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Material Cultures / Material Worlds March 25-‐28, 2015 at the OMNI Parker Hotel in Boston Massachusetts. Draft Conference Schedule revised 21 Feb. 2015. Please note: this is a draft of the NCSA conference program. Names and affiliations of speakers are updated once speakers complete their registrations. Updates to this pdf will posted regularly on the NCSA website: http://www.ncsaweb.net/Conferences. Because the conference organizers cannot guarantee that every speaker will register, some panels may have to be adjusted. We are working to alter this schedule as little as possible. WEDNESDAY 3/25 5-‐9 PM Board Meeting (Suffolk University) THURSDAY 3/26 8:30-‐10:00 AM Fashion Part 1 1A Noémie Etienne (Institute of Fine Arts-‐NYU) “Manufacturing Authenticity: Clothes and Craft in Anthropological Dioramas (New York, 1900)” 1B Mia Ritzenberg (University of California, Berkeley) “Wear This While Bicycling: An 1885 ‘Active’ Corset” 1C Heather Wayne (University of Massachusetts, Amherst) “Louisa May Alcott’s Transcontinental Sheets and Political Bonnets: Reconciling Domestic Economies with Global Trade Relationships in Little Women” 1D Heidi Brevik-‐Zender (University of California, Riverside) “Material Fashion in Fiction: Guy de Maupassant’s ‘La Parure’ (‘The Necklace’)” Meri-‐Jane Rochelson, Moderator Books and Material Texts Part 1 2A “Blue Spectacles and Blue China: Oscar Wilde, Material Luxury, and Pessimism” 2B Sean Barry (Longwood University) “Irrepressible Wordiness in ‘The Thorn’” 2C Anna J. Brecke (University of Rhode Island) “Constructing Femininity: Language and Material Cultural in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Later Novels and OED Citations” 2D Rebecca Soares (Arizona State University) “Immaterial Poetics and the Multiple Materialities of Walt Whitman’s Verse” Regina Hewitt, Moderator 1
Germany and Things 3A Bartell Berg (University of Southern Indiana) “Earthly Blessings and Worldly Poison: Material Desires in Peter Rosegger’s Fiction” 3B Andrew Hamilton (Indiana University) “Incidental Objects and the Range of Realism” 3C Christine Kenison (Carolina Duke Graduate Program in German Studies) “’Just things’: the Concretization of Identity Management Through Trade in Gustav Freytag’s Soll und Haben” 3D Samuel Frederick (Pennsylvania State University) “Collecting vs. Mimesis: German Realism and the Problem of Insignificance” 3E Amy Emm (The Citadel) “Props and Poetic Devices in Zacharias Werner’s Romantic Plays” 10-‐10:15 AM Coffee Break THURSDAY 10:15-‐11:45 AM Fashion Part 2 1A “Cashmere Shawls and Imperial History in North and South” 1B Kate Faber Oestreich (Coastal Carolina University) “Written Fidelity / Photographic Falsities: The 19th-‐ Century Material World in Virginia Woolf’s Orlando” 1C Sabine Chaouche (New College, The University of Oxford )“Material Boys: Undergraduates and Commodity Culture in Nineteenth-‐Century Oxford” 1D Maeve O'Riordan (University of Maynooth) “The Material Culture of British Supra-‐national Elite Weddings During the ‘Twilight’ Years of the Irish Ascendancy, 1874 – 1914” Keaghan Turner (Coastal Carolina University), Moderator Women as/and Things 2A Lillie Webb (Boston University) “Subjecting the Object: Soft Power and Textual Presence in Balzac’s Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes” 2B Myriam Krepps (Pittsburgh State University) “Collecting Bodies” 2C Chih-‐Ping Chen (Alma College)“Dangerous Liasons: Female Host and the Pictorialized Body in Villette” 2D Natalia Angeles Vieyra (Temple University) Illuminating Addiction: Morphinomania in Fin de Siècle Visual Culture Peter Capuano, Moderator Supernatural Things 3A Amanda Shubert (University of Chicago) “Dematerializing History: Phantasmagoria in A Tale of Two Cities” 3B Shirlynn Sham (Columbia University) “Unmasking the Material Taxonomy of The Phantasmagoria: Ghost-‐ show Spectatorship and Modern Painting” 3C “’Your eyes see and your ears hear:’ Material and Immaterial Evidence for the Supernatural in Bram Stoker’s Dracula” 3D Katherine J. Kim (Boston College) “Spectrality Matters: The Materiality of Ghosts and Our Mutual Friend” Paul Croce, Moderator 2
