1. "Efflorescences hybrides: les ouvrages de botanique dans la production littéraire des femmes au XIXe siècle." Bénédicte Monicat, The Pennsylvania State University
2. "Pris dans la nature": Fiction and Natural History in the Works of Genlis. Beth McCartney, University of Pennsylvania
3. Transatlantic Crossings: Thérèse Benton, North American Women Writers, and Textual Interplays. Rachel Williams, The Pennsylvania State University
4. Olympe de Gouges's Revolutionary Patriotism. Marie-Pierre Le Hir, The University of Arizona

1. "Tous les chants de cygnes mourants": Fossilized Romanticism and Temporal Dysfunction in Madame Bovary. Luke Bouvier, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2. Flaubert et les fossiles du discours moderne. Jean Christophe Ippolito, The Georgia Institute of Technology
3. Flaubert's Dig: Modern Form from Fragments. Suzanne Braswell, University of Miami
4. Fossils and Theories of Evolution in Flaubert's Bouvard et Pécuchet. Anthony Zielonka, Assumption College

1. Evoluer vers la littérature: Schopenhauer et le roman naturaliste. Rod Cooke, Columbia University
2. "Rien ne bougeait": On "Replacement and Recrystallization" Symbolism in Zola. Jeremy Worth, The University of Windsor
3. L’histoire […], telle que relatée par Zola, est […] résolument inexacte. Soundouss El Kettani, Royal Military College of Canada
4. Sonorous Palimpsest: Parisian Soundscape of Nineteenth-Century Industrial Culture. Alix Mazuet, University of Central Oklahoma

1. Fossilizing French Literary History: La Galérie métallique de grands hommes français. Sarah Hurlburt, Whitman College
2. Take Me to the Place Where the Old Boys Play. Charles J. Stivale, Wayne State University
3. Aural and Oral: Henry Monnier's "Deux gougnottes" and the Lesbian on the Eve of Discovery. Melanie Hawthorne, Texas A&M University

1. Literary Remnants: The Evolution of Crèvecœur's Le Voyage dans la haute Pennsylvanie et dans l'état de New York (1801). Jim Allen, Southern Illinois University
2. Chateaubriand's Atala: The Last Philosophical Tale of the Enlightenment. Mary Anne O'Neil, Whitman College
3. Le Récit fossile selon Dumas et Nodier. Daniel Desormeaux, University of Chicago
4. Satire du milieu littéraire et parodie du style: Musset contre le Romantisme (dans Histoire d'un merle blanc). Anne-Céline Michel, Université de Poitiers

1. Le Lait vicié, or the Wicked Wet Nurse. Lisa Algazi, Hood College
2. La Littérature populaire et la mobilité sociale des femmes du peuple. Julia Przybos, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
3. Parental Discipline and Social Control in Jules Vallès's L'Enfant. Deborah Schocket, Bowling Green State University

1. Vacuity vs. Vitality: The Evolution of Women in the Novels of André Léo. Cecilia Beach, Alfred University
2. Femmes, fossiles et fictions: la bourgeoise et l'anarchiste. Valerie Narayana, Mount Allison University
3. Fossils and Feminists: The Woman Question in Jules Claretie's La Vie à Paris. Wendelin Guentner, The University of Iowa
4. The Guarded Evolution of the Role of Courtesans: Liane de Pougy and Public Relations. Juliette Dade, Indiana University

1. Coucou, cocu! The Modernist Comedy of Georges Feydeau. Warren Johnson, Arkansas State University
2. Embodying Ephemera: Testing Social Legibility on the Vaudeville Stage. Cary Hollinshead-Strick, American University of Paris
3. Rachel as Star and Symbol, Muse and Marketer: Rethinking Romanticism in the French Theater. Susan McCready, University of South Alabama
4. Atar Gull: Lu et vu. Thérèse de Raedt, University of Utah

1. The Evolution of the White Heroine's Identification with Slavery from Olympe de Gouges to Madame Charles Reybaud. Lesley Curtis, Duke University
2. "Ce corps inconnaissable": The Fantasy of the Native Body in Discourses of Degeneration. Lisa Ann Villarreal, Stanford University
3. Revolution in Paradise? Communard Narratives of New Caledonia. Leonard R. Koos, University of Mary Washington
4. Racial Evolution and Colonial Gender: Louis Bertrand's "Latin-Mediterranean" Solution. Daniel Brant, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1. Resisting the Spell of Science in George Sand's Le gnome des huîtres and Laura, ou voyage dans le crystal. Mary Garnett, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
2. Biodiversity in Chateaubriand's Atala. Annie Smart, Saint Louis University
3. Movement, Color, and Spark: Fireworks and the Chemical Sublime in Nineteenth-Century France. Laura A. Kalba, George Mason University

