Emily Dickinson International Society (EDIS) International
Conference
“Were I Britain born”: Dickinson’s Transatlantic Connections
August 6-8, 2010, Oxford University
To download a PDF version of the Conference Schedule, click here.
Special events:
•Edie Campbell, in Emily Dickinson & I: The Journey of a Portrayal.
Performances at the Burton Taylor Studio (Gloucester Street, around
the corner from 11 Beaumont Street), Wednesday Aug 4, 8:00 pm;
Thursday Aug 5, 8:00 pm; Saturday Aug 7, 8:00 pm; Sunday Aug
8, 2:30 pm. Tickets may be purchased at the registration table.
•A short film by artist Suzie Hanna will run continuously Saturday Aug 7,
2:30-4:30 in the Rothermere American Institute, Room 3
August 4, Wednesday
8:00 Edie Campbell, in Emily Dickinson & I: The Journey of a Portrayal. Performances at the Burton Taylor Studio (Gloucester Street, around the corner from 11
Beaumont Street)
August 5, Thursday
8:00 Edie Campbell, in Emily Dickinson & I: The Journey of a Portrayal. Performances
at the Burton Taylor Studio (Gloucester Street, around the corner from 11
Beaumont Street)
August 6, Friday
9:00 WELCOME by Nigel Bowles, Director of the Rothermere American Institute; Ron
Bush, Drue Heinz Professor of American Literature at Oxford; and by Paul
Crumbley and Cristanne Miller, EDIS conference directors.
coffee, tea, and biscuits
Please Note: Sessions held in Mansfield College are designated by MC and either East or West room. All other sessions will be held in rooms of the Rothermere American
Institute designated by RAI and a specific room number
Session #1 9:30-10:45
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British Connections I: Dickinson, Shakespeare, and Milton (RAI 3)
Chair: Martha Ackmann, Mt. Holyoke College, USA
Anne Ramirez, Neuman College, USA, “’The Hardest Miracle’: Images of Death and Resurrection in Shakespeare and Dickinson”
Cindy MacKenzie, University of Regina, Canada, “’Essential Oils are wrung’: Dickinson’s
Poetics and the Shakespearean Sonnets”
Elizabeth Petrino, Fairfield University, USA, “’Forbidden Fruit’: Dickinson’s Echoes of Milton’s Eve”
- British Connections II: Keats (RAI 1)
Chair: Ellen Louise Hart, University of California at Santa Cruz (Emerita), USA
Edith Wylder, Southwest Minnesota University (Emerita), USA, “Keats’s Awakened Psyche and Dickinson’s Rose”
Yuji Kato, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan, “Readings on the Margin: Emily Dickinson’s
Posthumous Poetics and the English Romantics”
Martin Greenup, Harvard University, USA, “For Poets – I have Keats: Dickinson and Allusion”
- British Connections III: Dickinson and the Brontës (MC East)
Chair: James Guthrie, Wright State University, USA
Yanbin (Daphne) Kang, Chinese University of Hong Kong. “’Oriental heresies’: “Oriental Circuit’ and
Jane Eyre”
Gary Lee Stonum, Case Western Reserve University, USA, “Emily’s Heathcliff”
Nancy Mayer, Northwest Missouri State University, USA, “Passionate Reticence: Emily Dickinson
and Brontë’s Lucy Snow”
Session #2: 11:00-12:15
- Global Connections I: Dickinson in and out of Japan, Russia, and France (RAI 3)
Chair: Jonnie Guerra, Cabrini College (retired), USA
Hiroko Uno, Kobe College, Japan, “Emily Dickinson and Japan”
Ningkang Jiang, Nanjing University, PR China, “Birds, Nature, and Dao: A
Comparative Study of Dickinson's and Tao Qiang's Nature Poems”
Antoine Cazé, University of Paris 7, France, “’Paris could not lay the fold’: Dickinson’s Absence in
France?”