11:45-‐12:45 PM Lunch on your own THURSDAY 12:45-‐2:00 PM Orientalist and Colonial Things Part 1 1A Catherine Anderson (University of California, Davis) “From Fetish to Spolia: African Objects as War Trophies in Nineteenth-‐Century Britain ” 1B Alex Bubb (King’s College London) “The Residue of Modernity: Technology, Anachronism and Bric-‐à-‐Brac in Anglo-‐Indian Writing, 1870-‐1914” 1C Elizabeth Heath (Baruch College-‐CUNY) “Cooking with the Colonies: Domestic Science, Empire, and the Making of the Modern French Home, 1890-‐1910” Linda Gertner Zatlin, Moderator Darwin’s Creatures 2A Dan Bivona (Arizona State University) “The Material Culture of Animals: Animal Architecture in the Nineteenth Century” 2B Robert Pasquini (McMaster University) “Darwin and Hardy’s Avian Imaginary: Domestication and Divergence in Tess of the d’Urbervilles” 2C Maria P. Gindhart (Georgia State University) “Animals and Art: Joseph Félon’s Nymph Tormenting a Dolphin and the Sea Lion Basin” Henry Cowles, Moderator Assembled Interiors 3A Kate Etheridge (University of Oxford) “Through the Looking Glass: Mirrors in the Painting and Poetry of Late Nineteenth-‐Century Paris” 3B Wietske M. Smeele (Vanderbilt University) “Iconoclash: Reconfiguring the Icon in The Spoils of Poynton” 3C Michelle Lee (UCLA) “The Re-‐Configuration of Paris in Balzac’s Wild Ass’s Skin” Carole Kruger (Davidson College), Moderator Monuments and Architecture Part 1 4A Marie-‐Éve Marchand (Université de Montréal) “The Historical Interior as a ‘Thing’? Madame de Sérilly’s Boudoir at the South Kensington Museum” 4B Robert Craig (Georgia Tech Emeritus) “Period and Nationality Rooms as Didactic Architecture: From Paxton & Pugin to Pittsburgh & Principia” 4C Kerry Dean Carso (SUNY New Palz) “Aging the Landscape: Ruins in America” Amanda Sharick, Moderator 3
Photography Part 1 5A Susan Cook (Southern New Hampshire University) “Photographing (in) Wessex” 5B Joanne Lukitsch (Mass College of Art and Design) “Reproduction as Production: the Late 19th-‐century Revival of Julia Margaret Cameron’s Photography” 5C “Early German Photographs and the History of Emotions” Kate Faber Oestreich, Moderator THURSDAY 2:15-‐3:30 PM Orientalist and Colonial Things Part 2 1A “African Symbolism, Catholic Celebrations: Personal Adornment in the Festivals of Our Lady of the Rosary of Black Men of São Paulo, Brazil, c.a. 1850-‐1890” 1B Nora Lessersohn (Harvard University) “The Role of Representation in the Life and Work of Christopher Oscanyan (1818-‐1895)” 1C Amanda Lee (Washington University in St. Louis) “Devadasis in Paris: Perfume and the Dancing Body in Théophile Gautier and Gérard de Nerval’s Orientalist Poetics” Alexander Bubb, Moderator Domestic Spaces Part 1 2A Whitney Stewart (Rice University) "Parlor and Cabin: The Place and Discourse of the Black Home in African American Activism" 2B Hulya Yagcioglu (Zayed University) “The ‘Innocence’ of Objects: The Age of Innocence and Material Culture” 2C Elif Armbruster (Suffolk University) “A Tale of Two Lilys: Longings and Belongings in Stowe and Wharton” Jillmarie Murphy, Moderator Sculpture 3A “Sculpting Statistics: Art, Science, and the Formation of the Ideally Average American” 3B Alice Goff (University of California, Berkeley) “A Statue Begins to Pray in Napoleonic Prussia” 3C Robin Hoffman (Yale Center for British Art) “’Exclude all sculpture. The public does not care for it’: Punch and Posterity in Victorian London” Janice Simon, Moderator 4
