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Current Presentations:
Spring 2024
- April 26: Outstanding Graduate Student Award PresentationsFriday April 26th at 3:30 pm in the ABL Lecture Hall. We will celebrate our Outstanding Graduate Student Papers! Congratulations to Veronica Toth (English Department) for her paper “The Subsequent History of the Young (Wo)man”: Reading Maggie Tulliver as Prodigal Daughter in The Mill on the Floss,” and Hance McCain Winingham (political science) for his paper “Suspending the Writ –…
- April 12: Browning DayThis year’s Browning Day Celebration will feature a talk by author Laura McNeal and will be held Friday, April 12 at 3:00 pm in the Hankamer Treasure Room of the Armstrong Browning Library. McNeal will be discussing her new historical novel, The Swan’s Nest, about the courtship of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Laura McNeal is the author of Dark…
- Feb 9: Dr. Nick Wolters on 19th-Century Iberian MasculinitiesNick Wolters from Wake Forest will be sharing his research at Baylor on 19th-century Iberian masculinities. Contact Gabrielle Miller for further information and be on the lookout for a flier coming soon!
- April 26: Outstanding Graduate Student Paper AwardsPaper presentations and reception in the ABL. Presenters and paper topics will be announced in March. Each year, the 19crs awards two Graduate students for their outstanding papers. We are excited to wrap up this academic year by celebrating the excellence of our graduate students!
- Feb 16: Dr. Susan Egenolf presents "The Wedgwoods, their Laborers, Reciprocity and Subventions towards Romanticism"Friday February 16 3:30-5:00 pm "The Wedgwoods, their Laborers, Reciprocity and Subventions towards Romanticism" presented by Dr. Susan Egenolf Associate Professor of English Texas A&M University at the ABL In the later part of the 18th century, the progressive potter and entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood constructed literal and figurative communities to bind his Etruria workers to…
Past Presentations
Fall 2024
- Oct 20: Benefactors Day, Dr. Kristen Pond presents "It's Okay to Talk to Strangers: Charles Dickens and Charlotte Brontë on Enchanting Encounters"Dr. Kristen Pond, Associate Professor of English at Baylor University and Margarett Root Brown Chair in Robert Browning and Victorian Studies, will be presenting the annual Benefactors Day lecture on Friday, October 20th at 3:00PM in the ABL Hankamer Treasure Room. Dr. Pond's talk is entitled "It's Okay to Talk to Strangers: Charles Dickens and…
- Nov 3: John Gruesser on Sutton E. Griggs and Waco, TXPlease join us Friday November 3, 3:30-5:00 for an exciting talk about a novel set in Waco, TX: "Sutton E. Griggs, Imperium in Imperio, and Waco, Texas" presented by John Gruesser in the ABL Hankamer Treasure Room. If you would like to attend via Zoom, click here.
- Oct. 6: Dr. Alexander Regier on Emily DickinsonDr. Alexander Regier from Rice University will be presenting "'Today is Very Homely and Awkward': Emily Dickinson's Odd Fits" on Friday, October 6 at 3:30 PM in the Armstrong Browning Lecture Hall. Emily Dickinson is an extremely eloquent yet awkward poet. This talk will showhow she identifies awkwardness as a poetic and existential catalyst that…
Spring 2023
- February 24th: Tyson Stolte on Dickens and Victorian PsychologyTyson Stolte, Associate Professor of English at New Mexico State University, will speak on Dickens and Victorian Psychology on Friday, February 24th at 3:30 PM in the Armstrong Browning Library Lecture Hall.
