Thursday 3:30-4:45

Mapping Adventure: The Intersection of 18^th Century Travel Narratives and 20^th Century Extreme Adventure Texts
Thursday 3:30-4:45
Chair: Kathleen Grathwol, Suffolk University

• Gillian B. Pierce, Ashland University, "From Vernet to Vineland: The Metaphor of Travel and the Search for New Paradigms in Diderot and Pynchon"
• L. Lynnette Eckersley, Bates College, "Extreme Seas: The Adventure Narratives of Coleridge, Greenlaw, and Junger"
• Lloyd Willis, University of North Carolina-Wilmington, "Primitive Shores: Reactions to the Primitive in Robinson Crusoe and The Beach"

• Anne Barbeau Gardiner, John Jay College-CUNY, "Jean Claude, Pierre Nicole, Antoine Arnaud, Bossuet, and the Great Debate over 'Oriental' Worship"
• Teresa S. Watts, State University of New York - Potsdam College, "Precision in the Study of Landscape Formations in Illustrated Travel Accounts"
• Mary Ann Fay, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, "'French Travellers and the Savants in 18^th-Century Egypt"

• Jim Springer Borck, Louisiana State University, "The Skeptical Traveler/Reader in Defoe's Tour"
• Carol Houlihan Flynn, Tufts University, "The Sunday Gentleman; Or, Where Debtors Find Relief: the Mint, the Verge, Alsatia"
• Lisa Blansett, Florida International University, "Affective Mapping: Sentimental Nationhood in The Vicar of Wakefield"

• Jennifer Jones, Rutgers University, "Terese's Enlightenment: Women in the Shadows of the Parisian Public Sphere"
• Mita Choudhury, Vassar College, "Heretics or Heroines: Jansenist Nuns' Resistance to Unigenitus"
• Katharine Hamerton, University of Chicago, "Women's Taste in the Mid-Eighteenth-Century French Public Sphere""

Tasteful Objects --- and Politics
Thursday 5:00-6:15
Chair: Lucinda Cole, University of Southern Maine

• Nandini Bhattacharya, Valparaiso University, "Sheridan's Follies: The Scandal of Auctioning Ancestors"
• Terri Nickel, Bowdoin College, "Geographies of the Boudoir: Social Space in 18^th Century Erotic Fiction and Visual Art"
• Benjamin Harris, "Sublime Subtraction: Rewriting the Sublime in Ann Radcliffe's The Italian"

• Raymond H. Miller, Bowdoin College, "Slavic Language Reform in the 18^th Century: Defining Reader and Nation"
• Mark G. Spencer, The University of Western Ontario, "Expanding the Zones of Enlightenment: Subscribers to the First American Edition of Hume's History of England"
• Cynthia Roman, Wadsworth Museum of Art, "Print Culture and the Feminization of the 'Nation': Robert Bower's Historic Gallery, 1792-1836"

• Anne Williams, University of Georgia, "Walpole in Italy; or, the Gothic, the Operatic and the Monstrous"
• Heather Lobban-Viravong, SUNY-Buffalo, "Borderless Nations, Absent Selves: The Twinning of History and Fiction in Sophia Lee's The Recess; or, A Tale of Other Times"
• Jan Wellington, University of Southern Alabama, "Mother Radcliffe's French Revolution: Imagi(nation)-Building in the Romance of the Forest"
• Frances Chiu, St. Hilda's College, Oxford University, "From (Re)Form to Gothic Forms: The Architecture of Nation in Ann Radcliffe's Romance of the Forest"

• Anita Nicholson, Villanova University, "The Hymenal Novel"
• Michele L. Heintz, Tulane University, "Madame de Tencin: Taking Politics to Heart"
• Lisa Wood, York University, "Figuring Counter-Revolution: The Domestic Man as Political Trope in the Writing of Jane West, Hannah More and Mary Brunton"

Trials, Punishment and the Law
Friday 8:00-9:15
Chair: Nadine Berenguier, University of New Hampshire

