Victorian Conference: Friday, May 2nd, Grad Center

A Conference Sponsored by
The Victorian Committee of
the CUNY Doctoral Program in English,
Dickens Studies Annual,
and the Victorian Studies Bulletin

Friday, May 2, 2008
The CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave.
Martin Segal Theater
New York, NY

AGING AND LAST WORKS IN VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE

PROGRAM

MORNING SESSION
8:45 A.M.—12:30 P.M.

COFFEE

9:15 A.M.
WELCOME
Steve Kruger, Executive Officer
Ph.D. Program in English,
The Graduate School and University Center, CUNY

MODERATOR
Nicholas Birns, The New School University


SPEAKERS

Teresa Mangum, University of Iowa
Facing Age

Karen Chase, University of Virginia
Objects and Subjects: The Aging “I” Among Ancient Groves

DISCUSSION

BREAK

U. C. Knoepflmacher, Princeton University
Portraying Old Age near the Start and Close of a Distinguished Career: George Eliot, Tennyson, and Browning

Jill Matus, University of Toronto
The Aging Sage: George Eliot and Posterity

DISCUSSION

BREAK FOR LUNCH

AFTERNOON SESSION
2:00 P.M.—5:00 P.M.


MODERATOR
Anne McCarthy, Graduate Center, CUNY


SPEAKERS

Cornelia Pearsall, Smith College
Tennyson’s Ends: Poetry and the Expansion of Empire

Lillian Nayder, Bates College
Last Wills and Last Words: Catherine Dickens Makes Her Bequests



DISCUSSION

BREAK

Elsie Michie, Louisiana State University
“Past Their Grand Climacteric”? Age and Sexuality in Charles Dickens’s The Pickwick Papers and Frances Trollope’s The Widow Barnaby


Kay Heath, Virginia State University
Abolishing Himself: Manliness and Aging in Trollope’s Last Novel

DISCUSSION

Reception on the 4th Floor in the English Program Common Space

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS
Dickens Studies Annual: Essays in Victorian Fiction is published in cooperation with the CUNY Victorian Committee. Information may be obtained by writing to: The Editors, Dickens Studies Annual, English Program, The Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York. New York, NY 10016.

The CUNY Graduate School Victorian Committee also cooperates in the publication of the Tennyson Research Bulletin.

The CUNY Graduate School Victorian Committee invites you to its seminars held during the first week of each month October to May (no meetings in January) at the CUNY Graduate Center. To be added to the mailing list, please send your name, address, and e-mail address to Anne Humpherys@gc.cuny.edu.



Professor Anne Humpherys
Coordinator of Women's Studies Certificate Program
Director of the Center for Research on Women and Society
The Graduate Center CUNY
Professor of English, Lehman College and
Ph.D. Program in English, The Graduate Center
City University of New York