Conference Program

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Coast Plaza Hotel
Vancouver, BC
October 25-27, 2007

Plenary 1: Christopher Ricks, "The Case of T.S. Eliot"
5:30 –7:00 pm
Barclay / Gilford Room

RECEPTION
7:00-9:00 pm
(35th Floor – Evergreen to Cityview)

	Barclay Room		Gilford Room		Bayside Room
Panel 1	Byron and Vampires	Panel 2	Byron and Joyce	Panel 3	Reception of Byron in North American Literature
1	Mervyn Nicholson (Thompson Rivers University) Byron Envy	1	Christopher Stratham (Case Western) Orpheus Rising: Byron and Literary Modernism	1	Stan Galloway (Bridgewater College) Manfred of the Jungle: Tarzan as Byronic Hero
2	Erma Petrova (U. of Ottawa) The Seduction of Hyper-Evil: The Byronic Vampire and the Binaries of Moral Law	2	James Fleming (U. of Florida) Reading and Misreading Byron in Joyce’s “A Little Cloud” and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	2	Sam Schwartz (Univ. of Arizona) Revisiting Byron’s Erotic Battlefields
3	Christoph Ehland (U. of Würzburg) Bloodsucking and Scandalous: The Reincarnations of Byron in Modernity	3	Jay Ward (Thiel College) Don Juan and Ulysses: Byron and the Modernist Novel	3	Terence Diggory (Skidmore College) Byron’s Double Legacy in New York School Poetry
4	Lorrie Carano (U. of Missouri, Kansas C) Lord of Darkness: The Creation of Byron’s Gothic Persona	4	Todd Verdun (Washington and Jefferson College) Byron, Larkin, and the Rhythmic Press of Modernity	4	Elke Brown (Middle Tennesse State U) Killing the Witch: Deconstructing the Byronic Ideal in Sherman Alexie’s Indian Killer

COFFEE BREAK 10:30 - 11:00 am

Plenary 2: Tilottama Rajan, "'Something Not Yet Made Good': Cain, Godwin, Mary Shelley"
11-12:30
Barclay/Gilford Room

LUNCH 12:30 - 2:00 pm

	Barclay Room		Gilford Room
Panel 1	Reading Byron	Panel 2	19th Century Reception
1	Mark Algee-Hewitt (NYU) Finding Byron in Modern Scholarship	1	Jonathan Sachs (Concordia) Byron, Modernity, and the Decline of Literature
2	Michelle Levy (SFU) Byron’s Libels	2	Dino F. Felluga (Purdue) George Eliot, Lord Byron, and the Dangers of Influence
3	Katherine Barnes (Australian Defense Force Academy) Imagining Exile	3	Phillip A. Anderson (U. Central Arkansas) The Sage and the Corsair: John Ruskin’s Response to Byron

COFFEE BREAK 3:30 – 4:00 pm

	Barclay Room		Gilford Room		Bayside Room
Panel 1	Byron and Philosophy	Panel 2	Byron, Market Forces & Globalization	Panel 3	Byron as Wanderer
1	Till Kinzel (Technical University, Berlin) Byron’s Manfred, Nietzsche, and philosophy’s fatal truth	1	Ian Dennis (U. of Ottawa) Irony and Alliance in a Market World: The Lessons and Comforts of Byron’s Don Juan	1	Glen Clifton (U of T) The Hero Without Content: Subjectivity in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage I & II
2	Olivera Jokic (U. of Michigan) “The Giaour” and the Poetics of Knowledge	2	Padmini Ray Murray (Edinburgh) “Tis no slight task to write on common things”: Byron’s material world	2	Lisa Stein (Ohio U. Zanesville) A Genre’s Progenitor: Byron and the Modern Celebrity Travel Confessional
3	Clover Bachman (Carnegie Mellon University) Every Poet his own Aristotle: The Critical Subject and Creative Voice in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage	3	Angela Esterhammer (UWO / U of Zurich) Cosmopolitan Identity, Contact Zones, and Byron’s Hybrid Word	3	Nancy Derbyshire (CUNY) “Wandering outlaw of his own dark mind”: Modern Incarnations of Byron

