Romanticism at MLA 2020
Are you attending MLA 2020 in Seattle this January? If so, we at the K-SAA have put together a list of panels you might find of interest. Take a look below for everything Romanticism!And please do also consider joining us for our annual awards dinner--details available here.First, the K-SAA sponsored panel:384. New Romanticisms
5:15 PM–6:30 PM Jan 10, 2020; WSCC - 620
1: Mary Shelley and the Novel Romantic - Bakary Diaby, Skidmore C2: Voyages to the Land of the People: Byronism and Trajectories of the New - Emily Sun, Barnard C3: What’s Old Is New - William H. Galperin, Rutgers U, New BrunswickPresider - Andrew Burkett, Union C; Sonia Hofkosh, Tufts U 54. Strategies for #Decolonizing1:45 PM–3:00 PM Jan 9, 2020; WSCC - 606This session creates an opportunity for those committed to bridging scholarly work and antiracist, anticolonial activism to share strategies. #MedievalTwitter, #decolonizingrhetoric, #ShakeRace, #BIPOC, #Bigger6, and beyond.Presider - Patricia A. Matthew, Montclair State U
107. British Romanticism and China
3:30 PM–4:45 PM Jan 9, 2020; WSCC - 611
1: John Murray and China - Peter Kitson, U of East Anglia2: British Shipboard Narratives and the Romantic Authorship of the Chinese Coast - Elizabeth Chang, U of Missouri, Columbia3: Coleridge, Taoism, and Romantic Pantheism - Chris Murray, Monash U4: Silencing Poetic Voices - Jennifer L. Hargrave, Baylor UPresider - Charles Waite Mahoney, U of Connecticut, Storrs 134. Romantics as Critics, Critics as Romantics
5:15 PM–6:30 PM Jan 9, 2020; WSCC - 615
1: Coleridge and the Performance of Romantic Criticism - Charles Waite Mahoney, U of Connecticut, Storrs2: Wordsworth's Awkward Criticisms - Alexander Regier, Rice U3: Arnold and the Romantic Critic - Seamus Perry, U of Oxford, Balliol CPresider - Alexander Regier, Rice U 201. Romanticism: 20/20 Hindsight
8:30 AM–9:45 AM Jan 10, 2020 ; WSCC - 604
1: Dark Desert Earth: Deserts, Serpents, Sand—William Blake to Richard Serra - Sarah Weston, Yale U2: The Keats Effects - Forest Pyle, U of Oregon3: Polidori’s Nightmare: When the Vampire Isn’t (Evil, Male, Perpetual) - Elizabeth Fay, U of Massachusetts, Boston4: Prometheus Unbound, The Cenci, and the Want of Revolution - Orrin N. C. Wang, U of Maryland, College ParkPresider - Margaret E. Russett, U of Southern California 272. "Ten Thousand Orbs Involving and Involved": Systems of Change in Prometheus Unbound
12:00 PM–1:15 PM Jan 10, 2020; WSCC - 620
1:45 PM–3:00 PM Jan 10, 2020; WSCC - 614
1: ‘The Air Hummed Melodies Around’: Clare, Personification, and the Conversation Poem - Elizabeth Helsinger, U of Chicago2: ‘Sounds That Cannot Be Written’: Animal Communication in John Clare and Gilbert White - Jeff Dories, U of Pittsburgh, Titusville3: Vocality and Printedness in Clare Poems Called ‘Song’ and ‘Ballad’ - Stephanie Kuduk Weiner, Wesleyan UPresider - Erica McAlpine, U of Oxford
472. Romanticism and Posthumanism
10:15 AM–11:30 AM Jan 11, 2020; WSCC - 620
1: Romantic Prosthetics; or, Scaffolding Human Feeling in Nature - Ron Broglio, Arizona State U2: Intersex Posthumanism? Wollstonecraft, Shelley, and Romantic Politics in the Anthropocene - Kate Singer, Mt. Holyoke C; Chris Washington, Francis Marion U3: William Blake’s Posthumanism - Elizabeth Effinger, U of New BrunswickRelated Material: For related material, write to soliver@essex.ac.uk after 15 Dec.Presider - Susan Oliver, U of Essex 556. Byron’s Complete Poetical Works at Forty1:45 PM–3:00 PM Jan 11, 2020; WSCC - 204Description: This session celebrates Byron’s Complete Poetical Works on the fortieth anniversary of its publication.Speakers - Lindsey Eckert, Florida State U; Alice J. Levine, Hofstra U; Adam McCune, Baylor U; Jonathan Sachs, Concordia U, Montreal; Andrew M. Stauffer, U of VirginiaPresider - Michelle Nancy Levy, Simon Fraser U If there are any other Romanticism panels we have missed, please get in touch and let us know! info@k-saa.org