Conference | Sex in the Long Nineteenth Century
Conference Chair
Katie MacLean
Conference Committee
Sophie Thompson, Johanna Harrison Oram, Fraser Riddell, Fabia Buescher, Andrea Lloyd,
Megha Mazumdar, Ellie Hibbert, Mary Grant, Michelle Reynolds
With thanks to
British Association for Victorian Studies, Christopher Prior, Michael Shaw, Katie Halsey,
Emma McCabe
9.00 Registration (CC 3.04)
9.30 Welcome (CC 3.04)
9.45 Panel 1A (CC 3.10): Sex Work and Sexual Assault
Scarlette-Electra LeBlanc (University of Hull)
Innocence and Ignorance: Sexual Assault and Fictions of Respectability in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Aurora Leigh
Aurora Soriano (Brandeis University, Massachusetts)
Against Pathology and Criminalization: Sex Workers’ Pleasure, Resistance, and Community Building in the Nineteenth Century
Dr Madeline Sporer (University of Regensburg, Germany)
Sexual Desire, Fallenness, and the Selling of the Body: A Case Study of Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market” and “Jenny”
Panel 1B (CC 3.11): Negotiating gender performance for the heterosexual model
Mari Komnæs (Lund University, Sweden)
“The rightful heir to Glenowen”: Gender Masquerade and the Order of Inheritance in Mary Robinson’s Walsingham; or, The Pupil of Nature
Jorunn Joiner (Lund University, Sweden)
“A fond fantastic boy”: Gender Performance and Medievalist Chivalry in Walter Scott’s Harold the Dauntless
Mette Hildeman Sjölin (Halmstad University, Sweden)
“All I hope for in my wife”: Gender Identity and Same-Sex Marriage in Anne Lister’s Journals
11.00 Panel 2A (CC 3.10): Policing Gender
Siobhan-Michelle Smith (Teesside University)
Women’s Moustaches and the Tell-Tale Titbit: How Minor Discourses Reveal Major Insights into Policing Gendered Identity
Rebecca Williamson (University of Glasgow)
Constructing Femininity, Configuring Illegitimacy: Two Trials for Child Murder in MidNineteenth-Century Scotland
Emily Bardgett (Durham University)
Smoking and Sexuality: Cigarettes as Cultural Markers of Misogyny in the 1890s
Panel 2B (CC 3.11): Sex and Colonialism
Freya Walker (University of Glasgow)
A H-airy spot: gossip, rumour and interracial sex in the West Indies
Kibria Nasir (University of Birmingham)
Gender, Sexuality, and Colonial Power in Indian Shakespeare Adaptations
Ellesse Patterson (University of Sheffield)
“The true daughter of an infamous mother”: Reading Bad Blood and Bad Brides in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre (1847) and Florence Marryat’s The Blood of the Vampire (1897).
12.00 Lunch
13.00 Panel 3A (CC 3.10): Medical Humanities
Hawwah Yiwen Chen (陳意雯) (National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
The “Queer” Case of Male Hysteria in The Woman in White and Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Dr Rebecca Whiteley (University of Birmingham)
The Medical Nude: Erotic Looking and Medical Knowledge in Mid-Victorian Britain
Dr Louise Kane (University of Central Florida, Orlando)
“To dabble in questionable literature”: The Fruits of Philosophy (1877), ‘Chinese Translations’, and the Rise of Sexology
Panel 3B (CC 3.11): Sex and the Novel
Rebecca Hamilton (University of Aberdeen)
Anne Brontë’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848)
Sylwia Stokłosa (Jagiellonian University)
“We have been slaves and servants long enough” – The Polish Woman Who Did. Reading Józef Ignacy Kraszewski’s Szalona
Zhongyi Yin
“A Double and Divided Flame”: Female Genius and Self-division in May Sinclair’s The Creators
14.00 Panel 4A (CC 3.10): Race and Nation
Dr Miguel Gaete (University of Melbourne)
Gangbang Theory: Johann Moritz Rugendas, Kidnappings, and the Fragile White Woman Fantasy
Shelbi Ferguson (University of Pittsburgh)
The English Vice: Flagellation, Pornography, and National Character in Victorian Culture
Enit Karafili Steiner (University of Lausanne)
Olaudah Equiano’s Revealed and Concealed Sexual Body
Panel 4B (CC 3.11): Queer Studies
Imogen Cook (University of Kent)
‘You’re a queer one and I’ll ask no more’: Reading the said and unsaid in Anne Lister’s venereal correspondence
Dr Sarah Wingrove (University of Surrey)
‘Epistemology of the [Water] Closet: Fantasy and Fetish in Anne Lister’s Journals’
Hao-Yu Hu (University of Edinburgh)
Decadence, Death, and the Queer Suspension of Time in Walter Pater’s ‘Emerald Uthwart’
15.30 Keynote (CC 3.04): Dr Michael Shaw, University of Stirling
Queering Scottish Periodicals in the Long Nineteenth Century
16.45 Closing comments and Issue 9 launch
17.00 End
18.00 Conference dinner, details TBC
* Please note that the conference schedule is subject to changes.