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NEASECS 2010 Buffalo Program
All events will be held at the Hyatt Regency except Friday night’s reception
at the Western New York Book Arts Center.
Thursday, October 21, 12pm–8pm
Registration and Book Exhibit
Mezzanine
Thursday October 21, 1:00pm–2:30pm
1.Pirates of the Caribbean:
The Eighteenth-Century “Golden Age of Pyrating”
Regency C
Chair: Robert Craig, Independent Scholar
Jacob Judd, City University of New York
Piracy Politics
Giovanni Venegoni, Università Alma Mater Studitorium
When Pirates Supported Colonial Politics
Kyungjin Bae, SUNY, University at Buffalo
Imagining Piracy and Imperialism
2. Race, Gender, and Journals
Ellicott
Chair: Aimee Levesque, SUNY, University at Buffalo
Ryan Bowers, SUNY, Buffalo State College
Killing Yourself to Live: Equiano and the Destruction of the Singular
Shauna Freiermuth Taglis, SUNY, Buffalo State College
Centering the Margins: Repositioning the Works of
Rowlandson and Vassa
Joseph Noah, SUNY, Buffalo State College
Symbolic Gender Identity in Boswell and Burney’s
Therapeutic Journaling
Thursday October 21, 2:45pm–4:15pm
3.Objects of Inquiry and Exchange:
Circulating Things in the Global Eighteenth Century
Regency C
Chair: Ileana Baird, University of Virginia
Crystal B. Lake, Georgia Institute of Technology
Thingification: Making Meaning in the Novel of Circulation
Mauricio Martinez, University of Guelph
Tropicalizing the (Double)Object: Coinage and Colonialism in Charles Johnstone's Crysal; or, The Adventures of a Guinea
Jessica Crabill, University of Rochester
Curious Textual Objects in The Man of Feeling and Humphry Clinker
Catherine J. Lewis Theobald, Brandeis University
Portraits, Power, and Politics: The Clandestine Images of Characters of the royal family, ministers of state, and of all the principal persons in the French Court
4. Legal Fictions and Criminal Romances
Regency B
Chair: Erin Mackie, Syracuse University
Mike Goode, Syracuse University:
Throwing History out of Court: Walter Scott, Historiography,
and the Law of Conspiracy
Elizabeth Stearns, Syracuse University
“The darling of the mob”: Jack Sheppard in Print and on Stage
Erin Mackie, Syracuse University
Home and Away: Urban Romance in Paul Clifford
5.Representing Women’s Medico-Literary Texts (I)
Ellicott
Chair: Danielle Spratt, Fordham University
Laure M. Marcellesi, Dartmouth College
Enlightened Obstetrics: The Legacy of Madame du Coudray, Accoucheuse du Roy
Isabelle Clairhout, Ghent University
Authorial Self-Assertion in Mary Trye and Jane Sharp
Mary Anne Myers, Fordham University
Writing as Surgery in the Late Works of Mary Robinson
6. The Science of Feeling
Regency A
Chair: Laura Balladur, Bates College
Erica Da Costa, Fordham University
The Island: The “Arabick” Influence on Experimental Forms
from Boyle to Defoe
Laura Balladur, Bates College
Bordeu’s ‘Grand Talent’ and the Authority of Life Le Rêve de D’Almbert
Amy Mallory-Kani, SUNY, University at Albany
Writing the Virtual: Vital Forces, Vibrations, and the
Electricity of Affect in Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey
Thursday October 21, 4:30pm–6:00pm
7.Nature or Artifice: Models of Education in German Literature (I)
Regency B
Chair: Paola Mayer, University of Guelph
Rüdiger Müller, University of Guelph
Implicit Lament for Miseducation / Missed Education
