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I love going to (to me) new conferences--not only do I get to learn about exciting work in the field, but I also get to meet new people and, ideally, expand my collection of "regularly-attended." What strikes me most about the Aphra Behn Society is its collegiality, its openness to and mentorship of graduate student …
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May 19, 2011 by thowe Teacher-scholars unite! I’ve been testing some possible applications of Omeka archives and Zotero as collaborative tools organizing the development of literary research methodologies classes, and I’d like to take the wonderful opportunity of THATcamp to begin developing the structure and content of project I see as The Next Step. I’d …
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Popular Culture Association San Antonio TX March 2011 “All deformed Shapes”: Refiguring the Posture Master as Popular Performer in Early Eighteenth-Century England" The early eighteenth-century entertainment economy can be characterized by its variety and its modernity. Host to pre-Restoration repertory plays and bawdy Restoration comedies, heroic tragedies and experimental work, emerging bourgeois dramas, farcical afterpieces, …
ASECS 2010 San Antonio, TX Web 2.0 Roundtable Proposal: Over the past few years, I've been experimenting in the classroom with a variety of web 2.0 technologies: IBM's ManyEyes, wikis, blogs, and, most recently, Omeka archives and Zotero groups. Some technologies I use to produce single-authored lecture and discussion tools, like ManyEyes, and others, I …
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2010 ASECS Albuquerque, TX “'Things without Head, or Tail, or Form, or Grace': The Hypercorporeality of Farce on the Early Eighteenth-Century Stage” An increasingly—and problematically—popular form on the stage during the early eighteenth century, farce thrives on the actions of bodies that, in their very embodiment, problematize the imagined integrity of the human. Instead of …
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ASECS 2009 Richmond, VA "Harlequin Toft; or, Imposture, Pantomime, and the Instabilities of Satire in the Early Eighteenth Century" From October to December of 1726, Mary Toft hacked dead rabbits into small and not-so-small pieces; forced them, piece-by-piece into her vagina; then expelled these “made…monster[s]”i under the gazes of eminent and not-so-eminent medical men, scholars, …
2007 ASECS, Atlanta GA “‘To Exhibit a Dumb Shew’: Hogarth and the Theater” Handouts “Irregular Theater, the Discourse of Farce, and Hogarth’s Line of Deformity” During the first half of the eighteenth century, a brand of so-called “irregular” theatrical entertainment—popular, not always licensed or legitimate, both “English” and “foreign”—made its problematic way into the public …
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