Melville’s Crossings The Eleventh International Melville Society Conference

King’s College London, UK June 27-30, 2017

It is a real pleasure to welcome you to King’s College London. We are immensely proud to host so many

wonderful scholars from all around the world. We look forward to hearing the papers in what promises to be

a fantastic event. It is hugely gratifying to see the range and extent of the papers that will be on show over

the coming days as well as how far and wide Melville scholarship has travelled. We have been planning this

event for almost three years and it was while putting together the programme that we knew that all the hard

work had been worth it.

There are six strands that run throughout the conference that reflect on the emblematic and transformative

effects of Melville’s various Atlantic crossings over the course of his career. These six strands—Melville’s

Crossings, Maritime Culture, Melville in Dialogue, Atlantic Forms, Other Melvilles, and the Melvillean

Body—offer one way of navigating your way through this conference and narrating how it was that the

Atlantic world impacted on his life and work. In addition, for the first time, we have seminars dedicated to

one particular aspect of Melville’s work.

We are pleased also to be using London as an active participant in the conference. There are trips to the

British Library for an exciting public outreach afternoon (which is included in your registration), the Tate

Britain, Greenwich, and a walking tour, all of which will hopefully help you embed Melville’s work in a

place that he thought of as a “city of Dis (Dante’s)”. We can only hope that your impressions will be more

favourable!

Organising a conference of this scale has meant that we owe a great deal of gratitude to a number of people.

But we wanted to pause to thank the members of the Executive Committee of the International Melville

Society, the Faculty of Arts and Humanities and the Department of English Literature at King’s especially

for their support. Thanks also are due to our graduate helpers, the professional services staff in the English

department, the events team, and the e-store team for their help with the pragmatics of the conference. We

also want to thank in particular our plenary speakers, seminar leaders, tour guides, and panel chairs for going

above and beyond in helping us to make this conference special.

Welcome to London! Enjoy the conference!

The Organising Committee

(Janet Floyd, Wyn Kelley, Edward Sugden)

Tuesday June 27

8.30-9.30

Registration and Coffee

Entrance Hall

9.30-9.45

Welcome

Great Hall

9.45-11.00

PLENARY

Hester Blum (Pennsylvania State University), “Melville in the

Arctic”

Great Hall

11.00-11.20

Coffee

Great Hall

d

11.20-12.50

Session One

Panel 1 - Melville’s Crossings: Arrival In Britain

Chair: Matthew Pethers (University of Nottingham)

Milton Reigelman (Centre College), “Melville’s London

Apocalypse”

Kathryn Mudgett (Massachusetts Maritime Academy),

“Experimental Crossings: Melville, Redburn, and Gentlemen’s

Sons at Sea”

Karen Lentz Madison (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville),

“‘The Gloomiest and Truthfulest Dramatist’: Melville and the

‘Charing Crosses below’”

Neill Matheson (University of Texas at Arlington), “Burton’s

Smile: Melville in Oxford”

Panel 2 - Maritime Culture: The Ship

Chair: Mary K. Bercaw Edwards (University of Connecticut)

Dawid W. De Villiers (Stellenbosch University), “Rendering

the Real: Melville and the Transatlantic Material Sublime”

Søren Frank (University of Southern Denmark), “Melville and

Technology”

Lauren Kimball (Rutgers University), “Crossing (in) a Rare

Commons: The Social Optimism of Melville’s Man-of-War

World”

Jimmy Packham (University of Birmingham), “‘alive to

wondrous depths’: slipping beneath the surface of Melville’s

oceans”

Nash Lecture Theatre

(K2.31)

Council Room (K.2.29)

Session One (continued)

Panel 3 - Melville in Dialogue: Victorian Melville 1

Chair: Tony McGowan (West Point)

Caitlin Smith (University of Notre Dame), “Grief and Doubt in

the Age of Darwin: Crises of Faith in Melville’s Clarel and

Tennyson’s In Memoriam”

