Program
Thursday, November 5
12:00 – 1:30PM Panels
(A1) - Staging the Voice and Silence: Dramatic Performance from Melodrama and Symbolism to Mallarmé
Chair: Barbara T. Cooper
The Untold Story: Pixerécourt’s and Staging Silence in Early 19th-Century Melodrama
Michelle Cheyne (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)
“La parole est d’argent, le silence est d’or”: Childhood Treasures and the Quest for Meaning from Tintagiles to Tyltyl
Sherri Rose (Hillsdale College)
Shaping the Voice: Sarah Bernhardt's "L'Art du Théâtre" and Nineteenth-Century Acting
Susan McCready (University of South Alabama)
Mise en Page/Mise en Scène: The Staged Voice of Coup de dés
Olivia Goldring (UC Berkeley)
(A2) - Material Culture, Visual Codes, and Accessories of Desire in 19th-Century France
Chair: Lauren Weingarden (Florida State University)
Picturing Flaubert: Ekphrasis, Multimodal AI, and Charles Bovary’s Hat
Mark Wolff (Hartwick College)
The Representation of Jewelry in 19th-century French Literature
Caitlin Capone (Virginia Tech)
Unfolding Desire: Louise Abbéma and the Queer Potential of the Belle Époque Fan
Justine De Young (Fashion Institute of Technology (SUNY)
French Fans and the Unspoken Voices of Fanology in Nineteenth-Century International Exhibitions
Shan-Chuan Hsiao (Princeton University)
(A3) - Un-silencing the Haitian Revolution
Chair: Renée Altergott (Louisiana State University)
The Sonic Color Line in Victor Hugo's Bug-Jargal
Chair: Renée Altergott (Louisiana State University)
Speaking For, Writing Over: Juste Chanlatte and the Antislavery Politics of Citation in Sophie Doin’s La Famille noire (1826)
Kylie Sago (San Diego State University)
Credit, Debt, and Recognition in Victor Hugo's Bug-Jargal
Chris Bonner (Texas A&M University)
Staging Haitian Voices: the Toussaint Louvertures of Alphonse de Lamartine and C.L.R. James
Robert Decker (University of Southern California)
(A4) - Listening to Nature, Epistles, and Objects: Elemental Sounds, Epistolary Voices, and Mechanical Silences
Chair: Jacob Meister (Harvard University)
What Gilliatt Hears and Sees: The Hybridity of Language and the Elements in Victor Hugo’s Les Travailleurs de la mer
Abbey Carrico (Virginia Military Institute)
Binet's Lathe and the Art of Making Wood Silent
Colin Foss (Austin College)
Voix narratives par voie postale: la fiction épistolaire chez Constance de Salm et Prosper Merimée
Claudie Bernard (New York University)
“La France silencieuse mais éclairée”: Silence as Enlightened Reserve in Staël’s Delphine
Trevor Sanders (Georgetown College)
(A5) - Fragmented Narrators and Multiplied Speech: Plagiarism, Polyphony, and Foreign Echoes in Late 19th-Century Literature
Chair: Esa Christine Hartmann (Université de Strasbourg)
Poet, Plagiarist, Precursor: Narrative Voice in Les Chants de Maldoror
Madeleine Wolf (St. Olaf College)
Polyphonic Communities and Optimism in Émile Zola’s Rome
Miller McLean (Binghamton University)
La voix des langues d’ailleurs dans les Illuminations d’Arthur Rimbaud
Esa Christine Hartmann (Université de Strasbourg)
A Lust for Rejection: Tristan Corbière's Language of Dissonance
Matthew Trumbo-Tual (Hollins University)
1:30-1:45PM Break
1:45-3:15PM Panels
(B1) - Colonial Discourses and Subaltern Sounds: Voice, Dispossession, and Resistance
Echoes of Empire: Power, Opacity, and Protest in 19th-Century Colonial Spaces
Chair: Barbara T. Cooper (University of New Hampshire)
La Voix des colonies dans Les Français peints par eux-mêmes
Caroline Ferraris-Besso (Gettysburg College)
