JULIE A. SHAFFER 
CONFERENCE PAPERS

"Sex?"
National Convention of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, March 1999.

"Erectio Interrupta/Prophylactic Tales:
Desexualizing Europe and Domesticating Male Sexuality."

National Convention of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Notre Dame, Indiana, April 1998

"Bastards."
Seventh Annual Conference on 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, March 1998

"Incest, Familial Love, and Female Desire in Late Eighteenth-Century Gothic Novels."
Third annual conference of the International Gothic Association
Twickenham, England, July 1997

"Visionary Hybridization: Mrs Ross's The Woman of Genius."
Sixth Annual Conference on 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers
Davis, California, March 1997

"Fraternité and Other Bonds:
The Reign of Terror in Mary Robinson's The Natural Daughter."

Annual Convention of the Northeast American Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
Worcester, Massachusetts, September 1996

"Mary Robinson's The Natural Daughter; or, the Illegitimacy of the Solitary Woman."
National Convention of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Austin, Texas, March 1996

"Transvestism, Class Hopping, and Rebirth:
Masquerade and Identity in Sophia Lee's The Two Emilys."

Annual Conference of the Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 1995

"Mrs Ross's The Woman of Genius:
Gothicism, Visionary Romanticism, and the `Masculine' Female Romantic's Romance Plot."

Annual Meeting of the American Conference of Romanticism
Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, September 1995

"Ruined Women and Illegitimate Daughters:
(Subversive) Female Sexuality and Questions of Class
in Late 18th- and Early 19th-Century Novels by Women."

Fourth Annual Conference on 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers
Notre Dame, Indiana, March 1995

"`We Are All of One Family':
Familialization, or, from Figural to Literal Incest in 18th- and early 19th-Century Novels."

Annual Conference of the Group for Early Modern Cultural Studies
Rochester, New York, November 1994

"Forming Friends, Family and Lovers:
The Sexual Problematics of Sentimental Bonds
in Non-Canonical late 18th-Century Woman-Penned Novels."

Annual Conference of the Midwestern American Society for Eighteenth- Century Studies
Normal, Illinois, October 1994

"Challenging Conceptions of Proper Femininity
and Women Novelists' Relation to the Romantic."

Second International Corvey Symposium
Paderborn, Germany, June 1993

"Conservative Attitudes and Problematic Youths:
Late Eighteenth/ Early Nineteenth Century Narrative Conventions
for Negotiating Ideological Compliance."

International Conference on Narrative
Albany, New York, April 1993

"I Once Was Lost But Now I'm Found:
Challenging the Canon with Rare Women-Penned Novels from the Corvey Collection."

National Convention of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Providence, April 1993

"Sad Endings for Bad Girls:
Female Growth as Always Already Criminal in Thelma and Louise."

National Convention of the Popular Culture/American Culture Association
Louisville, March 1992

"Romance Without Finance Just Don't Make Sense:
The Conflation of Monetary and Moral Discourses in Burney's Camilla."

Aphra Behn Conference
New Orleans, February 1992

"Female Self-Betrayal:
Verbal Self-Silencing and the Body's Treacherous Eloquence in the Late Eighteenth Century."

The Annual M/MLA Conference
Chicago, November 1991

"Women's Self-Silencing: The Higher the Price, the Higher the Value of Self-Subjection."
International Conference on Narrative
Nice, France, June 1991

"Discourses of Femininity: Silence, Virginity, and the High Price of Female Virtue."
Annual Conference of the South Central Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies
Texas A&M University, February 1991

"Teaching Natural Femininity: Exhorting Women to Learn to Be Themselves."
Crossing the Disciplines: Cultural Studies in the 1990s
University of Oklahoma, October 1990

"Empowering Women in Marriage:
Dialogically Confronting Conventions in Novels by Burney, Edgeworth, and Austen."

International Conference on Narrative
New Orleans, April 1990.

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