Dickinson and Foreignhood
Emily Dickinson International Society Conference
July 12-14, Seville, Spain
July 11
10:30-2:30, 4:30-6:30 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION (Patio de la Cristalera)
8:00-9:00 POETRY IN MOTION: Instincts for Dance, a Choreographic Translation of Emily Dickinson’s Poetry, by Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau (CICUS, Universidad de Sevilla)
Conference Day 1, July 12
9:00-1:30 CONFERENCE REGISTRATION (Patio de la Cristalera)
9:30-10:00 CONFERENCE INAUGURATION (Aula Magna)
Dean of the Facultad de Filología, José Javier Martos Ramos
Director of the Departamento de Filología Inglesa: Literatura Inglesa y
Norteamericana, Carolina Sánchez-Palencia Carazo.
President of EDIS, Elizabeth Petrino
Conference Director, Jefferey Simons
10:00-11:30 SESSION #1
1.1 Inventive Translation and Untranslatability
Chair: Juan Carlos Calvillo
Adalberto Müller, Universidade Federal Fluminense
“‘Like Her Translated Faces’: Reading the Untranslatable”
Margaret Freeman, Myrifield Institute for Cognition and the Arts
“‘In Foreign Port’: Context, Culture, and Cognition in Reading Dickinson’s Poetry”
Ahmad Almallah, University of Pennsylvania
“The past the past the present: Translating Dickinson into Arabic”
Brunilda Kondi, University of Tirana
“From “Alabaster Chambers” to Oda Alabastri: Dickinson in Albanian”
1.2 Embodying Perception
Chair: Ricardo Navarrete Franco
Sabine Sielke, University of Bonn
“The ‘“Undiscovered Continent” – No Settler had the Mind –,’ or: Travelling with Dickinson”
Manuel Herrero-Puertas, National Taiwan University
“Brain Corridors and Planks That Break: Dickinson’s Accessible
Architecture of the Self”
Sophia Houghton, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“To Know Not What ‘Lasts’: Dickinson, Thermal Energy and Limited
Perception”
Paul Crumbley, Utah State University
“Fascicle 39 and the Foreignhood of Future Creation”
1.3 Dickinson & Nineteenth-Century Touchstones
Chair: Marianne Noble
Renée Bergland, Simmons University
“Dickinson’s Darwinian Poetics: ‘fight, or flight – or the foreign land’”
Páraic Finnerty, University of Portsmouth
“‘The Past is such a curious Creature’: Foreignhood and Dickinson’s
Historical Imagination”
Michael L. Manson, Georgetown Day School
“Dickinson’s Aspirations among the Other Spasmodics”
Thomas W. Howard, Washington University in St. Louis
“Dickinson’s Scattered Fragments: Alienation and Affect in Aphoristic
Prose”
11:30-12:00 COFFEE
12:00-1:30 PLENARY PANEL #1 “Dickinson from New Editorial Perspectives”
Chair: Elizabeth Petrino
Marta L. Werner, Loyola University Chicago
“Intercepting Dickinson’s Master Documents: Experiments in Intimate
Editing”
Eliza Richards, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
“‘The Obstructions of Genius’: Manuscript and Print in the Editing of Emily
Dickinson and George Moses Horton”
Cristanne Miller, University at Buffalo SUNY
“‘All the letters I can write’: Insights from a New Letters Edition”
1:30-3:00 LUNCH
3:00-4:30 Session #2
2.1 Troubling the Nation
Chair: Paul Crumbley
Ryan Poll, Northeastern Illinois University
“‘Citizen Gardener’: Emily Dickinson, Gardening, and Re-Imagining
Citizenship”
Christa Holm Vogelius, University of Copenhagen
“Seeing New Englandly: Landscape and the Local”
Anne Ramirez, Neumann University
“‘Away from Home’: Dickinson as Eternal Emigrant”
José Alvergue, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
“Foreign after Nation”
