FRIDAY OCTOBER 19
2:00-3:45
I. Victoria and Film
David Cody (Hartwick College), Victorian Ancestry of Film Noir
Melissa Schaub (Spring Hill College), "The Spectacle of Englishness:
Shirley Temple Meets Victoria in The Little Princess"
Carol Dole (Ursinus College), "Queen Victoria in Hollywood"
II. The Laureate and His Queen
Robert L. Patten and Thad Logan (Rice University), "'Loyal to
the
Royal': Tennyson Refigures Victoria"
Patrick Scott (University of South Carolina), "'Mother Wife and
Queen':
Rereading Tennyson's (Varying) Dedication to Victoria"
James W. Hood (Guilford College), Tennyson, "Enoch Arden," and
Queen
Victoria
III. Rethinking the Victorian
Christina Crosby (Wesleyan University), Ethics, Market Economy,
the
Victorians and the Modern University
Andrew H. Miller (Indiana University), "On Watching Others Think"
James Buzard (MIT), "Villette and the Invisible Export"
IV. Victorian Female Authority and Authorship
Ivan Kreilkamp (Indiana University), "Pet-Naming Elizabeth Barrett
Browning: The Female Poet and the Work of Authorship"
Jennifer Ruth (Portland State University), "Embodied Intelligence:
Charlotte Bronte's The Professor and the Problem of Intellectual
Labor"
Caroline Reitz (University of Cincinnati), "Writing (Back to)
England:
In and Around Gaskell's Wives and Daughters"
3:45-4:00 Coffee Break
Keynote Speakers
4:00-6:00
Adrienne Munich (SUNY-Stony Brook), "The African Queen"
Mary Poovey (New York University), "Finding Out About Victorian
Finance"
6:00-7:00 Reception
Dinner (on your own)
8:30 Films
SATURDAY OCTOBER 20
8:00-8:30 Continental breakfast
8:30-10:15
V. Victoria and Motherhood
Thomas Strychacz (Mills College), "Royal Mothers and Revolutionaries:
Henry James's The Princess Casamassima"
Susan M. Griffin (University of Louisville), "Mariolatry, Imperial
Motherhood, and Manhood"
Carla Coleman Prichard (University of North Carolina--Chapel
Hill),
"Queen Victoria's Scottish Fantasy: Performing the Monarchy
in Leaves
from a Highland Journal"
VI. In and Out of Place: Dangerous Circulation and the
Making of
Victorian Identities
Carolyn Lesjak (Swarthmore College), "Coming of Age in a World
Economy:
Capitalism, Commodity Fetishism, and Work in Great Expectations"
John Plotz (Johns Hopkins University), "Portable Properties:
Commodity
Mobility in The Eustace Diamonds"
Judith Stoddart (Michigan State University), "Counterfeit Value:
Circulating Sentiment in Collins"
Respondent: Andrew H. Miller (Indiana University)
VII. Victorian Women and Power
Elsie B. Michie (Louisiana State University), "A Singular Life
Made
Multiple: Lady Frances Waldegrave and Trollope"
Jen Hill (University of Nevada, Reno), "Private Pain and Public
Policy:
Lady Jane Franklin, Queen Victoria, and the Performance of Widowhood"
Ellen Sprechman (Florida International University), "The Emerging
Feminist of the Late 19th Century: Shedding the Victorian Image"
10:15-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:15
VIII. Victorian Spectacle
Bobbi Owen (University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill), Queen
Victoria
and Fashion
Mary Loeffelholz (Northeastern University), "Victorian Regina
Americana,
1876"
Susan J. Navarette (Hartwick College), Jewelled Language in Victorian
Literature
IX. Shaping the Victorians
Gail Turley Houston (University of New Mexico), "Banking on
Victoria"
Mary Ellis Gibson (University of North Carolina Greensboro),
"The Perils
of Reading: Juvenile Religious Magazines and the Making of Victorian
Imperialist Subjectivity"
Joetta Harty (George Washington University), "Princess 'Vittoria,'
a
Schoolyard Rebellion, and the Catholic Relief Act of 1829 in
Bronte
Juvenilia"
X. Victorians and the Visual
Beth Newman (Southern Methodist University), "The Uses of Obscurity:
Jane Eyre's Disposition against Display"
Carol Mavor (University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill), Victorian
Backgrounds of J.M. Barrie's Photographs
Sophia Andres (University of Texas of the Permian Basin), "Narrative
and
Pictorial Challenges to Victorian Gender Constructs"
XI. Contemporary Assessments of Victoria
Deborah Logan (Western Kentucky University), "Harriet Martineau's
Assessments of Queen Victoria"
Anne Humpherys (Graduate Center, City University of New York),
"G.W.M.
