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THE POE STUDIES ASSOCIATION’S
FOURTH INTERNATIONAL
EDGAR ALLAN POE CONFERENCE
Thursday, February 26 – Sunday, March 1, 2015
Roosevelt Hotel
Madison Avenue at E. 45th Street
New York, New York 100172
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CONFERENCE SPONSORS
Diamond Raven ($20,000 - )
• Susan Jaffe Tane
Platinum Raven ($10,000 - $19,999)
Gold Raven ($5000 - $9999)
• Penn State Lehigh Valley
Silver Raven ($2000 - $4999)
• The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
• Stephan Loewentheil
• Office of the Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses of Penn State
• Christie's
Bronze Raven ($1000 - $1999)
• Sewanee: The University of the South
• The Office of the Vice President for Research at Penn State
• Penn State DuBois
• Edgar Allan Poe Museum
Lenore's Raven ($500 - $999)
• The Pennsylvania State University Press
• Wallensky Brown Family Foundation
Poe's Raven ($100 - $499)
• Department of English, The Pennsylvania State University
• University Honors College, Middle Tennessee State University
• College of Graduate Studies, Middle Tennessee State University
• College of Liberal Arts, Middle Tennessee State University
• Shoko Itoh
• Kean University
• New York University
• Robert Koros and Carole M. Shaffer-Koros, KSK Consulting, L. L. C.
• Philip Edward Phillips and Sharmila J. Patel
Willis's Raven ($25 - $99)
• Amy Branam Armiento
• Ichigoro Uchida4
CONFERENCE DETAILS
Registration: Thursday from 2:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the Palm Room; on
Friday and Saturday in the 2nd floor lobby from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; and
on Sunday in the lobby from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Conference Rooms
There are five session rooms on the second floor: Sutton (A), Broadway (B),
East End (C), Fifth Avenue (D), and Lexington (E). Of these, Broadway (B)
and East End (C) are AV equipped.
Sales Room
The Poe Museum’s gift shop and Scholar’s Choice will be open on Friday
and Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the Fashion Room. On Sunday,
the gift shop will be open from 9:00 a.m. to noon.
Guided Tour
Heyward Ehrlich will lead a two-hour tour of Poe’s lower Manhattan on
Sunday leaving at 12:30 p.m. from the Roosevelt’s main lobby. A sign-up
sheet is available at the registration table; the tour is limited to fifteen people.5
International Representation
Thanks to the generous support of Susan Tane, we have participants from
Algeria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, England, Finland, France,
Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, People's Republic
of China, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, and Taiwan.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Much appreciation is due to PSA Treasurer, Carole Shaffer-Koros, for her
incredible attention to detail, her steadfast integrity, and her ability to sort
through so many lists with accuracy and without pause. Thanks go to Dr.
Ann Williams, Penn State Lehigh Valley Chancellor, for her unequivocal
support throughout the process of bringing this conference to fruition; to
Nancy Coco, Director of Corporate and Community Education, for her
oversight and hands-on help at the conference; to Carol Buddock, Penn State
Lehigh Valley Registrar, for her tireless work coordinating the registration
process; to Loretta Yenser, Penn State Lehigh Valley Staff Assistant, for
her careful, detailed work on the conference program and her help with all
of the name tags, tickets, and folder organization; to Kim Holloway, Penn
State Lehigh Valley Senior Graphic Designer, for her postcard and program
design; to Judy Mishriki, Penn State Lehigh Valley Research Librarian, for
patience updating the conference web site; to Diane McAloon, Assistant
Director of CE, and to Marta DaSilva, CE Program Assistant, for their on-
site registration and hostessing.6
PROGRAM
Thursday, February 26, 2015
Registration 2:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Palm Room*
Opening Reception 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Palm Room
The opening reception is sponsored by the PSA with generous support from
Stephan Loewentheil, Honorary PSA member.
7:30 p.m. Welcome by Philip Edward Phillips, PSA President
Welcome by Barbara Cantalupo and Richard Kopley,
Conference Co-chairs
7:45 p.m. Presentation by James Thomas, “‘My heart laid bare’:
Poe’s Poetic Autobiography in Verse and Embedded
in Prose”
Music by the Mount Vernon Trio.
• Alicia Kiah Cantalupo, violin
• Madeline Fayette, cello
• Mika Emily Sasaki, piano
NB: Tickets to the reception are included in the conference registration
packets. Extra reception tickets may be purchased for $35.00 a piece.