1. Indissolubilité et mutabilité: discours sur le mariage et le divorce au théâtre à la fin du siècle. Katia Viot-Southard, SUNY Oswego
2. De la bonne évolution familiale: L'Etape de Paul Bourget. Claudie Bernard, New York University
3. Dégénérescence et régénération: Le Disciple de Paul Bourget. Françoise Belot, University of Washington
4. The Female and the Species: Radical Feminism and Social Darwinism in late Nineteenth-Century French Literary Discourses. Louise Lyle, University of London Institute in Paris

1. Animation et repétrification chez Rachilde. Guri Barstad, University of Tromsø, Norway
2. Museums as Stasis and Change: The Example of the Petit Palais. Sara Pappas, University of Richmond
3. Anachronistic Archeology in 19th-Century France: Tanagra Statuettes–Examples of Greek Artistry or Parisian Fashion? Donald Wright, Hood College
4. The (R)evolution of Art Nouveau in the Notebooks of Henri Vever. Willa Silverman, The Pennsylvania State University
   

1. Crossing the Styx: Troubled Journeys through the Past, the Poetic and the Modern (Dante in Delacroix and Baudelaire). Helen Abbott, Bangor University
2. The Goncourts' Manette Salomon: The Dynamics of Description. Sabrina Wengier, University of Miami
3. La ligne ingresque, entre fossilisation et évolution du modèle idéal. Nicolas Valazza, Indiana University
4. Musical Evolution as Social Transformation: The Path to Transcendence in the Works of George Sand. Arline Cravens, Saint Louis University

1. Physiologie d'une prostituée-paysanne-princesse: The Instability of Identity in Eugène Sue's Les Mystères de Paris. Elizabeth Erbeznik, University of Texas at Austin
2. The Sense of the Passé: Fashion Culture and its Other (Paris, 1830-1848). Jennifer Terni, University of Connecticut
3. Dressed to Kill: Fashion and Femininity in Edmond de Goncourt's Chérie. Sara Phenix, University of Pennsylvania

1. Continuous Creation in Victor Hugo's Les Contemplations. Katherine Lunn-Rockliffe, Hertford College, Oxford University
2. Baudelaire's bodies, or Re-Dressing the Wrongs of Pornography. Raisa Rexer, Yale University
3. D'un œil impressionniste. Virginie Pouzet-Duzer, Pomona College

1. Artist as Preacher, Art as Redeemer: A Study of van Gogh's and Whistler's Ideas on the Role of the Artist. Christa Dimarco, Temple University
2. Space and Subjectivity in Monet: The Poplars Series. Darci Gardner, Stanford University
3. Centres, cycles et cyclopes: Evolution et monstruosité dans Les Noirs d'Odilon Redon. Eloise Sureau, Butler University
4. Underwater Visions: Odilon Redon, the Aquarium, and the Sea. Isabel Suchanek, University of Pennsylvania

1. A Network of "Bas-bleus": Around Mme Georges de Peyrebrune. Margot Irvine, University of Guelph
2. Indiana ou la femme fossilisée. Cynthia Harvey, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
3. A New Man for the New Woman: Feminist Marital Fantasies at the Fin de Siècle. Rachel Mesch, Yeshiva University
4. Sex Wars at the Fin-de-Siècle. Gretchen Schultz, Brown University

1. The (D)Evolving Baudelairean Death in 1857: "La Mort" in Les Fleurs du mal. Joyce Wu, Duke University
2. The Milieu in Baudelaire. Catherine Bordeau, Lyon College
3. Portait de Baudelaire en monument: la réception des classiques, une pétrification? Mathilde Labbé, Université Paris-Sorbonne
4. The Residue of the Imagination: Baudelaire's Tableaux parisiens and Victor Hugo. Karen Quandt, Princeton University

1. Collecting in A Rebours: Between Science and Art. Kirsten Ellicson, Columbia University
2. Durtal and Marchenoir between Fossilization and Evolution. Willemijn Don, New York University
3. Petrification and Disintegration: Artistic (De)Compositions in J.-K. Huysmans's A rebours. Sayeeda Mamoon, Edgewood College

1. Mapping Creative Destruction in Zola's La Curée. Patrick Bray, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2. Toute école est buissonnière: Progressive Geography in Colette's Claudine à l'école. Leon Sachs, University of Kentucky
3. Mapping the Evolving French Cartes d'identités. Dana Lindaman, University of Minnesota
4. On the Origin of Species: Learning from Huart’s Flâneur fossilisé. Katherine Gantz, St. Mary's College of Maryland

