The Nineteenth Century in 2019:Mapping Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century

Friday, April 26 | ANATOL Center

8:30-9:00amLight breakfast (Anatol Patio)

9:00-9:45am Welcoming RemarksJeannette Acevedo Rivera, Clorinda Donato,Nelly Goswitz, Claire Emilie Martin: 9:00amCSULB President Jane Conoley: 9:15am

FRIDAY SESSIONS

10-11:30am | ANATOL CENTER / AS 119PANEL 1: MEXICAN WOMEN WRITERS IN SEARCH OF CULTURAL AND POLITICAL AGENCY Chair: Daniela Suárez, California State University, Long Beach

“Writing Mexico’s Public Sphere from Afar: Two short stories from Laura Méndez de Cuenca” Kevin M. Anzzolin, University of Wisconsin-Stout

“Doña María Dolores López, vecina de Tehuacán” o el caso de las escritoras mexicanas del siglo XIX que nunca reconoceremos”Alejandro Palma Castro, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla

“Escritoras mexicanas del siglo XIX: espacio literario que deriva en el voto femenino de México” Alicia V. Ramírez Olivares, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla

“Religiosidad y expiación de una casta en La hija del bandido o los subterráneos del Nevado (1887) de Refugio Barragán de Toscano Alejandro Cortázar, Louisiana State University

10-11:30am | AS 241PANEL 2: THE INTERSECTION OF POLITICS AND GENDER IN GEORGE SAND’S OEUVREChair: Laura Ceia, California State University, Long Beach

“Voyager pour écrire? Flora Tristan et George Sand ou le voyage au féminin” Sonia Assa, SUNY College at Old Westbury “Gender Fluidity, the Crisis of Care, and Ecocriticism in George Sand’s François le champi”Joanna Tatro, California State University, Long Beach

“Margaret Fuller and George Sand’s Consuelo” Sharon Worley, Sam Houston State University

10-11:30am | AS 384PANEL 3: REFLECTIONS ON THE SELF, LITERARY PRODUCTION AND WOMEN’S POSITION IN SPANISH SOCIETYChair, Daniel Herrera Cepero, California State University, Long Beach

“El progreso de la mujer defendido y difundido por dos librepensadoras españolas: Eugenia Estopa y Dolores Navas” Benjamín García Egea, University of South Carolina

“La economía como emancipación femenina: Una introducción a La dama elegante (1880), de María del Pilar Sinués y Navarro”Rafael Núñez Rodríguez, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

“I Was Born When the Flowers Were: Enchanted Lands, Talking Plants, and the Human-Nature Relationship in Rosalia de Castro’s Cantares Gallegos” Emily K. Iekel, Binghamton University “Food Cultural Studies: Reading 19th-Century Spanish Women through Cuisine”Rebecca Ingram, University of San Diego

11:30am-11:45am Coffee Break

12-1:30pm | AS 241 PANEL 4: MATILDE SERAO I NARRATING WAR, WOMEN AND THE CITYChair: Breanna Campos, California State University, Long Beach

“Matilde Serao, Flânerie, and the City”Andrea Baldi, Rutgers University

“The Piercing Cry: Matilde Serao’s Suor Giovanna della Croce as Protofeminist Narrative”Melissa Coburn, Virginia Tech

“Women’s Representation of Trench Life during World War I” (Serao and Franchi) Cristina Gragnani, Temple University

“Alliance and Sorellanza in Matilde Serao’s Romanzo della fanciulla”Adriana Guarro Romero, UCLA

12-1:30pm | ANATOL CENTERPANEL 5: SPANISH WRITERS AND THEIR POLITICAL AND ANTI-SLAVERY DISCOURSEChair, Jeannette Acevedo Rivera, California State University, Long Beach

“The Covert Expression of Political Ideas in Fernán Caballero’s La corruptora y la buena maestra (1868)”Marina Cusovic-Severn, University of Alaska, Fairbanks “Politics, Affect, and the Negotiations of Gender in Concepción Arenal’s Antislavery Writings” Akiko Tsuchiya, Washington University in St. Louis

“A black woman called blanca la extranjera, in Saez de Melgar’s Los miserables” Ana Mateos, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

“What Have You Done Philately? Stamps and the Death of the Liberal Dream in Carmen de Burgos’ Don Manolito (1916)” Rocío Rødtjer, King’s College London

1:30-2:30pm Lunch at the Anatol Center and Patio

The Nineteenth Century in 2019:Mapping Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century

2:45-4:15pm | AS 384PANEL 6: BETWEEN THE POLITICAL AND THE LITERARY: EMILIA PARDO BAZÁN’S CONSTRUCTION OF SELF Chair, Benito Gómez, California State University, Domínguez Hills

“De “juguete de la ciencia” a “dignidad pedagógica y patriótica”: cine y nación en Emilia Pardo Bazán” Alicia Cerezo, U. of Wisconsin-Madison

“Liturgización y sátira de la política en La Tribuna, de Pardo Bazán” Cristina Carnemolla, Duke University

“Rastrear el “yo” mujer y el “yo” escritora en la correspondencia femenina de finales del siglo XIX” Ana I. Simón Alegre, Adelphi University

“Emilia Pardo Bazán’s Don Juan”Patricia J Ramsay, Victoria University of Wellington

2:45-4:15pm | ANATOL CENTERPANEL 7: LITERARY, POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND GEOGRAPHIC CROSSINGS IN LATIN AMERICAChair, Alicia del Campo, California State University, Long Beach

“Housework, capital accumulation and national progress in Central America: Vicenta Laparra de la Cerda and her network of Guatemalan women writers (1880- 1900)” Patricia Arroyo Calderón, University of California, Los Angeles

“Europe’s Past and Argentina’s Future in Emma de la Barra’s Mecha Iturbe (1906)” Lee Skinner, Claremont McKenna College

“Clorinda in the Modern Cosmopolis: Crisis, Reinvention, and the Birthof Búcaro Americano” Sarah Moody, The University of Alabama

The Nineteenth Century in 2019:Mapping Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century

2:45-4:15pm | AS 241Panel 8: WOMEN GOING PUBLIC: CONSTRUCTING A PUBLIC PERSONA Chair, Mary Caputi, California State University, Long Beach

“Transnational Identities and Translated Agencies in Madame de Staël’s Corinne, or Italy”Clorinda Donato, California State University, Long Beach

“Wit, Women, and Paris in the Belle Époque Press: Jeanne Marni and Jeanne Landre”Cheryl Morgan, Hamilton College

“The Fourth Estate in Petticoats”Michèle Claude Magnin, University of San Diego

2:45-4:15pm | AS 384Panel 9: NAPLES IN THE WORKS OF MATILDE SERAO AND FRANNY SALAZAR ZAMPINIChair Francesco Chianese, California State University, Long Beach

“A Nineteenth-Century Woman’s Need to Feed: Neapolitan Tastes and Customs in the Works of Matilde Serao”Daria Valentini, Stonehill College

“The Making of Il Giorno. Matilde Serao’s letters to Luigi Luzzatti” Ombretta Frau, Mount Holyoke College

“Superstizione e Orientalismo ne Il ventre di Napoli” Francesca Ricciardelli, California State University, Long Beach

“Fanny Salazar Zampini: a Neapolitan writer and the battle of her life”Lucia Ducci, College of the Holy Cross

4:15-4:30pm Coffee Break

5:00-6:00pm Keynote SpeakerDr. Pura Fernández, Research Professor at Centre for Human and Social Sciences, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid (Spain).

Title: Las aves sin nido de las Letras hispánicas: autoras y viajeras o los objects of my affection de la Baronesa de Wilson (h.1834-1923)

6:30pm RECEPTION AT THE ANATOL CENTER

SATURDAY SESSIONS

8:30amCoffee, tea and water will be provided

9-10:30am | AS 240Panel 10: FORGING CELEBRITY IDENTITIES Chair, Adriana Guarro, University of California, Los Angeles

“The “Alpine Sybil”: her verse and prose between Arcadia and Romantism (Italian Way)”Roberto Risso, Clemson University

“Courting Celebrity By Way of Autobiography: the Case of Angela Veronese” Adrienne Ward, University of Virginia and Irene Zanini-Cordi, Florida State University

“Angelica Palli Bartolomei and Alessio (1827). Love and Patriotism in the Early Italian Historical Novel” Irene Zanini-Cordi, Florida State University

“Staging the Female Body: Annie Vivanti’s Marion artista di caffè-concerto”Lisa Sarti, Borough of Manhattan Community College, The City University of New York.

