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All events take place in the Martin E. Segal Theater unless otherwise indicated
Morning Session
8:45 A.M.-12:00 P.M.
Welcome
8:45 – Mario DiGangi
Executive Officer
PhD Program in English
CUNY Graduate Center
Morning Moderator: Kathleen Urda, Bronx Community College
9:00-10:20am – Distressing Aftermaths
James Najarian
Boston College
“Derivative,” “Weak,” “Minor,” and “Bad”: John Keats and Thomas Hood”
Deborah Lutz
Long Island University
“Dickens and Twitchy Death Masks”
10:20-10:40 – Discussion and Break
10:40-12 – Nasty Spots
Alex Murray
University of Exeter
“Landscapes of Decadence”
Andrew Mangham
University of Reading
“Dismembered Narratives: Dickens’s Journalism and the Murder at Edgware Road”
Lunch (on your own)
12:00 P.M. – 2:00 P.M.
Afternoon Session
2:00 P.M. – 6:00 P.M.
Afternoon Moderator: Renata Miller, The City College of New York
2:00-3:30pm – Dreadful Deaths
Rachel Ablow
University of Buffalo, SUNY
“Drowning”
Sharon Aronofsky Weltman
Louisiana State University
“Sweeney Todds: The Satirical Afterlife of a Victorian Bogeyman”
3:30-4:00pm – Discussion and Break
4:00-6:00pm – Ungentlemanly Behaviors
Helena Michie
Rice University
“Counter-domesticities : The Good (?) Life of Sir George Scharf”
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Catherine Gallagher
University of California, Berkeley
“Wuthering Heights: the Revenge Novel”
Reception
6:00 P.M.
English Common Space, Room 4406