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CFP: NeMLA2019: Transnational Spaces of the Americas

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Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2018

Full name/name of organization: Tina Powell, Concord University
Contact email:
tpowell@concord.edu

Transnational Spaces of the Americas

Abstract

Writing on the formation of Vietnamese refugee space in Orange County, CA, sociologist Karen Aguilar-San Juan emphasizes the importance of place — “The platial aspects of community involve its location, its physical or ‘built’ form, and the narratives or identities that surround and generate place itself” – in examining the complex negotiations immigrants make upon resettlement.  As people migrate, they face the need to create a stable space within a disconcertingly unfamiliar environment. This experience of creating new spaces opens opportunities for positive transcultural connections, but can also facilitate the disciplining of the migrant body.  This panel will focus on the movement of bodies in transnational communities and the formation of domestic spaces that provide respite from migratory paths, negotiate transnational relationships, or establish a new home.  In doing so, this panel seeks to explore literary texts that question, challenge, and deepen our understanding of the experience of migration through their use of space and place.

 

Description

 

We are looking for papers that explore communal and domestic spaces in the Americas or for Americans abroad and explore how those spaces are used to negotiate, create, or revise transnational flows of people.  This panel – which is open to scholars working within or across different national literary traditions – seeks to examine the myriad ways that transnational space and its ties to the Americas are constructed in literature.

 

The panel is open to papers on literature from non-English texts but those texts must be grounded in the flow of people within, between, or to and from the Americas.

 

Broad topics for consideration include, but are not limited to:

 

  • Negotiation of space in travel literature
  • Construction of “home” by refugees in host country, refugee camps, or on return to homeland
  • Multigenerational stories of migration
  • Communal and domestic spaces in borderlands
  • Multilinguistic texts and creation of a liminal narrative
  • Movement of transnational bodies through national space

 

 

Please submit abstracts of 300-500 words to the NEMLA website by 9/30/2018.  You do not need to be a member of NEMLA to submit an abstract, but you will need to become a member if accepted to the panel:

 

http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention/callforpapers/submit.html

 

Contact Tina Powell (tpowell@concord.edu) with any questions.

CFP: Metaphoric Stammers and Embodied Speakers: Expanding the Borders of Dysfluency Studies

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Metaphoric Stammers and Embodied Speakers: Expanding the Borders of Dysfluency Studies

Humanities Institute

University College Dublin

12 October, 2018

 

Keynote speaker: Chris Eagle, Emory University, Centre for the Study of Human Health (Dysfluencies: On Speech Disorders in Modern Literature, 2014; Talking Normal: Literature, Speech Disorders, and Disability, ed. 2013)

 

The conference will explore the embodied experience and cultural construction of stammering from the collaborative perspectives of literary/cultural analysis, speech therapy and neurological research. The aim of the conference is to develop an interface between literary, cultural and clinical practice in the area of speech ‘disorders’, generating new forms of communication and exchange across these fields.

Despite the centrality of literary/cultural studies to the emergence of Dysfluency Studies (Marc Shell, Stutter 2005; Chris Eagle Dysfluencies 2014), the 2017 Oxford Dysfluency Conference had no humanities-based papers. This conference addresses this imbalance, bringing cultural analysis into genuine exchange with scientific and therapeutic practice, and necessarily negotiating the tension between a medically-inflected model of ‘recovery’ and an emergent challenge to cultural constructions of ‘normal’ speech. Dysfluency is explored less as a ‘disorder’ to be treated, than a form of communication that highlights the intricate relationship between speaking and being heard, vocal agency and cultural reception.

Literary culture has provided a rich and complex store of information about how stammering has been represented and interpreted at different historical junctures, within diverse cultural contexts and in relation to the variables of gender, class and ethnicity. The stammer has also been harnessed as a metaphor for how literary language works, how it operates at the limits of its expressive resources, occupying a territory that circles the paradoxical power of the ineffable. Recent work in the humanities, however, has signalled the need to balance such metaphorical readings with a sense of the corporeal experience of dysfluency, what Jay Dolmage has called ‘the embodied struggle for expression’ (Disability Rhetoric 2014). This renewed focus on embodiment invites diverse, interdisciplinary approaches that serve to accentuate the embodied experience of stammering in its neurological, therapeutic and cultural forms.

