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Nineteenth Century Studies Association 36th Annual Conference
Material Cultures/Material Worlds PROGRAM
March 26-28, 2015 – Boston, MA OMNI Parker House Hotel
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Material Cultures / Material Worlds
March 25-‐28, 2015 at the OMNI Parker House Hotel in Boston
The Conference at a Glance WEDNESDAY 3/25 5-‐9pm NCSA Board of Directors Meeting (off-‐site) THURSDAY 3/26 8am Registration opens in the Alcott Foyer (until 5pm) 8:30-‐10am Session 1 10-‐10:15am Coffee Break, Alcott Foyer 10:15-‐11:45am Session 2 11:45-‐12:45pm Lunch (on your own) 12:45-‐2pm Session 3 2:15-‐3:30pm Session 4 3:30-‐3:45pm Coffee Break, Alcott Foyer 3:45-‐5pm Session 5 6-‐8pm Reception in the Press Room (2nd floor, Parker House Hotel)
FRIDAY 3/27 8am-‐5pm Registration, Alcott Foyer 8-‐8:30am Continental Breakfast, Alcott Foyer 8:30-‐10am Session 1 10-‐10:15am Coffee Break, Alcott Foyer 10:15-‐11:30am Session 2 11:30-‐2pm Lunch, Business Meeting, and Keynote, Rooftop Ballroom 2:15-‐3:30pm Session 3 3:30-‐3:45pm Coffee Break, Alcott Foyer 3:45-‐5pm Session 4 3:45-‐5pm Graduate Student Caucus, Longfellow Room 5-‐10pm Excursion to the Museum of Fine Arts (advance sign-‐up required) SATURDAY 3/28 8am-‐4pm Registration, Alcott Foyer 8-‐8:30 Continental Breakfast, Alcott Foyer 8:30-‐10am Session 1 10-‐10:15am Coffee Break, Alcott Foyer 10:15-‐11:45am Session 2 11:45-‐12:45pm Lunch (on your own) / Fulbright Presentation, Dickens Room 12:45-‐2:15pm Session 3 2:15-‐2:30pm Coffee Break, Alcott Foyer 2:30-‐4:00pm Session 4
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FULL SCHEDULE
WEDNESDAY 3/25 5-‐9 PM NCSA Board of Directors Meeting (Suffolk University Poetry Center) THURSDAY 3/26 8 AM Registration opens in the Alcott Foyer (until 5 PM) THURSDAY 8:30-‐10 AM Fashion Part 1, Gardner Mia Ritzenberg (University of California, Berkeley) “Wear This While Bicycling: An 1885 ‘Active’ Corset” Heather Wayne (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) “Louisa May Alcott’s Transcontinental Sheets and
Political Bonnets: Reconciling Domestic Economies with Global Trade Relationships in Little Women” Heidi Brevik-‐Zender (University of California, Riverside) “Material Fashion in Fiction: Guy de Maupassant’s ‘La
Parure’ (‘The Necklace’)”
Meri-‐Jane Rochelson (Florida International University) Moderator Books and Material Texts Part 1, Longfellow Kimberly J. Stern (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) “Blue Spectacles and Blue China: Oscar Wilde, Material Luxury, and Pessimism” Sean Barry (Longwood University) “Irrepressible Wordiness in ‘The Thorn’” Anna J. Brecke (University of Rhode Island) “Constructing Femininity: Language and Material Cultural in Mary
Elizabeth Braddon’s Later Novels and OED Citations” Rebecca Soares (Arizona State University) “Immaterial Poetics and the Multiple Materialities of Walt Whitman’s
Verse” Regina Hewitt (University of South Florida) Moderator Germany and Things, Stowe Bartell Berg (University of Southern Indiana) “Earthly Blessings and Worldly Poison: Material Desires in Peter Rosegger’s Fiction” Christine Kenison (Carolina Duke Graduate Program in German Studies) “‘Just things’: the Concretization of Identity Management Through Trade in Gustav Freytag’s Soll und Haben” Samuel Frederick (Pennsylvania State University) “Collecting vs. Mimesis: German Realism and the Problem of
Insignificance” Amy Emm (The Citadel) “Props and Poetic Devices in Zacharias Werner’s Romantic Plays” Sarah Leonard (Simmons College) Moderator
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THURSDAY 10-‐10:15 AM Coffee Break, Alcott Foyer THURSDAY 10:15-‐11:45 AM Fashion Part 2, Gardner Chloe Flower (New York University) “Cashmere Shawls and Imperial History in North and South” Kate Faber Oestreich (Coastal Carolina University) “Written Fidelity / Photographic Falsities: The Nineteenth-‐ Century Material World in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando” Sabine Chaouche (New College, The University of Oxford ) “Material Boys: Undergraduates and Commodity Culture in Nineteenth-‐Century Oxford” Maeve O'Riordan (University of Maynooth) “The Material Culture of British Supra-‐National Elite Weddings During
the ‘Twilight’ Years of the Irish Ascendancy, 1874 – 1914”
