Events Archive
Fall 2021 Schedule
Thursday, September 23rd, 4pm: Reading group on Marla Miller's Entangled Lives: Labor, Livelihood, and Landscapes of Change in Rural Massachusetts (selections have been circulated -- please email if you need them)
Late October (Date TBA): "How to Do Conferences" panel discussion with graduate student conference veterans
Third Week of November (Date TBA): Graduate student workshop with Carly Yingst (G6)
Reading Period: Poetry Reading
TBA: Guest speaker
This semester, we will also be holding brief, semi-regular check-in meetings for graduate members of the colloquium, as a way of helping to facilitate discussions between students while we work remotely. If you are interested in being a part of these discussions, please be in touch with one of the co-coordinators.
Spring 2021 Schedule
Monday, February 22nd, 4pm: Discussion of Eighteenth-Century Fiction special issue on "The Indigenous Eighteenth Century."
Mid-March (Date TBA): Graduate student workshop with Joani Etskovitz (paper to be circulated in advance)
April 2nd, 4:30pm (Zoom): Journal publishing discussion with Olivia Carpenter, Samuel Diener, and Bailey Sincox
Late April: Reading group on Charlotte Smith's sonnets
Reading Period: Poetry Reading
As in the Fall, we will also be holding brief, semi-regular check-in meetings for graduate members of the colloquium, as a way of helping to facilitate discussions between students while we work remotely. If you are interested in being a part of these discussions, please be in touch with one of the co-coordinators.
2019-2020
Bakary Diaby (Skidmore), "On Romantic Work"
Amy King (St. John's ), "Detail, Natural History, and a More Global Long 19th c : Representations of the 'West Indies' in the work of Marianne North, Phillip Henry Gosse, & Anne Kingsbury Wollstonecraft"
Deidre Lynch (Harvard), "Paper Mosaics and Paper Sentiments: Mary Delany's Loves of the Plants"
2018-2019
Ted Underwood (Illinois), "A Perspectival History of Genre Fiction"
James Engell (Harvard), "Coleridge, The Constitution of the Church and State: his Last, Important, and Often Misunderstood Book"
2017-2018
Christina Lupton (Warwick) and Stuart Sherman (Fordham), "Time, Media, the Eighteenth-Century Novel"
David Alff (SUNY Buffalo), "Way or No Way: Journal of the Plague Year and the Infrastructural Turn"
David Taylor (Warwick), "Reading Visual Satire"
Jess Keiser (Tufts), "Laurence Sterne's Nervous Fictions: From Animal Spirits to the Great Sensorium of the World"
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon (Northeastern), “Networks, Assemblages, and the Poetics of Sub-Agential Personhood"
Dennis Rasmussen (Tufts), "David Hume, Adam Smith, and the Friendship That Shaped Modern Thought"
Rebekah Mitsein (Boston College), "African Sources in Eighteenth-Century British Travelogues: The Intermediary is the Message"
2016-2017
Nicole Aljoe (Northeastern): “Speculations on the Representations of Caribbean Female Protagonists in European Novels,1808-1827”
Jonathan Kramnick (Yale): "On Beauty and Being at Home"
Mohammed Sharafuddin (U. of Sana'a): “Washington Irving’s Positive Orientalism”
Katie Trumpener (Yale): "Romantic Panoramas: Berlin to Borodino"
Matthew Bevis (Keble College, Oxford): "Wordsworth's Idiocy"
Anahid Nersessian (UCLA): "Wordsworth's Obscurity"
2015-2016
Bruce Graver (Providence College) - "The Lady of the Lake, Photographically Illustrated"
Sonia Hofkosh (Tufts), "Double Touch: The Poetics of Drawing in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Notebooks"
Peter Sabor (McGill), "Rewriting Clarissa: Alternative Endings by Lady Bradshaigh and Samuel Richardson"
Murray Pittock (Glasgow), "Who Wrote the Scots Musical Museum? Challenging editorial practice in the presence of authorial absence"
Jane Stabler (St. Andrews): "Byron, Cain, and the Ravenna Mosaics: Questions About Editing and Ekphrasis"
2014-2015
William Warner (UC Santa Barbara): "Reality and the Novel"
James Engell (Harvard), "Coleridge's Poem, 'S. T. C.' His Self-Composed Epitaph"
Andrew Warren (Harvard), "Romantic Entanglements"
Susan Wolfson (Princeton), "Yeats's Latent Keats/Keats's Latent Yeats"
2013-2014
Peter Manning (SUNY Stonybrook), "Wordsworth and Multi-Directional Memory"
William Galperin (Rutgers), "History of Missed Opportunities: British Romanticism and the Everyday"
Andrew Warren (Harvard), ""From Solipsism to Orientalism"
2012-2013
Michael Gamer (University of Pennsylvania), "Jane Austen's Social Media"
Albert Rivero (Marquette), "Editing Gulliver, Moll, and Pamela: A Practical Guide"
Noel Jackson (MIT), "Pleasure Problems"
David Bromwich (Yale), "The Violence of Slavery, The Violence of Civil War: Lincoln, Whitman, Melville"
*Co-sponsored with the American Literature Colloquium)
Eric Lindstrom (University of Vermont), "Stanley Cavell and (British) Romantic Perfectionism: Godwin, Austen, Keats"
Duncan Wu (Georgetown), “Poetry of Witness in the Romantic Age"
Sarah Zimmerman (Fordham), "Thomas Campbell at the Royal Institution: Romanticism's Public Culture of Lecturing"
2011-2012
David Collings (Bowdoin), "Melting the Sublime: Transcendental Aesthetics in the Era of Climate Change”