This conference is generously supported by the Humanities Institute, UCD College of Arts and Humanities, and UCD Seed Funding Scheme.

 

Proposals are welcomed for twenty-minute papers in (but not limited to) the following areas:

Normative Speech and Varieties of Expression: cultural constructions of ‘normal’ speech and the representation of ‘counter voices’ of dysfluency.

Rethinking ‘Recovery’: innovations in therapeutic practice (e.g., Narrative Therapy, Non-Avoidance Therapy, Covert/Interiorised Stammering Therapy).

Mapping the Brain: neurological perspectives, auditory feedback, and ‘circuits’ of communication.

Gender and Dysfluency: gendered experience and its reception/representation.

 

Guide for submissions:

All submissions should include name and email address, a 250-word abstract, a short biography (with academic/professional affiliation, if applicable). Proposals for individual papers or panels of 3 papers are welcomed. Panels that include presenters with a range of affiliations, career experiences and disciplinary homes are encouraged.

All proposals should be submitted as Word document.

Deadline for submissions: Thursday 12 July 2018.

Organiser: Dr Maria Stuart, School of English, Drama, Film and Creative Writing, UCD.

For submission of proposals and general enquiries, please contact: maria.stuart@ucd.ie.

Lecturer/Assistant Lecturer

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Lecturer/Assistant Lecturer

Maynooth University, National University of Ireland Maynooth – Department of English

Ollscoil Mhá Nuad

The Maynooth University (National University of Ireland Maynooth) is the fastest growing university in Ireland with approximately 10,000 students and outstanding research and scholarship in the sciences, humanities and social sciences. The university is now entering a new and exciting phase of its development, with a new strategic plan centred on further enhancing our academic programmes, providing a distinctive student experience of the highest quality, focusing our research activities on a small number of priority themes, and further internationalising the university. To support this development, the university is seeking to recruit outstanding academics, with a strong track record of research and teaching, to the following position:

Department of English
Lecturer/Assistant Lecturer
(One Year Contract)

The Department of English has sixteen full-time members of staff and offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, based on its research strengths in British, Irish and other modern literatures in a vibrant learning environment. The study of Anglophone literatures across the early modern and modern period has long been at the forefront of the mission of the Department of English and these areas of teaching and research are constantly in strong demand from students at all levels. The Department offers BA programmes in English and Anglophone literatures and a new taught MA programme in Literatures of Engagement.

The Role

Maynooth University is committed to a strategy in which the primary University goals of excellent research and scholarship and outstanding education are interlinked and equally valued.

We are seeking an excellent academic to join our staff as a Lecturer/Assistant Lecturer in English. The person appointed will have a proven record of teaching, research and publication, appropriate to career stage. He/she will be expected to make a strong contribution to the teaching programme of the Department and undertake teaching duties on the Department’s undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Candidates should have a specialism in Irish Writing of the Twentieth- and/or Twenty-First Centuries, with an ability to teach across a broad range of the undergraduate curriculum.

The appointee will be expected to have a strong research profile that supports the University’s research strategy, including affiliating to the Research Institutes, and where appropriate and working with colleagues on national and international research. The appointee will be expected to sustain and conduct research, engage in scholarship of quality and substance and generate publications of international standard.

For further details including full comprehensive job description please see the Maynooth University vacancies page at: https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/human-resources/vacancies

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LSE Fellow (International History of Latin America)

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LSE Fellow (International History of Latin America)

London School of Economics and Political Science – International History

The Department of International History at the LSE invites applications for an LSE Fellow in the International History of Latin America, for the next academic session to commence in September 2018.

The successful candidate will contribute to the scholarship and intellectual life of the School by conducting teaching and research which will enhance the School’s reputation as a research-led teaching institution, with appropriate mentoring from department. They will be expected to participate in teaching at both undergraduate and masters’ level for up to a maximum of eight classroom contact hours per week; will have time to undertake research and will be expected to participate in the administrative and social activities of the Department.

