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,…

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.”