Panel 4A

Rutgers Student Center

Room 402

Writing Religion

Chair: Barry Qualls (English / Rutgers University)

Jennifer Salrin (English / Indiana University)

"Of 'Motionable Minds' and 'Supernaturalized Eyes': The Syntax of Attention in Victorian Devotional Writing"

John Paul Kanwit (English / Indiana University)

"Catholic Art, Religious Confict, and the Professionalization of Victorian Art Criticism"

Teresa Huffman Traver (English / University of Notre Dame)

"Helbeck of Bannisdale and the Failure of Tolerance"

Panel 4B

Rutgers Student Center

Room 407

Consuming Ecologies and Appropriating Ideologies

Chair: Susan Wolfson (English / Princeton University)

Mark Schoenfield (English / Vanderbilt University)

"A 'Counter Charm' for a 'Giddy Generation': Blackwood's Magazine's Task of Containing Lord Byron"

Timothy Morton (English / University of California, Davis)

"Beautiful Souls: Romantic Consumerism and Enviromentalism"

Joshua Lund (Hispanic Languages and Literatures / University of Pittsburgh)

"Colonization and Indianization in Liberal Mexico"

María del Pilar Melgarejo Acosta (Hispanic Languages and Literatures / University of Pittsburgh)

"The Language of Regeneration and the Politics of Abandonment"

Panel 4C

Rutgers Student Center

Room 410AB

Women's Publics II

Chair: Carolyn Williams (English / Rutgers University)

Dinah Birch (English / University of Liverpool)

"Power and Conflict: Charlotte Brontë in the Schoolroom"

Deidre d'Albertis (Languages and Literature / Bard College)

"Victorian Women's Writing: Is it 'Work'?"

Jennifer Phegley (English / University of Missouri–Kansas City)

"The Conflict Between Domesticity and Professionalism in Sons' Memoirs of the Lives of Ellen Price Wood and Mary Elizabeth Braddon"

Panel 4D

Rutgers Student Center

Room 411ABC

Imperial Adventures

Chair: Simon Dentith (Humanities / University of Gloucestershire)

Wendy A. Lee (English / Princeton University)

“On Never Having to Say You’re Sorry: Imperial Romance and Jane Eyre”

Eddy Kent (English / University of British Columbia)

“Conflicts of  Interest: Colonial Agents in the Anglo-Indian Short Story”

Sumangala Bhattacharya (English / New Mexico State University)

The Haunted Babu: the Colonial-Gothic in Three Ghost Stories of Rabindranath Tagore

J. Andrew Hubbell (English / Susquehanna University)

“Man Versus Nature: Encountering Antarctica”