Please come to the Dunbar Library at Wright State University to view the film

Pride & Prejudice

Tuesday, October 8, 2013 at 5:00pm in room 441 (Fordham Room)

Get fired up for the Pride & Prejudice: The Bicentennial conference and related events later in the week by joining us for a viewing of the 2005 film with Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen.  Hope to see you there! 

If you have questions, please contact Piper Martin, Humanities Librarian, at piper.martin@wright.edu

Seating is limited.

Janine Barchas, PhD (plenary speaker): Janine is a Professor of English at the University of Texas-Austin. Her first book, Graphic Design: Print, Culture, and the Eighteenth- Century Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2003), explores the rich world of eighteenth-century novels, arguing that their material forms, illustrations, and designs were often as significant and innovative as the stories they told. Her recent book, Matters of Fact in Jane Austen: History, Location, and Celebrity (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012) uncovers the real-life politicians, celebrities, and places alluded to in Jane Austen’s novels. She’s been the recipient of the “Best Book of the Year” award by the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading, and Publishing (SHARP) as well as fellowships from the American Council of Learned Society (ACLS), the Newberry Library, and the Bibliographical Society of America. Her recent project, whatjanesaw.org, is an innovative recreation of an art exhibit that Jane Austen attended in 1813.

Devoney Looser, PhD (plenary speaker). Devoney, formerly  the Catherine P. Middlebush Chair of English at the University of Missouri, is in the English department at Arizona State University. Devoney is the author of Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008) and British Women Writers and the Writing of History, 1670-2000 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000), among numerous other articles, reviews, and essays. She is also working now on several new projects, including a book-length project on Jane Austen and feminism. Devoney has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York Public Library, the Huntington Library, Kings’ College London, and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. In 2008, she served as the Jane Austen Scholar in Resident at Goucher College.

Robert Markley, PhD (plenary speaker). Robert Markley is the W.D. and Sara E. Trowbridge Professor of English at the University of Illinois. Bob is the author of several books; his most recent book is The Far East and The English Imagination, 1600-1730 (Cambridge University Press, 2006). Bob’s work examines a range of topics in the long eighteenth century, including the history of empires, and science and technology. He is the author of the essay on the economic contexts of Pride and Prejudice for the recently published Cambridge Companion to Pride and Prejudice. His presentation at Wright State is titled, “Is Mr. Darcy a Virgin? Masculine Sexuality in Pride and Prejudice.”

Marilyn Francus, PhD (plenary speaker). Marilyn is an Associate Professor of English at West Virginia University. She is the editor of The Burney Journal and the author most recently of Monstrous Motherhood: Eighteenth-Century Culture and the Ideology of Domesticity (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012). Marilyn is also the author of numerous articles on Jane Austen and the recipient of fellowships from Chawton House and The Burney Centre. Her presentation at Wright State will explore the myriad adaptations of Pride and Prejudice in film and print that have appeared recently.

Laura Vorachek, PhD (plenary speaker): Laura Vorachek is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Dayton. She specializes in Victorian literature and nineteenth-century musical culture.  Her work has appeared in Victorian Periodicals Review, Victorian Literature and Culture, Victorians, Clio, Clues, and Persuasions. Professor Vorachek's talk is titled “The Piano in the World of Jane Austen."

James Mulholland, PhD (plenary speaker): James is an Assistant Professor of English at North Carolina State University. His book, Sounding Imperial: Poetic Voice and the Politics of Empire, 1730-1820 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013) examines an experimental tradition by which British authors drew on oral voices and foreign speakers to create new types of poetry. It was published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2013. His next research project, called Literary Calcutta, focuses on the emergence of Anglo-Indian literature during the late eighteenth century. His work has also appeared in ELH, Oral Tradition, among others, and he has held fellowships at the Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry and the Folger Library.

Sean Silver, PhD (plenary speaker): Sean Silver is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Michigan.  His current project examines eighteenth-century models of the intellect through the technical innovations—the libraries, museums, gardens and books—upon which those models were based; it is an exhibition catalogue of the objects and collections people used to imagine themselves. His presentation will be entitled, “Jane Austen in the Information Age” and will address the slippery matter of the fact, of information, and of truths universally acknowledged in Austen’s early novels.

Crystal Lake completed her PhD at the University of Missouri in 2008, specializing in eighteenth-century and Romantic British literature. From 2008-2011, Crystal was a Marion L. Brittain Postdoctoral Fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Crystal’s research examines the relationships between literary texts and material culture in Britain from 1660-1840. Crystal is currently completing two major projects: a study of eighteenth-century archaeology and a history of Regency parties. Her work has been published or is forthcoming in English Literary History (ELH), The Review of English Studies (RES), Modern Philology, The Eighteenth Century, and The Cambridge Companion to Romantic Women Writers. Her research has been supported by fellowships from The Lewis Walpole Library, The Yale Center for British Art, and The Chawton House Library, and she has been recognized with awards from the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women Writers.  Crystal joined the faculty in the English Department at Wright State University in Fall of 2011.

Diamond                                                                                 $2,500

• named sponsorship of one event session, such as one of the public lectures, workshops or panels, or the luncheon or the tea service
• special recognition in all promotional event materials
• free registration for four attendees to all symposium events
• four complimentary tickets to the Regency Ball
• exclusive invitation to private donor reception on Friday night

Platinum                                                                                  $1,000

• special recognition in promotional event materials
• free registration for two attendees to all symposium events
• two complimentary tickets to the Regency Ball
• exclusive invitation to private donor reception on Friday night

Gold                                                                                         $500

• special recognition in promotional event materials
• free registration for one attendee to all symposium events
• one complimentary ticket to the Regency Ball

Silver                                                                                       $250

• special recognition in conference program
• one complimentary ticket to the Regency Ball

To help sponsor Pride & Prejudice: The Bicentennial, download the Individual Sponsor Reservation Form (PDF). For more information about Pride & Prejudice: The Bicentennial, contact Hank Dahlman at (937) 775-2346 or hank.dahlman@wright.edu

Diamond                                                                                 $5,000

• named sponsorship of entire event
• special recognition in all promotional event materials, including the website and advertising as well as a full-page ad in conference program
• free registration for four attendees to all symposium events
• four complimentary tickets to the Regency Ball
• exclusive invitation to private donor reception on Friday night
• exhibit space

Platinum:                                                                                $2,500

• named sponsorship of one event session, such as one of the public lectures, workshops or panels, or the luncheon or the tea service
• special recognition in promotional event materials, including a half-page ad in conference program
• free registration for four attendees to all symposium events
• four complimentary tickets to the Regency Ball
• exclusive invitation to private donor reception on Friday night
• exhibit space

Gold                                                                                         $1,000

• special recognition in promotional event materials, including a half-page ad in conference program
• free registration for two attendees to all symposium events
• two complimentary tickets to the Regency Ball
• exclusive invitation to private donor reception on Friday night
• exhibit space

or

• special recognition in promotional event materials, including full-page ad in conference program
• exhibit space

Silver                                                                                       $500

• special recognition in promotional event materials, including a half-page ad in conference program
• free registration for one attendee to all symposium events
• one complimentary ticket to the Regency Ball

or

• special recognition in promotional event materials, including full-page ad in conference program

To help sponsor Pride & Prejudice: The Bicentennial, download the Organization Sponsor Reservation Form (PDF). For more information about Pride & Prejudice: The Bicentennial, contact Hank Dahlman at (937) 775-2346 or hank.dahlman@wright.edu