Byron’s Stanzas: The 1822 Cantos of Don Juan

FRIDAY, 7 JANUARY 8:30 AM-9:45 AM, SCARLET OAK (MARRIOTT MARQUIS)

AV Equipment: Projector and Speakers

Keywords: Byron, Romanticism, British, Nineteenth Century, Poetry

Sponsoring Entity: Byron Society of America

How do we read and teach Byron’s long poems, especially Don Juan, and what reading strategies are most productive and relevant to his work? Panelists center on a discussion of specific stanzas of Byron’s Don Juan, emphasizing the connections among poetics, thematics, and the larger cultural contexts and theoretical concerns of the Romantic era.

Speakers

Celeste G. Langan (U of California, Berkeley)

Deidre Lynch (Harvard U)

Omar F. Miranda (U of San Francisco)

Emily Rohrbach (Durham U)

Mariam Wassif (U of Paris 1, Paris-Sorbonne)

Presiding: Mai-Lin Cheng (U of Oregon)