Bwwc 2005: Session IX

Thursday, April 14 | Friday, April 15 | Saturday, April 16

Preliminary Conference Schedule: Session IX
	Saturday, April 16, 2005: 2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

	Panel One—New Woman, Old Contexts: Transformative Negotiations in the Work of Olive Schreiner Salon C Conference Room
	Moderator: Shelley Martin, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Carolyn Burdett, London Metropolitan University—"Elements of Freethought" Ruth Livesey, University of London—"Olive Schreiner and the Dream of Labour" Sondeep Kandola, University of Leeds—"Exterminating the Sex Parasite: Racial and Cultural Solutions in Vernon Lee's 'The Economic Dependence of Women' (1902) and Olive Schreiner's Woman and Labour (1911)" Emma Francis, University of Warwick—"'Under the lash of the Egyptian': Woman and Labour and Jewish Biblical History"
	Panel Two—Textual Sexuality Oak Alley Conference Room
	Moderator: Chantel Langlinais, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Alexandra Reuber, Louisiana State University—"Shelley's Monstrous Self or the Distorted Mother Imago" Kerri A. Bowen, Tufts University—"Mary Wollstonecraft's Dream of the Moving Statue: Speech, Sexuality, and the Problem of Female Desire in Maria" Julie Barst, Purdue University—"The Pleasure of Fluidity: Water Images as Symbols of Gender in The Mill on the Floss" Jennifer Weeks, Mills College—"Catherine's Schmuckkastchen: Northanger Abbey as Sexual Allegory"
	Panel Three—Colonial Landscapes: Trains, Trees, and 'Trails of Light' Elmwood Conference Room
	Moderator: Skip Fox, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Robert Grant, University of London—"Footsteps 'marked by a trail of light': women writing about and being written into colonial/settler landscapes" Louise Economides, University of Montana—"The Greenhouse Effect: Austen, Barbauld and the Ecology of Empire" Hannah Swamidoss, University of Texas at Dallas—"Play within the Empire: Colonial Anxiety in E. Nesbit's The Railway Children"
	Panel Four—Women, Morality, and Campaign Finance Reform Rosewood Conference Room
	Moderator: Patricia Rigg—Acadia University Sharon Twigg, University of Wisconsin, Madison—"Challenging the Redemptive Power of Christian Political Economy in Charlotte Smith's 'Beachy Head'" Michelle Mouton, Cornell College—"Challenging Elections: Campaign Finance Reform and Electoral Agency in George Eliot's Felix Holt" Diann Ainsworth, Texas Christian University—"'The Larger Possibilities' of Nature: Tracking Cultural Tensions in Reviews of George Eliot's Romola"
	Panel Five—Identity on the Page: Women and Men: Balancing Nostalgia, Egoism, and Freedom Oaklawn Conference Room.
	Moderator: Wanda Addison, University of Louisiana at Lafayette Hannah Cowles Freeman, University of Kentucky—"Representations of the Past: Nostalgia and Revision in Adam Bede" Beth Keefauver, Western Carolina University—"Escaping the Patriarchal Household: Anne Radcliffe, the Poetics of Gothic, and the Politics of Artistic Freedom" Christi Cottrill, University of Akron—"'Something of Real Consequence': Egotism, Women's Reputations, and Bath in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey and Persuasion" Tara Moore, University of Delaware—"Catherine Gore: Writing Male Domesticity in Victorian Christmas Literature"
	Panel Six—A Proper Place: Situating Domestic Identities Ashland Conference Room
	Moderator: Theresa Adams, Westminster College Robin Werner, University of New Orleans—"Subverting the Angel's Home: Geraldine Jewsbury's Domestic Actress" Hilary Teynor, University of Wisconsin, Madison—"The Gift of Obedience: Family and Labor in Eliza Haywood's A Present for a Servant Maid" Kristen Escobar, Stephen F. Austin State University—"The Devoted Spinster's Place: Margaret Oliphant's Miss Marjoribanks" Leslie Gautreaux-Edwards, Texas A&M University—"The Ritual of the Table: Consumption for Body and Mind in Maria Edgeworth's Ennui"