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Samantha Landau
Samantha Landau
Samantha Landau is a Project Associate Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo (Komaba), where she teaches courses focusing on American and Comparative Literature and Culture. Her research primarily concerns women’s writing, supernatural and Gothic fiction, especially in the works of Shirley Jackson and Emily Dickinson. She also writes on the connections between poetry, culture, and music. She is currently working on a monograph on the Domestic Gothic. In 2019, she organized the international conference “Gothic Spaces” at The University of Tokyo. She is currently principal investigator on “Domestic Spaces in Gothic Literature,” an extended 3-year JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research C (KAKENHI) and “Ghosts and Outsiders in Gothic Fiction” a 4-year JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Early Career Scientists (KAKENHI). She is co-editor of a special issue of Women’s Studies on Emily Dickinson and Music with Gerard Holmes (2021) and has contributed a public-facing lecture on Emily Dickinson and the Gothic to the Emily Dickinson International Society’s online lecture series (2020). Her most recent lecture was on Shirley Jackson, ritual, and contagion in The Haunting of Hill House. In addition to her life as an academic, Samantha has been singing and performing classical music and jazz for over 25 years. She currently studies voice with Professor Takeko Nagashima of Kunitachi College of Music in Tokyo.
Speaker of 11/28 1:00 PM-4:00 PM
George Boziwick
George Boziwick
George Boziwick is a musicologist, music librarian, composer and performer. He holds degrees from the State University of New York, College at Oneonta (BA); Hunter College (MA, music composition); and Columbia University (Master of Library Service). His forty years in public and academic music libraries included thirty-one years with The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, from which he retired in 2017 as Chief of the Music Division. As a composer, his Magnificat is published by C.F. Peters, and his music is recorded on the Opus One label. George is co-founder with Trudy Williams of The Red Skies Music Ensemble. They co-authored and co-produced a series of programs (2012-2018) on Emily Dickinson and her musical experiences performed at venues including the American Repertory Theater’s Oberon Theater, Cambridge, MA, sponsored by Harvard University. George contributed articles on Emily Dickinson and music to the Journal of the Society for American Music (2014), and the Emily Dickinson Journal (2016). He has also contributed articles to NOTES: The Journal of the Music Library Association; the New Grove Dictionaries; and the Routledge Encyclopedia of the Blues. He currently serves on the Board of the Emily Dickinson International Society.
Speaker of 11/28 1:00 PM-4:00 PM
Faculty of the Department of European Languages and Transcultural Studies, UCLA
Research interest: Middle Ages, Mediterranean & Francophone Studies, Manuscripts, Sexuality, Translation
Speaker of 11/22 09:00 AM-12:00 PM
Elizabeth A. Petrino
Elizabeth A. Petrino
Elizabeth A. Petrino is Professor of English and Director of the Magis Core Curriculum at Fairfield University and serves as Past President of the Emily Dickinson International Society. She is author of Emily Dickinson and Her Contemporaries: Women’s Verse in America, 1820-1885 (UPNE, 1998) and has co-edited with Jocelyn Boryczka Jesuit and Feminist Education: Intersections in Teaching and Learning for the Twenty-first Century (Fordham, 2012), which won the national Alpha Sigma Nu Award for 2013 in “Professional Studies.” In addition, Lydia Sigourney: Critical Essays and Cultural Views (U Massachusetts P, 2018), co-edited with Mary Louise Kete, is the first collection of original essays on the poet. She has written numerous book chapters and articles on recovering nineteenth-century women’s poetry in such journals as The Emily Dickinson Journal, Tulsa Studies in Women’s Literature, ESQ: 19th Century American Literature and Culture, and Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers. Currently, she is co-editing with Mary Louise Kete a special issue on “Lydia Sigourney and the Poetics of Dissent” for ESQ.
Speaker of 11/21 8:00 PM -10:00 PM
Eliza Richards
Eliza Richards
Eliza Richards is Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: she specializes in nineteenth-century US poetry. She is the author of Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe’s Circle and Battle Lines: Poetry and Mass Media in the US Civil War. She is also the editor of Emily Dickinson in Context. Richards has published widely on nineteenth-century American poetry, including essays on Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, Adah Isaacs Menken, and other women poets. She currently serves as the President of the Emily Dickinson International Society. Richards is completing the first critical edition of the collected writings of poet George Moses Horton. Self-taught, Horton is the only African American poet to publish a book of poetry while enslaved in the south; he was widely known as a gifted writer in the mid-nineteenth century, and readers are increasingly recognizing his accomplishments again today.
Speaker of 11/14 8:00 PM -10:00 PM
Francesca Cauchi
Francesca Cauchi
Dr Francesca Cauchi is Associate Professor of Foreign Lang & Lit at National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan. Prior to her current position, she taught in Turkey. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Cambridge and specialises in the dialogue between (Romantic) literature and philosophy. She's the author of Zarathustra Contra Zarathustra: The Tragic Buffoon (Routledge, 1998) and has published in journals such as Romanticism, European Romantic Review, History of European Ideas, and Philological Quarterly.
Speaker of 11/14 01:10 PM-03:00 PM
Bangor University, UK
Senior Lecturer in Education
Research interest: teaching of literatures in and beyond English-language environments, representation of literature teaching in popular culture
Speaker of 11/8 10:00AM-12:00PM
Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau
Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau
Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau is associate professor of American Literature and Dance Studies in Sorbonne Université and a junior member of the IUF (Institut Universitaire de France). She is the author of Emily Dickinson du côté de Shakespeare, modalités théâtrales du lyrisme (PUBP, 2020), which examines how Shakespearean theatricality shaped Dickinson’s conception of the lyric, and has directed the Special Issue of peer-reviewed journal Cahiers Elizabéthains on Shakespeare and Dance. Her research focuses on the dialogue between literature and dance, and in addition to the publication of several peer-reviewed articles on American dance, 19 th -century American poetry and dance, and Shakespeare and dance, she has choreographed “Instincts for Dance, A Choreographic Translation of Emily Dickinson’s Poetry”, which premiered in Seville in July 2022. She is currently working on a book on American literature and dance and is continuing her artistic research on the choreographic translation of Emily Dickinson’s poetry.
Speaker of 11/07 03:00 PM-05:00 PM
Topic: Choreographing Queerness
Páraic Finnerty is Reader in English and American Literature and Associate Head (R&I) of the School of Area Studies, History, Politics, and Literature, University of Portsmouth. He is the author of Emily Dickinson’s Shakespeare (2006), co-author of Victorian Celebrity Culture and Tennyson’s Circle (2013), and author of Dickinson and her British Contemporaries: Victorian Poetry in Nineteenth-Century America, forthcoming from Edinburgh University Press.
Speaker of 2022/10/24 04:00 PM-06:00 PM
Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University
Research interest: Asian Gothic / Asian Horror, Gothic/Horror cinema and television, Gothic in popular culture, Gothic in contemporary art
Speaker of 10/18 10:00 AM-12:00 PM
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