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CONFERENCE PANELS, PRESENTATIONS AND INVITED LECTURES
Session Chair: "Women Writing Across Borders." NCFS, November 2022. "From the Margins to the Center: Louisa Siefert's Missing History." Women in French Studies Conference, Iowa State University, May 2022. Redressing Pain: Louisa Siefert and the Poetic Theater of War." NCFS October 2021.
Co-organized Panel with Catherine Witt of Reed College for NCFS 2021 colloquium: "Women Reforming Poetic Power" “Louisa Siefert et le désir de mémoire : ‘Les Papiers de famille’, ou le mal d’archive avant la lettre.” Journée d’étude sur Louisa Siefert (Lyon 1845-Pau 1877), le 20 mai 2021. “Une conversation entre Aimée Boutin et Adrianna Paliyenko.” Journée d’étude sur Louisa Siefert (Lyon 1845-Pau 1877), le 20 mai 2021. Invited Lecture: "Envie de génie." La contribution des femmes à l'histoire de la poésie française (XIXe siècle). Séminaire Littérature, femmes, féminisme, genre, sexualités. The University of Chicago Center in Paris, 5 March 2021. Session Chair: "Chair: "Reading Poetic Enchantment and Disenchantment." Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, November 2019. Invited Lecture: "Sur les portraits de Louisa Siefert (1845-1877)." Portraits de la femme poète, Société des études Marceline Desbordes-Valmore, Douai, France, musée de la Chartreuse, jeudi 27 septembre 2018. Invited Lecture: "The Seeds of Genius: Pro/Creativity in Nineteenth-Century France." Tufts University, April 12, 2018. Invited Lecture: "Louisa Siefert (1845-1877) Poète aux visages multiples." Hamilton in France Distinguished Scholar Lecture, le mercredi 28 mars 2018. Invited Lecture: "Louisa Siefert's Writerly Life." The Joint Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Lewis Walpole Library, and Yale Center for British Art Fellows' Lunchtime Seminar Series, a program that began in January 2018. "Sonnet Practice (pas) à la Baudelaire: Louisa Siefert's Contrastive Style," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, November 2017. "Louisa Siefert's Forgotten Body of Intellectual Pleasures: 'Causeries poétiques' and Its Discontents," Women in French UK 2017, Leeds, May 19-21, 2017. Co-organizer, "Passions of the Mind: Louise de Keralio, Louisa Siefert, and Renée Vivien,"
Women in French UK 2017, Leeds, May 19-21, 2017. “Sciences de la Terre: The Philosophical Genius of Poets Louisa Siefert and Louise Ackermann,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, October 2016. Co-organizer, “ Women, Genius, and la Terre.” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, October 2016. Co-organizer and session chair, "Contaminated Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and (Poetic) Spaces." Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, November 2015. Co-organized conference session, "To Collect and Transmit: Compilations and Women’s Literary History." Co-organizer of conference session, Women in French Studies International Conference, May 2014. "Thresholds of Debt in Nineteenth-Century France." Co-organizer of conference session accepted for the upcoming Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, October 2013. “A Debt to Pay: Malvina Blanchecotte, Worker and Poet,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies, October 2013. "Thinking Through Women’s Poetry: Louise Ackermann on Science and the Problem of Pain." Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, NC State University, October 2012.
"Theories of Genius, Then and Now." Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, October 2010.
"Nineteenth-Century French Women Poets and the Work of Genius," SDN (Société des Dix-Neuviémistes), Wales, UK, March 2010.
