Romanticism Panels at MLA 23

If you’re headed to San Francisco January 5 to 8 for the annual MLA conference (or if you’re joining remote sessions), we’ve done a round-up of panels that might be interesting to our readership. Please let us know if we’ve missed anything!

The K-SAA sponsored panel—671-Romanticism, Colonial Ecology, Race—will take place Sunday 8 January from 10:15-11:30am at the Marriott Marquis - Sierra Suite J (Level 5)

And don’t forget to book tickets for the K-SAA Awards Dinner on January 7

This list is compiled by the K-SAA Communications Fellows and Communications Director.

Thursday, 5 January 2023

15- Romantic Babel

12:00 PM- 1:15 PM

Marriott Marquis - Nob Hill A (Lower B2 Level)

Presiders

Alexander Regier (Rice U)

Solve Curdts (Henrich-Heine-U)

Presentations

Ian Balfour (York U)- “On the Divided Origins of Languages”

Padma Ragarajan (UC Riverside)- “Striations of Language: The Ecopoetics of Sir William Jones

Emily Apter (NYU)- “‘Natursprache’ as Necropastoral: An Ecosophical Translation”

27- Workers and Working Conditions in the Nineteenth-Century Press

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Marriott Marquis- Pacific Suite B (Level 4)

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Presider

Camille Stallings (U of Oxford, St. Hilda’s C)

Presentations

Jon Klancher (Carnegie Mellon U)- “Labor at the Crossroads in the Early-Nineteenth-Century Printing Revolution”

Françoise Baillet (U Caen Normandie)- “Fighting ‘the infernal Machine’: The Compositors’ Chronicle (1840-43) and the Perils of the Pianotype” 

Priti Joshi (U of Puget Sound)- “Traveling Pictures: Remediations and Labor in the Illustrations of Nana Sahib”

45- Humor and Humorlessness before 1900

1:45 PM- 3:00 PM

Moscone West - 3014 (Level 3)

Presider

R. Darren Gobert (Duke U)

Presentations

Katherine Schaap Williams (U of Toronto)- “‘With the Humors Of’: Disability and Early Modern Dramatic Character”

Tim Reid (NYU)- “From Caliban to the Clown: Performing in the Collapse of Race and Colonization”

Ryan Prendergast (UT Austin)- “‘Wagner? Really?’; or, What an Archfiend of Nineteenth-Century Culture Can Show Us about Operatic Humor”

Jane Woollard (U of Tasmania)- “Talent, Acting, Risibility, and Reputation: Humor and Humorlessness in 1830s Sydney Theater”

50- TransRomantic: Trans and Nonbinary Romantic Writers, Texts, Figures

1:45 - 3:00 PM

Marriott Marquis- Nob Hill A (Lower B2 Level)

Presider

Elizabeth Fay (U of Massachusetts, Boston)

Presentations

Smith Yarberry (Northwestern U)- “Transness, Transmutability, and Creation in William Blake’s The Book of Urizen”

Jesse Nyiri (U of California, Berkeley)- “Trans Romanticism and Trans Allegory”

Joey Kim (U of Toledo)- “William Blake’s Queer Phenomenology”

82 - From Anthropocene to Zeitgeist: Time and Timelines in Eighteenth- to Early-Nineteenth-Century German Literature and Culture

3:30 PM - 4:45 PM

Marriott Marquis - Sierra Suite E (Level 5)

Presider
Mary Helen Dupree (Georgetown U)

Presentations
Jonas Cantarella (Freie U Berlin)- ”The Emergence of the Everyday: Karl Philipp Moritz’s Blick auf das alltägliche Leben (1786)”

Bernhard Stricker (Technische U Dresden)- “Economies of the Almanac Kalender around 1800”

Friday, 6 January 2023

239-Repurposing Romanticism

10:15-11:30am

Marriott Marquis - Yerba Buena Salon 4 (Lower B2 Level)

Presider

Tristram Wolff (Northwestern U)

Presentations

Emily Drumsta (U of Texas, Austin)-”Nature, Nation, and Sensation: Revisiting the Romanticism of Ahmad Zaki Abu Shadi”

