Program Committee:

Julie Early, University of Alabama Huntsville
Phylis Floyd, Michigan State University (Program Director)
Joyce Henri Robinson, Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University
 

Thursday, March 23, 2000

4:00-6:00 p.m.             NCSA Board Meeting

4:00-6:00 p.m.             Registration

7:00-7:30 p.m.             Dance Recital, The Sleeper, Amy Stoddart, University of Oregon

7:30-9:00 p.m.            Reception

Friday, March 24, 2000

7:30-8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast

8:30-5:00 p.m. Registration

8:30-9:45 a.m. Session I Concurrent Panels

Panel I-A       Visions of the Other

            Moderator: Srilekha Bell, University of New Haven

            Beverly Peterson, Penn State Fayette, "Seth and Mary Eastman's Conflicting Visions of the Sioux"

            Ann C. Curley, Georgetown University, "Real Life and Dream Life in Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland"

            Ralph Frasca, Marymount University,  "Racial Reflections in Southern Newspapers on the First Black Major Baseball Player"

Panel I -B      The Visions of Mary Shelley

            Moderator: Regina Hewitt, University of South Florida

            Lucy Morrison, Penn State Hazleton,  "Female Re-Vision: Mary Shelley's Valperga"

            Sangita Gopal, University of Rochester, "Only the Paranoid Survive: The 'Last Man' Narrative as a Vision of the Millenium"

            Cindy Bosley, Owens Community College, "Tomas Transtromer and the Presence of the Monster

Panel I-C         Re-visions and Revelations: Spiritual Movements and Mystical Experience in 19th Century American Women's Writing

            Moderator: Sarah Klein, University of Maryland

            Sandra Alagona, Mt. San Antonio College/ La Sierra University,  "Another Disappointment? Regarding Ellen White's Prophecies"

            Sarah Klein, University of Maryland, "'I Had a Divine Mother': Shaker Rhetoric of Maternity & the Visionary Writings of Rebecca Jackson"

            Annemarie Elizabeth Hamlin, La Sierra University, "The Vampire Versus the Savior: Competing Visions of Mesmerism in 19th Century
            Fiction."

Panel I-D      Envisioning the Self

            Moderator: David Hanson, Southwestern Louisiana University

            Sean Meehan, University of  Iowa, "Representative Vision: Emerson, Photography, Autobiography

            Phillip McCaffrey, Loyola College, "Colonizing the Self: James' 'The Jolly Corner'"

            Robert M. Ryan, Rutgers University, Camden, "DeQuincey's Atonement"

 10:-11:30 a.m. Session II Concurrent Panels

 Panel II-A     Dreams in Women's Writing

            Moderator: Hugh Andrews, Northern Michigan University

            Helen Pike Bauer, Iona College, "The Gothic Anti-Hero and the Despair of Culture"

            Jolene Zigarovich, Claremont Graduate University, " 'And the Rousing Storm Continued': Lucy Snowe's Traumatic Narrative in Villette"

            Debra San, Massachusetts College of Art, "Emily Dickinson's Dream Poems: the Suburbs of a Secret"

            Ronald Morrison, Morehead State University,  "'The Dream Book': Ideology and Form in Sarah Grand's The Beth Book"

Panel II-B    Dreams, Obsessions,  and the Uncanny

            Moderator: Linda Zatlin, Morehouse College

            Marilyn Kurata, University of Alabama at Birmingham, "Exploring the World of (Lucid) Dreaming in Dickens"

            William H. Scheuerle, University of South Florida,  "Psychological Possessions, Obsessions, and Manifestations."

            Karen O'Connor-Floman, The George Washington University, "Moral or Otherwise? The Uncanny in Lucy Clifford's Anyhow Stories"

            Fernando Soto, Independent Scholar, "Explaining Some of Carroll's Visions, Dreams and Nightmares: A Medical Reading of The Hunting
            of the Snark"

Panel II-C     Visions of Science and Scientific Visions

            Moderator: Patricia O'Hara, Franklin and Marshall

            Paula Young Lee, University of  South Florida, "Balzac, Cuvier, and the Spectre of Science"

            Kathryn M. Olesko,  Center for German & European Studies, Georgetown University, "The Deceptions of Vision: Optical Illusions in
            German Society"

            Cynthia Huff, Illinois State University, "Blurring into Nightmare: Eugenics, Photography and the Science of Francis Galton."