Brad S. Born (Bethel College), “Crossings in the Black

Atlantic of Victor Hugo’s, Eugène Sue’s, and Herman

Melville’s Imagination: A Gam in the Foreign Seas of Bug-

Jargal, Atar-Gul, and ‘Benito Cereno’”

Brian Yothers (University of Texas at El Paso), “Herman

Melville: British Poet”

Panel 4 - Atlantic Forms: Melville and Capitalism

Chair: Peter Riley (University of Exeter)

Joel Pfister (Wesleyan University), “Melville’s Argument with

(Soft) Capitalism: The Anglo-American Diptychs as Theory”

Yu Otake (Ibaraki National College of Technology),

“Expurgated Labour in Typee: The ‘Unvarnished Truth’ in ‘A

Culpable Omission’”

Timothy Marr (University of North Carolina), “The

Transnational Politics of Melville’s Diptychs”

Maki Sadahiro (Meijigakuin University), “Transnational

Solidarity or Struggle: The Dawn of the Melville Revival”

K2.40

K3.11

12.50-13.45

Lunch (provided)

Great Hall

13.45-15.15

Session Two

Panel 5 - Other Melvilles: Melville’s Immaterialities

Chair: Tom F. Wright (University of Sussex)

Rasmus R. Simonsen (Copenhagen School of Design and

Technology), “Styling Melville”

Christopher Looby (University of California, Los Angeles),

“Melville’s Olfactory Text”

Christian Reed (University of California, Los Angeles), “The

Vibe of Israel Potter”

Trish Loughran (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign),

“Billy’s Stammer”

Nash Lecture Theatre

(K2.31)

Session Two (continued)

Panel 6 - The Melvillean Body: Work and Violence

Chair: Christopher Sten (George Washington University)

Vivian Delchamps (University of California, Los Angeles),

“Mechanical Corporality: Women as Machines in Melville’s

‘Tartarus of Maids’”

Takayuki Tatsumi (Keio University), “Crossing the Line: The

Rhetoric of Decapitation in Moby-Dick”

Ashley Gangi (University of Connecticut), “Reading the

Living Body: Scars and Tattoos in Typee, Omoo, and Moby-

Dick”

Liya Liu (University of Buffalo), “The San Dominick’s

Constitution and the Major Characters’ Physicality in ‘Benito

Cereno’”

Panel 7 - Melville’s Crossings: London

Chair: Janet Floyd (King’s College London)

Wyn Kelley (Massachusetts Institute of Technology),

“‘Crossed By Westminster’: Melville’s Urban Cartography of

1849”

Peter J. Bellis (University of Alabama at Birmingham),

“Melville and Franklin: Authorship on Craven Street”

Joe Barnes (University of Auckland), “Crossing from Israel

Potter to The Confidence-Man”

Sascha Morrell (Monash University), “Thames tunnel torsos

and clanging canallers: Melville’s mobile mechanics”

Panel 8 - Maritime Culture: The Sailor

Chair: Milton Reigelman (Centre College)

Mary K. Bercaw Edwards (University of Connecticut),

“Performing the Sailor in Melville’s Works”

Nicholas Spengler (University of Edinburgh), “Jack Chase on a

Spanish Quarter Deck: A British Empire for Liberty in

Melville’s Americas”

Matthew Knip (City University of New York), “Historicising

Melville’s Queer Transatlantic Labyrinth”

Guiyou Huang (Louisiana State University of Alexandria),

“The French Revolution and Moral Transgression in Billy

Budd”

Council Room (K.2.29)

K2.40

K3.11

15.15-15.30

Coffee

Great Hall

15.30-17.00

Session Three

Seminar - Israel Potter: The Great American Transatlantic

Novel?

