Saturday, February 14 — Session VI — 4:00-5:30 p.m.

21. Representations of Black Women

Chair: Phillip Schierer (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)

Lyndon Dominique (Lehigh University), “Behn’s Black Ladies and the Birth of the British Novel”
Regulus Allen (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo), “Rebellious Slave Mothers in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko”
Victoria Barnett-Woods (George Washington University), “(Re)production, Slavery, and the Cultural Economy of Empire in The Woman of Colour”

Chair: Chelsea Redeker Milbourne (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)

David Alvarez (DePauw University), “Coffee, Commerce, and Orientalism in ‘Knavery in All Trades, or the Coffeehouse’”
John Beynon (California State University, Fresno), “‘Re-Inthrone the Man’: The Feminizing Effects of Tea Drinking and the Tea Trade in Pierre Mottreux’s Poem in Praise of Tea”
Julie Elb (The Westminster Schools), “Feast of Burden: Food, Consumption, and Changing Conceptions of Femininity”

Chair: Craig H. Russell (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)

Malte Hinrichsen (Universität Hamburg), “‘...we have had under our eyes the races of black and of red men’: Racism in Thomas Jefferson’s Imperial Vision”
Alyson McLamore (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo), “‘Britannia Rule the Waves’: Maritime Music and National Identity in Eighteenth-Century Britain”
Heidi Nees (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo), “Shifting Identities: Negotiating ‘Native’ and ‘American’ in John Augustus Stone’s Metamora”

Chair: Cameron Jones (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo)

Nicholas Rogers (York University, Toronto), “Cruger and Empire”
Gary Sellick (University of South Carolina), “A Fleeting Glimpse of Freedom: The Effects of Smallpox on British Emancipation Policy in the Revolutionary War”
Diane Kelley (University of Puget Sound), “Mme Helvétius’ Experience of the Revolution: Auteuil, 1789-1794”