The Nineteenth Century in 2019:

Mapping Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century

Friday, April 26 | ANATOL Center

8:30-9:00am
Light breakfast (Anatol Patio)

9:00-9:45am
Welcoming Remarks
Jeannette Acevedo Rivera, Clorinda Donato,
Nelly Goswitz, Claire Emilie Martin: 9:00am
CSULB President Jane Conoley: 9:15am

FRIDAY SESSIONS

10-11:30am | ANATOL CENTER / AS 119

PANEL 1: MEXICAN WOMEN WRITERS IN SEARCH OF CULTURAL AND
POLITICAL AGENCY
Chair: Daniela Suárez, California State University, Long Beach

“Writing Mexico’s Public Sphere from Afar: Two short stories from
Laura Méndez de Cuenca”
Kevin M. Anzzolin, University of Wisconsin-Stout

“Doña María Dolores López, vecina de Tehuacán” o el caso de las escritoras

mexicanas del siglo XIX que nunca reconoceremos”
Alejandro Palma Castro, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla

“Escritoras mexicanas del siglo XIX: espacio literario que deriva en el voto
femenino de México”
Alicia V. Ramírez Olivares, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla

“Religiosidad y expiación de una casta en La hija del bandido o los subterráneos

del Nevado (1887) de Refugio Barragán de Toscano
Alejandro Cortázar, Louisiana State University
10-11:30am | AS 241
PANEL 2: THE INTERSECTION OF POLITICS AND GENDER IN
GEORGE SAND’S OEUVRE
Chair: Laura Ceia, California State University, Long Beach

“Voyager pour écrire? Flora Tristan et George Sand ou le voyage au féminin”

Sonia Assa, SUNY College at Old Westbury

“Gender Fluidity, the Crisis of Care, and Ecocriticism in George Sand’s

François le champi”
Joanna Tatro, California State University, Long Beach

“Margaret Fuller and George Sand’s Consuelo”

Sharon Worley, Sam Houston State University

10-11:30am | AS 384
PANEL 3: REFLECTIONS ON THE SELF, LITERARY PRODUCTION AND WOMEN’S
POSITION IN SPANISH SOCIETY
Chair, Daniel Herrera Cepero, California State University, Long Beach

“El progreso de la mujer defendido y difundido por dos librepensadoras

españolas: Eugenia Estopa y Dolores Navas”
Benjamín García Egea, University of South Carolina

“La economía como emancipación femenina: Una introducción a La dama

elegante (1880), de María del Pilar Sinués y Navarro”
Rafael Núñez Rodríguez, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

“I Was Born When the Flowers Were: Enchanted Lands, Talking Plants, and the
Human-Nature Relationship in Rosalia de Castro’s Cantares Gallegos”
Emily K. Iekel, Binghamton University

“Food Cultural Studies: Reading 19th-Century Spanish Women through Cuisine”

Rebecca Ingram, University of San Diego

11:30am-11:45am Coffee Break

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Mapping Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century

12-1:30pm | AS 241
PANEL 4: MATILDE SERAO I NARRATING WAR, WOMEN AND THE CITY
Chair: Breanna Campos, California State University, Long Beach

“Matilde Serao, Flânerie, and the City”

Andrea Baldi, Rutgers University

“The Piercing Cry: Matilde Serao’s Suor Giovanna della Croce

as Protofeminist Narrative”
Melissa Coburn, Virginia Tech

“Women’s Representation of Trench Life during World War I” (Serao and Franchi)
Cristina Gragnani, Temple University

“Alliance and Sorellanza in Matilde Serao’s Romanzo della fanciulla”

Adriana Guarro Romero, UCLA

12-1:30pm | ANATOL CENTER

PANEL 5: SPANISH WRITERS AND THEIR POLITICAL AND
ANTI-SLAVERY DISCOURSE
Chair, Jeannette Acevedo Rivera, California State University, Long Beach

“The Covert Expression of Political Ideas in Fernán Caballero’s La corruptora y la

buena maestra (1868)”
Marina Cusovic-Severn, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