Participation pre-arranged

Convenor: Robert Levine (University of Maryland)

Munia Bhaumik (Emory University)

Megan Barnes (Loyola Marymount University)

Carol Colatrella (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Caleb Doan (Louisiana State University)

James Greene (Pittsburg State University)

Jeffrey Insko (Oakland University)

Emilio Irigoyen (Universidad de la República)

Emilia Le Seven (Université Paris-Diderot (Paris VII))

Robert D. Madison (University of Arkansas)

Kelly Ross (Rider University)

Council Room (K2.29)

15.30-17.00

Roundtable 1 - Melville and Biography

John Bryant (Hofstra University)

Jaime Campomar (Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina)

Meredith Farmer (Wake Forest University)

T. Walter Herbert (Southwestern University)

Peter Riley (University of Exeter)

John Rocco (SUNY Maritime College)

John Wenke (Salisbury University)

Nash Lecture Theatre

(K2.31)

Session Three (continued)

Panel 9 - Melville’s Crossings: Art and Politics

Chair: Christopher Looby (University of California, Los

Angeles)

Robert K. Wallace (Northern Kentucky University), “Melville

and Turner in 1850, 1891, 1985, and 2016”

Janet Floyd (King’s College London), “Melville and the 'whole

Meynellage': Viola Meynell's 1920 edition of Moby-Dick”

Mitsuru Sanada (Ryukoku University), “Melville’s Diptychs:

Imagination and Ambiguity”

Marek Paryz (University of Warsaw), “Herman Melville’s

Redburn and the Construction of Post-Colonial Counter

Discourse”

Alex Calder (University of Auckland), “Queer Colonials

Crossing: Herman Melville with Frank Sargeson and William

Plomer”

Panel 10 - Atlantic Forms: Print Culture

Chair: Katie McGettigan (Royal Holloway, University of

London)

Matthew Pethers (University of Nottingham), “Dead Letters!

Does It Not Sound Like Dead Networks? or, Bartleby, the

Scrivener: A Story of the Post Office”

Tomos Hughes (University of Nottingham), “‘Indeed, I am

bound’: Reading (and Writing), Capital, Labour, and Slavery

in ‘Bartleby, the Scrivener’”

Dennis Mischke (University of Stuttgart), “Crossings of Trust:

the Cosmopolitics of Encounter in Herman Melville’s

‘Bartleby, the Scrivener’ and The Confidence-Man”

Arimichi Makino (Meiji University), “Bartleby Surrounded by

the ‘Wall of Money’”

K2.40

K3.11

17.15-19.15

Reception

Entrance Hall

Wednesday June 28

9.00-10.30

Session Four

Panel 11 - Melville in Dialogue: Philosophy and Melville’s

Poetry

Chairs: Cody Marrs (University of Georgia) and Tom Nurmi

(Montana State University Billings)

Cody Marrs (University of Georgia), “Battle-Pieces and the

Problem of Beauty”

Corey McCall (Elmira College), “Melville’s Poetics of

Suffering”

Tom Nurmi (Montana State University Billings), “On Pebbles”

Paweł Jędrzejko (University of Silesia in Katowice), “A

Guidebook to Experience”

Panel 12 - Melville’s Crossings: Liverpool

Chair: John Bryant (Hofstra University)

Katie McGettigan (Royal Holloway, University of London),

“Imagining Liverpool in Melville/Reimagining Melville’s

Liverpool”

Tom F. Wright (University of Sussex), “Reading Nelson’s

Statue in Redburn – The Problem of Liverpool”

David Ketterer (University of Liverpool), “Liverpool’s Nelson

Monument as Allegorized in Billy Budd”

Damien Schlarb (Johannes Gutenberg University), “Redburn

and the Erosion of Biblical Authority”

Panel 13 - Melville in Dialogue: Growths and Changes

Chair: Robert K. Wallace (Northern Kentucky University)

Christine A. Wooley (St. Mary’s College of Maryland),

“Moby-Dick’s Transgressive Growth”

Elizabeth Schultz (The University of Kansas), “Moby-Dick as a

‘Book of Life’: A Biosemiotic Reading”

