April 13th Dr. Anne Frey (English, Texas Christian University) will present “The National Tale and the Pseudonymous Author: ‘Rosalia St. Clair’ in England, Scotland, and Ireland.” Dr. Frey is the author of British State Romanticism (Stanford 2009), a highly original study of the ways…
March 23rd Baylor English Doctoral students Bethany Bear, Jeffrey Bilbro, and Steven Petersheim will present portions of their dissertation research in a special panel entitled “Nature, Community, and Inheritance: Reimagining Religious Traditions in the Nineteenth Century.”
September 22nd In a special session on Transatlantic Studies, Dr. Michael DePalma (English, Baylor) will present “Rhetorical Education for the Nineteenth-Century Pulpit: Austin Phelps and the Influence of Christian Transcendentalism at Andover Theological Seminary” and Dr. Maura Jortner (English, Baylor) “Captain Basil Hall and The…
October 20th Dr. Suzanne Bordelon (Rhetoric and Writing Studies, San Diego State) will present “‘Resolved that the Mind of Woman is not Inferior to that of Man’: Women’s Oratorical Preparation in California State Normal School Coeducational Literary Societies in the Late Nineteenth Century.”
December 7th Dr. David Clinton (Political Science, Baylor) will present “The Case of the Tamworth Reading Room: Sir Robert Peel and Civil Disorder in Early Victorian England”
February 1oth Dr. Scott Lewis will present “The Brownings’ Correspondence: Textual Editing and Literary History.”
March 2nd Dr. Marjorie Stone (English, Dalhousie University) will be presenting “The Black Dove’s Mark: The Elizabeth Barrett Browning Archives and Nineteenth-Century Literary History.” The talk will discuss working manuscripts from across Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s career, including those connected to the genesis of the Sonnets…
March 30th Drs. David R. Sorenson (English, St. Joseph’s University) and Brent Kinser (English, West Carolina University) will present “All the Furniture in His Room: An Interactive Digital Edition of the Collected Correspondence of John Ruskin.” This talk describes the challenge of creating a new complete…
April 21st Dr. Karen Pope (Art, Baylor) will present “Japonisme: The West’s Fascination with the Art of Japan.” This experiential session will examine two key sources of Japonisme–a phenomenon of European and American Art, 1860-1900: 50 Japanese woodblock prints made before 1900 and all…
May 5th Dr. Herbert Tucker (English, University of Virginia) will present “Robert Browning’s Struggle with Conflict.” This talk will consist of a discussion of Robert Browning’s vision of human conflict and freedom. Topics include: How Browning’s dramatic monologue form developed by resisting popular Victorian…