Free Trade in Senegal: Durand-Valantin and the Liberal Language of Dispossession
Nathalie Agbessi (Cornell University)
Toxicology: Colonial Knowledge and the Right to Opacity
Lauren Ravalico (College of Charleston)
(B2) - Traumatic Echoes and Neurotic Silences: Medicalized Bodies, Hysteria, and Revolutionary Voices
Chair: Christine Tchamabo (The University of Oklahoma)
Sound, Silence, and the Trauma of Birth in Emile Zola’s Pot-Bouille
Heidi Brevik-Zender (University of California, Riverside
Voices from the Past: Medieval Carnival and Nineteenth-Century Revolution in Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris and Les Misérables
Nicole Ferrari (Wellesley College)
Voix névrotiques à contre-courant : De la “thébaïde” insonorisée de Des Esseintes à François
Christine Tchamabo (The University of Oklahoma)
Masculinities and Medical Silences: Voicing the Role of Emotion in Men’s Psychological Trauma from Charcot to World War I France
Katherine Ellis (Dickinson College)
(B3) - Hearing, Silence, and Verbal Reappropriation from Flaubert and Zola to Deaf Autobiography
Chair: Madeleine Wolf
L'ouïe dans les contes et nouvelles de Maupassant
Gerald Prince (University of Pennsylvania)
La voix pétrifiée, la voix foudroyée: milieux du mutisme dans Thérèse Raquin et Germinal
Emma Burston (The College of the Holy Cross)
The (Dis)Order of Mute Things: The Politics of Speech and Silence in Flaubert’s “Un Coeur simple”
Raji Vallury (University of New Mexico)
Sortir du silence: Traumatisme, marginalisation et reconquête de la voix dans l'Histoire d’un sourd-muet (1855) de Benjamin
Karine Gros (Université de Paris Est Créteil)
(B4) - Ta gueule!
Chair : André Benhaïm (Princeton University)
Flaubert de vive voix
Aymeric Glacet (Sewanee. The University of the South)
Tais-toi, Toulouse!
Zvezdana Ostojic (Trinity University)
Silence, ça écrit!
Carole Trévise (Princeton University)
"Ta gueule!" Feydeau polisson
André Benhaïm (Princeton University)
(B5) - "Textual Penchants: Voicing French Influences in the U.S., Spain, and Latin America"
Chair: Elisabeth Austin (Virginia Tech)
“French Spirits Don’t Get Fat: Abby Laflin Ferree and the Spirituelle”
Ashley Reed (Virginia Tech)
“Cosmic Collisions and Exhausted Worlds: Camille Flammarion and the Spanish Fin de Siècle Imagination”
Sarah Sierra (Virginia Tech)
“Retelling History with a French Twist: Magda Portal and Flora Tristan, Peruvian Feminists”
Elisabeth Austin (Virginia Tech)
3:15-3:30PM Break
3:30-5:00PM Panels
(C1) - Singing Earth, Forgotten Composers: Non-Human Soundscapes, Gendered Silences, and Operatic Politics
Chair: Margaret Miner (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Volcanic Silences
Margaret Miner (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Singing Volcanos and Talking Trees: The Meaningfulness of Ignored Sounds in Hector Berlioz’s “Euphonia” (1844) and George Sand’s “Le chêne parlant” (1876)
Anne Marcoline (University of Houston-Clear Lake)
The People's Opera? Music, Class, and the Politics of Reconciliation in 1830s Paris
Anna Langewiesche (Columbia University)
Villard, Jaëll, Holmès: three forgotten composers
Brett Brehm (William & Mary)
(C2) - Archive: A Key Word for Thought, Practice, and Theory
Chair:
Andreza Jorge (Virginia Tech)
Carmen Gitre (Virginia Tech)
Brian Britt (Virginia Tech)
(C3) - Reanimation, Resonance, and Staged Identities: Technological and Performative Media in 19th-Century France
Chair: Pamela Genova (University of Oklahoma)
Galvanisme : rendre la voix aux morts
Nicolas Valazza (Indiana University Bloomington)
