Transatlantic Women II: Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers Abroad OPA Centro Arte e Cultura Florence, Italy 6-8

June 2013 Wednesday, 5 June 2013 3:00-5:00 p.m. Registration at OPA Centro Arte e Cultura Thursday, 6 June 2013 9:00-10:15 a.m. 1. STOWE IN EUROPE: POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS PERSPECTIVES Chair: Denise Kohn, Baldwin Wallace University Joshua Matthews, Dordt College, The Unfolding of Agnes of Sorrento: Stowes Realtime Commentary on the American Civil War Nancy Lusignan Schultz, Salem State University, In a Trance of Dreamy Vagueness: Harriet Beecher Stowes Italian Poems and the Aesthetic Lures of Catholicism Richard Ellis, University of Birmingham, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Joseph Sturge in Birmingham: April 1853 and Its Aftermath 2. TRANSATLANTIC GILMAN: THEORY, BIOGRAPHY, AND RECOVERY Chair: Laura Moschini, Universit degli Studi Roma Tre Cynthia J. Davis, University of South Carolina, Columbia, Abroad Yet Narrow: Charlotte Perkins Gilmans Transatlantic World Denise D. Knight, SUNY Cortland, [a] country of whose language I knew not a word: Gilman on and in Italy Jennifer S. Tuttle, University of New England, Recovering the Work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman; or, Reading Gilman in Rome 10:15-10:45 a.m. coffee break 10:45 a.m.-noon 3. FULLER IN ITALY

Chair: Larry J. Reynolds, Texas A&M University Gigliola Sacerdoti Mariani, University of Florence, Margaret Fuller and Giuseppe Mazzini between Faith and Fate Joan Wry, Saint Michaels College, Margaret Fullers Raphaels Deposition and the Tribune Letters Jeffrey Steele, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Symbols of (Social) Transformation: Margaret Fullers Utopian Imaginary 4. TRAVELERS AND TRAVEL WRITING Chair: Sirpa Salenius, Independent Scholar, Florence, Italy Jessica Burrus, Cambridge University, Grace Greenwood and Harriet Beecher Stowe in Stratford-upon-Avon Kathryn Burgess McKee, University of Mississippi, From South to North and Back Again: Sherwood Bonners Transatlantic Travels Cristina Scatamacchia, University of Perugia, Dorothy Dixs First Travel Abroad in 1897 12:00-1:15 p.m. lunch 1:15-2:30 p.m. 5. TRANSATLANTIC BOOKS, EDITIONS, AUTHORS Chair: Melissa Homestead, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Stephanie Palmer, Nottingham Trent University, Reframing The Gates Ajar: British Responses to Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's Novel Libby Bischof, University of Southern Maine, A Transatlantic Memorial: Louise Imogen Guiney and the 1894 dedication of Anne Whitneys Bust of John Keats in London Margherita Ciacci, New York University in Florence, Ladies Who Read: A Librarys Revelations 6. READING RACE Chair: Christina Bucher, Berry College

Mary Griffis, University of Massachusetts, No More to Rome: Pauline Hopkins's Spiritual Solution to the Blighting Influences of Western Art Rebecca Entel, Cornell College, Master/Czar: Comparative Slaveries in Louisa May Alcotts M.L. Elizabeth Kenney, Salem State University, Bahama Triangle: Europe, America, and the Bahamas in Harts Letters from the Bahama Islands, 1823-4 2:45-4:00 p.m. 7. ROMANTIC FORMATIONS Chair: Charlene Avallone, Independent Scholar Joseph Urbas, Michel de Montaigne-University of Bordeaux 3, The Triumphs of Female Authorship: Margaret Fuller, Mme. De Stal,[space needed] and the Standard of Literary Greatness Rene L. Bergland, Simmons College, At the Grave of Corinne: Sedgwick, Hawthorne, Woolson David M. Robinson, Oregon State University, Margaret Fuller, the Dial, and the Goethe Wars 8. LITERARY INFLUENCE AND DIALOGUE Chair: Beth L. Lueck, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Rita Bode, Trent University, Among the Prophets: Harriet Beecher Stowe and George Eliot in Italy Laura Korobkin, Boston University, I don't want Uncle Tom (or Aunt Tomasina) to expound King Lear to me: Charles Dickens disses Mary Webb 4:00-4:15 p.m. coffee break 4:15-5:30 p.m. 9. WHARTONS EUROPEAN VISIONS Chair: Virginia Ricard, Michel de Montaigne-University of Bordeaux 3 Margaret Deli, Yale University, Vanished Life / Future Lives: Connoisseurship in The Buccaneers

