ALA 2013 Panels on W. D. Howells

Saturday May 25, 2013 2:00-3:20 pm

Session 18-H William Dean Howells: Open Topic (St George C 3rd Floor)

Organized by the William Dean Howells Society

Chair: Dan Mrozowski, Trinity College

1. “Dialectic, Interrupted: In Conversation with Howells’s A Traveller from Altruria,” Cristina D’Amico, University of Toronto

2. “The American Tolstoy: Spatial Boundaries and Class in Annie Kilburn,” Scott Reznick, Boston College

3. “’I’ll be dogged!’: Evolution and Imbrutation in A Hazard of New Fortunes,” Henry Wonham, University of Oregon

Saturday May 25, 2013 3:30-4:50 pm

Session 19-I William Dean Howells & Memory (Great Republic 7th Floor)

Organized by the William Dean Howells Society

Chair: Dan Mrozowski, Trinity College

1. “A Charge That Staggers: Howells’s Standards for Reviewing the Civil War,” Aaron Shackelford, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2. “Ambivalent Amnesia and Dubious Memory in Howells’s ‘A Sleep and a Forgetting’,” Lance Rubin, Arapahoe Community College

3. “Civil War Bodies and the Sacrificial Enterprise: Negotiating Mutilation in William Dean Howells’s A Hazard of New Fortunes,” Joseph Darda, University of Connecticut

Session 9-P Business Meeting: William Dean Howells Society (Baltic 7th Floor)

 

ALA 2011 in Boston Panels on W. D. Howells

Friday, May 27, 2011 11:10 am – 12:30 pm

Session 9-H Business and Ethics in William Dean Howells (St George C)

Organized by the William Dean Howells Society

Chair: Lance Rubin, Arapahoe Community College

1. “Agency and Ethics of Reading in Howells‘s Poverty Fiction,” Benjamin Sammons, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

2. “The Crime of Books: William Dean Howells‘s The Quality of Mercy and the Taxonomy of Nineteenth Century Commercial Ethics,” Daniel Mrozowski, Trinity College

3. “The Awakening: H.D. Lloyd Sounds the Alarm for Howells in the Gilded Age,” Sanford Marovitz, Kent State University

Friday, May 27, 2011

12:40 –2:00 pm

Session 10-B The Overlooked Work of William Dean Howells (St George C)

Organized by the William Dean Howells Society

Chair: Lance Rubin, Arapahoe Community College

1. "William Dean Howells: Realist Poet,” Elizabeth Renker, The Ohio State University

2. "Rhetorics of Invisibility: Anaesthetized Landscapes in Howells‘s Suburban Sketches,” Maura D‘Amore, St. Michael‘s‘ College

3. "Discovering Howells‘s The Undiscovered Country,” Susan Goodman, University of Delaware

Friday, May 27, 2011

3:40 – 5:00 pm

Session 12- N Business Meeting: William Dean Howells Society (Helicon 7 th Floor)

 

ALA 2010 Panels on W. D. Howells

Thursday, May 27, 2010 1:30 - 2:50 pm
Session 4-C New Perspectives on Howells’s A Hazard of New Fortunes (Seacliff A)
Organized by the William Dean Howells Society

Chair: Lance Rubin, Arapahoe Community College

  1. “The Hazard of Economic Modernity in A Hazard of New Fortunes,” Christopher Raczkowski, University of South Alabama
  2. “The Aesthetics of the Witness: Mobility and Encounter in A Hazard of New Fortunes,” Will Lombardi, California State University
  3. “Howells’ Literary-Philosophical Form,” Brian McGrath, Rutgers University
Thursday, May 27, 2010 3:00 - 4:20 pm

Session 5-C Howells’s Aesthetics and Influences (Pacific I)

Organized by the William Dean Howells Society

Chair: Lance Rubin, Arapahoe Community College

1. “Moral Suspension and Aesthetic Perspectivalism in ‘ Venice in Venice,’” Christine Holbo, Arizona State University

2. “Neighborhood Tourism in Howells’ Boston Writing,” Monica Kathryn Zaleski, University of Delaware

3. “‘The Greatest Pathos and the Highest Tragedy’: William Dean Howells’s Letters to Harvey Greene,” Donna Campbell, Washington State University

Thursday, May 27 4:30-5:50

Session 6-M Business Meeting: Howells Society (Pacific B)

 

ALA 2009 Panels on W.D. Howells

Session 5-B Howells and His Contemporaries

Organized by the William Dean Howells Society

Chair: Rob Davidson, California State University, Chico

1. “‘The Exploitation of History’: Howells, Neo-Romanticism, and the Failure of Local Color,” Nathaniel Cadle, Florida International University

2. “Seeing with a New Lens: The Influence of William James on London Films,” Owen Clayton, University of Leeds

3. “The American Joke,” Marcella Frydman, Harvard University

Session 6-L Business Meeting: William Dean Howells Society

Session 20-I William Dean Howells

Organized by the William Dean Howells Society

Chair: Rob Davidson, California State University, Chico

1. “Howells in Bohemia,” Joanna Levin, Chapman University

2. “‘Absorbing the Colored Race’: Heterosexual Cross-Racial Desire and the Value of Black Womanhood in William Dean Howells’s An Imperative Duty,” Kerstin Rudolph, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

3. “‘Talking Horse’ and ‘House’ in The Rise of Silas Lapham,” Frederick Wegener, California State University, Long Beach

2008 Howells Sessions at ALA
2007 Howells Sessions at ALA

2006 Howells Sessions at ALA 2006
2005Howells Sessions at ALA 2005
2004 Howells Sessions at ALA 2004
2003 Howells Sessions at ALA 2003
2002 Howells Sessions at ALA 2002
2001 Howells Session at ALA 2001
2000Howells Session at ALA 2000
1999 Howells Session at ALA 1999  

Other Conference Papers and Conferences on Howells

MLA 2000 "Miscegenation, Medicine, and the Law in Howells's An Imperative Duty," Laura K. Johnson, Boston University, in Session 449, "Race and the Subject of Marriage in Late Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century America."

Howells Conference at Kittery Point (Note: Lingua Franca [September 2001] has an article about this conference. )

  • Howells Session at ALA Symposium on American Humor (December 10-12, 1998)
  • Howells Session at MLA 1998: "William Dean Howells: Culture Maker? Culture Marker?" (December 28, 1998)
  • 1998 Howells Sessions at ALA 1998

  • Howells in his study

     

     

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