Kevin Gilmartin (Caltech; York), "Hazlitt's Dissenting Memory"
Bruce Graver (Providence College), "Photographing the American Picturesque: William England's Stereoscopic Tour"
Jonathan Sachs (Concordia), "The Ruined Cottage, Time Parallax, and the Meaning of Romantic Ruins"
Anne-Lise Francois (UC Berkeley), "Shadow-Boxing Oil Spills: Parables of Subsistence from Wordsworth to Benjamin"
David Womersley (Oxford), "Defoe and the Devil"
*Co-sponsored with the Renaissance Colloquium
Andrew Piper (McGill), "Conversions: Autobiography and the Science of Life in the Romantic Age"
2010-2011
Colin Jager (Rutgers), "The Fanaticism of Former Days: Hogg's Justified Sinner and the Creation of Religious Minorities"
Kevis Goodman (UC Berkeley), "Charlotte Smith's Geopoetics: Revolution and Nostalgia in the Longer Verse"
Srinivas Aravamudan (Duke), "Enlightenment Orientalism: Resisting the Rise of the Novel"
Deidre Lynch (Toronto), "Obituaries for Poetry: Dead Poet Love, the Life of the Author, and Photographed Romanticism"
Tim Fulford (Nottingham Trent), "Talking the Walk, or Cockneys, Clerks and Commodification: Labour and Leisure in Romantic London"
Mary Favret (Indiana), "The Pains of Reading: John Keats"
2009-2010
Robert DeMaria, Jr. (Vassar), "Your Humble Servant: Real Letters from Real Servants in the Eighteenth Century"
Alistair Duckworth (Florida), "Jane Austen and the Enlightenment"
Ian Duncan (UC Berkeley), "The Trouble with Man: Fiction in the Age of Lamarck"
David Brewer (Ohio State), "Things (Including Authors)"
Adam Potkay (William and Mary), "Rethinking the Romantic Sublime"
David Duff (Aberdeen), "Archaism and Innovation: The Dialectic of Revivalism."
Ian Balfour (York), "On the Judaic and the Sublime: Hegel Among Others"
*Co-sponsored with the Humanities Center's Dialectical Thinking in the Humanities Reading Group
Michael Gamer (University of Pennsylvania), "Corporeal Authors, National Repertories, Contending Canons: Two Case Studies"
2008-2009
James Chandler (Chicago), "Smith the Critic: Mimesis, Sympathy, Satisfaction"
Matthew Wickman (Brigham Young University), "Robert Burns, Surrealist"
Nicholas Roe (St. Andrews), "John Keats and the Elgin Marbles"
Denise Gigante (Stanford), "Sometimes a Stick is Just a Stick: The Essay as (Organic) Form"
Thomas Pfau (Duke), "From Opposition to Metamorphosis: Rethinking Difference Through Hegel and Goethe" (Co-sponsored with the Humanities Center's Hegel Reading Group)
Tim Bahti (Independent Scholar), "On Reading Adorno on Reading Hegel"
*Co-sponsored with the Humanities Center's Hegel Reading Group
Ann Rowland (Kansas) and Maureen McLane (NYU), "Romanticism and the Ballad"
*Held in conjunction with the Folklore and Mythology Department's conference on "Child's Children: Ballad Study and Its Legacies"
State-of-the-Field Panels
2011-12: Yoon Sun Lee (Wellesley) and Kate Singer (Mt. Holyoke)
2010-11: Charles Mahoney (UConn-Storrs), Jonathan Mulrooney (Holy Cross), and Andrew Warren (Harvard)
2009-10: Elizabeth Fay (UMass-Boston), Jacques Khalip (Brown), and James Engell (Harvard)
2008-09: James Engell (Harvard), William Keach (Brown), and Noel Jackson (MIT)
Recent Publications Seminars
2019 (spring): On "Atmosphere and Environment"
2011 (spring): A conversation about thinking the animal in literature, co-sponsored with the Renaissance and Medieval Colloquia.
2011 (spring): On "Media Studies," convened by Jacob Risinger and Matthew Ocheltree.
2010 (spring): On "Romanticism at the End of Historicism," convened by Matthew Ocheltree.
2009 (spring): A roundtable on "Cultural Mobility Studies," featuring Prof. Stephen Greenblatt, with presentations by Max Freeman, Melissa Pino, Luke Taylor, Galena Hashhozheva, Chris Barrett and Matthew Ocheltree; co-sponsored with the Renaissance Colloquium, and convened by Chris Barrett and Matthew Ocheltree.
2009 (fall): On "History and Modernity in the Eighteenth Century," convened by Jacob Sider Jost.
2008 (fall): On "Nature and Landscape," convened by Matthew Ocheltree.
Professionalization Activities
2011 (fall): Prospectus Workshop featuring G3s and G4s, co-sponsored with the British Literature Colloquium
2010 (spring): David Brewer (Ohio State), "On Hiring."
2010 (fall): Anatomy of a Journal Article, featuring selections from Studies in Romanticism,Nineteenth-Century Literature, and Essays in Criticism, convened by Jacob Risinger.
Close Reading Series
2013 (fall): On Blake's "Milton," convened by Julia Tejblum and Prof. Andrew Warren.
2010 (fall): On Shelley's "Alastor" and Foucault's On the Order of Things, convened by Prof. Andew Warren in concert with his paper, "Shelley's Adjectival Human."
2009 (fall): On Milton and the Romantics, convened by Prof. Gordon Teskey in concert with his paper on said subject.
Other Events
2018 (spring): Mini-conference on "Literary Objects and Things" with Vanessa Smith (Sydney). Graduate presentations by Olivia Carpenter, Samuel Diener, Josephine Reece, and Carly Yingst.
2009 (spring): Visit to the Houghton Library to discuss the new Burwick and McCusick edition of Coleridge's 1821 translation of Faustus.