All events will take place at the Fales Library and Special Collections, Bobst Library, 3rd floor, 70 Washington Square South, NewYork, NY 10012
THURSDAY 10 APRIL
4:00: Welcoming Remarks: Catharine R. Stimpson, Dean and University Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Science
Introduction: Paula McDowell and Bryan Waterman, New York University
4:15 - 5:45: Plenary Lecture: Paula R. Backscheider, Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar, Auburn University: "Where Method Leads Us"
5:45 - 7:00: Wine and Cheese Reception
FRIDAY 11 APRIL
9:15: Welcoming Remarks: Jane Tylus, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Faculty Director, Humanities Initiative at NYU
9:30 - 12:00: Session 1
Chair: Dustin Griffin, Department of English, NYU
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Department of English, Northeastern University: "Category Crises and Gender in the New World"
Joanna Brooks, Department of English, San Diego State University: "Feelings are not a Luxury: Phillis Wheatley, Poetry, Women, and Empire"
April Alliston, Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University: "Questions at the Crossroads of Women’s Literary History:
'Why Did the Comparatist Cross the Road?'; or, 'What Do You Compare (in the Age of the Digital Archive)?'"
12:00 - 2:15: Break for lunch (on your own)
2:15 - 4:00: Session 2
Chair: Nicole Eustace, Department of History, NYU
Toni Bowers, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania: "Tory Seduction Stories and the Problem of Resistance"
Simon Dickie, Department of English, University of Toronto: "Fielding, Rape Jokes, and Local Justice"
4:00 - 4:15: Coffee break
4:15 - 5:30: Session 3: Concluding Response and Group Discussion
Respondent and Chair: Mary Poovey, Samuel Rudin University Professor of the Humanities, New York University
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