*An Elevator to the Palm Room is located behind the concierge’s desk.7
Friday, February 27, 2015
Session 1 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
A. Sutton Roundtable: Digital Poe
Chair: Amy Branam Armiento, Frostburg State
University
1. Jeffrey A. Savoye, The Edgar Allan Poe Society
of Baltimore
2. Les Harrison, Virginia Commonwealth University
3. Heyward Ehrlich, Rutgers University
B. Broadway Poe in New York City I
Chair: Paul Lewis, Boston College
1. Blevin Shelnutt, New York University, “Poe on
Broadway”
2. Edward Whitley, Lehigh University, “Ada Clare,
Edgar Allan Poe, and the Southern Origins
of Bohemian New York”
3. Angela Vietto, Eastern Illinois University, “‘I
have never known the paternal name’:
Family History in Poe’s Fictions”
C. East End Poe and the Visual
Chair: Sandra S. Hughes, Western Kentucky
University
1. Lei Yu, Nanjing University of Science and
Technology, People’s Republic of China,
“Visual Poetics in Edgar Allan Poe’s
Fiction”
2. Wesley McMasters, Indiana University of
Pennsylvania, “Who is That, Anyway?:
Identity Problems and a Reproduction/
Adaptation of Poe’s Pym in Magritte’s ‘Not
to be Reproduced’”
3. Fernando González-Moreno, Universidad de
Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, “Quantin’s
Illustration for Poe (1884): On the Grotesque-
Parodic and Grotesque-Macabre”8
D. Fifth Avenue Queer Poe I
Chair: Paul Jones, Ohio University
1. Valerie Rohy, University of Vermont, “A
Calculus of Probabilities: ‘The Mystery of
Marie Rogêt’ (1842)”
2. Candace Vogler, University of Chicago, “Illegible
Men: Poe’s Tales of Masculine Pursuit”
3. David Greven, University of South Carolina, “The
Deadliness of Facts: ‘M. Valdemar,’ the
Spectacle of Ruined Masculinity, and
Homosocial Desire”
E. Lexington
Poe and Genre
Chair: Renata Philippov, Federal University of São
Paulo, Brazil
1. Thomas Koenigs, Scripps College, “Competing
Theories of Fictionality in Arthur Gordon
Pym and Bird’s Sheppard Lee”
2. Jason W. Johnson, Guilford Technical
Community College, “Poe and the Poetics of
Prose: Prose Rhythm in the Short Fiction”
3. Derek McGrath, Stony Brook University,
“Detecting the Complementary Poles of
Sentiment and Sensation in Poe’s ‘The
Oblong Box’”
Coffee Break 9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Second Floor Lobby9
Session 2 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
A. Sutton Poe and Surveillance
Chairs: Jana Argersinger, Washington State
University, and Leland Person, University of
Cincinnati
1. Monika Elbert, Montclair State University, “Self-
Surveillance, Posturings, and Portraiture:
Poe’s Transcendentalism and Baudelaire’s
Modernism”
2. Kristie Schlauraff, Cornell University, “‘Madmen
know nothing’: Sound as Knowledge in
Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’”
3. Ellen Weinauer, University of Southern
Mississippi, “‘Devotedly I gazed’:
Surveillance, Marriage, and Death in ‘The
Oval Portrait’”
B. Broadway Common Sense, Romance, and Nostalgia
Chair: William E. Engel, Sewanee: The University
of the South
1. Rick Rodriguez, Baruch College, CUNY, “Poe’s
Pain(e) or Common Sense on the Chopping
Block”
2. Amanda Louise Johnson, Vanderbilt University,
“Poe and Romance Genre”
3. Susan Scheckel, Stony Brook University, “Poe’s
Nostalgia”
C. East End “Berenice,” “Morella,” “Ligeia,” and “Usher”
Chair: Carole M. Shaffer-Koros, Kean University
1. Tsai-yi Chu, University of Stirling, Scotland,
“The Poetics of Gothicism: The Style of
Horror and Terror in Poe’s Early Woman-
Centered Tales”
2. Christine Michelle Walsh, University of Arizona,
“‘I am dying, yet I will live’: Poe’s
Metempsychic Marriages”10
3. Elvira Osipova, St.-Petersburg University, Russia,
“Poe on Occult Knowledge: The Motif
of Alchemy in ‘The Fall of the House of
Usher’”
D. Fifth Avenue Poe and Disease
Chair: Gero Guttzeit, University of Giessen,
Germany
1. Emily Waples, University of Michigan,
“Premonitory Reading: Cholera,
Periodicals, and Poe”
2. Meghan Self, University of Texas at Arlington,
“Exploring the Relationships among Mental
Illnesses, Automatism, and the Search for
Identity in Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘Berenice’”
3. Cristina Pérez, Universidad Complutense de
Madrid, Spain, “Miasmatic Theories: The
Medical Prescience of Edgar Allan Poe”
E. Lexington Games, Ruly and Otherwise
Chair: Stephen Rachman, Michigan State University
1. Les Harrison, Virginia Commonwealth
University, “‘The elaborate frivolity
of chess’: Poe, Chess, and the C19
Recreational Commons”
2. Ugo Rubeo, Sapienza-University of Rome, Italy,
“Poe’s Play in Pym”
3. Paul Grimstad, Yale University, “Poe and the
Science of Machine Intelligence”
Lunch on Your Own Noon - 1:30 p.m.11
Session 3 1:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
A. Sutton Eureka I
Chair: René van Slooten, Independent Scholar,
The Netherlands
1. Karen Weiser, Independent Scholar, “Relation
and the Irrelative in Eureka: A Prose Poem”
2. Katelyn R. Cove, University at Albany, “Not a
‘Truth-Teller’: Poe’s Prophetic Method of
History”
3. Robert J. Scholnick, College of William and
Mary, “To Discover ‘Treasure in the
Jeweled Skies’: Poe and Discourses
of Science in 1840s America”
B. Broadway Poe and Popular Culture I
Chair: Monica Pelaez, St. Cloud State University
1. Robert Singer, CUNY Graduate Center,
“Destabilized Males: Poe’s American Neo-
Expressionist Adaptations”
2. M. Thomas Inge, Randolph-Macon College,
“Masters of the Macabre: Edgar Allan Poe
and Richard Corben”
C. East End Poe Abroad
Chair: Amy Branam Armiento, Frostburg State
University
1. Renata Philippov, Federal University of São
Paulo, Brazil, “Plunging into the Self: Poe,
Baudelaire, and Machado de Assis”
2. Alena Fry, Charles University in Prague, Czech
Republic, “Poe’s Contribution to Czech
Prose”
D. Fifth Avenue Pym I
Chair: Alexandra Urakova, Gorky Institute of
World Literature, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Russia
1. Lisa Moody, Southeastern Louisiana University,
“Exploring the Boundaries and Discovering
the Terrors of Revelation”12
2. Cindy Weinstein, California Institute of
Technology, “Gordon Pym Meets Golden
Bowl”
E. Lexington Freud, Bonaparte and Hoffman
Chair: Gustav Arnold, Pädagogische Hochschule
Luzern, Switzerland
1. Elyse Zucker, Hostos Community College,
CUNY, “Poe and Projective Identification:
A Psychoanalytic Reading of ‘The Man of
the Crowd’ and ‘MS. Found in a Bottle’”
2. Jan Vander Laenen, Independent Scholar,
Belgium, “Poe as a Latent Homosexual, as
Suggested by Marie Bonaparte”
3. David M. Robinson, Oregon State University,
“Poe Poe Poe…: Revisiting Daniel
Hoffman’s Seven Poes”13
Session 4 3:15 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
A. Sutton From the Oral to the Textual
Chair: Jeffrey A. Savoye, Edgar Allan Poe Society
of Baltimore
1. Dennis R. Perry, Brigham Young University,
“The Princess and the Hop Frog: Poe’s
Modern Fairy Tale”
2. Rene H. Trevino, Texas A & M University, “Folk
Poe: ‘The Black Cat’ as Failed Hoodoo
Ritual”
3. Bonnie Shannon McMullen, Independent
Scholar, England, “‘I gave my love
a story...’: Teller and Audience in
‘The Thousand-and-Second Tale of
Scheherazade’”
B. Broadway Poe's Poetry
Chair: Philip Edward Phillips, Middle Tennessee
State University
1. Sarah E. Dennis, St. Ambrose University, “‘The
mimic eagle’: Classic Iconography and
American Identity in Poe’s ‘The Coliseum’”
2. Derek Pollard, University of Nevada, Las Vegas,
“‘O! Nothing earthly save the ray’: The
Dis-Unity of Effect in Edgar Allan Poe’s
Poetry”
3. Joy Smith, Kansas State University, “Mourning,
Memory, and Melancholy in Edgar Allan
Poe’s Elegies”
C. East End Poe and Translation I
Chair: Margarida Vale de Gato, University of
Lisbon, Portugal
1. Lois Vines, Ohio University, “Poe’s Worldwide
Renown: It All Began in France”
2. Emron Esplin, Brigham Young University,
“Cortázar’s Translation of Poe’s ‘William
Wilson’: Horror in the Doubling of the
Human Will”14
3. Ástráður Eysteinsson, University of Iceland,
Iceland, “South, or North—Into the
Maelström: Poe on the Shores of Icelandic
Literature”
D. Fifth Avenue Poe and Performance
Chair: Maria Isabel Jiménez González, Universidad
Católica San Antonio de Murcia, Spain
