Recent Talks

Recent Brontë talks in conferences:

CCTE 2013 Program Schedule
February 21-23, 2013
Abilene Christian University

The Self-made Family in Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor, Karen Dodwell, University of Texas at San Antonio

The 20th-Anniversary 18th- and 19th-century British Women Writers Conference
June 7-10, 2012
Boulder, Colorado
Kimberley Kaczorowski (U of Utah), “‘Roughly Roused and Obliged to Live’: Self and Land in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette”

Nathalia King (Reed College), “Charlotte Brontë as Cultural Historian: is the Woman in the White Dress Marching down that Country Lane Loyalist or Radical?”

Shannon Sears (Michigan State U), “Lucy Snowe’s Inner Architecture: Head and Heart in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette”

Martin Fashbaugh (Black Hills State U), “Covering Wide Swaths of Land in the Classroom: A Socratic Seminar on the Topic of Land and Identity in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights”

April Toadvine (St. Joseph’s College), “Writing the Wiki: Student Writing and the Brontës”

David Sigler (U of Idaho), “Landmarks of England and the Echoes of Romanticism in Charlotte Brontë’s The Professor”

Yvette Mylett (Loyola Marymount U), “‘Freshness of colouring and freedom of handling’: Helen Graham’s Artistry as a Defiance of Kitsch Victorian Culture in Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”

Victorian Mixed Media
Victorians Institute Conference 2012
October 2012

Micah Hussey, CUNY Graduate Center: “Picture Me: Aesthetics, Fantasy, and Authorship in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë”

Judith Pike, Salisbury University: “Floral Media: Victorian Floriography, Botany and the ‘Manly’ Language of Flowers in the Brontës”

Alexandra Valint, University of Southern Mississippi: “Wuthering Heights as ‘disjointed tale’: Victorian Art Frames & Narrative Frames

Micah Hussey, CUNY Graduate Center: “Picture Me: Aesthetics, Fantasy, and Authorship in the Novels of Charlotte Brontë”

Abigail Burnham Bloom, Hunter College: “Keeping up with the Brontës: The Brontës on the Internet”

Transformative Journeys: Literature, Faith, & Metamorphosis
West Region Conference on Christianity and Literature
Vanguard University of Southern California
April 7-9, 2011

The Brontë Sisters and Transformative Journeys
Moderator: Andrew Dezarn, Vanguard University

“Coming of Age Through Christianity in Charlotte Brontë‟s Jane Eyre”
Naomi Carrington, California State University, Northridge

“Growing Toward Sophia: The Female Wisdom Figure in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”
Maralee Crandon, Bethel College

New ‘British’ Geographies
February 19, 2011
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Thierry Ramais (University of Illinois, English)“Torn between ‘Britishness’ and ‘Belgianness’: Mutually Reinforcing (National) Identity Crises in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette and The Professor