BrANCA-sponsored panels
This page is a listing of panels organised by our members. If you would like to put together a panel, please email your CfP to branca1865@gmail.com or post on our Facebook group
BrANCA is sponsoring a group of panels at the forthcoming EBAAS conference in London, 4th to 7th April 2018. For full details see below. The Steering Committee looks forward to seeing some of you at these sessions, and at an informal BrANCA drinks gathering on Thursday 5th April at the Somers Town Coffee House (http://www.thesomerstowncoffeehouse.co.uk/), 8.30pm.
BrANCA Panels at EBAAS 2018 (https://blogs.kcl.ac.uk/ebaas2018/)
Wednesday 4th April
Panel C3 Literary Landscapes and the Making of Nature in 19th Century America (BrANCA) 4-5.30pm
Chair: Steve Gallo, University of Nottingham
A Ditch in the Garden: Figuring Out the ‘Irrigation West’ Janet Floyd, King’s College London
‘The Gerfalcon Swoops’: Tomboyism and the American Landscape in E.D.E.N Southworth’sThe Mother-in-Law; Or, Married in Haste Anna Maguire Elliott, University of Sussex
Edgar Allan Poe, Landscape Gardening, Creative Practice and ‘The Domain of Arnheim’ Theodora Tsimpouki, University of Athens
Thursday 5th April
Panel D1 Rethinking Literary Reconstruction (BrANCA Roundtable) 9.30-11am
Chair: Tom Wright, University of Sussex
Opening Remarks: Rethinking Literary Reconstruction: Lord Bryce’s American Commonwealth Gordon Hutner, University of Illinois
Respondents:
Stephanie Palmer, Nottingham Trent University
Tom Wright, University of Sussex
Tomos Hughes, University of Nottingham
Panel E1 Imagined and Re-Imagined Communities in Nineteenth-Century African American Culture (BrANCA) 11.45-1.15pm
Chair: Matthew Pethers, University of Nottingham
W.E.B. Du Bois’ Scorn: A Romance and Reconstruction’s Counterfactual FormsTomos Hughes, University of Nottingham
Guerrilla Marginalia: The 1851 Census and Transatlantic Abolition Bridget Bennett, University of Leeds
The ‘Mothering Influence’ in Nineteenth-Century African American Women’s Theory Gregory Phipps, University of Iceland
Friday 6th April
Panel F10 Transnationalism and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
(BrANCA) 9.30-11am
Chair: Katie McGettigan, Royal Holloway, University of London
The Legal and the Exceptional: The Interaction Between Exceptionalist Discourse and the Law in The Brothers Karamazov and White-Jacket Olga Akroyd, University of Kent
John Neal’s American Literary Nationalism and his Response to Irving’s ‘Westminster Abbey’ Ellen Bulford Welch, University of Sheffield
Transpacific and Transatlantic Exchanges in Henry James’s The Europeans Martha Sledge, Marymount Manhattan College
Panel G8 Interactions with the Nonhuman World in 19th C America (BrANCA) 11.45-1.15pm
Chair: Linda Freedman, University College London
The Science of ‘Civil Disobedience’ and the Democracy of Trees Michael Jonik, University of Sussex
Combustible Man: Commodity (Mis)Identification in Melville's Redburn Ian Green, Eastern Washington University
Disclosed by Danger: Dickinson, Darwin, Life Amy R. Nestor, Georgetown University, Qatar
BrANCA is sponsoring a group of panels at the forthcoming EBAAS conference in London, 4th to 7th April 2018. For full details see below. The Steering Committee looks forward to seeing some of you at these sessions, and at an informal BrANCA drinks gathering on Thursday 5th April at the Somers Town Coffee House (http://www.thesomerstowncoffeehouse.co.uk/), 8.30pm.
BrANCA Panels at EBAAS 2018 (https://blogs.kcl.ac.uk/ebaas2018/)
Wednesday 4th April
Panel C3 Literary Landscapes and the Making of Nature in 19th Century America (BrANCA) 4-5.30pm
Chair: Steve Gallo, University of Nottingham
A Ditch in the Garden: Figuring Out the ‘Irrigation West’ Janet Floyd, King’s College London
‘The Gerfalcon Swoops’: Tomboyism and the American Landscape in E.D.E.N Southworth’sThe Mother-in-Law; Or, Married in Haste Anna Maguire Elliott, University of Sussex
Edgar Allan Poe, Landscape Gardening, Creative Practice and ‘The Domain of Arnheim’ Theodora Tsimpouki, University of Athens
Thursday 5th April
Panel D1 Rethinking Literary Reconstruction (BrANCA Roundtable) 9.30-11am
Chair: Tom Wright, University of Sussex
Opening Remarks: Rethinking Literary Reconstruction: Lord Bryce’s American Commonwealth Gordon Hutner, University of Illinois
Respondents:
Stephanie Palmer, Nottingham Trent University
Tom Wright, University of Sussex
Tomos Hughes, University of Nottingham
Panel E1 Imagined and Re-Imagined Communities in Nineteenth-Century African American Culture (BrANCA) 11.45-1.15pm
Chair: Matthew Pethers, University of Nottingham
W.E.B. Du Bois’ Scorn: A Romance and Reconstruction’s Counterfactual FormsTomos Hughes, University of Nottingham
Guerrilla Marginalia: The 1851 Census and Transatlantic Abolition Bridget Bennett, University of Leeds
The ‘Mothering Influence’ in Nineteenth-Century African American Women’s Theory Gregory Phipps, University of Iceland
Friday 6th April
Panel F10 Transnationalism and Nineteenth-Century American Literature
(BrANCA) 9.30-11am
Chair: Katie McGettigan, Royal Holloway, University of London
The Legal and the Exceptional: The Interaction Between Exceptionalist Discourse and the Law in The Brothers Karamazov and White-Jacket Olga Akroyd, University of Kent
John Neal’s American Literary Nationalism and his Response to Irving’s ‘Westminster Abbey’ Ellen Bulford Welch, University of Sheffield
Transpacific and Transatlantic Exchanges in Henry James’s The Europeans Martha Sledge, Marymount Manhattan College
Panel G8 Interactions with the Nonhuman World in 19th C America (BrANCA) 11.45-1.15pm
Chair: Linda Freedman, University College London
The Science of ‘Civil Disobedience’ and the Democracy of Trees Michael Jonik, University of Sussex
Combustible Man: Commodity (Mis)Identification in Melville's Redburn Ian Green, Eastern Washington University
Disclosed by Danger: Dickinson, Darwin, Life Amy R. Nestor, Georgetown University, Qatar