10:30-12:00
Conference Panels I

Session I: Performative Artifice
Terrace Room #426
Moderator: Blair Hoxby

Stephanie Bahr (Berkeley): Textual Proliferation, Interpretation, and Sexual Violence in Books I and II of Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene - abstract

Rebecca Munson (Berkeley): ‘Nothing if not Critical’: Composition and Credit in Othello - abstract and bio

Catherine Cronquist Browning (Berkeley): ‘A carefully conned lesson’: Schoolroom Theatrics in the Victorian Female Bildungsroman - abstract and bio

Session II: Writing National Identities
Linguistics Room #126
Moderator: Roland Greene

Dori Aspuru-Takata (Berkeley): ‘Incorporate Conclusion’: Deception and Embodiment in Othello - abstract and bio

Rosa Martinez (Berkeley): Trapped in the Imagination of our European Colonizers: From Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca to Gaspar Perez de Villagra to Captain John Smith - abstract and bio

Long Le-Khac (Stanford): Minor Specters: Inter-Vocality, Minor Characters, and Transnational Ethics in Asian-American Short Story Cycles - abstract

Session III: Aesthetic Sociality
Classroom #334
Moderator: Alex Woloch

Lynn Huang (Berkeley): Imagined Sociality: Robinson Crusoe’s Survival Strategy - abstract

Dan Clinton (Berkeley): Incestuous Aesthetics, or the Sister Arts in Pierre - abstract

2:15-3:45
Conference Panels II

Session I: Crime and Punishment
English Meeting Room #429
Moderator: Emily Thornbury

Benjamin A. Saltzman (Berkeley): Seized Secret: The Silence of the Stolen Slave in Ine’s 53rd Law - abstract and bio

Ruth Baldwin (Berkeley): Scott’s Extratextual Outlaws - abstract

Shannon Chamberlain (Berkeley): The Documents in the Case: Framing Devices and Early English Detective Novels - abstract

Session II: The Lyric Voice and Authenticity
Terrace Room #426
Moderator: Michelle Karnes

Michael Bigley (Berkeley): ‘This laughable dissipation of the voice is called religion’: Musical Performance and Religious Discourse in The Canterbury Tales - abstract

Bridget Whearty (Stanford): Singing As Women Do: Skelton, Gascoigne, and the Question of Lullaby - abstract

Meredith Walker (Stanford): Poetic Artifice in the Nineteenth Century - abstract

Session III: Imaginative Humor
Classroom #334
Moderator: Mark Goble

Charity Ketz (Berkeley): ‘That Which Changeth Nought’: Passing a Joke and Getting Blocked by Character in Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde - abstract

Kenneth Ligda (Stanford): ‘Apropos of Saturation Bombing’: Humor in George Orwell’s Animal Farm - abstract

Manya Lempert (Berkeley): Beckett's First Persons - abstract

Session IV: Eighteenth-Century Fictions
Linguistics Room #126
Moderator: Jonathan Kramnick

Natalie Phillips (Stanford): Unreliable Minds: Distraction and Focalization in 18th-Century Fiction - abstract

Batya Ungar-Sargon (Berkeley): The Ontological Materialism and the Novel - abstract

James Wood (Stanford): Locke’s Anecdotes - abstract