NAVSA/ACCUTE

 

For the third consecutive year, the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) conference will feature panels co-sponsored by NAVSA. For more details, see the 2006 NAVSA/ACCUTE page.

Marjorie Stone has organized two sets of sessions this year:

Nation and Migration in Nineteenth-Century Literature

Co-sponsored by NAVSA and NASSR, and co-organized with Julia Wright, two panels explore this topic:

Selected Panel Members (First Panel):

• Robert Lapp (Mount Allison University), "Galt's Bogle Corbet:  Biedermeier Emigré"
• Daniel Hannah (University of Leeds), "Transatlantic Passages:  Ships and Transnational Narratives in the Nineteenth Century"
• Jessica Howell (University of California, Davis), "Mrs. Seacole Prescribes Hybridity"

Selected Panel Members (Second Panel):

• Nancy Metz (Virginia Tech), "Martin Chuzzlewit 's  Emigrants: The Eden Subplot and its Sources"
• Elizabeth Galway (University of Lethbridge), "Where Only the Strong Survive:   Portrayals of the British Migrant in Canada in Nineteenth-Century Children's Fiction"
• Lucas Tromly (University of Manitoba), "Regional Nostalgia and Fin de Siècle Modernism: Oscar Wilde and the Postbellum South"

Elizabeth Barrett Browning in Literary History: A Bicentenary Session

Selected Panel Members:

• Michele Martinez (Harvard University), "Portraiture and Modernity in Barrett Browning's Aurora Leigh"
• Amy Criniti (Duquesne University), "'Study our manuscripts': The Influence of John Donne on Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Sonnets from the Portuguese"
• Karen Manarin (Mount Royal College), "The Brownings, Canon Formation, and the North American Literary Currriculum"

ACCUTE will be held at York University from May 27-30, 2006. The full program, which features several other panels of Victorian interest, is available here.