Rien ne se perd, rien ne se tait : Extinction, Thermodynamics, and Voice in Camille Flammarion's La Fin du monde
Paule Carbonnel (Hamilton College)
Staging Identity through Photographic Performance in Disdéri’s Studio
Camille Rollando-Kozlowski (University of Texas at Austin)
Pranking the bruiteur in French Silent Burlesque Films
Jennifer Forrest (Texas State University)
(C4) - Textual Distillations and Cultural Ventriloquism: Translation, Voice, and Transfiguration in 19th-Century Prose and Poetry
Chair: Kathleen Hart (Vassar College)
Baudelaire's Alambic, the Pious Poem
Zeynep Aygün (Brown University)
Translating the Unspeakable in Zola's Fécondité
Lisa Algazi Marcus (Hood College)
The Energy of Words: Baudelaire’s Ventriloquism of Poe
Sean Matharoo (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
L’amour des morts ou l’art de la ventriloquie amoureuse au XIXe siècle
Céline Brossillon (Ursinus College)
(C5) - Balzacian Voices: Conversation, Music, Psychiatric Limits, and Silent Power in La Comédie humaine
Chair: Claudie Bernard (New York University)
Balzac, Conversation and the Written Page
Thomas Welles Briggs (Independent Scholar)
Speech Therapy for Objects, Exposure Therapy for Sheep: Psychiatric Realism in Balzac’s “Adieu”
Christopher Robison (Swarthmore College)
Voicing the Limits of Musical Meaning in Balzac
Joseph Acquisto (University of Vermont)
6:00PM Welcome and Reception at the Taubman Museum of Art
Friday, November 6
Breakfast
8:30-10:00AM Panels
(D1) - Flaubertian Resonances: Utterance, Silence, and the Everyday in Madame Bovary and Beyond
Chair: Eric Le Calvez (Georgia State University)
The Ultimate Cry: Flaubert
Jean-Baptiste Chantoiseau (Métropole Rouen Normandie - Université Sorbonne Nouvelle [Paris 3])
Loulou and Félicité: Voice and Silence in Flaubert’s ‘Un Coeur simple’
Anthony Zielonka (Assumption University)
Minor Moments in Flaubert's Madame Bovary
Adam Chambers (Johns Hopkins University)
The Voice of Things: Materiality and the Act of Utterance in Madame Bovary
Sisi Liu (The University of Texas at Austin)
(D2) - Alexandre Dumas
Chair: Roxane Petit-Rasselle
La voix de Dumas dans “Romulus et Pizarre”
Barbara T. Cooper (University of New Hampshire)
Trope et jouissance de lecture: la figure du cocu dans Olympe de Clèves
Roxane Petit-Rasselle (West Chester University of Pennsylvania)
Making the Héros Incognito: Dumas’ Le Comte de Monte-Cristo and Balzac’s Le Colonel Chabert
Nicholas Henke (CUNY Graduate Center)
(D3) - Language, Paper, and Poetic Voice in Mallarmé
Chair: Joseph Acquisto (University of Vermont)
“Elever une page à la puissance du ciel étoilé”: The Expression of Silence in Mallarmé’s poetry
Louise Aicha Kerris (Johns Hopkins University)
Poetic Voice and Mallarmé
Claire Lyu (University of Virginia)
Lire Mallarmé, selon Góngora
Thomas Connolly (Yale University)
The Voice of Paper in Mallarmé’s Book
Karen Quandt (Wabash College)
(D4) - Women Writers and Women’s Voices
Chair: Elisabeth Ladenson
Hearing Voices: Who Hears Renée Vivien?
Melanie Hawthorne (Texas A&M University)
Inaudible ou invisible? Retrouvons la voix des autrices des livres d’instruction
Laurie Dubois (Gonzaga University)
Free Speech and Its Limits: Realist Writers and Feminine Voices in Restoration Salons
Melanie Conroy (University of Memphis)
The Silent Archive of Conquest: Colonial Traces in La Comtesse de Ségur
Camille Roche (Johns Hopkins University)
(D5) - Unsilencing the Archive
Chair: Michael Garval (North Carolina State University)
Madison Mainwaring. “Contractual Individuation: Dance, Language, and Women's Work at the Paris Opera”.
