Accomplished Women project: related conference papers

• “A Harpist Arrives at Mansfield Park: Music and the Moral Ambiguity of Mary Crawford” (Annual General Meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America, Tucson): Oct. 2006
  

•  “The Artist, the Amateur, and the Accomplished Woman” (panel on Artists and the Art World in Fiction at “Elective Affinities,” the triennial conference of the International Association of Word and Image Studies, Philadelphia): Sept. 2005
  

•  “‘That Kind of Facility which Springs from the Absence of Any High Standard’: Gender and Amateurism in George Eliot” (“Women’s Texts and Cultural Contexts,” the thirteenth annual Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference, Louisiana): April 2005
  

•    “‘In Music She Had Been Always Used to Feel Alone in the World’: Anne Elliot’s Music-Making in Social, Literary, and Personal Contexts” (Annual General Meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America, Los Angeles): Oct. 2004
  

•        “George Eliot and the Victorian Amateur” (“Britannia [Re]Sounding,” conference of the North American British Music Studies Association, Oberlin): June 2004  
  

•         “Charlotte Brontë and the ‘Thrill of Artist-Delight’” (“The Brontës and Their World,” Pace Univ.): April 2004  
  

•     “Transgressing ‘The Profession of Ladies’: Accomplishments, Authorship, and the Case of Jane Austen” (“Women’s Writing in Britain, 1660-1830,” Southampton, UK): July 2003  
  

•      “Accomplishments and Authorship in 19th-Century England” (“Heroic Deviance: Literary Receptions of Non-Conformity,” the 13th Annual Southland Conference, UCLA): May 2002  
  

•         “Envisioning the Accomplished Woman,” in a panel on Jane Austen and contemporary film (“(Dis) Junctions,” the 9th Annual Graduate Student Conference, UC Riverside): April 2002  
  

•      “Profitable and Purposeful Performances: Austen’s Accomplished Women” (Annual General Meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America, Seattle): Oct. 2001
  

Lectures and General-Audience Talks

·        “‘Some of Your Accomplishments Are Not Ordinary’: Gender, Artistry, and Authorship in Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre” (invited faculty lecture, Manhattanville College): Sept. 2004  

·        “Charlotte Brontë and the Woman Artist” (an Art in Context talk at the Yale Center for British Art): Feb. 2004

·        “Representing Female Accomplishments in Art and Literature at the Time of Jane Austen” (an Art in Context talk at the Yale Center for British Art): Feb. 2002

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