Nasser Mufti (U of Illinois, Chicago)-”‘A Complete Thing’: Hazlitt, James, and National Embodiment”

Tristram Wolff (Northwestern U)- ”German Romanticism in the Harlem Renaissance”

259 - Comparative Ecologies

12:00-1:15pm

Moscone West - 3004 (Level 3)

Presider

Mario Ortiz-Robles (U of Wisconsin, Madison)

Presentations

Brian McGrath (Clemson U) – “Hedging and Hedgehogs (Clare and Schlegel)”

Kate Singer (Mt. Holyoke C) – “Landscapes of Marronage / Ecological Marronages of Gender”

Mark Deggan (Simon Fraser U) – “The Atmospherics of Late Romanticism: Colonial South East Asia from Wallace to Conrad”

Eric Lindstrom (U of Vermont) – “Limpets, Lichens, and the Daffodils: Romantic Resiliencies”

394-Romantic and Victorian Crossover

5:15-6:30pm

Marriott Marquis - Golden Gate C3 (B2 Level
Presiders

Omar F. Miranda (U of San Francisco)

Amy R. Wong (Dominican U of California)

Presentations

Corbin Hiday (U of Texas, El Paso)

Rachel Kravetz (U of Virginia)

Ji Eun Lee (Sungkyunkwan U)

Alexandra L. Milsom (Hostos Community C, City U of New York)

Michael Nicholson (McGill U)

Jennifer Rabedeau (Cornell U)

Amy R. Wong (Dominican U of California)

Saturday, 7 January 2023

411-Multilingual Romanticisms

8:30-9:45am (virtual and recorded)

Presider

Emily Sun (Barnard C)
Speakers

Nicole N. Aljoe (Northeastern U)

Arif Camoglu (New York U Shanghai C)

Paresh Chandra (Williams C)

Ou Li (Chinese U of Hong Kong)

Marco Ramirez Rojas (Lehman C, City U of New York)

Deborah Elise White (Emory U)

523 - Romanticism and Phase Change: Alchemy, Abortion, and the Ends of Empire

1:45-3:00pm

Marriott Marquis - Nob Hill A (Lower B2 Level)

Presider

Amanda Jo Goldstein (U of California, Berkeley)

Presentations

Tobias Menely (U of California, Davis)-”Wollstonecraft and Abortion”

Catherine Sulpizio (U of California, Berkeley)-”‘Regeneration’s Work’: Alchemical Technologies and Shelley’s Ultima Materia”

Omar F. Miranda (U of San Francisco)-”London in 1810: Spanish American Independence at 27 Grafton Street”

603-Romanticism and Sexuality
5:15-6:30pm

Marriott Marquis - Sierra Suite J (Level 5)

Presider

Charles Waite Mahoney (U of Connecticut, Storrs)

Presentations

Noah Heringman (U of Missouri, Columbia)-”Blake’s Vegetable Loves”

David Sigler (U of Calgary)-”Elizabeth Moody’s ‘To Dr. Darwin,’ Women’s Writing, and Sexual Transgression”

Alex Gatten (Rutgers U, New Brunswick)-”Toward and across Queer Romantic Language”

Sunday 8 January, 2023

671-Romanticism, Colonial Ecology, Race (K-SAA sponsored panel)

10:15-11:30am

Marriott Marquis - Sierra Suite J (Level 5)

Presider

Deidre Lynch (Harvard U)

Presentations

Devin Garofalo (U of North Texas)

Yasser Khan (U of Qatar)

Diana Little (Princeton U)

Kyle McAuley (Seton Hall U)

Craig Perez (U of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa)

704- John Clare: Now and Then

12:00 PM-1:15 PM

Marriott Marquis- Sierra Suite J (Level 5)

Presider

Erica McAlpine (U of Oxford)

Presentations

Tobias Menely (UC Davis)- “Rewilding with John Clare”

Brian McGrath (Clemson U)- “Hedging against Enclosure: Clare’s Hesitations”

Karen Swann (Williams C)- “Clare among the Ruins”)