Friday, February 13 — Session I — 1:00-2:30 p.m.
1. Digital Humanities Workshop: Performing Race and Empire
The Early Modern British Theater: Access (EMBTA) Project
Baker 107
Chair: Heidi Nees (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
- Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- Jeremy Chow (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- Theresa M. Russ (University of California, Santa Barbara)
- Bethany Wong (University of California, Santa Barbara)
2. The Gender Lesson: Femininity and Education
Baker 102
Chair: Alyson McLamore (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
- Chelsea Redeker Milbourne (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo), “Spectacular Vision and the Practice of Eighteenth-Century Domestic Science”
- Christa Evans (Princeton University), “Power in Music: Gender and Music Education in the Early Republic”
- Alessa Johns (University of California, Davis), “Feminist Collecting and Recollecting: Promoting the Bluestocking Ethos”
3. Cataloguing the Criminal: Rogues, Prostitutes, and Vagrants
Baker 113
Chair: Sarah Wishnewsky (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
- Eric Otremba (University of California, Los Angeles), “Slavery and the Prison: Creating a Transatlantic Imperial Workforce, 1660-1690”
- Richard Frohock (Oklahoma State University), “Enterprising Rogues in The King of the Pirates”
- Sholeh Prochello (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo), “‘Ruinous Ecstasy’: Prostitution and Selfhood in Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina”
- Sarah Nicolazzo (University of California, San Diego), “Carwin’s ‘Infinite Endowments’: Vagrancy, Mobility, and Early American Writers”
4. What We Thought We Knew (and How We Thought We Knew It)
Baker 112
Chair: Ken Brown (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
- Sally Demarest (Aberystwyth University), “‘How Should He Know?’: Deafness, Deception, and Doubt in Eliza Haywood’s A Spy upon the Conjurer”
- Justin Swanson (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo), “A Brief Inspection of Linguistic Import in Houyhnhnmland”
- Mrinmoyee Bhattacharya (University of California, Davis), “Graffigny in Diderot’s Image”
- Curt McCombs (Chapman University), “Malice and Kindred Spirits: Postmodernism in Samuel Johnson and David Hume”