Architecture and Design Part 1 4A Daniela Prina (Université de Liège) “The Politics of Taste: neo-‐Renaissance Revival and Belgian Material Culture in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century” 4B Lisa Robertson (University of Warwick) “Material Ideologies and Domestic Architecture in Nineteenth-‐ Century London” 4C Lara Rutherford-‐Morrison (Concordia University) “Temporary Histories: British Heritage and the Iron Church” Robert Ryan, Moderator Materializing the Ideal: Opera and the Shaping of Nineteenth-‐Century Ideologies 5A Cindy L. Kim (Independent Scholar) “Published Operatic Ornaments: Challenging Singers’ Freedom or the Composers’ Control?” 5B Marie Sumner Lott (Georgia State University) “Breathing New Life into Old Legends, or How Nineteenth-‐ Century Opera Composers Modernized the Middle Ages” 5C Kristen M. Turner (UNC-‐Chapel Hill) “Carmen and the Nineteenth-‐Century Staging of Virtue and Vice” Laura Moore Pruett, Moderator 3:30-‐3:45 PM Coffee Break THURSDAY 3:45-‐5:00 PM Photography Part 2 1A Hye-‐ri Oh (University of Pittsburgh) “’Transcription of the Truth’: The Currency of Photographic Realism in Late 19th-‐Century Korea” 1B Anjuli J. Lebowitz (Boston University/The Metropolitan Museum of Art) “A Photographer on Rhodes: Auguste Salzmann and the Materiality of Archaeological Photography” 1C Baiba Tetere (University of Greifswald) “Baltic Borderlands: Shifting Boundaries of Mind and Culture” 1D Carla Manfredi (Queen's University) “Pacific Snapshots: Networks of Exchange and the Shaping of the Robert Louis Stevenson Archive” Joanne Lukitsch (Mass College of Art and Design), Moderator Theatre and the Stage 2A Amy Arbogast (University of Rochester) “’Photographs of Life Today in the Empire City’: Edward Harrigan’s Realistic Staging Efforts in the Mulligan Guards series” 2B Kevin O'Brien (University of Pittsburgh) “Sounding Funny: Comic Instruments on the American Vaudeville Stage” 2C “Arnold Anthony Schmidt (California State University, Stanislaus) Theatrical Effects in Edward Fitzball’s Nautical Melodramas” 2D Rachel Johnson (Royal Northern College of Music) “Materialities, Music and the ‘Manchester Man’” 5
Eco-‐materialities 3A Drew Hubbell (Susquehanna University) “Byron’s Thingy, or, Don Juan’s Phthisical Assault on Mystified Nature” 3B Maura Coughlin (Bryant University) “Bring Me Rocks, Bring Me Stones: Discovering Primitive Pasts in Nineteenth-‐Century France” 3C “Secrets of Futurity: Volcanic Matters in Thomas Moore’s Memoirs of Captain Rock” 3D Rebecca Richardson (Stanford University) “A Material World: The Demographic Imagination in Harriet Martineau’s Illustrations of Political Economy” Moderator, Amanda Lee Journals 4A Dennis Denisoff (Ryerson University) “The Celtic Residue of The Evergreen: Digitizing the Avant-‐Garde Periodical” 4B James Najarian (Boston College) “Thomas Hood Among the Annuals: Romantic and Material Cultures” 4C Andrea M. Truitt (University of Minnesota) “Magazine Materiality: Reading The Art Amateur and Entering Images” 4D Alison Hedley (Ryerson University) “The Material Bioaesthetics of Statistical Visualization in Pearson’s Magazine” Audrey Murfin, Moderator Domestic Spaces Part 2 5A “Faust at the Piano: The Social Economy of Opera in the New Domestic Sphere” 5B Michael Duffy (East Carolina University) “Simple and Artistic: Fashioning an American Identity for Turn-‐of-‐ the-‐Century Ceramics” 5C Lauren Wildwerding (Boston College) “Objects of ‘Perilous Proximity’ in Harriet Martineau’s ‘Domestic Service’” 5D Lauren McCoy (Washington University in St. Louis) “Domesticating the News: Henry James, Edmund Yates, and the ‘At Home’” Becky Lewis, Moderator THURSDAY EVENING RECEPTION 6-‐8:00 PM at the OMNI PARKER HOUSE 6
FRIDAY 3/27 8-‐8:30 AM Continental Breakfast FRIDAY 8:30-‐10:00 AM Maritime Materiality 1A Joseph Harold Larnerd (Standford University) “Captain Biddle’s ‘Coolness’ Commandeers a Sperm Whale Tooth” 1B “’Monster’ Whales: Politics and Poetics of Sea Monsters on Display in the Nineteenth Century” 1C “Naturalists in Neptune’s Garden: Seaweed Collecting as Virtuous Amusement in Nineteenth-‐Century America” 1D Audrey Murfin (Sam Houston State University) “Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Wrecker and the Unsinkable Mary Celeste” Memory Holloway (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth), Moderator Materials of Travel / Travel Texts Part 1 2A Faruk Pasic (Independent Scholar) “History as a Genealogical Narrative of Masculinity: Wilhelm Raabe’s Collectors in Das Odfeld and Wunnigel ” 2B Ashley Rye-‐Kopec (University of Delaware) “So Beautiful and Graceful? The Gondola in