Friday 12 - 6; Registration

Carmichael Lobby

Session I. 1:00 - 2:30

Panel 1: Spaces for Reform: Implications for Narrative
Chair: Anne Lockwood, Limestone College

• "Reforming Domestic and Psychic Spaces in Mary Barton and Middlemarch"
  Kristina Deffenbacher, Hamline University
  
• "Ghost Walks: Subordination, arrangement and discipline in Bleak House."
  William David Floyd

Panel 2: Between Women: Rhetoric, Religion, and the Politics of Reform
Chair: Carla Coleman, USC Aiken

• "The Agon in the Poetry of May Kendall and Amy Levy."
  Kasey Baker, University of Tennessee
• "The Garrett Sisters: Gender Class and the Politics of Reform."
  Lise Sanders, Hampshire College
• "Michael Field's Domestic Piety."
  Maria LaMonaca, Columbia College
• "Godiva's Daughter: Harriet Martineau, First Woman Social Reformer."
  Deborah Logan, Western Kentucky University

Panel 3: India and Reform at Home and Abroad
Chair: Patrick Cooper, UNC Chapel Hill

• "The Nexus of Christianity and Hinduism in Toru Dutt."
  Chris Foss, University of Mary Washington
• "Victorian Medical Reform and the Woman Question in India."
  Narin Hassan, Georgia Institute of Technology (Read by Mary Ellis Gibson

Panel 4: For God and Country: Women's Choices As Illusion or Reality
Chair:

• "Serving Two Masters: Signifying Choices in Jane Eyre."
  Joseph Donica, Bob Jones University
• "Recreating the Female Role: Missions in the Empire."
  Mona Dunckel, Bob Jones University
• "Mutiny on the Home Front: Victorian Artwork and Women's Reform."
  Karen Rowe, Bob Jones University

• "Margaret Hale as Mediator in Gaskell's North and South: A Reform of Self."
  Emily Ford, Taylor University, Fort Wayne
• "The Gender of Revolt in Bleak House."
  Michael Lewis, University of Virginia
• "A Worthless Domestic Drudge in A Tale of Two Cities: Lucie, Reform and the Critics."
  John Hendrickson, MSU Mankato

• "Florence Nightingale's Training of Domestic Detectives."
  Louise Penner, University of Massachusetts, Boston
• "Florence Nightingale, 'Pauper Nurses,' and the Case of the Liverpool Work Infirmary."
  Alison McMonagle, George Washington University
• "Exploitative Relationship: Arthur Clough and Florence Nightingale."
  Patrick Scott, University of South Carolina

• "Swinburne, Mathilde Blind, and the Afterlife of Aestheticism."
  James Diedrick, Agnes Scott College
• "Erotics of Ethical Socialism: Edith Lees Ellis and Emma Brooke's 'New Life' Fictions."
  Diana Maltz, Southern Oregon University
• "The Dangers of the 'Delusive Bower': Alice Meynell and Sociability in Women's Writing."
  Emily Harrington, University of Michigan
• "Dollie Radford and the Ethical Aesthetics of fin-de-siecle Socialism."
  Ruth Livesay, University of London

Panel 8: Threats to Marriage: Dangerous Women and Colonized Bodies Chair: Neil Hultgren, University of Virginia

• "Politics of Gender and Genre: Wilkie Collins."
  Maria Bachman, Coastal Carolina University
• "George Meredith's Imperial Model of Patriarchal Reform."
  Timothy Carens, College of Charleston
• "Sexual Inversion and Reform Work in Rhoda Broughton's Dear Faustina."
  Sexual Inversion and Reform Work in Rhoda Broughton's Dear Faustina

• "Gender Conflict in Thackeray's Vanity Fair."
  Peter Capuano, University of Virginia<
• "Darwin, Reform and Women's Sexual Practice."
  Ann-Barbara Graff, Nipissing University
• "Domestic Violence, Coverture and Victorian Street Literature."
  Suzanne Rintoul, McMaster University

• "Power of Story and Memory in Peter Pan."
  Catherine England, University of South Carolina
• "Narrative Acts as the Site of Resistance in The Woman in White."
  Aria Chernik, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
• "Ethical Encounters with Alterity: Storytelling in Silas Marner."
  Kristen Pond, University of North Carolina Greensboro

• "Vinegar Discourse": The Spinster as "Neutral Man-Woman" in Bronte's Shirley and Gaskell's Cranford."
  Kay Heath, Virginia State University
• "Reforming National Identity: Shirley as a Palimpsest Novel."
  Heather Miner, University of Virginia
• "Resisting Reform: Charlotte Bronte and the Grounds of Natural History."
  Danielle Coriale, Brandeis University

Panel 12 - Domesticity and Reform

• "'Negotiating Power': Victorian Writers and the Married Women's Property Bill."
  Beth Kramer, New York University
• "Necessary Selfishness: Personal Reform Before Helping Others in 'Janet's Repentance'."
  Patrick Cooper, UNC Chapel Hill
• "Miss Marjoribanks: Margaret Oliphant's 'Distinguished Revolutionary'."
  Kirsten Escobar, Stephen F. Austin State University

