2025 Conference Program

The Burneys: Crossroads, Revolutions, and Transformations

June 12-13, 2025

Location: Rutgers Inn and Conference Center Dining Room
178 Ryders Lane, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Thursday, June 12

8:00     Breakfast/ registration

9:30     Welcome, Catherine Keohane, President

9:30-10:45       PANEL 1: Evelina’s Transformations

Moderator: Marilyn Francus (West Virginia University, emerita)
Teri Doerksen (Commonwealth U of PA Mansfield), “Naming as Transformation: Authorship and Becoming in Burney’s Evelina”
Laura Engel (Duquesne University), “‘And is not Angelica dead?’: Frances Burney, Angelica Kauffman, and Catherine the Great”

10:45-11:15     Break

11:15-12:15     PLENARY: Peter Sabor (McGill University, emeritus), “‘Jacobinical harangues and proceedings’: Charles Burney, Frances Burney and Jacques Pierre Brissot.” Introduced by Elaine Bander, Immediate Past President.

12:15               The Peter Sabor Fellowship: Lorna Clark, Editor, Burney Letter

12:30-1:45       LUNCH

1:45-3:00         PANEL 2: Burney’s Men

Moderator: Elizabeth Porter, Secretary
Ryan Pepper (University of Ottawa), “Man/Fop, Sane/Mad – Men at the Crossroads in Frances Burney’s Novels”
Susan H. Wood (Midland University), “From Aging Beau to Favored Friend: Sir Jaspar Herrington and His Role in Frances Burney’s The Wanderer”
Brian McCrea (University of Florida, emeritus), “The Duke in the Bottom of the Boat: Frances Burney’s ‘Glint[ing] . . . Eye’ Upon Revolutionary Politics”

3:00-3:30         Refreshment Break (coffee, tea, fresh fruit)

3:30-5:00         Dramatic reading: Act 2 of The Witlings

6:00-8:00        Conference dinner

Friday, June 13

8-9:00              Breakfast

9:15-10:30       PANEL 3: Camilla’s Transformations

Moderator: Catherine Keohane
Alicia Kerfoot (SUNY Brockport), “‘To see a little of the world’: At the Crossroads of Mobility and Shopping in Frances Burney’s Camilla”
Ashley Schoppe (Catawba College), “‘I must let you into the secret…but don’t tell it to the world!—I’m a gentlewoman!’: Transformative Clothes in Camilla”
Jordan Green (Tufts University), “The Crossroads of Character: Obsession as Singular Typicality in Frances Burney’s Camilla”

10:30—10:45  Break

10:45-11:30     Rebecca Romney (Type Punch Matrix), “Marketing Evelina: What Modern Book Collecting Can Tell Us About Burney’s Readers Across the Centuries” (virtual)

11:45-1:30       Business Meeting and Lunch

2:00-3:00         PANEL 4: Burney and a Room of One’s Own

Moderator: Ashley Schoppe, Managing Editor, The Burney Journal
Lorna Clark (Carleton University), “Frances Burney’s ‘small and private space’”
Marilyn Francus (West Virginia University, emerita), “Virginia Woolf and the Burneys”

3:00-3:15 Closing remarks, Catherine Keohane

      

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