NCSA Draft Program, 15th January, 2006
Registration & Exhibits:
Noon to 5:00 March 16
8:00-4:30 March 17
8:00-Noon March 18
Thursday, March 16th:
9-11:30: Board Meeting
11:30-12:15:
Lunch on your own
12:30-2: Session I
Panel I-A
Travelers’ “Truths”: Searching, Seeking, Speaking
Moderator : Heidi Kaufman
- “‘Arabifying Pictures ’: Horace Vernet’s 1846 Lecture to the Académie des Beaux-Arts on the ‘Use of the Modern Inhabitants of the Orient as Models for Biblical and Historical Paintings’”
Thomas J. O’Brien, SUNY—Suffolk
- “Going to the Dogs?: British Travel Writers and the ‘Turkish Question’”
Jeanne Dubino, Southeastern Louisiana University
- “‘Be My Mouth, O Macumazahn’: Travel and Translation in H. Rider Haggard’s King Solomon’s Mines”
Rachael Gilmour, Queen Mary, University of London
Russell E. Brayley, George Mason University
Panel I-B
Consumption and Travel
Moderator : Michael Duffy
- “Women Travelers in Brazil, 1835-1895: A Paradise Encountered”
Evelyn M. Cherpak, Naval War College
- “The American Tour: Frances Trollope, Frances Kemble, and Transatlantic Culture”
Melissa Ganz, Yale University
- “‘Wander away’ With Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins”
Maria K. Bachman, Coastal Carolina University
- “Cézanne in the Alps: The Accidental Tourist”
Maura Coughlin, Brown University
Panel I-C
Forms of Travel; Means of Transport
Moderator : Dan Guernsey
- “A Grand Tour: Joseph Shipley’s Brougham Carriage and the Experience of Mobility, 1851-54”
Daniel Claro, University of Delaware
- “Queen of the Road: Bicycling, Femininity, and the Lady Cyclist”
Yvonne Jinya Huang, University of Sussex
- “Women on Top: Mountain Climbing and the Female Tourist in Maria Cummins’s The Lamplighter”
Tara K. Parmiter, New York University
- “If You Bring It, They Will Read: The Historical Travels of the Washington County Free Library’s Book Wagon”
Lauren Christos, Florida International University
2-2:15: Break
2:15-3:30: Session II
Panel II-A
The Genre of Travel: Journals, Journalism, Sketches, and Photographs
Moderator : Regina Hewitt
- “Missionary Travel and the Aftermath of Empire”
Anna Johnston, University of Tasmania
- “Sensationalism in the Global Context: World Travel and the Reconfiguration of Space in Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Belgravia”
Alberto Gabriele, New York University
- “Amateur Jotting and Professional Practice: Stephen Crane and the Late- 19 th-Century Traveller’s Sketch”
John Fagg, University of Birmingham
- “Picturing ‘Yankee City’ on the Periphery of Europe”
Dorothy Barenscott, University of British Columbia
Panel II-B
Imperialism and Travels East
Moderator : Drew Hubbell
- “Exhibiting Empire: Annie Brassey, Angel or Ethnographer?”