The successful candidate for the 2018-2019 session will have completed or be close to completing a PhD in History by the post start date; Research interests in Latin America or US-Latin American Relations; A very good knowledge of twentieth century Latin American history and inter-American affairs; Excellent communication and presentation skills and the ability to work in close partnership with fellow teachers, including on a one-on-one basis and in small groups, and to provide effective support, as necessary. The ability to teach the Department’s Undergraduate course on Latin America and the United States since 1898 and its MSc course on The Cold War in Latin America is essential. Relevant teaching experience is also essential.

We offer an occupational pension scheme, generous annual leave and excellent training and development opportunities.

For further information about the post, please see the how to apply document, job description and the person specification.

If you have any technical queries with applying on the online system, please use the “contact us” links at the bottom of the LSE Jobs page. Should you have any queries about the role, please email Professor Piers Ludlow at n.p.ludlow@lse.ac.uk

The closing date for receipt of applications is 6th June 2018 (23.59 UK time). Regrettably, we are unable to accept any late applications.

Unfortunately this role will not meet the Resident Labour Market Test required by the UKVI in order for the School to be eligible to apply to sponsor candidates who do not currently have the right to work in the UK or who are currently working under Tier 2 of the UKVI Points Based System.

An LSE Fellowship is intended to be an entry route to an academic career and is deemed by the School to be a career development position.  As such, applicants who have already been employed as a LSE Fellow for three years in total are not eligible to apply. If you have any queries about this please contact the HR Division.

LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university

Apply.

Assistant Professor in English (Creative Writing)

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Assistant Professor in English (Creative Writing)

Dublin City University

Three year Fixed Term Contract

Introduction:

Dublin City University (www.dcu.ie) is a research-intensive, globally-engaged, dynamic institution that is distinguished by both the quality and impact of its graduates and its focus on the translation of knowledge into societal and economic benefit. Excellence in its education and research activities has led to its consistent position in the rankings of the world’s top young universities.

The School of English in Dublin City University is a research active and vibrant School with specialist knowledge in the areas of Irish Studies, Theatre Studies, Poetry, Critical Theory, Children’s Literature, and the long Nineteenth Century. We are seeking to consolidate and expand our Creative Writing modules at both undergraduate and postgraduate level by recruiting an Assistant Professor (Lecturer) -above bar- from 1 September 2018. We are open to all suitable applications from Creative Writers in fiction with an international reputation in the arts and experience in teaching at University Level. Possessing the ability to teach modules beyond Creative Writing would be an advantage.

DCU has a strong track record in attracting both Irish and European Union research funding under Horizon 2020, Marie Curie Actions and Erasmus.  We offer a dynamic, internationally-focused environment in which to advance your academic career.

The School of English:

The School of English is involved in three undergraduate programmes, three taught postgraduate programmes including a new Creative Writing Masters programme and a PhD programme. The successful candidate will be expected to play a role in the development and delivery of the School’s taught programmes and in the identification and delivery of new programmes in their specialist area.

The School is committed to high quality research and publications and supports its staff in such work.

Skills and Experience:

Applicants for the position must hold an honours degree, should be qualified to a post-graduate level. Applicants must have experience of teaching at University Level. The successful candidate will have an excellent international publication record and profile within the arts. Ideally they should have at least two years higher-level teaching experience. The successful candidate should be capable of working in a team and of providing leadership in developing teaching within the School. Specialist academic knowledge in American literature and fiction would be an advantage.

Informal Enquiries to:

Dr. Derek Hand, Head of School of English

E-mail: derek.hand@dcu.ie; Tel. +353 1 700 6099

Please do not send applications to this email address, instead apply as described below.

Further information:

More information on the School, including areas of research expertise and details of taught programmes, may be found at:

http://www.dcu.ie/English  

Further information on the above position, including the job description and application procedure, is available from www.dcu.ie/vacancies/current.shtml

Salary Scales:

Lecturer below bar:  €37,352 – €51,724

Lecturer above bar:  €50,159 – €76,891*

* Appointment will be commensurate with qualifications and experience, and will be made on the appropriate point of the salary scale in line with current Government pay policy.