• Douglas Palmer, Ohio State University, "Armand-Gaston Camus: Censor and Revolutionary"
• Anthony Crubaugh, Illinois State University, "Balancing the Scales of Justice: Civil Justice in Rural France from 1750-1800"
• David Klinck, University of Windsor, "Honour, Privacy, and Family Tribunals in French Pro-Divorce Thought: 1789-1792"

• Anthony L. DeLuca, City University of New York, "Boswell's or Mrs. Thrale's 'Tour to the Hebrides' with Samuel Johnson?"
• Robert M. Grossman, University of Virginia, "The Travel Narrative as a Theory of Truth: Johnson and the Empirical Imagination"
• David Marcus, University of Tampa, "Boswell's Two Fathers: The Meeting on the Tour"

• Andrew Carpenter, Antioch College, "The Inner Sense Thesis, Empirical Psychology, and the Philosophical Significance of Embodiment: Kant's Evolving Landscape of the Mind"
• Iona Patuleanu, Indiana University, "From Philosophy to Nationalism: The Promises of Addison and Steele's Observer"
• Sonia Hofkosh, Tufts University, "Wollstonecraft's Ways"

• David W. Gasperetti, University of Notre Dame, "Grotesque Character(s): Mutability, Masquerade, and Self-Mockery in the Early Russian Novel"
• Dragan Kujundzic, University of California at Irvine, "Rastrelli's Wax Effigy of Peter the Great and the Limits of the Grotesque Body"
• Ronald D. LeBlanc, University of New Hampshire, "Vasily Narezhny: The Russian Rabelais?"

 Friday 9:30-10:45

Mapping the 'Other'
Friday 9:30-10:45
Chair: Robert Eskildsen, Smith College

• Keith Sandiford, Louisiana State University, "Mapping the 'Other': Plotting the Pretexts of Empire"
• Junia Ferreira Furtado, Princeton University, "The Indies of Knowledge, or the Imaginary Geography of the Discoveries of Gold in Brazil"
• Joyce M. Melissinos, Rochester Institute of Technology, "John Bell's Journey to Pekin: An Evocation of a Continent as well as of an Embassy"

• Jenny Batlay, Columbia University, "Jean-Jacques Rousseau's ?le de Saint-Pierre:The Island as Paradise, Shelter, Microcosm, or Utopia""
• Maureen Owens, Lehman College-CUNY, "Le Suppl?ment au Voyage de Bougainville: A Utopian Text?"
• Dr. Elizabeth Blood, Mercyhurst College, "Mercier's Guadeloupe"

• James Schmidt, Boston University, "What Counter-Enlightenment: Some Reservations About Isaiah Berlin's Notion"
• Graeme Garrard, University of Wales, Cardiff, "The Counter-Enlightenment of Jean-Jacques Rousseau"
• Darrin McMahon, Yale University, "What is Counter-Enlightenment: The Case of France"

The Shaping of Men: Eighteenth-Century Masculinity and Empire
Friday 9:30-10:45
Chair: Shawn Lisa Maurer, College of the Holy Cross

• Shannon Hartling, University of Waterloo, "Bringing Home the Sublime: The Domestication of Masculinity in The Adventures of David Simple, Volume the Last"
• Lisa Tilton-Levine, Seton Hall University, "Empire-Building and England's Virtuosi"
• Douglas Fordham, Yale University, "General James Wolfe: French Dandy, Spartan Hero, or Ephebe?"

Friday 11:00-12:15

Theories of Light and Color
Friday 11:00-12:15
Chair: Robert Craig, Independent Scholar

• Brigitte Weltman-Aron, University of Memphis, "'Victims of Chardin': Light and Color in French Landscape Gardening"
• Dusan I. Bjelic, University of Southern Maine, "Goethe's Experiments with Color and Light: A Demonstration"
• Renata Schelerberg, University of Toronto, "Riddled with Light: Goethe's Colour Theory"

