The Eighth Annual Susan B. Anthony Institute
Gender and Women's Studies
Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference
Friday, March 30, 2001
Gamble Room, 361 Rush Rhees Library
University of Rochester
Conference Planning Committee:
Jennifer Ailles, Tatyana Bakhmetyeva, Anne Birien, Lucy Curzon, Narin Hassan
Carmen Reyes, and Lisa Soccio
8:30-9:00 am Breakfast
9:00-9:15 am Opening Remarks
Lisa Cartwright, Director, Susan B. Anthony Institute; Associate Professor
of English and of Visual and Cultural Studies
9:15-10:45 am Panel I: Work in Progress: Susan B. Anthony Dissertation
Fellows
Mara Amster, English "'Stirring Up Men to Lust': Bewitching the Body,
Discovering Disease, and Studying the Siren"
Narin Hassan, English "Fictional Inoculations: Women Writers, Colonial
Medicine and the Literature of Sensation"
Lynn Wemmett Nichols, Nursing "Women and Adherence to Health Care Regimens"
11:00-11:55 am Panel II: Gender Performance and Visual Culture
Daniel I. Humphrey, Visual & Cultural Studies "Gender Skammen: Notes
for an Inquiry into Performativity and Subjectivity"
Elizabeth Wells, Musicology, Eastman School of Music: "'Me and Velma Ain't Dumb': The Women of West Side Story"
12:00-12:45 pm Roundtable: Dissertation Group
Margot Bouman, Edward Chan, Narin Hassan, Jennifer Klein Hudak, Joanna Mitchell,
Kirsi Peltomaki, Lisa Soccio Topics to be discussed will include the trials
and tribulations of dissertation writing, sharing work in progress, group dynamics
and feedback, strategies for professional advancement (i.e., preparing for interviews,
job talks, and publishing), and the role of gender studies in scholarship and
teaching.
12:45-2:00 pm Lunch
2:00-3:20 pm Panel III: Historicizing Gender
Jomarie Alano, History "Lessons in Resistance: Ada Gobetti's Early Correspondence and Writings, 1918-1926"
Catherine Higginson, English, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada "Reading Rape, Empire, and Domestic Femininity in the 'Captivity' Narrative of Gowanlock and Delaney"
April Miller, English "Reproducing the Vampire: Women, Criminality and Monstrosity in Early-Twentieth-Century Culture"
3:30-4:50 pm Panel IV: Reading Culture, Representing Bodies
Barbara Brickman, English "'Delicate' Cutters: Self-Mutilation and Attractive Flesh in Popular and Psychoanalytic Discourses"
Joanna Grant, English "The Andrometer Strain: Towards a Brief Cultural History of Pelvimetry"
Dawn Roy, '99 UR; English, SUNY Buffalo, "Watching Women, Watching Weight: Representations of Fat Women in Popular Television"