            Judy Bullington, Western Oregon University, "Art, Science, and the Mobile Eye of the Observer in Late 19th-Century America"

Panel II-D     The City: Vision and Reality

            Moderator: Ralph Frasca, Marymount University

            David Goslee, University of Tennessee, "From Dark Tower to Benighted City: Visions in Browning and Thomson"

            Sara Bjarstorp, Lund University, "Limiting the Field of  Vision: Distorted Flanerie in the Late-Victorian Horror Text"

            Carole Kruger, Davidson College, "Contagious Poverty, Contagious Immorality: Sites of Infection in French Social Investigations of the
            1830s and 1840s."

            Michelle Allen, University of Virginia, "The Poverty of Improvement: Gissing and the London Housing Crisis"

11:45 - 1:00 pm Lunch and Business Meeting

1:00 - 2:00 pm   Keynote address The Artist's Dream

            Professor Petra ten-Doesschate Chu, Seton Hall University

 2:30-3:45 p.m. Session III Concurrent Panels

Panel III-A     Visions of Travel

            Moderator: Susan B. Fay, Marymount University

            Gib Prettyman, Penn State University Fayette, "Seeing the Sites: Industrial Tourism in Harper's Weekly."

            Krisiti Planck Johnson and Christina Hansen, Marymount University, "Visions from Hans Christian Anderson"

            Anita Gorman, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, "Do Not Wake Me From This Dream: Robert Louis Stevenson and the Songs of
            Travel"

Panel III-B    Seeing and Believing

            Moderator: Janice Simon, University of Georgia

            Denise Oleksijczuk, University of British Columbia, "La Nature a Coup d'Oeil: Illusion and Perception in the Leicester Square Panorama"

            Wendy Bellion, Northwestern University,  "Deceptio Visus: Painting and Optics in Federal Philadelphia"

            Laura Schiavo, George Washington University, "The Gender of Vision: Stereoscopes in the Parlor at Mid-Century"

 Panel III-C   Visions in the Work of Women Novelists

            Moderator: Maureen Andrews, Northern Michigan University

            Clay Daniel, University of Texas, Pan American "Charlotte Bronte's Re-Vision of Paradise Lost"

            Eleanor Salotto, Sweet Briar College, "The Limits of Detection in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White"

            Virginia S. Walker, Suffolk County Community College, "Claiming Oracularity and Reason as her Own"

 Panel III-D    Theoretical Visions

            Moderator: David Stewart, University of Alabama, Huntington

            Marylu Hill, Villanova University, "Carlyle's Magic Mirror: Dreams and Visions in Victorian Approaches to History"

            Maria Aparecida da Silva, UFRJ, "Goya's Prints as Dialectical Interface in Fuentes' and Carpentier's Works"

            Chris Foss, Mary Washington College, "Utopic Haze: Outside Conrad's Heart of Darkness"

            Rebecca Warburton Boylan, Independent Scholar, "The Letter Killeth"

 4:00-5:30 p.m.  Session IV Concurrent Panels

Panel IV-A    Spiritualism

            Moderator: Suzanne Johnson Flynn, Gettysburg College

            C.P. Webster, University of Wales, "A Dark Brightness: Spirit Photographs from the 19th Century"

            Sheri Weinstein, University of Buffalo, "Visionary Matters in Henry James' Spiritualism"

            Agnes Shields, Chestnut Hill College, "Alfred, Lord Tennyson's 'St. Simeon Stylites' and Robert Browning's 'Mr. Sludge, the Medium':
            Poetic Attacks on  Some Popular Alternate Religious Experiences of the Nineteenth Century"

            Marlene Tromp, Denison University, "Technicolor Visions: Victorian Spiritualism and the Black-Faced Ghost"

 Panel IV-B  Visionary Architecture, Architectural Visions

            Moderator: Michael Duffy, East Carolina State University

            Robert M. Craig, Georgia Tech "Viollet-le-Duc and Maybeck's Conversion to the Poetic Vision of Architecture"

            Carla Yanni, Rutgers University, "The Insane Asylum in Victorian America: An Architectural History"

            Kathleen Church Plummer, University of California, Davis,  "Invisibility and Modern Design: The 19th-Century Heritage"

             Giovanna Costantini, Center for Creative Studies, ”Paradiso: Antoni Gaudi's Sagrada Familia and the Shape of  Fantasy"

Panel IV-C    American Utopian Visions

            Moderator: Elizabeth England, Marymount University

            Gail Husch, Goucher College, "America's Millennial Dream and the Specter of Slavery: Some Visual Responses."