2.2 Queering Dickinson: As “Foreign” as “Firmament to Fin”?
Chair: María de los Ángeles Toda Iglesia
María Camila Vera Arias, University of Massachusetts Amherst
“Dickinson, Amante: Tracing Queer Emily in Spanish”
Adeline Chevrier-Bosseau, Université Clermont Auvergne
“Choreographing Queerness”
Margaret Rhee, University at Buffalo SUNY
“Queer Dickinson: On Visual Cultures and the Intervention of Queer”
Martha Nell Smith, University of Maryland
“Wild Nights and Twerking: Emily Dickinson in the Movies and on TV”
2.3 Dickinson Reading and Being Read
Chair: Juan Ignacio Guijarro González
Elizabeth Petrino, Fairfield University
“The Sea, the Brook, and a Camel: Dickinson’s Reading and Literary
Influence”
Marianne Noble, American University
“Emily Dickinson’s Surprising Allusions: Buried Treasures”
Jonathan Elmer, Indiana University
“My Blue Peninsula—Is a Gulf—not—A Promontory”
Ricardo Miguel Alfonso, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
“Dickinson Outside the American Renaissance”
4:30-5:00 COFFEE
5:00-6:30 Session #3
3.1 Translation and Reception
Chair: Carolina Sánchez-Palencia Carazo
Benigno Sánchez-Eppler, Amherst College
“‘But I guess guessing hurts’ . . . ‘Until my faint rehearsal drops into tune’:
Reading Dickinson’s Variants and Versions as a Translator”
Pola Biblis, Jagiellonian University
“‘To Fall in Love with a Poet’s Mind’: Dickinson’s Polish translators”
María Isabel Porcel García, Universidad de Sevilla
“Dickinson’s Reception in Spanish and Peninsular Languages & Latin
American Scholarship”
Rocío Saucedo Dimas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
“Dickinson Speaks Spanish: Archivo Dickinson (2018), a Book of Poems
by María Negroni”
3.2 Encoding Queerness and Gender
Chair: Martha Nell Smith
Vivian Pollak, Washington University in St. Louis
“Dickinson and the Cecil Dreemes of Literature”
Stephanie Ann Bontell, Virginia Tech
“‘And One in the Eden of God’: The Influence of George Sand’s
Performative
Ecologies on the Life and Work of Emily Dickinson”
Susannah Sharpless, Cornell University
“‘Love Marine:’ Cargo and Commodified Romance in Dickinson”
Anna Torvaldsen, McGill University
“Dickinson’s Satin Cash: Floral Gifts and Poetic Sociability”
3.3 Transporting Idiom
Chair: José María Tejedor Cabrera
Ryan Cull, New Mexico State University
“The ‘General Sum’: Dickinson Thinking Beyond Foreignness or
Familiarity?”
Gianna Fusco, University of L’Aquila, Italy
“‘Periods of Seas – / Unvisited by Shores’: Spatiotemporal Foreignhood in
Dickinson’s Poems about the Sea”
Katrina Marie Dzyak, Columbia University
“‘This World did drop away”: The Social and the Scientific in Dickinson’s
‘Balloon’ Poems”
Yanyu Gao, Heilongjiang Bayi Agricultural University, China
“Particular Contexts for Understanding and Interpreting Dickinson’s
Poems”
8:00-9:00 POETRY READING: Emily Dickinson in English and in Spanish Translation (Real Alcázar de Sevilla)
Conference Day 2, July 13
9:30-11:00 Session #4
4.1 Dickinson, Helen Hunt Jackson, and Shaping Fulfillment
Chair: Christa Vogelius
Lesley Ginsberg, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
“The ‘Foreign’ in Dickinson and Helen Hunt Jackson”
Judith Scholes, St Mark’s and Corpus Christi Colleges, University of British
Columbia, Vancouver
“Dickinson’s Foreign Reader”
Irene López Sánchez, University of Kent
“Foreign (Representations of) Happiness in Dickinson’s Writings”
