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Emily Rohrbach, visiting assistant professor of English, presented a paper at the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society conference at Rutgers University, Oct. 23-25. Exploring the ethical implications of Romantic subjectivity and conceptions of time, her paper, titled "Romantic Surplus," characterized the Romantic sense of time as a teeming present that produces an excess of what can potentially be known, due in part to the way that knowledge of that present rests on an imagined, dark futurity.

Emily Rohrbach, visiting assistant professor of English, attended the "Victorian Literature and Culture: Bodies and Things" conference on Sept. 27 at Mansfield College, Oxford University, UK. Rohrbach gave a paper titled "Byron and the Future of the Museum," which explored the "aesthetics of history" in Byron's comic epic Don Juan in relation to the early 19th century rise of the modern museum as a form of historical knowledge. In Don Juan, Byron envisions a future in which an archaeological dig would uncover the body of George IV as a historical relic for a "new museum"; the comic image, she suggested, registers the poet's aversion to the politics of the burgeoning museum culture.

Emily Rohrbach, visiting assistant professor of English, recently attended the annual meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, held this year at the University of Toronto, August 21-24. Rohrbach participated in a seminar on "Romanticism and the Forms of Surmise," which explored the limits of the technical vocabulary available for describing Romantic lyrics. She also chaired a panel on editorial initiatives.

Visiting Assistant Professor of English Emily Rohrbach presented a paper at the supernumerary meeting of the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism in Bologna, Italy, March 12-15. The conference brought together the North American and Italian Romanticism associations at the University of Bologna to explore issues of (trans)national identities and reimagined communities.

Visiting Assistant Professor of English Emily Rohrbach presented a paper titled "Byron's Sense of History: The Objectionable Body of George IV" at the International Conference on Romanticism in Baltimore, Oct. 18-21. Her paper, part of a panel titled "Objections to Objects," explores Byron's representation of historical objects in his comic epic Don Juan.