Voices Remembered, Voices Forgotten: Limits of the Literary Archive in the Indian Ocean
Pratima Prasad (University of Massachusetts Boston)
Archival Recovery and the Ambivalent Voice: Decoding the Convictions of “the Polish Jew”
Darci Gardner (Appalachian State University)
Giving Voice to Unpublished Marcel Proust Letters Discovered at the Harry Ransom Center
Nina Kirkegaard (The University of Texas at Austin) and François Proulx (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
(D6) - Speaking Otherwise: Voice, Touch, Silence, and Otherness in the 19th-Century Novel
Chair:
Dire sans formuler : poétique de la retenue dans le roman français du XIXᵉ siècle
Majda Meftahi (Laboratoire d’Études et de Recherches sur l’Interculturel /Université Chouaib Doukkali)
« Porter la voix de l’autre ». Les dispositifs discursifs vecteurs d’altérité dans le roman du XIXe siècle
Christèle Couleau (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord)
From Taxonomy to Tactility: Speaking through Touch
Kari Weil (Wesleyan University)
Talking About Not Talking: Narratives of Silence
David Powell (Hofstra University)
10:00-10:30AM - Break
10:30-12:00 Panels
(E1) - Staging Voice, Silence, and Spectacle: Performance, Melodrama, and Ideology on the 19th-Century Stage and Page
Chair: Michelle Cheyne (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)
Coquelin Cadet, Voice of the Monologue
Warren Johnson (Arkansas State University)
La voix de la cantatrice dans Consuelo et La Comtesse de Rudolstadt de George Sand
Catherine Bartlett (independent scholar)
Terror, Voice and Silence in Seule! d’Adolphe D’Ennery
Gayle Zachmann (University of Florida)
Sanitizing Silently: Race and the Limits of Empathy in Eugène Sue’s Les Mystères de Paris
Jacob Meister (Harvard University)
(E2) - Stendhalian Dynamics: Passion, Sociability, Self-Writing, and the Apprenticeship of Desire
Chair: Trevor Sanders (Georgetown College)
The Sublime in Stendhal: Passion vs Vanity
Robert Doran (University of Rochester)
Not Repetition but Redundancy: Echo and Tautology in Stendhal’s Autobiographies and Private Journals
Hadley Suter (Barnard College)
Age-Gap Narratives from Stendhal to Colette: Theory and Practice
Elisabeth Ladenson (Columbia University)
Lucien Leuwen entre 1804 et 2026, le roman de la complicité
William Paulson (University of Michigan)
(E3) - Roundtable Voicing the Ecocritical in 19th-Century France
Co-chairs: Marni Kessler (University of Kansas) and Abigail Fields (University of Kansas)
Visual Ecologies
Marni Kessler (University of Kansas)
Alternative Energies in Nineteenth-Century Culture
Anne O'Neil-Henry (Georgetown University)
Literature & Land: Notes on Agricultural Imaginaries of Nineteenth-Century France
Abigail Fields (University of Kansas)
On the Need to Theorize Ecological Affects
Göran Blix (Princeton University)
La Forêt au tribunal: or, Should Trees Have Standing?
Giulia Pacini (William and Mary)
The Woodworm's Bookshelf
Pierre Forfert (Yale University)
(E4) - Poetic Voice, Prosodic Silence, and Musicality in Verlaine and Rimbaud
Chair: Esa Christine Hartmann (Université de Strasbourg)
Verlaine's Strategy of Silence in Prosody
Jay Lutz (Oglethorpe University)
La voix poétique dans « Il pleut dans mon cœur » de Paul Verlaine : musicalité et subjectivité
Arpine Mkrtchyan (University of Nevada, Las Vegas)
To Sing of Accursed Voices: Les Poètes Maudits
Pamela Genova (University of Oklahoma)
De la voix aux silences chez Arthur Rimbaud, jusqu’en Iran
Thomas Dalle (Yale University)
(E5) - Zola’s Silent Mechanisms: Non-Verbal Dialogues, Suspended Narratives, and Covert Spaces in the Rougon-Macquart
Chair: Karen Quandt (Wabash College)
Monsieur Zola dans tous ses silences
Robert Mahan (University of Virginia)
Entre ombres et lumières, parler sans dire : infra-dialogues oculaires chez Zola.
