Saturday, February 14 — Session III — 9:00-10:30 a.m.
Saturday, February 14 Registration, 8:30-11:00 a.m., outside Baker 114
9. Slavery and Status
Baker 107
Chair: Marin Smith (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
- Jared Hardesty (Western Washington University), “When William Briggs, Town Baker, Owned Three Slaves: TheEconomic Uses of Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Boston”
- Jeff Gagnon (University of California, San Diego), “‘All men in the world ought to be Neighbors to one another’: Race, Autobiography, and the Contradictions of Individualism in the Eighteenth-Century Transatlantic”
- Stephanie Harper (University of La Verne), “‘Now I’ll bless my cruel capture’: ‘The Sorrows of Yamba’ as a Grateful Slave Narrative”
10. Authoring the Feminine
Baker 102
Chair: Stacy Neely (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
- Sarah Wishnewsky (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo), “Marked Writing and the Consequences of Agency in Eliza Haywood’s Fantomina”
- Susan Carlile (California State University, Long Beach), “Charting a New Path: Female Authorship at Mid-Century”
- Garland D. Beasley (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), “Ungendering Education: Ann Radcliffe’s Educated Heroine in The Romance of the Forest”
- Fran Kennedy (Minnesota State University, Mankato), “The Cruel Treatment of Antonia in Matthew Lewis’s The Monk”
11. Consuming the Globe
Baker 113
Chair: Amy Hart (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
- Reginald McGinnis (University of Arizona), “The Abbé Mallet’s Articles on Commerce in Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie”
- Crystal Herrera (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo), “430 Lines in Defense of Poetry: A Purely Artistic Protest in Goldsmith’s The Deserted Village”
- Dennis Beesley (American University), “From Conquest to Commerce: Eighteenth-Century Empires Guided by Political Economy”
- Brian Gutierrez (University of Washington), “Staging the Table: A Contemporary Understanding of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Food Activism”
12. (Neo)Classical Visions
Baker 112
Chair: Sarah Horne (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)
- Nicole Horejsi (California State University, Los Angeles), “The Ruins of Romanitas: Romancing Juba’s Orient in Addison’s Cato”
- Giancarlo Fiorenza (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo), “Lucretia or Achilles?: Debating Heroism in Two Paintings by Giuseppe Cades”
- Timothy Erwin (University of Nevada, Las Vegas), “Envisioning Austen”