@english.upenn.edu)
The Rustic Mode: Neology and the Natural World of John Clare
 
Amy Gates, University of Illinois, Chicago (agates3@uic.edu)
The Disappearing Dead: The Graves of Wordsworth’s Lyrical Ballads
 
 
K5. BLAKE (NAC 6/316)
 
Sheila Spector, Independent Scholar, Chair (sheilaspector@msn.com)
 
David Baulch, University of West Florida (dbaulch@uwf.edu)
Corporeal Command and the Reasoning Historian in William Blake's Description of The Ancient Britons
 
David Rettenmaier, University of Maryland (dave_rett@yahoo.com)
Golgonooza’s Walls of Words: Ornaments as Building Blocks in Blake’s Jerusalem
 
Matthew Leporati, Fordham University (matthew.leporati@gmail.com)
Writing Self and City in the Romantic Epics of Wordsworth and Blake
 
William J. Peck, Purdue University (wjpeck@purdue.edu)
Simultaneous Harmony and Cacophony in the City: The Interplay of Blake’s “Holy Thursday” and “London”

 
 
CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS

Aguillon, Erica J3
Alexander, Meena A2
Almeida-Beveridge, Joselyn G4
Anderson, Robert E2
Anglin, Robin C2
Bailey, Peggy Dunn K3
Bannon, Brad A2
Bardsley, Alyson C1
Barnett, Tatiana E3
Barry, Sean D4
Bärtges, Carol Ann E1
Batten, Guinn E2
Baulch, David K5
Baxendine, James B2
Berman, Marshall B2
Beshero-Bondar, Elisa D5
Blair, Jenn J1
Borushko, Matthew I2
Brandt, Amy G3
Brenkman, John E1
Brewer, William I1
Brownstein, Rachel C4
Bugg, John I1
Burkholder-Mosco, Nicole B1
Burt, Ellen S. E1
Canuel, Mark C1
Carroll, Charles I2
Cass, Jeffrey B5
Chang, Elizabeth G5
Chapin, Lisbeth C3
Chevalier, Victoria I4
Clark, Marlene I3
Clason, Christopher A3, E3
Coenen Snyder, Saskia J4
Cohen, Walte G5
Cohen-Vrignaud, Gerard K2
Cox, Jeffrey H3, I5
Crocco, Francesco I2
Cross, Ashley G1
Curran, Stuart B1
Damián, Jessica I4
Davies, Lloyd E3
Davis, William D2
Deaver, Charlotte I3
Demson, Michael H5
Denlinger, Elizabeth C2
Donelan, James, Barricelli Prize (Banquet)
Donovan, Kellie A1
Duba, Frank K4
Eichenlaub, Justin D4
Eisner, Eric A4
El Bakary, Iman I1
Faflak, Joel E4
Falke, Cassandra K2
Farina, Jonathan C2, E4
Faubert, Michelle G1, K4
Favret, Mary H2
Feast, James G3
Feder, Rachel K3
Fezzey, Hilary N. E4
François, Anne-Lise C1
Friedlander, Keith B3
Fulford, Tim J2
Galperin, William A2
Gamer, Michael G2
Gates, Amy K4
Gaull, Marilyn D5
Gelley, Alexander, Plenary (Saturday)
George, Laura A2
George, Jacqueline C3
Goslee, Nancy Moore, 
Presidential Address (Banquet)
Gould, Timothy B2
Grimes, Kyle H4
Gunn, Robert D5
Hagele, Scott C5
Hamilton, Heather H5
Hancock, Stephen A4
Hanshe, Rainer J. K3
Hatch, James K3
Head, Stefanie H1
Hess, Scott D1
Hessel, Kurtis H4
Heydt-Stevenson Jillian, H2
Heymans, Peter G3
Hoeveler, Diane Long A1, K1
Hofkosh, Sonia H2
Hood, Eric D4
Houswitschka, Christoph B4, I3
Hromulak, Virginia K1
Hughes, Sandra E3
Hull, Simon B3
Hutchings, Kevin C1
Insko, Jeffrey E2
Jager, Colin A5
Joo, Hyeuk Kyu D1
Kipp, Julie J1
Kirch, Lisa K1
Klinger, Amanda B1
Koretsky, Diana C5, E2
Kuiken, Kir H1
Lai, Christine D4
Law-Sullivan, Jennifer H5
Leffel, John C4
Leporati, Matthew K5
Levinson, Marjorie, Plenary (Friday)
Lichtenwalner, Shawna C3
Lindstrom, Eric E6, H1
Livorni, Ernesto D3
Lokash, Jennifer E6
Lorenz, Matt K3
Lotto, Myra K4
Luftig, Jonathan J2
Lussier, Mark I5
Mahoney, Charles H3
Manning, Peter G2
McCarthy, Beornn J4
McDayter, Ghislaine E2
Mellor, Anne I5
Mole, Tom H4
Monterescu, Daniel J4
Moon, Michael, Plenary (Thursday)
Moskal, Jeanne E5
Murfin, Audrey J1
Musgrove, Martha A4
Myers, Mary Anne C5
Neiman, Elizabeth K1
Nersessian, Anahid K2
Nguyen, Theresa H. B4
Nicholson, Michael H3
Oh, Sein G4
O'Kell, Jennifer B1
O'Neal, Angie G1
O'Rourke, Kristin I3
O'Rourke, James D1
Pappas, Nickolas B2
Peacocke, Emma J4
Peck, William J. K5
Peer, Larry D3
Perez, Richard I4
Peritz, Janice B5
Piper, Andrew G2
Crafton, Lisa Plummer A1
Purinton, Marjean B5
Quilligan, Michael E6
Reed, Walter H4
Rejack, Brian I2
Reno, Seth D1
Rettenmaier, David K5
Reynolds, Nicole C2
Rizzuto, Nicole I4
Robinson, Daniel I1
Robinson, Terry F. A5
Rousselle, Elizabeth D2
Ruderman, D. B. A4
Russell, Deborah J3
Rutland, Laura E5
Sachs, Jonathan G4
Samuelian, Kristin C5
Santos, Jennifer A1, J3
Savarese, John D4, J3
Schierenbeck, Daniel H5
Schlutz, Alexander A3, J3
Schmid, Thomas D5
Sciolini, Vania C5
Sigler, David J1
Sowell, Debra B4
Spector, Sheila J4, K5
Speitz, Michele E5
Spreizer, Christa A3
Stanback, Emily B3, D1
Stelzig, Eugene D3
Stokes, Christopher H1
Svampa, Maria C3
Taylor, Anya G4
Tedeschi, Stephen D4
Thomas, Sophie B4
Thompson, James C4
Van Kooy, Dana G5
Vardy, Alan, B3 J2
Vasconcelos, Filomena D2
Vaz-Hooper, Onita J2
Verderame, Michael D3
Walker, Leila E6
Wasserman, Jack G4
Watson, Carl G3
Weng, Jerry I3
Westover, Paul H3
Whalen, Melissa G2
White, Dan E5, G5
Winckles, Andrew D3
Wong, Amy R. A1
Worley, Sharon A5
Youngquist, Paul C1
Yousef, Nancy E1, H1