GRADUATE STUDENT CAUCUS
ASECS 2012 PROGRAMMING:
AFTER EXOTICISM
Seminar Panel — Sponsored by the ASECS Graduate Student Caucus
Chair: Laura J. ROSENTHAL, University of Maryland
Matt GERTKEN, University of Texas, Austin
“Swift’s Unholy Alliances and the Global Balance of Power”
Respondent: Christopher FOX, Notre Dame University
Nina Budabin MCQUOWN
“Exotic Food as Substantial Fare in the Eighteenth-Century Novel”
Respondent: Elizabeth Kowaleski WALLACE, Boston University
W. Kang TCHOU
“In the Wake of Exoticism: Robert Morrison and the Taiping Rebellion in China”
Respondent: Robert MARKLEY, University of Illinois
Bethany WILLIAMSON, Southern Methodist University
“Courts, Cabals, and Coffeehouses: Female Space and Feminist Orientalism
in Delarivier Manley’s New Atalantis and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu’s
Turkish Embassy Letters”
Respondent: Laura MANDELL, Texas A&M University
Jennifer RYER, University of Connecticut
"The Anxieties of Empire: Anti-Imperial Sentiments In English Restoration Theater”
Respondent: Misty ANDERSON, University of Tennessee
VIRAL COMMUNICATIONS AND MULTIMEDIA OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
Scholarship Panel — Sponsored by the ASECS Graduate Student Caucus
Chair: Katharine ZIMOLZAK, University of Southern California
Leah THOMAS, Virginia Commonwealth University
"The Geographic Imagination: Cartography as Multimedia and Viral Communication
in the Eighteenth Century"
Kevin BOURQUE, University of Texas, Austin
"Kitty Fisher, the Making of Public Beauty, and the Viral Nature of
Eighteenth-Century Celebrity"
Sarah SCHUETZE, University of Kentucky
"The Official Fever Story: Illness, Narrative, and Social Order"
Kelly CENTRELLI, University of London, Royal Holloway
"'To Libel Those who Cannot Write': The Art of Trolling' in the Eighteenth Century"
DEMYSTIFYING THE ACADEMIC JOURNAL (ROUNDTABLE)
Professionalization Panel — Sponsored by the ASECS Graduate Student Caucus
Chair: Nicholas E. MILLER, Washington University in St. Louis
Cristobal SILVA, Columbia University
The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
Marion L. RUST, University of Kentucky
Early American Literature
Downing A. THOMAS, University of Iowa
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
Hazel GOLD, Emory University
PMLA
Julia SIMON, University of California, Davis
Eighteenth-Century Studies
Jonathan Beecher FIELD, Clemson University
Common-place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life
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This innovative and interdisciplinary panel hosts a rigorous but friendly conversation between senior faculty and graduate students on an exciting topic in eighteenth-century studies. The chair crafts and submits a call for papers, requesting essays of no less than ten pages and no more than twenty for inclusion.
Essays can be variations on conference papers presented at ASECS or its affiliate societies. The chair selects no more than four of these essays for inclusion. In late January, the essays are made available on the GSC website as PDFs for members to download at their convenience. A description of the seminar and the individual essay topics will go out in both the ASECS Circular and the ASECS e-mail digest (as well as through the GSC).
Members are encouraged to read and consider the papers in advance. The chair solicits faculty respondents, each responsible for reading and responding to one graduate student paper. The respondents come to the seminar with a brief five-minute response and one specific question for the graduate student to address. This question will help to situate the graduate student’s essay within the broader context of the seminar.
The seminar will comprise opening remarks by the chair, a few words from each graduate student, faculty responses and questions, and a graduate student response. The seminar will then open to the audience for a broader discussion of the topic, facilitated by the chair and negotiated, in large part, by the graduate student participants.
This seminar panel introduces graduate students to the rigors of professional intellectual inquiry while also introducing faculty to new scholarship in the field.