Ellen Bayer (University of Washington Tacoma), and Andrea

Modarres (University of Washington Tacoma) “Crossing the

Final Frontier: The Reinscription of Ahab in the Star Trek

Universe”

Thomas Zlatic (St. Louis College of Pharmacy), “Melville

Aslant”

Nash Lecture Theatre

(K2.31)

Council Room

(K2.29)

K2.40

Session Four (continued)

Roundtable 2 - Melville and Popular Culture

Simon Edwards (Center for Inter-American Studies, University

of Graz)

Giorgio Mariani (Sapienza Università di Roma)

Martina Pfeiler (Ruhr-Universität Bochum)

Paolo Simonetti (Sapienza Università di Roma)

K3.11

10.30-11.00

Coffee

Entrance Hall

11.00-12.30

Session Five

Panel 14 - Atlantic Forms: Influence

Chair: David Greven (University of South Carolina)

Kohei Furuya (Kanagawa University), “Melville’s

Conversations with Goethe: Representation, Translation, and

Nation in Moby-Dick"

Paolo Simonetti (Sapienza Università di Roma), “‘Brag No

More, Old England!’ Melville, Hawthorne, and their ‘English

Ambiguities’”

Dawn Coleman (University of Tennessee), “A Virtual

Mentorship: Melville and W. E. Channing’s Essays on Literary

Genius”

Christopher Sten (George Washington University), “‘Playing

Smart, Playing Dumb’: Melville’s ‘The Lightning-Rod Man’

and the Art of Performance”

Panel 15 - Other Melvilles: Otherworldly Melville

Chair: Robert Levine (University of Maryland)

Christopher Castiglia (Pennsylvania State University),

“England and Melville’s Aesthetics of Fantasy”

Rebecca Cheong (Pennsylvania State University), “Mapping

Melville in the Pacific: an atlas”

Cindy Weinstein (California Institute of Technology),

“Crisscrossing the senses: the sound of Melville”

Edward Sugden (King’s College London), “Jack Blunt’s

Dream”

Nash Lecture Theatre

(K2.31)

Council Room

(K2.29)

Session Five (continued)

Panel 16 - Maritime Culture: Maritime Labours

Chair: Hester Blum (Pennsylvania State University)

Colin Dewey (California State University Maritime Academy),

“The Feeling that Sticks: Moby-Dick and/as Maritime Georgic”

John Beck (University of Westminster), “Forget the Sea:

Melville, Sekula, and the Concealment of Labour”

Ian Copestake (Independent Researcher), “A Humoral Reading

of Ishmael’s Oceanic Labours: The Sea as Treatment for the

Insane”

Amy Parsons (California State University Maritime Academy),

“‘This is mankilling! Yet this is life’: The Paradox of Labor in

Melville’s Fiction”

Panel 17 - Melville in Dialogue: Melville’s Shakespeare

Chair: Sarah Lewis (King’s College London)

Robert Madison (University of Arkansas), “Melville,

Shakespeare, and Joseph C. Hart”

Ali Chetwynd (American University of Iraq), “Babo and

Another Shakespearean Villain”

Ikuno Saiki (Tokyo Gakugei University), “A Genealogy of

Subalterns in ‘The Encantadas’: Spenser, Shakespeare, and

Melville”

K2.40

K3.11

12.30

13.30

14.00-17.30

Lunch on own

Journey to British Library Conference Centre for ‘Looking for

Melville’, a public engagement event. This is included in

your registration fee.

Looking for Melville

Featuring John Bryant reading from his new biography of

Melville, Ian McGuire and Philip Hoare talking about their

recent Melville-influenced work, artist Caroline Hack and

director Shelley Piasecka talking about their adaptations of

Melville’s work, a showing of clips from David Shaerf’s new

documentary Call us Ishmael, and Dawn Coleman and

Martin Griffin talking about popular responses to Melville.

