Dickens! Author and Authorship in 2012
| FRIDAY, July 27 | |||
| 2:00 – 3 pm | Registration for Faculty, Grads, and Authorship participants | College Eight | |
| 4:00 | AFTERLIVES | College Eight 240 | |
| Moderator: Renee Fox (Univ. of Miami) | |||
| Camilla Hoel (Univ. of Edinburgh and the Norwegian Univ. of Science and Technology, Trondheim) “The Spirit Pen Solution and Charles Dickens's Authority as an Author” | |||
| Andrew Maunder (Univ. of Hertfordshire) “Dickens At War, 1914-1918” | |||
| Melisa Klimaszewski (Drake Univ.) “Makin' All of Her Twist: Rappers and Their Dickens” | |||
| LIFE WRITING | College Eight 250 | ||
| Moderator: Nancy Henry (Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville) | |||
| Rebecca Mitchell (Univ. of Texas-Pan American) “'Pale as Hector's Ghost': Thomas Carlyle and Accidental Genius" | |||
| Victoria Ford Smith (Rice Univ.) “Dickens as Mamie Recalls Him, and Mamie as We Recall Her” | |||
| David Namie (UCSC) “'This shift from a suggestion to a sign': Neil Bartlett's Queer Biography of Oscar Wilde” | |||
| 5:30 | Welcome Dinner | Porter Dining Hall Patio | |
| 7:30 | Keynote Lecture: Rosemarie Bodenheimer (Boston College) "Literary Biography and Authorship" | Porter Dining Hall | |
| SATURDAY, July 28 | |||
| 7:30 am | Breakfast | College Eight DH | |
| 8:30 | AFTERIMAGES | College Eight 240 | |
| Moderator: Rae Greiner (Indiana Univ.) | |||
| Susan Cook (Southern New Hampshire Univ.) “'My counterfeit presentments': Dickens, Photography, and Authorship” | |||
| Monica Brownlow (Rice Univ.) “Picturing the Imagination” | |||
| John MacNeill Miller (Rutgers) “Out of Hand: Visuality, Writing, and the Detection of Authorship in Bleak House” | |||
| 8:30 | FICTION AND BIOGRAPHY | College Eight 250 | |
| Moderator: Irene Tucker (UC Irvine) | |||
| Marlene Tromp (Arizona State Univ.) “Nancy, Edwin Drood, and Harriet Buswell: 'The Dickensian Effect' and (Real) Murder Stories” |
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| Christopher Pittard (Univ. of Portsmouth) “Conjuring Dickens” | |||
| Jon Michael Varese (UCSC) “Dickens: Making and Breaking Contracts” | |||
| 10:00 | Coffee Break | College Eight 242 | |
| 10:30 | BOOK PANEL | PDH | |
| Author: Jonathan Grossman (UCLA) Charles Dickens's Networks: Public Transport and the Novel | |||
| Rebecca Stern (Univ. of South Carolina) | |||
| Meredith McGill (Rutgers) | |||
| 12:15 pm | Lunch | College Eight DH | |
| 1:30 | BOOK PANEL | PDH | |
| Holly Furneaux (Univ. of Leicester) Queer Dickens: Erotics, Families, Masculinities | |||
| Elsie Michie (Louisiana State Univ.) | |||
| Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud (Univ. of Tennessee) | |||
| 3:00 | Free Time | ||
| 5:30 | Dinner | College Eight DH | |
| 6:30 | Post-Prandial Potations (refreshments) |
outside PDH | |
| 7:30 | Keynote Lecture: Robert Patten (Rice Univ.) “[De]constructing Authorship” | PDH | |
| SUNDAY, July 29 | |||
| 7:30 am | Breakfast | College Eight DH | |
| 9:00 | BOOK PANEL | PDH | |
| Author: Sarah Winter (Univ. of Connecticut) The Pleasures of Memory, Learning to Read with Charles Dickens | |||
| Juliet John (Royal Holloway, Univ. of London) | |||
| Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi (Univ. of Exeter) | |||
| 10:30 | Departures for those attending Authorship only |
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| Coffee available until 4pm | College Eight 242 |
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