1. Italy and Italianness in the Lives & Works of the Rossettis
School of Pythagoras, St John's College

Chair: Wei Wei Yeo,
National University of Singapore

l Michele Martinez (Trinity College, Hartford) 'Christina Rossetti's Petrarch'

l Chris Keirstead (Auburn) 'Last Rites for a "Lost Ideal": "A Last Confession" and the Myth of Italy in Victorian Poetry'

l Eun-Jung Cha (University of Sussex) 'Christina Rossetti's Italy'

Chair: J.B. Bullen,
University of Reading

l Lauren Roussillon (Université de Grenoble III) ' "Aspecta Medusa": the Many Faces of Medusa in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Art'

l Annalisa Zox-Weaver (University of Southern California) 'Consuming Bodies: Pornology, Textualization and the Rossetti Woman'

l Matthew Potolsky (University of Utah) 'How to Look at a Medusa: Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Mirror for Teachers'

Lunch
Buffet lunch, St John's College (ticket required)

Chair: John Harvey,
Emmanuel College, Cambridge

l Peter Mandler (London Guildhall University) 'The Taxman and the Aesthete: the Canon according to William Michael Rossetti, 1887 - 1904'

l Emma Mason (University of Warwick) 'A Sort of Aesthetico-Catholic Revival: Christina Rossetti, Ritual Ceremony and Christ Church, London'

l Bertrand Rougé (Université de Pau) '"Mauvais sujet": Invisibility in Pre-Raphaelite Painting'

Chair: Jan Marsh,
University of Sussex

l Sherri Smith (Marshall University) '"Why did you melt your waxen man?": The Femme Fatale, the New Woman, and the Ends of Sex Masquerade'

l Gavin Budge (University of Central England in Birmingham) 'Socialism and Sensualism in D. G. Rossetti: Problems of "the Aesthetic" in the Victorian period'

l Angela Thirlwell (Birkbeck College) 'William Michael and Lucy Rossetti: Outsider Insiders - The True Cosmopolitans'

Chair: Jan-Melissa Schramm, Trinity Hall, Cambridge

l Phyllis Weliver (Suffolk University, Boston) and Suzanne Fagence-Cooper (Victoria and Albert Museum) 'A "rapturous undersong": music in D.G.Rossetti's pictures and The House of Life poems'

l Andrew Stauffer (Boston University) 'Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Exhumation Proofs'

l Wei Wei Yeo (National University of Singapore) ''Each in Other's Eyes / Is Imaged All Alone': Dante Gabriel Rossetti and the Art of Frames'

Chair: David Clifford,
Clare Hall, Cambridge

l Mariaconcetta Costantini (Universita 'G. d'Annunzio') 'Christina's Challenge to Victorian Mentality: the Parodic, Unconventional Pattern of "My Dream"'

l Valeria Tinkler-Villani (Leiden University) 'The Allegorist, the Scientist and the Poet: from Gabriele Rossetti and Charles Lyell to Christina Rossetti'

l Maria Keaton (Marquette University) 'Mystic, Madwoman or Metaphysician? : the Analogical Theodicy of Christina Rossetti'

Chair: Lauren Roussillon, Université de Grenoble III

l Catherine Maxwell (Queen Mary & Westfield College, University of London) 'D. G. Rossetti and the Feminine'

l Florence Boos (University of Iowa) 'Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poetic Daughters: Introspective Lyricism in Fin de Siècle and Modernist British Women Poets'

l John Holmes (Lincoln College, Oxford) 'Pursuing the Well-Beloved: Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Jocelyn Pearston, and the Victorian Sonneteers'

Chair: Jerome McGann,
University of Virginia

l Mary Arseneau (University of Ottawa) 'Pews, Periodicals, and Politics: The Rossetti Women as High Church Controversialists'

l Lorraine Janzen Kooistra (Nipissing University) 'Poetry and Power Relations in the Victorian World of International Publishing'

l Michelle Hawley (California State University) 'Romantic Editions: William Michael Rossetti, Political Commitment, and the Production of Cultural Capital'