- February 15: Reading Group, "Schopenhaur as Educator"Dr. Miner, professor of philosophy at Baylor University, will facilitate a discussion of an essay by Nietzsche called "Schopenhaur as Educator" from his collection Untimely Meditation. This book is available through the Baylor library in ebook form. If you are having trouble accessing it, please email 19crs@baylor.edu. The group will meet at 5:30PM, location TBD
Fall 2022
- November 17: Benefactors Day celebration, Dr. Deborah Logan presents Harriet Martineau: Spirit of the Victorian AgeDr. Deborah Logan, Professor Emerita, Western Kentucky University, recently gave her personal Harriet Martineau collection to the ABL, and she will be presenting "Harriet Martineau: Spirit of the Victorian Age" for the Armstrong Browning Library's annual Benefactors Day celebration in the Armstrong Browning Library Hankamer Treasure Room Thursday, November 17 at 3:30. You can read more about her gift…
- November 4: Dr. Samuel Baker "Walter Scott, The Stuarts, and Stewardship”Dr. Samuel Baker, Associate Professor of English, The University of Texas at Austin, will present on "Walter Scott, The Stuarts, and Stewardship" in the Armstrong Browning Library Lecture Hall on Friday, November 4 at 3:30. Dr. Baker’s research covers the diverse fields of British Romantic poetry; historical fiction, science fiction, and the gothic novel; media…
Spring 2022
- April 8: Dr. Mark Sandy "She hath a Beauty Beyond Her Name: Byron's Poetic Reflections on Venice, Subjectivity, and Temporality"Dr. Mark Sandy, Professor of English, Durham University, UK and Armstrong Browning Library Three-Month Research Fellow, will give a lecture titled "She hath a Beauty Beyond Her Name: Byron's Poetic Reflections on Venice, Subjectivity, and Temporality" in the ABL’s Hankamer Treasure Room and on Zoom Friday, April 8 at 3:00 pm. More information and a link to…
- March 31: Alt-Ac PanelOn March 31 at 2:00pm, 19CRS will host a Zoom panel about finding work outside of traditional professor roles. 19CRS welcomes you to a virtual panel discussion on alt-ac careers after the humanities. Whether you're anxious about academic job prospects or curious about opportunities outside the college classroom, hear from five 19th- and 20th-century scholars…
- 18 March 2022: Dr. Anne Boyd RiouxOn March 18, 2022, 19CRS will hear from Dr. Anne Boyd Rioux. This event was rescheduled from its Fall 2021 date. Her talk is entitled "Taking the Recovery of the 19th-Century American Women Writers Beyond the Academy." Dr Anne Boyd Rioux Event Flyer Dr. Anne Boyd Rioux began her career publishing with Johns Hopkins University…
- Rescheduled for 11 February, 2022: Dr. Lisa ShaverRescheduled for February 11 at 3:30. On February 4, 2022 at 3:30, Dr. Lisa Shaver (English, Baylor) will be presenting her research from her recent research leave. Her talk is entitled "Lucy Rider Meyer and the New Christian Woman." Lucy Rider Meyer and the New Christian Woman Flyer
Fall 2021
- 3 November, 2021, 7:00pm: 19CRS Reading GroupOn the evening of November 3, 2021, Dr. Jennifer Hargrave will be leading a discussion of Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism. Please come prepared to discuss the entire text and consider bringing a discussion question. Please RSVP to Kristen_Pond@baylor.edu by October 27, 2021. Molly Lewis helpfully created a Culture and Imperialism chapter list and schedule for reading…
- 15 October 2021, 3:30: Dr. Jennifer HargraveOn October 15th, at 3:30 p.m., in the ABL Lecture Hall, Dr. Jennifer Hargrave (English, Baylor) will be presenting the results of her research sabbatical in a talk entitled "Subversive Sketching: Intratextual Debate in Chinese Travel Narratives." Registration for this event can be found here. Outdoor reception to follow event. Jennifer L. Hargrave specializes in…
- 21 September 2021, 11:15am-1:45pm: 19th Century Job Letter WorkshopOn September 21, 11:15am-1:45pm, 19CRS faculty will be hosting a job letter workshop for Baylor graduate students of 19th-Century studies applying to 19th century jobs in the fall and spring. Email Kristen_Pond@baylor.edu for details.
