BWWC 2005 Keynote Speakers

Keynote Speakers:

Catherine Burroughs is currently Associate Professor of English at Wells College, Aurora, NY. She has published numerous articles on Romantic-era drama and on the dramatist Joanna Baillie. Her most recent books include Women in British Romantic Theater: Drama, Performance, and Society 1790-1840 (editor, 2000); Closet Stages: Joanna Baillie and the Theater Theory of British Romantic Women Writers (1997); and Reading the Social Body (co-editor, 1993).

Catherine Burroughs' keynote address, "British Women's Drama and the Erotics of Home", is scheduled for Thursday, April 14, 2005 at 7:00 p.m.

Linda Hughes is currently Professor of English at Texas Christian University. She has published articles on Elizabeth Gaskell, Alfred Tennyson, Victorian women's poetry, Victorian biography, and Victorian serial fiction. She has also been guest editor of a special issue of Victorian Poetry on Victorian women poets. Her most recent books include New Women Poets: An Anthology (editor, 2001); Biographical Passages: Essays in Victorian and Modernist Biography (coeditor, 2001); The Victorian Serial (co-author, 1991); and The Manyfacéd Glass: Tennyson's Dramatic Monologues (1987).

Linda Hughes' keynote address, "Gendered Atrocities: Elizabeth Gaskell and Her Contexts," is scheduled for Saturday, April 17, 2005 at 1:15 p.m.

Susan Staves is currently Professor of English at Brandeis University. She has published articles on literary history, the history of marriage and sexuality, and eighteenth-century women novelists and dramatists such as Elizabeth Griffith, Catherine Macaulay, and Ann Masterman. She is currently working on a new history of women writers in the eighteenth century; her most recent books include Early Modern Conceptions of Property (coeditor, 1994); Married Women's Separate Property in England, 1660-1833 (1990); and Players' Scepters: Fictions of Authority in the Restoration (1979). She has also edited a reprinting of Elizabeth Griffith's 1769 novel The Delicate Distress.

Susan Staves' keynote address, "'Books without which I cannot write': How Did Eighteenth-Century Women Writers Get the Books They Read?", is scheduled for Friday, April 15, 2005 at 6:30 p.m..