Anthologies: A Conference

Trinity College, Hartford CT

 

 

12-14 March, 2010

 Schedule of Events 
(subject to change)

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FRIDAY

8 to 11 a.m. Registration and Continental breakfast - Smith House
[Registration will continue Friday and Saturday 8-11]

9-10:30 Session 1

Panel 1: American Editor-Specific Anthologies - Reese Room, Smith House
Chair: Cindy Butos, Trinity College
Rennie Mapp, Independent Scholar. “Olive Beaupre Miller’s My Book House: The Alien and the Native in Text and Image”
Adam Gordon, UCLA. “Rufus Griswold and the Cultural Ambitions of the Antebellum Anthology”
Rob Velella, Independent Scholar. “Rufus Griswold: America’s Ambitious Anthologist”

11-12 Plenary Speaker - Reese Room, Smith House
Chair: Thora Brylowe, Trinity College
Michael Gamer, University of Pennsylvania. 
"Reprinting Repertory: Copyright and the Dramatic Corpus"

12-1 LUNCH [Bag lunch for registered participants] - Distributed at Smith House

1-2:30 Plenary Panel: Feminism, Women, and Gender - Reese Room, Smith House
Chair: Diana Paulin, Trinity College
Paula Bennett, University of Southern Illinois.
“Starting from Ground Zero: What To Do When Your ‘Field’ No Longer Exists”
Karen Kilcup, University of North Carolina Greensboro.  "Embodied Pedagogies and Community Value; or, What Do We Mean When We Say 'We'?"

[Coffee break] - Smith House

3-4:30 Session 2

Panel 2: Challenging the Form - Reese Room, Smith House
Chair:  Irene Papoulis, Trinity College
Becky Caouette, Rhode Island College. “Composition Anthologies and the Reification of Traditional Disciplinary Binaries”
Eric Goldman, University of Connecticut. “Theorizing Anthologies that Anthologize Theory: A Case Study of The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism”
Neely McLaughlin, University of Cincinnati. “Anthology Awareness: Teaching the Conflicts and Encouraging Resistance”

Panel 3: Anthology Reading Audiences - Room 106, 115 Vernon Street
Chair: Sarah Bilston, Trinity College
Thomas Long, University of Connecticut. “A Gathering of Leaves: 19th-Century Manuscript Anthologies”
Chris Koenig-Woodyard, University of Toronto. “Anthologizing and Teaching Transatlantic Literature”
Jackie Geller, Central Connecticut State University. “Jane Austen, Reading, and the Beauty Anthology”

4:45 Cocktail party - Faculty Club

6:15 pm Conference Dinner - Hamlin Hall

7:30 Keynote Address
Barbara Benedict, Trinity College
Introduction by Dean Rena Fraden, Trinity College

SATURDAY

8 to 9 a.m. Continental breakfast - Smith House

9-10 Plenary Speaker - Reese Room, Smith House
Chair: Paul Lauter, Trinity College
David Damrosch, Harvard University. 
"Literary Anthologies in a Post-literary Age"

10:30-12 Session 3

Panel 4: Classroom Collaboration: An Anthology in the Making - Reese Room, Smith House
Chair: Ann Fitzgerald, Trinity College
Shoshanna Ganz, Laurentian University
Madison Zinn, Laurentian University
Cara Durigon, Laurentian University
Olivia Holzapfel, Laurentian University

Panel 5: Website: Anthology Covers and Tables of Contents from 1929 Until Today - Room 106, 115 Vernon Street
Chair: Beverly Wall, Trinity College
Ken Roemer, UT, Arlington. “The Tales Tables (of Contents) Tell: Enhancing Internet Access to American Literature Canon Formation.” [with Bethany Shaffer and Lorie Jacobs.]
Lynn Z. Bloom, University of Connecticut.
  “The Essay Canon, An Anthologists’ Construct of National Significance

12-1 LUNCH [Tickets for registered participants] - Distributed at Smith House

1-2:30 Plenary Roundtable: Contemporary Poetry Anthologies - Reese Room, Smith House
Chair: Lucy Ferriss, Trinity College

