Schedule

1. The Influence of Locale

UCEN Santa Barbara Harbor Room

• Theresa Adams: “Tourism and Embodiment in Keats’s Burns Country”

• Paul Kerry: George Bancroft’s Romanticism

• Omar F. Miranda: “Empire and Exile Upended in The Last Man”

• Christopher Rovee: “The Rhetoric of Authority: Dorothy Wordsworth circa 1930”

2. Romantic Abolition, Religion and Politics

UCEN State Street Room

• Deena Al-halabieh: “Circulating Abolition in Romantic-Era Quakerism”

• Katherine Gaffney: “Mary Wollstonecraft’s Letters Written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark as Feminist Disability Life-Writing”

• Amy Gates: “Pestiferous Persuasion: Burke, Wollstonecraft, and Burial Reform Rhetoric”

3. Shelley Revisioned

UCEN Mission Room

• John Aulich: “Liszt’s Mazeppa: Struggle, transcendence and the rhetoric of virtuosity in Transcendental Étude No. 4”

• Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud: “Generic Politics: Tragedy, Farce, and Shelley’s Cenci”

• Alexandra Rowe: “A New ‘Supernaturalism’: How the Rhetoric of Religion-Nature was Replaced by the Rhetoric of Fiction-Nature”

4. Wordsworth, Persuasion, and Romantic Subjectivity

UCEN Santa Barbara Harbor Room

CANCELLED

5. A Reflection on the Romantic Circles/K-SAA Anti-Racist Pedagogies Colloquium

UCEN State Street Room

• Mahasweta Baxipatra

• Hilary Fezzey

6. Mary Shelley and Feminist Environments

UCEN Mission Room

• Christopher Cappello: “Shelley and Hoffmann: A Comparative Reading”

• Ashlin Cross: “Environmental Sovereignty in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man”

• Yuan Zhao: “Feminist Reading on Frame Narrative in Frankenstein: Masculine/Feminine Frames, and Feminine Vitality”

13. Romantic Science and Technology

UCEN Santa Barbara Harbor Room

• Mark Canuel: “Jacobin Technologies”

• Wendy C. Nielsen: “Resisting Illness as Metaphor: Wellness Self-Care in the Romantic Period”

• Ivan Ortiz: “Organized Innocence: Greta Thunberg and the Rhetoric of Romantic Childhood”

14. The Romantic Pharmacy

UCEN State Street Room

• Annelle Curulla and Lauren Ravalico: “Tropical Medicine: Matriarchy and the Environment in Paul et Virginie”

• Clorinda Donato: “Romantic Rhetorical Seduction and Its Genealogies in Corinne ou l’Italie”

• Daisy Reid: “The Venomous Vegetal: Feminine Sexuality and/as ‘Vegetable Poison’ in Romanticism”

• Kylie Sago: “Toxic Affects: Abolitionist Sentimentality and Racialized Feeling in Early 19th-Century France”

15. Re-writing Disability and Gender: Rhetoric and/as Subversion

UCEN Mission Room

• Abigail Giordano: “Aging, Disabled, and Powerful: Feminine Agency in Charlotte Smith’s The Old Manor House”

• Elizabeth Quarles: “Disability Rhetoric in George Crabbe’s ‘Peter Grimes’ and William Wordsworth ‘The Thorn’”

• Kathy Beres Rogers: “The Rhetoric of Relativism in Frances Burney’s Camilla: Deformity, Idiocy, and the ‘Freak Show’”

• Fuson Wang: “Persuading Idiots: Lucy Aikin and the Legacy of Ableist Feminist Rhetoric”

16. Romanticism and Digital Methodologies

UCEN Santa Barbara Harbor Room

• Mark Algee-Hewitt: “Religion Remix’d: Blake’s Prophetic Poetry through a Computational Lens”

• Ryan-James Heuser: “From the Romance to the Romantic Novel: A Digital Anatomy of Romantic Fiction”

• Danielle Spratt: “Public Digital Humanities: Decolonial Approaches to Finding Aids for the Nineteenth-Century Archives and Canon”

17. Ekphrasis, Rhetoric, and the (Im)mediacy of Representation

UCEN State Street Room

• Catriona Macleod: “‘Now understand what the cave and the hiding dragon signify’: Goethe’s Philostratus Between Classicism and Romanticism”

• Allen Madin: “‘Ein jedes Tier in eurem Reich muß ein Stück von seiner Haut dazugeben’ or why a fairy tale is not a fable”

• Margaret Strair: “The Body of the Klecksographien: Justinus Kerner and the Rhetoric of Visual Nihilism”

• Ella Wilhelm: “‘Ich liege am Busen der unendlichen Welt’: on the erotics of ekphrasis in Schleiermacher’s Über die Religion (1799)”

18. Romantic Narrative Forms

UCEN Santa Barbara Harbor Room

• Summer Star: “Reversing the Moral Figure-Ground: Persuasion and its Counterfeits in Austen’s Mansfield Park”

• Brandon Wernette: “Aesthetic Oblivion, or Forgetting in the Poetry of Wordsworth, Smith, and White”

• Lori Yamato: “This Story Is about You: Hans Christian Andersen and Søren Kierkegaard on Reading Fables”

20. Romanticism and Feeling

UCEN Mission Room

• Jan Maramot: “Whitmanian Romanticism: Lyricization, Racialization, and Queer Address”

• Robert Mottram: “Sleepless Night: Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and the Poetics of Affect”

• James Rasmussen: “The Persuasions of the Gift in Herder and Hölderlin”

• Joseph Rockelmann: “Ekphrasis and Art in Ludwig Tieck’s Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen”

19. Rhetoric and the Public Sphere

UCEN State Street Room

• Alastair Hunt: “Radical Animals: Delimiting Equality in Paine, Wollstonecraft, and Taylor”

• Josh Brewer: “Race, Rhetoric, Reception: Reinterpreting Rhizomes”

• Julian Whitney: “Ottobah Cugoano, The Post-Racial, and British Futurity”

• Smith Yarberry: “Enough! Or Too Much: The Political Sermons of Ottobah Cugoano & William Blake”