EC/ASECS 2012 Conference – Baltimore November 1-3, 2012
What does Infamy Matter: when you get to keep your fortune?
Program: Schedule of Panels and Papers
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 1, 2012
7:00-8:00 p.m.
Reception
Launch of Professor Sandro Jung's journal Eighteenth Century Poetry
8:00-9:00 p.m.
Performance Event
Peter Staffel
Oral/Aural Experience
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 2012
8:00-9:00 a.m.
Breakfast Reception
"Sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of": A Celebration of the Career and Contributions of Don Mell, University of Delaware
Sponsored by the Office of the Provost, University of Delaware
9:15-10:30 a.m.
1. Fame and Partisan Selfhood
Chair: Rachel Carnell, Cleveland State University
Carole Sargent, Georgetown University, "If the Whig Laureate Loves Women, Then Should She Still Sing? The Public Courtships of Elizabeth Singer Rowe."
Karen Gevirtz, Seton Hall University, "'Nothing to See Here': Sex, Scandal, and the Shifting Self in Behn's Love-Letters"
Rachel Carnell, Cleveland State University, "Infamy and Political Blackmail: Delarivier Manley and Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough"
2. Religion in the Age of Enlightenment
Chair: Theodore E. D. Braun, University of Delaware
3. The Art of Military Misconduct in England, 1660-1815
Chair: D.N. DeLuna, University College London
4. Bad Guys, Good Guys, Seditious Libel and Infamous Trials
Chair: Jack Fruchtman, Towson University
10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
PLENARY SESSION
G.S. Rousseau, Oxford University
"The Notorious Sir John Hill"
12:00-1:30 p.m.
LUNCH ON YOUR OWN
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 2, 20121:30-2:45 p.m.
5. R-e-s-p-e-c-t: For actresses and women, playwrights respect and favorable reputation matter
Chair: Ellen Moody, George Mason University
Respondent: Laura Engel, Duquesne University (Fashioning Celebrity)
6. The Aesthetics of This Buried Life
Chair: Frances B. Singh, Hostos Community College/CUNY
7. Fame followed by infamy
Chair: Linda Merians
8. The Secret and Celebrated: Life-Writings by and about Notorious Figures
Chair: Caroline Breashears, St. Lawrence University
3:15-4:45 p.m.
9. This Buried Life: The Material Culture
Chair: Frances B. Singh, Hostos Community College/CUNY
10. The Infamy of Fiction
Chair: Collin Jennings, New York University
Professor Kathryn Temple, Georgetown University, "Representing Justice: The Expedient Fictionality of Blackstone's Commentaries"
Professor Eleanor Shevlin, West Chester University, "Legal Discourse and Novelistic Form"
Collin Jennings, New York University, "Lands and Letters at the Fringes: Fictions of Inheritance in the British Enlightenment"
11. A New Monument: Theatre in Dublin, 1745-1820
Chair: Matthew J. Kinservik, Interim Dean of Arts and Sciences, University of Delaware
John Greene, English, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, TBD
Robert Hume, English, Penn State, TBD
Scott Paul Gordon, English, Lehigh University, TBD
12. Celebrity Mothers in the Eighteenth Century
Chair: TBD
Marilyn Francus, West Virginia University, "Frances Burney Knows Best: Motherhood, Networking and Celebrity Culture"
Jade Higa, Duquesne University, "'I am not mad!': Representations the Infamous Gothic Mother in Matthew Lewis' The Captive"
Laura Engel, Duquesne University, "Mommy Diva: The Divided Loyalties of Sarah Siddons"
6:00-7:00pm
Reception & Book Launch
G.S. Rousseau
The Notorious Sir John Hill
7:00-9:00 p.m.
BANQUET
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 3, 20127:45-8:45 a.m.
Executive Board Breakfast Meeting
9:00-10:15 a.m.
13. The Creative Identities of rebel Women
Chair: Lacy Marschalk, Auburn University
14. 300 Years of Infamy
Chair: Manushag Powell, Purdue University
15. Jonathan Swift
Chair: Donald Mell, University of Delaware
16. Research in Progress
Chair: James E. May
10:30-11:45 a.m.
17. Masculine Honorability and the Political Subject
Chair: Kathleen Alves, City University of New York
18. Literature, Love and the Law Under the Sign of Infamy in the Long Eighteenth Century
Chair: Kathryn Temple, Georgetown University
19. Henry Fielding, Playwright
Chair: Rivka Swenson, Virginia Commonwealth University
20. Infamous Form: The Eighteenth-Century Experimental Novel
Chair: Stephanie Insley Hershinow, Johns Hopkins University
21. Scottophobia
Chair: Brijraj Singh
12:00 noon-1:30pm
ECASECS Business Lunch
Kathy Temple, Georgetown University,
Presidential Address
1:30-2:30 p.m.
Book Talk
Vin Caretta, University of MD
Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage
2:45-4:00 p.m.
22. Topics on the Theme
Chair: TBD
Charles Lipp, University of West Georgia, "French Victim, Christian Hero: Charles V of Lorraine in the European Imagination"
23. Alexander Pope: Fame, Infamy, and Celebrity
Chair: Peter Briggs
Manuel Schonhorn, TBD
24. Teaching (Trans)Atlantically (Defoe Society panel)
Chair: Rivka Swenson, Virginia Commonwealth University
25. The 'Woman of Spirit' Re-Imagined: Pietro Chiari and the Avoidance of Infamy in La Viniziana di Spirito
Chair: Maritere López, California State University, Fresno
SATURDAY November 3, 20124:15-5:45 p.m.
Poster Session
Jill Bradbury, Gallaudet University, "Integrating Theory and Literature in the Undergraduate Pre-1800 Seminar"
6:30-7:30 p.m.
Reception
In Honor of Leland Peterson, Old Dominion University and Recognition of Peterson Award Winners
DINNER ON YOUR OWN
For more information regarding panels and papers, please contact:
Beverly Schneller, ECASECS 2012 Conference Chair
Associate Provost for Academic Affairs
University of Baltimore
baltec18@gmail.com
tel (410) 837-5244 - fax (410) 837-5249