- Dickinson, Gender, and the Woman Writer (RAI 1)
Chair: Stephanie Tingley, Youngstown State University, USA
Mohamad Saad Rateb, Fayoum University, Egypt, “The Search for Female Identity in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Christina Rossetti”
Kelly Lynch, Independent Artist, USA “A Bright Capacity for Wings: Dickinson's
Metamorphosis as a Woman Poet”
Ursula Caci, University of Basel, Switzerland, “Locating Gender in Space: Emily
Dickinson's Conception of Gender”
- British Connections IV: Dickinson and Emily Brontë (MC East)
Chair: Marianne Noble, American University, USA
Aleksandra Vinogradskaya, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia, “The
Dialogue of Loneliness and Free Spirit in the American Poetry of Emily
Dickinson and the English Poetry of Emily Brontë”
Makhdooma Saadat, Babu Banarasi Das Group of Educational Institutes, India “Emily Dickinson and Emily Brontë: Renunciation and Discovery of the True Self”
Brad Ricca, Case Western Reserve University, USA, “'Some new equation given':
Emily Dickinson, Emily Brontë, and Deep Time”
12:15-1:15 LUNCH
1:15-2:45
Plenary Panel #1 (RAI3)
Chair: Cristanne Miller, University of Buffalo, USA
Domhnall Mitchell, University of Trondheim, Norway, "Aspects of Dickinson's
Reception in Norway"
Paraic Finnerty, Portsmouth University, UK, "'Dreamed of your meeting
Tennyson in Ticknor and Fields': A Transatlantic Encounter with England's Poet
Laureate"
Maria Stuart, University College Dublin, Ireland, “'Pursuing you in your
transitions': Dickinson in Ireland”
2:45-3:15
coffee, tea, and biscuits
Session #3: 3:15-4:30
- Dickinson, Nature, and God (RAI 1)
Chair: Jane Eberwein, Oakland University (Emerita), USA
Connie Ann Kirk, Writer, USA, “`Nature is what We know - But have no Art to
say -': Meadows and Moors as Creative Inspiration in Dickinson and the Brontës”
Li-hsin Hsu, University of Edinburgh, UK, “Asia, Animals, and Apocalypse: The
Narcotic Imagery in Emily Dickinson and Thomas De Quincey”
Richard Brantley, University of Florida, USA, “Dickinson's Empirical Voice: `. . .
almost as omniscient as God'”
- Dickinson and Class (RAI 3)
Chair: Suzanne Juhasz, University of Colorado (Emerita), USA
Aife Murray, Independent Scholar, USA, "'Peony noses, red as Sammie
Matthews': Literary Rituals of (Class) Recognition”
H. Jordan Landry, University of Wisconsin--Oshkosh, USA, “'Whip a Crown-
Imperial': Representing Class and Gender Revolts in Dickens and Dickinson”
Mary Loeffelholz, Northeastern University, USA, “Master Shakespeare, Mrs.
Browning, Miss Dickinson, and the Servants”
- Global Connections II: Dickinson in German and Polish Authors (MC East)
Chair: Antoine Cazé, University of Paris 7, France
Therese Kaiser, Aachen University, Germany, “Further Transatlantic
Connections: Paul Celan as a Translator of Emily Dickinson”
Gloria Coates, Independent Musician, USA, “A New Understanding of
Dickinson's Poetry as Revealed in the Writings of Novalis”
Adam Czerniawski, Independent Scholar, UK, "Was Emily Dickinson fluent in
Polish?"
