| I. A. |
A Geography of the Self
Presiding: Amy Beaudry, Sarah Lawrence College
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| "Those 'constant readjustments': Race, Gender, and
Difference in Bishop's 'In the Waiting Room, '"
Kirstin Hotelling, University of Rochester
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| "'That Conflux of Two Great Rivers' ": Gender and
Postmodernism in Bishop's Dialectics of History, "
Jeanne Donado, Independent Scholar
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| "Poetic Identity/Identity Politics: A Geography of
the Self, " Eden Osucha, Stone Center, Wellesley
College
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| I. B.
| The Examined Life
Presiding: William Wenthe, Texas Tech University
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|
| "'The Smallest Woman in the World': Refractions of
Identity in Elizabeth Bishop's Translations of Three
Stories by Clarice Lispector, " Sheila McAvey, Becker
College
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| "Bishop's Use of Memoir: Storing and Restoring the
Past," Harriet Y. Cooper, New York University
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| "Luminous Lota: Her Influence on Elizabeth Bishop's
Life and Work, " Carmen L. Oliveira, Writer, Brazil
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| I. C. |
Elizabeth Bishop and Other Writers
Presiding: Suzanna Nyberg, NYU
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| "Two Arts: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and Robin
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| Becker," Sandra L. Yannone, University of Nebraska
Lincoln
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| "'Littered with Old Correspondences': Elizabeth
Bishop, Wallace Stevens, and the 1930s," John Lowney, St.
John's University
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|
| "Bishop's Embracing Gaze: Her Influences on Phyllis
Levin, Sandra McPherson, and Jorie Graham," James
McCorkle, Independent Scholar
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| I. D.
| Insights and Aesthetics
Presiding: Joseph Reynolds, Wachusett Regional High
School and Worcester County Poetry Association
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|
| "Revise, Revise: Elizabeth Bishop Writing 'The End of
March,"' Joelle Biele, University of Maryland
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|
| "'At the Fishhouses': Reverie in Elizabeth Bishop's
Creative Aesthetic--'A self-forgetful, perfectly
useless concentration,' " Jill Phillips, University of
California Davis
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|
| "'Shuddering Insights': Surprise in the Poetry of
Elizabeth Bishop," Barbara Comins, La Guardia
Community College
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| 10:30-10:45
| Coffee Break
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| II. A. |
Bishop and American Poetry (title?)
Presiding: Lori Beste, University of Connecticut
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| "Compassionate Figure at a Distance: Memory and
Desire in the Work of Elizabeth Bishop, " Ashlie
J. Kauffman, New York University
|
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| "The Doll as Artifact: Elizabeth Bishop's Ethnography
of Sexuality," Patricia M. Dwyer, Shepherd College
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|
| "Elizabeth Bishop and the Pragmatic Line in
American Poetry, " Helen McNeil, University of East
Anglia
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| II. B.
| Landscape and Travel
Presiding: Trevor Code, Deakin University and
Worcester County Poetry Association
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| "Strangers in the Strangest of Theaters: Questions of
Travel and or as Imperialism," Carol E. Miller,
Benedictine University
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|
| "Elizabeth Bishop and the Landscape of Desire,"
Priscilla Paton, Luther College
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|
| " ' Invisible Threads and Individual Rubatos': Migration
in Elizabeth Bishop's Life and Work, " Sandra Barry,
Independent Scholar, Nova Scotia
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| II. C.
| Bishop and Translation
Presiding: Klaus Martens, Universitaet des
Saarlandes
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| "The Art of Naming: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and
the Problem of Translation, " Michiru Oguchi, Editor,
Iwanami Shoten Publishers, Tokyo
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| "Language's Doors: Bishop's Translations of Poems
by Paz," Lee Fontanella, WPI
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|
| "Lost and Found in Translation, " Margaret
Mitsutani, Kyoritsu Women's University, Tokyo
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| II. D.
| Childhood and Pastoral
Presiding: Jacqueline Finn, Jacob Hiatt School, Clark
University
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|
| "Elizabeth Bishop and the Green World," Don Adams,
Florida Atlantic University
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|
| "Elizabeth Bishop: Child of the Past, Child of the
Present in 'The Country Mouse, '" Gail H. Dayton, Middle
Tennessere State University
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|
| "The Colonizing Imagination: Wordsworth and Bishop
Reconsidered," Gary Fountain, Ithaca College
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| LUNCH 12:15-1:30
| Higgins House
|
| III. |
PLENARY SESSION 1:45 Alden Hall
Presiding: Laura Jehn Menides, WPI and Worcester
County Poetry Association
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|
| Welcome |
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| Thomas Travisano, Hartwick College, Founder of the
Elizabeth Bishop Society and Editor of its Bulletin
"Elizabeth Bishop and the Origins of Childhood
Studies"
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| 2:45-3:00 p.m.
| Coffee Break
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| IV.
| "One Art: Painting and Poetry" 3:00-4:15 p.m. Alden Hall
Presiding: Terri Priest, Fletcher/Priest Gallery
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| William Benton, Editor, Exchanging Hats:
Paintings Alice Quinn, Poetry Editor of The New
Yorker
|
| 5:30 p.m.
| Bus to College of the Holy Cross will pick up
passengers in front of Gordon Library and at Crowne
Plaza.