• Kevin L. Cope, Louisiana State University, "All the Sacred Junk in Dryden"
• Margaret Duggan, South Dakota State University, "Dryden's Blasphemous Parallels"
• Katherine M. Quinsey, University of Windsor, Ontario, "Pope and the Idea of Suffering"
• John L. Mahoney, Boston College, "Saint and Sinner: Pope's Eloisa to Abelard and the 'Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady'"

• Mira Morgenstern, Kingsborough Community College, The City University of New York, "Miseducating its Citizens: Women and Education in Jean-Jacques Rousseau"
• Bernadette H. Hyner, Vanderbilt University, "Sophie von La Roche: Exploring Space and Femininity in Die Geschichte des Fr?ulein von Sternheim"
• Maria A. Mann, Nassau Community College, "Women Studies 101: Defining the Curriculum in Eighteenth-Century Italy"

• Jeffrey S. Ravel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Bigamy Banned Onstage: A Theatrical Representation of a French 'cause c?l?bre' in 1698"
• Katherine Crawford, Vanderbilt University, "Philippe of Orleans and the Costs of Sexual Excess, 1715-1723"
• Lisa Jane Graham, Haverford College, "The Nogent Affair: Sleeping Around and Paying the Price in 1741"

Popularizing Science
Friday 2:00-3:15
Chair: Dusan I. Bjelic, University of Southern Maine

• Isabelle C. DeMarte, University of North Texas-Denton, "De Metaphora Rerum: Metaphors Work Wonders in Encyclop?die"
• Stephanie Volmer, Rutgers University, "Viewing Nature with a Purpose: Scientific Epistolary Exchange in the Later 18^th Century"
• Jessica Richard, Princeton University, "'A Country of Eternal Light': Frankenstein and Polar Exploration"

• Irene Basey Beesemyer, UCLA, "Sir George Mackenzie's Aretina of 1660"
• Jennifer C. Garlen, Auburn University, "Courting the National Heroine: British Nationhood in Late Eighteenth-Century Courtship Novels"
• Abby Coykendall, SUNY-Buffalo, "Ghostly Homogeneity and the Historical Gothic: The Familial Typography of Clara Reeve's Old English Baron"

• Bruce Mazlish, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Civilization: Beyond and in the Nation"
• David Armitage, Columbia University, "Theology and International Thought in the Age of Revolutions"
• Julie Landweber, Rutgers University, "Venetian Vagabonds, Albanian Bandits, and Furious Frenchman: Conflict Resolution among European Nations in Constantinople 1729"
• Harald Deceulaer, University of Brussels, "Between Barriers and Opportunities: The Textile Industry in the Border Region Between Northern France and the Southern Netherlands in the Long 18^th Century"

• Lisa Zunshine, University of Kentucky, Lexington, "Lovelace's The Quarrelsome Lovers and the London Stage of the Late 1740s"
• David C. Hensley, McGill, "Letter Friendship as a Critique of Sympathy in Richardson's Clarissa"
• Ann Kibbie, Bowdoin College, "The Dead Hand of Ownership: Clarissa and the Property in Corpses"

Republicanism and the Georgic
Friday 3:30-4:45
Chair: Glen Brewster, Westfield State College

• Michael J. Schwartz, "Literal Nature vs. Georgic History: Thomson's Liberty"
• Daniel S. Malachuk, Daniel Webster College, "'Writ[ing] Sonnets Whilst Following the Plough': Coleridge's and Wordsworth's Yeoman in the 1790s"
• Paul J. Korshin, University of Pennsylvania, "Women's Georgic"

• Adrienne Major, Landmark College, "The Domestication of Politics: Susanna Centlivre Charts a Course for a King"
• Dr. David D. Flaten, Plymouth State College, "'The Perpetual Lyes one hears': Court Intrigue in the Diary of Mary, Countess Cowper"
• Jennifer Wilson, The University of Georgia, "Trial by Allegory: Sarah Fielding's Verdict on England"

• David A. Bell, Johns Hopkins University
• Sophia Rosenfeld, University of Virginia
• Paul Friedland, Bowdoin College