Session #4: 4:45-6:00
- British Connections V: George Eliot Vol. I (RAI 1)
Chair: Emily Seelbinder, Queens University of Charlotte, USA
Barbara Mossberg, California State University, Monterey Bay, USA, “Through
the Transatlantic Lens: Emily Dickinson's Transatlantic Soul—A Reading of `On
his British S/sky' in `We Like March'”
Margaret Freeman, Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts, USA, “George
Eliot and Emily Dickinson: Poets of Play and Possibility”
Kristin Sanner, Mansfield University, USA, “`I am afraid to own a Body -':
Corporeal Independence in the Letters of Emily Dickinson and George Eliot”
- Manuscripts I: Dickinson's Manuscript Books (RAI 3)
Chair: Alexandra Socarides, University of Missouri, USA
Ellen Louise Hart, University of California at Santa Cruz (Emerita), USA, “`Speaking of Pippa Passes': Alliteration, Rhetorical Emphasis, Dickinson's
Visual Strategies of Manuscript, and Browning's Dramatic Verse”
Trisha Kannan, University of Florida, USA, “Emily Dickinson’s Thirtieth
Fascicle”
Kristen Kreider, University of London, UK, “Lyric Encounters: The Material
Poetics of Dickinson's Later Manuscript Pages”
- Traveling Feet: Dickinson's Meter and the Lyric (MC East)
Chair: Jed Deppman, Oberlin College, USA
Michael Manson, American University, USA, “Reading Dickinson's Lyrics”
Debra Fried, Cornell University, USA, “Dickinson's `Whips of Time'”
Cristanne Miller, University at Buffalo, SUNY USA, “The Ballad `Wild' and
Dickinson's Transatlantic Lyric Form”
6:30
Reception, Oriel College, sponsored by John Hopkins University Press
7:30
Banquet, Oriel College
8:30
Plenary Speaker, Lyndall Gordon, Oxford University, UK, “"The World
Within": Emily Dickinson and the Brontes”
Introduction by Sally Bayley, Balliol College of Oxford University, UK
August 7, Saturday
8:30-9:00
coffee, tea, and biscuits
9:00-10:15 (RAI 3)
Plenary Speaker, Paul Giles, Oxford University/University of Sydney, “Evolutionary Enigmas and Colonial Equations: Dickinson's Transoceanic
Geography”
Introduction by Paraic Finnerty, Portsmouth University, UK
10:30-12:00
Plenary Panel #2 (RAI 3)
Chair: Paul Crumbley, Utah State University, USA
Joan Kirkby, Macquarie University, Australia, “Darwinising with Emily Dickinson and Erasmus
Darwin”
Vivian Pollak, Washington University, USA, "Transatlantic Egos, Take 2: Sylvia Plath, Emily
Dickinson, and Ted Hughes."
Jed Deppman, Oberlin College, USA, "But, but . . . Emily Dickinson and Virginia Woolf?"
12:00-1:15 Catered LUNCH
Session #5: 1:15-2:30
- British Connections VII: George Eliot Vol. II. (RAI 1)
Chair: Margaret Freeman, Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts, USA
Emily Seelbinder, Queens University of Charlotte, USA, “Supposed (Male)
Persons: Narrative Cross-Dressing in Eliot and Dickinson”
Jane Eberwein, Oakland University (Emerita), USA, “'Dangerous fruit of the tree
of knowledge': Dickinson, Marian Evans, and Strauss's Das Leben Jesu”
Eleanor Heginbotham, Concordia University (Emerita), USA, “`Now, my George
Eliot': Emily Dickinson and `Glory'”
- Dickinson and the Arts I: Imagination's Muse: Emily Dickinson as Creative
Inspiration (RAI 3)
Chair: Georgiana Strickland, Independent Scholar, USA
Maryanne Garbowsky, County College of Morris, USA, “Will Barnet and Isabelle
Arsenault: Two Artists and Their Books”
Nicole Panizza, Royal College of Music, UK, “Titanic Operas: English Song
Settings of Emily Dickinson and Elizabeth Browning”
Suzie Hanna, Norwich University, UK, and Sally Bayley, Balliol College of
Oxford University, UK, "Emily Dickinson's Opposing Lands: Miniature Worlds
and Sovereign Territory."