1. Où est donc passée la chevelure de Nana? Karen Haddad-Wotling, Université de Paris Ouest-Nanterre
2. Chateaubriand dégarni. Franc Schuerewegen, Université de Nimègue
3. L'« histoire de fille » en évolution : de Marthe de Huysmans à Nana de Zola. Jenelle Griffin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
4. “Barbey’s Fossils and Fossilization dessous de cartes.” Allan Pasco, University of Kansas

1. Le Progrès: À rebours de l'Histoire. Mélanie Giraud, Bucknell University
2. "Le Texte Fossile": Geology and Paleontology in Sand, Verne and Flaubert. Nigel Harkness, Queen's University, Belfast
3. Skull Stories: Paleontology and Popular Fictions at the Fin-de-siècle. Andrea Goulet, University of Pennsylvania

1. Fossilisation décadente dans La Tour d'amour de Rachilde. Vicky Gauthier, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi
2. Marie Lafarge: Femme Fatale or Victim of Science? Elisabeth Muelsch, Angelo State University
3. Weighing Female Intellectual Powers: Georges de Peyrebrune, Georgette Véga, Daniel Lesueur and Rachilde. Michael Finn, Ryerson University
4. Revolutionary Relics: Women and Politics in Virginie Ancelot's Madame Roland. Joyce Johnston, Stephen F. Austin State University

1. Ambiguity of Modernity. Claire Lyu, University of Virginia
2. Decrepitude in Baudelairean Modernity. Catherine Witt, Reed College
3. Baudelaire's History in Pieces. Joseph Acquisto, University of Vermont
4. Le progrès, "doctrine de paresseux"? Le Sacrifice comme "légitimation de la peine de mort" chez Baudelaire. Eve Morisi, Princeton University

1. Dans la peau de l'ours: De la bête sauvage à la peluche. Eliane DalMolin, University of Connecticut
2. Fossilisation animale: Dans la maison du chat qui pelote et plot ... Anne Mairesse, University of San Francisco
3. Mallarmé: Araignée ou termite? Jasmine Getz, Université Charles de Gaulle Lille

1. Emma's Mirror: The Uses of Film in the Nineteenth-Century Lit Class. Mary Jane Cowles, Kenyon College
2. Art and the Art of Close Reading: Storytelling in the Fictive, the Pictorial, and the Psychoanalytic Text. Deborah Harter, Rice University
3. Eugène de Rastignac Has Added You as a Friend on Facebook. Lawrence R. Schehr, University of Illinois

1. "Le Poète et la Muse": Un Moment de création verlainien? Colette Windish, Spring Hill College
2. Verlaine's Contribution to the Decadence of (French) Civilization: Homosexual Imagery in "Parallèlement." David Powell, Hofstra University
3. Perceptual Flux in Rimbaud's Illuminations. Greg Kerr, Trinity College, Dublin
4. Au Cabaret vert de la démocratie: Etude d'un alexandrin profané chez Rimbaud. Robert St. Clair, University of Minnesota

Panel: V.D. Salon I. Questions of Genre and Catastrophism
Chair: Edward Kaplan, Brandeis University

1. The Naturalist's Gaze: Balzac's Contributions to Les Français peints par eux-mêmes. Pauline de Tholozany, Brown University
2. Balzac's Anthropology of Atheism. Scott Sprenger, Brigham Young University.
3. Evolutionary Balzac. Armine Kotin Mortimer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1. Baby Doll: Rachilde's La Marquise de Sade. Bob Ziegler, Montana Tech of the University of Montana
2. Un Cadavre dans la thébaïde. Marc Smeets, Radboud University Nijmegen
3. Hair, Teeth, Bones, and Blood: The Decadent "Science" of Relic Display. Elizabeth Emery, Montclair State University
4. Parodie clownesque and Decadent Evolution in Gustave Kahn's Le Cirque solaire. Jennifer Forrest, Texas State University-San Marcos

Friday, October 23, 2009
Travel to Brigham Young University, Provo at conclusion of Friday AM and early PM sessions

3:30 PM Travel by bus to Provo

5 PM Plenary Address at Brigham Young University in Provo: "The Lost World of French Literature" by Graham Robb (see Dr. Robb's bio here), B-92 JFSB, BYU Campus

6 PM Buffet (provided by Provo Bombay House) and Reception at BYU Museum of Art (including exhibit of 19th-century holdings and Victorian exhibit from Royal Holloway)

7 PM Concert by members of BYU music faculty (performing music by Debussy, Boulanger,Gounod, and Duparc) or presentation by Royal Holloway faculty about their exhibit