Organized and chaired: "Engendering Race" MLA, December 2006. “The Third Sex? A Fin-de-Siècle Physiology of the Woman (Genius) Question,” Women in French, April 2006. Organized and chaired: "Poetry Matters: Then and Now" (abstracts) MLA, December 2005. "Reading Sarah, Rethinking the Romantic Marceline Desbordes-Valmore," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, October 2005. Organized and chaired: Poetry Matters, Then and Now, Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, October 2005. Co-organized and co-chaired: "Papier à musique, Musique sur papier," MLA, December 2004. Invited Lecture: "Colonial Memory: Gender, Race, and the Haitian Revolution" “Creoles and the Colonial Imagination: Women’s Double Vision,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, October 2004. "Women Romancing the Haitian Revolution?: Figures of Toussaint Louverture," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 2004. Co-organized: "Popular Currency: Imag(in)ing Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 2004. Invited Lecture: "Gender and Race: Physiologies of Mœurs coloniales in Nineteenth-Century French Culture." Organized and Chaired: "Canon Matters: The (De)Construction of a Modern French Studies Curriculum,” Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, October 2003. "Does Literary Culture Have a Sex?: Women Reading the Colonial Nineteenth Century," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 2003. Chaired and organized: "Remapping the Francophone World," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 2003. "Anaïs Ségalas’s Poetics of French Colonialism: The “Mission Civilisatrice” and its Discontents," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, October 2002. Co-organized and chaired, Roundtable on the Teaching of 19th-Century French Literature: "The Concept of Literary Movements in the Teaching of Literature," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, October 2002. Chaired and co-organized: "Women in/on Colonialist France," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 2002. "Collaboration Matters: Sparking a Connection between French Literary and Cultural Studies," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, October 2001. "Women, Poetry, and the Nature of Genius: Exceptional Creativity," AIZEN, October 2001. "Women's Poetic 'Tradition' in Nineteenth-Century France: Wrestling with "la femme poète." Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 2001. Co-organized: "Women Writers (mis)reading Women Writers: A Tradition of their Own?" Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 2001. "Marie Krysinska's Fictions of Femininity and Feminism, or Reinventing Eve" Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, October 2000. The History of Nineteenth-Century French "Women" Poets: Elle sera poète, elle aussi!" First International Women in French Conference at Carleton and Macalester Colleges, April, 2000. "Marie Krysinska on the Culture of the Poetic Genius," Women Seeking Expression: France 1789-1915, Indiana, September, 1999. "Writing in the Shadow of Eve: Marie Krysinska and the Force of Poetic Desire," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, October, 1998. "Bearing Fertile Minds: Women's Poetic Body in Nineteenth-Century France," NEMLA, April 1998. "Le Mythe de Louise Ackermann, Recreated: Unbecoming Woman, Monstrous Poet," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, October 1997. "Reconceiving Poetic Women: Discourse of Maternity in Louise Ackermann, Louisa Siefert, and Marie Krysinska," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Toronto, October 1996. "Replacing Women in Poetic History: The Romantic Fallacy," Southeast Modern Language Association, Atlanta, November 1996. Chaired: "19th-Century French Women Poets: Coming to Writing, Configuring Female Desire," Northeast Modern Language Association, April 1996. "Women's Poetic Movement: Marie Krysinska and Symbolist Aesthetics," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, October 1995. Chair, "Mea culpa: Guilt and Morality in Modern French Literature," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 1995. "Fin de siècle and its Fe/male Pleasures: Marie Krysinska's Force du désir," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, April 1995. "Poeticizing Desire: The Female Body in Nineteenth-Century French Poetry," Women's Studies Colloquium, Colby College, April 1995. "French and American Poetic Sensibilities," French Department Round Table, Colby College, February 1995. "Reading the Romantic Self Otherwise: Poetics of the Female Romantic Body," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, Fall 1994. Organized and chaired: "(Re)covering the Feminine in Nineteenth-Century Poetry: From Muse to Voice," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, Spring 1994. "Re(dis)covering Louisa Siefert: Rimbaud and la femme poète," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium,1993. "Embodying la voix féminine: Writing (out) of Desire in Louisa Siefert," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, 1994. "De(constructing) the Self in Rimbaud's Illuminations: Dreaming, Imaging the Scene of the Other," Kentucky Foreign Language Conference, 1993. (invited) "Rimbaud and the Anxiety of Influence: Romanticism Revisited," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, 1992. (invited) "The Dialogic 'Je' in the Illuminations: The Subject of Psychic Otherness," University of Cincinnati Romance Language and Literature Conference, 1992. (invited) "The Surrealist Debt to Apollinaire?: Aesthetics of Creative Imaging," Northeast Modern Language Association, 1992. Organized and Chaired, "Experimental Writing in French: Representations of the Self," Northeast Modern Language Association, 1992. "Madness and Creativity: Pre-Freudian Aesthetics of Dreaming in Nerval and Rimbaud and in some Nineteenth-Century Psychological Writing," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium,1991. "A Psychopoetics of Metaphor: Freudian Aesthetics and Rimbaud's Illuminations," University of Cincinnati Romance Language and Literature Conference, 1991. Chaired: "Experimental Writing in French," Northeast Modern Language Association, 1991. Attended for research and curriculum development. International Conference on Surrealism and the Oneiric Process, 1990. "The Poetics of Alterity in Rimbaud," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, 1990. Organized and chaired, "Dissonant Voices of Romanticism," Nineteenth-Century French Studies Colloquium, 1990. "Dream-Work and Poiesis: The Discourse of the Visionary Imagination in Rimbaud's Illuminations," Northeast Modern Language Association, 1990. "Poetic Revisionism: The Subliminal Dialectic between Rimbaud and Claudel," Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, 1989. "Metaphor in Rimbaud: Illumination or Shadow?," Mountain Interstate Foreign Language Conference, 1987. Last updated: 11/11/22 |