            Nadesan Permaul, University of California, Berkeley, "Herman Melville's Vision of Democratic Man in America"

            William Morgan, Brandeis University,  "Immanent Utopianism: Booker T. Washington's Rhetoric, Charisma, and Cultural Polemics"

Panel IV-D    Dream Theory

            Moderator: Sean Hoare, Marymount University

            Michael Raiger,  New York University, "Coleridge, Freud and the Interpretation of Dreams"

             Kathryn B. Kimball, Seton Hall University, "Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Visionary Dream Theory"

             Hellmut Wohl, Boston University, "Before Freud: The Theory and Depiction of Dreams in the 19th Century"

 6:00-8:30 p.m.

            "American Treasures of the Library of Congress"

            Reception and Tour by Anthony J. Mullen

Saturday, March 25

7:30 - 8:30a.m.   Continental Breakfast

8:30-9:45 a.m. Session V  Concurrent Panels

Panel V-A    Recurring Nightmares: The Re-Enactments of Victorian Narrative

            Moderator: Elizabeth Winston, University of Tampa

            Amanda Claybaugh, Harvard University, "Reform's Nightmare: Didacticism and Delirium Tremens"

            Lisa Sternlieb, Wake Forest University, "The Unpainted Canvas: Sordid Visions in Victorian Modern Life Painting"

            Caroline Levine, Rutgers University, "The Benefits of Repetition: Experimenting with Nightmares in  The Moonstone"

Panel V-B    Electrical and Mechanical Visions

            Moderator: Robert M. Ryan, Rutgers University,  Camden

            Joel Haefner, Illinois Wesleyan University, "A Victorian Digital Vision: Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace and the Analytical Engine"

            Shelley Wood Cordulack, Millikin University, "A Vision of Light: Art & Electricity, Paris vs. New York"

            Jürgen Martschukat, University of Hamburg, "The Art of Killing by Electricity': The Sublime and the Electric Chair"

Panel V-C       Allegories of Knowledge, Dreams of the Unseen: Epistemological Crisis in Fin-de-siecle Literature, Painting, Science and
Philosophy

            Moderator: Kathryn A. Tuma, NGA, Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts

            Jennifer L. Shaw, Sonoma State University, "The Epistemology of Dream: Puvis de Chavannes's Sorbonne Mural"

            Joshua Landy, Stanford University, The Unpurloined Letter: A Meta-Will-To-Ignorance in Nietzsche and Proust"

            Kathryn A. Tuma, NGA, Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, "Allegories of the Invisible: Some Reflections on Cezanne's Stroke,
            Lucretius and Theoretical Physics at the End of the Nineteenth Century."

Panel V-D    The Masculine Vision

            Moderator: Uma Satyavolu Rau, Gettysburg College

            David Hennessee, University of Washington "Tennyson's In Memorium: Masochism and Male Bonding, or, Love Hurts"

            Lauren Stasiak, University of Washington, " 'I thought it was madness and now I begin to fear that it is disgrace': Gothic Fictions and
            Gentlemanly (Mis) Behavior at the fin-de-siècle"

             Catherine Landwehr, University of Washington, " 'Gentleman at Large': Individualism, Insanity, and the Nightmares of Empire in Kipling's
            The Man Who Would be King"

10-11:30 a.m.  Session VI Concurrent Panels

Panel VI-A    Visions of Sexuality

            Moderator: Leona Fisher,  Georgetown University

            Elizabeth Menon, Mankato State University, "Amazons and their Toys--Masculine Nightmare or Feminine Fetish"

            Suzanne Gandell Hinman, Independent Scholar, "Stimulating Visions: the American Art Nouveau Handmirror as Marriage Primer"

             Kathleen Anderson, Palm Beach Atlantic College, "Literary Transvestitism: 19th Century Actresses and Autobiographical Dramatics"

 Panel VI-B   Dreams and Nightmares in Music and Popular Art

            Moderator: Andre Spies Hollins College

            David Z. Kushner, University of Florida, "Nightmares, Dreams and Visions: Their Treatment in 19th- Century Music"

            Philippe Kaenel, Université de Lausanne, "The Dream Ridiculed: Illusion, Allusion, Parody and the Graphic Arts"

            Becky Lewis, University of South Carolina, "Visions, Dreams and Nightmares in Popular English Periodicals of the 1890s"

Panel VI-C   Nightmares and the Vision of Salvation

            Moderator: Joseph Gardner, University of Kentucky

            Patrick R. O'Malley, Fordham University, "Back to the Future: Gothic Dreams and Futurist Nightmares in Loudon's The Mummy"