Closing date: 18th June 2018

Dublin City University is an equal opportunities employer

Apply.

CFP: INCREDIBLE: LYING, CREDIBILITY, AND THE TRUTH IN HISTORICAL RESEARCH

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INCREDIBLE: LYING, CREDIBILITY, AND THE TRUTH IN HISTORICAL RESEARCH

Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford.

27 September 2018

Recent interest in fake news has spurred a host of scholarly discussions on the history of propaganda, the media, and falsehoods. Yet historians have seldom asked themselves how to cope with lying in the historical record. Not all voices are trusted equally: census reports have always generated more trust than a child’s diary while feminist historians of rape have tended to invert the he-said/she-said dynamic and trusted victims over perpetrators. Age, gender, race, and class have all affected which voices appear credible or incredible. How do historians know when our sources are lying, and how do we use sources when we know that they lie? What is lying, are there different types of lying, and do historians have to adapt their methods to each case. How are lies told, who are they told to, and why are they told?

This conference will draw together a range of historians to ask how the problem of lying affects or should affect historical research.

The Rothermere American Institute invites applicants for papers and panels which explore the theme of lying and historical research from any historical perspective. The one-day conference invites a broad range of speakers to reflect on the methodological problems posed by credibility and incredibility. We welcome papers on a broad range of topics including, but not limited to:

– Falsehoods and fake news

– Credible and incredible historical voices

– Age, gender, race and credibility

– Trust as a historical method

– Tricksters and exaggerations

– Memory, forgetfulness, and lying

– Trust and anonymisation

Please email paper and panel proposals to the conference organisers at oenone.kubie@history.ox.ac.uk

Proposals for individual 20-minute papers should include a 300-word abstract and a 2 page academic CV. Panel submissions should include a one-paragraph overview in addition to individual paper proposals and CVs. The deadline for submission is July 15th 2018.

CFP: In Search of Global Impact of Asian Aesthetics on American Art and Material Culture.

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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS

International Graduate Students Workshop
Date: October 11-12, 2018
The University of Delaware and Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library

With the generous support of the Terra Foundation for American Art, the University of Delaware’s Department of Art History and the Winterthur Program of American Material Culture will host a two-day International Graduate Student workshop on October 11 and 12, 2018. This workshop is part of a series of events in October 2018 to launch the project “In Search of Global Impact of Asian Aesthetics on American Art and Material Culture.”

We invite graduate students from a variety of fields, from all regions of the world, to submit a short abstract of a dissertation in progress or a project that: 1) redefines the canon of art history, with a focus on the multidirectional impact of Asian aesthetics on American art and material culture, and/or 2) proposes new interpretations of the transcultural and transhistorical flow of aesthetics that not only redefine the geocultural boundaries of Asia and North America, but also rethink methodological formations of aesthetic emergence.

We strongly encourage proposals that consider the flow of global aesthetics beyond the circulation of objects, as well as those that examine “Asia” and “North America” as discursive structures or cultural constructs in connection with other world regions such as Africa, Europe, South America, among others. In sum: How do design ideas, patterns, and aesthetics travel across the globe, even when objects do not?

To apply, send a short abstract written in English (300-500 words) and a 2-page CV to global-aesthetics@udel.edu by June 8, 2018.

Applicants will be notified of decisions by July 8, 2018. Successful applicants will be invited to submit a dissertation chapter or excerpt, or paper, (9000-10000 words), to be pre-circulated and read before the workshop.

Applicants will be notified of decisions by July 8, 2018. Successful applicants will be invited to submit a dissertation chapter or excerpt, or paper, (9000-10000 words), to be pre-circulated and read before the workshop. Official respondents are: Partha Mitter (Sussex, emeritus), Dorothy Ko (Barnard/Columbia), Lee Glazer (Freer/Sackler Galleries), Marco Musillo (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz), with the Terra Foundation’s guest critics: Zhang Gan and Chen Anying (Academy of Arts and Design, Tsinghua, Beijing), in addition to the faculty workshop advisors from the Department of Art History and the Winterthur Program of the University of Delaware.