Andrea Speltz, Queen’s University
Educating toward Moral Beauty in Rousseau’s Emile and
Wieland’s Agathon
Christine Lehleiter, University of Toronto
Spurzheim versus Rousseau: Education in the Age of Phrenology
8.Clothing in the Eighteenth-Century Novel
Ellicott
Chair: Ula Lukszo, SUNY, Stony Brook
Michael C. Amrozowicz, SUNY, University at Albany
“Sir, we know our men”: James Boswell’s Fashionable and Multifarious Character(s)
Ula Lukszo, SUNY, Stony Brook
The Female Cross-Dresser Domesticated: Representations of Resourceful Women in Eighteenth-Century Narratives
Leslie Nickerson, St. Bonaventure University
Fashioning an Identity: Clothing, Conduct, and Femininity in Richardson’s Pamela
9.Citation, Illustration, Adaptation: Remaking the Eighteenth-Century Text
Regency C
Chair: John H. O’Neill, Hamilton College
Don Bourne, Queens University
“The Better Half of Criticism”: Alexander Pope’s Early Footnotes
John H. O’Neill, Hamilton College
Resolving Tom Jones: Text and Film
10.Gender and Agency from Restoration to Romanticism
Regency A
Chair: Claire Schen, SUNY, University at Buffalo
Leah Benedict, SUNY, University at Buffalo
“Though he be live, for us he is as good as dead”: The Flaccid Clown in Restoration Drama
Cheryl Adams-Rychkov, Lynchburg College
Doors of Necessity: Moll Flanders &c. Inspire Female Transatlantic Migration
Jonathan Mercantini, Kean University
Rethinking Female Liberty in the Early Republic: Susan van Brugh Livingston Kean Niemciewicz, an Independent Woman
Rhonda Ray, East Stroudsburg University
Reexamining ‘Female Romanticism’: Anna Letitia Barbauld and Felicia Hemans
Thursday, October 21, 6:15pm–8:00pm Reception
Sungarden
Friday, October 22, 7:30am–9:00am: Continental Breakfast
Mezzanine
Friday, October 22, 8 am–6 pm:
Registration and Book Exhibit
Mezzanine
Friday October 22, 8:30am–10:00am
11.Body Art: Ethics and Aesthetics in 18th-Century Britain
Regency C
Chair: Jacob Bodway, SUNY, University at Buffalo
Jes Battis, University of Regina
Arrested Development: Eunuchs on the Restoration and Enlightenment Stage
Marta Marciniak, SUNY, University at Buffalo
Representations of Women in American Colonial Portraiture: Beyond the Gown and the Blush
Jess Keiser, Cornell University
Mind-forg’d Metaphors: The Anatomy of Imagination in Willis, Locke, and Arbuthnot
Katherine Mannheimer, University of Rochester
“But Fools for Shadows Lose Substantial Pleasures”: Theatricality, Sensuality, and the Making of Meaning in Shadwell’s The Libertine
12.Representing Women’s Medico-Literary Texts (II)
Regency A
Chair: Angela Monsam, Fordham University
Edward T. Potter, Mississippi State University
Kranke Frauen: Hypochondriac Women in Comedies by C. F. Gellert and L. A. V. Gottsched
Marnie Ellis, Ohio State University
Reading Eugenia: Rewritten Narratives of Disease and Disability in Frances Burney’s Camilla
Brandy Bagar-Fraley, Ohio University
“The Best Judge of Her Own Feelings”: Lady Delacour and Medical Modes of Gazing in Maria Edgeworth’s Belinda
13. Writing Empire, Writing History
Regency B
Chairs: Peter DeGabriele, Mississippi State University, and
Joel P. Sodano, Jr., SUNY, University at Albany
Ian J. Aebel, University of New Hampshire
Historiographical Warfare: Anglo-American Historiography and the Creation of the English Atlantic World, c. 1485 to c. 1714
