NAVSA Panels at ACCUTE

Click on the names/titles below to see paper abstracts and bios;
these will appear in the right-hand frame.

ACCUTE (Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English)
occurs from May 29 to June 1, 2004 in Winnipeg, Canada

DISINTERESTEDNESS

Jason Camlot (Concordia U), Panel Organizer

1) Tabitha Sparks (McGill University),
"The 'Exemplary Individual' vs. the Social Mass:
A Pragmatic Study of the Social Problem Novel"

2) Mary Elizabeth Leighton (University of Victoria),
"Professing Disinterestedness:
Popular Literary Critics and the Late-Victorian Academic Marketplace"

3) Rob Breton (University of British Columbia),
"Working-Class Disinterestedness and the Interests of the Nonworking Class"

4) Wai Ying Lee (University of Toronto),
"'But you must think of me as a saint':
Feminine Disinterestedness in "Female Ministry" and George Eliot's Adam Bede"

VICTORIAN NOVELTIES

Jason Camlot (Concordia U), Panel Organizer

1) Christopher Keep (University of Western Ontario),
"'These Delightful Records':
Indexicality and Identity in The Importance of Being Earnest"

2) Sean C. Grass (Texas Tech University),
"Making Progress:
Forward Motion, Stultification, and Narrative Innovation in Bleak House"

3) Lynn Alexander (University of Tennessee at Martin),
"The New Man:
Craik's John Halifax, Gentleman"

4) Miranda Campbell (Concordia University),
"'Awfully Commercial, Women Nowadays':
Consuming the New Woman in Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan"