Seeking participants for the following sessions:

ASECS 2011 (Vancouver) sessions (due September 15):

“Richardson's Corpus: New Research” (Traditional Panel, seeking 3-5 ten minute papers)
This session is the first of a two-part session on Richardson's bodies: of work, of correspondents, readers, and others.  We would be interested in work relating to the new forthcoming editions of Clarissa, the expanding body of his correspondence available in print, work on the “bodies” of the novels, as well as the bodies of characters, readers, etc.  The issues brought up in this panel of 10-minute papers will set the tone for our working group, which will meet after this session.

“Richardson's Corpus: A Working Group”(Working group, ALL attendees asked to contact Friedman)
This working-group session would occur after the “New Research” panel, in the hopes of allowing both panelists and audience members from that session to more fully discuss the larger issues raised by the panel in a less-structured environment.  Interested participants in this working group should contact Emily Friedman prior to the conference with contact information, a brief bio, and short (250 word or less) precis of their related research interests, which will be pre-circulated in the hopes of creating connections between interested scholars.  This session will also serve as the inaugural meeting of the Samuel Richardson Society.

Fall 2010

Teaching

  • English 2230: British Literature I (two sections)
  • English 7170: Graduate Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies
    "A Laughing Matter: 1773 in Snapshot" (department course description)
    April De Angelis’s 2002 play A Laughing Matter draws from a wide swath of eighteenth-century culture to paint a comedic picture of the backstage antics leading up to the production of Goldsmith’s She Stoops To Conquer. Using the playtext as a starting (and ending) point, this course will look at the work of “characters” such as Johnson, Garrick, Reynolds, Goldsmith, Burke, Woffington, Hannah More, Cumberland, and Boswell, as well as those whom De Angelis left out, including Hester Thrale and the looming Richard Brinsley Sheridan, as well as writers publishing in that year (Wheatley, Barbauld, etc.)

Attending/Presenting

  • East-Central ASECS (Pittsburgh, PA)
    • Presenting: "Text, Playtext, Promptbook: The Intersecting Lives of Scott's Guy Mannering"
    • Organizer, "Recovering the “Performed” Eighteenth Century" (Roundtable)

Spring 2011

Teaching

Attending/Presenting

  • ASECS (Vancouver, BC)
  • British Women Writers Conference (Columbus, OH)

Previous semesters (at Mizzou and Auburn)