Shafquat Towheed, Open University, Edith Wharton and Vernon Lee: Researching and Writing Italian Villas and their Gardens Encarna Trinidad-Barrantes, Open University in the South, Through the Eye: Italian Landscapes and the Embodiment of Character in Whartons The Valley of Decision 10. EAST-WEST CROSSINGS Chair: Etta Madden, Missouri State University Casey Riley, Boston University, Dear Nile Voyage: Nascent Professional Strategies and Identity Assemblage in Isabella Stewart Gardners Egypt Diary of 1874-1875 Shirley Foster, University of Sheffield, American Women Travelers and the Exotic Carrie Khou, University of Mannheim, The End of Happily Ever After: The New Woman and Marriage in Charlotte Perkins Gilmans Turned and Higuchi Ichyios Troubled Waters

6:30-7:30 p.m., Hotel Monna Lisa, Borgo Pinti 27 (10-minute walk from OPA Centro) Celebration for the publication of Philosophies of Sex: Critical Essays on Julia Ward Howes Hermaphrodite, edited by Rene Bergland and Gary Williams. Light snacks, nohost bar

Friday, 7 June 2013 9:00-10:15 a.m. 11. ARTISTS ABROAD: VISUAL AND LITERARY EXPRESSIONS Chair: Libby Bischof, University of Southern Maine Kate Culkin, Bronx Community College, The Doleful Ditty of the Roman Caff Greco: Harriet Hosmers Defense of Her Sculpture Through Poetry Stephanie Tingley, Youngstown State University, Portraits of the 19th-Century American Woman Artist Abroad in Fiction and Fine Art: Domesticity, National Identity, and International Travel Christina Bucher, Berry College, A Small-Town Belle Gone (Mildly) Bad Abroad: Anna McNulty Lester

12. WHARTON IN EUROPE: RELIGION, RACE, AND RECEPTION Chair: Pierre Walker, Salem State University Debra Bernardi, Carroll College, None of Us Americans: Domestic Hybridity in Edith Whartons Late Italian Novels Robin Peel, University of Plymouth, Science and Religion in the Italian Short Stories of Edith Wharton Virginia Ricard, Michel de Montaigne-University of Bordeaux 3, The Translation and Reception of The House of Mirth in France 13. RACIAL PERFORMANCES AND PERSPECTIVES Chair: Katherine Adams, University of South Carolina Debra Rosenthal, John Carroll University, Pulling Strings: The Transatlantic Influence of Marionettes, Popular Culture, and the Performance of Race Whitney Womack Smith, Miami University Hamilton, Exhibiting Tom: Rebecca Harding Daviss Blind Tom and Blind Tom Wiggins Abroad Kristin Allukian, University of Florida, Femininity and Class Performance in Eliza Potters A Hairdressers Experience in High Life 10:15-10:45 a.m. Coffee break 10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m. 14. ITALY IN STOWES AGNES OF SORRENTO Chair: Gail K. Smith, Capilano University Brigitte Bailey, University of New Hampshire, Protestant Tourism, Catholic Art, and Spiritualist Vision in Stowes Agnes of Sorrento Beth L. Lueck, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, Fragrant with Love of Italy: A Floral Dictionary for Stowes Agnes of Sorrento Kimberly VanEsveld Adams, Elizabethtown College, North and South in Harriet Beecher Stowes Agnes of Sorrento

15. EUROPEAN TRAVEL AND LITERARY CAREERS Chair: Kate Culkin, Bronx Community College Megan Marshall, Emerson College, Elizabeth Peabodys Belated Wanderjahre Daniela Daniele, University of Udine, Spinsterhood Forever: Girls Abroad in Louisa May Alcotts Travelogues Melanie Gustafson, University of Vermont, The Marginalization of Blanche Willis Howard in the Literary World of the American Colonials

16. EXPATRIATE ITALY Chair: Kathleen Lawrence, Brandeis University Sirpa Salenius, Independent Scholar, Florence, Italy, Transatlantic Friendships and Expatriate Tea PartiesKatherine de Kay Bronson and Edith Rucellai in Italy Janet Floyd, Kings College London, Expatriate Hospitalities: Engaging Artistic and Intellectual Circles in 1880s Italy Carla Francellini, University of Siena, Virginia Wales Johnsons Balcony on Florence and Siena Lunch 12:00-1:30 p.m. 1:30-2:45 p.m. 17. THE FOREIGN AND THE SENSUAL Chair: Rene L. Bergland, Simmons College Daniel Couch, University of California, Los Angeles, The Sensuality of Political Change in Leonora Sansays Secret History Christopher Looby, University of California, Los Angeles, Sensuality, Provinciality, and Cosmopolitanism in The Morgesons Dorri Beam, Syracuse University, Getting Medieval with Stowe: Sacred Time and Virginity in Agnes of Sorrento