Keaghan Turner (Coastal Carolina University) Moderator Women as/and Things, Longfellow Lillie Webb (Boston University) “Subjecting the Object: Soft Power and Textual Presence in Balzac’s Splendeurs et Misères des Courtisanes” Myriam Krepps (Pittsburgh State University) “Collecting Bodies” Chih-‐Ping Chen (Alma College) “Dangerous Liaisons: Female Host and the Pictorialized Body in Villette” Natalia Angeles Vieyra (Temple University) “Illuminating Addiction: Morphinomania in Fin de Siècle Visual
Culture”
Peter Capuano (University of Nebraska-‐Lincoln) Moderator
Supernatural Things, Stowe
Amanda Shubert (University of Chicago) “Dematerializing History: Phantasmagoria in A Tale of Two Cities” Shirlynn Sham (Columbia University) “Unmasking the Material Taxonomy of The Phantasmagoria: Ghost Show
Spectatorship and Modern Painting” Katherine J. Kim (Boston College) "Spectrality Matters: The Materiality of Haunting and Our Mutual Friend" Paul Croce (Stetson University) Moderator THURSDAY 11:45-‐12:45 PM Lunch (on your own) THURSDAY 12:45-‐2 PM Orientalist and Colonial Things Part 1, Alcott A Catherine E. Anderson (University of California, Davis) “From Fetish to Spolia: African Objects as War Trophies in
Nineteenth-‐Century Britain” Alex Bubb (King’s College London) “The Residue of Modernity: Technology, Anachronism and Bric-‐à-‐Brac in Anglo-‐Indian Writing, 1870-‐1914” Elizabeth Heath (Baruch College-‐CUNY) “Cooking with the Colonies: Domestic Science, Empire, and the Making of the Modern French Home, 1890-‐1910”
Linda Gertner Zatlin (Morehouse College) Moderator
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Darwin’s Creatures, Longfellow Dan Bivona (Arizona State University) “The Material Culture of Animals: Animal Architecture in the Nineteenth Century” Robert Pasquini (McMaster University) “Darwin and Hardy’s Avian Imaginary: Domestication and Divergence in Tess of the d’Urbervilles” Maria P. Gindhart (Georgia State University) “Animals and Art: Joseph Félon’s Nymph Tormenting a Dolphin and the Sea Lion Basin”
Henry Cowles (Yale University/2015 NCSA Emerging Scholar Prize) Moderator Assembled Interiors, Alcott B Kate Etheridge (University of Oxford) “Through the Looking Glass: Mirrors in the Painting and Poetry of Late-‐ Nineteenth-‐Century Paris” Wietske M. Smeele (Vanderbilt University) “Iconoclash: Reconfiguring the Icon in The Spoils of Poynton” Michelle Lee (UCLA) “The Re-‐Configuration of Paris in Balzac’s Wild Ass’s Skin” Carole Kruger (Davidson College) Moderator Monuments and Architecture Part 1, Stowe Marie-‐Éve Marchand (Université de Montréal) “The Historical Interior as a ‘Thing’? Madame de Sérilly’s Boudoir at the South Kensington Museum” Robert Craig (Georgia Tech Emeritus) “Period and Nationality Rooms as Didactic Architecture: From Paxton & Pugin to Pittsburgh & Principia” Kerry Dean Carso (SUNY New Paltz) “Aging the Landscape: Ruins in America” Amanda Sharick (University of California, Riverside) Moderator Photography Part 1, Gardner Susan Cook (Southern New Hampshire University) “Photographing (in) Wessex” Joanne Lukitsh (Mass College of Art and Design) “Reproduction as Production: The Late-‐Nineteenth-‐Century Revival of Julia Margaret Cameron’s Photography” Sarah Leonard (Simmons College) “Early German Photographs and the History of Emotions”
Kate Faber Oestreich (Coastal Carolina University) Moderator THURSDAY 2:15-‐3:30 PM Orientalist and Colonial Things Part 2, Alcott A Nora Lessersohn (Harvard University) “The Role of Representation in the Life and Work of Christopher Oscanyan
(1818-‐1895)” Amanda Lee (Washington University in St. Louis) “Devadasis in Paris: Perfume and the Dancing Body in Théophile Gautier and Gérard de Nerval’s
Orientalist Poetics” Alexander Bubb (King’s College London) Moderator
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Domestic Spaces Part 1, Alcott B Whitney Stewart (Rice University) "Parlor and Cabin: The Place and Discourse of the Black Home in African
American Activism" Hulya Yagcioglu (Zayed University) “The ‘Innocence’ of Objects: The Age of Innocence and Material Culture” Elif S. Armbruster (Suffolk University) “A Tale of Two Lilies: Longings and Belongings in Stowe and Wharton” Jillmarie Murphy (Union College) Moderator Sculpture, Gardner Catherine Howe (Williams College) “Sculpting Statistics: Art, Science, and the Formation of the Ideally Average American” Alice Goff (University of California, Berkeley) “A Statue Begins to Pray in Napoleonic Prussia” Robin Hoffman (Yale Center for British Art) “‘Exclude all sculpture. The public does not care for it’: Punch and Posterity in Victorian London”