Lodging and meals are provided for invited participants throughout the workshop. Applicants seeking travel support should include in the application a letter demonstrating the need and a budget plan.

For further information, please see https://sites.udel.edu/globalaestheticasiaamerica/cfp/. More information on the larger conference, which includes the Graduate Students’ Workshop, can be found at http://sites.udel.edu/globalaestheticasiaamerica/.

In addition to the Terra Foundation, we thank the following organizations for their support: The University of Delaware’s Office of Graduate and Professional Education and the Center for Material Culture Studies, with grants from the Unidel Foundation, and National Endowment for the Humanities.

CFP: AISNA GRADUATE FORUM 2018

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AISNA GRADUATE FORUM 2018

1st AISNA Graduate Forum Conference

September 28, 2018

Centro Studi Americani

Roma, Italy

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Jeffrey C. Stewart 

UC Santa Barbara

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Rethinking 1968 and the Global Sixties

 

2018 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the protests of 1968, the moment in which several grassroots movements converged in their fights against social injustices and discrimination of race, class, gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. From the civil rights movement to the anti-Vietnam War movement, the women’s movement and the environmental movement, the events of the Global Sixties were the culmination of a broad wave of activism that continued into the mid 1970s and beyond. This period was also paramount in reshaping the role of “hyphenated Americans.” Notions of citizenship were expanded and democratic principles and practices re-envisioned, pushed in new directions.

In situating 1968 in this broad timespan, the first AISNA Graduate Forum Conference aims at investigating the origins, the evolution, the dynamics and legacies of 1960s protest movements. Which kind of connection do current movements for social and civil rights such as Black Lives Matter or the Women’s March have with those of 1968? Which traces did the sixties counterculture leave in the music, media and film production of the following years?

AISNA Graduate Forum invites graduate students and early career researchers to send abstracts that investigate the origins and history of 1968 in every aspect of American culture, literature and history.We are also interested in rethinking the legacy of this period to reframe the debate about American racist and far right demonstrations and their influence on past and present American narratives and politics. The questions below are reflective of the theme and scope of the conference, but topics beyond these questions are welcome.

  • The opening up of American literary canon after 1960s social protests;
  • Post-Civil Rights African American literature; legacies and criticism of the Black Arts Movement (BAM);
  • The impact of the protests of 1968 on postcolonial critique;the influence of 1968 on the Occupy movement, Black Lives Matter, or other recent radical or leftist movements;
  • The impact and legacy of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and the Chicano movement;
  • Feminist and womanist discourse after 1968;
  • 1960s in literature, film, music and the visual arts and media and pop culture portrayals of 1960s and mass protest;
  • The impact of 1960s alternative media on mainstream publishing and the impact of 1960s political activism on institutions;
  • The impact of 1968 in labour movement’s historiography and historical changes in historiographic representation of 1960’s social movements;
  • Movements of decolonization and national liberation and the new social movements (feminism, LGBTQ,…);
  • The environmental discourse and environmental justice;the transnational connections and interplays between progressive protests in a global context.

 

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We encourage interdisciplinary approaches, and we welcome pre-formed panels and roundtables alongside traditional papers.

 

PROPOSALS SHOULD INCLUDE:

  • 300-word abstracts for individual presentations;
  • 700-word abstracts for entire sessions (panels, roundtables)
  • Each speaker’s bio (300 words max).

 

PLEASE SEND ALL SUBMISSIONS TO: events@aisna-graduates.online

DEADLINE: July 15, 2018

 

TRAVEL GRANTS

Thanks to the generous support of the U.S. Embassy in Rome, AISNA is able to offer 10 grants (100 € each) to support travel and accommodation expenses for graduate and early career AISNA members. Priority will be given to participants according to the distance traveled to reach the conference venue. For information on how to become a member of AISNA, visit: https://aisna-graduates.online/become-a-member/

 

CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS:

aisna-graduates.online

www.facebook.com/AISNAGraduates/

We look forward to receiving your proposals and seeing you in Rome!

