Moderator: Molly Lewis
Sean Dempsey (University of Arkansas), “Romantic Revisions, Grace, Substance, Soul”
Denae Dyck (University of Victoria), “‘formative energy in the clay’: Creative Wisdom and Ecological Poetics in John Ruskin’s The Queen of the Air”
Susan Oliver (University of Essex), “Curtis’s Botanical Magazine and Romantic Plant Poetry: Seeking Spirituality in Real-Life Flowers”
Rodney Stephens (Howard Payne University), “From Ahab’s Typhoon to Huck’s Summer Storm”
Panel #7: Imagining and Responding to Natural Disaster
Moderator: Justin Sider (University of Oklahoma)
Thomas Breedlove (Baylor University), “Speaking the World in Mary Shelley’s The Last Man”
Elizabeth Howard (University of Minnesota), “Catastrophic Glories: Natural Disasters and G.M. Hopkins’s Aesthetic Theodicy”
Alicia McCartney (Baylor University), “Shipwreck Ecotheodicy in Wordsworth’s Later Poetry”
Lesa Scholl (Kathleen Lumley College), “Limits of Relief: Alice Meynell and the Messina Earthquake of 1908”
Featured Presentation: “Seasonal Disorder: Temporality, British Romanticism, and Climates of Anxiety”
Note: This conference presentation has been removed by request by the presenter, Dr. Melissa Bailes (Tulane University). She will soon publish the polished research from this presentation.
Panel #6: Victorian Poetry, Ecology, and Religion
Moderator: Lesa Scholl (Kathleen Lumley College)
Christopher Adamson (Emory University), “Nature’s Eschatological Transcendence in Hardy’s ‘Aquae Sulis’”
Melinda Creech (Independent Scholar), “Hopkins and Ecotherapy”
Esther Hu (Boston University), “Gerard Manley Hopkins’s Ecotheological Poetry”
Justin Sider (University of Oklahoma), “Landscapes of Pre-Raphaelite Literalism”
Todd O. Williams (Kutztown University of Pennsylvania), “Strategic Trans-Species Empathy and Divine Mercy in Christina Rossetti’s ‘Brother Bruin’”
Roundtable: Poetry, Religion, and Ecology in 19C Studies
Moderator: Nathan K. Hensley (Georgetown)
Manu Samriti Chander (Rutgers)
Meredith Martin (Princeton)
Michael Tomko (Villanova)
Gauri Viswanathan (Columbia)
Daniel Williams (Bard College)
Keynote Roundtable: “From Texas to Lancaster: Challenges with Food, Water, and Fracking”
Moderator: Andy Tate (Lancaster University)
Sarah Donaldson (Small World Consulting)
Gordon Blair (Lancaster University)
Smith Getterman (Baylor University)
Caroline Jackson (Lancaster City Council)
Ryan McManamay (Baylor University)
Doug Nesmith (Baylor University)
Joe Yelderman (Baylor University)
Panel #5: World Ecologies, Missions, and Contact Zones
Moderator: Sara Frear (Houston Baptist University)
Elizabeth Chang (University of Missouri), “Hydrology, Famine, Salvation: Victorian Missionary Writing from China”
Johan Elverskog (Southern Methodist University), “What the West Got Wrong about the East: Asian Religions are Not Environmental”
Pankaj Jain (University of North Texas), “Making of Indic Environmental Ethics in the Late Nineteenth Century”
Andrew Ronnevik (Baylor University), “Ojibwes, Missionaries, and the Land”
Justin Thompson (University of Maryland), “An Evangelical Erasure: Imperial Violence in Louisa Atkinson’s Writings”
Professor Jain’s visuals did not show through the feed, they are available here: https://baylor.box.com/s/bsovmkvbypcf8b21q0ju5yqv4ml8ps14