the Late Nineteenth Century” 2C Constance Chen (Loyola Marymount University) “Redefining Material Worlds: American Travelers in Nineteenth-‐Century Asia” 2D Kyle Bucy (University of California, Santa Barbara) “A Relaxing Walk Indeed: Nineteenth-‐Century Railroad Landscapes in the 21st Century” Bartell Berg (University of Southern Indiana), Moderator Para/texts and Other Texts 3A Elizabeth Brogden (Johns Hopkins University) “Running and Reading: Advertisement, Realism, and the Tempo of Character in The Confidence-‐Man” 3B Christina Michelon (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) “Touching Sentiment: The Tactility of Victorian Valentines” 3C Christine Roth (University of Wisconsin-‐Oshkosh) “La Gazette du Vieux Paris and the Exposition Universelle of 1900” 3D Brittany Roberts (Broward College) “’The Periodical with a Secret’: Intertextual Editing, Short Fiction, and the Culture of Sensation” Rebecca Soares, Moderator Bodies and Health 4A Kathleen Daly (Boston University) “Gender and the Material World of Health, 1865-‐1920” 4B “Illuminating Addiction: Morphinomania in Fin de Siècle Visual Culture” 4C Elizabeth Lee (Dickinson College) “Reading Disease: TB, Robert Louis Stevenson and Gilded-‐Age Art” 4D Elizabeth Coggin Womack (Penn State Brandywine) “Misers and Moral Insanity: Nineteenth-‐Century Narratives and the Pathology of Hoarding” Victoria Mills, Moderator 7
Bibliophiles 5A David Hanson (Southeast Louisiana University) “Sentiment and Materiality in Late Victorian Book Collecting“ 5B Laura White (University of Nebraska-‐Lincoln) “The Material Books in Lewis Carroll’s Now Virtual Library” 5C David Purificato (Stony Brook University)“Paradigm Lost: The Antebellum Bookcase and the End to Hegemony of Literacy” 5D Carey Gibbons (Goodenough College, London) “Feminizing and Vitalizing the Illustrated Gift Book: Arthur Hughes’s Illustrations for Tennyson’s Enoch Arden” Bassam Chiblak, Moderator 10-‐10:15 AM Coffee Break FRIDAY 10:15-‐11:30 AM Art’s Materiality 1A Kathryn Desplanque (Duke University) “The Intimate and Spectacular Uses of Scrap Prints in Early Nineteenth-‐Century Europe” 1B Ruth M. McAdams (University of Michigan) “A Taller Napoleon: The Historical Effigy in Nineteenth-‐Century British Literature and Culture” 1C Shao-‐Chien Tseng (National Central University) “Material Consciousness in Paul Signac’s Neo-‐ Impressionism” Maria Gindhart, Moderator Private Collections and Public Museums: Collecting, Hoarding, and Decorating in Nineteenth-‐Century France 2A Anca I. Lasc (Pratt Institute) “The Collector as Décorateur: The Amateur Museum in Nineteenth-‐Century France” 2B Elizabeth Emery (Montclair State University) “Decorating or Collecting? Clémence d’Ennery and her Private/Public Museum of Asian Art” 2C Martina D'Amato and Ulrich Leben (Bard Graduate Center) “Georges Hoentschel as a Collector of Asian Art” Kristel Smentek, Moderator 8
Architecture and Design Part 2 3A Jessica Mace (York University) “Plucked from the Pages of Pattern Books: Printed Media and Houses in Pre–Confederation Canada” 3B Diana Strazdes (University of California, Davis)“Augustus Saint-‐Gaudens and the Materiality of the Florentine Renaissance in Gilded-‐Age America” 3C Layna Lamouria (Missouri State University) “Materializing Democracy: British Victorians and the Civic Architecture of France’s Second Republic” Lisa Robertson, Moderator Collecting Asia 4A Karen Stock (Winthrop University) “James Tissot’s Japonaiserie: When the Thing Looks Back” 4B Sonia Coman (Columbia University) “Cross-‐media and Cross-‐cultural Emulation: Japanese Ceramics Mimicking Chinese Bronzes in the Collection of Henri Cernuschi (1821-‐1896)” 4C Todd Munson (Randolph-‐Macon College) “Exotic Ephemera: Images of Japan in 19th Century Cigarette Cards” Christine Roth, Moderator Material Spectacles of Death 5A Sarah Iepson (Community College of Philadelphia) “From Fetish to Forsaken: Materiality, Culture, and the Posthumous Photograph” 5B Erin R. Corrales-‐Diaz (University of North Carolina) “General Sickles’s Leg: The Civil War Fragment and the Medical Oddity” 5C “Coming