Hungry Ocean Panels
I.
Know-How, Part 1
1. Jyotsna Singh, Michigan State U.; jsingh@msu.edu
“Coastal Geographies of Guinea and the Early Modern Slave Trade”
2. Jean Feerick; Brown University; jean_feerick@brown.edu
“Bacon, Romance, and the Seas of Cognition”
3. Sharon Higby, U Maryland; shighby@umd.edu
Sixteenth-century Navigational Manuals
II.
Sea-Monsters
1. Richard King, Williams-Mystic; Richard.king@williams.edu
‘Impossible to Doubt the Lobster’s Sorrow’: An Ecocritical Examination of Homarus
americanus in American Literature
2. Dan Brayton, Middlebury College; dbrayton@middlebury.edu
“The Creaturely Whale”
3.
Joshua Gonsalves, American U. at Beirut; jodago@aub.edu.lb
“Poulpe Fictions: Nineteenth-Century Genealogies of Thallasophobia”
4. Geoffrey Barrow, Purdue U. at Calumet; barrow@calumet.purdue.edu
“Piscatory eclogue topoi in Molyneaux’ The Doryman’s Reflection”
III.
Know-How, Part 2
1. Mary K. Bercaw-Edwards, U Conn at Avery Point;
mary.bercaw_edwards@uconn.edu
“Sailor Talk”
2. Jennifer Schell, U of Alaska Fairbanks; jschell5@alaska.edu
“Imagining Heroic American Manhood: Nineteenth-Century New England
Whalemen and Rocky Mountain Fur Trappers”
3. Jake Mattox, U. Indiana at South Bend; jdmattox@iusb.edu
“Antebellum U.S. Literary Culture and the Marine Sciences of Empire”
4. Sophie Gilmartin, Royal Hollaway; s.gilmartin@rhul.ac.uk
Navigational Practices and Women’s Orientation
IV.
Literature, Empire, and the Nineteenth-Century Ocean
1. Hester Blum, Penn State University; hester.blum@psu.edu
“Extreme Printing”
2. Samuel Baker, University of Texas; sebaker@austin.texas.edu
"Sailing Westward: Wordsworth and Byron Between Climates of Empire"
3. Siobhan Carroll, University of Delaware; socarroll@english.udel.edu
“Their Peculiar Literature:’ Frederick Marryat and the Space of the Ocean”
4. Bryan Sinche, University of Hartford; sinche@hartford.edu
“The hazy space of freedom and ‘The man without a country’”
V.
Oceanic Humanities, Part 1
1. Daniel Lane, Norwich U; dlane@norwich.edu
“’Derelict Vessels and Signals of Distress’: Winslow Homer’s Encounters with the
Gulf Stream and Fluid Narrative”
2. Amy Parsons, U Wisconsin Platt; parsonam@uwplatt.edu
“Keeping Up with the Morrells: Sea Narratives, Ghost Writing, and the Literary
Marketplace”
3. Matthew Raffety, Redlands U; Matthew_raffety@redlands.edu
“’He Became Quite Unmanned’: The Gendering of Vice in Seafarers’ Confessions”
4.
VI.
Gretchen Woertendyke, U of South Carolina; woertend@mailbox.sc.edu
“U. S. Popular Romance and the Sea”
The Haze of Maritime Modernity
Chair: Kathyrn Mudgett, Massachusetts Maritime Academy;
nautilus@maritime.edu
1. Sara Olsen, U Mississippi; solsen@olemiss.edu
“Sinuous Flows in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea”
2. Stephanie Tilden, Brown University; Stephanie_tilden@brown.edu
“Seeing the Neutral: Conrad’s Ocean of Deception in ‘The Tide’”
3. Elizabeth Sofatzis, University of Sydney; Esof0975@uni.sydney.edu.au
“Thomas Hardy’s Negative Theodicy: the Titanic Diaster and ‘The
Convergance of the Twain’”
4. AnuradhaRamanujan, University of Singapore;
anuradha.ramanujan@gmail.com
“Thinking Through Affect in Conservationsist Discourse: Amitav Ghosh’sThe
Hungry Tide”
VII.
Oceanic Humanities, Part 2
1. Marty Rojas, URI; marty@uri.edu
"’Teach me the Woes of Slavery to Paint’: David Humphreys, Poetic Mutiny, and
Sovereignty in the Early Republic”
2. Jason Payton, U Maryland; jpayton1@umd.edu
“Deleuze and Guattarri go A’Pirating”
3. Sara Crosby, Ohio State U at Marion; Crosby.sara@gmail.com
“Islands of Oil or Orange Blossoms?: What is the Louisiana Gulf Coast?”
4. Frank Mabee, Fitchburg State U; fmabee@fitchburgstate.edu
“’The Sea as Green Fields’: Calenture and Wordsworth’s Rural Ocean”