            Nancy Siegel, Juniata College Museum of  Art, "Hellfire and Damnation: Thomas Cole's The Course of Empire and his Vision of Salvation"

            Kimberly Van Esveld Adams, Wichita State University, "Religion as Racial Inheritance: George Eliot's The Spanish Gypsy and Daniel
            Deronda"

            Janice McCullagh,  Baylor University, "Dreams of Doubt: A Geneology of Religious Crisis"

11:40 - 1:20 pm  Lunch on your own

1:30-3:00 p.m. Session VII Concurrent Panels

Panel VII-A    Freudian Dreams

            Janice Simon, University of Georgia

            Jack J. Spector, Rutgers University, "A Dream of a Hand in a Letter of Delacroix"

            Rajeshwari Vallury, University of Pittsburgh, "Maupassant's Pierre et Jean or the Erring of Oedipus"

            Maria H. Frawley, University of Delaware, "'Phantasmal Noises' and 'Frightful Visions' : Sexuality and Sleep in John Addington  Symonds'
            Memoirs"

            Diane O'Donoghue, Tufts University/Boston Psychoanalytic Society, "The Interpretation of Screams: Freud's Hysteria in 1900."

 Panel VII-B  Communal Religious Visions

            Moderator: Margaret Malrooney, Marymount University

            Ann Kirschner, University of Delaware, "'Diabolical or Divine?' The Perception of Dreams and Visions in the Evangelical and Shaker
            Communities 1790-1830"

            William Rushby, Independent Scholar, "'I have not followed cunningly devised fables': The Prophetic Ministry of a 19th Century
            Conservative Quaker"

            Ryan K. Smith, University of Delaware, "The Cross: Anti-Catholicism and Protestant Symbolism in 19th Century America"

            John Harvey, University of Wales, "'See the Hammer Falling': Visionary Manifestations of the Welsh Religious Revival"

 Panel VII-C  Political Fantasies

            Jane El-Yacoubi, "Marymount University, "The Spiritual and Theological Decadence of the Communist Dream" (withdrew)

            Honor McKitrick Wallace, Vanderbilt University, "'Order is Heaven's First Law': Fin de siècle Fantasies of Anarchy"

            Simon Joyce, Texas Christian University, "Late-Victorian Utopia and the Nightmare of Stasis: The Aesthetics of State in William Morris and
            G.K. Chesterton."

            Margaret D. Stetz, Georgetown University, "Turning Nightmares into Dreams: Late-Victorian Political Fantasies."

3:15-4:30 p.m.  Session VIII Concurrent Panels

Panel VIII-A   The Fantasies of the Rossetti's

            Moderator: Karen Waters, Marymount University

            Matthew Potolsky, University of Utah, "How to Look at Medusa: Rossetti's Vision of Mimesis"

            Lara Freeburg, University of North Carolina, "'Come back to me in dreams': Christina Rossetti and the Erotics of Distance"

            F. Elizabeth Gray, University of Virginia, "'Pangs of Utterless Desire'" Christina Rossetti's Fantasies of Martyrdom"

 Panel VIII-B   Imaging the Dream

            Moderator: Joyce Henri Robinson, Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State University

            Susan Houghton Libby, Rollins College, "'Who would want to paint it if no one wants to see it?': Vision and Blindness in Girodet's Revolt of
            Cairo" (withdrew)

            Gayle Rodda Kurtz, The Graduate School of the City University of New York,  "The Golden Age: The Primitive Dream, The Ideal Solution"

            Béatrice Laurent, Université d'Avignon, "Vision and Apocryphal Re-Vision in William Holman Hunt's Triumph of the Innocents"

            Elizabeth Gray Buck, Independent Scholar, "'Like a strange dream made visible': Gustave Moreau and Salome"

Panel VIII-C   Utopian Visions

            Moderator: Phylis Floyd, Michigan State University

            Tina Kelleher,  Johns Hopkins University, News from Nowhere: William Morris's Utopian Designs, Aesthetic Visions

            Jay S. Andrews, University of Pennsylvania, "Envisioning a Corporate Millenium: The Great Trust in Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward:
            2000-1887." (withdrew)

            Margaret Werth, Barnard College, Columbia University, "Late 19th- Century Utopian Landscapes"

            Martin Schwarz, East Carolina University, "Jules Verne's Utopia: Political and Social Implications"