1. Jean-François Côté, University of Quebec,
Canada, “Poe’s ‘Politian’: The ‘Mystery’ of
a Theatrical Object”
2. Gero Guttzeit, University of Giessen, Germany,
“The Elocutionary Rationale of Verse:
Poe’s Poetry and Antebellum Eloquence”
E. Lexington Anxiety and Confusion
Chair: Doug Sonheim, Ouachita Baptist University
1. Robert T. Tally, Jr., Texas State University, “Poe’s
Cognitive Mapping”
2. Margot Blankier, Trinity College, Dublin,
Ireland, “‘The speculative Future merged in
the august and certain Present’: Temporality
in Poe’s Short Science Fiction Works”
3. Charity Givens, Liberty University, “Poe and
Plagiarism”15
Session 5 4:45 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
A. Sutton Source Study
Chair: George Greenlee, Missouri Southern State
University
1. Alexander Hammond, Washington State
University, “Poe and Silver Fork Novelists:
Fictions of Authorship and Publication in
the Folio Club Tales”
2. Kurt Cline, National Taipei University, Taiwan,
“‘Over the mountains of the moon’:
Uncanny Connectivities between Poe and
Thomas Vaughn”
3. David Cody, Hartwick College, “New Sources for
Poe’s Marginalia and Tales”
B. Broadway Poe and Nature I
Chair: Meredith Kahn, Independent Scholar
1. Michael S. Martin, University of Charleston,
“The Secluded Ravine: Poe’s American
Mountain Landscapes in ‘Landor’s Cottage’
and ‘A Tale of the Ragged Mountains’”
2. Ellen M. Bayer, University of Washington,
Tacoma, “‘Novel forms of beauty’: The
Ecological Implications of Poe’s Landscape
Aesthetic”
3. Shoko Itoh, Hiroshima University, Japan,
“Poe and Posthuman Ecology in the
Postapocalyptic Dialogues and Other
Works”
C. East End Influence and Affinity I
Chair: Susan Scheckel, Stony Brook University
1. Amy Sonheim, Ouachita Baptist University,
“Dying Laughing: Flannery O’Connor
under the Influence of Poe”
2. Clara Reiring, University of Düsseldorf,
Germany, “Elements of Poe’s Short Fiction
in Shutter Island”16
3. G. Thomas Couser, Hofstra University, “The Fall
of the House of Dorset: Peter Taylor
Updates Poe”
D. Fifth Avenue Poe and Doubles
Chair: Tom Mitchell, Texas A & M International
University
1. John Charles Caruso, Marylhurst University,
“‘Because you so perfectly understand
me’: The Uncanny Doubling by Edgar
Allan Poe by His Editor and Literary
Executor, Rufus Griswold”
2. Sandra S. Hughes, Western Kentucky University,
“Edoga-Aran-Poe and Edogawa Rampo:
Repetition and Reversal of Poe in Rampo”
Dinner on Your Own Enjoy New York City!17
Saturday, February 28, 2015
Session 6 8:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m.
A. Sutton Poe in New York City II
Chair: Bonnie Shannon McMullen, Independent
Scholar, England
1. John Gruesser, Kean University, “Scribblers and
Scriveners: Poe, Melville, and Antebellum
Literary New York”
2. Margarida Vale de Gato, University of Lisbon,
Portugal, “‘Still more a fixture than before’:
Poe and Melville Working in Close(d)
Chambers”
3. Travis Montgomery, Fort Hays State University,
“Inside the Prison House: Melville’s
‘Bartleby, the Scrivener,’ the New York
Magazine World, and the Example of Poe”
B. Broadway Poe and Space
Chair: Ellen M. Bayer, University of Washington,
Tacoma
1. John H. Davis, Chowan University, “Not of This
Time, Not of That Place: Poe’s Misty
Settings”
2. Luciana Moura Colucci de Camargo,
Universidade Federal do Triângulo
Mineiro, Brazil, “From Edgar Allan Poe’s
Philosophies of Furniture and Composition
to Topoanalysis: For a Poetics of Space
in Gothic Literature”
3. Nivaldo Fávero Neto, Universidade Federal de
Goiás, Brazil, “Locus Horribilis: A Study of
Charlotte Brönte’s Jane Eyre under Poe’s
Literary Scope of Spatiality”
C. East End Aesthetics and Philosophy
Chair: Zane Gillespie Jr., Independent Scholar
1. Meredith Kahn, Independent Scholar, “Poe’s
‘Philosophy of Furniture’: A Tangible
Embodiment of Artistotelian Philosophy”18
2. Chantal Chien-hui Hsu, National Chengchi
University, Taiwan, “A Kantian
Reinterpretation: Supernal Beauty in Edgar
Poe’s ‘Ligeia’”
3. Sidney Thompson, University of North Texas,
“Edgar Allan Poe: The Negative
Transcendentalist.”