• Karen B. Reichad, Tulane, "Thresholds of Knowledge: Women's Gaze in the Scientific Paratexts of Mme Thiroux d'Arconville"
• Jeff Roberts, University of Connecticut - Storrs, "She's Got Betty Davis' Eyes: The Gaze and Social Transgressions in The Country Wife"
• David W. Toise, Long Island University, "'His Half Averted Eyes': Anne Eliot and the Gaze"

Virtue and the Collective
Saturday 8:00-9:15
Chair: Edward T. Larkin, University of New Hampshire

• Susan A. Martinelli-Fernandez, Western Illinois University, "Building Bridges and Traveling Roads: The Moral Constructions of Philosophy and Literature"
• Lynn Festa, Harvard University, "Sentimentality, Nation, and the Bounds of Empire"
• Marius Kwint, University of Oxford, "Views of Humanity and Nature in the Eighteenth-Century English Circus"
• William Stroup, Keene State College, "The Importance of Pikes: John Oswald, Percy Shelley, and the Forms of Nonviolence"

The Iconography of Nationalities
Saturday 8:00-9:15
Chair: Nandini Bhattacharya, Valparaiso University

• Sabine Moedersheim, University of Wisconsin, "Representations of Continents and Nations in the 17^th and 18^th Centuries"
• Robert Eskildsen, Smith College, "Japan as the Center of the World in Nineteenth-Century Popular Maps"
• Jane Kromm, Purchase College-SUNY, "Empowering and Dis-empowering the National Figure: Strategies in the Representation of Britannia"

• Gavin Taylor, Brock University - St. Catharines, Ontario, "Mapping by Stories: Natives, Colonists, and the Ownership of Land in Colonial Maine"
• John Shovlin, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, "Following Cincinnatus back to the Plow: Agriculture and Representations of the Social in France, 1760-1810"
• Ruth Perry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Arthur Young and the Politics of Enclosure"

• Paul Benhamou, Purdue University, "Reflections of Cultural Life in a French Province: the Affiches du Dauphin? (1774-1789)"
• Laurence Mall, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, "Fuge et fougue: le traitement de l'homme de genie' dans la Refutation d'Helvetius de Diderot"

Mapping Knowledge in 18^th Century Europe
Saturday 9:30-10:45
Chair: Isabelle C. DeMarte, University of North Texas-Denton

• David Eick, University of Iowa, "The Politics, Poetics, Purpose and Possibility of Knowledge: d'Alembert's Discours preliminaire vs. Diderot's Encyclopedie"
• Michael Lynn, Agnes Scott College, "Electricity in the Air: The Geography of Popular Science in Eighteenth-Century Paris"
• Matt Landrue, Oxford University, "Mapping Visual Knowledge: The Science of Art in 18^th Century Europe"

Music and Society Saturday
9:30-10:45
Chair: Katherine Beller, Claremont McKena College

• Robert B. Craig, Independent Scholar, "The Glass Armonica: Its Development, Use, and Mis-Use as a Musical Instrument of Social Change in the 18^th Century"
• Stanley Pelkey, Gordon College, "G. F. Handel's Music at the Intersection of Political, Religious, and Domestic Spaces in Britain, 1760-1840"

• Karen Taylor, Georgetown University, "Theater and Female Education at St-Cyr"
• Lauren Clay, University of Pennsylvania, "Theater and Metropolitan Identity in the French Colonies, 1760-1790"
• Franca Barricelli, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, "Ethnicity and Rebellion in Eighteenth-Century Venice: Greek Hostility and the Representation of the Canadian Revolt"

• Barbara M. Benedict, Trinity College, "European Monsters through English Spectacles"
• Janet Sorenson, Indiana University, "Curious Language"
• Margaret Russell Ewalt, University of Virginia, "Admiratio and Wunderkammern in El Orinoco Ilustrado"