Jennifer Hayward, College of Wooster
- “Sexual Tourism in My Secret Life”
Deborah Lutz, Hunter College
- “Imprisoning the ‘Queer’ Oriental: Whirling Dervishes, Homoeroticism, and Violence in Victorian Ghost Stories”
Fulya Holtze, Denison University
- “Remembering A Forgotten Voice: The Travel Writings of Sarah Lee”
Sarah A. Strachan, King’s College, London
Panel II-C
Travels in Spain
Moderator: Suzanne Ozment
- “George Eliot in Spain: Landscapes for a Creative Imagination”
Kathleen McCormack, Florida International University
- “Confrontation of Cultures: The Spanish Realist Writers’ Use of Folklore”
Sarah Sierra, James Madison University
- “Migrating Mujeres and Gender Bending in 19 th-Century Spanish Painting”
Michelle Swindell, University of Texas at Dallas
- “A Tale of Two Travelers: Juan Valera and Benito Pérez Galdós, and the Art of Travel Literature in 19th-Century Spain”
James C. Courtad, Central Michigan University
3:30-3:45: Break
3:45-4:45: Keynote Speaker—Dr. Susan Braden (Art History), Auburn University
“Florida’s Gilded Age Resort Hotels and the Creation of the American Riviera”
5:15-6:45: Opening Reception featuring wine and light hors d’oeuvres— at Salisbury University’s Fulton Art Gallery
Exhibit: Darwin’s Enchanted Islands (photography by Ronald Gard)
Buses will run to and from Ramada and SU between 4:50 and 7:10
Dinner on your own
Friday, March 17th:
7:30-8:30: Continental Breakfast
8:30-10: Session III
Panel III-A
Tourism’s Histories
Moderator : Elizabeth Winston
- “Manifesto for a Maine Vacation: The Poland Spring Resort, 1860-1900”
David L. Richards, Northwood University
- “Philadelphia’s Boathouse Row: The Rise and Decline of Municipal Control”
Thomas G. Beischer, California College of the Arts and Sciences
- “Gulf Coast Resort Towns Before 1860 and After 1884”
Phillippe Oszuscik, University of South Alabama
- “Half Way Between New York and Chicago: The Mineral Water Tourist Boom and its Effects on Cambridgeboro”
Daniel R. Vogel, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania
Panel III-B
Imagining Place
Moderator : Bill Scheuerle
- “The Artist as Tourist: Picturing Latin American Landscape”
Peter Zylstra, Tecnologico de Monterrey, Campus Sonora Norte
- “Traversing the North: Pilgrims, Surveyors, and the Landscape in Pre-Famine Ulster”
Claire Norcio, Brandeis University
- “The Wilds of Ireland: Commercial Tourism and Routes Through Ireland’s West, 1880-1914”
Kevin James, University of Guelph
- “Winter Resorts?: Urban Tourism in the Late-19 th-Century American West”
Phil Gruen, Washington State University
Panel III-C
Tourism’s Inventions
Moderator : Maria K. Bachman
- “The Imperial Sketch Hunt”
Elizabeth Mjelde, De Anza College
- “Real and Fictional Travel to the Wild West: An Austrian Woman’s Journey and a German Man’s Fantasy”
Susanne Kelley, University of Nevada, Reno
- “‘This Hitherto Un-Murrayed Bathing Place’: Robert Browning and the Poetics of Seaside Tourism”
Christopher Keirstead, Auburn University
- “Ancient Ephesos in the 19 th Century: The Making of a Tourism Capital”
Zeynep Aktüre, Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation Post-Graduate Research Scholar
10-10:15: Break
10:15-11:45: Session Four
Panel IV-A
Tourist Destinations
Moderator : Phylis Floyd
- “Locating Cranford: Elizabeth Gaskell, Cranford, and Literary Tourism”
Pamela Corpron Parker, Whitworth College
- “Reader, Pilgrim, Patriot, Traveler: Writers’ Homes and the Literary Tourist”
Susan Fay, Marymount University
- “‘Ladies May be Assured:’ The Role of Women in the Making of Tourism in America, 1790-1830”
Richard Gassan, American University of Sharjah (U.A.E.)