Soon…Death: Circus and Film Advertising from 1872 to 1950” Kevin M. Murphy, Moderator FRIDAY 11:30 AM -‐2:00 PM Lunch, keynote, business meeting Keynote speaker, Jennifer L. Roberts, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University, presenting “The Wood-‐Work of Images.” FRIDAY 2:15-‐3:30 PM Natural Histories 1A Jen-‐hao Chin (National Taiwan University) “The ‘Unromantic’ Materiality of Nature in John Clare’s Ornithological Writings” 1B Jennifer Hayward (College of Wooster) “’Cultivated with success’: Maria Graham and New World Botanical Collections” 1C Christina Root (Saint Michael's College) “’To Be Eaten in the Wind’: Thoreau’s ‘Wild Apples’ and the Transformation of Taste” Drew Hubbell, Moderator 9
The Material Traces of Nineteenth-‐Century Amateur Theatricals 2A Mary Isbell (University of New Haven) “Handwritten Playbills and Amateur Reviews: The Material Traces of Private Home Theatricals” 2B David Coates (University of Warwick) “Page, after Page, after Page: Reading the Archives of the Canterbury Old Stagers” 2C Eileen Curley (Marist College) “Renting a Profession: The Amateur Theatrical Supply Industry in Nineteenth-‐ Century New York” Mummies 3A Angie Blumberg (Saint Louis University) “Our ‘real life’ in Tombs: The Mummy Encounter at the Fin de Siècle” 3B Elizabeth Effinger (Penn State) “Bad Taxidermy and the Disordering of Knowledge” 3C Katie Magaña (Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand) “Laboratories of the Supernatural as Eclectic Museums in Fin de Siècle Fiction” Jamil Mustafa, Moderator Materials of Travel / Travel Texts Part 2 4A Kimberly Adams (Elizabethtown College)“Renaissance Modernity and the World of Goods: George Eliot’s Romola” 4B Mary A. Armstrong (Lafayette College) “Some Thing(s) About Italy: Dickensian Objects, Interiors, and Pleasures” 4C “Space in a Suitcase: Movement of 19th-‐Century European Architecture and Urban Space through Persian Travel Accounts” Jillian Hess (Bronx Community College, CUNY), Moderator Spectacular Materiality 5A Nathan Rees (University of North Dakota) “Materializing Latter-‐day Saint History: Spectacle, Vision, and Experience in C. C. A. Christensen’s Mormon Panorama” 5B Mackenzie Gregg (University of California, Riverside) “Zola’s Tableaux Vivants as Spaces of Transgression” 5C Sophie Thomas (Ryerson University) “Time and the Object: William Bullock’s ‘London Museum’ (1812-‐1825)” Lanya Lamouria, Moderator 3:30-‐3:45 PM Coffee Break 10
FRIDAY 3:45-‐5:00 PM Art and Visual Culture at the Trans-‐Mississippi Exposition of 1898 in Omaha, Nebraska 1A Bonnie M. Miller (University of Massachusetts, Boston)“The ‘Omaha Issue’ of 1898: A National Iconographic Campaign to Glorify the Settlement of the Trans-‐Mississippi West” 1B Sarah J. Moore (University of Arizona) “The Arch of the States: Mapping Progress and the American West at the Trans-‐Mississippi and International Exposition of 1898” 1C Emily Godbey (Iowa State University) “Trilby Goes Native: The Westernization of an International Hit” Wendy J. Katz, Moderator Cities on Paper: On the Materiality of Images in Nineteenth-‐Century Urbanization 2A Tilo Amhoff (University of Brighton) “Paperwork: The Building Plans of Nineteenth-‐Century Berlin” 2B Min Kyung Lee (College of the Holy Cross), “The Idea of a Plan” 2C “Engineering the Surface” Daniel Abramson (Tufts University), Moderator Utopia 3A Regina Hewitt (University of South Florida) “From Matter to Mind: Constructing Histories of the Social Survey” 3B Daniel Lewis (Marshall University) “Education as a Material Thing at F.D. Maurice’s Working Men’s College” 3C Kathleen Monahan (Saint Peter’s University) “The World of Things in Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backward and Equality” Timothy Carens, Moderator Gothic Materials 4A Emily Rohrbach (Northwestern University) “Austen’s Gothic Material” 4B Jade Winter Werner (Wheaton College) “Gothic Consolations in Gaskell’s Cranford” 4C Sabrina Gilchrist (University of Florida) “Devouring the Rich: Material Consumption in Marryat’s The Blood of the Vampire” Anna Dempsey (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth) Moderator 11
