Reconfiguring Romanticism in the Information Age
A Special Session, Modern Language Assoc. Convention
Held on Dec. 29, 1996
Sheraton Washington, Washington, D. C.
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Moderator
Alan Liu       Prof., English Dept., U. California, Santa Barbara
         
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[e-mail]		 Besides being co-creator and -editor of The Romantic Chronology and the Romantic Literature 1995: Recent & Forthcoming Scholarly Texts page, he also keeps the general interest Voice of the Shuttle: Web Page for Humanities Research. His first book was Wordsworth: The Sense of History (Stanford UP, 1989). Currently, he is writing a book called The Future Literary: Literary History and Postindustrial Culture on the relation between the "well-read" and the "well-informed" as well as another book of essays called Local Transcendence: Cultural Criticism and Postmodernism. He has recently completed a forthcoming essay titled "Globalizing the Humanities: The Voice of the Shuttle" that marks the conceptual intersection between his Future Literary book and his Voice of the Shuttle online project.
Presenters
Laura Mandell       Asst. Prof., English Dept., Miami U., Ohio
                  

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[e-mail]		 Mandell is co-editor of The Romantic Chronology, an on-line chronology that delineates political and cultural events during the period from 1785 to 1851 and is intended to be used for teaching in the undergraduate classroom as well as for research. Links embedded in chronology entries that allow the user to jump directly to online resources (e.g., electronic texts and web pages devoted to particular authors or topics) have turned it into a kind of online anthology with an editorial board whose varying interests will perpetually decenter its focus. Mandell also edits a newsletter titled Updates on teaching noncanonical romantic texts and is engaged in putting online anthologies of poetry published 1700- 1800.
Joseph Viscomi       Prof., English Dept., U. North Carolina, Chapel Hill
                  
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[e-mail]		 Co-editor with Morris Eaves and Robert Essick of William Blake's Illuminated Books, Vol. 3 (Princeton UP, 1993), and author of Blake and the Idea of the Book, Vol. I: The Production, Editing, and Dating of Illuminated Books (Princeton UP, 1993) as well as numerous articles on Blake and printmaking, Viscomi is one of the driving forces behind The Blake Archive, which will be a powerful reference tool offering high-quality reproductions of an important body of work not currently available and making that work accessible and useable in new ways.
Jack Lynch       Ph.D. Candidate, Dept. of English, U. Pennsylvania
                  
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[e-mail]		 Jack Lynch is a Ph.D. candidate who is internationally famous for his On-Line Literary Resources, which includes extensive listings for Classical and Biblical, Medieval, Renaissance, Restoration and 18th Century, Romantic, Victorian literatures and more. (Especially notable is his trademark Eighteenth-Century Resources.) Besides being a general contributor to the many U. Penn English Dept. Web resources, Jack is collaborating with Stuart Curran on Frankenstein: The Pennsylvania Electronic Edition, which will initially be CD-ROM based but may eventually interface with the Web.
Elizabeth Fay       Assoc. Prof., English Dept., U. Massachusetts, Boston
                  
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[e-mail]		 Author of numerous articles and books, including A Feminist Introduction to Romanticism (Blackwell, forthcoming) and "Anna Seward" (in Stephen Behrendt and Harriet Linken, ed., Approaches to Teaching British Women Romantic Poets [NY: MLA, forthcoming]), Fay has put together The Bluestocking Archive, which extends the boundaries of the Romantic period and facilitates student-text interactions that perpetually alter this body of knowledge.
Respondents
Michael Gamer       Asst. Prof., English Dept., U. Pennsylvania
                  
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[e-mail]		 Huntington Library and Mellon Fellow of 1997, Michael Gamer has published numerous articles that collectively problematize the boundaries of period and genre. His interest in reworking those boundaries can be seen from the subtitle of a book in progress, "Romantic Poetry in the Age of Radcliffe." Gamer has been a consistent developer of online texts in conjunction with his many online Romantics courses at U. Penn (see his Romantic Links, Home Pages, and Electronic Texts). He is also Assistant Editor of the online journal, Romanticism on the Net.
Morri Safran       Ph.D. Candidate, English Dept., U. Texas, Austin
                  
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[e-mail]		 Morri Safran is a Ph.D. candidate at U. Texas, Austin. Besides being an Asst. Instructor in the English department and Division of Rhetoric and Composition, she is assistant Editor of E-Journal and on the staff of both the UT Austin Institute for Technology and Learning (ITAL) and Computer Writing and Research Labs (CWRL). The CWRL maintains a site with links to online courses and an extensive collection of student WWW projects. Safran is collaborating with Daniel Anderson (Asst. Director, CWRL; Asst. Instructor, UT Austin Dept. of English & Division of Rhetoric and Composition; author of Teaching Online: Internet Research Conversation and Composition [1996]) on an online pedagogical project titled the Women of the Romantic Period. The project presents the text and notes to Richard Polwhele's attack on Romantic-era women authors, The Unsex'd Females (1798). But it brushes the poem against the grain by using hypertext and a parallel-column frames structure to convert it into a guide to the works and background of those authors (in effect allowing the women to respond).
Steven E. Jones       Assoc. Prof., English Dept., Loyola U. Chicago
                  
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[e-mail]		 Editor of The Keats-Shelley Journal, a journal with a presence on the Web but still firmly attached to print, Jones has recently published an important book on Shelley's Satire: Violence, Exhortation, and Authority (Northern Illinois UP, 1994) and edited volumes in the Garland series of The Bodleian Shelley Manuscripts. He is also co-founder and -editor of the Romantic Circles Web site devoted to the second-generation Romantics.

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Session Organizers: Laura Mandell (Dept. of English, Miami U., Ohio) and Alan Liu (Dept. of English, U. California, Santa Barbara). You can write both of us together at this address.