Report: Gaby Fletcher, recipient of an EBAAS Conference Bursary

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EBAAS 2018 was a hugely anticipated event for scholars of Americana. With events at Kings College London, the British Library, and University College London, the 2018 conference had four action packed days of round tables, panel talks, networking lunches, receptions drinks, and even a theatre show. EBAAS is the largest opportunity in Europe this year to listen to cutting edge research specific to your own interests and engage with scholarship in the wider field. It also provided the space and time to meet other scholars and enjoy the facilities of the host institution’s city. It was, therefore, a great pleasure to receive an IAAS Bursary towards my attendance at the conference and it gave a welcome boost of confidence before setting off to the busy capital.

I am originally from the UK but I still get a shock of surprise and awe when standing before the bustling bridges spanning the Thames River. King’s College London was the central site for much of EBAAS. The venue was perfectly situated for visiting scholars, with easy transport routes and accommodation. With a brief walk, attendees could enjoy the river promenade that leads straight to the Tate Modern, the Globe Theatre, and the Borough Market. At the University the friendly registration crew were quickly on hand to provide all the paraphernalia of the day, including lanyards, tote-bags, and EBAAS refillable drinks bottles. They were also very good at giving directions. The Eccles Centre had provided a printed copy of Gary Gerstle’s plenary lecture, given at EAAS in 2016, as an added bonus. A conference App, including times and details of talks, provided an easy paper-free programme that allowed a personal timetable selection across the day.

With up to twelve consecutive panels on at a single time, EBAAS offered a little something for everyone. The sign of a good panel is one which sticks in the mind and for me this was ‘A Woman’s Place is in the Resistance’, with three postgraduate speakers – Maria Elena Carpintero Torres-Quevedo, Niki Holzapfel, and Vicki Madden. Their papers traversed the topics of recovery narratives, women’s newspaper writing, and multiple personality disorder in fiction, with interesting discussion in the question and answers section that looked at the intersections of their work. Nicola Holzapfel’s paper on stunt journalist Nellie Bly is of interest in my own research and gave insightful consideration of how Bly’s self-mythologizing disrupted the burden of predefined female identity. The plenary talk, ‘As Seen From Above: American Poetry in the Jet Age’, by Professor Jo Gill was excellent. She offered an engaging, easily accessible, and new reading of poetry by John Updike, Georgia O’Keefe and Carl Sandburg, among others. In the subsequent reception drinks at the British Library, a number of people commented on Gill’s talk and we were all equally enthralled by Updike’s poetry which many, myself included, were unaware of.

The roundtable I participated in considered Wharton’s under-studied 1907 novel and was entitled ‘Edith Wharton’s Protest Novel? Rethinking The Fruit of the Tree’. The book deals with issues of industrial reform, euthanasia, and the social identities of the New Woman and New Workingman. The work has received a mixed reception among reviewers and scholars. It was a pleasure to be asked by fellow postgraduate Anna Girling to be part of the roundtable. We met ‘digitally’ after both appearing on Episode 3 of the Modernist Podcast early in 2017. The panel brought together the eminent Wharton scholars Dr Donna Campbell, Dr Laura Rattray and Dr Stephanie Palmer, and panel chair Dr Michael Collins. The ten minute papers each posed interesting questions about Wharton’s negotiation of industrial reform and her incorporation of contemporary social debates. Dr Campbell looked at the comparative intertextual sources between Wharton and Jack London’s Iron Heel, and Dr Palmer considered gender identities and the industrial novel. Dr Rattray talked about Wharton’s recently discovered 1901 play ‘The Shadow of a Doubt’ and how Wharton repurposed the storyline of euthanasia in her later novel. Anna Girling looked at forms of cultural inheritance and wealth in the novel, and my own paper traced contemporary sources that provoke a form of gendered social reading. After the papers, there was a lively discussion of the novel with audience members during which the subjects of melodrama, literary heritage, and the progress of Wharton as a writer were examined. The roundtable was an ideal format to debate a novel which remains perplexing and unwieldy. The ability to talk alongside and discuss Wharton with such engaging and knowledgeable scholars has been invaluable. My thanks and appreciation goes to IAAS for their financial support in this wonderful opportunity.

 

– Gaby Fletcher is a PhD candidate at NUI Galway