Stephen J. S. Smith, SUNY, University at Buffalo
Slavery and the Church of England: Complexities and Contradictions in Eighteenth-Century Barbados and Jamaica
Joel P. Sodano, Jr., SUNY, University at Albany
Justice, Benevolence, and the Sovereign Exception: Shades
of the ‘Forty-Five’ in Adam Smith’s The Theory of Moral
Sentiments, a Schmittian Critique
Peter DeGabriele, Mississippi State University
Delicacy, Propriety and Sovereignty in David Hume’s History of England
14.At the Limits of the Individual Subject
Grand E
Chair: Erik R. Seeman, SUNY, University at Buffalo
Matthew J. Rigilano, SUNY, University at Buffalo
Psychotic Metonymy; or, The Adventures of Things in the Eighteenth-Century Circulation Narrative
Jennifer Thorn, St. Anselm College
Seduction and Phillis Wheatley’s Elegies for Children
Thomas Cook, SUNY, University at Albany
The Aesthetic Politic: Kant’s Necessary Other
Friday, October 22, 10:15am–11:45am
15. Distinguished Speaker: Art History
Regency C
Chair: Lisa Berglund
Sarah Cohen, Art, SUNY, University at Albany
The Picture as Primary Source: Using Visual Art in Interdisciplinary Research
16.The Glocal Eighteenth Century
Regency B
Chair: Evan Gottlieb, Oregon State University
Dan Gustafson, City College of New York
Lazy Nobility: Global Politics in Aphra Behn’s The Widdow Ranter
Evan Gottlieb, Oregon State University
From Global Sympathies to Spectral Localities: Rethinking the Gothic Tradition
Robin Runia, Angelo State University
Exceptionalism or Equality? Cross-Dressing Dissent in
The Widdow Ranter
17. The Form of Fiction / The Fiction of Form
Regency A
Chair: Robert Chibka, Boston College
Robert Chibka, Boston College
What’s Future is Epilogue: Rasselas’s Temporizing Quarrel with Fiction
Mark K. Fulk, SUNY, Buffalo State College
The New Formalism, Women's Poetry (1770-1840), and the Rhetorical Turn
Gillian Paku, SUNY, Geneseo
“Fictitious Names”: Laurence Sterne’s Annotated Anonymity
18.Mediating Cultural Exchange
Grand E
Chair: Daniel O’Quinn, University of Guelph
Sophie Thomas, Ryerson University
Lever's Holosphusikon: Distraction and Display in the Early Museum
Cecilia Feilla, Marymount Manhattan College
Revolutionary Mediations: Reenactments of the French Revolution on the Popular British Stage
Daniel O’Quinn, University of Guelph
Diplomacy and the Mediation of Cultural Memory
Friday, October 22, 12:00pm–1:30pm:
Executive Board lunch (Board members only)
Atrium Bar & Bistro
Friday, October 22, 1:45pm–3:15pm
19. Distinguished Speaker: French Literature
Regency A
Chair: Mark K. Fulk
Thomas DiPiero, University of Rochester
The Boudoir in Philosophy: Love, Sex, and Materialism in French (and British) Fiction
20.Nature or Artifice: Models of Education in German Literature (II)
Regency B
Chair: Christine Lehleiter, University of Toronto
David Pugh, Queen’s University
Aesthetic Education: The Halle Version
Jean Wilson, McMaster University
From Arrested Development to Creative Collaboration: Challenge and Affirmation in Kleist’s “On the Marionette Theatre”
Paola Mayer, University of Guelph
Natural-supernatural Education in German Romantic Fairy Tales
21. The American Enlightenment (I)
Regency C
Chair: Mark G. Spencer, Brock University
Jon Parmenter, Cornell University
Natives, Space, and Time in Enlightened America, 1740-1820
Katherine A. Hermes, Central Connecticut State University