Willis Barnstone, Indiana University
Nathalie Handal, Dickinson College          
Tina Chang, Sarah Lawrence College
Kevin Prufer, University of Central Missouri

2:45-3:45 p.m. Plenary Speaker - Reese Room, Smith House
Chair: David Rosen, Trinity College
Cary Nelson,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. “The Dream of a Common Language”

[Coffee break] - Smith House

4:15-5:45 Session 4

Panel 6: Historicizing National Origin - Room 106, 115 Vernon Street
Chair: Carol Drake, Trinity College
Michael Hancher, University of Minnesota. “College English in India: The First Textbook”
Bonnie Hughes, University of Ottawa. “The History of Frances Brooke’s Emily Montague in Anthologies of Canadian Literature”
Marcos Campillo-Fenoll, West Chester University of Pennsylvania. “The Economics of Poetry: Nation-Building and Literary Market in Nineteenth-Century Latin American Anthologies”

Panel 7: Canonicity and Pedagogy - Reese Room, Smith House
Chair: Ann Fitzgerald, Trinity College
Christopher Kuipers and Jean-Paul Konda Ntusi, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. “The Canon by Numbers: Quantifying Diversity in Contemporary American Literature Anthologies”
Joseph Lieberman, Eastern Michigan University. “Reading the Pedagogical Canon: A Genre-based Approach to Literary Anthologies”

Panel 8: Rethinking British Anthologies and Anthology Pieces - Room 103, 115 Vernon Street
Chair: Manu Chander, Trinity College
Danielle Koupf, University of Pittsburgh. “‘As Extensively and Generally Useful as It Could Possibly Be’: Compilation in the Early Encyclopaedia Britannica
Matteo A. Pangallo, University of Massachusetts. "'Fitted to that Season': Reconsidering Early Modern Drama Anthologies"
Christine Marie Woody, New York University. “Re-forming the English Opium-Eater: The Twentieth-Century Anthology”

DINNER ON YOUR OWN

SUNDAY

8 to 9 a.m. Continental breakfast - Smith House

9-10 Plenary Panel: Chinese Anthologies of American Literature - Reese Room, Smith House
Chair:  Dean Xiangming Chen, Trinity College
Joe Lockard, Arizona State University
Qin Dan, Sichuan University
Comment by Michael Lestz, Trinity College

[Coffee break] - Smith House

10:15-11:45 Plenary Roundtable: American Anthologies: Principles and Competition - Reese Room, Smith House
Chair: Chris Hager, Trinity College
Paul Lauter, General Editor, Heath Anthology of American Literature
Robert Levine, Associate General Editor, Norton Anthology of American Literature
Linck Johnson and Susan Belasco, Editors, Bedford Anthology of American Literature

12-1 LUNCH [Tickets for registered participants] - Distributed at Smith House

1:15 – 2:45 Plenary Session: Theorizing the Anthology and The Theory Anthology - Reese Room, Smith House
Chair: Thora Brylowe, Trinity College
Jillian Sandell, San Francisco State University. “The Anthology as Gesture”
Jeff Williams, Carnegie Mellon University.  "The Invention of Criticism"

3:00-4:15 Session 5

Panel 9: Exploring the 19th Century Literary Anthology: A Database-Driven Approach - Room 106, 115 Vernon Street
Chair: Thora Brylowe, Trinity College
Tom Mole, McGill University
Amy Fox, McGill University
Tara Murphy, University of Western Ontario

Panel 10: Early Twentieth-Century - Reese Room, Smith House
Chair: Manu Chander, Trinity College
David Ben-Merre, Buffalo State College. “‘Strange spars of knowledge and dimmed wares of price’: Ezra Pound and the Literary Anthology”
Shawn Anthony Christian, Wheaton College. “Beyond the New Negro: (Re)Reading Harlem Renaissance Literary Anthologies”
N.C. Christopher Couch, University of Massachusetts and Trinity College. "The Only Book on the Newsstand: Comics as Anthologies"

 

 

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