- “From the Prison of the Nation: Traveling Britons in Charles Dickens’ Little Dorrit and Giovanni Ruffini’s Doctor Antonio”
Katarina Gephardt, Kennesaw State University
Panel IV-B
Traveling Outward, Inward, and Upward
Moderator : Carol Morrison
- “Crossing Land, Crossing Over: Traveling with Spiritualism”
Marlene Tromp, Denison University
- “Sea Voyages, Shipwrecks, and the Journey Toward Self in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette”
André L. DeCuir, Muskingum College
- “Outgrowing Silver Shoes”
Heidi Pierce, University of Delaware
- “Re(-)creation in Italy: Women’s Travel and the Mental Sciences in Mrs. Humphrey Ward’s Eleanor”
Kathryn Pivak, Duquesne University
Panel IV-C
Travel: In Sickness and in Health
Moderator : Christine Roth
- “Watering Holes of East Tennessee”
Mary Fanslow, East Tennessee State University
- “The Pursuit of Health at 19 th-Century American Resorts”
Anne Marie Lane, University of Wyoming
- “Geographies of Working-Class Health: Vacation Schools, Summer Camps, and Nature Travel in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago”
Michelle Kleehammer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- “Getting Out of the Crescent City: Tourism, Race, Class, and the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1853”
Patrick Brennan, Gulf Coast Community College
11:45-1:30: Luncheon
Annual Business Meeting and Awards Ceremony
1:30-2:30: Plenary Speaker—Dr. Rob Craig (Architecture), GA Institute of Technology
“Architectural History and Pop Culture of Ocean City”
Optional Excursion:
3:00-8:00: Bus Excursion: Tour of 19 th century town of Berlin and Ocean City, including dinner at Harrison’s Harbor Watch restaurant. Bus returns to Ramada approx. 9pm
Saturday, March 18th:
7:30-8:30: Continental Breakfast
8:30-9:45: Session Five
Panel V-A
Continuing to Learn from Wayne C. Booth: A Panel in his Memory
Moderator : Elizabeth K. Helsinger
- “The Higher Criticism, the Haskalah, and the Rhetoric of Religion”
David H. Richter, Queens College and CUNY Graduate Center
- “Keeping Company with Sisters: Macaulay, Goethe, and the Ethics of Autobiography”
David Hanson, Southeastern Louisiana University
- “Revisiting ‘the Visitable Past’: The Aspern Papers and The Rhetoric of Fiction after 29 Years”
Meri-Jane Rochelson, Florida International University
Panel V-B
Travels in Print
Moderator: Judith Pike
- “Chocolate Bars and Armchair Travelers: Notions of Home and Abroad in the Trading Cards of Imperial Germany”
Alyssa Lonner, Wake Forest University
- “‘Literary Poison in August’: Summer Books and Summer Reading in the 19th-Century”
Donna Harrington-Lueker, Salve Regina University
- “Amateur Artists on Tour: The Travel Drawings of Edward Jones and Henry Byam Martin”
Jenny McComas, Indiana University Art Museum
- “Creating Wessex: Thomas Hardy and Literary Tourism”
Deborah Maltby, University of Missouri—Kansas City
Panel V-C
Travel and the Heritage Industry
Moderator : Constance L. Woodard
- “Making Michelangelo: Florence’s Michelangelo Festival, 1875”
Claire Black McCoy, Longwood University
- “Foot Travel and the Search for Ethnic Identity in Early-19 th-Century Germany”
Johann Reusch, University of Washington
- “National Identity and Travel Writing: A Comparative Study of the German Travel Writings of Bayard Taylor and Mark Twain”
Allie Tichenor, University of Texas at Austin
- “Nineteenth Century Tourism Development in Southern Nicaragua: and how the Panama Canal Changed It All”
Shane Taylor, Columbia University
9:45-10: Break
10-11:30: Session Six
Panel VI-A
Hypertextual Tourism
Moderator and Respondent: Thomas A. Chambers
- “Hypertextual Archiving for Beginners: A Tour of the Yellow Book Project”
Dennis Denisoff, Ryerson University
- “Designing an Electronic Archive: The Example of a Ruskin Family Journey”
David Hanson, Southeastern Louisiana University
Panel VI-B
Visions Of and From Scotland
Moderator : Ben Gill
- “The Museum as Resort: A Case Study of the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art”
Geoffrey N. Swinney, University of Edinburgh
- “‘Beauteous Forms’ and ‘Abundant Recompense’: 19 th-Century Tourism and the Image of Scotland”
Christine Roth, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh
- “Keeping Faith: Scottish Tourism as a Means of Religious Pilgrimage”
Katherine Haldane Grenier, The Citadel
Panel VI-C
Travel and Celebrity
Moderator : Ann Marie Ross
- “‘Under the Wing of Mr. Cook’: Tourism, Governance, and Thomas Cook”
Trent S. Newmeyer, Brock University
- “Coming to His Senses About America: Charles Dickens’s 1842 Celebrity Tour”
Nancy Metz, Virginia Tech
- “The Career of Calvert Richard Jones: Amateur or Professional Photographer?”