Janice Simon (University of Georgia) Moderator Architecture and Design Part 1, Longfellow Daniela Prina (Université de Liège) “The Politics of Taste: Neo-‐Renaissance Revival and Belgian Material Culture in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century” Lisa Robertson (University of Warwick) “Material Ideologies and Domestic Architecture in Nineteenth-‐Century London” Wendy Ligon Smith (The University of Manchester) “Collection as Catalyst: Inherited Objects and Revivalist Referencing” Robert Ryan (Rutgers University) Moderator Materializing the Ideal: Opera and the Shaping of Nineteenth-‐Century Ideologies, Stowe Cindy L. Kim (Independent Scholar) “Published Operatic Ornaments: Challenging Singers’ Freedom or the Composers’ Control?” Marie Sumner-‐Lott (Georgia State University) “Breathing New Life into Old Legends, or How Nineteenth-‐Century Opera Composers Modernized
the Middle Ages” Kristen M. Turner (UNC-‐Chapel Hill) “Carmen and the Nineteenth-‐Century Staging of Virtue and Vice” Laura Moore Pruett (Merrimack College) Moderator THURSDAY 3:30-‐3:45 PM Coffee Break, Alcott Foyer
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THURSDAY 3:45-‐5 PM Photography Part 2, Gardner Hye-‐ri Oh (University of Pittsburgh) “‘Transcription of the Truth’: The Currency of Photographic Realism in Late Nineteenth-‐Century Korea” Anjuli J. Lebowitz (Boston University/The Metropolitan Museum of Art) “A Photographer on Rhodes: Auguste Salzmann and the Materiality of Archaeological Photography” Baiba Tetere (University of Greifswald) “Looking at Peasants: Hybridized Visions of Rural Life in Latvia in the
1890s” Carla Manfredi (Queen's University) “Pacific Snapshots: Networks of Exchange and the Shaping of the Robert Louis Stevenson Archive”
Joanne Lukitsh (Massachusetts College of Art and Design) Moderator Theater and the Stage, Stowe Amy Arbogast (University of Rochester) “‘Photographs of Life Today in the Empire City’: Edward Harrigan’s Realistic Staging Efforts in the Mulligan Guards Series” Kevin O'Brien (University of Pittsburgh) “Sounding Funny: Comic Instruments on the American Vaudeville Stage” Arnold Anthony Schmidt (California State University, Stanislaus) “Theatrical Effects in Edward Fitzball’s Nautical Melodramas” Rachel Johnson (Royal Northern College of Music) “Materialities, Music and the ‘Manchester Man’” Anna J. Brecke (University of Rhode Island) Moderator Eco-‐Materialities, Longfellow Drew Hubbell (Susquehanna University) “Byron’s Thingy, or, Don Juan’s Phthisical Assault on Mystified Nature” Maura Coughlin (Bryant University) “Bring Me Rocks, Bring Me Stones: Discovering Primitive Pasts in Nineteenth-‐ Century France” Alysia Garrison (Dartmouth College) “Secrets of Futurity: Volcanic Matters in Thomas Moore’s Memoirs of Captain Rock” Rebecca Richardson (Stanford University) “A Material World: The Demographic Imagination in Harriet Martineau’s Illustrations of Political Economy”
Amanda Lee (Washington University in St. Louis) Moderator Journals, Alcott A Dennis Denisoff (Ryerson University) “The Celtic Residue of The Evergreen: Digitizing the Avant-‐Garde Periodical” James Najarian (Boston College) “Thomas Hood Among the Annuals: Romantic and Material Cultures” Andrea M. Truitt (University of Minnesota) “Magazine Materiality: Reading The Art Amateur and Entering Images” Alison Hedley (Ryerson University) “The Material Bioaesthetics of Statistical Visualization in Pearson’s Magazine”
Audrey Murfin (Sam Houston State University) Moderator
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Domestic Spaces Part 2, Alcott B Michael Duffy (East Carolina University) “Simple and Artistic: Fashioning an American Identity for Turn-‐of-‐the-‐ Century Ceramics” Lauren Wilwerding (Boston College) “Objects of ‘Perilous Proximity’ in Harriet Martineau’s ‘Domestic Service’” Lauren McCoy (Washington University in St. Louis) “Domesticating the News: Henry James, Edmund Yates, and the ‘At Home’”
Becky Lewis (University of South Carolina) Moderator THURSDAY 6-‐8 PM Evening Reception in the Press Room, Parker House Hotel FRIDAY 3/27 FRIDAY 8 AM-‐5 PM Registration, Alcott Foyer FRIDAY 8-‐8:30 AM Continental Breakfast, Alcott Foyer FRIDAY 8:30-‐10 AM Maritime Materiality, Longfellow Joseph Harold Larnerd (Stanford University) “Captain Biddle’s ‘Coolness’ Commandeers a Sperm Whale Tooth” Kelly P. Bushnell (University of London) “‘Monster’ Whales: Politics and Poetics of Sea Monsters on Display in the Nineteenth Century” Kathrinne Duffy (Brown University) “The Heroic Algologist: Collecting Seaweed Souvenirs in New England, 1850-‐ 1900” Audrey Murfin (Sam Houston State University) “Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Wrecker and the Unsinkable Mary Celeste”
