Ninth International F. Scott Fitzgerald Conference
University of London (Senate House) and Oxford
8-14 July 2007
Arrivals
Evening: Reception
9.30-11.30 Registration [break 1]
10.00-11.00 Opening of Conference [Beveridge Hall 1/2 day]
11.00-12.15 Plenary (A):
“American Realities,” Ronald Berman (U of California-San Diego)
12.15-2.00 Lunch / Publisher’s Reception
2.00-3.30 Session 1
A. European Backgrounds of The Great Gatsby
1) “The Devil and Jay Gatsby: The Relevance of the Faust Myth within The Great Gatsby,” James Nikopoulos (The Graduate Center of the City U of New York)
2) “What Foul Dust”: The Materiality of Morality and Charles Dickens in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby,” Geoffrey B. Hill (Quinnipiac U)
3) “Technical Mistake, Ocular Confusion, or Poetic License? Examining Dr. Eckleburg’s Retinas and Fitzgerald’s Nietzschean Vision,” J’aimé L. Sanders (U of South Florida)
B. Techniques of Character-Making: Symbols and Perception in Late Fitzgerald
1) “Derealized Reality: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Hollywood in The Last Tycoon,” Pascale Antolin (U of Bordeaux, France)
2) “Players and Doers in The Last Tycoon,” Jamal Assadi (The College of Sakhnin, Israel)
3) “‘Starved for a Home’: Fitzgerald’s “small, big” Houses of Fiction,” Bonnie McMullen (Oxford, England)
C. New Contexts for Reading Fitzgerald
1) “Maritime Fitzgerald,” Heidi Kunz (Randolph C)
2) “Chasing after Stars: The Power of Imaginative Vision in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Keats’s “The Eve of St. Agnes,” Grace Waitman (Washington U)
3) “The Aesthetics Of Liberalism (An Anglo-American Survey): Placing F. Scott Fitzgerald Among: Keats, J. Stuart Mill, and Freud,” Howard Wolf (SUNY-Buffalo)
3:30-3:45 Break
3.45-5.15 Session 2
A. Dream Factories and Cinematic Realities: Fitzgerald and Film
1) “A Yank Adjusts at Oxford,” Anthony J. Berret, St. Joseph’s University
2) “Fitzgerald Revisited: Babylon in ‘The Last Time I Saw Paris,” Mimi Gladstein (U of Texas, El Paso)
3) “Fitzgerald’s Cinematographic Sequencing Conscience,” Juan Agustín Mancebo (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
B. Aspiration and Identity in The Great Gatsby
1) “‘The Best Second-Rater in the World’: Literary Provincialism and Gatsby’s Global Ambition,” Michael Nowlin (University of Victoria, Canada)
2) “Jay Gatsby’s Identity Crisis,” Sarah Olson (U of Minnesota-Duluth)
3) “Internationalizing Gatsby And The American Dream,” Somdatta Mandal (Visva-Bharati U, Santiniketan, India)
C. Modern and Postmodern Fitzgerald
1) “Loss and Mourning in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night,” Rossie Artemis (Intercollege Cyprus)
2) “‘A Consciousness of … Race’: The Irish-American Artist as a Young Man,” Sara Gerend (Purdue U North Central)
Evening Free / Walking Tour of Bloomsbury
9.00-10.30 Session 3
A. F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Art of Love and Sex
1) “The Connoisseur of Kisses: Fitzgerald and the Phenomenology of Petting,” Kirk Curnutt (Troy U)
2) “‘When Lovely Woman Stoops To Folly’: Sexuality and Spirituality in Eliot and Fitzgerald,” Walter Raubicheck (Pace U)
3) “‘My God, you’re fun to kiss’: L’amour and Lust in Tender Is the Night,” William Blazek (Liverpool Hope U)
Chair and Respondent: Ruth Prigozy (Hofstra U), “Relationships in The Beautiful and Damned”
B. Fitzgerald and Other Anglo-European Novelists
1) “Fitzgerald and Shane Leslie,” Stephen L. Tanner (Brigham Young U)
2) “In Arithmetical Progression: Shaw, Wells and Fitzgerald,” Thomas D. Birch (U of New Hampshire at Manchester) and Ray E. Canterbery (Florida State U)
3) “Fitzgerald, Doyle, and Leblanc,” Janice Byrne (C of DuPage)
[break 3]
10.45-12.15 Session 4
A. Other Artists, Other Media: Fitzgerald’s Unlikely Affinities