D. Fifth Avenue Poe, Death and the Afterlife
Chair: Cristina Pérez, Universidad Complutense de
Madrid, Spain
1. Michelle Pacht, LaGuardia Community College,
“The Scene of the Crime: Home Burials in
the Stories of Edgar Allan Poe”
2. Ingrid Fernandez, Stanford University, “The
‘Disintegrative Vibration’: Edgar Allan
Poe’s Philosophy of Life and the
Postmortem Consciousness”
3. Rebecca Poe Hays, Baylor University, “Poe’s
Changing View of the Afterlife”
Coffee Break 9:45 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Second Floor Lobby19
Session 7 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
A. Sutton Poe and Nature II
Chair: Tony McGowan, West Point
1. Mary Grace Albanese, Columbia University, “The
Sea and the Plantation: The Aesthetics of
Calenture in Poe’s Pym”
2. Jonathan Elmer, Indiana University, “Poe and
Inhuman Noise”
3. Paul Hurh, University of Arizona, “Scalar Rifts:
Detachment in Poe’s Cosmological
Aesthetics”
B. Broadway Poe Biography
Chair: Margarita Rigal-Aragón, Universidad de
Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
1. William E. Engel, Sewanee: The University of
the South, “Identity and Ideality: ‘The
Domain of Arnheim’ Decoded”
2. Carlo Martinez, Universita degli Studi di Chieti-
Pescara, Italy, “‘The heresy of the didactic’:
From Poe to Bourdieu and Back”
3. C. N. Bean, Virginia Tech, “Poe’s Death: The
Case for a Diagnosis of Tuberculosis”
C. East End Queer Poe II
Chair: David Greven, University of South Carolina
1. Urshela W. Atkins, Polk State College, “‘A Spirit
of Perverseness’: Homosexual Avoidance
and The Destruction of the Female in Edgar
Allan Poe’s ‘The Black Cat’”
2. Paul C. Jones, Ohio University, “‘Let my heart be
still a moment and this mystery explore’:
Acknowledging Non-normative Desire in
Poe’s ‘The Raven’”
3. Omar Figueras, Miami-Dade College, “Non-
normative Male Passion, Desire, and
Identity in Edgar Allan Poe”20
D. Fifth Avenue “The Black Cat”
Chair: Doug Sonheim, Ouachita Baptist University
1. Pedro Madeira, University of Lisbon, Portugal,
“‘Mortar, Sand, and Hair’: Poe’s ‘Printed
Tableau’”
2. Jarkko Toikkanen, University of Tampere,
Finland, “Failing Description in Edgar Allan
Poe’s ‘The Black Cat’”
3. Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, College of the Holy
Cross, “Fixing the Image in ‘The Black
Cat’”
E. Lexington Detective Fiction I
Chair: Amanda Louise Johnson, Vanderbilt
University
1. Tim Prchal, Oklahoma State University, “Henry
William Herbert’s Dirk Ericson as ‘Negative
Model’ for Poe’s Dupin”
2. David N. Stamos, York University, Canada,
“Poe’s ‘Double Dupin’: A Perspective from
the Philosophy of Science”
3. Matthew H. Kelley, University of Alabama,
“Following in Poe’s Footsteps: Rex Stout’s
Nero Wolfe”
Lunch on Your Own Noon - 1:30 p.m.21
Session 8 1:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
A. Sutton Poe Places I
Chair: Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, College of the
Holy Cross
1. Chris P. Semtner, Edgar Allan Poe Museum of
Richmond, “Collecting Poe: Building the
Poe Museum’s Collection”
2. Angel Hernandez, Bronx County Historical
Society, “The Edgar Allan Poe Cottage”
B. Broadway Poe and Literary Context
Chair: Alexander Hammond, Washington State
University
1. Amy Branam Armiento, Frostburg State
University, “Literary Politics, Partisanship,
and Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque”
2. Alexandra Urakova, Gorky Institute of World
Literature, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Russia, “The ‘Flower-gemmed’
Story: Poe’s ‘Eleonora’ and Gift Book
Poetry Tradition”
3. Leonora Rita V. Obed, Independent Scholar, “Get
a Grip on Prophecy: The Carlylean Roots
of Prophecy and Conversation, as Told
through Bespoke Corvids of Poe and
Dickens”
C. East End Poe and Translation II
Chair: Emron Esplin, Brigham Young University
1. Carl Sederholm, Brigham Young University,
“Adapting Poe: Another Look at Poe and
Popular Culture”
2. Edward Cutler, Brigham Young University,
“Coincidence as Communication: Poe’s
Romantic Accidents of Language”
3. Aminadav Dykman, The Hebrew University of
Jerusalem, Israel, “Poe in Hebrew”22
D. Fifth Avenue The Lovecraftian Poe
Chair: Sean Moreland, University of Ottawa,
Canada
1. Michael Cisco, Independent Scholar, “Poe,
Lovecraft and Supernatural Philosophy”
2. Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan
University, “‘Tekeli-li!’: Poe, Lovecraft and
the Mysteries of Whiteness”
3. Alissa Burger, SUNY Delhi, “‘You fancy me
mad’: The Unreliable Narrator’s Defense in
Poe and Lovecraft”
E. Lexington Detective Fiction II
Chair: Matthew H. Kelley, University of Alabama
1. Susan Amper, Bronx Community College,
CUNY, “Poe’s Tales of Detection
Morphologically Considered”
2. Stephanie Luke, Indiana University, “‘Vicious
Tastes’ and ‘Vilest Motives’: Dichotomous
Voyeurism in Poe’s ‘Marie Rogêt’ and ‘The
Oblong Box’”
3. Shoichiro Fukushima, Toyko Denki University,
Japan, “Illegibility and Poe’s Detective
Fiction: The Influence of the Intrusion of
the ‘Real’ in ‘The Mystery of Marie Rogêt’”23
Session 9 3:15 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