Memory Holloway (University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth) Moderator Materials of Travel / Travel Texts Part 1, Alcott A Faruk Pašić (Independent Scholar) “History as a Genealogical Narrative of Masculinity: Wilhelm Raabe’s Collectors in Das Odfeld and Wunnigel ” Ashley Rye-‐Kopec (University of Delaware) “So Beautiful and Graceful? The Gondola in the Late Nineteenth Century” Kyle Bucy (University of California, Santa Barbara) “A Relaxing Walk Indeed: Nineteenth-‐Century Railroad Landscapes in the Twenty-‐First Century”
Bartell Berg (University of Southern Indiana) Moderator
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Para/texts and Other Texts, Gardner Elizabeth Brogden (Johns Hopkins University) “Running and Reading: Advertisement, Realism, and the Tempo of Character in The Confidence-‐Man” Christina Michelon (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) “Touching Sentiment: The Tactility of Victorian Valentines” Christine Roth (University of Wisconsin-‐Oshkosh) “La Gazette du Vieux Paris and the Exposition Universelle of 1900” Brittany Roberts (Broward College) “‘The Periodical with a Secret’: Intertextual Editing, Short Fiction, and the Culture of Sensation”
Rebecca Soares (Arizona State University) Moderator Bodies and Health, Alcott B Kathleen Daly (Boston University) “Gender and the Material World of Health, 1865-‐1920” Elizabeth Lee (Dickinson College) “Reading Disease: TB, Robert Louis Stevenson and Gilded-‐Age Art” Elizabeth Coggin Womack (Penn State Brandywine) “Misers and Moral Insanity: Nineteenth-‐Century Narratives and the Pathology of Hoarding”
Victoria Mills (Darwin College, Cambridge) Moderator Bibliophiles, Stowe David Hanson (Southeastern Louisiana University) “Sentiment and Materiality in Late Victorian Book Collecting“ Laura White (University of Nebraska-‐Lincoln) “The Material Books in Lewis Carroll’s Now Virtual Library” David Purificato (Stony Brook University)“Paradigm Lost: The Antebellum Bookcase and the End to Hegemony of Literacy” Carey Gibbons (Courtauld Institute of Art) “Feminizing and Vitalizing the Illustrated Gift Book: Arthur Hughes’s Illustrations for Tennyson’s Enoch Arden”
Bassam Chiblak (University of Victoria) Moderator FRIDAY 10-‐10:15 AM Coffee Break, Alcott Foyer FRIDAY 10:15-‐11:30 AM Art’s Materiality, Gardner Kathryn Desplanque (Duke University) “The Intimate and Spectacular Uses of Scrap Prints in Early Nineteenth-‐ Century Europe” Ruth M. McAdams (University of Michigan) “A Taller Napoleon: The Historical Effigy in Nineteenth-‐Century British
Literature and Culture” Shao-‐Chien Tseng (National Central University) “Material Consciousness in Paul Signac’s Neo-‐Impressionism”
Maria Gindhart (Georgia State University) Moderator
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Private Collections and Public Museums: Collecting, Hoarding, and Decorating in Nineteenth-‐Century France, Longfellow Anca I. Lasc (Pratt Institute) “The Collector as Décorateur: The Amateur Museum in Nineteenth-‐Century France” Elizabeth Emery (Montclair State University) “Decorating or Collecting? Clémence d’Ennery and her Private/Public Museum of Asian Art” Martina D'Amato (Bard Graduate Center) “Georges Hoentschel as a Collector of Asian Art”
Kristel Smentek (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Moderator Architecture and Design Part 2, Alcott A Jessica Mace (York University) “Plucked from the Pages of Pattern Books: Printed Media and Houses in Pre– Confederation Canada” Diana Strazdes (University of California, Davis)“Augustus Saint-‐Gaudens and the Materiality of the Florentine Renaissance in Gilded-‐Age America” Lanya Lamouria (Missouri State University) “Materializing Democracy: British Victorians and the Civic Architecture of France’s Second Republic”
Lisa Robertson (University of Warwick) Moderator Collecting Asia, Alcott B Karen Stock (Winthrop University) “James Tissot’s Japonaiserie: When the Thing Looks Back” Sonia Coman (Columbia University) “Cross-‐Media and Cross-‐Cultural Emulation: Japanese Ceramics Mimicking Chinese Bronzes in the Collection of Henri Cernuschi (1821-‐1896)” Todd Munson (Randolph-‐Macon College) “Exotic Ephemera: Images of Japan in Nineteenth Century Cigarette Cards”