Annie Lulu (Johns Hopkins University)
Zola’s Winter: Snow, Silence, and the Suspension of Narrative in the Rougon-Macquart
Jessica Tanner (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
(E6) - Echoes, Silences, and Public Voices: Communication and Reception in French Literary Culture
Chair: Amelia Fedo (New York University)
Obscurity and Celebrity in Bernardin de Saint Pierre’s Fan Mail
Annelle Curulla (Scripps College)
Proto-radio et circulation de la voix publique au temps de l’affaire Dreyfus
Karine Macarez (University of Pennsylvania)
Silence, Voice, Echoes and Absence in Colette’s Life Writing
E. Nicole Meyer (New Mexico State University)
Le silence amoureux : Tragédie du langage et vertu du silence dans La Confession d’un enfant du siècle d’Alfred de Musset et Elle et lui de George Sand
Mathilde Mottet (Cornell University)
12:00-1:30PM Lunch (Lunch is offered because of the limited time between the last morning session and the first afternoon session. It will be a buffet-style meal)
During Lunch room : Mentor-Mentee meeting! Come if you are interested or if you have your own mentor/mentee already
1:30-3:00PM Panels
(F1) - Queer Counterpublics and Non-Normative Desire: Sapphic Spaces, Agender Subjectivities, and Reparative Readings
Chair: François Proulx
“Bonheurs tristes, joies solennelles, paradis artificiels, amours imparfaites”: Natalie Clifford Barney’s Narrative of her Idylle Sapphique with Liane de Pougy
Courtney Sullivan (Washburn University)
Beyond Desire, Beyond Gender: Asexuality, (A)Gender Identity, and Undoing the Binary in George Sand’s Gabriel
Aubrey Lewis (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Silenced oppression, voiced desire: a reparative reading of the “lesbian bar” scene in Zola’s Nana
Anne Linton (San Francisco State University)
Parisian Counter-melodies: Sapphic Soundscapes and Acoustic Counter Publics in the Belle Époque
Lowry Martin (University of Texas-El Paso)
(F2) - Unsilencing Haitian History: Resistance, Orality, and the Politics of Voice in 19th-Century Haitian Literature
Chair: Daniel Desormeaux (Johns Hopkins University)
Voix sans frontières : L’Union et Le Républicain dans la porosité fondatrice entre histoire et littérature en Haïti
Jean-Ederson Jean-Pierre (Johns Hopkins University)
Thus Spoke Le Vieux Piquet: Unsilencing the Past of Peasant Resistance in Haiti
Bastien Craipain (Tufts University)
Le bruit et le silence des révoltes d’esclaves
Daniel Desormeaux (Johns Hopkins University)
(F3) - Ventriloquizing Criminality: Voice, Crime, and Incarceration
Chair: Andrea Goulet
Buried Voices in Emile Zola’s Thérèse Raquin
Caroline Grubbs (Southern Methodist University)
Speaking from Beyond the Grave: The Posthumous Voice of Pierre-François Lacenaire
Ty Blakeney (Northwestern University)
La voix/voie du crime dans les œuvres de Balzac, Féval et Ducasse
Eloise Sureau (Butler University)
The Watercolors of Gabriel Cloquemin: Prison Self-Caricature in the Age of Vidocq
Amelia Fedo (Independent Scholar) and Kelly Landes (Independent Scholar)
(F4) - Si ça peut s'appeler quelque chose...
Chair: Robert Saint Clair (Dartmouth College)
Calling Names
Robert Saint Clair (Dartmouth College)
The Poet’s Calling
Kevin Newmark (Boston College)
Une vie moderne: Baudelaire’s Perverse Reversals
Elissa Marder (Emory University)
(F5) - Roundtable Teaching Nineteenth-Century French Studies with Digital Literacy
Chair: Aimée Boutin
How Paris Because Iconic: Teaching Digital Literacy in “Paris World Capital”
Aimée Boutin (Florida State University)
Teaching the “Media of Empire”: A Case Study in Building Digital Literacy into Course Design
Kylie Sago (San Diego State University)
Out of the (Black) Box: Gallica, from Digital Search to Digital Literacy Beyond AI
Hannah Frydman (Harvard University)
Principles for Incorporating Digital Literacy
Julia Feerrar (Virginia Tech)
La bataille de la Bérézina: Embedding Maps and other Visualizations into the French Classroom
Melanie Conroy (University of Memphis)
(F6) - Voices of Revolution, Voices of Desire
Chair: Catherine Bartlett (independent scholar)
Les voix de la Commune chez Luigi Nono
Plinio Birskis Barros (Princeton University)
Suspicious Silences: Encore la dynamite!