Graduate Caucus Panel: Preparing for and Navigating the Job Market At this panel, we will hear from faculty members who have recently navigated the job market -‐ both as candidates and as search committee members. We hope to engage in an interdisciplinary conversation about the current state of the job market, how to distinguish oneself as a promising candidate, and what to expect when applying for jobs in academia. There will be ample time for questions and discussion. After this panel, all graduate students are invited to continue the conversation at the Sidebar (14 Bromfield St) for food and drinks (this is not a NCSA sponsored event, so it’s a “cash bar” ). FRIDAY 5-‐10 PM Museum of Fine Arts optional excursion. The museum is open until 9:45 pm on Fridays. 12
SATURDAY 3/28 8-‐8:30 AM Continental Breakfast SATURDAY 8:30-‐10:00 AM Slavery 1A “Female Slaves and ‘Civilised’ Wives: Arguments on their Dehumanization” 1B Kelly Payne (University of Nebraska-‐Lincoln) “Valuable Exhibitions: The Auction Block, the Altar, and Theories of Material Culture in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Antislavery Fiction” 1C John Stromski (University of Tennessee) “Breaking the Supply Chains: Henry ‘Box’ Brown and Frederick Douglass’ Manipulation of the Northern Market” 1D Lester P. Lee, Jr. (Suffolk University) “Slavery and the Material Life of King Ja Ja of Opobo, 1821-‐1891” Jennifer Hayward (College of Wooster), Moderator Dandy Things 2A Timothy Carens (University of Charleston) “An Unworthy Object? Worshipping Beauty in The Picture of Dorian Gray” 2B Victoria Mills (Darwin College, Cambridge) “Collecting, Classification and the Dandiacal Body” 2C Chris Foss (University of Mary Washington) “’He is so ugly that he might have made the King smile’: Disability and Materiality in Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Birthday of the Infanta’” 2D Joanna L. Myers (University of Oregon) “Devious Refashionings, Deviant Fashions: Self presentation Strategies of the Victorian Female Shoplifter and the Decadent Dandy” Material Evidence 3A “Flesh Made Word: The Material Body of Murder Cases” 3B Caroline Lieffers (Yale University) “The Body, the Linen, and the Razor Blade: The Materiality of Guilt in a Nineteenth-‐Century Infanticide Case” 3C Mark Schoenfield (Vanderbilt University), “The Thing’s the Thing: Objects and Objections in Romantic-‐era Trials” 3D Joanna B. Spanos (The Ohio State University) “Remembering the Condemned: Social Memory and the Materials of Execution” Sarah Iepson, Moderator Body Parts and Prosthetics 4A “Empty Sleeves: Disability and Agency in the Photographs of Sgt. Alfred Stratton” 4B Peter Capuano (University of Nebraska) “Hands and the History of Nineteenth-‐Century Embodiment” 4C Eric Pencek (Boston College) “The ‘Golden Calf’ of the Hoarded Commodity: The Economic Concerns of Thomas Hood’s Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg” 4D “Indexing the Body: An Analysis of Plaster Casts and their Illustration in the Medical and Surgical History of the War of Rebellion (1861-‐65)” Lauren Wilwerding, Moderator 13
Musical Materiality Part 1 5A Gabrielle Dean (Johns Hopkins University) “Poem, Paper, Piano, Parlor: Nineteenth-‐Century Sheet Music” 5B “Ink and Sounds: Music Stenography and the Materializing of Inspiration” 5C Noel Verzosa, Jr. (Hood College) “Materialism and the Study of Music in Nineteenth-‐Century France” 5D David Kushner (University of Florida) “When Luigi became Louis: Cherubini’s Conversion from Italian to French Musical Aesthetics” Moderator: Christina L. Reitz (Western Carolina University) SATURDAY 10:15-‐11:45AM Animals 1A Carolyn Porter Phinizy (Virginia Commonwealth University) “Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Exotic Menagerie and Victorian Aesthetic Experience” 1B Arne Koch (Colby College) “’The unknown creature’: Cats, Ethnography, and Zoontological Disorientation” 1C “Object and Animal Metamorphosis in Satirical Print of the Nineteenth Century” 1D “Victorian Zoos as The Great Chain of Being” Dan