A. Sutton Poe Musing: Writing Poetry on Poe Now
Chair: Sidney Thompson, University of North Texas
1. Michael Gessner, Independent Scholar, “Prose
Poems on Location in Poe”
2. Suzanne Underwood Rhodes, Independent
Scholar, “Poe’s Funerary Passages”
3. Charles Cantalupo, The Pennsylvania State
University, “Poe in Place”
B. Broadway Teaching Poe in Spain: Old and New Insights
Chair: Margarita Rigal-Aragón, Universidad de
Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
1. José Manuel Correoso-Rodenas, Universidad de
Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, “Receiving the
Baton: Poe’s Academic Editions in Spain
within the First Fifteen Years of the 21st
Century”
2. Ángel-Galdón Rodríguez, Universidad de
Castilla-La Mancha, Spain,
“Misinformation, Hoaxes, and Rumors
about Edgar Allan Poe in the Spanish Press:
2014”
3. Maria Isabel Jiménez-González, Universidad
Católica San Antonio de Murcia, Spain, “A
Motivational Approach to Teaching Poe in
Spanish High Schools”
C. East End Poe and Baudelaire and Their Influence
Chair: Kurt Cline, National Taipei University,
Taiwan
1. Philip Edward Phillips, Middle Tennessee State
University, “Resources for the Study of Poe
and Baudelaire at the W. T. Bandy
Center”
2. Sonya Isaak, University of Heidelberg, Germany,
“Literary Architects: An Analysis of Poe’s
and Baudelaire’s Mastery of the Creative
Process”24
3. Elina Absalyamova, Université 13 Paris-Nord,
France, “Rewriting Poe in French: How
Comics Deal with Baudelaire’s Translations”
D. Fifth Avenue
Pym II
Chair: Regina Maria de Lima Pimentel, Independent
Scholar
1. Michiko Shimokobe, Seikei University, Japan,
“Vertical-Horizontal Imagination in The
Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of
Nantucket: Monroe Doctrine and Nautical
Discourse in 19th-Century America”
2. Mark Dunphy, Lindsey Wilson College,
“Cannibalistic Peristoltic Poetics: Poe’s
Pym Digests Chase’s Essex, and
Mignonette’s Crew Digests Poe’s Pym”
3. Mikayo Sakuma, Wayo Women’s University,
Japan, “Poe and Isolationist Politics”
E. Lexington Poe and Alcohol
Chair: Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, Central Michigan
University
1. Kristin Boluch, Stony Brook University, “‘You,
who so well know the nature of my soul’:
Edgar Allan Poe, Intoxication, and Public
Perception”
2. Debby Rosenthal, John Carroll University, “The
Temperance Pledge and ‘The Angel of the
Odd’”
3. Rumi Takahashi, University at Albany,
“Impersonality, Impersonation, and the
Human Body: Poe’s Aesthetics of
Intoxication”25
PSA Business Meeting 4:45 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. Lexington
Presiding: Philip Edward Phillips, PSA President
Banquet 7:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Terrace Ballroom*
Keynote Address by J. Gerald Kennedy, Louisiana State University:
“Why Poe Matters Now”
*An elevator to the Terrace Ballroom is located behind the bellman’s desk.26
Sunday, March 1, 2015
Session 10 9:00 a.m. - 10:15 a.m.
A. Sutton Poe in New York City III
Chair: A. N. Devers, Independent Scholar
1. Heyward Ehrlich, Rutgers University, “Poe’s New
York Friends and Family”
2. Scott Peeples, College of Charleston, “Poe,
Brennan Farm, and the Literary Life”
3. Sean Moreland, University of Ottawa, Canada,
“‘Detestable putridity’: The Abject Shadow
of New York City in Poe’s ‘The Facts in the
Case of M. Valdemar’ and Lovecraft’s‘Cool
Air’”
B. Fifth Avenue Eureka II
Chair: Ugo Rubeo, Sapienza-University of Rome,
Italy
1. Regina Maria de Lima Pimentel, Independent
Scholar, Brazil, “Poe and the Philosophy of
Science”
2. Harry L. Poe, Union University, “Poe’s Big Ideas:
The Science of Eureka in the 21st Century”
3. René van Slooten, Independent Scholar, The
Netherlands, “Momentous and Sublime: The
Place of Eureka in Poe’s Work”
C. East End Poe and Nonfiction Prose
Chair: John Gruesser, Kean University
1. Adam Lewis, Boston College, “‘Liberian
Literature’ and the Racial Politics of Book
Review”
2. Peter B. Olson, Mississippi State University, “‘To
the Public’: Poe’s Stylus and ‘Outraging the
Right’”
3. Andrew Lyndon Knighton, California State
University, Los Angeles, “‘All the
phrases did not fit’: Poe, Willis, and the
Mechanization of Criticism”27
D. Broadway Originality and Plagiarism
Chair: Jana Argersinger, Washington State
University
1. Lesley Ginsberg, University of Colorado at
Colorado Springs, “‘William Wilson’ and
the Crisis of Originality”
2. Carole M. Shaffer-Koros, Kean University,
“Edgar Allan Poe and Eugene Sue: A
Fraught Authorial Relationship”
3. Takayuki Tatsumi, Keio University, Japan,
“Origins of Originality: Poe, Noguchi, and
Pound”
E. Lexington “The Fall of the House of Usher”
Chair: Omar Figueras, Miami Dade College
1. Rachel Boccio, University of Rhode Island,
“Temporality, Teleology, and the Promise
of a Middle-Class Future in Edgar Allan
Poe’s ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’”
2. Anton Borst, New York University,
“Romanticism’s Congenital Defects: The
Pathology of Autonomy in ‘The Fall of
the House of Usher’”
3. Amanda Davis, University of Chicago,
“Madeline Usher and Recent Poe
Scholarship”28
Session 11 10:30 a.m. - 11:45 a.m.
