Panel 8A

Rutgers Student Center

Room 410AB

Aesthetic Politics

Chair: Timothy Morton (English / University of Colorado at Boulder)

Michael Tomko (Humanities / Villanova University)

“P.B. Shelley’s Conflicted Campaign: Religious Politics, Poetic Reform, and the Catholic Question”

Sue Zemka (English / University of Colorado at Boulder)

“The Exploding  Moment”

Jordan Bear (Art History and Archeology / Columbia University)

“Dangerous Combinations: Photography, Illusion, and the Conspiracy of Labour”

Panel 8B

Rutgers Student Center

Room 411ABC

Epistemologies of Sympathy and Compassion

Chair: Richard L. Stein (English / University of Oregon)

Elizabeth McClure (English / University of Maryland)

“Representational Conflicts: The Corporeal Morality of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Algernon Charles Swinburne”

Holly Furneaux (English and Humanities / Birkbeck College, University of London)

“Make Love Not War: The Erotics of Male Nursing in the 1860s”

Gregory Tomso (English / University of West Florida)

“A ‘Sick Young Woman’: Alice James and the Epistemology of Illness”

J. Jennifer Jones (English / University of Rhode Island)

“Passion as Compassion:  From Aggress to Immersion in the Wordsworthian Sublime”