18. TRANSATLANTIC CIRCULATIONS Chair: Whitney Womack Smith, Miami University Hamilton Russ Castronovo, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Memes of the Revolution: The Propaganda of Mercy Otis Warren Ccile Roudeau, University of Paris, The Transatlantic Body Politic: Elizabeth Peabody and the Homeopathic Politics of Reform Amber Shaw, Allegheny College, The Cost of Cloth: Margaret Fullers and Sophia Hawthornes Transatlantic Sympathy 19. LITERARY IMAGINING OF EUROPE Chair: Lucinda Damon-Bach, Salem State University Joyce Warren, Queens College, CUNY, The Transatlantic Perspectives of E.D.E.N. Southworth: People and Places Hisayo Ogushi, Keio University, In a Sleep as Cold as Ice: Time Travel and a Transatlantic Technology in Lydia Maria Childs Hilda Silfverling Gail K. Smith, Capilano University, Undercover: Stealth Texts in Stowes Pink and White Tyranny 2:45-3:10 coffee break 3:10-4:45 p.m. 20. BEYOND THE REGIONAL: MAINE WOMEN AND TRANSATLANTICISM Panel sponsored by the Maine Women Writers Collection, University of New England Chair: Jennifer S. Tuttle, Maine Women Writers Collection, University of New England Charlene Avallone, Independent Scholar, Margaret Sweat, George Sand, and American Literary History Esther Gordon Ginzburg, Bar Ilan University, Edward Lear's Sister: Laura E. Richards and the American Version of Nonsense Jennifer Putzi, The College of William and Mary, Intimate Correspondence: Elizabeth Akers Allen and the Portland Transcript

21. HOWE AS SPEAKER AND WRITER Chair: Christopher Looby, University of California, Los Angeles Gary Williams, University of Idaho, Lending Voice: Howe Learns to Speak Clare Taylor, University of Wales, Julia Ward Howe and Giuseppe Verdi in a Tale of Two Cities: Boston and Rome Denise Kohn, Baldwin Wallace University, Divested of the Moral Corset of Precaution: Three Italian Sisters and Transcendental Travel in Howe's The Hermaphrodite 22. FULLERS INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENT Chair: Brigitte Bailey, University of New Hampshire Sonia Di Loreto, University of Torino, Margaret Fullers Transatlantic Prospects of Nation Formations: Il Contemporaneo and the New-York Tribune Mariarosa Mettifoggo, Seeing for herself: Margaret Fuller and the Gendered Gaze of the Traveler [academic affiliation missing hereIve asked MM to contact me immediately with a shortened version of her affiliation, which is too long to fit in here] Stephanie K. Barron, Henderson State University, Exaltadas and New Mestizas: Bridging Borders with Margaret Fuller and Gloria Anzalda Kathleen Lawrence, Brandeis University, Italy through Transcendental Eyes: Caroline Sturgis Captures Fullers Grand Tour in Rare Photographs Evening: 6:00 p.m., Palazzo Borghese KEYNOTE ADDRESS Phyllis Cole, Pennsylvania State University, Brandywine, Fuller, Barrett Browning, and the Networks of Transatlantic Feminism Banquet

Saturday, 8 June 2013 9:00-10:15 a.m. 23. TRANSATLANTIC SEDGWICK Chair: Joseph Urbas, Michel de Montaigne-University of Bordeaux 3 Melissa Homestead, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Views from Mt. Holyoke: Catharine Sedgwick as a Node in the Transatlantic Circulation of the American Sublime [take out blank space in title please] Lucinda Damon-Bach, Salem State University, Revolutionary Meets Reformer: The Transatlantic Friendship of Gaetano de Castillia and Catharine Maria Sedgwick, 18371842 Michaela Keck, Carl von Ossietzky University, Maenad-in-Motion: Catharine Maria Sedgwicks Revival and Reconfiguration of Classical Mythology in A New-England Tale 24. ACTIVISM ACROSS BORDERS Chair: Debra Rosenthal, John Carroll University Katherine Adams, University of South Carolina, The World in Miniature: Women Writers at the International Exposition Laura Moschini, Universit degli Studi Roma Tre, With Woman's Eyes: [Fullers] Chronicles of the Roman Republic (1847-1849) Tilly Laskey, Science Museum of Minnesota, Evangeline Whipples Transatlantic Philanthropy: Explorations of Missionary Work with American Indians and World War I Refugees in Italy 10:15-10:45 a.m. Coffee break 10:45-12:30 p.m.

25. REDEFINING RECOVERY IN A TRANSATLANTIC CONTEXT Panel sponsored by Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers Chair: Jennifer S. Tuttle, Editor, Legacy

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Tamara Harvey, George Mason University, States of Recollection: How 17th-Century Women Thought about Recovery and the Atlantic World Shirley Samuels, Cornell University, Recovering Women Writersand Women Artistsin Italy Etta Madden, Missouri State University, Recovering Anne Hampton Brewster: A Proposed Methodology Elizabeth A. De Wolfe, University of New England, Not Ruined, but Hindered: Rethinking Scandal, Re-examining Transatlantic Sources, and Recovering Madeline Pollard 26. LITERARY ASIA AND ORIENTALISM Chair: Phyllis Cole, Penn State Brandywine Claudia Stokes, Trinity University, Lucretia Davidson Abroad Yuri Nagira , Kyoto University, Winnifred Eaton and Images of Japanese Women in America

5:00-7:00 p.m. Reception at Villa il Palmerino