As an Allied Organization of the Modern Language Association, the Byron Society of America sponsors a Byron session at the annual convention of the MLA, held in late December each year. Recent sessions are described below.
MLA 2008
BYRON AND/AS/IN POPULAR CULTURE I
Saturday, December 27, 2008
3:30-4:45 p.m.
Golden Gate 1, Hilton
San Francisco, CA
Presiding:
Tom Mole, McGill University
"Picturing Celebrity: Byron, West, and LEL"
Susan Wolfson, Princeton University
"The Culture of Comparison: Byron in the Satirist"
Mark L. Shoenfield, Vanderbilt University
"The Sensation of Byron"
Emily Allen, Purdue University, West Lafayette
Dino Franco Felluga, Purdue University, West Lafayette
"BYRON AND/AS/IN POPULAR CULTURE II:
A CONVERSATION WITH BENJAMIN MARKOVITS,
author of Imposture and A Quiet Adjustment"
Sunday, December 28, 2008
3:30-4:45 p.m.
Mason A, Hilton
San Francisco, CA
Presiding:
Peter W. Graham, Virginia Tech
A roundtable discussion about writing literary fiction with author Benjamin Markovits and discussants Jonathan Gross, DePaul University and Katherine Kernberger, Linfield College
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2007 - Byron and America
Saturday, 29 December
10:15 - 11:30 a.m., Columbian, Hyatt Regency Chicago, IL
Presiding: Jonathan Gross, DePaul University
1. “Byron in American Music: From Schoenberg to Goth,” John Clubbe,
Professor Emeritus, University of Kentucky
2. “Bryon, Stowe, and Lady Byron Vindicated,” Austin Graham, University
of California at Los Angeles
3. “Byron, Hawthorne, and Anglo-American Tourisn,” Maureen McCue,
University of Glasgow
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