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…
October 4th Dr. Sarah Robbins (English, Texas Christian University) will present “A Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic ‘Lean In’ Story: How Jane Addams and Henrietta Barnett Used Writing for Reciprocal Mentoring.” This talk will share Dr. Robbins’ recent research on the rhetoric of gendered friendship maintained by Jane…
November 15th Dr. Bill Boelhower (English, Louisiana State University) will present “Atlantic Studies in Theory and Practice: The Case of Frederick Douglass’s The Heroic Slave.”
December 6th Baylor English Doctoral students Melinda Creech and Michael Milburn will present in this semester’s Graduate Student Panel. Melinda Creech will present “Grace Notes: The Provenance of a Fragment of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ ‘The Loss of the Eurydice’.” On July 13, 1966, the…
February 8th Dr. Joshua King (English, Baylor) will present“Tennyson’s ‘Christian Year’: The Minimum of Faith & National Spiritual Community.” This talk will share the results of his research leave in fall 2012 to work on his book, Imagined Spiritual Communities in Britain’s Age of Print.…
March 1st Dr. Ralph Wood (Religion, Baylor) will present “Chesterton and Newman.”