Ronnie K. Stephens, University of Texas at Arlington
“Foreignhood and Liminality in Dickinson’s ‘The Wind begun to knead
the Grass’”
4.2 Foreignhood at Home: Dickinson in Place
Chair: Adeline Chevrier-Bousseau
Naihao Lee, Chinese Culture University, Taipei, Taiwan
“Dickinson’s Neighbors”
Nan Wolverton, American Antiquarian Society
“‘A Hint of Ports – and Peoples’: Dickinson’s Material World and
Foreignhood”
Dongqing Li, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
“Benevolence and Foreignness: Dickinson’s Perception of Nature”
Cuihua Xu, Guangdong University
“Dickinson’s Celebrations of Being Alive in ‘I am alive – I guess –’”
4.3 Form, Harmonies, and Sensual Imagination
Chair: Miguel Juan Gronow Smith
María Carla Sánchez, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
“Emily on Instagram: Instapoetry and Social Media Adaptations of
Dickinson”
Jing Xu, Beijing University of Posts and Telecoms
“Dickinson’s Depression and Buddhist Solution”
David Pérez Calvillo, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela
“‘After great pain, a formal feeling comes’: Comedy as Otherness in
Dickinson’s Poetry and the Apple TV Series”
Souad Baghli Berbar, University of Tlemcen
“‘Infinite to Venture’: Dickinson and the Trope of Travel”
11:00-11:30 COFFEE
11:30-1:00 PLENARY PANEL #2 “Dickinson’s Poetry Abroad”
Chair: Adalberto Müller
Juan Carlos Calvillo Reyes, Colegio de México
“Portrait in a Convex Mirror: Dickinson’s Influence on Contemporary
Spanish-Language Poets”
Margarita García Candeira, Universidad de Huelva
“The World as Garden: Versions of Pastoral in Dickinson and Olvido García
Valdés”
Shira Wolosky, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“Paul Celan’s Translations of Dickinson”
1:00-2:30 LUNCH
2:30-4:00 Session #5
5.1 Dickinson & Poets across Cultures
Chair: Antoine Cazé
Mariana Machová, University of South Bohemia, České Budějovice and Charles
University, Prague
“Transnational Dickinson: Familiarity in Foreignness”
Inmaculada Caro Rodríguez, Universidad de Sevilla
“Emily Dickinson and Magda Bello”
Chitra Sreedharan, Fergusson College, India
“Daughters of the Sacred Muse—Emily Dickinson and Bahinabai
Chaudhari”
Siyun Fang, University of Mississippi
“‘I’m ceded – I’ve stopped being theirs’: Feminism in Patriarchy”
5.2 Dickinson and the Arts
Chair: Margarita García Candeira
Nancy Krakaur, independent multimedia artist
“Dickinson’s Metaphors of Mind”
Erin Elizabeth Piemont, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Dickinson, Portraiture, and the Estrangement of the Face”
Rosella Mamoli Zorzi, Ca’ Foscari, University of Venice
“Dickinson and European Painters”
Nicole Panizza, Coventry University
“‘La Voce Sublime’: Dickinson and the Art of Bel Canto”
5.3 The Mind’s Estrangement
Chair: Sabine Sielke
Benjamin Kylan Rice, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“‘Paralysis / Done Perfecter in Stone’: Dickinson’s Gem-Poetics”
Melba Jensen, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
“Intoxication: Emily Dickinson’s Vocabulary of Vocation”
Cook, Vanessa E., University College, London
“‘A still – Volcano – Life’: Dickinson and Hysteria”
Amy Nestor, Independent Scholar
“an… of—Dickinson. Pain. Estrangingness”
4:00-4:30 COFFEE
4:30-6:30 Session #6
6.1 Social Orders and Foreignhood
Chair: Dan Manheim
Francesca G. Razzi, D’Annunzio University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy
“Imaginary Transatlantic Crossings: Textual Configurations of
Domesticity and Foreignhood in Dickinson’s Italian Atlas”
Peter Balaam, Carleton College
“‘Our lives are Swiss’: Dickinson’s Geographies of Regulation and
Revelation”
Yilin La, Indiana University Bloomington
“Transcendental Foreignhood: Dickinson’s Postlapsarian Poetics of Prayer”
Xiaoquan Raphael Zhang, American University
“Sinicizing Di Jinsen: The Canonization of Dickinson and Her Poems in
Post-1980s China”
6.2 Gender and Maternity
Chair: Páraic Finnerty
Elena Valli, Trinity College, Dublin
“‘Unacknowledged Clay’: Foreign Lands and the Representation of Fertility
in Dickinson’s Poetry”
Paula Serrano Elena, Universidad de Zaragoza
“The Power of the Ideal: Analysis of the Effects of the Ideal of Motherhood
in Dickinson”
Miguel Juan Gronow Smith, Universidad de Sevilla
“Emily Dickinson: Intimately Foreign to Herself”
Holly Norton, University of Northwestern Ohio
“On the Inside Looking Out: Dickinson’s Window on the World”
6.3 Rereading the Civil War
Chair: Eliza Richards
Ryan Heryford, California State University East Bay
“‘an instant’s act’: Dickinson’s Ruins”
Wendy Tronrud, Bard Prison Initiative, Bard College
“‘Vesuvius at Home’: Foreignhood and Dickinson’s Volcano Poems”
Ivy Schweitzer and Al Salehi, Dartmouth College and University of Memphis
“Reckoning with Dickinson: On Otherness and Repair”
Michelle Kohler, Tulane University
“‘Go[ing] / White’: Temporality, Race, and the Body in Dickinson’s Poetry”
9:00 BANQUET(registration required)
Conference Day 3, July 14
9:30-11:00 Session #7
7.1 Dickinson and Lyric
Chair: Cristanne Miller
Nelly Lambert, Bard College
“Freeing the Sonnet’s Gown: Essence of Form in Dickinson”
Amy Yue-Yin Chan, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
“Gathering ‘Paradise’: Perfect Shared Silences in Dickinson’s Lyric”
Emma Horst, Loyola University Chicago
“Defamiliarization in Manuscript Studies: A Textual Close Reading of
Dickinson’s ‘Two Butterflies’”
Lianggong Luo, Central China Normal University
“Materialization of Language in Dickinson’s Poetry”
7.2 Dickinson’s Ecologies
Chair: Renée Bergland (?)
Li-hsin Hsu, National Chengchi University
“‘But nature is a stranger yet’: Dickinson’s Ecogothic and Morton’s
Ecognosis”
Baihua Wang, Fudan University, China
“Science and Sensibility: Dickinson’s Botanical Imagination and Sexual
Politics”
Leonor María Martínez Serrano, Universidad de Córdoba
“‘A Blossom, or a Book’: Dickinson on the Poetry of Earth”
Li Ling, Central-South University, China
“Dickinson’s Non-human Minute Biological Imagery & Imagination of Eco-
community”
7.3 Debating Race and Foreignhood
Chair: Karen Sánchez-Eppler
Stephanie Farrar, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire
“Exploring Dickinson’s Racialized Foreignhood”
Trevin Corsiglia, Washington University, St. Louis
“‘I – feared the Sea – too much’: Race, Class and ‘Dark Epistemology’ in
Dickinson”
Aitana Monzón Blasco, Universidad de Zaragoza
“The Foreign in the Self: Dickinson and Her Poetic ‘Other’”
Helena Maragou, The American College of Greece, Deree
“‘Foreignhood’ and Dickinson’s Poetics of Horror”
11:00-11:30 COFFEE
11:30-12:30 ANNUAL MEMBERS MEETING
All are welcome! Led by incoming EDIS President, Eliza Richards
12:30-2:00 LUNCH
2:00-3:00 TRANSLATION WORKSHOP (Aula de Grados)
Directed by Antoine Cazé. Registration required.
3:15-4:15 OPEN READING OF TRANSLATIONS (Aula Magna)