Literature of Status / Status of Literature

Friday, March 6, 2015

Session One: Jane Austen

8:30am-9:30am

Anticipatory Ecofeminism: Jane Austen and the Status of Women

Shelby Heathcoat (University of North Alabama)

Marketing the Roots of Englishness and the Geography of a Transnational Jane Austen

Deirdre Mikolajcik (University of Kentucky)

Session Two: Slave Narratives

9:45am-10:45am

Broken English, Broken Morality: European Language as a Symbol of Virtue in The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

Samantha S. Caddis (University of Alabama)

The Four Elements of Self Knowledge; Answering the Epistemological Question

Robert White (Alabama State University)

Session Three: 20th Century British Fiction

11:00am-12:00pm

Revisiting a Literary Throwdown: Galsworthy Among the Moderns

Maria Bachman (Middle Tennessee State University)

Vicious Creatures and Ignorant Swans: St. Aubyn and Yeats

Adam Parkes (University of Georgia)

Lunch

12:15pm-1:30pm

Session Four: Economics

1:45pm-2:45pm

The Current Status of the American Literary Manuscripts Trade in Academic Special Collections Centers

Amy Chen (University of Alabama)

The Literature of Mass Destruction: Atlas Shrugged, Free to Choose, & the Rhetorical Origins of the Income Gap

Matt Seybold (University of Alabama)

Session Five: J. M. Coetzee

3:00pm-4:00pm

In Disgrace: Literature and Language in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Anne Reef (Rhodes College)

Knowing and Power: How Access to Knowledge and History Defines Access to Power in White Teeth and Disgrace

Jen Zellner (University of Cincinnati)

Round Table on Scholarly Publishing

4:15pm-5:30pm

Maria Bachman, Editor, Victorians Institute Journal

Marshall Brown, Editor, Modern Language Quarterly

Dan Waterman, Editor-in-Chief, The University of Alabama Press

Saturday, March 7, 2015

Session Six: Genre and Adaptation

8:30am-9:30am

Nineteenth-Century Stage Adaptations of Victorian Novels

Amy Elizabeth Holley (Swansea University)

“Not the Respect We Were Looking For”: the Status of Comic Books as Literature

Russ McConnell (University of Alabama)

Session Seven: Literacy and Pedagogy

9:45am-10:45am

Reading Together: The Communal Reading Experience, Literature, and Functional Illiteracy

Megan Holt (Tulane University)

Considering Coleridge: “Winged Words” and the Psychology of Metaphor Through the Hybrid Prism of Affect-Noetic Theory

Susie Warley (Texas A & M University – Commerce)

Session Eight: 19th Century British Fiction

11:00am-12:00pm

Novel Impressionism: More than Just Pretty Colors

Cameron Dodworth (Spring Hill College)

“Pastry and Preserves”, Not “Bread, Meat, and Milk”: The Status of the Novel in Mid-Victorian Reform Culture

Frank Emmett (Shelter Island School)

Lunch

12:15pm-1:30pm

Session Nine: (Dis)Courtesy and Social Mobility

1:45pm-2:45pm

Courtliness, Courtesy, and Social Status in Spenser, Castiglione, and Guazzo

Michelle Golden (Georgia State University)

“horn-handed and pig-headed”: British Reception of The Poets and Poetry of America

Albert D. Pionke (University of Alabama)

Session Ten: Women’s Authorship

3:00pm-4:00pm

“My Writing is a Species of Mediumship:” Ghostly Presences and the Status of Women’s Authorship in Virginia Woolf

Claudie Massicotte (University of California Los Angeles)

“Tyrant Taste”: Marianne Moore’s Authority and Revision Of “The Old Dominion”

Eloise A. Whisenhunt (Young Harris College)

Keynote Address

4:15pm-5:30pm

“The Heyday of the Short Story”

Marshall Brown (University of Washington)