9:00-10:30am | ANATOL CENTERPANEL 11: HERSTORY: REWRITING THE COLONIAL PAST AND BEYOND Chair, Bonnie Gasior, California State University, Long Beach

“Views of the Colonial Past in Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda”Mariselle Meléndez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “From Exile: Marietta de Veintemilla Writing Herself into the History of Ecuador” M. Gabriela Venegas, University of California, Los Angeles

“El archivo como un artefacto legitimador en “Ccora Campillana: Romance histórico del tiempo de la conquista” (1873) de Carolina Freyre de Jaimes” Laura Liendo, The Graduate Center, CUNY

The Nineteenth Century in 2019:Mapping Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century

9:00-10:30pm | AS 384PANEL 12: NINETEENTH-CENTURY WOMEN: STATIC AND IN MOTIONChair, Aparna Nayak, California State University, Long Beach

“Solitary Confinement in Rachilde’s La Tour d’Amour: The Necrophile Madness of the Buried Alive”Céline Brossillon, Ursinus College

“Savoirs de jeunes filles: the Development of an Omeka Exhibit of Postcards” Virginie Duzer and Tiffany Mi, Pomona College

“The Travelogues of Jane Dieulafoy in Iran: Explorer, Writer, Architect”Heidi Brevik-Zender, University of California, Riverside

“Sophie Mereau’s Translations of Maria de Zayas and their Impact on the Modern Novella” Jeffrey L. High and Lisa Beesley, California State University, Long Beach

10:30-10:45am COFFEE BREAK

11:00-12:15pm | ANATOL CENTER PANEL 13: FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES IN THE NEW REPUBLICS Chair, Rocío del Águila, Wichita State University

“La musa de la derrota: Clorinda Matto, Mercedes Cabello y la escritura del desastre (Perú, 1885-1895)” José Alberto Portugal, New College of Florida

“Transgresiones epistolares e intervenciones políticas: el proyecto de Mariquita Sánchez de Thompson en la Argentina decimonónica” Soledad Mocchi-Radichi, Washington University in St. Louis

“Ficciones del dolor en la escritura de mujeres latinoamericanas”Carol Arcos Herrera, Independent Scholar

11:00-12:15pm | AS 240 PANEL 14: GENEALOGIE, MODELLI, ALTERNATIVE: IL CONTRIBUTO DELLE DONNE DI “IERI” RILETTO DALLE DONNE DI “OGGI” Chair, Tatiana Crivelli Speciale, Università di Zurigo.

“Raccontare eccezioni per affermare una regola: i repertori di donne illustri tra Italia e Francia nell’Ottocento” Tatiana Crivelli Speciale, Università di Zurigo

“Emma Mahul and Marie-Anne Glomeau: the First French Women Translators of Petrarch’s Canzoniere” Riccardo Raimondo, Università di Zurigo

“Il cammino di vent’anni. Una «chiosa» anni Venti al movimento emancipazionista di fine Ottocento” Valeria Iaconis, Università di Zurigo

11:00-12:15pm | AS 384 PANEL 15: RESCUING JOURNALISTIC WRITING: THE FORGOTTEN WOMEN OF THE PRESS Chair, Nelly Goswitz, California State University, Long Beach

“Las humanidades digitales al servicio del siglo XIX: contribuidoras a/de la prensa colombiana”Melissa Parra, California State University, Long Beach

“Reeditando decimonónicas: una puesta en valor de los primeros periódicos de mujeres en Chile”Verónica Ramírez Errázuriz, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, Santiago, Chile & Carla Ulloa Inostroza, CEIICH-UNAM

“Lectoras de la prensa femenina mexicana del siglo XIX: una reflexión a propósito de Las hijas del Anáhuac, El álbum de la mujer y Violetas del Anáhuac” Yliana Rodríguez González, El Colegio de San Luis, A.C.