Unofficial Evening Drinks: The Queen’s Head, 66 Acton

Street, King’s Cross, London WC1X 9NB from 6pm

British Library Conference

Centre

Thursday June 29

8.30-10.00

Session Six

Panel 18 - The Melvillean Body: Melville’s Forms: Bodies,

Tones, Gestures, Diptychs

Chair: Hannah Murray (University of Nottingham)

Branka Arsić (Columbia University), “Entomological Persons:

Insects and Ahab”

Jennifer Greiman (Wake Forest University), “Gloom, Light,

Tone, and Form in Pierre”

James D. Lilley (University at Albany, State University of

New York), “Fateful Gestures: On Movement and the

Maneuvers of Style in ‘Benito Cereno’”

Samuel Otter (University of California, Berkeley), “America

and England: ‘Very Counterparts’ and ‘Inverted Similitudes’”

Panel 19 - Melville in Dialogue: Activism

Chair: Nancy Goldfarb (Indiana University-Purdue University

Indianapolis)

Amber Shaw (Coe College), “‘The pallid incipience of the

pulp’: Herman Melville, the Lowell Mills, and Nineteenth-

Century Transatlantic Literary Culture”

Olga Akroyd (University of Kent), “The crossing paths of

activism: Herman Melville and Feodor Dostoyevsky’s battle

for social reform”

Nancy Goldfarb (Indiana University-Purdue University

Indianapolis), “Melville’s Transatlantic Critique of Charity”

Grace Heneks (Texas A&M), “Wanderlust in Melville’s

Redburn”

Matthew Bruen (Young Harris College), “‘For lists of killed

and wounded, see / The morrow’s dispatch’: Wartime

Communication and Trauma in Herman Melville’s

‘Donelson’”

Nash Lecture Theatre

(K2.31)

Council Room (K2.29)

Session Six (continued)

Panel 20 - Other Melvilles: Melville and the Mind

Chair and Respondent: Meredith Farmer (Wake Forest

University)

Matthew Rebhorn (James Madison University), “The Ontology

of the Squeeze: Will Power, Embodiment, and Schopenhauer

in Moby-Dick”

Chip Badley (University of California, Santa Barbara),

“Landlessness: Intersubjectivity, Neuroplasticity, and Moby-

Dick”

Jonathan Schroeder (Yale University), “Israel Potter,

Nostalgia, and the Romantic Science of Feeling”

Hannah Walser (Stanford University), “The Monomaniacal

Canon: Moby-Dick and American Eccentricity”

Panel 21 - Melville’s Crossings: The Middle East

Chair: Timothy Marr (University of North Carolina)

Zach Hutchins (Colorado State University), “The Structural

Poetics of Incompletion in Clarel’s Wilderness”

Kylan Rice (Colorado State University), “Rough Standing

Ground”: Photography and the Development of Insurgent

Landscapes in Clarel”

Beverly Voloshin (San Francisco State

University),"Melville’s Clarel, the Sacred Palm of Mar Saba,

and the Circulation of Images of Palestine"

K2.40

K3.11

10.00-10.15

Coffee

Entrance Hall

10.15-11.30

PLENARY

Paul Gilroy (King’s College London), “Melville’s Drowned

and Saved”

Great Hall

11.30-11.45

Coffee

Entrance Hall

11.45-13.15

Session Seven

Seminar 2 - Melville and the Non-Human

Participation pre-arranged

Dana Luciano (Georgetown University), (co-convener)

Kyla Wazana Tompkins (Pomona College), (co-convener)

Joe Conway (University of Alabama in Huntsville)

Meredith Farmer (Wake Forest University)

Peter Jaros (Franklin & Marshall College)

Akihiro Maru (University of Tsukuba)

Ryan McWilliams (University of California, Berkeley)

Tom Nurmi (Montana State University Billings)

Jonathan Schroeder (Yale University)

Dorin Smith (Brown University)

Timothy Sweet (West Virginia University)

Christa Holm Vogelius (University of Copenhagen)

Lynn Wardley (San Francisco State University)

Christine Wooley (St. Mary’s College of Maryland)

Council Room (K2.29)