Martha M. Schloetzer, Carnegie Museum of Art
11:30-1: Lunch on your own
1-2:30: Session Seven
Panel VII-A
Escaping Self in Vacations?
Moderator : Greg Jones
- “To Leipzig and Back: American Pilgrims and Academic Psychology”
Bill Whitlow, Rutgers University at Camden
- “Bone Digger Tourists: The Yale Scientific Expedition of 1871”
Mary Faith Pankin, George Washington University
- “Playing the Intrepid Adventurer: Sarah Bernhardt in Ma double vie”
Nathalie Charron Marcus, Bryn Mawr College
- “‘Under the Aegis of the Poly Flag’: The Polytechnic Co-Operative Educational Tours and the Cultural Construction of the British Citizen”
Michele Marion Strong, Trinity University
Panel VII-B
Piano Concerts
Moderator: Linda Zatlin
- “Robert Schumann’s Forest Scenes: A Lecture Recital”
David Goldblatt,
- “Anton Rubinstein (1829-1894): A Life of Many Journeys”
David Z. Kushner, University of Florida
Panel VII-C
Group Reflections on Travel
Moderator : Dennis Denisoff
- “Singing for Their Supper: A Michigan Family’s Southern Tour in 1851-52”
Ellen Huppert, Institute for Historical Study and the National Coalition of Independent Scholars
- “Discovery of the Balkans: Mackenzi and Irby’s Travels to Slavonic Provinces of Turkey- in-Europe ”
Ana Savic, University of California Riverside
- “French Travellers Abroad; or, the Politics of Transportation”
Ting Chang, McGill University
2:30-2:45: Break
2:45-4:15: Session Eight
Panel VIII-A
Rewriting Romanticism’s Travels
Moderator : TBA
- “‘Lumbering our Minds with Literature’: Jane Addams, Thomas De Quincey, and the Socially Responsible Traveler”
Regina Hewitt, University of South Florida
- “‘It Was an Ancient Mariner’: Sir Ernest Shackleton Rewrites the Romantic Quest”
J. Andrew Hubbell, Susquehanna University
- “The Wordsworth Pilgrimage”
Robert M. Ryan, Rutgers University at Camden
- “Spiritual Re-creation in Wordsworth’s The Prelude and Newman’s Loss and Gain”
David J. Bradshaw, Warren Wilson College
Panel VIII-B
Traveling Arts and Artists
Moderator : TBA
- “Destination Restaurants: Urban Tourism and Chop Suey, 1880-1910”
Andrew P. Haley, University of Southern Mississippi
- “Travel Guides of the Second Empire (1852-1870): The Palatability of History”
Daniel Sipe, Iowa State University
Sumangala Bhattacharya, New Mexico State University
- “Food as a Tool for Traveling Through Time and Space at the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris”
Maria P. Gindhart, Georgia State University
Panel VIII-C
Beyond Domesticity?: Imagining Women on the Edge
Moderator : Meri-Jane Rochelson
- “‘Domestic Tourism’ and ‘Lady Travellers’ in Early-19 th-Century Britain”
Susan M. Kroeg, Eastern Kentucky University
- “‘Manufacturing Romance: Bridal Chambers in 19 th- Century America”
Barbara Penner, University College London
- “More Fine Than ‘Grand’: Ann Flaxman’s Artistic Tour”
Marie E. McAllister, University of Mary Washington
- “Perilous Journeys: Transatlantic Marriages in 19 th- Century British Literature”
Salome C. Nnoromele, Eastern Kentucky University
5-7: Closing Reception (at Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art) featuring wine and light hors d’oeuvres
Buses will run to and from Ramada and Ward Museum, 4:45-7:15
Dinner on your own.
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