Bivona, Moderator Shopping and Consumption 2A Amanda R. Mushal (The Citadel) “Living Frugally Among “the Latest Parisian Fashions”: The Material Worlds of Nineteenth-‐Century Charleston Shopkeepers” 2B Jamil Mustafa (Lewis University) “Curiosity, Commodification, and Material Cultures in The Old Curiosity Shop” 2C Stephanie Shiflett (Boston University) “Maliciously Spent: Commodity Narcissism and the Prostitute in Balzac’s Splendeurs et misères” 2D Maria K. Bachman (Middle Tennessee State University) “Dickensian Pawn Stars” Katherine J. Kim, Moderator Reading and Writing 3A “(Hand)writing: George Sand, Marcel Proust, and Literary Labor” 3B Jillian Hess (Bronx Community College, CUNY) “Collaborative Notebooks: Materials for Writing” 3C Abby Glogower (University of Rochester) “Iterative Absence: Cultures of Autograph Collecting in Nineteenth-‐Century America” 3D Andrew Willson (Yale University) “Tangible Immateriality: Anthony Trollope and Literary Production” Sarah Wadsworth, Moderator 14
Museums and Collectors Part 1 4A Lindsay Andrews (University of Nebraska-‐Lincoln) “Literary Curating: Gardner and Thaxter as Collectors of Friendship” 4B Jeanne Gardner Gutierrez (City University of New York Graduate Center) “Brilliant Currencies: The Jewelry Collections of Isabella Stewart Gardner” 4C “Thomas Jefferson, Collector: Master of Two World” Kate Ashley, Moderator Crime and Detection 5A Kristen Guest (University of Northern British Columbia) “’The Right Stuff’: Material Culture, Class Identity, and the Victorian Policeman” 5B Veronica Mayer (Yale University )“The Dog That Didn’t Bark, or, Immaterial Evidence in 19th-‐Century Spanish Crime Stories” 5C Matthew Yost (Boston University) “’J’ai tué l’autre’: The Knife as Symbol of Feminine Power in Zola’s La bête humaine” 5D Keaghan Turner (Coastal Carolina University) “Collectors of Collections: Sherlock Holmes as Criminal Connoisseur” Marlene Tromp (Arizona State University), Moderator 11:45-‐12:45: lunch on your own Or grab a lunch and attend: 11:45-‐12:45 Expanding Professional and Personal Horizons Through a Fulbright Grant Have you ever considered teaching or pursuing research outside the United States? Come and hear about one Fulbrighter's experiences on a teaching grant to India to get first-‐hand information on the rewards and benefits of international scholarship. 15
SATURDAY 12:45-‐2:15 PM The Diorama and the Display Case: The Cultures, Materials, and Technologies of Fabricating Nature 1A Ellery Foutch (Middlebury College) “Flowers That Never Fade”: Artificial Flowers in Science, Art, and Fancywork of the Nineteenth Century” 1B Laura Sevelis (University of Wisconsin-‐Madison) “A State of Wonder: Blaschka Marine Invertebrates and the Tension between Religion and Science, 1863-‐1890” 1C/D Emily Gephart (School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) and Michael Rossi (University of Chicago) “Dovetailed Displays: Show Windows, Habitat Dioramas and Bird Hats” The Material Collective Musical Materiality Part 2 2A Christina L. Reitz (Western Carolina University)“Fletcher’s Omaha Music Collection: Select Analysis and Subsequent Influence in Post-‐Romantic America” 2B Bethany S. McLemore (University of Texas at Austin) “Collection as Self-‐Styling: Examining the Role of American Popular Song Volumes in Women’s Lives” 2C Michael Weinstein (Columbia University) “No Representation Without Fragmentation: The Free Musical Fantasia, Femininity, and the Dissolution of Classical Representation” 2D Ryan Weber (Misericordia University) “Uncivilized Lives Abound in Music”: A Comparative Analysis of Nationalism, Cosmopolitanism, and Folk Song Collecting at the Turn of the 20th Century” Marie Sumner Lott, Moderator Textual Things 3A Amy R. Boyd (University of Virginia) “Uncontainable Text: The Case of Our Mutual Friend” 3B Sarah Ebbs (Queen's University) “Emily Dickinson, 19th Century Material Girl” 3C Sarah Allison (Loyola University New Orleans) “Speech in Print: Showing and Telling Character in the Nineteenth-‐Century Novel” Kevin Lewis, Moderator The Agency of Things 4A Hilary Anderson Stelling (Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library) “John Walton’s Gift and the Invention of Tradition in Massachusetts Freemasonry ” 4B Martin Woodside (Rutgers Camden) “More Than Child’s Play: The Rifle, Childhood, and the Making of Wild West History” 4C Aimee E. Newell (Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library) “That Sacred Relic of the Past”: The Many Lives of a Masonic Apron” 4D Morgan Holmes (Ryerson University) “Bagpipe Nation: Ancient Charm and Terror in Nineteenth-‐Century Scotland” Caroline McCracken-‐Flesher, Moderator 16
