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Papers, Lectures, and Colloquium

Chair and Respondent for Mid-Atlantic British Studies Conference panel on “Gender at the Peripheries”, New York City, March 2001

“Race and Gender Politics in 19th century British Egyptology”, Fourth International English Culture Conference, University of Lisbon, November 2000

“The Sword and the Sonnet: William Watson’s poems for Armenia 1895-6”, Conference on Texts in Time, University of Dublin, November 2000

“Team-Teaching with an Historian”, Pedagogy Roundtable, Northeast Victorian Studies Conference, New Haven April 1999
“How We Came to the Dark Tower: Browning, Criticism and Romanticism,” The Brownings and Romanticism, Armstrong Browning Library, Waco, Texas March 1999

“Victorians on the Nile,” Elderhostel Talks, Hamilton College, August 1998, 1999

“Giving Shape to Reception History: The Textualization of Readers,” Humanities Colloquium, Colgate University, April 1998

“Ancient Egyptians and the Suffragettes”, Snapshots from Abroad: American and British Travel Writers, Minneapolis, November 1997

“Amelia Edwards: The Politics and Poetics of Victorian Travel”, Travellers in Egypt and the Near East, Oxford, July 1997

“The Ethos of the Eighteenth Century in the Age of Romantic Cinematography: Jane Austen on Screen”, American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Nashville, April 1997.

“The Framing of Self and Other in Browning’s ‘Beatrice Signorini’”, Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, April 1995

“Amelia Edwards: The Politics and Poetics of Victorian Travel Literature,” British Women Writers, Notre Dame, March 1995.

“Tennyson’s Romanticism and `Victorian’ Studies,” Tennyson 92: Retrospect and Prospect, West Virginia University, November 1992

“Darwin and the Nude,” Lecture for general education program, Colgate University, September 1991

“The Painting of Nudes and Evolutionary Theory: Parleyings on Victorian Constructions of Woman,” PARSS, University of Pennsylvania, April 1990.

“The Chain of Unbeing: Hardy’s Darwinian Poetry” NEMLA, March 1989

“`Progress is the Law of Life’: Browning’s Rhetoric of Science in Paracelsus” MLA, December 1988

“Scientific Theology or an Ethics of Belief: Huxley’s Struggle over the Social Implications of Agnosticism,” Midwest British Studies Conference, October 1988

Discussant for Dr. M. Crawford’s critique of Women’s Ways of Knowing (Belenky et al, 1988), Pennsylvania University Mid-Atlantic Seminar in Women’s Studies, October 1988

“Science as a Vehicle of Romance in Hardy’s Early Novels”, Thomas Hardy Society Conference, Dorcester, July 1988

“`Has a Frog a Soul?’: Huxley’s Contribution to Victorian Metaphysical Debates”, Midwest Victorian Studies Association, March 1988

“Three Contemporary Woman Writers: Atwood, Lessing, and Paley”, Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY, March 1987

“Pamela and Tom Jones: Sexual Polarities in the English Book Market” Midwest Graduate Student Conference in Comparative Literature, April 1985



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	Papers, Lectures, and Colloquium Chair and Respondent for Mid-Atlantic British Studies Conference panel on “Gender at the Peripheries”, New York City, March 2001 “Race and Gender Politics in 19th century British Egyptology”, Fourth International English Culture Conference, University of Lisbon, November 2000 “The Sword and the Sonnet: William Watson’s poems for Armenia 1895-6”, Conference on Texts in Time, University of Dublin, November 2000 “Team-Teaching with an Historian”, Pedagogy Roundtable, Northeast Victorian Studies Conference, New Haven April 1999 “How We Came to the Dark Tower: Browning, Criticism and Romanticism,” The Brownings and Romanticism, Armstrong Browning Library, Waco, Texas March 1999 “Victorians on the Nile,” Elderhostel Talks, Hamilton College, August 1998, 1999 “Giving Shape to Reception History: The Textualization of Readers,” Humanities Colloquium, Colgate University, April 1998 “Ancient Egyptians and the Suffragettes”, Snapshots from Abroad: American and British Travel Writers, Minneapolis, November 1997 “Amelia Edwards: The Politics and Poetics of Victorian Travel”, Travellers in Egypt and the Near East, Oxford, July 1997 “The Ethos of the Eighteenth Century in the Age of Romantic Cinematography: Jane Austen on Screen”, American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Nashville, April 1997. “The Framing of Self and Other in Browning’s ‘Beatrice Signorini’”, Northeast Modern Language Association, Boston, April 1995 “Amelia Edwards: The Politics and Poetics of Victorian Travel Literature,” British Women Writers, Notre Dame, March 1995. “Tennyson’s Romanticism and `Victorian’ Studies,” Tennyson 92: Retrospect and Prospect, West Virginia University, November 1992 “Darwin and the Nude,” Lecture for general education program, Colgate University, September 1991 “The Painting of Nudes and Evolutionary Theory: Parleyings on Victorian Constructions of Woman,” PARSS, University of Pennsylvania, April 1990. “The Chain of Unbeing: Hardy’s Darwinian Poetry” NEMLA, March 1989 “`Progress is the Law of Life’: Browning’s Rhetoric of Science in Paracelsus” MLA, December 1988 “Scientific Theology or an Ethics of Belief: Huxley’s Struggle over the Social Implications of Agnosticism,” Midwest British Studies Conference, October 1988 Discussant for Dr. M. Crawford’s critique of Women’s Ways of Knowing (Belenky et al, 1988), Pennsylvania University Mid-Atlantic Seminar in Women’s Studies, October 1988 “Science as a Vehicle of Romance in Hardy’s Early Novels”, Thomas Hardy Society Conference, Dorcester, July 1988 “`Has a Frog a Soul?’: Huxley’s Contribution to Victorian Metaphysical Debates”, Midwest Victorian Studies Association, March 1988 “Three Contemporary Woman Writers: Atwood, Lessing, and Paley”, Kirkland Art Center, Clinton, NY, March 1987 “Pamela and Tom Jones: Sexual Polarities in the English Book Market” Midwest Graduate Student Conference in Comparative Literature, April 1985
Papers, Lectures, and Colloquium