Women Write the Nation II
Saturday 11:00-12:15
Chair: Lisa Wood, York University

• Nancy E. Johnson, SUNY-New Paltz, "'Pleasing Illusions': Wollstonecraft and Austen Envisaging the Nation"
• Rajani Sudan, University of Texas-Arlington, "Local Color"
• Johanna Smith, University of Texas-Arlington, "Mapping the Empire: 18^th Century Geographies for Children"

• Patrice Higonnet, Harvard University
• James Johnson, Boston University
• James Swenson, Rutgers University
• Daniel Gordon, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

• Ann A. Huse, John Jay College of Criminal Justice-CUNY, "The Middle Class Is a Foreign Country: The Earl of Rochester's Internal Exile"
• Inese Racevskis, Western Connecticut State University, "Topography of the Self: Mapping the Explorations of the Self in the Eighteenth-Century Novel"
• Robert Chibka, Boston College, "Whether Maps: Certain Postures of Uncertainty in Tom Jones"

• Brian McCrea, University of Florida, "The Uses of Virginia: Defoe's Transition from Moll Flanders to Roxana"
• Sara Gadeken, Texas Tech University, "Sarah Fielding and the Commodification of Female Virtue"
• Geoffrey Turnovsky, Columbia University, "Spaces of Authorship: Nature, Salons and the Literary Market in Rousseau's Works"

Discursive Exchanges Between Theater and the Novel in the Enlightenment
Saturday 2:00-3:15
Chair: Jenny Batlay, Columbia University

• Jenn Fishman, Stanford University, "Formal Limits: Theater, the Novel, and The Absentee"
• Jessica Hollis, University of Kentucky, Lexington, "'For she had been married against her will': Performing Female Self-Determination in the Enlightenment"
• Mike Austin, Shepherd College, "Virtue Adapted: Pamela on the Eighteenth-Century Stage"

• Jason C. Gieger, Haverford College, "Between Orality and Print: Reading the Dictionaries of Literary Biographies"
• Ghazi Q. Nassir, The American University of Sharjah, "The Perception of the Middle East in Johnson's Rasselas"
• Richard G. Swartz, University of Southern Maine, "What is 'Interesting' in Arthur Young's Travels in France…1789? The Observer and the Circulation of Knowledge"

• Kathleen B. Grathwol, Suffolk University, "Show & Tell: The Power of the Female Gaze and Women's Word in The Female Spectator and The Female Tatler"
• Amy Wolf, University of Massachusetts, "'A Gap in Chastity…Is Every Day a Widening': Bernard Mandeville, Fielding's Amelia, and the Necessities of Plot"
• Leon Guilhamet, The City College-CUNY, "Roxanna: Defoe's Most Moral Novel?"

• Lisa Forman Cody, Claremont McKenna College, "Embodying Politics: Pregnant Man and the 'Satirical Critique of Eighteenth-Century Social Relations"
• Natasha Lee, Harvard University, "Shapes of Sociability: Mme de Stael's De la literature"
• Madelyn Gutwirth, University of Pennsylvania, "The Curse of Catherine: Women in Chenier's Charles IX"

Identity and the Tour
Saturday 3:30-4:45
Chair: Richard G. Swartz, University of Southern Maine

• George E. Haggerty, University of California, "Walpole in Italy"
• Charlotte M. Craig, Kutztown University, "The Grand Tour: Who--What--Where--Why?"
• Tae-Hoon Kim, Texas A&M University, "The British National Identity, Picturesque Tourism, and The Heart of Midlothian"

• Cheryl Nixon, Babson College, "Mapping Legal and Literary Guardianship: Burney's Cecilia and Chancery Court Reports of 1785"
• Barbara F. Glore, North Dakota State University, "'Guardian, Friend, Protector of my youth!': Triangulation, Transference, and the Other in Fanny Burney's Evelina"
• Susan Goulding, Monmouth University, "Mapping the Role of Biography in Women's Literary History: The Cases of Burney and Yearsley"

• Daniel Gordon, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• Gregory Brown, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

• John Zammito, Rice University, "Kant, Herder, and the Question of schoenen Wissenschaft"
• Robert E. Norton, University of Notre Dame, "Herder and Racism"