1) “Jazz Age Pictures In the Work of Scott Fitzgerald and Dorothy Parker,” Isabel López Cirugeda (Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)
2) “F. Scott Fitzgerald and Nathanael West: Biographical Parallels and Affinities,” A.K. Sethi
B. Performative Sexuality in Fitzgerald
1) “‘So Easy To Be Loved, So Hard to Love’: Homosocial Performativity and Reaction in Tender Is the Night,” Chris Messenger (U of Illinois, Chicago)
2) “Fitzgerald’s Poe-esque ‘Leeches,’” Stephanie Sommerfeld (U of Göttingen, Germany)
3) “Dick Diver and the Vogue of Psychoanalysis,” Jonathan Clarke (New York, NY)
C. Daisy and Gatsby: The Literature of Love
1) “In the Garden with Gatsby: Marvellian Allusions in The Great Gatsby,” Robert W. Trogdon (Kent State U)
2) “Compelling Star Shine and the High White Palace: The Romance of Jay Gatsby and Daisy Buchanan,” Gail Sinclair (Rollins C)
3) “The Sun Never Sets on British Influence: Keats and Conrad’s Shaping of Fitzgerald,” Heidi Vandervelde (U of South Florida)
12.15-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.00 Panel Discussion
“The Cambridge Fitzgerald Edition: Where We Go from Here”
1) James L. W. West III, General Editor, Cambridge Fitzgerald Edition (Penn State)
2) Jackson R. Bryer, President, F. Scott Fitzgerald Society
3) Andrew Brown, Director of Academic Publishing, Cambridge University Press
[break 4]
3.00-4.15 Session 5
A. Formative Backgrounds of Fitzgerald
1) “‘He had that spark—magnetic mark’: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s St. Paul Plays,” Thomas Leuchtenmüller, Wiesbaden, Germany
2) “Youth, Beauty, and the American Way: Eugenics at Princeton,” Anne Marie Daniel (Princeton U)
B. Fitzgerald and Short Fiction
1) “A Dying South and a Tamed Frontier: Fitzgerald’s Regional Portraits of the American South,” E. Stone Shiflet (Northcentral U)
2) “High Brow, Low Brow, Furrowed Brow: Promoting an Appreciation of Fitzgerald in the Undergraduate Classroom Through His Short Stories,” Marc Seals (U of Wisconsin-Baraboo)
3) “The Lesson of the British Masters : Erasure and Evasion in ‘Image on the Heart,’” Elisabeth Bouzonviller (Université Jean Monnet)
C. The Keatsian Subtext of Tender Is the Night
1) “Keats, Fitzgerald, and the Language of Desire,” Jennifer Hoitsma (Tyler, TX)
2) “Keats’s Descriptive Style and Tender Is the Night,” Bonnie McClure (Birmingham Southern C)
3) “Reading Fitzgerald Reading Keats,” Philip McGowan (Queens U Belfast)
4.15-4.30 Announcements about the evening reception and Oxford trip
6.00-7.30 Reception at Winfield House [US Ambassador’s residence]
Oxford with Lunch at Pembroke College
Plenary (B) Horst Kruse (U of Münster), tba
9.00-10.30 Sessions 6
A. Fitzgerald and the British Move Toward Modernism
1) “‘Where are the Novels of Five Years Ago?’: G. K. Chesterton’s Influence on Fitzgerald’s This Side of Paradise and The Great Gatsby,” Neisha McGuckin (Boston MA)
2) “In an Odd Light: Kipling’s Maisie and Fitzgerald’s Daisy,” James Plath (Illinois Wesleyan U)
3) “Mrs. Dalloway and Mr. Gatsby: A Tale of Two Parties,” Ned Millington (Shropshire, England)
B. Fitzgerald and Popular Culture: Campus Fiction and the Celebrity Craze
1) “The 21st Century Side of Paradise: This Side of Paradise, Prep, and the Evolution of the Midwestern Bildungsroman,” Sara Kosiba (Kent State U)
2) “Hot Cats and Big Men On Campus: From This Side Of Paradise to The Freshman,” Alan Bilton (University of Swansea, UK)
3) “The Prince of Wales as Celebrity Icon in the Works of Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald,” Kim Moreland (George Washington U)
C. Fitzgerald’s American and British Appropriations
1) “F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 19th Century British Legacy: Narrative Design and Self-inscription in Fitzgerald’s Allusions to Byron, Edgeworth, and Thackeray,” David W. Ullrich (Birmingham Southern C)