- 10 September 2021, 3:30 p.m: Outstanding Graduate Student Paper AwardsOn September 10th, at 3:30 p.m. in the ABL Lecture Hall and over Zoom, 19CRS presented “At the Limits of Reason: Conversion and Obscenity,” honoring our Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award winners. Harrison Otis and Justice Flint presented their papers, “'A little harmless debauching’: Mark Twain, 1601, and the Innocence of Obscenity,” and “Emotion, Intellect, and the Transformative Images…
Spring 2021
- 19CRS Video: Food Justice, Theology, and Literature: A Virtual RoundtableOn Friday, March 5, Dr. Matthew Whelan, Dr. Lesa Scholl, Dr. Jennifer Cognard-Black, and Dr. Jenny Howell gathered for a virtual roundtable discussion on "Food Justice, Theology, and Literature." Watch the full conversation, including Q&A, here!
- March 5, 2021, 3:30pm: Roundtable on Food Justice, Theology, and LiteratureJoin the 19CRS on March 5 from 3:30-4:30 for a free, virtual roundtable on Food Justice, Theology, and Literature! For more information about this event, please see the flyer below. To access the roundtable on Zoom, please contact Dr. Kristen Pond, 19CRS Chair, for the Zoom invitation and link: kristen_pond@baylor.edu.
Fall 2020
- Sept. 18, 2020, 3:30pm, Zoom - Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award PanelAt our 2021 OGSPA Awards, we also recognized the 2020 recipients, Anna Beaudry and Ryan Sinni, with certificates because last year's program was virtual. On Friday, September 18, 2020 two graduate students will receive the 19th Century Research Seminar’s Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Awards. Anna Beaudry will present her paper, “Magawisca’s Body and the American…
- 19CRS Video: "Christina Rossetti's Green Sanctuaries and Cosmic Liturgies" by Dr. Joshua KingOn Friday, October 23rd, Dr. Joshua King presented "Christina Rossetti's Green Sanctuaries and Cosmic Liturgies" to the 19CRS. Watch the full presentation, including Q&A, here!
- Oct. 23, 2020, 3:30pm: Dr. Joshua King, "Christina Rossetti's Green Sanctuaries and Cosmic Liturgies"The 19CRS invites you to attend our free, virtual seminar with Dr. Joshua King (Baylor University) on October 23 at 3:30pm (CT). A zoom invitation will be sent the week before the event. Dr. King will present "Christina Rossetti's Green Sanctuaries and Cosmic Liturgies." About the Presentation "Ecological conversions" now being pursued by many Christian…
Spring 2020
- Sept. 18, 2020, 3:30pm, Zoom - Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award PanelAt our 2021 OGSPA Awards, we also recognized the 2020 recipients, Anna Beaudry and Ryan Sinni, with certificates because last year's program was virtual. On Friday, September 18, 2020 two graduate students will receive the 19th Century Research Seminar’s Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Awards. Anna Beaudry will present her paper, “Magawisca’s Body and the American…
- 19CRS Video: "Christina Rossetti's Green Sanctuaries and Cosmic Liturgies" by Dr. Joshua KingOn Friday, October 23rd, Dr. Joshua King presented "Christina Rossetti's Green Sanctuaries and Cosmic Liturgies" to the 19CRS. Watch the full presentation, including Q&A, here!
