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The Traffic in Poems: Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Transatlantic Exchange
September 27-9, 2002
Scholarly Communications Center, Alexander Library
Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ

 

Friday, September 27:
2:00 pm
  • Opening comments, Meredith McGill, Rutgers University

2:30 pm
  • Kirsten Silva Gruesz, University of California, Santa Cruz: "Maria del Occidente and the Anglo-American Race for Cuba"

  • Respondent: Brent Hayes Edwards, Rutgers University

4:15 pm
  • Yopie Prins, University of Michigan, "Transported by Meter"

  • Respondent: Eliza Richards, Boston University
   
Saturday, September 28:
9:30 am
  • Kate Flint, Rutgers University, "Is the Native an American? Poetry, Nationhood, and Indigeneity in the English Cultural Imagination, 1800-1860"

  • Respondent: Max Cavitch, University of Pennsylvania

11:00 am
  • Mary Loeffelholz, Northeastern University, "Aurora Leigh in America"

  • Respondent: Jonah Siegel, Rutgers University

12:30-2:00pm
  • Lunch (Multi-purpose room, Rutgers Student Center)

2:00 pm
  • William Galperin, Rutgers University, "Lord Byron, Lady Byron, and Mrs. Stowe"

  • Respondent: Jay Grossman, Northwestern University

3:30 pm
  • Virginia Jackson, New York University, "Romantic Affections-Bryant to Whitman"

  • Respondent: Colin Jager, Rutgers University

5:15 pm
  • Tricia Lootens, University of Georgia, "States of Exile"

  • Respondent: Isobel Armstrong, University of London

Sunday, September 29:
9:30 am
  • Michael Moon, Johns Hopkins University, "Finitude, Vulnerability, Possibility, Power: Emily Brontë at Emily Dickinson's Funeral"

  • Respondent: Carolyn Williams, Rutgers University

11:00 am
  • Adela Pinch, University of Michigan, "Transatlantic Modern Love"

  • Respondent: Michael Warner, Rutgers University

12:30 pm
  • Lunch and Roundtable Discussion

1:00 pm
  • Conference Retrospective: Jeffrey Scraba, chair; Donald Dow, Jason Rudy, Alexandra Socarides, and Sunny Stalter

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