Christine Roth (University of Wisconsin-‐Oshkosh) Moderator Material Spectacles of Death, Stowe Sarah Iepson (Community College of Philadelphia) “From Fetish to Forsaken: Materiality, Culture, and the Posthumous Photograph” Erin R. Corrales-‐Diaz (University of North Carolina) “General Sickles’s Leg: The Civil War Fragment and the Medical Oddity” Kory W. Rogers (Shelburne Museum) “Coming Soon…Death: Circus and Film Advertising from 1872 to 1950” Kevin M. Murphy (Williams College Museum of Art) Moderator
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FRIDAY 11:30 AM-‐2 PM Lunch, Business Meeting, and Keynote, Rooftop Ballroom Keynote speaker, Jennifer L. Roberts, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University, presenting “The Wood-‐Work of Images.” This lecture explores wood engraving, the primary technology for the mass reproduction of images in later nineteenth-‐century visual culture. It traces the peculiar technical qualities of wood engraving, and suggests that the practice shaped broader period debates about materiality, labor, tacit intelligence, and pictorial meaning. FRIDAY 2:15-‐3:30 PM Natural Histories, Longfellow Joe Chin (National Taiwan University) “The ‘Unromantic’ Materiality of Nature in John Clare’s Ornithological Writings” Jennifer Hayward (College of Wooster) “‘Cultivated with success’: Maria Graham and New World Botanical Collections” Christina Root (Saint Michael's College) “‘To Be Eaten in the Wind’: Thoreau’s ‘Wild Apples’ and the Transformation of Taste”
Drew Hubbell (Susquehanna University) Moderator The Material Traces of Nineteenth-‐Century Amateur Theatricals, Alcott A Mary Isbell (University of New Haven) “Handwritten Playbills and Amateur Reviews: The Material Traces of Private Home Theatricals” David Coates (University of Warwick) “Amateur Networks, Amateur Celebrities
and an Amateur Repertoire: Reading the Archives of the Canterbury Old Stagers” Peter Mondelli (University of North Texas) “Faust at the Piano: The Social Economy of Opera in the New Domestic
Sphere”
Mary Isbell (University of New Haven) Moderator Mummies, Gardner Angie Blumberg (Saint Louis University) “Our ‘real life’ in Tombs: The Mummy Encounter at the Fin de Siècle” Elizabeth Effinger (Pennsylvania State University) “Bad Taxidermy and the Disordering of Knowledge” Katie Magaña (Victoria University of Wellington) “Laboratories of the Supernatural as Eclectic Museums in Fin de Siècle Fiction”
Jamil Mustafa (Lewis University) Moderator Materials of Travel / Travel Texts Part 2, Alcott B Kimberly VanEsveld Adams (Elizabethtown College) “Renaissance Modernity and the World of Goods: George Eliot’s Romola” Mary A. Armstrong (Lafayette College) “Some Thing(s) About Italy: Dickensian Objects, Interiors, and Pleasures” Constance Chen (Loyola Marymount University) “Redefining Material Worlds: American Travelers in Nineteenth-‐ Century Asia” Jillian Hess (Bronx Community College, CUNY) Moderator
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Spectacular Materiality, Stowe Nathan Rees (University of North Dakota) “Materializing Latter-‐Day Saint History: Spectacle, Vision, and Experience in C. C. A. Christensen’s Mormon Panorama” Mackenzie Gregg (University of California, Riverside) “Zola’s Tableaux Vivants as Spaces of Transgression” Sophie Thomas (Ryerson University) “Time and the Object: William Bullock’s ‘London Museum’ (1812-‐1825)” Lanya Lamouria (Missouri State University) Moderator FRIDAY 3:30-‐3:45 PM Coffee Break, Alcott Foyer FRIDAY 3:45-‐5 PM Art and Visual Culture at the Trans-‐Mississippi Exposition of 1898 in Omaha, Nebraska, Alcott A Bonnie M. Miller (University of Massachusetts, Boston)“The ‘Omaha Issue’ of 1898: A National Iconographic
Campaign to Glorify the Settlement of the Trans-‐Mississippi West” Sarah J. Moore (University of Arizona) “The Arch of the States: Mapping
Progress and the American West at the Trans-‐Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898” Emily Godbey (Iowa State University) “Trilby Goes Native: The Westernization of an International Hit”
Wendy J. Katz (University of Nebraska-‐Lincoln) Moderator Cities on Paper: On the Materiality of Images in Nineteenth-‐Century Urbanization,
Stowe Tilo Amhoff (University of Brighton) “Paperwork: The Building Plans of Nineteenth-‐Century Berlin” Min Kyung Lee (College of the Holy Cross), “The Idea of a Plan” Sean Weiss (City College of New York) “Engineering the Surface” Daniel Abramson (Tufts University) Moderator Utopia, Alcott B Regina Hewitt (University of South Florida) “From Matter to Mind: Constructing Histories of the Social Survey” Daniel Lewis (Marshall University) “Education as a Material Thing at F.D. Maurice’s Working Men’s College” Kathleen Monahan (Saint Peter’s University) “The World of Things in Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward and Equality”