- Oct. 23, 2020, 3:30pm: Dr. Joshua King, "Christina Rossetti's Green Sanctuaries and Cosmic Liturgies"The 19CRS invites you to attend our free, virtual seminar with Dr. Joshua King (Baylor University) on October 23 at 3:30pm (CT). A zoom invitation will be sent the week before the event. Dr. King will present "Christina Rossetti's Green Sanctuaries and Cosmic Liturgies." About the Presentation "Ecological conversions" now being pursued by many Christian…
Fall 2019
- Dr. Lesa Scholl's "Healthy Bodies, Healthy Souls: 19th-Century Medicine, Religion, and Literature"Dr. Lesa Scholl, the Armstrong Browning Library’s Three-Month Research Fellow from the University of Adelaide in Australia, will be presenting her research on "Healthy Bodies, Healthy Souls: 19th-Century Medicine, Religion, and Literature" in the Hankamer Treasure Room at the Armstrong Browning Library on November 15th, at 3:30 p.m. This interdisciplinary discussion will be of interest…
- Dr. Lesa Scholl's "To Eat, or What to Eat—Is THAT the Question?"Dr. Lesa Scholl, the Armstrong Browning Library's Three-Month Research Fellow from the University of Adelaide in Australia, is offering a one-time workshop for undergraduates interested in issues of food insecurity, social justice, and British literature and history. "To Eat, or What to Eat — Is THAT the Question?" will examine food restrictions and fasting in Britain in…
- Outstanding Graduate Student Paper AwardsOn Friday, October 4th, two graduate students will receive the 19th Century Research Seminar's Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Awards. Rachel Kilgore will present her paper "Understanding Fanny: A Comparison of the Psalms to Fanny Price of Austen’s Mansfield Park,” and LaJoie Lex will present her paper “Between Locke and a Hard Place: Charles Brockden Brown on Women as…
- Ecology & Religion in 19th-Century Studies ConferenceWednesday-Saturday, September 18-21 This flightless, multi-site, interdisciplinary conference explores the confluences between environmental and religious perspectives and practices in the long Anglophone nineteenth century (1780-1900). In response to the rapid acceleration of climate change since that century, this conference avoids air travel by digitally connecting events at several conference sites in the United States and…
- Dr. Tara Foley: “Richard Watson Gilder: Poet, Editor, Urban Reformer”Friday, September 6 3:30-4:30pm ABL Lecture Hall Dr. Tara Foley (English, Baylor) will present her talk "Richard Watson Gilder: Poet, Editor, Urban Reformer": This presentation explores the work of Richard Watson Gilder, long-time editor of The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine, who served as chairman of New York City’s first Tenement House Commission and raised a clarion call for…
Spring 2019
- Dr. Jessica Enoch: Recalling Mother Exemplars: Public Memory and the DARFriday, Feb. 22 3:30-4:30 Armstrong Browning Library Lecture Hall Dr. Jessica Enoch, Rhetoric and Composition, will present her talk "Recalling Mother Exemplars: Public Memory and the Daughters of the American Revolution:" This presentation addresses the ways nineteenth-century women sought to remember those who proceeded them, focusing on the work of the Daughters of the American Revolution…
Fall 2018
- Professor Clare Simmons: "Christmas Ghosts"Friday, Nov. 16th 3:30-4:30 Armstrong Browning Library Lecture Hall Professor Clare Simmons (Ohio University) will present her talk, "Christmas Ghosts:" Writers of the earlier nineteenth century represented the traditional English Christmas as in decline, yet within a few decades Christmas celebration gained new life through the efforts of both antiquarians and booksellers. This presentation examines the…
- Professor Devoney Looser: "The Making of Jane Austen"Friday, Nov. 9th 3:30-4:30 Armstrong Browning Library Lecture Hall Dr. Devoney Looser (Foundation Professor of English, Arizona State University) presented her talk, "The Making of Jane Austen:" How did Jane Austen (1775-1817), a moderately successful English novelist in her own lifetime, become an international literary icon? It started long before Colin Firth’s wet-white-shirted Mr. Darcy in…
- Workshop by Prof. Clare Simmons: "Publishing your First Paper and Submitting for Conferences"Friday, Sept. 21 3:30-4:30 ABL Seminar Room Workshop led by Professor Clare Simmons, 2018 Three-month Research Fellow at the ABL: "Publishing your First Paper and Submitting for Conferences."