8 PM Return to hotel in Salt Lake City

1. Corinne ou l'enfance perdue. Evelyne Ender, Hunter College and the Graduate Center at CUNY
2. Stolen Time in Jules Vallès's L'Enfant. Marina van Zuylen, Bard College
3. The Cartographer, the Memoirist, and the Yenta. Janet Beizer, Harvard University

1. The Performance of Work in Adventure Fiction. Margaret Cohen, Stanford University
2. Sarah Bernhardt and the Performance of Idolatry. Sharon Marcus, Columbia University
3. Performances of Jewish Identity in the July Monarchy. Maurice Samuels, Yale University

1. The Travails of Degenerate and Transformative Flesh: Feminine Desire in Balzac's Le Curé de village. Rajeshwari S. Vallury, University of New Mexico
2. Fossils and Body Parts in La Peau de chagrin. Dorothy Kelly, Boston University
3. Scars and Fossils: Evolution of the Individual in Balzac. Beth Gerwin, University of Lethbridge
4. All Skin and Bones: Balzac's Living Skeletons. Michael Tilby, University of Cambridge

1. Transformative Discourses? Words, Images and the Political Implications of Hugo's Grotesque. Vanessa Merhi, Drew University
2. Faire du nouveau avec de l'ancien. Alain Lescart, Point Loma Nazarene University
3. In Pace ou l'égout (r)évolutionnaire. Stéphanie Boulard, Georgia Institute of Technology

1. "Au fracas de la foudre, les animaux intelligents s'éveillèrent": De la "Genèse" de Salammbô à la théorie de la génération spontanée. Agnès Bouvier, ITEM-CNRS Paris
2. The Pyrrhonist's Progress: Flaubert's Reading Notes on Montaigne's "Apologie de Raimond Sebond." Timothy Chesters, Royal Holloway, University of London
3. "Égalisation de tout." Jacques Neefs, Johns Hopkins University

Panel VI.F. Solitude Room. Types and Physiologies
Chair: Aimée Boutin, Florida State University

1. Falsified Fossils and the Fabrication of Folklore in Nineteenth-Century France. Jennifer Gipson, University of California, Berkeley
2. Medieval Narrative Models in Gérard de Nerval's "Aurélia." Brandy Hancock, The Pennsylvania State University
3. The Cult of the Nobility: Nineteenth-Century Heraldry and Arms. Melanie Robin Conroy, Stanford University
4. Gérard de Nerval, seiziémiste: Excavating the Valois in "Sylvie." Robert J. Hudson, Brigham Young University

1. Flowers, Furniture, and the Masculine Interior. Temma Balducci, Arkansas State University
2. "Why Can't a Woman Be More Like a Man": The Space of Cross-Dressing in Nineteenth-Century France. Johanna Ruth Epstein, Hollins University
3. At Home in the Studio: Two Artists Portraits from the 1870s by Frédéric Bazille and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Alison Strauber, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
4. The Post-Revolutionary Salon and the Scrutiny of Women. Heather Belnap Jensen, Brigham Young University

Panel VII.C. Salon H. Zola: Body and Soil
Chair: Nick White, Cambridge University

1. Ruines et désordre. Michel Pierssens, l'Université de Montréal
2. Arrêt de développement. Paule Petitier, l'Université de Paris 7
3. La Mort de la terre de Rosny aîné: S'adapter pour mourir. Claude Millet, Université de Paris 7
4. La Poésie scientifique, une poésie fossile? Muriel Louâpre, Université Paris Descartes

1. Understanding the Republic? Geographical Discourse in G. Bruno's (Fouillée) Le Tour de la France par deux enfants (1877). Kory Olson, The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
2. Playing with Preconceptions: The Criminal in Mirbeau's Journal d'une femme de chambre. Deirdre McAnally, The Pennsylvania State University
3. Martyrs de l'ancien régime, pionniers du progrès. Janice Best, Acadia University

1. Opera Stinks. Kevin Kopelson, The University of Iowa
2. Baudelaire, Scented/Unscented. Cheryl Krueger, University of Virginia
3. The Stinking Page. Elisabeth Ladenson, Columbia University

1. Fossilized Errors and Military Creationism: Written Records, Truth, and the Gospel according to Balzac, Hugo, Dumas, Flaubert and Zola. Michelle Cheyne, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
2. An Army of Bachelors: Combat Buddies from Bonaparte to Balzac. Brian Martin, Williams College
3. Entre Archaïsme et modernité: Les figures de l'ouvrier dans l'enquête sociale et la littérature du premier XIXe siècle. Jean-Dominique Goffette, Université de Paris 8