Tim Carens (University of Charleston) Moderator Gothic Materials, Gardner Emily Rohrbach (Northwestern University) “Austen’s Gothic Material” Jade Winter Werner (Wheaton College) “Gothic Consolations in Gaskell’s Cranford” Sabrina Gilchrist (University of Florida) “Devouring the Rich: Material Consumption in Marryat’s The Blood of the Vampire”
Anna Dempsey (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth) Moderator
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Graduate Caucus Panel: Preparing for and Navigating the Job Market, Longfellow At this panel, faculty members who have recently navigated the job market—both as candidates and as search committee members—will share their perspectives. We hope to engage in an interdisciplinary conversation about the current state of the job market, how to distinguish oneself as a promising candidate, and what to expect when applying for jobs in academia. There will be ample time for questions and discussion. Speakers include Ellery Foutch, Marlene Tromp, and Katherine Grenier. After this panel, all are invited to continue the conversation at the Sidebar (14 Bromfield Street, Boston) for food and drinks. (This is not an NCSA sponsored event; there will be a “cash bar”). FRIDAY 5-‐10 PM Museum of Fine Arts Excursion (advance sign-‐up required) Meet in the ground-‐floor lobby in front of the elevators at the Parker House Hotel at 5pm. Departure is promptly at 5:15pm. The museum is open until 9:45pm on Fridays. SATURDAY 3/28 SATURDAY 8 AM-‐5 PM Registration, Alcott Foyer SATURDAY 8-‐8:30 AM Continental Breakfast, Alcott Foyer SATURDAY 8:30-‐10:00 AM Slavery, Alcott A Kelly Payne (University of Nebraska-‐Lincoln) “Valuable Exhibitions: The Auction Block, the Altar, and Theories of Material Culture in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Antislavery Fiction” John Stromski (University of Tennessee) “Breaking the Supply Chains: Henry ‘Box’ Brown and Frederick Douglass’ Manipulation of the Northern Market” Lester P. Lee, Jr. (Suffolk University) “Slavery and the Material Life of King Ja Ja of Opobo, 1821-‐1891”
Jennifer Hayward (College of Wooster) Moderator Dandy Things, Longfellow Tim Carens (University of Charleston) “An Unworthy Object? Worshipping Beauty in The Picture of Dorian Gray” Victoria Mills (Darwin College, Cambridge) “Collecting, Classification, and the Dandiacal Body” Chris Foss (University of Mary Washington) “‘He is so ugly that he might have made the King smile’: Disability and
Materiality in Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Birthday of the Infanta’” Joanna L. Myers (University of Oregon) “Devious Refashionings, Deviant Fashions: Self Presentation Strategies of the Victorian Female Shoplifter and the Decadent Dandy” James Najarian (Boston College) Moderator
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Material Evidence, Gardner Marlene Tromp (Arizona State University) “Flesh Made Word: The Material Body of Murder Cases” Caroline Lieffers (Yale University) “The Body, the Linen, and the Razor Blade: The Materiality of Guilt in a Nineteenth-‐Century Infanticide Case” Mark Schoenfield (Vanderbilt University) “The Thing’s the Thing: Objects and Objections in Romantic-‐Era Trials” Joanna B. Spanos (The Ohio State University) “Remembering the Condemned: Social Memory and the Materials of Execution” Sarah Iepson (Community College of Philadelphia) Moderator Body Parts and Prosthetics, Stowe Sarah Beetham (Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts) “Empty Sleeves: Disability and Agency in the Photographs of Sgt. Alfred Stratton” Peter Capuano (University of Nebraska) “Hands and the History of Nineteenth-‐ Century Embodiment” Eric Pencek (Boston College) “The ‘Golden Calf’ of the Hoarded Commodity: The Economic Concerns of Thomas Hood’s Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg” Naomi Slipp (Boston University) “Indexing the Body: An Analysis of Plaster Casts and their Illustration in the Medical and Surgical History of the War of Rebellion (1861-‐65)”
Lauren Wilwerding (Boston College) Moderator Musical Materiality Part 1, Alcott B Gabrielle Dean (Johns Hopkins University) “Poem, Paper, Piano, Parlor: Nineteenth-‐Century Sheet Music” Noel Verzosa, Jr. (Hood College) “Materialism and the Study of Music in Nineteenth-‐Century France” David Z. Kushner (University of Florida) “When Luigi Became Louis: Cherubini’s Conversion from Italian to French
Musical Aesthetics”
