This section of Ellen's website presents her conference papers and proposals.
- Frances's Fanny: Proposed Solution, A Proposal for a paper to be delivered at the upcoming Burney Society AGM, Montreal 2014
- What the four film adaptations have to tell us about Austen's Mansfield Park and one another, proposal for a paper to be delivered at the upcoming JASNA AGM, Montreal 2014
- Mapping Trollope; or Geographies of Power. Paper delivered at the Sharp conference, July 18-21, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa, July 21, 2013. Panel: Imaginary Geographies
- Diasporic Jane: images of displacement, exile and homelessness in the Austen films Paper delivered at ASECS, Cleveland, Ohio, Renaissance Hotel, April 4, 2013. Panel: 18th Century and Film.
- "'To translate seemed to me a beautiful thing to do": Translation as Matching Creative Act"," for a Chawton Conference: Pride and Prejudices in Women's Writing of the Later 18th century, a panel called Women Writers and Translation, July 2013.
- “'Infamy, infamy, they've all got it in for me!': paranoia in the writings of Charlotte Smith, Anne Radcliffe, Mary Brunton, and Sophie Cottin" Submitted Proposal for the upcoming EC/ASECS for panel, "The Secret and the Celebrated: Life-Writing by and about Notorious Figures”, for annual meeting, November 1-3, 2012, at the Hyatt Regency Baltimore on the Inner Harbour. Topic for conference: "What does Infamy Matter?"
Call for Papers: '"R-e-s-p-e-c-t: For actresses and women playwrights respect and favorable reputation matter." A panel for the upcoming EC/ASECS (proposed by me) for annual meeting, November 1-3, 2012, at the Hyatt Regency Baltimore on the Inner Harbour. Topic for conference: "What does Infamy Matter?"
- 'The Nightmare of History in Ann Radcliffe's Landscapes”. Paper delivered at South Central ASECS, Grove Park Inn, February 23, 2012. For Panel, "'Terrifying Prospects & Psychological Landscapes -- Visions and Vistas of the Gothic.". South Central ASECS, February 23-26, 2012, Grove Park Inn, Asheville, North Carolina
- "What are men to rocks and mountains?': The Content of Ann Radcliffe's Landscapes", accepted proposal for panel for upcoming Society for Eighteenth Century Studies at the Grove Inn Park, Asheville, North Carolina, February 23-25, 2012
- “Occupy (!) the letters: how Austen's letters reveal women's bodies are her fictions' arena, Submitted proposal for breakout sessions for 2011 JASNA, Brooklyn, NYC: "Sex, Power, and Money" in Jane Austen's Fiction," October 5-7, 2012
- Where did it come from?': how the illustrations in Trollope's novels tell stories not in the texts": Submitted proposal for a paper to NVSA (Northeast Victorian Association), Spring Conference to be held at Columbia University, April 13-15, 2012 Victorian Clichés and Orthodoxies.
- I have a right to choose my own life:" Liberty in Winston Graham's Poldark novels. Paper delivered at EC/ASECS, Penn State, State College, November 5, 2011. For Panel, "'Liberty in historical, post-colonial and rewritten novels set in the long 18th century ." My Proposal for my panel EC/ASECS, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, Pa, November 3-6, 2011
- Call for Papers: Liberty in historical, post-colonial and rewritten novels set in the long 18th century. A Panel for EC/ASECS (proposed by me), Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania, Pa, November 3-6, 2011. Other panelists: Geoffrey Sills, Talissa Ford, Sylvia Marks
- "'People that marry can never part: an intertextual reading of Northanger Abbey, paper given at JASNA, Portland, Me, now published in Persuasions Online., 31:1, Winter 2010.
- “People that marry can never part: real and romantic gothicism in Northanger Abbey" Submitted proposal for breakout sessions for upcoming JASNA, Portland, Maine, October 28-31, 2010. "Jane Austen and the Abbey: Mystery, Mayhem and Muslin in Portland.”
