As an Allied Organization of the Modern Language Association, the Byron Society of America sponsors a Byron session at the annual convention of the MLA, held in late December each year. Recent sessions are described below.
MLA 2013
TEACHING BYRON
Friday 04 January 2013, 8:30 - 9:45am, Liberty B Sheraton (Boston)
Presiding: Robin S. Hammerman, Stevens Institute of Technology
1. Susan Wolfson, Princeton University. "'Electricity in the Air': Childe Harold III, Frankenstein, and More."
2. Charles W. Mahoney, University of Connecticut. "Sortes Byronicae: Don Juan par hasard."
3. G. Todd Davis, Kentucky State University. "Byron's Darkness and Student Reception."
4. Paul Whickman, The University of Nottingham. "Don Juan for First Year Undergraduates."
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MLA 2012
LORD BYRON: POETRY IN MANUSCRIPT, POETRY IN PRINT
Saturday, 07 January 2012, 5:15 - 6:30 p.m., 616, Washington State Convention Center.
Program arranged by the Byron Society of America
Presiding: Gary R. Dyer, Cleveland State University
1. "Indeterminacy and Method: Editing Byron's Accidentals," Alice J. Levine, Hofstra University
2. "Byron's Social Readers and the Limits of Manuscript," Michelle Nancy Levy, Simon Fraser University
3. "Byron's Hand," Gary R. Dyer, Cleveland State University
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MLA 2011
LORD BYRON: LIVES AND AFTERLIVES
Sunday, January 09, 8:30-9:45 am, Platinum Salon H, Marriott.
Presiding: Cheryl F. Guiliano, University of California, Los Angeles
1. John Clubbe, University of Kentucky. "Byron's Life as Collector and his Pursuit of an Epic Voice."
2. Tom Mole, McGill University. "Byron in the Nineteenth-Century Panthenon."
3. Catherine Siemann, The Cooper Union. "Lord Byron: Vampire."
CARL WOODRING AND THE RISE OF NEW HISTORICISM
Saturday, January 08, 1:45-3:00 pm, Diamond Salon 1, Marriott.
Presiding: Jonathan Gross, DePaul University
1. Nina Auerbach, University of Pennsylvania. "Carl Woodring, Tactful Truth-teller."
2. Steven E. Jones, Loyola University. "Politics and Prints in English Romantic Poetry."
3. Anne K. Mellor, University of California, Los Angeles. "Engendering the Politics of English Romantic Poetry."
For a full description of these sessions, please click here.
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MLA 2008
BYRON AND/AS/IN POPULAR CULTURE I
Saturday, December 27, 2008
3:30-4:45 p.m.
Golden Gate 1, Hilton
San Francisco, CA
Presiding:
Tom Mole, McGill University
"Picturing Celebrity: Byron, West, and LEL"
Susan Wolfson, Princeton University
"The Culture of Comparison: Byron in the Satirist"
Mark L. Shoenfield, Vanderbilt University
"The Sensation of Byron"
Emily Allen, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Dino Franco Felluga, Purdue University, West Lafayette
"BYRON AND/AS/IN POPULAR CULTURE II:
A CONVERSATION WITH BENJAMIN MARKOVITS,
author of Imposture and A Quiet Adjustment"
Sunday, December 28, 2008
3:30-4:45 p.m.
Mason A, Hilton
San Francisco, CA
Presiding:
Peter W. Graham, Virginia Tech
A roundtable discussion about writing literary fiction with author Benjamin Markovits and discussants Jonathan Gross, DePaul University and Katherine Kernberger, Linfield College
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2007 - Byron and America
Saturday, 29 December
10:15 - 11:30 a.m., Columbian, Hyatt Regency Chicago, IL
Presiding: Jonathan Gross, DePaul University
1. “Byron in American Music: From Schoenberg to Goth,” John Clubbe,
Professor Emeritus, University of Kentucky
2. “Bryon, Stowe, and Lady Byron Vindicated,” Austin Graham, University
of California at Los Angeles
3. “Byron, Hawthorne, and Anglo-American Tourisn,” Maureen McCue,
University of Glasgow
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