A. Sutton Influence and Affinity II
Chair: Robert T. Tally, Jr., Texas State University
1. Jody Spedaliere, California University of
Pennsylvania, “Edgar Allan Poe and Emily
Dickinson: 19th Century Postmodernists”
2. Yuji Kato, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies,
Japan, “(Un)differentiated Difference:
Identity, Temporality, and History in Edgar
A. Poe and William Faulkner”
3. Gustav Peebles, The New School, “A Mystical
Modernity?: Walter Benjamin and Edgar
Allan Poe”
B. Broadway Poe and Popular Culture II
Chair: Tamari Cheishvili, Independent Scholar
1. Stephen Rachman, Michigan State University,
“Poe Moments in Jong and Nicks: 1970s
Pop-Feminist Appropriations of Poe”
2. Taras Alexander Sak, Yasuda Women’s
University, Japan, “Hearts Laid Bare: Poe’s
‘Secret Autobiography’ According to Lou
Reed”
C. East End Poe Places II
Chair: Charles Cantalupo, The Pennsylvania State
University
1. Paul Lewis, Boston College, “From Poe
Bicentennial to the Installation of the
Rocknak Statue: Bringing Poe Home to
Boston”
2. Gina Claywell, Murray State University, “‘A
worn, weary, discontented look’:
The Influence of West Point and the Hudson
River Valley on Poe”
3. Julian Grajewski, Independent Scholar, Germany,
“Fustian Poe Tour”29
D. Fifth Avenue Poe and Allegory
Chair: Joy Smith, Kansas State University
1. Lauren Peterson, Western Washington
University, “‘The Fall of the House Usher’:
Poe’s Veiled Critique of Gothic
Contemporaries”
2. Hicham Mahdjoub Araibi, University of Khemis
and Miliana, Algeria, “The Culture-Saving
Intellectual and the Fall of the Ivory Tower:
A New Reading of Poe’s ‘The Fall of the
House of Usher’”
3. Ezekiel Fry, Portland State University,
“‘Montresor! For the love of God!!!’: The
Danger of Symbolism in the Short Works of
Edgar Allan Poe”
• Walking Tour of Poe’s Lower Manhattan 12:30 p.m. Main Lobby
Heyward Ehrlich, Tour Leader
A sign-up sheet is available by the registration table; the tour is limited
to fifteen people.
• Visit to the Poe Cottage
http://www.bronxhistoricalsociety.org/poecottage.html on your own.
Address: 2640 Grand Concourse, New York, New York 10458-4968
(phone: 718-881-8900)
Arrive by way of the D or #4 train to Kingsbridge Road stop.