- "What right have you to detain me here:" Rape in Clarissa. For panel at ASECS, Albuquerque, New Mexico ASECS, Albuquerque, New Mexico, March 18-21, 2010. Eighteeenth-Century Law, Fiction and Moralistic Writing." Chairperson: Mary Trouille. Other Panelists: Leslie A. Richardson and Sarah Skoronski
- "How you all must have laughed: Such a witty masquerade:" Clarissa 1991. For panel at ASECS, Richmond, Virginia, March 26-29, 2009. "The Eighteenth-Century on Film." Chairperson: John O'Neill. Panelists: David Richter and Beatrice Fink.
- "The Gothic Northanger Abbey: A Re-Evaluation." For panel at EC/ASECS, Georgetown University, November 6-9, 2008. "Re-evaluating Austen." Chairpersons: Temma Berg and Elizabeth Lambert. Panelists: Elizabeth Lambert, "Raising Demons: Children in Austen's Novels;" Manuel Schonhorn, "Sites of Value in Mansfield Park;" Ellen Moody, "The Gothic Northanger Abbey." My paper will include a discussion of the three Northanger Abbey films.
- '"'A hole in the manuscript big enough to put your finger through:' the misframing of Anne Murray Halkett's autobiography." For panel at ASECS 22-25 March 2006, Atlanta, Georgia. "Paratexts." Chair: Caroline Breashears. Panelists: Stephen Szilagyi, Pat Rogers, Evan Davis.
- 'Cast out from respectability a while:' Anne Murray Halkett's Life in the Manuscripts." For panel at EC/ASECS 26-29 October 2006, at Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Bibliography, Textual Studies, and Book History. Chair: Eleanor Shevlin. Panelists: William E. Rivers, John Heins
- "Trollope's Comfort Romances for Men: Heterosexual Male Heroism in his Work" For panel at Exeter Trollope Conference July 17-19, 2006: Trollope and Gender. Exeter University, Exeter, Devon, UK. "Performing Masculinity. Gender and Narrative Construction I." Chair: Deborah Denenholz Morse. Panelists : Ellen Moody, Michelle Mouton, David Skilton .
- "Women in Cyberspace" Panel at ASECS meeting, 30 March - 2 April 2006 in Montreal, Canada. "Eighteenth Century Women Writers After the Digital Turn." Roundtable for the Woman's Caucus. Other speakers: Isobel Grundy, University of Alberta, Suzan Van Duke, Universite of d'Utrecht Institut de Recherches en Histoire et Cultures. Chair: Lori Davis-Perry, United States Air Force Academy. Paper complete.
- "'I hate such parts as we have plaid today:' In Praise of Anne Finch and Mary Wortley Montagu's Mordant Muse [emphasis added]": Anne Finch's epilogue to Rowe's Jane Shore and Mary Wortley Montagu's epilogue to an intended play on Mary Queen of Scots, Intended to be Spoken by Anne Oldfield, and Elizabeth Tollet's Ovidian Epistle, "Anne Boleyn to Henry VIII". Panel at the EC/ASECS October 2004 meeting at Cape May: "Lives, Lyrics and the Healing Arts." Henry Fulton, Chair. Panelists: Mary Margaret Stewart, Ellen Moody, Luanne T. Frank.
- Continent Not Isolated: Jane Austen Among French Women". Panel at the EC/ASECS October 2003 meeting at the University of Pittsburg at Greensboro: "English Literature in France." Margaret Koehler, Chair. Panelists: Walter Gershuny, Ellen Moody, Robert Frail.
- "A Website: Freedom of the Press Belongs to the Woman Who Owns One". Panel at the EC/ASECS October 2002 meeting at Rosemont College in Pennsylvania, and at the ISECS/ASECS August 2003 meeting at UCLA: "Publishing on the Web: Differing Approaches and Experiences. Theodore E. Braun, Chair. Panelists: Kevin Berland, Jack Lynch, Ellen Moody.