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
- Amy E. Martin, Mount Holyoke College, "Marx and Fenianism: Collaboration and Internationalism in Mid-Victorian Radical
Politics"
- Carolyn Betensky, University of Rhode Island, "Wishful Collaborations: Les Mystères de Paris, Victorian
Social-Problem Novels, and Their Imaginary Working Class Readers”
- Christine Bolus-Reichert, University of
Toronto-Scarborough, "Two Royal Societies and the Search for a
National Style"
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
- Tim Alborn, CUNY
- Amanda Anderson, The Johns Hopkins University
- Barbara Gates, University of Delaware
11:45-1:30 Business Lunch
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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"
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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"
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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"
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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"
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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
- Debbie
Byrd, Lafayette College
- Robert
DeGraaff, St. Lawrence University
- William
Lee, Yeshiva University
- Eric Lorentzen, University of Mary Washington
10:45-12:15 Stages of Collaboration
Moderator: Cara Murray, Graduate Center, CUNY
- Martin Willis, University of Glamorgan, "Conan Doyle, Houdini, and the Scientists"
- Sean O'Toole, CUNY Graduate Center, "The Egoist Becomes a Play: Collaborative Authorship and the Late-Victorian
Literary Marketplace"
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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
- Jonah Siegel, Rutgers University
- Aviva Briefel, Bowdoin
Accommodations:
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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.
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March 25. Make Checks Payable to AU/NVSA
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Dept. of Literature
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Luncheon
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