Open Sundays from 1 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. $5.00 donation; seniors and
students $3.00.30 CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS Absalyamova, Elina 9-C Albanese, Mary Grace 7-A Amper, Susan 8-E Araibi, Hicham Mahdjoub 11-D Argersinger, Jana 2-A; 10-D Armiento, Amy Branam 1-A; 3-C; 8-B Arnold, Gustav 3-E Atkins, Urshela W. 7-C Bayer, Ellen M. 5-B; 6-B Bean, C. N. 7-B Blankier, Margot 4-E Boccio, Rachel 10-E Boluch, Kristin 9-E Borst, Anton 10-E Burger, Alissa 8-D Cantalupo, Barbara p. 6 Cantalupo, Charles 9-A; 11-C Caruso, John Charles 5-D Cheishvili, Tamari 11-B Chu, Tsai-yi 2-C Cisco, Michael 8-D Claywell, Gina 11-C Cline, Kurt 5-A; 9-C Cody, David 5-A Colucci de Camargo, Luciana Moura 6-B Correoso-Rodenas, José Manuel 9-B Côté, Jean-François 4-D Couser, G. Thomas 5-C Cove, Katelyn R. 3-A Cutler, Edward 8-C Davis, Amanda 10-E Davis, John H. 6-B Dennis, Sarah E. 4-B Devers, A. N. 10-A Dunphy, Mark 9-D Dykman, Aminadav 8-C Ehrlich, Heyward 1-A; 10-A
31 Elbert, Monika 2-A Elmer, Jonathan 7-A Engel, William E. 2-B; 7-B Esplin, Emron 4-C; 8-C Eysteinsson, Ástráður 4-C Fávero, Neto Nivaldo 6-B Fernandez, Ingrid 6-D Figueras, Omar 7-C; 10-E Fry, Alena 3-C Fry, Ezekiel 11-D Fukushima, Shoichiro 8-E Gessner, Michael 9-A Gillespie, Zane, Jr. 6-C Ginsberg, Lesley 10-D Givens, Charity 4-E González, Maria Isabel Jiménez 4-D, 9-B González-Moreno, Fernando 1-C Grajewski, Julian 11-C Greenlee, George 5-A Greven, David 1-D; 7-C Grimstad, Paul 2-E Gruesser, John 6-A, 10-C Guttzeit, Gero 2-D; 4-D Hammond, Alexander 5-A; 8-B Harrison, Les 1-A; 2-E Hays, Rebecca Poe 6-D Hernandez, Angel 8-A Hsu, Chantal Chien-hui 6-C Hughes, Sandra S. 1-C; 5-D Hurh, Paul 7-A Inge, M. Thomas 3-B Isaak, Sonya 9-C Itoh, Shoko 5-B Johnson, Amanda Louise 2-B; 7-E Johnson, Jason W. 1-E Jones, Paul C. 1-D; 7-C Kahn, Meredith 5-B; 6-C
32 Kato, Yuji 11-A Kelley, Matthew H. 7-E; 8-E Kennedy, J. Gerald p. 25 Knighton, Andrew Lyndon 10-C Koenigs, Thomas 1-E Kopley, Richard Pg. 6 Laenen, Jan Vander 3-E Lewis, Adam 10-C Lewis, Paul 1-B; 11-C Luke, Stephanie 8-E Madeira, Pedro 7-D Martinez, Carlo 7-B Martin, Michael S. 5-B McGowan, Tony 7-A McGrath, Derek 1-E McMasters, Wesley 1-C McMullen, Bonnie Shannon 4-A; 6-A Mitchell, Tom 5-D Montgomery, Travis 6-A Moody, Lisa 3-D Moreland, Sean 8-D; 10-A Obed, Leonora Rita V. 8-B Olson, Peter B. 10-C Osipova, Elvira 2-C Pacht, Michelle 6-D Peebles, Gustav 11-A Peeples, Scott 10-A Pelaez, Monica 3-B Pérez, Cristina 2-D; 6-D Perry, Dennis R. 4-A Peterson, Lauren 11-D Philippov, Renata 1-E; 3-C Phillips, Philip Edward p. 6; 4-B; 9-C; p. 25 Pimentel, Regina Maria de Lima 9-D; 10-B Poe, Harry L. 10-B Pollard, Derek 4-B Prchal, Tim 7-E
33 Rachman, Stephen 2-E; 11-B Reiring, Clara 5-C Rhodes, Suzanne Underwood 9-A Rigal-Aragón, Margarita 7-B; 9-B Robinson, David M. 3-E Rodriguez, Rick 2-B Rodríguez, Ángel-Galdón 9-B Rohy, Valerie 1-D Rosenthal, Debby 9-E Rubeo, Ugo 2-E; 10-B Sak, Taras Alexander 11-B Sakuma, Mikayo 9-D Savoye, Jeffrey A. 1-A; 4-A Scholnick, Robert J. 3-A Scheckel, Susan 2-B; 5-C Schlauraff, Kristie 2-A Sederholm, Carl 8-C Self, Meghan 2-D Semtner, Chris P. 8-A Shaffer-Koros, Carole M. 2-C; 10-D Shelnutt, Blevin 1-B Shimokobe, Michiko 9-D Singer, Robert 3-B Smith, Joy 4-B; 11-D Sonheim, Amy 5-C Sonheim, Doug 4-E; 7-D Spedaliere, Jody 11-A Stamos, David N. 7-E Sweeney, Susan Elizabeth 7-D; 8-A Takahashi, Rumi 9-E Tally, Robert T., Jr. 4-E; 11-A Tatsumi, Takayuki 10-D Thomas, James p. 6 Thompson, Sidney 6-C; 9-A Toikkanen, Jarkko 7-D Trevino, Rene H. 4-A Urakova, Alexandra 3-D; 8-B
34 Vale de Gato, Margarida 4-C; 6-A van Slooten, René 3-A; 10-B Vietto, Angela 1-B Vines, Lois 4-C Vogler, Candace 1-D Walsh, Christine Michelle 2-C Waples, Emily 2-D Weinauer, Ellen 2-A Weinstein, Cindy 3-D Weinstock, Jeffrey Andrew 8-D; 9-E Weiser, Karen 3-A Whitley, Edward 1-B Yu, Lei 1-C Zucker, Elyse 3-E
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