“To the Benefit of Mankind”: American Interest in the Voyages of Captain Cook, 1768-1800
Russell M. Lawson, Bacone College
Pious Scientists, Indigenous Peoples, and Religious Change: The Accounts of Christian Missionaries to the First Nations during the Enlightenment
22. Form and Resistance in the Four Nations
Grand E
Chair: Jeff Strabone, Connecticut College
Mike Hill, SUNY, University at Albany
Conjectural History and the Right to Resistance
Jeff Strabone, Connecticut College
Allan Ramsay and Cultural Resistance through Literary Form
Rivka Swenson, Virginia Commonwealth University
Atomic Scotlands: Humphry Clinker Revisited
Friday, October 22, 3:30pm–5:00pm
23. Exploring Media Cultures: Oral, Print, Manuscript
Regency C
Chair: Kathleen Lubey, St. John’s University
Eugenia Zuroski Jenkins, McMaster University
The Ladies Amusement: The Cheap Thrills of Chinese Design
James Mulholland, Wheaton College
Translocalism and the Printed Poetry of Eighteenth-Century India
Kathleen Lubey, St. John’s University
Frances Burney and Evelina: Some Questions about Formalism
23. Exploring Media Cultures: Oral, Print, Manuscript
Regency C
Chair: John Richetti, University of Pennsylvania
Panelists:
John H. O'Neill, Hamilton College
Katherine M. Quinsey, University of Windsor
Michael Rotenberg-Schwartz, New Jersey City University
Patrice Smith, Harrisburg Area Community College, Gettysburg Campus
25. French Exploration: History and Pedagogy
Regency B
Chair: Liana Vardi, SUNY, University at Buffalo
Federico Bonzi, Università degli Studi di Napoli
Voyager pour s’instruire? La Position Originale et Polémique de Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Carlton Hickok, SUNY, University at Buffalo
Chateaubriand’s Voyage and French Communities in the Ottoman Empire
Jeffrey M. Leichman, Sarah Lawrence College
The Controversial Eighteenth Century: Teaching Voltaire’s Mahomet in 2010
26.“Rambling” Women in the 18th-Century Atlantic World
Grand E
Chair: Jonathan Nash, SUNY, University at Albany
Emily Kugler, Colby College
Feathered Ferocity: Violence and Fashion in Female Adventure Narratives
Aruna Krishnamurthy, Fitchburg State College
Hannah Snell’s The Female Soldier: An Examination of the Plebian Crossdressing in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Erica I. Nuckles, SUNY, University at Albany
Virtuous Ladies and Debaucherous Whores: The Culture of Sensibility at War
Friday, October 22, 5:15pm–6:30pm:
27. Plenary Address
Grand A
Susan Juster, University of Michigan
Holy War in the Age of Enlightenment
Friday, October 22, 6:45pm–8:00pm: Reception
Western New York Book Arts Center
468 Washington Street at Mohawk Street
Saturday, October 23, 7:30-9:00am: Continental Breakfast Mezzanine
Saturday, October 23, 8:00 am–6:00pm
Registration and Book Exhibit
Mezzanine
Saturday October 23, 8:15am–9:45am
28.Teaching the History of the Eighteenth-Century Book
Regency C
Chair: Lisa M. Wilson, English and Communication, SUNY College at Potsdam
Katherine M. Quinsey, University of Windsor
Fontasms of Self: Eighteenth-Century Print Culture and the Facebook Generation
Annelle Curulla, Bowdoin College
“Useful Knowledge”?: Banned Books, Collections, and the Enlightenment Survey Course
Benjamin F. Pauley, Eastern Connecticut State University
Teaching the History of the Eighteenth-Century Book ...