“Politics, Affect, and the Negotiations of Gender in Concepción Arenal’s

Antislavery Writings”
Akiko Tsuchiya, Washington University in St. Louis

“A black woman called blanca la extranjera, in Saez de Melgar’s Los miserables”

Ana Mateos, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

“What Have You Done Philately? Stamps and the Death of the Liberal Dream in
Carmen de Burgos’ Don Manolito (1916)”
Rocío Rødtjer, King’s College London

1:30-2:30pm Lunch at the Anatol Center and Patio

2:45-4:15pm | AS 384
PANEL 6: BETWEEN THE POLITICAL AND THE LITERARY: EMILIA PARDO
BAZÁN’S CONSTRUCTION OF SELF
Chair, Benito Gómez, California State University, Domínguez Hills

“De “juguete de la ciencia” a “dignidad pedagógica y patriótica”: cine y nación

en Emilia Pardo Bazán”
Alicia Cerezo, U. of Wisconsin-Madison

“Liturgización y sátira de la política en La Tribuna, de Pardo Bazán”

Cristina Carnemolla, Duke University

“Rastrear el “yo” mujer y el “yo” escritora en la correspondencia femenina de

finales del siglo XIX”
Ana I. Simón Alegre, Adelphi University

“Emilia Pardo Bazán’s Don Juan”

Patricia J Ramsay, Victoria University of Wellington

2:45-4:15pm | ANATOL CENTER

PANEL 7: LITERARY, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND GEOGRAPHIC CROSSINGS
IN LATIN AMERICA
Chair, Alicia del Campo, California State University, Long Beach

“Housework, capital accumulation and national progress in Central America:

Vicenta Laparra de la Cerda and her network of Guatemalan women writers
(1880- 1900)”
Patricia Arroyo Calderón, University of California, Los Angeles

“Europe’s Past and Argentina’s Future in Emma de la Barra’s Mecha Iturbe (1906)”
Lee Skinner, Claremont McKenna College

“Clorinda in the Modern Cosmopolis: Crisis, Reinvention, and the Birth

of Búcaro Americano”
Sarah Moody, The University of Alabama
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2:45-4:15pm | AS 241
Panel 8: WOMEN GOING PUBLIC: CONSTRUCTING A PUBLIC PERSONA
Chair, Mary Caputi, California State University, Long Beach

“Transnational Identities and Translated Agencies in

Madame de Staël’s Corinne, or Italy”
Clorinda Donato, California State University, Long Beach

“Wit, Women, and Paris in the Belle Époque Press: Jeanne Marni
and Jeanne Landre”
Cheryl Morgan, Hamilton College

“The Fourth Estate in Petticoats”

Michèle Claude Magnin, University of San Diego

2:45-4:15pm | AS 384
Panel 9: NAPLES IN THE WORKS OF MATILDE SERAO AND
FRANNY SALAZAR ZAMPINI
Chair Francesco Chianese, California State University, Long Beach

“A Nineteenth-Century Woman’s Need to Feed: Neapolitan Tastes and Customs in

the Works of Matilde Serao”
Daria Valentini, Stonehill College

“The Making of Il Giorno. Matilde Serao’s letters to Luigi Luzzatti”

Ombretta Frau, Mount Holyoke College

“Superstizione e Orientalismo ne Il ventre di Napoli”

Francesca Ricciardelli, California State University, Long Beach

“Fanny Salazar Zampini: a Neapolitan writer and the battle of her life”
Lucia Ducci, College of the Holy Cross

4:15-4:30pm Coffee Break

5:00-6:00pm Keynote Speaker

Dr. Pura Fernández, Research Professor at Centre for Human and Social Sciences,
Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid (Spain).

Title: Las aves sin nido de las Letras hispánicas: autoras y viajeras o los objects of
my affection de la Baronesa de Wilson (h.1834-1923)

6:30pm RECEPTION AT THE ANATOL CENTER

SATURDAY SESSIONS

8:30am
Coffee, tea and water will be provided

9-10:30am | AS 240
Panel 10: FORGING CELEBRITY IDENTITIES
Chair, Adriana Guarro, University of California, Los Angeles

“The “Alpine Sybil”: her verse and prose between Arcadia and
Romantism (Italian Way)”
Roberto Risso, Clemson University

“Courting Celebrity By Way of Autobiography: the Case of Angela Veronese”

Adrienne Ward, University of Virginia and Irene Zanini-Cordi, Florida State University

“Angelica Palli Bartolomei and Alessio (1827). Love and Patriotism in the Early
Italian Historical Novel”
Irene Zanini-Cordi, Florida State University

“Staging the Female Body: Annie Vivanti’s Marion artista di caffè-concerto”

Lisa Sarti, Borough of Manhattan Community College,
The City University of New York.