- 2018 OGSPAs: Nicholas Krause and Nicole BouchardFriday, September 14 3:45-4:45 ABL Lecture Hall The 2018 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award (OGSPA) winners will present talks based on their papers. Nicholas Krause (Doctoral Student, Theology and Ethics) will present "Scarcity, Economy, and the Poetics of Creation: Chartist Reimaginings of Political-Economic Space," and Nicole Bouchard (Doctoral Candidate, English) will present "Agency in Illness: Elizabeth…
- Reception for Prof. Clare Simmons and Sabbatical Talk by Dr. Kristen Pond:"'I Spy a Stranger!':Victorian Newspapers and the Stranger at the Great Exhibition of 1851"Friday, Sept. 7 2:45-3:30 ABL Cox Hall Reception for Professor Clare Simmons, 2018 Three-month Research Fellow at the ABL 3:30-4:30 ABL Lecture Hall Dr. Kristen Pond (English, Baylor) will present her Sabbatical Talk titled, "'I Spy a Stranger!': Victorian Newspapers and the Stranger at the Great Exhibition of 1851." How do you define who is a stranger…
Spring 2018
- Dr. Tracy Hoffman: "Washington Irving Brouhaha: What's Brewing in Irving Studies"Friday, April 13 3:30-4:30 ABL Lecture Hall Dr. Tracy Hoffman (Baylor University) will present "Washington Irving Brouhaha: What's Brewing in Irving Studies."
- Browning Day 2018--Dr. Kirstie Blair: "Such Fierce Radicals: The Brownings and Working-Class Culture"Friday, April 20th: Browning Day 2018 3:00-3:30 Reception in the Armstrong Browning Library Cox Reception Hall 3:30-4:30 Music and Lecture in the Armstrong Browning Library Foyer of Meditation Dr. Kirstie Blair (U. of Strathclyde, Scotland) will present "Such Very Fierce Radicals: The Brownings and Working-Class Culture" for Browning Day 2018.
- Dr. Natalie McKnight: “Dickens, the Lowell Mill Girls, and the Language of Spiritual/Material Conditions in <i>A Christmas Carol </i>(and Beyond)”Friday, February 16th, 2018 4:30-5:30 Armstrong Browning Lecture Hall Dr. Natalie McKnight (Boston U.) will present “Dickens, the Lowell Mill Girls, and the Language of Spiritual/Material Conditions in A Christmas Carol.”
Fall 2017
- Dr. Lisa Zimmerelli: "Conduct Book Biography: Representations of Girlhood and Boyhood in the Progressive Era"Friday, November 10, 2017 3:30-4:30 Armstrong Browning Lecture Hall Dr. Lisa Zimmerelli (Loyola U., Maryland) will present "Conduct Book Biography: Representations of Girlhood and Boyhood in the Progressive Era."
- Discussion of Research and Rare Items by Dr. Dino Felluga and Dr. Susan OliverFriday, Sept. 29 3:30-4:30, ABL Lecture Hall Please join this 19CRS discussion of research and rare items from the ABL's extensive collection. Dr. Dino Felluga (Purdue University) will present on the manuscript of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's sonnet "Mr. Haydon's Portrait of Wm. Wordsworth," and Dr. Susan Oliver (University of Essex) will present on an inscribed copy…
- Reception for Prof. Dino Felluga and Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award PanelFriday, Sept. 8 2:45-3:20 ABL Cox Reception Hall Please join us in welcoming the ABL three-month research fellow, Professor Dino Felluga (Purdue, U.) 3:30-4:30 ABL Lecture Hall Following Professor Felluga's reception, 19CRS will host this year's Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award Panel. Ryan Butler (PhD. Candidate, History) will present "Transatlantic Discontinuity? The Clapham Sect's Influence in the…
Spring 2017
- Symposium: "Representations of Religion in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture"Friday, April 7, 2017 3:30-5:00 Armstrong Browning Lecture Hall Dr. Joshua King (English, Baylor) will facilitate a symposium entitled "Representations of Religion in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture." This panel will include an opening presentation by Dr. Mark Knight (English, Lancaster University, UK) entitled "Why George Eliot Doesn't Help Us: Reimagining the Role of Evangelicalism in…