Christina L. Reitz (Western Carolina University) Moderator SATURDAY 10-‐10:15 AM Coffee Break, Alcott Foyer SATURDAY 10:15-‐11:45 AM Animals, Longfellow Carolyn Porter Phinizy (Virginia Commonwealth University) “Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Exotic Menagerie and Victorian Aesthetic Experience” Arne Koch (Colby College) “‘The unknown creature’: Cats, Ethnography, and Zoontological Disorientation” Paula Fayos-‐Perez (Complutense University of Madrid) (Read by Elisa Germán, Boston University) “Object and Animal Metamorphosis in Satirical Print of the Nineteenth Century”
Dan Bivona (Arizona State University) Moderator
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Shopping and Consumption, Alcott A Amanda R. Mushal (The Citadel) “Living Frugally Among ‘the Latest Parisian Fashions’: The Material Worlds of Nineteenth-‐Century Charleston Shopkeepers” Jamil Mustafa (Lewis University) “Curiosity, Commodification, and Material Cultures in The Old Curiosity Shop” Stephanie Shiflett (Boston University) “Maliciously Spent: Commodity Narcissism and the Prostitute in Balzac’s Splendeurs et Misères” Maria K. Bachman (Middle Tennessee State University) “Dickensian Pawn Stars” Katherine J. Kim (Boston College) Moderator Reading and Writing, Alcott B Jillian Hess (Bronx Community College, CUNY) “Collaborative Notebooks: Materials for Writing” Abby Glogower (University of Rochester) “Iterative Absence: Cultures of Autograph Collecting in Nineteenth-‐ Century America” recent title change to “Of Names, Breath and Things: Gendered Cultures of Autograph
Collecting in Nineteenth Century America” Andrew Willson (Yale University) “Tangible Immateriality: Anthony Trollope and Literary Production” Sarah Wadsworth (Marquette University) Moderator Museums and Collectors Part 1, Stowe Lindsay Andrews (University of Nebraska-‐Lincoln) “Literary Curating: Gardner and Thaxter as Collectors of Friendship” Jeanne Gardner Gutierrez (City University of New York Graduate Center) “Brilliant Currencies: The Jewelry Collections of Isabella Stewart Gardner” Angela Parker (Virginia Commonwealth University) “Prints in Schools and Birds in
the Museum: Educational Practices at the Manchester Art Museum” Phylis Floyd (Michigan State University) Moderator Crime and Detection, Gardner Veronica Mayer (Yale University) “The Dog That Didn’t Bark, or, Immaterial Evidence in Nineteenth-‐Century
Spanish Crime Stories” Matthew Yost (Boston University) “‘J’ai tué l’autre’: The Knife as Symbol of Feminine Power in Zola’s La bête humaine” Keaghan Turner (Coastal Carolina University) “Collectors of Collections: Sherlock Holmes as Criminal Connoisseur” Marlene Tromp (Arizona State University) Moderator SATURDAY 11:45-‐12:45 PM Lunch (on your own) Or, grab a lunch and attend: Karen V. Waters (Marymount University): Expanding Professional and Personal Horizons Through a Fulbright Grant, Dickens Have you ever considered teaching or pursuing research outside the United States? A Fulbright recipient will speak about her experiences on a teaching grant to India. Learn about the rewards and benefits of international scholarship. SATURDAY 12:45-‐2:15 PM
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The Diorama and the Display Case: The Cultures, Materials, and Technologies of Fabricating Nature, Longfellow Ellery Foutch (Middlebury College) “‘Flowers That Never Fade’: Artificial Flowers in Science, Art, and Fancywork of the Nineteenth Century” Laura Sevelis (University of Wisconsin-‐Madison) “A State of Wonder: Blaschka Marine Invertebrates and the Tension between Religion and Science, 1863-‐1890” Emily Gephart (School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) and Michael Rossi (University of Chicago) “Dovetailed Displays: Show Windows, Habitat Dioramas, and Bird Hats” The Material Collective Musical Materiality Part 2, Alcott B Christina L. Reitz (Western Carolina University) “Fletcher’s Omaha Music Collection: Select Analysis and Subsequent Influence in Post-‐Romantic America” Bethany S. McLemore (University of Texas at Austin) “Collection as Self-‐Styling: Examining the Role of American
Popular Song Volumes in Women’s Lives” Michael Weinstein-‐Reiman (Columbia University) “No Representation Without Fragmentation: The Free Musical Fantasia, Femininity, and the Dissolution of Classical Representation” Ryan Weber (Misericordia University) “Uncivilized Lives Abound in Music”: A Comparative Analysis of Nationalism,
Cosmopolitanism, and Folk Song Collecting at the Turn of the Twentieth Century”
