My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.
–Jane Austen
–Jane Austen
And what a good company of clever, well-informed people we have for SUNY Plattsburgh’s bicentenary celebration, “Jane Austen & the Arts”! Below is a list of speakers and tentative titles. The order of speakers is purely alphabetical; it does not reflect the sequence of speakers in the program itself. A formal program, including the student papers slotted for Thursday 3/23, will be posted after mid-November.
- Elaine Bander (Dawson College, CA), “Austen’s ‘Artless’ Heroines: Catherine and Fanny”
- Barbara Benedict (Trinity College, CT), “‘What Oft was Thought’: Wit, Conversation, Poetry and Pope in Jane Austen’s Works”
- Natasha Duquette (Tyndale University College, CA), “‘A Very Pretty Amber Cross’: Material Sources of Austenian Aesthetics”
- Tim Erwin (UNLV), “The Comic Visions of Emma Woodhouse”
- Marilyn Francus (West Virginia University), “Jane Austen, Marginalia, and Book Culture”
- Marcie Frank (Concordia University), “Imagining Theater in Mansfield Park”
- Hope Greenberg (University of Vermont), “Jane Austen and the Art of Fashion”
- Jocelyn Harris (University of Otago, NZ), “What Jane Saw–in Henrietta Street”
- John Havard (Binghamton University), “Jane Austen and Woody Allen”
- Jacqueline George (SUNY New Paltz), “Motion Sickness: The Fate of Reading in ‘Modern’ Sanditon”
- Nancy E. Johnson (SUNY New Paltz), “Jane Austen and the Art of Law”
- John Leffel (SUNY Cortland), “The Art of Speculation in Austen’s Sanditon”
- Ellen Moody (George Mason University), “Ekphrastic Patterns in Jane Austen”
- Tonay J. Moutray (Russell Sage Colleges, NY), “Religious Views: Austen’s Picturesque and Sublime Abbeys”
- Douglas Murray (Belmont University, TN), “Jane Austen Goes to the Opera”
- Cheryl Nixon (University of Massachusetts), “Jane Austen and Family Law”
- John O’Neill (Hamilton College), “Adaptation, Appropriation, and Intertextuality in Whit Stillman’s Love and Friendship”
- Deborah C. Payne (American University), “Jane Austen and the Theatre? Perhaps Not So Much”
- Peter Sabor (McGill University), Keynote Address: “Portraiture as Misrepresentation in the Novels and Early Writings of Jane Austen”
- Juliette Wells (Goucher College, MD), “‘A Likeness Pleases Everyone’: Portraiture, Ekphrasis, and the Accomplished Woman in Emma”
- Cheryl Wilson (Stevenson University), “Everything is Beautiful: Jane Austen at the Ballet”
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