- Dr. Sarah Williams: "Outward Signs and Inward Graces: The Place of Popular Religion in the Age of Urbanization and Empire"Friday, February 17, 2017 3:30-4:30 Armstrong Browning Lecture Hall Dr. Sarah Williams (History of Christianity, Regent College) will present "Outward Signs and Inward Graces: The Place of Popular Religion in the Age of Urbanization and Empire." This talk explores religious identity in the late nineteenth century, a period associated with urbanization, migration, and the rise…
Fall 2016
- Film screening of <i>Many Beautiful Things: The Life and Vision of Lilias Trotter</i>Friday, Nov. 11 3:30pm-5:00pm Film screening of Many Beautiful Things: The Life and Vision of Lilias Trotter This 2015 documentary about Lilias Trotter and Ruskin is produced by Hisao Kurosawa (Ran) and features voicing by Michelle Dockery and John Rhys-Davies
- Jerry Eisley: "Lost in Translation: The Challenge of John Ruskin and Lilias Trotter to Art & Culture in the 21st Century"Thursday, Nov. 10 3:30pm-4:30pm Each generation seeks to translate transcendence and define sacred space for itself. John Ruskin and Lilias Trotter sought beauty and truth in their own time. The Washington Arts Group (WAG) does the same today. WAG is a non-profit organization founded in 1978 to connect spirituality and the arts in the…
- Dr. Chris Ferguson-"Learned Tailor or Literary Man? James Carter in the Rise of Modern Britain"Friday, Sept. 16th, 2016 Dr. Chris Ferguson (History, Auburn) will present "Learned Tailor or Literary Man? James Carter in the Rise of Modern Britain." The London tailor James Carter published an autobiography, three other books, and fifty works of poetry. Yet contemporary reviewers, publishers, and Carter himself routinely claimed up until his death in 1853…
- Dr. Adam Potkay: "Something Evermore about to Be: The Transformation of Hope in the Romantic Era"Thursday, Oct. 20th Dr. Adam Potkay (English, William and Mary) will present, "Something Evermore about to Be: The Transformation of Hope in the Romantic Era." His argument is this: hope, once a theological virtue and potential secular vice, features in the eighteenth century as a neutral element of secular psychology. As a psychological mechanism, hope comes…
Spring 2015
- Teaching with Special Collections from the Armstrong Browning Library: Dr. Heidi Hornik (Department of Art) and Sarah Rude (PhD candidate in English)Feb. 5 The Armstrong Browning Library piloted a teaching fellows program in summer 2015 to encourage the use of the Library’s collections in Baylor graduate and undergraduate curricula. Fellowships were awarded to four full-time Baylor faculty members and two graduate teaching assistants (teachers of record). Each fellow received a stipend of $1000. On February 5,…
- Dr. Stephen Prickett: “Backing into the Future: Romanticism, Secularization and the Reinvention of Literature”Jan. 14 Dr. Stephen Prickett (English, University of Kent, UK) will present “Backing into the Future: Romanticism, Secularization and the Reinvention of Literature.” In his Third Critique, Immanuel Kant assumes that literature – and specifically poetry – is naturally the premier art form, in essence encapsulating all other arts. Poetry, he writes, “expands the mind… with a…
Fall 2015
- Dr. Kacy Tillman: "History's Ellipses and the Diary of Deborah Norris Logan"Nov. 13 Dr. Kacy Tillman (English, University of Tampa) will present "History's Ellipses and the Diary of Deborah Norris Logan." The talk traces silence as an absent presence in loyalist diaries-turned-biographies after the American Revolution in order to understand how and why people attempted to cover up civil dissent in the years that followed the war.