- Manuscripts II: Dickinson in Pieces (MC East)
Chair: Geoffrey Schramm, National Cathedral School, USA
Martha Nell Smith, University of Maryland, USA, “Read Me: Poetry is `My
Sermon - My Hope - My solace - My Life': Dickinson in the Drawing Room”
Eliza Richards, University of North Carolina, USA, “'Acres of Joints'/'Acres of
Seams': Fragmentation and Reconstruction in Dickinson's Civil War Poems”
Alexandra Socarides, University of Missouri, USA, “Why We Resist
Understanding Dickinson's Late Fragments, as Fragmentary as that Understanding
May Be”
Marilee Lindemann, University of Maryland, USA, “How Public, Like a B(l)og:
Emily Dickinson and a Feminist Literary Pre-History of the Blogosphere”
Session #6: 2:45-4:00
Suzie Hanna film will run continuously 2:30-4:30, starting every 10 minutes (RAI 3)
- Sacrifice and Drama in Dickinson (RAI 1)
Chair: Eleanor Heginbotham, Concordia University (Emerita), USA
Paula Bennett, Southern Illinois University (Emerita), USA, "From Browning to
the American Civil War: Dickinson and the American Dramatic Monologue.”
Dan Manheim, Centre College, USA, "Dickinson and the Enigma of Gift and
Sacrifice"
Yupeng Lin, Hefei University of Technology, PR China, “Drama in Emily
Dickinson's Poems and Its Possible Causes”
- Dickinson and the Self (MC East)
Chair: Brad Ricca, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Cuihua Xu, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, PR China, “'As if a
Kingdom - cared': Emily Dickinson's Heroic Thinking on Self-Management”
Cynthia Hallen, Brigham Young University, USA, “'Britain Born': Emily
Dickinson's Orthogenetic Paternal and Maternal Lines”
Polly Longsworth, Independent Scholar, USA, and Dr. Norbert Hirschhorn, USA, “Was It Epilepsy?: Diagnosing Emily Dickinson's Health”
- Dickinson and the Arts II: Dickinson on Stage: A Roundtable Discussion (MC West)
Chair and Moderator: Jonnie Guerra, Cabrini College (retired), USA
Edie Campbell, LynchPin productions, UK
Tom Daley, Boston Center for Adult Education, USA
Barbara Dana, Independent Scholar and Artist, USA
Jim Fraser, Utah State University, USA
Jack Lynch, LynchPin productions, UK
Barbara Mossberg, California State University, Monterey Bay, USA
4:00-4:30 coffee, tea, and biscuits
Session #7: 4:30-5:45
- Archival Resources: “Over the fence - I could climb”: Primary Sources for Dickinson Scholarship (RAI 3)
Chair: Aife Murray, Independent Scholar and Artist, USA
Jane Wald, Executive Director, Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst, USA, “Emily Dickinson at Home”
Michael Kelly, Head of Archives and Special Collections, Frost Library, Amherst
College, USA, “Emily Dickinson and Amherst College”
Leslie A. Morris, Curator of Modern Books and Manuscripts, Houghton Library,
Harvard University, USA, “Emily Dickinson at Harvard”
- British Connections VIII Solitude and Suffering (MC East)
Chair: Cindy MacKenzie, University of Regina, Canada
Mita Bose, University of Delhi, India, “`Victorian New-England Sappho'- the
Imploding Genius of Emily Dickinson”
Shih-Yuan (Ann) Chou, National Chengchi University, Taiwan, “Dickinson's
Ordinary Subjectivity: The Case of `I started Early - Took my Dog -`”
Hyesook Son, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, “The Rhetoric of Suffering in
the Poetry of John Donne and Emily Dickinson”
- Dickinson in New England (MC West)
Chair: Michael Manson, American University, USA
Jean McClure Mudge, Independent Artist, USA, “Emily Dickinson's Idiosyncratic
Tie to Ralph Waldo Emerson”
Alexandra Manglis, Oxford University, UK, “Excavating Emily Dickinson and
Henry David Thoreau in the Works of Susan Howe”
Robin Peel, University of Plymouth, UK, “Burglar! Banker - Father!: Marx and