1. Fossilisation et évolution: Regard sur la ponctuation dans "A la nue accablante tu." Myriam Krepps, Pittsburg State University
2. La Dernière Mode: Fashion or Fossil in Mallarmé Studies? Pamela Genova, University of Oklahoma
3. Dead Languages and Ancient Books in Stéphane Mallarmé. Aiko Macphail-Okamoto, Indiana University
4. Fugitive Impressions of Movement: Gesture and Reading in Mallarmé's Poetics. Stacy Pies, New York University

Panel VIII.C. Salon H. Origins, Degeneration, and Visual Representation
Sponsored by the Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art (AHNCA)
Chair: Fae Brauer, The University of New South Wales/University of East London

1. Dirt and Degeneration: The Laundress's Brutish Body. Robyn Roslak, University of Minnesota, Duluth
2. Origins, Desire, and Loss in Gauguin's Tahitian Eve. Martha Lucy, Barnes Foundation
3. Fernand Cormon's Caïn: Man between Primitive and Prophet. Isabelle Havet, University of Delaware
4. "Les Colonies Animales": Neo-Lamarckism and Le "douanier" Rousseau's Primates. Fae Brauer, The University of New South Wales/University of East London

1. Revitalizing the Republic: Degeneration and Depopulation in Emile Zola's Fécondité. Eduardo A. Febles, Simmons College
2. The Evolution of Obstetrics and the Birthing Body in Emile Zola's Fécondité. Jessica Jensen, University of Pennsylvania
3. Bodies, Births and Babies: Impediments to Progress in Zola's Lourdes and Fécondité. Hannah Thompson, Royal Holloway, University of London
4. Lourdes et la grande pitié de Zola. Brigitte Mahuzier, Bryn Mawr College

1. Balzac's Archeology of War. David F. Bell, Duke University
2. "Money Makes the Words Go 'Round": Value and Language in Illusions perdues. Lawrence R. Schehr, University of Illinois
3. From Folklore to the Feuilleton: Balzac's Culture Wars. Bettina Lerner City College, City University of New York
4. Modes et codes à la table de Balzac. Philippe Dubois, Bucknell University

Panel VIII.F. Solitude Room. Futurism
Chair: Philippe Mustière, Ecole Centrale de Nantes

1. Henry James, Vernon Lee, and "the So-Called Decadents." Cecily Swanson, Cornell University
2. Evolution et fossilisation: Masculin et féminin chez Stendhal. Martine Reid, Université de Lille 3
3. Parisian Social Studies: Comte and the Novels of Paul de Kock. Anne O'Neil-Henry, Duke University

1. Balzac and the Stock Market. Melanie Robin Conroy, Stanford University
2. Money in the Making: The Use of International Economic Crises in Guy de Maupassant's Bel-Ami. Alison Lam, Dalhousie University
3. Reassessing Zola's L'Argent: A Missing Link in the Evolution of Modernism. Holly Waddell, Seattle University
4. "Faites vos jeux, rien ne va plus": Dreams, Speculation, and Irrational Exuberance in Zola's L'Argent. Stéphane Pillet, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

1. Créationnisme et évolutionnisme: La Double genèse de la bande dessinée. Philippe Willems, Northern Illinois University
2. Henri-Gabriel Ibels: Fanfare for the Common Man. Gorica Hadzic, City University, New York
3. The Pre-Darwinian World in Gautier's Art Criticism. Cassandra Hamrick, Saint Louis University
4. The Spectrum of "La Divine": Sarah Bernhardt's Photographic Performativity. Melissa Bailar, Rice University

1. Buried Bones and Hidden Treasure: The Neurotic's Language of Money and Death in Balzac's La Grande Bretèche. Sasha Santee, Yale University
2. Balzac's Lys dans la Vallée and the Literary Fossil Record. Vicki De Vries, Calvin College
3. Le Type unique et la pensée transformiste à l'œuvre dans la Comédie humaine de Balzac. Dominique Massonnaud, Université de Grenoble
4. The Ear of Evil: Balzac and Rossini. Doug Collins, University of Washington

1. The "Vers roturiers" in Marceline Desbordes-Valmore's "Le Ver luisant": Socialist Harmonies, the Silk Trade, and Mimesis. Deborah Jenson, Duke University
2. "Choses innommables et inouïes": Synesthesia and the Evolution of Rimbaud's Poetry. Eric Lynch, City University of New York - Graduate Center
3. Practicing Theory in Baudelaire's "La Musique." Jesse Hurlbut, Brigham Young University
4. Louÿs' Classical Chiasmus: Poetic Sexuality and Sexual Poetics. Lowry Martin, University of California, Berkeley