- Nicholas Basbanes: "The History of Paper"Oct. 15 Nicholas Basbanes, a former investigative journalist, is the author of nine works of cultural history, with a particular emphasis on various aspects of books, book history, and book culture. His most recent book, and the topic of this talk, is On Paper: The Everything of Its Two Thousand Year History. On Paper was…
- Drs. David Sorenson and Brent Kinser "The Victorian Lives and Letters Consortium; or, Growth of a Digital Humanities Project"Oct. 1 David Sorenson and Brent Kinser came to Baylor in the fall of 2011 to introduce their plans to build a new platform for interconnected scholarly editions. They called it the Victorian Lives and Letters Consortium, and their intention was to assemble a group of "teachers, scholars, programmers, librarians, students, and enthusiasts devoted to…
- Dr. Colin Jager: "The Romantic Critique of Life: Wordsworth, Byron, Taylor"Sept. 25 Dr. Colin Jager (English, Rutgers) will present "The Romantic Critique of Life: Wordsworth, Byron, Taylor." This talk discusses how “life” has increasingly become a topic of intense interest in the humanities. In partial reaction to an earlier emphasis on how power and discourse determined life, scholars as various as Hardt and Negri (“biopolitics,”),…
- Outstanding Graduate Students Papers Fall 2015: David Smith and Lynneth StingleySept. 4 Baylor Doctoral students David Smith (English) and Lynneth Stingley (History) will present in this semester's Outstanding Graduate Student Papers in Nineteenth-Century Studies. David Smith will present "The Gothic Temple: Epistemology and Revolution in Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland," and Lynneth Stingley will present "'The Most Bohemian Priest in the History of the Church of England': Stewart Headlam, the Stage,…
Spring 2015
- Michael DePalma "Religious Rhetoric as a Course of Study: Twenty-first Century Prospects for Austin Phelps's Rhetorical Pedagogy"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 Theological Seminary, 1848-1879. It outlines Phelps's notion of epideictic rhetoric and considers the…
- Dr. Rae Greiner "Stupidity After Enlightenment"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 of the (sometimes blessed) idiot. Centering on the period in between, this…
- Dr. Hester Blum "Polar Ecomedia: Print Culture in the Arctic and Antarctica"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 polar exploration--as well as the literature produced by the expedition members--by considering…
Fall 2014
- Jeff Cowton: "Learning from the Wordsworth Trust's Collections"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 most creative years. Here he wrote his autobiographical masterpiece "The Prelude"; it…
- Dr. Alexander Regier: "Looking at Blake"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 this relation in Blake's work and illustrate why conflict (rather than resolution)…
- Outstanding Graduate Student Papers Fall 2014: Daniel Benyousky and Heidi SewardSeptember 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 argues that both Auden and Keats proffer compelling critiques of sublimated, solipsistic…
- Dr. Jason Payton: "Piracy, Islam, and Nation-Building in Royall Tyler's Algerine Captive"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 United States' self-understanding.
Spring 2014
- Dr. Melissa Bailes "The Psychologization of Geological Catastrophe in Mary Shelley's The Last Man"April 4th Dr. Melissa Bailes (English, Tulane University) will present "The Psychologization of Geological Catastrophe in Mary Shelley's The Last Man." In this talk she explores the connection between science and Romantic writers, focusing specifically on Mary Shelley. Rather than looking at Shelley's well-known novel Frankenstein, Dr. Bailes argues that this novel critiques scientific generalizations, such as the homogenizing…
- Dr. Sarah Walden: "Tasteful Domesticity: Women's Rhetoric and the American Cookbook"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 publicly fulfill their domestic duties to teach and safeguard American character and…
- Outstanding Graduate Student Papers Spring 2014: Courtney Bailey Parker and Elise LealMay 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 present "'Our Society Cannot Meddle': The American Sunday School Union and the…
Fall 2013
- Dr. Joe Stubenrauch: "'Leaves of Edification': Evangelical Sentimentalism and Picturesque Tourism in the Early Nineteenth Century"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 the late Georgian period saw British evangelicals develop a methodology for capitalizing…
- Dr. Sara Robbins: "A Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic 'Lean In' Story: How Jane Addams and Henrietta Barnett Used Writing for Reciprocal Mentoring"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 Addams and Henrietta Barnett (co-founder of the British settlement at Toynbee Hall,…
- Dr. William Boelhower: "Atlantic Studies in Theory and Practice: The Case of Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave"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."
- Baylor Graduate Student Panel: Melinda Creech and Michael MilburnDecember 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 Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas purchased materials…
Spring 2013
- Dr. Joshua King: "Tennyson's 'Christian Year': The Minimum of Faith and National Spiritual Community"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. The book shows how Nineteenth-Century creative authors, journalists, educators, and clergy treated…
- Dr. Ralph Wood: "Chesterton and Newman"March 1st Dr. Ralph Wood (Religion, Baylor) will present "Chesterton and Newman."
