Nineteenth-Century Forum

Fall 2009

Corey Brooks, History, UC Berkeley

The Slave Power Argument Revisited:
The Political Abolitionist Critique of the Second Party System

Corey Brooks is a Ph.D. Candidate in History at UC Berkeley
Please read the paper in advance: evaron@temple.edu.

Tues., Nov. 17, 12:30-2 pm
CHAT Conference Room, 10th Floor, Gladfelter Hall

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Spring 2009

Brenna Shae O'Rourke

"Culture of Madness:
Mary Lum Girard and Transatlantic Fictions"

Brenna Shae O'Rourke is a doctoral candidate in History at Temple

Tues., March 24, 11:40-1
CHAT Lounge, 10th floor of Gladfelter Hall

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Brian Connolly

"Incest at the Edges of Liberalism"

Tuesday February 17, 11:40-1
10th floor of Gladfelter Hall, Temple

Brian Connolly is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania

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Fall 2008

Travis Glasson, Assistant Professor of History, Temple University

"Anglican Missionaries and the Atlantic Anti-Slavery Movement, 1760-1838"

Tuesday, Nov. 11, 11:40-1
10th floor of Gladfelter Hall, Temple

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Spring 2008

Dianne Sadoff, Professor of English, Rutgers University
"Styles of Queer Heritage: Oscar Wilde and Twentieth-Century Gay Filmmaking"
Tuesday, April 1, 3 p.m.
10th floor of Gladfelter Hall, Temple

Justin Behrend, Asst. Professor of History, SUNY-Geneseo
"Factionalism and the Rise of Black Politicians during Reconstruction"
Tuesday, Mar. 4, 3 p.m.
10th floor of Gladfelter Hall, Temple

Kate Thomas, Asst. Professor of English, Bryn Mawr
"Matthew Arnold's Diet"
Tuesday, Feb. 5, 3 p.m.
10th floor of Gladfelter Hall, Temple

"Matthew Arnold's Diet" examines gustatory tropes in Arnold's work, and also theorizes a connection between Cultural Studies and the emerging field of Food Studies. It is drawn from "Victorians Fat and Thin," an ongoing project on literary reflections of the changing relations between food and class under nineteenth-century industrialization.

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Fall 2007

Will Mackintosh, Ph.D. Candidate in History at the University of Michigan
"Describing the Terraqueous Globe: Authenticity and Geographical Knowledge in the Early Republic."
Tuesday, Nov. 6, 11:40-1:00
10th floor of Gladfelter Hall, Temple

Timothy Alborn, Professor of History at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and Lehman College
"Life Insurance and Multiple Modernities in the Nineteenth Century"
Tuesday, October 2, 11:40-1:00
10th floor of Gladfelter Hall, Temple

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Spring 2007

Katherine Malone, Ph.D. Candidate in English at Temple University
"Anne Mozley’s Sympathetic Criticism; or, a 'system of tracing effects to their causes.'"
Tuesday, April 17th, 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
CHAT Seminar Room

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Fall 2006

Jennifer Schaaf, University of Pennsylvania
"Publishing and Catholic Community Formation in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia"
Thursday, September 28, 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
CHAT Conference Room

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Spring 2006

Talia Schaffer, Assoc. Prof. English, CUNY, The Graduate Center
"Salvaging Craft, Crafting Salvage: The Economic and Aesthetic Work of Our Mutual Friend"
Tuesday, April 4, 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
CHAT Conference Room

Catherine Gallagher, Prof. English, UC Berkeley (courtesy of CHAT speaker grant)
"The Slave Trade and British Imperial Sentiments"
Tuesday, March 14, 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Location: Anderson Hall, Room 1221

Katherine Henry, Asst. Prof. English, Temple
"Strange Perverseness! Clarissa, Bartleby, and the Nature of Modern Privacy"
Tuesday, Feb. 7, 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Location: CHAT Conference Room

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Fall 2005

Peter Logan, Prof. English, Temple
"Primitive Fetishism: Ethnography to Sexology"
Tuesday, Nov. 15, 11:40 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Ganina Lagodsky, Ph.D. Candidate, English, Temple
"Flaubert's Masochistic Aesthetic: The (Textual) Sacrifice of Charles Bovary"
Tuesday, Oct. 10, 11:40 a.m - 1:00 p.m.

Greg Downs, Ph.D. Candidate, History, Univ. of Pennsylvania
“A State Under the Heel of Intellectuals”
Tuesday, Sept. 13, 11:40 a.m - 1:00 p.m

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Spring 2005

Rita Krueger, Asst. Prof. History, Temple
"Science, National Identity, and the Origins of the National Museum in the Czech Lands"
Thursday, April 7, 11:40 a.m - 1:00 p.m

Rachel Teukolsky, Asst. Prof. English, Pennsylvania State University
"Ruskin & Baudelaire: England's modernité and the Painting of Victorian Life"
Thursday, March 3, 11:40 a.m - 1:00 p.m

Michael Martin, Ph.D. student in English, Temple
"Perceptual Modes, Formal Ontology, and Emergent Consciousness in Moby Dick"
Thursday, February 3, 11:40 a.m - 1:00 p.m