• "Refashioning Culture: Gender and Dress Reform in Late Victorian England."
  Loretta Clayton, The New School
• "Trinkets and Transformations: Consolidation in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain."
  Maggie Atkinson, Queen's University, Kingston
• "Bystander at the Banquet: Female Consumption and Political Protest in Shirley."
  Meagan Timney, Dalhousie University
• "Reforming Beauty in Brontë’s Shirley."
  Margaret E. Mitchell, University of West Georgia

• "Writers of Reform and Reforming Writers in Aurora Leigh and A Writer of Books."
  Laura Rotunno, Penn State Altoona
• "The Danger of Dying in One's Own Language: Literacy, Learning, and Lying in Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers and Cousin Phillis."
  Dorothy McGavran, Queens University of Charlotte
• "Revolutionary Reading: Gender and Reform in Charlotte Bronte."
  Eric Lorentzen, University of Mary Washington

• "Gendering Charity in Trollope's Barsetshire."
  Anne Dayton, Rice University
• "She Should Be A Woman of Business": Dinah Mullock Craik's Thoughts About Victorian Women and Money.
  Annette Van, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
• "Women, Economy and Reform in Frances Trollope's Michael Armstrong."
  Elizabeth Starr, Westfield State College

Panel 16 - Historiography, Saints and Marginal Figures

• "Gendered Spheres and the Ideal Reformer: Esther Summerson and Allan Woodcourt in Bleak House."
  Andre DeCuir, Muskingum College
• "A History of Reform: George Eliot's Romola."
  Chad May, University of Central Arkansas
• "Rivers change like nation": Environmental Aestheticism in Ouida's The Waters of Edera."
  Alicia Carroll, Auburn University

• "Mothers and Saints: Maternal Instinct, Religious Vocation, and Victorian Ideologies of Women's Work."
  Julie Melnyk, University of Missouri
• "Victoria Vis Viva: Physics, Politics and Pomp in the Age of the Second Reform Bill."
  John Lamb, West Virginia University
• "The Reform of Women's Education in Tennyson's The Princess and Gilbert and Sullivan's Princess Ida."
  Laura Fasick, Minnesota State University, Moorhead

• "Mrs. Jellyby and Me: 21st Century Reverberations of Victorian Social Critique."
  Leslie Haynsworth, Columbia College
• "The Feminine Character of the Early Church in Pater's Marius the Epicurean."
  David Bradshaw, Warren Wilson College
• "Thomas Wade and the Death of the Romantic Woman."
  Phillip Anderson, University of Central Arkansas

Panel A: Classical Interpretations/ Metaphors/ Influences Chair: David Latané (Virginia Commonwealth University) Patrick Scott (University of South Carolina). "The Victorian Translation of

Panel 19 - Poetic Margins

• "Dollie Radford, Progress, and the Aesthetics of Reform."
  LeeAnne Richardson, Georgia State University
• "Ada Leverson: Writing from the Margins."
  Heather Sprong, University of Pittsbugh From a Woman's Lips: Michael Field's Reformation of Lyric Subjectivity and the Expression of Female Desire."
  Andrea Gazzaniga, Davidson College

• "A Statelier Eden: Gender and Genesis in Tennyson's The Princess."
  Gania Barlow, Mills College
• "With all her strong religious faith": Unbelief as Reflected in Ward's Robert Elsmere."
  Sarah McNeeley, Texas State University
• "Religious Reform in Margaret Oliphant's Margaret Maitland."
  Mary Husemann, Black Hills State University

• "A Faithful Friend is the Medicine of Life": Redefining Social Reform through the Feminine."
  Karen Selesky, University College of the Fraser Valley
• "Reforming Working Class Women through Confession: Ellice Hopkins' Work Among the Lost and Felicia Skene's Hidden Depths."
  Heather Milton, University of Florida
• "Charity through Disengagement: The Task of the Bible Woman."
  Daniel Siegel, University of Alabama At Birmingham

• "Touchy Subjects: 'The Young Woman,' 'The Girl's Own Paper,'; and Reform, 1892-96."
  Cynthia Patton, Emporia State University
• "Subversion and Perversion: The Performance of Sexuality in the Nineteenth Century."
  Heather Momyer, University of Louisana, Layfayette
• "Spurred on to Reform: Olive Schreiner and Melodrama."
  Neil Hultgren, University of Virginia

• "Female Education and its Discontents: George Eliot's Strategies for Reform."
  Chao-Fang Chen, National Cheng Kung University
• "Gender Norms and Social Reforms in The Clever Woman of the Family."
  Audrey Fessler, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire

Alison Booth, University of Virginia
"The Likes of Sister Dora: Representing Eminent Victorian Women."