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| 6:00 p.m.
| Dinner at College of the Holy Cross
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| 8:00 p.m.
| Poetry Reading by MARK STRAND
Presiding: Christopher Merrill, College of the Holy
Cross
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| 9:00 p.m.
| Reception
|
| 10:00 p.m.
| Bus leaves for Crowne Plaza
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| V. A.
| Geographies of History in Elizabeth Bishop
Presiding: Barbara McCarthy, WPI
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|
| "A Poet Between Two Worlds: A Cross-Genre Study of
Exile in the Life and Works of Elizabeth Bishop, "
Audrey E. Hooker, Wake Forest University
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|
| "Elizabeth Bishop and Canadian Poet P. K. Page,"
Anne Shifrer, Utah State University
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|
| "The Geographies of History in Elizabeth Bishop,"
Ross Leckie, University of Northern British Columbia
|
| V. B.
| Childhood Studies and Elizabeth Bishop
Presiding: Thomas Travisano, Hartwick College
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|
| "Bishop as a Poet of Childhood Recollected: A
Hypertext from the Bishop Archive," Barbara Page,
Vassar College
|
|
| "Hammered by Fate: Elizabeth Bishop and Some
Neurodevelopmental Aspects of the Writer's Life,"
James Colbert, University of New Mexico
|
|
| "' Driving to the Interior': Elizabeth Bishop and
the 'Tranquilized 50s,"' Richard Flynn, Georgia
Southern University
|
| V. C.
| Bishop, Home, and Racial Identity
Presiding: Renee R. Curry, California State University
|
|
| "Elizabeth Bishop: At Home with Whiteness," Renee R.
Curry, California State University
|
|
| "Was Bishop a Racist?" Stephen Gould Axelrod,
University of California-Riverside
|
|
| "Fairy Places and Inscrutable Houses: Subjectivity
|
|
| Balancing Dangerously in Elizabeth Bishop's House
Poems," Catherine Cucinella, University of California-
Riverside
|
| V. D.
| Bishop's Use of Brazilian Materials
Presiding: Robert Steele, president, Worcester County
Poetry Association
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|
| "'Pockets of Resistance' in Elizabeth Bishop's
Brazil," D. A. Boxwell, U.S. Air Force Academy
|
|
| "On Bishop's Use of Brazilian Materials," Neil Besner,
University of Winnipeg
|
|
| "Elizabeth Bishop's Brazilian Investments,. George
Monteiro, Brown University
|
| 10:30-10:45
| Coffee Break
|
| VI. A.
| "Elizabeth, the 'photo-trip goes on'"
Presiding: Lloyd Schwartz, University of Massachuetts
- Boston
|
|
| "Converging Frontiers: Bishop's North and South,"
Maria C. B. Paro, Universidade Estadual Paulista
|
|
| Elizabeth Bishop and Carlos Drummond de Andrade:
'Opening of Tin Trunks and Violent Memories,'. Maria
L.
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|
| M. Martins, Universidade Federal de Santa
Catarina
|
|
| "Elizabeth Bishop's Brazil," Neusa da Silva
Matte, Universidade de Federal do Rio Grande do
Sul
|
| VI. B.
| Elizabeth Bishop and Other Writers
Presiding: Rodger Martin, editor, The
Worcester Review
|
|
| "Two Poets: The Correspondence Between Elizabeth
Bishop and May Swenson, " Kathleen C. Johnson,
Independent Scholar/Poet
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|
| "Chrysalis Unbound: Elizabeth Bishop's and James
Merrill's Poems of Origin, " Peter Nickowitz, New York
University
|
|
| "Cold War 1950: Elizabeth Bishop and Sylvia Plath,"
Camille Roman, Washington State University
|
| VI. C.
| Images in Bishop's Poetry and Painting
Presiding: Everett Goodwin, WPI
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|
| "Elizabeth Bishop's Aural Imagery: The Male
Personae," Joan L. Fields, University of Southwestern
Louisiana
|
|
| "'That World Inverted': Images of Inversion in the
Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop," Crystal Bacon,
Gloucester County College
|
|
| "Elizabeth Bishop's Paintings and Drawings,"
Lorrie Goldensohn, Vassar
|
| VI. D.
| The Worcester Association of English Professors' Panel on
Elizabeth Bishop
Presiding: Kenneth Gibbs, Worcester State College
|
|
| "No Waiting Room Will Ever Be the Same," Jeffrey
Harrison, poet, Phillips Andover Academy
|
|
| "The Girl Whose Voice Was Her Aunt's: Heredity and
Identity in Elizabeth Bishop's 'In the Waiting
Room,"' David Thoreen, Assumption College
|
|
| "Elizabeth Bishop and the Geography of
Worcester," Linda Gordon, Worcester State
College
|
|
| "Elizabeth Bishop and George Herbert: 'Self-distaste
and Self-understanding, '" Robert Cording, College of
the Holy Cross
|
|
| "The 'Country House': Con-text, Para-text, Contra-
text," Stanley Sultan, Clark University
|
| 12:15-1:45
| Lunch, Higgins House
|
| 1:45-4:00 p.m.
| Literary Tour of Worcester, focusing on
Elizabeth Bishop sites, but including sites relating
to Stanley Kunitz and Charles Olson. The tour will
stop at the Fletcher/Priest Gallery to view an
exhibit of Bishop's art; at the Worcester Historical
Museum, which has an
exhibit on the Bishop family's construction business;
and at the Bishop family burial plot in Hope
Cemetery. Bus leaves from Higgins House.
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| 5:30 p.m.
| Bus leaves from Crowne Plaza for Assumption College
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| 6:00 p.m.
| Dinner in the Hagan Center at Assumption College
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| 8:00 p.m.
| Poetry Reading by Frank Bidart and Lloyd Schwartz
Presiding: Angela G. Dorenkamp, Assumption College emerita
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| 9:30 p.m.
| Bus leaves Assumption for Crowne Plaza
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