11.45-13.15

Panel 22 - Atlantic Forms: Revolution

Chair: John Wenke (Salisbury University)

Jonathan A. Cook (Middleburg Academy), “Revolutionary

Skepticism in Israel Potter”

Cécile Roudeau (Université Paris Diderot),“‘Just Like Bricks

into a Wall’: Israel Potter and Transatlantic Democratic Modes

of Assembly”

Ross Martin (The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), “The

Art of Punishment: Major Thomas Melvill, White-Jacket, and

the Revolution of Corporeal Reform”

Matthew Crow (Hobart and William Smith Colleges), “Ancient

Constitutions, Melvillean Moments, and Antipodean

Perspectives: Melville’s Philosophical Histories of Law and

Empire”

Elizabeth Layman (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), “The

Oath of the Pequod: Jacques Louis David’s ‘Oath of the

Horatii’ and Moby-Dick”

Nash Lecture Theatre

(K2.31)

Session Seven (continued)

Panel 23 - Melville’s Crossings: Round the World

Chair: Wyn Kelley (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Shogo Tanokuchi (Keio University), “A Revolutionary Hero’s

Transatlantic Crossings: Unity with the National Foe in Israel

Potter”

Merav Schocken (University of California, Santa Barbara),

“Crossing into Faith: Insisting on Holiness in the Holy Land”

Rie Makino (Nihon University), “‘Bartleby’ as Internment

Discourse: Japanese-American Responses to Melville”

Panel 24 - Maritime Culture: Islands

Chair: Edward Sugden (King’s College London)

David Farnell (Fukuoka University),“‘His First Voyage’ and

His Second: Heterotopian Spaces in Redburn and Typee”

Yui Kasane (Hitotsubashi University), “Melville’s Island

Imagination in ‘The Encantadas, or Enchanted Isles’”

Mallory Pladus (Rice University), “Sovereignty, Aesthetics,

and Enchantment: ‘The Encantadas’ and the Rubrics of

Relationality”

Edouard Marsoin (Paris Diderot University),“‘No Land of

Pleasure Unalloyed’: Pleasure Crossings in Melville’s Fiction”

K2.40

K3.11

Trips (Thursday June 29)

BOOKING REQUIRED

1. Greenwich (tour of the National Maritime Museum at 15.00): meet at National Maritime Museum at

14.45 (40-60 minute journey from King’s)

We will be meeting in the lobby of the National Maritime Museum at 14.45. It will take 45 minutes to an hour to travel

there.

This trip is being co-ordinated by Ed Sugden (07812371485)

To get to the museum from King’s:

Either:

Take the Circle or District Line to Cannon Street from Temple

Catch a train to either Greenwich or Maze Hill (roughly every fifteen minutes)

Follow signs to the National Maritime Museum

Or:

Take the Circle or District Line to Monument from Temple

Walk via underground pathway to Bank

Catch the Docklands Light Railway (direction Lewisham) to Cutty Sark

Follow Signs

2. Tate Britain: Turner and Melville’s Prints (14.30-16.30), led by Robert K. Wallace (Northern

Kentucky University)

We will be meeting in the lobby of Tate Britain at 14.15. Alternatively we will meet at 13.30 in KCL reception and

travel together.

This trip is being co-ordinated by Janet Floyd (0771856568)

To get to the museum from King’s:

Take the Circle or District line to Victoria station from Temple.

At Victoria take the Victoria line to Pimlico.

