New Directions in Gender: Literary and Cultural Studies, 1700 1840

New Directions in Gender: Literary and Cultural Studies, 1700–1840 A Conference in Honor of Anne K. Mellor Organized by Felicity Nussbaum, University of California, Los Angeles

October 19–20, 2012 William Andrews Clark Memorial Library

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

Friday, October 19, 2012 9:00 a.m. Van transports participants from hotel to Clark Library

9:30 a.m. Morning Coffee and Registration

10:00 a.m. Barbara Fuchs, University of California, Los Angeles Welcome

Felicity Nussbaum, University of California, Los Angeles Opening Remarks

Session 1: The Cultures of Print Moderator: Margaret Russett, University of Southern California

Clifford Siskin, New York University Fellowship of the Fair: Anne Mellor and the Intellectual-Club of Edinburgh, 1717

Michelle Levy, Simon Fraser University Did Women Have a Print Culture (during the Long Eighteenth Century)?

12:30 pm Lunch

1:45 p.m. Session 2: Enlightenment and the Nation Moderator: William Handley, University of Southern California

Noah Comet, The Ohio State University at Mansfield Bad “Attitudes”: Emma Hamilton, L.E.L., and the Gendering of Antiquity

Theresa M. Kelley, University of Wisconsin-Madison Impolitic Accomplishment: Doing Botany like a Woman

John Bender, Stanford University Adam Smith and the Nation of Thought

4:30 p.m. Reception

5:45 p.m. Van transports participants to dinner

6:15 p.m. Dinner at Lukshon restaurant in Culver City 8:15 p.m. Van transports participants to hotel

Saturday, October 20, 2012 9:00 a.m. Van transports participants from hotel to Clark Library

9:30 a.m. Morning Coffee and Registration

10:00 a.m. Session 3: Gender and the Arts Moderator: Julie Carlson, University of California, Santa Barbara

Ann Bermingham, University of California, Santa Barbara Gainsborough's Daughters: A Pastoral

Roxanne Eberle, University of Georgia Amelia and John Opie: Marriage, Sociability, and the Professional Arts

Jeffrey N. Cox, University of Colorado at Boulder Text as Context: Editing Pantomimes as Performance

1:00 pm Lunch

2:00 p.m. Session 4: Romanticism and Gender Moderator: Robert C. Ritchie, The Huntington Library

Alan Bewell, University of Toronto Romantic Mobility and Gender

Greg P. Kucich, Notre Dame University Gendering Cockney Aesthetics

Susan Wolfson, Princeton University Romantic Melancholy and Gender

Anne K. Mellor, University of California, Los Angeles Concluding remarks

5:00 p.m. Program concludes

Van transports participants to hotel