May 1 Dr. Michael DePalma (Professional Writing, Baylor University) will present “Religious Rhetoric as a Course of Study: Twenty-first Century Prospects for Austin Phelps’s Rhetorical Pedagogy.” This talk draws on the final chapter of Austin Phelps and the Shaping of Sacred Rhetorical Education of Andover…
April 10th Dr. Rae Greiner (English, Indiana University) will present “Stupidity After Enlightenment.” Stupidity at the fin de siecle was fast becoming purely a matter of I.Q. Prior to this, eighteenth-century writers developed notions of dullness and of dunces, Romantic writers the figure…
April 24th Dr. Hester Blum (English, Pennsylvania University) will present “Polar Ecomedia: Print Culture in the Arctic and Antarctica.” What happens to messages left in bottles? Or in cairns, or in copper cylinders, or with passing ships? Blum’s paper discusses the history of Anglo-American…
October 31st Jeff Cowton (Curator of the Wordsworth Trust) will present “Learning from the Wordsworth Trust’s Collections.” Dove Cottage, at the heart of the English Lake District National Park, was the home of William Wordsworth (foremost poet of the Romantic age) during his…
October 10th Dr. Alexander Regier (English, Rice University) will present “Looking at Blake.” This talk discusses how William Blake’s work raises a number of questions and problems about the relation between the visual and the verbal. It suggests a set of principles that govern…
September 5th Baylor English Doctoral students Daniel Benyousky and Heidi Seward will present in this semester’s Outstanding Graduate Student Papers. Daniel Benyousky will present “Blurred by the “old moonlight of romance”: The Critique of Sublimated Love in Keats and Auden’s Poetry.” This talk…
November 7th Dr. Jason Payton (English, Sam Houston State) will present “Piracy, Islam, and Nation-Building in Royall Tyler’s Algerine Captive.” This talk will explore the entangled histories of the Turkish Empire and the fledging United States, and consider the role of piracy and Islam in the…
February 21st Dr. Sarah Walden (Baylor University Interdisciplinary Core) will present “Tasteful Domesticity: Women’s Rhetoric and the American Cookbook.” This talk discusses the role of cookbooks in the lives of American woman and American culture. In the 19th century women used cookbooks to…
May 9th Baylor Doctoral students Courtney Bailey Parker (English) and Elise Leal (History) will present in this semester’s Outstanding Graduate Student Papers in Nineteenth-Century Studies. Courtney Bailey Parker will present “Byron’s Inversion of Spenserian Archetypes in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage: A Romaunt,” and Elise Leal will…
September 13th Dr. Joe Stubenrauch (History, Baylor) will present “‘Leaves of Edification’: Evangelical Sentimentalism and Picturesque Tourism in the Early Nineteenth Century.” This talk will share research from his current book project, titled The Evangelical Age of Ingenuity in Britain, 1780-1851. The book argues that…