Reynolds, Radical, and the Problem of the Queen"
Muireann O'Cinneide (Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford), "'It Has Cost
Me Much
Trouble to Invent a Whole Queen': Aristocratic Women Writers
and the
Representation of the Monarchy"
12:15-2:00 Luncheon, and business meeting of the Victorians
Institute,
Carolina Inn
2:00-3:45
XII. The Display of Empire
Hyungji Park (Yonsei University, Korea), "Dandyism and the Fabric
of
Empire"
Allan R. Life (University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill), "Discreet
Despotism: Early Picture Postcards of the British Raj"
Marie A. Fitzwilliam (College of Charleston), "The Greedy 40s:
Early
Victorian Gardens as Showcases of Imperial Conquest"
XIII. The Twilight of Empire
Robert Fletcher (West Chester University), "'Soul-Drift': Mathilde
Blind
and the Passage to Egypt"
Shannon R. Wooden (U of Pennsylvania--Shippensburg), "The Time
Machine
as Racial Allegory"
Zarena Aslami (University of Chicago), "Formal Discontent: The
State of
George Gissing"
XIV. Victorian After-Life
Laurie Langbauer (University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill),
"The
Victorians Taught Me How To Write"
Rebecca Stern (Ball State University), "Victorian Fat: Power,
Food, and
the Majestic Female Body"
Lorraine Janzen Kooistra (Nipissing University, Canada), "No
Sex Please,
We're Victorian: Invoking the Pre-Raphaelite Sexual Signifier
in Popular
Culture"
3:45-4:00 Coffee Break
Keynote Speakers
4:00-6:00
Dianne Sachko Macleod (University of California, Davis), "Matronage
and
Matriarchy: Queen Victoria and the Lingua Materna of Art Collecting"
Margaret Homans (Yale University), "My Victorian Afterlife"
AIR TRANSPORTATION
The local airport is Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU).
A taxi
from the airport to the campus, the Carolina Inn, or the University
Inn,
will cost approximately $35 and should take about a half hour.
Shuttle
service from the airport is $18 per person. To make shuttle
reservations, call 1-800-934-8779.
LODGING -- ACT NOW
The Carolina Inn
A limited number of rooms (25) have been set aside at the Carolina
Inn,
a recently renovated historic hotel operated by Hilton, located
just
across the street from the campus, and one block off Chapel
Hill's main
street, Franklin St. This would be the ideal location
for individuals
without cars. The room rate is $159 (plus local and state
taxes) for a
single or double. To reserve, you must contact the hotel
directly, and
you should do so quickly to insure that you secure a room and
this rate.
Call 1-800-962-8519, and be sure to identify yourself as a member
of
the Victorians Institute group. You must reserve no later
than 14
September. (In the unlikely event that any rooms remain after
this date,
they will cost $30 to $50 more.) RESERVE NOW!
The Siena Hotel
A limited number of rooms (20) have been set aside at the Siena
Hotel,
1505 E. Franklin Street, an elegant hotel about 10 minutes from
the
campus. The rate of $159, plus taxes, includes a full
buffet breakfast
in the hotel restaurant. To secure a room at the group
rate, you must
reserve no later than Thursday, 20 September. Call 1-800-223-7379
and
be sure to identify yourself as a member of the Victorians Institute
group.
Best Western University Inn
A limited number of rooms have been set aside at the University
Inn on
NC highway 54 East, a 5-minute drive or 20-minute walk from
conference
sites. Rates are $76 for a single (1 queen-sized bed)
or $82 for a
double (2 double beds), plus taxes; these rates include continental
breakfast. To secure a room, call 919-932-3000, no later
than 19
September, and identify yourself as a member of the Victorians
Institute
group.
Other area hotels convenient for those with transportation:
Days Inn, 1312 N Fordham Blvd (highway 15-501 bypass), phone
919-929-3090.
Hampton Inn, 1740 highway 15-501, phone 919-968-3000.
Hampton Inn & Suites, 6137 Farrington Rd (off highway 15-501,
near
junction with I-40, exit 273), phone 1-800-426-7866/919-403-8700.
Holiday Inn, highway 15-501 bypass, phone 919-929-2171.
Sheraton, 1 Europa Drive at 15-501, phone 919-968-4900.