The Politics of Form:
2011 Graduate Student Conference
Conference Schedule
Columbia University Nineteenth-Century Colloquium
Friday, April 22th, 2011
Heyman Center, Second Floor Common Room
8:30 – 9:00
Registration and Coffee
9:00
Welcome and introductions
9:15 – 10:45
Genre
Elina Bloch, Yale University
“‘Who are you Mrs. Gaskell?’: The Intricacies of Genre(s) in Elizabeth Gaskell's The Life of Charlotte Brontë”
Sarah Minsloff, Columbia University
“Brim-Full: Forms of Time in Tess of the D'Urbervilles”
David Russell, Princeton University
“Aesthetic Liberalism: the Essay as Form in Nineteenth-Century Britain”
Respondent: Caroline Reitz, City University of New York
Chair: Lauryn Rose Gold, New York University
11:00 – 12:30
Form and Theory
Sarah Kruse, University of Rhode Island
“Language as Life: Kierkegaard’s Language and Adorno’s Negative Dialectic”
Ben Parker, Columbia University
“How does ideology 'get into' literary form?: The Sherlock Holmes stories as a locked room”
Frederik Van Dam, University of Leuven (Belgium); Universityof Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“‘A Bond of Discord’: Allegory and the Geopolitical Aesthetic of Anthony Trollope's Antipodean Novels”
Respondent: Nicholas Dames, Columbia University
Chair: Abigail Joseph, Columbia University
Lunch
1:30 – 3:00
Social Form
Stephanie Hershinow, Johns Hopkins University
“‘Perfectly Undesigning:’ Naïveté as a Socioformal Problem”
Jayne Hildebrand, Concordia University
“The Ranter and the Lyric: Ebenezer Elliott's Corn Law Rhymes and the Poetic Language of Reform in the 1830s"
Natalie Prizel, Yale University
“Back to the Future: Retrospection, Futurity, and the Politics of the Disabled Artist in The Mill on the Floss”
Respondent: Eileen Gillooly, Columbia University
Chair: Sebastian LeCourt, Yale University
3:30 – 5:00
Poetic Form
Veronica Alfano, Princeton University
“The Remembering of Lyric: Nostalgic Victorians, Mnemonic Forms”
Michael Johnduff, Princeton University
“The Form of Expression After Wordsworth”
Justin Sider, Yale University
“‘Authority forgets a dying king’: Tennyson's Valedictory Authorship”
Respondent: Stefanie Markovits, Yale University
Chair: Naomi Levine, Rutgers University
5:15 – 6:45
Keynote
Caroline Levine, University of Wisconsin: “Politics as Form”
Respondents: Erik Gray, Columbia University; Emily Ogden, Columbia University
6:45 – 7:45
Closing Reception
Last modified: Oct 25, 2011
