Conference Schedule
A Work in Progress – Subject to Adjustment
The schedule below is evolving as we coordinate island logistics and related activities. Please check back for updates.
Friday
Morning
Panel 1: Island Studies
- Sari Edelstein – “Celia Thaxter and the Invention of the Coastal Imagination”
- Anna Beaudry – Regional Creation Myths: Incarnational World-Building in the Non-Fiction Sketches of Celia Thaxter and Sarah Orne Jewett
- Tara Kennette – ‘Wear Away the Edge’: Dissolution of Human/Non-Human Boundaries in Celia Thaxter’s Among the Isles of the Shoals
- Denise Xu – On the “Terrible Proximity” of Matter: Recovering Celia Thaxter’s Ghost Ship Story
Afternoon
Panel 2: Painting and Writing the Islands
- Chip Bradley – “The Parlor and the Garden: Childe Hassam, Celia Thaxter, and the Art of Contemplation”
- Vesna Kuiken – Childe Hassam’s Shoals Impressionism
Saturday
Morning
Panel 3: Beauty and the Garden
- Marianne Noble – The Underground Aesthetic of Celia Thaxter’s Salons
- Cécile Roudeau – Reading An Island Garden with and against the Grain
- Maura D’Amour – “After Tea I Hunted Slugs as Usual”; or, Melodrama in the Garden
- Ellen Taylor – “Nasturtiums and Neuralgia: Celia Thaxter’s Gardening Anti-Rest Cure”
Sunday
Morning
Panel 4: Letters and Epistolary Revelations
- Cornelia King – Venice in the Mind of Celia Thaxter
- Anne Bardaglio – “The sea runs mountains high”: Celia Thaxter’s Winter Island
- Don James McLaughlin – The Archipelago of Interfaith Consciousness
- Hannah B. Champion – The “Sappho of the Isles”: Celia Thaxter’s Intimates and Intimacies