Conference Presentations
"Falling in Love with Life: Vertigo, Montage and the Return to Romantic Ecology,” roundtable on “Romantic Platonism” (Theory and Philosophy Caucus), North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Ottawa, CA, August 2017
" 'Vacuus Viator ': Queer Dynamics and Atmotechnics in Stevenson’s Planetary Ecology,” roundtable on “Ecologies of Destruction: The Politics and Poetics of the Planetary, Second World Congress of Scottish Literatures, Vancouver, Canada, June 2017
"Writing at the Roche Limit: On the Natural History of Destruction and the Dark Ecology of the Historical Novel," special seminar organized by Profs. David Clark (McMaster) and David Simpson (UC, Davis) on "Worldlessness and Worklessness," North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Berkeley, CA, August 2016
“Melancholy Historicism and the Work of Romance: Robert Southey’s Baroque Modernity,” panel on “Romanticism’s Historical Genres,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Washington, D.C., July 2014
“A Vindication of the Rights of Romance,” roundtable organized by invitation of Prof. Ian Duncan (UC, Berkeley) on “Rethinking ‘the classical form of the historical novel,’ ” World Congress of Scottish Literatures, Glasgow, UK, July 2014
“A ‘Prophesier of Things Past’: Walter Scott’s Archaeologies of the Future,” roundtable organized by invitation of Prof. Andrew Warren (Harvard) on “Theory for Romanticism,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Boston, MA, August 2013
“Unsolved Mysteries: The Limits of Finitude and the Politics of Chaos in Late Byron”, panel on “Dramatist (2),” International Byron Society, London, UK, July 2013
“Romancing the Imperial Self: Genre, Identity, and Late Style in Scott’s Crusader Fiction," delivered at:
- panel on “Romantic Empires I,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Park City, UT, August 2011
- panel on “Walter Scott’s National and Imperial Narratives,” British Association for Romantic Studies, Glasgow, UK, July 2011
- panel on “Adaptation: The Long View,” Ninth International Walter Scott Conference, Laramie, WY, July 2011
“ ‘The Last Still Loveliest’: The Still-Life of Culture and the Poetics of Evental Renewal in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,” delivered at:
- panel on “Byron and Aesthetics,” North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, Vancouver, Canada, August 2010
- panel on “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage,” International Byron Society, Boston, MA, July 2013
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Conference Panels Organized
“Ecologies of Destruction: The Politics and Poetics of the Planetary,” Second World Congress of Scottish Literatures: “Dialogues and Diasporas,” co-sponsored by the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, Vancouver, Canada, June 2017. Panelists: Matthew Ocheltree, Siobhan Carroll (Delaware), Eric Gidal (Iowa), Susan Oliver (Essex)
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Conferences Organized
Harvard English Department Graduate Symposium on "Ecologies," November 12-13, 2015
Margaret Cohen (Stanford University) delivered a plenary address on "Underwater Adventure: The Inspiration of Toxic Atmosphere." The event featured presentations on dissertation work from nine graduate students, with panels on "Geographies of Reading," "Emerging Trends in Ecocriticism: A Roundtable on Renaissance Perspectives," and "Genre as Environment." A full program can be found here.