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The New York University Transatlantic Long Eighteenth-Century Group presents:

Writing Women 1700-1800:
Literary History at the Crossroads

A Symposium at New York University
Fales Library and Special Collections
10-11 April, 2008

THURSDAY 10 APRIL
4:00: Welcoming Remarks: Catherine R. Stimpson, Dean and University Professor, Graduate School of Arts and Science
Introduction: Paula McDowell and Bryan Waterman, New York University
4:15 - 5:45: Plenary Lecture: Paula R. Backscheider, Philpott-Stevens Eminent Scholar, Auburn University: "Where Method Leads Us"
5:45 - 7:00: Wine and Cheese Reception

FRIDAY 11 APRIL
9:15: Welcoming Remarks: Jane Tylus, Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Faculty Director, Humanities Initiative at NYU
9:30 - 12:00: Session 1
Chair: Dustin Griffin, Department of English, NYU
Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, Department of English, Northeastern University: "Category Crises and Gender in the New World"
Joanna Brooks, Department of English, San Diego State University: "Feelings are not a Luxury: Phillis Wheatley, Poetry, Women, and Empire"
April Alliston, Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University: "Questions at the Crossroads of Women’s Literary History: 'Why Did the Comparatist Cross the Road?'; or, 'What Do You Compare (in the Age of the Digital Archive)?'"

12:00 - 2:15: Break for lunch (on your own)

2:15 - 4:00: Session 2
Chair: Nicole Eustace, Department of History, NYU
Simon Dickie, Department of English, University of Toronto: "Fielding, Rape Jokes, and Local Justice"
Toni Bowers, Department of English, University of Pennsylvania: "Tory Seduction Stories and the Problem of Resistance"
4:00 - 4:15: Coffee break
4:15 - 5:30: Session 3: Concluding Response and Group Discussion
Respondent and Chair: Mary Poovey, Samuel Rudin University Professor of the Humanities, New York University

All events will be held at the Fales Library and Special Collections, Bobst Library, 3rd floor, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012. Registration is not required; however, you will have to present a valid photo ID in order to enter the library. For more information, please visit: http://nyu-18c.pbwiki.com/Women+Writing

The "Writing Women 1700-1800: Literary History at the Crossroads" symposium has been made possible by the sponsorship of Fales Library and Special Collections, the NYU Humanities Council, the Graduate School of Arts and Science, the Dean of the College of Arts and Science, the Department of English, the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, and the Atlantic History Workshop at NYU.

Applications for next year's dissertation seminar at the Folger Shakespeare Library are due June 2. For those of you unfamiliar with this program, it is jointly run by a faculty member from History and from English. For the 2008-09 academic year, Jean Howard (Columbia) and Linda Levy Peck (George Washington University) will lead the seminar entitled "Researching the Archives" which is designed for doctoral candidates at work on their dissertations. Grants-in-aid to cover expenses to travel to and from the monthly seminar, and for two nights' accommodation, is available. For further information, consult the Folger Institute website on line, or see NYU's Folger liaison, Professor Karen Newman, in the Department of English.