Follow signs to Tate Britain

3. Walking Tour: Americans in Melville’s London (15.30-17.00), led by Brian Murray (King’s College

London)

Meet at Blackfriars Tube Station (North Bank)

This trip is being coordinated by Brian Murray (07730363386)

To get to Blackfriars Tube Station from King’s:

Take the District or Circle line to Blackfriars from Temple

Alternatively it is a fifteen-minute walk from campus (right out of King’s reception, right down Surrey street, left

along Temple Place, left onto Victoria Embankment, then a ten minute walk along the Thames)

Unofficial Evening Drinks: The Ship and Shovell, 1-3 Craven Passage, London WC2N 5PH from 6pm

Friday June 30

9.00-10.30

Session Eight

Panel 25 - The Melvillean Body: Mind and Body

Chair: Meredith Farmer (Wake Forest University)

Ralph James Savarese (Grinnell College)

“Neurological Crossings I: Ahab and Mirror-Touch

Synesthesia”

Pilar Martinez Benedi (Sapienza Università di Roma),

“Neurological Crossings II: Pip and Mirror-Touch

Synesthesia”

Hannah Lauren Murray (University of Nottingham), “Isabel’s

Séance: Crossing the Spiritual Threshold in Pierre”

Christine Walsh (University of Arizona), “The

Metempsychotic Body of The Confidence-Man”

Monica Urban (University of Houston), “Reading Rubes:

Clothing in Melville’s The Confidence-Man”

Panel 26 - Melville in Dialogue: Victorian Melville 2

Chair: Brian Murray (King’s College London)

Helene Remiszewska (University of Texas at Austin),

“American Evolution: Melville and Darwin”

Christopher Jenkins (University of Ottawa), “The Confidence-

Man: Energy’s Masquerade”

Mikayo Sakuma (Wayo Women’s University),“Melville and

Dickens: Copyright and Adaptation”

Matthew Redmond (Stanford University), “Martin Chuzzlewit,

a Source for Melville’s ‘Bartleby’”

Panel 27 - Atlantic Forms: Genre

Chair: Mary K. Bercaw Edwards (University of Connecticut)

Tony McGowan (West Point), “No Romance: Billy Budd and

the Decay of Genius”

John Wenke (Salisbury University), “Transatlantic Double-

Cross: Travels through Mardi, the Narrows, Paradise and

Tartarus”

Shoko Tsuji (Matsuyama University), “Melville’s Skepticism

about Democracy Viewed Through His Transatlantic Diptychs

of Class Difference and Revolution”

Daniel Göske (Universität Kassel), “Riding to London on the

German horse: Melville‘s exploration of German culture in

1850”

Nash Lecture Theatre

(K2.31)

Council Room (K2.29)

K2.40

Session Eight (continued)

Panel 28 - Melville in Dialogue: Melville and Literary

Influence: Reframing Intertextuality

Chair: Wyn Kelley (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Andrew Hadfield (University of Sussex), “Mardi and

Spenser’s Wandering Allegory”

Michael Jonik (University of Sussex), “Clarel the Saracen”

Rasmus R. Simonsen (Copenhagen School of Design and

Technology), “Spinal Tesserae and the Influence of

Architecture in Melville”

David Greven (The University of South Carolina), “Sculpting

the Word: Pierre, Enceladus, and the Aesthetics of

Intransigence”

Panel 29 - Other Melvilles: Conflict

Chair: Brian Yothers (University of Texas at El Paso)

Maryse Jayasuriya (University of Texas at El Paso),

“Melville’s Battle-Pieces and Civil Conflict in World Poetry”

Michiko Shimokobe (Seikei University, Tokyo),

“Inland/Oceanic Imagination in Melville’s Redburn: Space in

the Political Climate of America in the1840s”

James Noel (Los Medanos College), “Racial Spectacles”

Ramón Espejo (University of Sevilla), “Melville and Spanish

Theatre in the 1980s”

K3.11

Great Hall

10.30-10.45

Coffee

Entrance Hall

10.45-11.45

Final Roundtable

Chair: Edward Sugden (King’s College London)

Hester Blum (Pennsylvania State University)

Christopher Castiglia (Pennsylvania State University)

Jeffrey Insko (Oakland University)

Wyn Kelley (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Dana Luciano (Georgetown University)

Arimichi Makino (Meiji University)

Great Hall

11.45-12.45

13.00

Lunch

Trip to Oxford

Great Hall

Virginia Woolf Building

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