Massachusetts in the Age of Edward Dickinson, Whig”
6:30-7:30 Reception at Blackwell's Bookshop, 48-51 Broad Street
8:00-9:20
Edie Campbell, in Emily Dickinson & I: The Journey of a Portrayal Burton Taylor Studio
(Gloucester Street, around the corner from 11 Beaumont Street)
August 8, Sunday
8:30-9:00 coffee, tea, and biscuits
Session #9: 9:00-10:15
- British Connections IX: Dickinson's Imagination and Words (RAI 1)
Chair: Mary Loeffelholz, Northeastern University, USA
Karen Foster, Dickinson, North Dakota, USA, “'But cannot dance as well': The
Blood of Language in Select Emily Dickinson's Poems”
James Guthrie, Wright State University, USA, “Mean Girls with Knives:
Dickinson and Great Britain Have It Out”
Jorge Hernández Jiménez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma, Mexico, “`Signatures
of all things': Portrayals of the Interruption in Dickinson and Joyce”
- British Connections X: Romantic and Religious Visions (RAI 2)
Chair: Richard Brantley, University of Florida, USA
Linda Freedman, Selwyn College of Cambridge University, UK, “Dickinson's
`wonderful Blakean gift'”
Victoria N. Morgan, University of Liverpool, UK, “'I just wear my wings':
Reading Dickinson through Wattsian Dissent”
Alan Blackstock, Utah State University, USA, “Dickinson, Blake, and the
Hymnbooks of Hell”
- Dickinson, (Poetic) Identity, and Keats (RAI 3)
Chair: Martha Nell Smith, University of Maryland, USA
Marianne Noble, American University, USA, “The Presence of the Face:
Dickinson's Mirror Neurons”
Ryan Cull, New Mexico State University, USA, “Interrogating the `Egotistical
Sublime': The Continued Relevance of Dickinson's and Keats's Post-Romantic
Sublime”
Michelle Kohler, Tulane University, USA, “Dickinson, Keats, and the Disease of
Autumn”
Session #10: 10:30-11:45
- British Connections XI: Dickinson and the Brownings (RAI 1)
Chair: Michael Yetman, Purdue University (Emeritus), USA
JD Isip, California State University Fullerton, USA, “Emily Dickinson and Robert
Browning: A Shared History”
Courtney Stanton, Rutgers University, USA, “A Poet, Not a Poetess: Barrett
Browning's Impact on Dickinson's Poetic Self”
Vincent Dussol, University of Montpellier 3, France, “Dickinson's Distance from
Epic: Aurora Leigh and Barrett-Browning's Formulation of the Contemporary
Epic”
- Dickinson and the Question of Fame (RAI 2)
Chair: Elizabeth Petrino, Fairfield University, USA
Tom Mack, University of South Carolina-Aiken, USA, “Emily Dickinson and
Alice James: `How dreary to be somebody'”
Andrey Logutov, Moscow State University, Russia, “Emily Dickinson and Gerard
Manley Hopkins: The Making of One's Public”
Paul Crumbley, Utah Sate University, USA, “`Behold the Atom - I preferred -':
Emily Dickinson Reading Fame in Emily Brontë's `No coward soul is mine'”
- Dickinson's Ethics and Poetics (RAI 3)
Chair: Gary Lee Stonum, Case Western Reserve University, USA
Merve Sarikaya, Baskent University, Turkey, “The Loaded Gun and the Haunted
Chamber: Julia Kristeva's Theory of the Abject”
Shira Wolosky, Hebrew University, Israel, “Dickinson and Nietzsche: Poetics,
Ethics, and the World of Becoming”
Logan Esdale, Chapman University, USA, “Adornment Practice in Dickinson's
Studio”
12:00-1:30 Buffet lunch and annual Members Meeting (RAI 3)
ALL ARE WELCOME! This is a time to share ideas about the future of EDIS, discuss venues
and ideas for future conferences, and to hear about the activities of the Society
over the past year. Lunch will be available during the meeting for all who attend.
2:30
Edie Campbell, in Emily Dickinson & I: The Journey of a Portrayal Burton Taylor Studio,
Gloucester Street (around the corner from 11 Beaumont Street)
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