	Barclay Room		Gilford Room		Bayside Room
Panel 1	Byron and Performance	Panel 2	Byron and Politics	Panel 3	Byronic Reception and Female Authors
1	Ira Nadel (UBC) Byron in Performance	1	Stephen Minta (University of York, U.K.) The Modernity of Byron’s Politics: Reflections from the Greek Archives	1	Kari Lokke (UC Davis) Isak Dinesen’s Lord Byron and the Art of Storytelling
2	Nicholas Salvato (Cornell) “I Think of Byron”: Gertrude Stein’s Dramatic Theory	2	Piya Pal-Lapinski (Bowling Green State U.) Byronic Terror and Impossible Exchange: From Werner to Baudrillard’s The Spirit of Terrorism	2	Paula A. Guimarães (U. do Minho) The Idea of Byron and the Byronic Character in the Poetry of the Brontës
3	Kevin McNeilly (UBC) Late Rhapsody: Tyrone Power Reading Byron	3	David Aberbach (McGill/LSE) Byron, and the Poetry of Hot Nationalism	3	Jonathan Gross (DePaul U.) Byron’s “When We Two Parted” in Cather’s Lucy Gayheart
4	Nat Leach (Cape Breton University) Byronic Performances and the “Transformation” of the Subject	4	David Robinson (Oregon State University) Green Byron: Jeffers, Synder, and the Environmental Anti-Hero	4	Rachel Brownstein (CUNY) Byronic Reception of Jane Austen in late 20th-century film

COFFEE BREAK 10:30 – 11:00 am

Plenary 3: Jerome McGann, "Manfred and his Problems"
11-12:30
Barclay/Gilford Room

LUNCH 12:30 - 2:00 pm

	Barclay Room		Gilford Room		Bayside Room
Panel 1	Byron and the Orient	Panel 2	Persona & Circulation	Panel 3	Byron and Catastrophism
1	Zak Sitter (Xavier University) Byron’s Commanding Art: “Fixing” the Orient in Lara	1	Christopher Laxer (U of T) In Worship of an Echo: the Branding of Byron	1	Richard Johnston (Harvard) Byron, Cain, and Catastrophism
2	Ahsan Chowdhury (U. of Alberta) Fragments Poetic and Imperial in Byron’s “Eastern Tales”	2	Corin Throsby (Oxford) Byron and Fan Culture	2	Dimitri Karkoulis (U. Western Ontario) Byron’s Postmodern Post-apocalypticism
3	Naj Oueijan (Notre Dame U, Lebanon) Byron’s Virtual Tour of Lebanon	3	Andrew Stauffer (Boston University) Byron and the Career of “To the Po”	3	Erin Murrah (University of New Mexico) Shedding Light on Byron’s “Darkness”: The Importance of Signifying Nothing

COFFEE BREAK 3:30 –4:00 pm

	Barclay Room		Gilford Room
Panel 1	Byron and Popular Culture	Panel 2	Reception in the Alaphone World
1	Mark Kipperman (Northern Illinois U.) Is there a Byron in the House?: Fox’s Bad-Boy Healer	1	Victoryia Topalova (UBC) Post-Soviet Readings of Byronism in Russian Culture
2	William Lofdahl (Marquette University) A Lad Insane: Lord Byron and the Youth Counter Culture	2	Gu Yao (Chinese U, Hong Kong) The Utterance of Modern Anxiety: Canonizing Byron in China on her route to Modernity
3	Ghislaine McDayter (Bucknell University) In the Flesh: Fetishizing the Poet in Twentieth-Century Popular Culture	3	Sean Somers (UBC) Byron’s Devils: Kitamura Tôkoku and a Theodicy out of Translation

BANQUET (Co-hosted by The Byron Society of America)
6:30-10:00pm
(35th Floor – Evergreen to Cityview)