Ben Price (Princeton University)
Murmuring Nature, Burgeoning Voices: Louise Michel’s Revolutionary Soundscapes
Kathleen Hart (Vassar College)
Voicing Sapphic Pleasure: Writing the Relationship between Natalie Clifford Barney and Liane de Pougy
Adeline Soldin (Dickinson College)
3:00-3:30PM Break
3:30-5:00PM Panels
(G1) - Roundtable Knotty Silences: Archives, Canons, Obscured Voices
Chair: Adrianna Paliyenko (Colby College)
Marceline Desbordes-Valmore and the Anarchival Condition of Translation
Catherine Witt (Reed College)
The Archival Tomb: The Stoic Buried Among the Parnassians
Adrianna Paliyenko (Colby College)
Silence Breeds Silence: Reviving Women Art Dealers in the Digital Age
Elizabeth Emery (Montclair State University)
Ephemera as Evidence: Mining the Nineteenth-Century Archive of Feelings
Rachel Mesch (Boston University)
Respondent: Darci Garder (Appalachian State University)
(G2) - Celebrating Balzac and Lucienne Frappier-Mazur
Chair: E. Nicole Meyer (New Mexico State University)
Career overview & introductory remarks
David Powell (Hofstra U) & Cathy Nesci (UCSB)
"Voiceless Empowerment: Sex as Investment with Balzac's Valérie Marneffe in La Cousine Bette"
Kristina Roney (Washington and Lee University)
"Silenced Father, Daughter's voicing of his absence: Marceline Loridan-Iven's Et tu n'es pas revenu"
E. Nicole Meyer (New Mexico State University)
Remembering Lucienne: sharing our memories:
Former students, colleagues
(G3) - Mythic Voices, Exotic Echoes, and Urban Spaces: Translingual Adaptations and Marginal Figures in 19th-Century Paris
Chair: Lisa Algazi Marcus (Hood College)
Voices of the Trottoir Roulant: Jane de la Vaudère and the Prostitute at the Exposition Universelle
Sharon Larson (Christopher Newport University)
Poetic Voice, Adaptation and Translation: Judith Gautier and Ding Dunling’s Literary Exchange
Michelle Lee (Wellesley College)
Language Trouble: Nerval’s Foreign Tongues and Mystical Silence
Mary Jane Cowles (Kenyon College)
“Moi, mère de la nature, maîtresse des éléments”: la déesse Isis dans le Paris du dix-neuvième siècle
Laure Katsaros (Amherst College)
(G4) - Class, Clubs: Fueling Economies of the Real in the Nineteenth Century Novel
Chair: Susanna Lee
Secret Societies: Behind the Scene of Zola’s Jockey-Club
Marina van Zuylen (Bard College)
"The Dynamism of Classarchy": Sylvia Wynter on Property and Identity in the Realist Novel
Deborah Jenson (Duke University)
Reading Jules Verne at the Gas Station
Morgane Cadieu (Yale University)
(G5) - Voicing the Unsaid: Nature, Silence, and Affect in Romantic and Pre-Romantic Thought
Session Chair: Catherine Talley (Skidmore College)
“Les mots seuls y manquaient”: Sound and Silence in Marceline Desbordes-Valmore's Pauvres Fleurs
Aimée Boutin (Florida State University)
Voicing Nature in Rousseau and Michelet
Jeffrey Burkholder (Santa Clara University)
The Deus Absconditus in Chateaubriand's René
Michael Taormina (Hunter College)
L’intention secrète (Rousseau): Of composed adults and impatient children.
Pauline de Tholozany (Clemson University)
6:00-7:30PM Keynote speaker – Philippe Oriol
Saturday, November 7
9:00-10:30AM Panels
(H1) - Voice, silence, and the limits of readability and the sayable
Chair: Karine Gros
Les silences lyriques de Rimbaud
Mendel Péladeau-Houle (St. Francis Xavier University)
L'esthétique du ventriloque: polyphonie et pastiche comme « voix des autres » dans la phrase proustienne.
Zied Smat (Laboratoire ALITHILA / Université de Lille)
Voix, silence et lisibilité sociale dans À la recherche du temps perdu de Proust
France Lemoine (Scripps College)
Proust et l’esthétique de l’ineffable dans À la recherche du temps perdu
Loubna Abahani (Université Moulay Ismail de Meknès)
(H2) - George Sand’s Expressive Spectrum: Voicing the Subaltern, Silence in Romance, and Nature’s Entanglements
Chair: Adeline Soldin (Dickinson College)
Chasing Butterflies with George Sand: The Entomological Imagination of Le Monde des Papillons
Pierre Forfert (Yale University)
Voicing Manon’s Silence in George Sand’s Leone Leoni
Rachel Corkle (CUNY, Graduate Center and BMCC)
George Sand’s Pastoral Novels – Giving Voice to the Peasants?
