[Englecturers] Conference on British Women Playwrights 1780-1830

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>Dear PAMLA members,
>
>Here is an annoucement of an upcoming conference that might be of
>interest to you.  Quite a few of our own PAMLA members are involved.
>Best, Lorely French
>
>
>British Women Playwrights, 1780-1830
>Chapman University, March 12, 2005.
>
>
>This conference is presented by Chapman University's Department of
>English and Comparative Literature, with additional assistance provided
>by the School of Communication Arts Events Comnmittee.
>
>The day of lectures, papers and panels will feature a performance of
>Hannah Cowley's A Bold Stroke for a Husband from 1:30 to 4:00 p.m.
>Coffee and refreshments will be served at 8:30 a.m., with the first
>session of papers to commence at 9:00 a.m.  Each panel is made up of
>three 20-minute papers, plus 30-minute discussion.  There will be a
>luncheon at 12:00 p.m., the matinee performance at 1:30, followed by the
>afternoon session of papers from 4:00 to 5:30.  Featured plenary
>speakers are Anne Mellor and Jeffrey Cox. The conference banquet will
>commence at 7:00.
>
>8:30 to 9:00 a.m. - Registration and Coffee
>
>9:00 to 10:30 - Session I (three 20 minute papers, 30 minute discussion)
>
>Influence of the Past
>Dewey Hall  (Cal Poly Pomona)
>Beggars can be Choosers: From Gay to Inchbald
>Donelle Ruwe (Northern Arizona University)
>Trauma, Autobiography, and Irish Politics in Dramatic Monologues for
>Children.
>Mimi Hotchkiss (CSU Long Beach)
>         "Out of Honesty, Into English": Anne Plumptree's Translations from
>Kotzebue.
>
>Joanna Baillie
>Victoria Myers (Pepperdine University)
>Joanna Baillie and the System of Approbation
>Judith B. Slagle (East Tennessee State University)
>                 Joanna Baillie's Religious Ideology: the Dichotomy of
>Fundamentalism and Liberalism in The Martyr and A View of the General
>Tenour
>of the New Testament Regarding the Nature and Dignity of Jesus Christ.
>Andrea Henderson (UC Irvine)
>Joanna Baillie's Aesthetics of Love.
>
>Comparative Approaches
>Wendy Nielsen (Montclair State U)
>Gender and Genre: Comparing Women, Violence, and Tragedy.
>Tilar Mazzeo (Colby College)
>Romantic Theatre and Competitive Ownership in More and Cowley.
>Teddi Chichester Bonca (CSU Fullerton)
>                 "Wild Words" and "Perturbed Souls":  Staging the Lyric in
>Baillie's Orra and Shelley's Cenci
>
>10:45 to 11:45 - Plenary Session
>Anne Mellor (UCLA):
>                 Embodied Cosmopolitanism and Women's Theater: The Case of
>Marianna Starke's The Widow of Malabar.
>
>12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. - Lunch
>
>1:30 to 4:00 p.m. - Performance, with intermission refreshments (Irvine
>Lecture Hall, Hashinger 150).
>
>A Bold Stroke for a Husband (1783), directed by Frederick Burwick (UCLA)
>
>4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. - Session II (three 20 minute papers, 30 minute
>discussion)
>Hannah Cowley
>Angela Escott (Birkbeck College, London University)
>                 'Bosom'd Foxes Took their Flight': The Duchess of
>Devonshire, Luxury and Civic Virtue in Hannah Cowley's Tragedy, The Fate
>of
>Sparta.
>J. D. Lopez (UCLA)
>         Cowley's  A Bold Stroke for a Husband and the Cross-Gendered Spanish
>Setting
>Marjean Purinton (Texas Tech)
>                 On teaching A Bold Stroke for a Husband and other comedies
>by Romantic Women Playwrights.
>
>History and Politics
>Daniel J. O'Quinn (University of Guelph)
>                 Bread: the Eruption and Interruption of Politics in
>Inchbald's Everyone Has His Fault
>Deirdre Gilbert (University of Denver)
>Frances Burney and Joanna Baillie: Historiography and Historical
>Tragedy.
>Greg Kucich (Notre Dame)
>                 Following a "Different Track": The Politics of Women's
>Historical Drama on the Romantic Stage
>
>Aesthetics and Morality
>Kathryn Tucker (UCLA)
>Theatre Aesthetics and the Romantic Staging of Morality.
>Jeff Cass (Texas A&M International)
>                 "The Race of the Cid": Blood, Darkness, and the Captivity
>Narrative in Felicia Hemans's  The Siege of Valencia.
>William Brewer (Appalachian State)
>Mary Robinson as Dramatist:  The Nobody Catastrophe
>
>5:45 to 6:45 - Plenary Session:
>Jeff Cox (University of Colorado)
>Cowley's Bold Stroke for Comedy.
>
>7:00 p.m.  Banquet.
>Accommodations and Travel
>Accommodations for conference presenters and participants at the Ayres
>Hotel
>Anaheim, 2550 E. Katella Ave, Anaheim, CA  92806.  The rate is
>$85/night,
>and those interested in these rooms should mention the British Women
>Playwrights conference when they call either (714) 634-2106 or (800)
>448-7162 to make reservations, or register online at
>www.ayresanaheim.com.
>The hotel will also shuttle guests from their location (about a mile
>from
>campus) to Chapman and back.  Registrants must make their reservations
>(and
>provide a deposit) by February 24 to get the conference rate.
>Registration for the conference will be at two rates:  $40 for faculty
>and
>$25 for students.  Checks should be made payable to "Chapman University"
>and
>sent to:        Gisela Verduzco
>         Department of English and Comparative Literature
>         Chapman University
>         1 University Drive
>         Orange, CA  92866
>You may also address questions about payment, accommodations, special
>parking or dietary needs to Gisela Verduzco at (714) 997-6750 or
>verduzco at chapman.edu <mailto:verduzco at chapman.edu>.
>
>Those coming in from out of town can fly into either LAX or John
>Wayne/Orange County International Airport (airport code SNA). It's about
>an
>hour by Super Shuttle from LAX to the hotel; just ten or fifteen minutes
>from SNA.
>
>Driving Directions
>Chapman University, Orange campus, is nestled in the heart of Southern
>California. The campus is located in the historic district of Old Towne
>Orange, one of the oldest residential communities in Orange County. The
>population of Orange is 110,000.
>
>from Los Angeles
>*       Take 5 Freeway SOUTH from Los Angeles
>*       Exit onto 22 Freeway EAST, Orange
>*       Take 22 Freeway EAST to Glassell St Exit
>*       Exit on Glassell St, turn NORTH (left off the freeway exit ramp)
>*       Take Glassell St NORTH to traffic circle
>*       Exit the second exit of the traffic circle (Glassell St NORTH)
>*       Take Glassell St NORTH to Sycamore
>*       Turn LEFT on Sycamore
>*       Enter Chapman University Parking Structure (left)
>
>from Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
>*       Take 405 Freeway SOUTH
>*       Exit onto 22 Freeway EAST
>*       Take 22 Freeway EAST to Glassell St Exit
>*       Exit on Glassell St, turn NORTH (left off the freeway exit ramp)
>*       Take Glassell St NORTH to traffic circle
>*       Exit the second exit of the traffic circle (Glassell St NORTH)
>*       Take Glassell St NORTH to Sycamore
>*       Turn LEFT on Sycamore
>*       Enter Chapman University Parking Structure (left)

John M. Ganim
Professor of English
Department of English
University of California, Riverside
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