2) “Fitzgerald and the British,” Michael K. Glenday (The Open University, United Kingdom)
3) “Midwestern Mimicry: Regional Appropriation of the Flapper Persona in ‘Bernice Bobs her Hair,’” Cate Huguelet (U College Cork)
[break 5: and Publishers’ Stands]
11.00-12.30 Sessions 7
A. Fitzgerald and Joseph Conrad
1) “The Power of ‘Treasure and Love’: The Tragic Hero of Romance in Conrad’s Nostromo and Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby,” Aiping Zhang (California State U, Chico)
2) “A Modern Staging of Romance in F.S. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, J. Conrad’s Lord Jim and Ford Madox Ford’s The Good Soldier,” Catherine Delesalle (U Jean Moulin – Lyon 3)
3) “Marriage and Modernism: The Good Soldier and Tender is the Night,” Kate Brooks (New York U)
B. Jazz Age Revolutions in Masculinity and Femininity
1) “‘I’d rather look at all these famous people in—in oblivion’: Advertising, Celebrity, and Masculine Identity in The Great Gatsby,” Michael Maiwald (National U of Singapore)
2) “The Anti-Hero and the Failure of the American Dream in The Great Gatsby and Tender is the Night,” Andrea Laurencell (New York U)
3) “Dancing with the New Woman: Mythmaking and Loss In Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age,” Kate Fama (Washington U)
C. Who was Gatsby? Role Models for The Great Gatsby
1) “A Regular Belasco: Gatsby and the Bishop of Broadway,” John Clendenning (California State U, Northridge)
2) “‘A nephew or cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm’s’ & ‘German spy,’—The Other Gerlach Infused Into Gatsby’s shady side,” Michael Workman (Tokyo, Japan)
3) “Cushman Rice: The Forgotten and Romantic Farm Type of Minnesota in Whose Image Fitzgerald Created Jay Gatsby,” Dan Hardy (St. Paul MN)
12.30-2.00 Lunch
2.00-3.00 Steve Goldleaf, Prose Reading: The Fitzgerald Case
3.00-5.00 Museum of London (Museum in Docklands) Tour
Evening Globe Theatre/ Other Theatre / Galleries & Museums open late
9.00-10.30 Sessions 8
A. Literary Influence, Cultural Critique: The Great Gatsby
1) “The New Emperor’s Clothes: Keatsian Echoes and American Materialism in The Great Gatsby,” Lauren Rule (Emory U)
2) “Indirect Narration and the Case of Conrad,” Majda Savle (University of Primorska, Slovenia)
3) “New Men: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Modernism, and Masculinity,” Miguel Carrasqueira (U Leiria, Portugal)
B. Fitzgerald and the Upheavals of Modernity
1) “‘The power of the written word […] to make [us] see’: Fitzgerald’s Early Experiments with Narrative Focalisation in This Side of Paradise and The Beautiful and Damned,” Marie-Agnès Gay (U Jean Moulin–Lyon 3)
2) “Tender Is the Night and the Calculus of Modern War,” James H. Meredith (U.S. Air Force Academy, ret.)
3) “Tender Is the Night and the Renaissance: Conclusion,” Akiko Ishakawa (Union Institute and U)
C. Genre, Textuality, and Politics in the 1920s
1) “‘Same Monsters, Different Closets’: How The Great Gatsby Americanized the European Gothic Novel,” Anne Canavan (Tennessee Technological U)
2) “Reading in The Great Gatsby,” Doni M. Wilson (Houston Baptist U)
3) “‘Help Me? Hell No!’: American Anti-Bolshevism in ‘May Day,’” James Patrick Gorham (U of Rhode Island)
[break 6]
10.45-12.15 Plenary Session
The Present State of Fitzgerald Studies
1) Jackson R. Bryer, President, The Fitzgerald Society (U of Maryland)
12.15-2.00 Lunch
Friday, 13 July (cont.) [Beveridge Hall 1/2day]
2.00-3.15 Plenary (C): Richard Godden (U of Sussex), tba
3.15-3.30 Announcements / Closing Remarks
3.30-4.30 AGM
5.00-6.00 Reception in Senate House
Evening Free
AM Walking Tours / Galleries & Museums / Etc.
PM Theatre Matinees / Etc.
Evening Banquet (Hotel Russell)