Ione Crummy (University of Montana)
Pastoral Novellas, Provincial Voices: George Sand’s Politics of Translation around 1848
Victoria Baena (University of Virginia)
(H3) - Sounding Art, Commerce, and Text: Music, Vocal Grain, and Acoustic Landscapes in 19th-Century France
Chair: Mary Harper (Princeton University)
Music, Voice, and Writing in Barthes: Leçon as Writing Aloud
Salomon Kpodo (University of Siegen)
Un-silencing Manet’s “A Bar at the Folies Bergère”: A Study in Sound Embodiment
Lauren Weingarden (Florida State University)
Nerval’s Singers: Poetic Practice and Creative Desire
Catherine Talley (Skidmore College)
Voices of the Parisian Grands Magasins: When Singing Supported Branding
Marie Reeb (University of Pennsylvania)
(H4) - Somatic Voices, Pathological Silences: Medicalization, Illness, and Political Trauma
Chair: Daniel Desormeaux (Johns Hopkins University)
Voix étouffée, corps parlant: mensonge et confession dans Germinie Lacerteux
Grace Yan (Princeton University)
Voices of Illness: from Mon frère Yves to the Ville-Evrard Hospital
Susanna Lee (Georgetown University)
Food Noise: Mordret and Zola on Anorexia in Une Page d’amour
Kellie Giordano (Boston University)
Spectral Voices: Coicou and the Poetics of Silence in Chauvet’s “Folie”
Linsey Sainte-Claire (Rice University)
(H5) - Utopian Visions and Institutional Silences: Political Rhetoric, Social Engineering, and Popular Pedagogy in 19th-Century France
Chair: William Paulson
Choses vues, choses tues: Strategic Silences and the Politics of Parliamentary Perception in Victor Hugo’s Notes on the Gouhenans Mining Scandal
Kate Bonin (Arcadia University)
Saint Simonian Embodiment and the Utopian Limit
Jaime Hanneken (University of Minnesota)
Silencing the Social Question: From Guizot to Durkheim
Daniel Benson (St. Francis College)
Silent or Discursive Educators: The Role of Artworks in Universités populaires and Socialist Maisons du peuple of the Belle Époque
Katherine Brion (New College of Florida)
(H6) - Voices of the Masses, Sounds of the City: Collective Speech, Industrial Echoes, and Sonic Nationalism in the 19th Century
Session Chair: Alexander Claussen (University of West Georgia)
Let them eat brioche: the voice of the beggar and ineffectual charity in 19th-century France
Hannah Kosman (Wesleyan University)
Germinal’s Buried Voices: Le Voreux as Larynx
Justin Cotten (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Who Speaks for the Crowd? Paul Adam's Proto-Populism.
Andrew Clark (Brown University)
Hearing the Belgian Nation: Rodenbach's Le Carillonneur
Alexander Claussen (University of West Georgia)
10:30-10:45AM Break
10:45-12:00 NCFS General session
12:00-1:30PM Lunch (on your own)
1:30-3:00PM Panels
(I1) - Silences flaubertiens
Chair: Eric Le Calvez (Georgia State University)
Écrire et moduler le silence: Madame Bovary
Florence Vatan (University of Wisconsin at Madison)
Les silences dans L’Éducation sentimentale: remarques génétiques
Eric Le Calvez (Georgia State University)
Les formes de silence dans Bouvard et Pécuchet et Le Dictionnaire des idées reçues
Abigail RayAlexander (Kennesaw State University)
(I2) - Layered Voices
Chair: Rachel Mesch (Boston University)
Polyphonic pot-au-feu: Nina de Villard’s Layered Voices
Cheryl Krueger (University of Virginia)
The Journalistic Voice of Eugénie Foa
Masha Belenky (The George Washington University)
Subterranean Voices: Trauma’s Deep Time and the Haunting Afterlife of Edgar Degas’ Landscape with Smokestacks
Marni Kessler (University of Kansas)
(I3) - Voicing Modernity: Media, Print Culture, and Public Life in Nineteenth-Century France
Chair: Heidi Brevik-Zender
The Voice of Fashion: Advertising, Caricature, and the Fashion Plate in Nineteenth-Century France
Michèle Hannoosh (University of Michigan)
From Tableaux to Tour: Itinerary and the Design Logic of the Tourist Guidebook
Daniel Sipe (University of Missouri)
Deducing the Voices of Home Editors: When People do What they Like with Newspapers
Cary Hollinshead-Strick (The American University of Paris)
Sarah Bernhardt’s Big Night in New Jersey
Victoria Cheff (Princeton Day School)
(I4) - Colonial Silences, Postcolonial Echoes: Voice, Agency, and Memory in Francophone and Trans-Mediterranean Space