Illustrated Literature and Victorian Material Culture 5A Bassam Chiblak (University of Victoria) “W.M. Thackeray’s Lovel the Widower: Serial Fiction and the Transatlantic Poetics of Layout” 5B Lindsey Seatter (University of Victoria) “Victorian Visual Culture and the Changing Bible” 5C Caroline Winter (University of Victoria) “Drawing Between the Lines: Hugh Thomson’s Illustrated Pride and Prejudice” Sheila Cordner (Boston University), Moderator SATURDAY 2:30-‐4:00 PM Antimodernism and Nostalgia 1A Corina Weidinger (Truckee Meadows Community College) “’The Complete Impression of the Middle Ages’: Anti-‐Modern Escapism in Pierre Loti’s Louis XI Fête” 1B Abigail Yoder (Saint Louis Art Museum) “La Vie Artistique at the Abbey of Fontfroide: Fayet, Redon, and the Modern Gesamtkunstwerk” 1C Zsuzsanna Böröcz (KU Leuren Belgium) “‘Actors alongside and within us’: Ancient Colorless Stained Glass and the Making of Young Belgium” 1D Caroline McCracken-‐Flesher (University of Wyoming) “Bigger on the Inside: Books as Antiquities at Walter Scott’s Abbotsford” 1E Manuel Charpy (Université Lille 3) s “Materiality of Memory: Souvenirs in Parisian home in the Nineteenth Century” Sarah Allison, Moderator Books and Material Texts Part 2 2A Anna Dempsey (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth) “‘Listening’ to Women’s Scrapbooks from the Nineteenth Century” 2B Akela Reason (University of Georgia) “Consuming Elihu Vedder’s Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” 2C Ruth-‐Ellen St. Onge (University of Toronto) “Temples of the Muse: Publishers of Poetry and their Bookshops in Fin-‐de-‐siècle Paris” 2D Jesse P. Karlsberg (Emory University) “Utility, Distinction, and Cross-‐Sectional Collaboration in the Materiality of the Sacred Harp (1844)” Carey Gibbons, Moderator Food and Consumption 3A Cameron Dodworth (Spring Hill College) “Delicacy and Disgust: The Consumption of Offal in Dickensian and Victorian Culture” 3B Bradley Fratello (St. Louis Community College) “Undigested: Food as Material and Metaphor in Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass” 3C Aileen Tsui (Washington College) “Eating Abstraction: Gastronomy in Critical Parodies of Whistler’s Art” 3D Mary Pickering (San Jose State University) “Food and Identity during the Siege of Paris in 1870” Sarah Gracombe (Stonehill College), Moderator 17
SATURDAY 2:30-‐4:00 PM Museums and Collectors Part 2 4A Valerie Mendelson (The New School) “The Collection as Artwork in Late Nineteenth-‐Century Paris” 4B Kate Ashley (Acadia University) “Collecting, Cataloguing and the Canon-‐Forming Instinct: the Case of Edmond de Goncourt 4C Angela Parker (Virginia Commonwealth University) “Prints in Schools and Birds in the Museum: Educational Practices at the Manchester Art Museum” 4D Daniela Roberts (Municipal Museum Brunswick) “Control of Perception and Significance through Frames: Paintings on Display at the National Gallery London (1840-‐80)” Diana Strazdes, Moderator Monuments and Architecture Part 2 4A Wendy Ligon Smith (The University of Manchester) “Collection as Catalyst: Inherited Objects and Revivalist Referencing ” 4B Jennifer Donnelly (University of Pittsburgh) “Physiognomy, Agency, and Objecthood at the Museum of French Monuments” 4C “Collecting Fragments, Collecting Words: Ways of Shaping a National Identity” 4D Jacob A. Cohen (CUNY Graduate Center) “’The Formerly Quiet Corner is Full of Bustle and Business’: Symphony Hall and the Changing Cultural Geography of Fin-‐de-‐siècle Boston” Ruth McAdams, Moderator 18