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.…

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…