Chair: Gayle Zachmann (University of Florida)
Écrire le silence : mémoire, trauma et voix étouffées dans Lettres d’Algérie de Leïla Marouane
Fatima Medjad (Université Oran 2)
À qui la voix? Rabbin, premier roman nord-africain écrit à deux : Robert Randau et Sadia Lévy
Christina Leah Sztajnkrycer (Penn State)
Authenticity and narrative authority in French women's voyages en orient
Julianne Angeli (University of Michigan)
Faire parler l’image: silence colonial et voix visuelle dans la photographie ouest-africaine
Ndouba Zahui (University of Virginia)
(I5) - Listening for Sand
Chair: Janet Beizer (Harvard University)
Searching for Sand's Culinary Voice
Michael Garval (North Carolina State University)
Epistolary Authorhood as Self-Asphyxiation
Anne McCall (The College of Wooster)
If Puppets Could Speak
Janet Beizer (Harvard University)
(I6) - Silent Spectacles, Musical Epiphanies: Visual Arts and the Politics of Attention
Chair: Elisabeth Muelsch
A Quiet Arrangement: Spectacle and Silence in James Tissot’s The Political Woman
Elise Bouley (Mercer University)
Making Paintings Sing: Gustave Moreau and the Palais Garnier
Erin Daly (Grinnell College)
Music, Silence, and the Retraction of the Figural in Orphic Painting
Hannah Rose Blakeley (Princeton University)
Orientalism and the Musée d’Orsay
Sara Pappas (University of Richmond)
3:00-3:30PM Break
3:30-5:00PM Panels
(J1) - Female Voices, Silent Bodies, and Transgressive Aesthetics in 19th-Century Art and Literature
Chair: Michele Hannoosh
“Taboos, Transgression, and Textual Representations of Violence in Paria Korigan’s Fiction
Karen Humphreys (Trinity College)
La voix intérieure comme forme de résistance dans Lucienne de Judith Gautier
Ying Wang (Pace University)
Voice, Mirror, and the Female Image: Marie Krysinska and Berthe Morisot
Tina Malekinia (Boston University)
From Silent Performer to Influential Voice in French Film Criticism— The Mime and Film Critic Christiane Mendelys
Elisabeth-Christine Muelsch (Angelo State University)
(J2) - Censorship, Suppression, and Subversive Voices: Silencing Radical Culture in 19th-Century France
Chair:
Popular Culture versus Property Values: Silencing the Myth of Bréda-Street
Hannah Frydman (Harvard University)
Victimless Crimes: Baudelaire’s “Lesbos” and Literary Censorship
Abigail RayAlexander (Kennesaw State University)
Léon Cladel’s Censored Novel of the Paris Commune
Isabel Maloney (University of Cambridge)
Les mille et une voix de l’Abbé de Bucquoy
Justine Michon (Université Paris Cité)
(J3) - Quiet Style, Loud Ladies: Fashion Tips for la nouvelle femme of the Fin de siècle
Chair: Andrea Goulet (University of Pennsylvania)
Silence, Simplicity, and Style: The Quaker Girl meets La Belle Époque
Andrea Goulet (University of Pennsylvania)
Emmeline Raymond and the Soft Settler Colonialism of La Mode illustrée
Susan Hiner (Vassar)
Culture Shock Couture: Gender, Fashion & Electricity in fin-de-siècle France
Sara Phenix (Brigham Young University) and Anne O'Neil-Henry (Georgetown University)
(J4) - Voix créoles et silences parisiens: Francophone Louisiana in the 19th-Century Imaginary
Chair: Camille Roche (Johns Hopkins University)
Silence and Sounds of Hysteria in the Francophone Louisiana of Kate Chopin’s The Awakening (1899)
Abby Shepherd (Duke University)
Voix périphériques et silence parisien: les poètes romantiques louisianais (1810–1830) entre allégeance et autonomie
Jean-Sylvain Pretat (University of Louisiana at Lafayette)
La Voix de la capricieuse créole: Voices of Créolité in Rachilde’s La Jongleuse and Alfred Mercier’s Johnelle
Ryan Doherty (Centenary College of Louisiana)
(J5) - Ventriloquized, Silenced, and Sheltered: Disability, Aging, and Narrative Authority
Chair: E. Nicole Meyer
Pension Plan: Seniors, Retirement, and Eldercare in Nineteenth-Century France
Brian Martin (Williams College)
Who Speaks for Emma Bovary? Ventriloquy (Shows), Disability, and Narrative Control
Eleonora Mancuso (Boston University)
On Hearing Victor (Speak Our Thoughts): The Science of 'Stupidity' from J.M.G. Itard to Alfred Binet
Göran Blix (Princeton University)
Silencing the Wounded: Disability and National Memory from Balzac’s Le Colonel Chabert to Schwob’s Les Sans-Gueule
Kathy Comfort (University of Arkansas, Fayetteville)