Keynote Speaker
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Melanie Conroy is Associate Professor of French at the University of Memphis. She received her doctorate from Stanford University. Her research explores the intersection of literature, visual studies, and social networks in modern French culture. She has published articles in Poetics Today, Nineteenth-Century French Studies, Médias 19, Romance Notes, and the Journal of Modern History. She is currently working on a cultural history of European salons as sites of literary production, as well as a digital humanities survey on literary geography in the French realist and post-realist novel, entitled Realist and Post-Realist Geographies from Balzac to Proust, which is forthcoming from Cambridge University Press. She is the co-director of the Salons Project, a part of Mapping the Republic of Letters and the director of Mapping Balzac, online companion to Balzac’s La Comédie Humaine.
Presenters
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Michael Bane is an adjunct assistant professor of musicology at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where his research centers on the music and culture of early-modern France. His articles have appeared in the Cambridge Opera Journal, Historical Performance, and the Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music. He is also the editor of François Martin’s Pièces de guitairre (1663), recently published by the Web Library of Seventeenth-Century Music. He is currently completing a book on amateur music-making and musical embodiment in France under Louis XIV. As the recipient of the Renaissance Society of America's Claude V. Palisca Fellowship in Musicology, he will travel to Paris next summer (pandemic permitting) to explore and transcribe manuscript sources of baroque guitar music.
Callum Blackmore is a graduate student in historical musicology studying French opera in the long eighteenth century. His dissertation, "Opera at the Dawn of Capitalism: Staging Economic Change in France and Its Colonies from Rameau Cherubini", explores representations of economic life on the operatic stage in the lead-up to the French and Haitian Revolutions. Originally hailing from New Zealand, Callum received his undergraduate degree from the University of Auckland, where his honours dissertation received the Drake Medal for musicology. Before moving to New York, he was awarded the Pettman DARE Fellowship, undertaking research in the North of England in association with Opera North and the University of Leeds. He has been published in Current Musicology and Naxos Musicology International and has presented his research at the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society. He is currently serving as the editor-in-chief of Current Musicology for the year 2020-2021. In his spare time, Callum is an opera critic for Parterre Box.
Christopher Cartmill is an Associate Professor of Professional Practice and Head of Dramaturgy in the Theater Department of Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. He is an award-winning playwright, actor and director. His plays have been produced internationally. As an actor he has appeared in films such as Steven Spielberg's Lincoln and the video game Red Dead Redemption 2. His direction/translations/adaptations of Frederich Schiller’s Maid of Orleans, The Rehearsal by the 2ndDuke of Buckingham, Goethe’s Faust: Part One, Aphra Behn’s The Emperor of the Moon, August Strindberg’s A Dream Play, Schiller's Love and Intrigue and George Sand’s Gabriel have been presented at Mason Gross and elsewhere. Christopher's memoir of a 2006 play commission, The Nebraska Dispatches, was published in 2010. He was the 2014 Rutgers/MGSA Affiliate Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. He is currently directing Christopher Fry’s A Phoenix Too Frequent for streaming later in March.
Lindsay Jones holds a PhD in historical musicology from the University of Toronto. Her research focuses on the career of early nineteenth-century guitarist-composer Mauro Giuliani, and the political and social intersections of his involvement with Vienna’s musical markets. Lindsay is a classical guitarist and teaches private guitar lessons in addition to working at the University of Toronto as a sessional lecturer this term.
Marjanne E. Goozé is Associate Professor Emerita at the University of Georgia. Her area of specialization is German literature from the late eighteenth century to the present with a particular focus on German women writers, Jewish-German writers, Holocaust narratives, personal narratives, and feminist theory and criticism. She is the author of articles and book chapters on Henriette Herz, Bettina von Arnim, Karoline von Günderrode, Rahel Varnhagen von Ense, Hölderlin, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Karl Emil Franzos, Franz Kafka, Christa Wolf, and Jeannette Lander. She has translated (with Jeannine Blackwell) the memoirs of Henriette Herz and published on feminist autobiography theory. With Anne Brown, she is the co-editor of the volume International Women's Writing: New Landscapes of Identity. She is the editor of the book Challenging Separate Spheres: Female Bildung in Eighteenth and Nineteenth-Century Germany. Currently, she is writing a book on Henriette Herz and the Berliner Salon. She has taught courses in 19th- and 20th-century German literature, German culture, and literary theory. Additionally, Dr. Goozé has taught Introduction to Women's Studies and Feminist Theory for the Institute for Women's Studies at the University of Georgia.
Iris Moon is an Assistant Curator of European ceramics and glass in the European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she was recently part of the curatorial team behind the reinstallation of the British Galleries at the Met. She is the author of Percier and Fontaine and the Struggle for Sovereignty in Revolutionary France (2016) and has written and lectured widely on European decorative arts and architecture. She currently teaches at Cooper Union and has had fellowships at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Clark Art Institute, and the Getty Research Institute. She earned her undergraduate degree at Williams College and her PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Markus Rathey is the Robert S. Tangeman Professor of Music History at Yale University. His research focuses on music in the second half of the 17th century, Johann Sebastian Bach, and the Bach family. His books include a study on C.P.E. Bach's political compositions (Olms 2009), an introduction to J.S. Bach's major vocal works (Yale University Press 2016) and an extensive study of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio (Oxford University Press 2016). He was president of the American Bach Society (2016-2020) and serves on the editorial boards of the Yale Journal of Music and Religion and BACH.
Nicole Vilkner is a musicologist who studies the ways that urban culture shaped music-making during the long nineteenth century. Her research areas include the study of the salon, opéra-comique, and street music in Paris. In this work, she examines how the built environment, geography, and material culture can structure audiences and shape musical reception. Her work has won awards from the Society for American Music, the Nineteenth Century Studies Association, and the Greater New York Chapter of the American Musicological Society. She has recent and forthcoming articles in Cambridge Opera Journal and Journal of the Royal Musical Association. Dr. Vilkner is an Assistant Professor at Duquesne University – teaching a course on salon opera last spring, she worked with students to stage comedic opera scenes in their households during the coronavirus lockdown, an unplanned twist that illuminated residential music-making in the 21st century.
Érika Wicky holds a PhD in Art History (2011, University of Montreal). After a multidisciplinary dissertation examining the notion of detail in 19th-century French visual culture (Les paradoxes du détail : voir, savoir représenter à l’ère de la photographie, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2015), she dedicated her research to the history of the senses and in particular to the relationship between art and olfaction from the 18th century until today. She organized several conferences on this topic, such as Mediality of Smells (Oxford, 2018) and Le Parfumeur: évolution d’une figure depuis la Renaissance (Versailles, forthcoming in 2021) and co-directed a special issue of Littérature on the Sociabilités du parfum (2017). She is currently Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow (European commission) at the University Lumière Lyon 2, working on a project entitled « Intoxicated by turpentine » : An olfactory history of Painting (1750-1939).