Victorian Collaboration

The Northeast Victorian Studies Association Annual Meeting—2005

American University, Washington, DC  April 15-17


 

FRIDAY, APRIL 15

 

1-3:15 pm Registration

Batelle-Tompkins, the Atrium

 

3:15 Welcome

Kay Mussell, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences

 

3:30-5:00 The Politics of Victorian Collaboration, the Atrium

Moderator: Carole Silver, Yeshiva University

 

 

5:30-6:30 Cocktail Reception, the Atrium

 

Dinner on your own

 

SATURDAY, April 16

 

8:30-9:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast

 

9:30-11:30 Keynote Panel

Moderator: James Eli Adams, Cornell University

 

 

11:45-1:30 Business Lunch

 

1:45-3:15 Session A

When Two Become One: Conjugal Collaborations

Moderator: Jason Rudy, University of Maryland

 

  • Lesley K.D. Newhook, Dalhousie University, " 'How, Dearest, Wilt thou have me for Most Use?': Influence and Collaboration in Robert Browning's 'Saul' and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese"
  • Sarah Heidt, Kenyon College, "Composing the Carlyles: Late-Victorian Life-Writings' Collaborative Productions"
  • Michelle Sipe, University of Florida, "Victorian Collaborations: John and Jane Loudon's Home and Garden Enterprise and the Gardenesque Revolution"

 

1:45-3:15 Session B

Collaborative Faultlines

Moderator: Fred Roden, University of Connecticut

 

  • Jill Ehnenn, Appalachian State University, " 'As long as that even flow continues': Difference and Disidentification in the Collaborative Work of 'Michael Field' "
  • Kirsty Bunting, University of Birmingham, "Vernon Lee and Kit Anstruther-Thomson's Collaborative Crisis: The Writing of Beauty and Ugliness (1897)"
  • Charles La Porte, Vanderbilt University, "The Wise, Witty, and Collaborative Marketing of George Eliot's Genius"

 

3:30-5:00 Session A

The Paradox of "Self-Collaboration"

Moderator: Sarah Gates, St. Lawrence University

 

  • Amanda Claybaugh, Columbia University, "Dickens's Ghostwriter, Theodore Weld"
  • Rachel Buurma, University of Pennsylvania, " 'By One of the Firm': Corporate Authority and Literary Collaboration in Trollope"
  • Carol-Ann Farkas, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, "A Solitary Narrative: Collaboration and Individualism in the Rhetoric of Late Victorian Medical Women"

 

3:30-5:00 Session B

Together at Home: Collaborating in the Domestic Sphere

Moderator: Eileen Gilooly, Columbia University

 

  • Linda Peterson, Yale University, "The Sisters in Art: Theorizing and Practicing Artistic Collaboration"
  • Don Ulin, University of Pittsburgh; "Writing Home: Domesticity and Ideology in the Botham Sisters' Trans-Atlantic Collaborations"
  • U.C. Knoepflmacher, Princeton University, "Partners Beyond the Nursery: Mothers and Their Creative Daughters"

 

 

5:30-6:30 Cash Bar

 

6:30-9:30 Banquet and Entertainment

 

 

SUNDAY MORNING, April 29

 

8:30-9:30 Continental Breakfast

 

9-10:30 Forum on Teaching Victorian Studies

Moderator: Don Ulin, University of Pittsburgh

 

 

10:45-12:15 Stages of Collaboration

Moderator: Cara Murray, Graduate Center, CUNY

 

·        Alan Fischler, Le Moyne College, " 'If we meet, it must be as master and master': The Dialectics of Social Class in the Gilbert and Sullivan Collaboration"

 

SUNDAY, 12:30  Conference Wrap-Up

 

Accommodations:

Rooms available at Jurys, 1500 New Hampshire Ave. phone: 877-587-9787. Mention NVSA to get convention rate of $145 plus tax. Call by March 18.

Jurys Metro stop is Dupont Circle on the Red Line. AU is at the Tenley Town stop on the Red Line. From Tenley Town, get AU shuttle bus to campus.

 

Return Completed Form by March 25. Make Checks Payable to AU/NVSA

Send Form to:

 

Jonathan Loesberg

Dept. of Literature

237 Batelle-Tompkins

American University

Washington, DC 20016

 

Registration:

 

_____$70 Members  _____$90 Non-members          

_____ $35 Students                                                    

_____ $15 NVSA Dues ___$10 Students                                

_____ $20 Saturday Luncheon                                    

_____ $50 Saturday Banquet    

 

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