Marie Sumner Lott (Georgia State University) Moderator Textual Things, Gardner Amy R. Boyd (University of Virginia) “Uncontainable Text: The Case of Our Mutual Friend” Sarah Ebbs (Queen's University) “Emily Dickinson, Nineteenth Century Material Girl” Sarah Allison (Loyola University New Orleans) “Speech in Print: Showing and Telling Character in the Nineteenth-‐Century Novel” Andrew Hamilton (Indiana University) “Incidental Objects and the Range of Realism”
Kevin Lewis (University of South Carolina) Moderator The Agency of Things, Stowe Hilary Anderson Stelling (Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library) “John Walton’s Gift and the Invention of Tradition in Massachusetts Freemasonry” Martin Woodside (Rutgers Camden) “More Than Child’s Play: The Rifle, Childhood, and the Making of Wild West
History” Aimee E. Newell (Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library) “That Sacred Relic of the Past”: The Many Lives of a Masonic Apron” Morgan Holmes (Ryerson University) “Bagpipe Nation: Ancient Charm and Terror in Nineteenth-‐Century Scotland” Caroline McCracken-‐Flesher (University of Wyoming) Moderator
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Illustrated Literature and Victorian Material Culture, Alcott A Bassam Chiblak (University of Victoria) “W.M. Thackeray’s Lovel the Widower: Serial Fiction and the Transatlantic Poetics of Layout” Lindsey Seatter (University of Victoria) “Nineteenth-‐Century Visual Culture and the Changing Bible” Caroline Winter (University of Victoria) “Drawing Between the Lines: Hugh Thomson’s Illustrated Pride and Prejudice” Sheila Cordner (Boston University) Moderator SATURDAY 2:15-‐2:30 PM Coffee Break, Alcott Foyer SATURDAY 2:30-‐4 PM Antimodernism and Nostalgia, Stowe Corina Weidinger (Truckee Meadows Community College) “‘The Complete Impression of the Middle Ages’: Anti-‐ Modern Escapism in Pierre Loti’s Louis XI Fête” Abigail Yoder (Saint Louis Art Museum) “La Vie Artistique at the Abbey of Fontfroide: Fayet, Redon, and the Modern Gesamtkunstwerk” Zsuzsanna Böröcz (KU Leuven, Belgium) “‘Actors alongside and within us’: Ancient Colorless Stained Glass and the Making of Young Belgium” Manuel Charpy (Université Lille 3) “Materiality of Memory: Souvenirs in Parisian home in the Nineteenth Century” Sarah Allison (Loyola University New Orleans) Moderator Books and Material Texts Part 2, Longfellow Anna Dempsey (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth) “‘Listening’ to Women’s Scrapbooks from the Nineteenth Century” Akela Reason (University of Georgia) “Consuming Elihu Vedder’s Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” Ruth-‐Ellen St. Onge (University of Toronto) “Temples of the Muse: Publishers of Poetry and their Bookshops in Fin-‐de-‐siècle Paris” Jesse P. Karlsberg (Emory University) “Utility, Distinction, and Cross-‐Sectional Collaboration in the Materiality of the Sacred Harp (1844)” Carey Gibbons (Courtauld Institute of Art) Moderator Food and Consumption, Alcott A Cameron Dodworth (Spring Hill College) “Delicacy and Disgust: The Consumption of Offal in Dickensian and Victorian Culture” Bradley Fratello (St. Louis Community College) “Undigested: Food as Material and Metaphor in Manet’s Luncheon
on the Grass” Aileen Tsui (Washington College) “Eating Abstraction: Gastronomy in Critical Parodies of Whistler’s Art” Mary Pickering (San Jose State University) “Food and Identity during the Siege of Paris in 1870” Sarah Gracombe (Stonehill College) Moderator
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Museums and Collectors Part 2, Gardner Valerie Mendelson (The New School) “The Collection as Artwork in Late Nineteenth-‐Century Paris” Daniela Roberts (Municipal Museum Brunswick) “Control of Perception and Significance through Frames: Paintings on Display at the National Gallery London (1840-‐80)” Caroline McCracken-‐Flesher (University of Wyoming) “Bigger on the Inside: Books as Antiquities at Walter Scott’s Abbotsford” Diana Strazdes (University of California, Davis) Moderator Monuments and Architecture Part 2, Alcott B Jennifer Donnelly (University of Pittsburgh) “Physiognomy, Agency, and Objecthood at the Museum of French Monuments” Irene (Rena) Fatsea (National Technical University of Athens) “Collecting Fragments, Collecting Words: Ways of Shaping a National Identity” Jacob A. Cohen (CUNY Graduate Center) “‘The Formerly Quiet Corner is Full of Bustle and Business’: Symphony Hall and the Changing Cultural Geography of Fin-‐de-‐siècle Boston” Ruth McAdams (University of Michigan) Moderator