9:00-10:30am | ANATOL CENTER

PANEL 11: HERSTORY: REWRITING THE COLONIAL PAST AND BEYOND
Chair, Bonnie Gasior, California State University, Long Beach

“Views of the Colonial Past in Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda”

Mariselle Meléndez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

“From Exile: Marietta de Veintemilla Writing Herself into the History of Ecuador”
M. Gabriela Venegas, University of California, Los Angeles

“El archivo como un artefacto legitimador en “Ccora Campillana: Romance

histórico del tiempo de la conquista” (1873) de Carolina Freyre de Jaimes”
Laura Liendo, The Graduate Center, CUNY
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9:00-10:30pm | AS 384
PANEL 12: NINETEENTH-CENTURY WOMEN: STATIC AND IN MOTION
Chair, Aparna Nayak, California State University, Long Beach

“Solitary Confinement in Rachilde’s La Tour d’Amour: The Necrophile Madness of

the Buried Alive”
Céline Brossillon, Ursinus College

“Savoirs de jeunes filles: the Development of an Omeka Exhibit of Postcards”

Virginie Duzer and Tiffany Mi, Pomona College

“The Travelogues of Jane Dieulafoy in Iran: Explorer, Writer, Architect”

Heidi Brevik-Zender, University of California, Riverside

“Sophie Mereau’s Translations of Maria de Zayas and their Impact

on the Modern Novella”
Jeffrey L. High and Lisa Beesley, California State University, Long Beach

10:30-10:45am COFFEE BREAK

11:00-12:15pm | ANATOL CENTER

PANEL 13: FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES IN THE NEW REPUBLICS
Chair, Rocío del Águila, Wichita State University

“La musa de la derrota: Clorinda Matto, Mercedes Cabello y la escritura del

desastre (Perú, 1885-1895)”
José Alberto Portugal, New College of Florida

“Transgresiones epistolares e intervenciones políticas: el proyecto de Mariquita

Sánchez de Thompson en la Argentina decimonónica”
Soledad Mocchi-Radichi, Washington University in St. Louis

“Ficciones del dolor en la escritura de mujeres latinoamericanas”

Carol Arcos Herrera, Independent Scholar
11:00-12:15pm | AS 240
PANEL 14: GENEALOGIE, MODELLI, ALTERNATIVE: IL CONTRIBUTO DELLE
DONNE DI “IERI” RILETTO DALLE DONNE DI “OGGI”
Chair, Tatiana Crivelli Speciale, Università di Zurigo.

“Raccontare eccezioni per affermare una regola: i repertori di donne illustri tra
Italia e Francia nell’Ottocento”
Tatiana Crivelli Speciale, Università di Zurigo

“Emma Mahul and Marie-Anne Glomeau: the First French Women Translators of
Petrarch’s Canzoniere”
Riccardo Raimondo, Università di Zurigo

“Il cammino di vent’anni. Una «chiosa» anni Venti al movimento emancipazionista

di fine Ottocento”
Valeria Iaconis, Università di Zurigo

11:00-12:15pm | AS 384
PANEL 15: RESCUING JOURNALISTIC WRITING: THE FORGOTTEN WOMEN OF
THE PRESS
Chair, Nelly Goswitz, California State University, Long Beach

“Las humanidades digitales al servicio del siglo XIX: contribuidoras

a/de la prensa colombiana”
Melissa Parra, California State University, Long Beach

“Reeditando decimonónicas: una puesta en valor de los primeros periódicos

de mujeres en Chile”
Verónica Ramírez Errázuriz, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile & Carla
Ulloa Inostroza, CEIICH-UNAM

“Lectoras de la prensa femenina mexicana del siglo XIX: una reflexión a propósito
de Las hijas del Anáhuac, El álbum de la mujer y Violetas del Anáhuac”
Yliana Rodríguez González, El Colegio de San Luis, A.C.