“The Story of La Camelia” in Rosa Guerra’s 19th Century Newspaper La camelia” Emily E. Frankel, University of California, Davis

12:15-1:15pm LUNCH ANATOL CENTER

The Nineteenth Century in 2019:Mapping Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century

1:15-2:45pm | AS 240 PANEL 16: TRANSGRESSIVE BEHAVIORS: WOMEN BEHAVING BADLY Chair, Laura Loustau, Chapman University

“A portarse como una dama: comportamiento y ciudadanía” Rocío del Águila, Wichita State University

“Confesiones de la Condesa de Merlin y el fantasma de Rousseau”Claire Emilie Martin, California State University, Long Beach

“Wagering On Cards and Matrimony in Mercedes Cabello de Carbonera’s Blanca Sol” Emily Joy Clark, Sonoma State University

“El lápiz de una hermana – Feminist Literature as a Discourse of Equality” Catarina von Wedemeyer (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Freie Universität Berlin)

1:15-2:45pm | ANATOL CENTERPANEL 17: MIRADAS PEREGRINAS: ITINERARIOS NACIONALES E IMAGINARIOS TRANSATLÁNTICOS EN LAS ESCRITORAS DEL SIGLO XIXChair, Adriana Méndez Rodenas, University of Missouri

“Tradiciones Cuzqueñas: la proyección de la escritora” Fanny Roncal Ramírez, Concordia College “‘El baúl de Miss Florence’: Mujeres viajeras y la (des)construcción del mundo azucarero de Puerto Rico” Tania Carrasquillo Hernández, Linfield College  

«La otra y la misma: la construcción del sujeto femenino en los apuntes de viaje de Isabel Pesado de Mier» Patricia Quintana Lantigua, El Colegio de San Luis, A.C.

“Cartografías románticas: la condesa de Merlin mira La Habana”Adriana Méndez Rodenas, The University of Missouri

1:15-2:45pm | AS 384 PANEL 18: WOMEN WRITERS AGAINST CULTURAL PRACTICES AND INSTITUTIONS Chair, Teresa Puente, California State University, Long Beach

“Entre Risas y Lágrimas, el discurso literario finisecular de Virginia Elena Ortea”Mercedes Fernández Asenjo, Independent Scholar, University of Houston “Writing about the Unspeakable: Domestic Violence in the Nineteenth-Century” Brenda Ortiz-Loyola, California State University, Stanislaus “Cuerpo, erotismo y devenires de una subjetividad femenina en enunciación: Los cálices vacíos, de Delmira Agustini”Arcea Zapata de Aston, Investigadora Independiente

3-4pm | ANATOL CENTERKeynote Speaker IICatriona Seth, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature All Souls College, Oxford

Title of the Talk: “One of the first, if not the very first, of the female writers of the age’. Germaine de Staël and her literary posterity”

4:00pm CLOSING REMARKS ANATOL CENTER

Very special thanks to:Manuel Romero, The George L. Graziadio Center for Italian StudiesDebbie Hildreth Pisarcik, College of Liberal ArtsAlessandro Russo, RGRLL DepartmentCindy Tovar, RGRLL DepartmentEric Cohen, Translator, LBCCAbril Calderón, Graphic DesignerCarlos Meyerstein, Spanish Graduate Student AssociationNatalie Nutman, Spanish Graduate Student AssociationFrancesca Ricciardelli, Club ItaliaJoanna Tatro, French ClubThe volunteer students of Club Italia, Spanish Graduate Student Association, and the French Club

We would like to thank our sponsors for their generous support: The University Library

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The Office of the Provost 

The Office of the Vice Provost of Graduate Studies

College of Liberal Arts Scholarly Intersections Grant

The President’s Commission on the Status of Women

The George L. Graziadio Center for Italian Studies

The Romance, German, Russian Languages and Literatures Department

The English Department

The History Department

The Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Department

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