Talks Overview

A survey of recent scholar Brontë-related talks: SEXUAL POLITICS: A Truman Conference in honor of Women’s History Month Truman State University March 22-23-24, 2007

Leia Wilson, “Naked: Masculine models in Shelley, Bronte, and Dickens”
Amanda Junkel, “Oh John!: A historical gendered look at the ‘Johns’ in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Villette”

2007 British Women Writers Conference - University of Kentucky April 12-15

Panel: Revolt and Rebellion: Identity Politics in Brontë, Braddon, and Radcliffe
• Michael D. Lewis, University of Virginia. 'As this is an English book': British and French National Identities in Brontë's Shirley
• Kate Lawson, University of Waterloo and Lynn Shakinovsky, Wilfrid Laurier University. Fantasies of National Identification in Villette
Cathy Blackwell, St. Edward’s University. Metaphorical Corsets: Feminist Narrative Strategies of Radcliffe, Brontë, and Braddon

Panel: Narrative Strategies: Transgression and Agency in Brontë
• Rajani Iyer, Independent. Opening Villette to Its Ending: Tennysonian Authority
• Carla E. Coleman, University of South Carolina-Aiken. Suppression, Rebellion and Authorial Power: Performance and Narration in Charlotte Brontë's Villette
Anne Longmuir, Kansas State University. From Her Master's Voice to Her Own Words: Authorizing the Feminine Subject in Charlotte Brontë's The Professor and Villette

Panel: The Brontë Sisters and the Power of Vision
• Elizabeth Meadows, Vanderbilt University. Visionary Power and Authority in Jane Eyre
• Angela Spentzaki Silva, Community College of Southern Nevada. Extracting Wholesome Medicines from Emily Bronte's Bitter Herbs of Boredom
• Tara MacDonald, McGill University. Deviant Men and the Challenges of Moral Reform in Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and Amelia

Other Panels:
Linda H. Peterson, Yale University. Gaskell, Brontë, and Martineau: The 'Northern Sorority' in The Life of Charlotte Brontë
Louise Penner, University of Massachusetts. Sensational Absences: Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Romantic and Victorian Sciences of the Mind
Salome C. Nnoromele, Eastern Kentucky University. Imperialism, Race, and Domesticity in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Maria Edgeworth's Belinda
Deborah Denenholz Morse, College of William and Mary. Burning Art: Revolutionary Female Authority and Abolitionist Discourse in Anne Brontë's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Pennsylvania College English Association: Paths to Freedom 2007 Annual Conference April 14

Seen but Not Heard: The Lives of Victorian Children in Bronte’s Jane Eyre and Dickens’ Great Expectations”, Caryn Culp (Marywood University)

AUETSA Conference 2007 University of Kwazulu-Natal, Urban, South Africa July 10

Representation of The 'Other' in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre, I. Shihada

Spring 2007 UNM Undergraduate Research and Creativity Conference University of New Mexico

Jameela Dallis “The Visionary Spirit in Emily Bronte’s ‘No Coward Soul is Mine’ and the Bhagavad Gita”

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