- Dr. Mark Knight: "A Tale of Two Cities: Dickens's Tale of Conversion"April 19th Dr. Mark Knight (English, University of Toronto) will present "A Tale of Two Cities: Dickens's Tale of Conversion."
- Baylor Graduate Student Panel Spring 2013: Rex Carr and Jeremy LeathamApril 26th Baylor Doctoral students Rex Carr (Political Science) and Jeremy Leatham (English) will present in this semester's Graduate Student Panel. Rex Carr will present "Overcoming the Past: Nietzsche's Creator and the Contributions of Christianity." This talk explores how Nietzsche's vision of the future and the "overman" are a creative re-crafting of the West's Judeo-Christian inheritance. Jeremy Leatham…
Fall 2012
- Dr. Natalie Houston: "The Visual Page: Digital Reading and Victorian Poetry's Cultural Codes"October 12th Dr. Natalie Houston (English, University of Houston), Project Director for the Visual Page, an NEH-funded project to develop a software application to identify and analyze visual features in digitized printed books and Co-Director and Technical Director for the Periodical Poetry Index, will discuss the work and challenges of bringing 19th century primary source…
- Dr. Catherine Hobbs: “American Women Learn to Speak”Dr. Catherine Hobbs, professor of English at the University of Oklahoma, is discussing her forthcoming book Sisters of the South: Reading, Writing, Speaking, and Citizenship at Public Women's Colleges. We invite you to join us as we welcome Dr. Hobbs. Below is a brief description of Dr. Hobbs’s presentation in her own words. “Historians of…
- Dr. Lisa Shaver "Thou Shalt Not: Forging a Women's Rhetoric"Dr. Lisa Shaver (English, Baylor) will present "Thou Shalt Not: Forging a Women's Rhetoric." This talk examines the rhetorical tactics used by the antebellum American Female Reform Society. Established in 1834 in New York to combat prostitution and other licentious behavior, the American Female Reform Society was the first national reform movement organized, led, and comprised…
Spring 2012
- Dr. Kelly Wisecup: "'The Rites, Ceremonies, and Superstitions of their own Countries': Race, Rebellion, and Medicine in the British Atlantic World"February 24th Dr. Kelly Wisecup (English, University of North Texas) will present“The Rites Ceremonies & Superstitions of their own Countries”: Race, Rebellion, & Medicine in British Atlantic ." British American colonists believed that several late eighteenth and early nineteenth-century slave rebellions were inspired by obeah, a mixture of African medical and religious knowledge. This talk will show…
- Dr. Anne Frey: "The National Tale and the Pseudonymous Author: 'Rosalia St. Clair' in England, Scotland, and Ireland"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 Romantic authors sought to use their writing to assist the British state…
- English Graduate Student Panel: Bethany Bear, Jeffrey Bilbro, and Steven PetersheimMarch 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."
Fall 2011
- Special Session on Transatlantic Studies: Drs. Michael DePalma and Maura JortnerSeptember 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 Forest Rose."
- Dr. Suzanne Bordelon: "'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"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."
- Dr. David Clinton "The Case of the Tamworth Reading Room: Sir Robert Peel and Civil Disorder in Early Victorian England"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”
Spring 2011
- Dr. Scott Lewis: "The Brownings' Correspondence: Textual Editing and Literary History"February 1oth Dr. Scott Lewis will present "The Brownings' Correspondence: Textual Editing and Literary History."
- Dr. Marjorie Stone: "The Black Dove's Mark: The Elizabeth Barrett Browning Archives and Nineteenth-Century 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 from the Portuguese and "The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point," as well as…
- Drs. David R. Sorensen & Brent Kinser: "All the Furniture in His Room: An Interactive Digital Edition of the Collects Correspondence of John Ruskin"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 edition of John Ruskin's correspondence and the plan to develop a digital…
- Dr. Karen Pope: "Japonisme: The West's Fascination with the Art of Japan"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 36 issues of Le Japon Artistique, a key magazine of the period.
- Dr. Herbert Tucker: "Robert Browning's Struggle with Conflict"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 notions of conflict and its resolution; Browning's vision of human freedom and…