Panel 1A

Rutgers Student Center

Room 402

Debating the Poor

Chair: Sarah Alexander (English / Rutgers University)

Jesse Rosenthal (English / Columbia University)

"What Feels Right: Moral Sense and Victorian Ethical Debate"

Barbara Leckie (The Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies / Carleton University)

"Housing Debates: Representations of Housing for the Poor, 1842-61"

Mary Jean Corbett (English / Miami University of Ohio)

"Common Savages: 'Incest' in the 1880s"

Dara Rossman Regaignon (English / Pomona College)

"Conflicting Advice: Infant Death and Maternal Prescriptions"

Panel 1B

Rutgers Student Center Room 407

Literature, Law, and Rights

Chair: Deborah Morse (English / College of William and Mary)

Ayelet Ben-Yishai (English and Comparative Literature / University of California, Berkeley)

"Temporalities of Reform: Common Law, Statute Law and Middlemarch"

Christine L. Krueger(English / Marquette University)

"Disciplinary Conflict: Integrating Nineteenth-Century Literature into a Lawyer's Literature and Law Syllabus"

Anca Vlasopolos (English / Wayne State University)

"The Breadcrumb Trail: Childhood Hauntings from Nineteenth-Century Culture in the Contemporary Novels of Peter Rushforth and Shirley Geok-Lin Lim"

Panel 1C

Rutgers Student Center

Room 411C

Oriental Romantics

Chair: Colin Jager (English / Rutgers University)

Lynn Voskuil (English / University of Houston)

"Bulgarian Christians and the Theatricalization of Victorian Imperialist Culture"

Karen Fang (English / University of Houston)

"Later Romanticism and the Imperial Expansion of the Mind"

Leo Costello (Art History / Rice University)

"Turner's Battle of Trafalgar: Political Subjectivity and Representing History in 1806"

Katrina Gephardt (English / Kennesaw State University)

"Triangulated Reports of Anti-Heroic Conquests in Lord Byron's The Giaour (1813) and Mikhail Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time (1840)"

Christina M. Parish (English / Syracuse University)
"Retailoring the Bourgeois Lady in Elizabeth Gaskell's 'The Grey Woman'"

Panel 1D

Rutgers Student Center
Room 410AB

Geology and Its Discontents

Chair: Devin Griffiths (English / Rutgers University)

Alyson Bardsley (English / College of Staten Island, City University of New York

"Geology in Scott's Highland Verse Romances"

Vybarr Cregan-Reid (English / University of Sussex)

"Discovering Gilgamesh: George Smith and the Victorian Horizon of History"

Debra Everett-Lane (History / Columbia University)

"The Limits of Consensus: Conflicts within International Scientific Communities"

Adelene Buckland (English / St. Hugh's College, Oxford University)
Catastrophism and Uniformitarianism: scientific conflicts and the nineteenthcentury novel

Panel 1E

Rutgers Student Center
Room 411AB

Interdisciplinary Editing: The University of California Edition of the Writings of Thomas Carlyle

Chair: Chris R. Vanden Bossche, (English / University of Notre Dame)

David Sorenson (St. Joseph's University)
"'Revising an Imbroglio': A Day in the Life of Carlyle's Copy-Editor for The French Revolution"

Paul Kerry (Brigham Young University)
"The Carlyle and Religion Project"

John Ulrich (Mansfield University)
"Charting Chartism"

Respondents: Frances Frame (The Citadel), Fleming McClelland (University of Louisiana, Monroe),
Lowell Frye ( Hampen-Sydney College)