“The Story of La Camelia” in Rosa Guerra’s 19th Century Newspaper La camelia”

Emily E. Frankel, University of California, Davis

12:15-1:15pm LUNCH ANATOL CENTER

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1:15-2:45pm | AS 240
PANEL 16: TRANSGRESSIVE BEHAVIORS: WOMEN BEHAVING BADLY
Chair, Laura Loustau, Chapman University

“A portarse como una dama: comportamiento y ciudadanía”

Rocío del Águila, Wichita State University

“Confesiones de la Condesa de Merlin y el fantasma de Rousseau”

Claire Emilie Martin, California State University, Long Beach

“Wagering On Cards and Matrimony in Mercedes Cabello

de Carbonera’s Blanca Sol”
Emily Joy Clark, Sonoma State University

“El lápiz de una hermana – Feminist Literature as a Discourse of Equality”

Catarina von Wedemeyer (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Freie Universität Berlin)

1:15-2:45pm | ANATOL CENTER

PANEL 17: MIRADAS PEREGRINAS: ITINERARIOS NACIONALES E
IMAGINARIOS TRANSATLÁNTICOS EN LAS ESCRITORAS DEL SIGLO XIX
Chair, Adriana Méndez Rodenas, University of Missouri

“Tradiciones Cuzqueñas: la proyección de la escritora”

Fanny Roncal Ramírez, Concordia College

“‘El baúl de Miss Florence’: Mujeres viajeras y la (des)construcción del mundo

azucarero de Puerto Rico”
Tania Carrasquillo Hernández, Linfield College  

«La otra y la misma: la construcción del sujeto femenino en los apuntes de viaje
de Isabel Pesado de Mier»
Patricia Quintana Lantigua, El Colegio de San Luis, A.C.

“Cartografías románticas: la condesa de Merlin mira La Habana”

Adriana Méndez Rodenas, The University of Missouri
1:15-2:45pm | AS 384
PANEL 18: WOMEN WRITERS AGAINST CULTURAL
PRACTICES AND INSTITUTIONS
Chair, Teresa Puente, California State University, Long Beach

“Entre Risas y Lágrimas, el discurso literario finisecular de Virginia Elena Ortea”

Mercedes Fernández Asenjo, Independent Scholar, University of Houston

“Writing about the Unspeakable: Domestic Violence in the Nineteenth-Century”

Brenda Ortiz-Loyola, California State University, Stanislaus

“Cuerpo, erotismo y devenires de una subjetividad femenina en enunciación: Los

cálices vacíos, de Delmira Agustini”
Arcea Zapata de Aston, Investigadora Independiente

3-4pm | ANATOL CENTER

Keynote Speaker II
Catriona Seth, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature All Souls College, Oxford

Title of the Talk: “One of the first, if not the very first, of the female writers of the
age’. Germaine de Staël and her literary posterity”

4:00pm CLOSING REMARKS ANATOL CENTER

Very special thanks to:
Manuel Romero, The George L. Graziadio Center for Italian Studies
Debbie Hildreth Pisarcik, College of Liberal Arts
Alessandro Russo, RGRLL Department
Cindy Tovar, RGRLL Department
Eric Cohen, Translator, LBCC
Abril Calderón, Graphic Designer
Carlos Meyerstein, Spanish Graduate Student Association
Natalie Nutman, Spanish Graduate Student Association
Francesca Ricciardelli, Club Italia
Joanna Tatro, French Club
The volunteer students of Club Italia, Spanish Graduate Student Association, and
the French Club

We would like to thank our sponsors for their generous support:

The University Library
The Office of the President 
The Office of the Provost 
The Office of the Vice Provost of Graduate Studies
College of Liberal Arts Scholarly Intersections Grant
The President’s Commission on the Status of Women
The George L. Graziadio Center for Italian Studies
The Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literatures Department
The English Department
The History Department
The Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department
Associated Students, INC