When You Don't Have ECCO
29. The American Enlightenment (II)
Regency A
Chair: Mark G. Spencer, Brock University
Burton J. Bledstein, University of Illinois at Chicago
Jared Sparks: Strengths and Limitations of the Enlightenment Tradition in the Nineteenth Century
Arthur L. Morton, Saint Xavier University
American Enlightenment Science and the Chemical Philosophy
James E. Crimmins, Huron University College
Contra Locke: Utilitarian Ideas in Late Enlightenment America
30. Race and Slavery across the Globe
Regency B
Chair: Richard Newman, Rochester Institute of Technology
Adam R. Beach, Ball State University
Race, Slavery, and Early Modern Morocco in the Narrative of Thomas Pellow
Kari Winter, SUNY, University at Buffalo
Antislavery Sentiments v. Patriarchal Property Rights: Judge Joseph Prentis and Judge St. George Tucker in 1790s Virginia
Amanda Johnson, Vanderbilt University
“The Last of the Ancient Race”: Transatlanticism and the Construction of Whiteness in Edgar Allan Poe’s Southern Gothic
Saturday October 23, 9:45 am–10:15am: Coffee Break
Mezzanine
Saturday October 23, 10:15am–11:30am:
31. Plenary Address
Grand A
Patricia Johnston, Salem State College
Inquiry, Pedagogy, Exploration: Eighteenth-Century Studies Scholars Making a Difference in K-12 Education
Saturday October 23, 11:40am–1:00pm:
Lunch and general business meeting
Grand B
Saturday October 23, 1:00pm–2:30pm
32. Distinguished Speaker: History
Regency A
Chair: Erik R. Seeman, SUNY, University at Buffalo
Mary Beth Norton, Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History & Stephen Weiss Presidential Fellow, Cornell University
Lady Frances Berkeley and Grace Cosby: Aristocratic Women and the Changing Political Culture of Early Anglo-America
33. Materiality and Practice
Regency B
Chair: Helen Thompson, Northwestern University
Helen Thompson, Northwestern University
Secondary Qualities in Boyle and Behn
Ruth Mack, SUNY, University at Buffalo
“Habit and Perception in Johnson’s Scotland”
Julie Park, Vassar College
“Interest will not Lie”: Interior Matters in Sense and Sensibility
34. Economic Systems and Identities
Regency C
Chair: Melissa Bissonette, St. John Fisher College
Teri Doerksen, Mansfield University of Pennsylvania
“Ask, Learn, Explore: Moral Inquiry and the Economics of Exploration in Defoe’s Moll Flanders, Robinson Crusoe, and Colonel Jack”
Lee Kahan, Indiana University, South Bend
Sheridan’s Smithian School for Scandal
Devjani Roy, University of Kentucky
Performing Money: The Problem of the Émigré in Frances Burney’s The Wanderer
Saturday October 23, 2:45pm–4:15pm
35. Distinguished Speaker: English Literature
Regency A
Chair: Ruth Mack, SUNY, University at Buffalo
Jenny Davidson, Columbia University
The ABCs of the Novel
36. War and the Environment in the Long Eighteenth Century
Regency B
Chair: Thomas Chambers, Niagara University
Michael Gunther, Lehigh University
Creative Destruction and Revolutionary Settlements in the Hudson-Champlain Corridor, 1775-1791
T. Kurt Knoerl, Museum of Underwater Archaeology, George Washington University
Armed for Trade: British Naval Development, and the Maritime Cultural Landscape in the Western Great Lakes Region
Craig Miller, SUNY, University at Buffalo
Pigs and Pieces and Property: Contrasting Subsistence Strategies in the Outbreak of King Philip’s War
37. New Frontiers of Early Modern Pedagogy
Regency C
Chair: Julie Gibert, Canisius College
Charlotte M. Craig, Rutgers University
Learning through Experience and Observation: Pestalozzi “And Company,” A Brief History of Early Modern Education
Jennifer Egloff, New York University
Extra-University Mathematics Education in Early Modern England and British North America
Saturday, October 23, 4:30pm–6:00pm
38. The Pedagogy of the Obsessed: Writers as Educators
Regency A
Chair: Ann A. Huse, John Jay College, CUNY
Ann A. Huse, John Jay College, CUNY
Tutoring Leviathan: Thomas Hobbes in Exile
Cecilia Feilla, Marymount Manhattan College
The “St. Preux Complex”: Diagnosing Rousseau's Tutors
Heather Klemann, Yale University
The Spell of Learning: Shakespeare’s Tempest in Maria Edgeworth’s Practical Education and Belinda
39.(Un)Doing the Lyric: Pedagogy, Identity, and Performance
Regency B
Chair: Mark K. Fulk, SUNY, Buffalo State College
Rebeka Keator, SUNY, Buffalo State College
Redeeming Nature in Wordsworth’s “Ode”: An Adult Momento Mori
Michelle Hatswell, SUNY, Buffalo State College
Breaking the Ice with Byron: The Path to Literacy in the Teaching of Poetry to/for Boys
Dana Eric Misenheimer, SUNY, Buffalo State College
Two Shades of Lyric Retreat in Iris Murdoch's The Book and the Brotherhood
Image: Canisius College