Tom Mole - Presentations

Birkbeck, University of London February 2012	"Nineteenth-Century Anthologies and the Lyricization of Literature"
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN April 2011	"Illustration, Periodicity, and Modernity"
NASSR 'Romantic Mediations' Conference August 2010	Invited Seminar: "Romanticism, Remediation, and Reception History"
Montreal British History Seminar November 2009	"Secular Pantheons in Nineteenth-Century Britain"
University of Zurich November 2007	"Byron's Visual Celebrity"
Montreal British History Seminar October 2006	"Byron, the Luddites, and the Framebreaking Act of 1812"
Scottish National Portrait Gallery May 2003	"Byron's Cultural Visibility"
National Portrait Gallery February 2003	"Ways of Seeing Byron"

International Conference on Romanticism Montreal, QC November 2011	"Print Culture and Reception History" Speakers: Heather Jackson (Toronto), Andrew Stauffer (Virginia), Tom Mole (McGill). Respondent: Michael Gamer (Penn)
'Anthologies: A Conference' Trinity College, Hartford CT March 2010	"Exploring the Nineteenth-Century Literary Anthology: A Database-Driven Approach" Speakers: Tara Murphy (UWO), Amy Fox (McGill), Tom Mole (McGill).
NASSR 'Romantic Diversity' University of Toronto August 2008	"Diverse Legacies of Romanticism I: The Nineteenth Century" Speakers: Dino Felluga (Purdue), Casie LeGette (Michigan), Katherine Bergren (UCLA).
NASSR 'Romantic Diversity' University of Toronto August 2008	"Diverse Legacies of Romanticism II: The Twentieth Century" Speakers: Kelvin Everest (Liverpool), Sarah Wooten (Durham), Karen Hadley (Louisville).
MLA Convention San Francisco December 2008	"Byron and/as/in Popular Culture" Speakers: Susan Wolfson (Princeton), Dino Felluga (Purdue), Mark Schoenfield (Vanderbilt).

ASECS Vancouver March 2011	"The Material Culture of Commemoration: The Scott Monument and the Reformed Nation"
MLA Convention Los Angeles January 2011	"Byron in the Nineteenth-Century Pantheon"
Canadian Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Memorial University, St. John's, Newfoundland October 2010	"Mary Robinson's Physiognomy"
International Byron Conference Boston August 2010	"Illustrating Generational Change: Nineteenth-Century Editions of Byron's Poetry"
Canadian Historical Studies Association, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Montreal May 2010	"Nineteenth-Century British Pantheons as Collective Biography"
ICR 'Romanticism and The City' New York City November 2009	"Romanticism and the Memorial City"
NASSR 'Romanticism and Modernity' Duke University May 2009	"Byron in Bronze: Statues and Selective Forgetting"
NASSR Supernumerary Conference Bologna University March 2008	"Spurgeon, Byron, and the Infrastructure of Cultural Transmission"
BARS/NASSR Joint Conference University of Bristol July 2007	"Don Juan and the Freedom to Develop"
33rd International Byron Conference Venice International University July 2007	"Don Juan, Developmental Identity and Disciplinary Intervention" "Stand-out papers included [...] Tom Mole (McGill) on non-developmental narrative structures in Don Juan." -Corin Throsby, The Byron Journal 35.2
MLA Convention Philadelphia December 2006	"Romantic Celebrity: Branding Identity, Constructing Intimacy'" "an engrossing panel [...] Mole [...] argued that the notion of celebrity experienced a decisive shift in the period - from something an individual might possess to something an individual was." -Alex Watson, BARS Bulletin and Review 31
Montreal/Ottawa Working Group on Romanticism University of Ottawa April 2007	"Imagining Byron in the Nineteenth Century"
Engaged Romanticism Arizona State University November 2006	"'So still, so calm, so purely beautiful': Byron's Posthumous Rehabilitation"
Scottish Romanticism and World Literature Berkeley, California September 2006	"'Personality' in Blackwood's Attacks on the Cockney School" "A session comprised of papers on Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine by editors of the recent Pickering and Chatto edition was particularly stimulating and coherent." -Gillian Hughes, BARS Bulletin and Review 30
NASSR 'Scientia and Techne' Purdue University August-September 2006	"Celebrity Before Photography: The Visual Discourse of Byronism"
Romantic Spectacle Roehampton University, London July 2006	"'Thrice Beautiful the Outward Show': Byron's Spectacular Image"
ASECS 37th annual conference Montreal March-April 2006	"Print Culture and Celebrity"
Literature and History Symposium McGill University October 2005	"Marmorealising Byron"
NASSR 'Deviance and Defiance' Montreal August 2005	"Acrimony by Numbers: Performing Controversy in Blackwood's First Reviews"
Institute for Advanced Studies Creativity Workshop University of Bristol June 2005	"Creativity and Celebrity"
Writing the Body and its Disorders: A Dialogue Between Literature and Medicine University of Bristol May 2005	"Byron and Eating Disorders"
BSECS 34th annual conference University of Oxford January 2005	"Garrick, Sterne, and the Prehistory of Celebrity Culture" "Lively discussion ensued about when celebrity culture emerged […] and how it functioned." -Heather McPherson, ASECS News Circular 135
Romanticism, History, Historicism University of Aberystwyth June 2004	"Childe Harold Canto Three: Rewriting Reading"
2nd Cultural Studies Association Conference Northeastern University, Boston May 2004	"Romanticism and Celebrity Culture"
29th International Byron Conference University of Liverpool August 2003	"Byron and the Good Death"
NASSR 'Placing Romanticism' Fordham University, New York August 2003	"Romantic Celebrity"
BARS 8th International Conference Warwick University July 2003	"Conflicting Models of Reading in Childe Harold Canto Three"
INCS 'Nineteenth Century Worlds' University of Notre Dame in London June 2003	"Byron in the Great World of Celebrity"
Book History Network Study Day London June 2003	"Romanticism and the Economy of Attribution" "a brilliant postdoctoral proposal […], basing a new taxonomy upon a solid quantitative analysis [...] powerfully argued and planned" -Elizabeth James, Quadrat 17
The 1830s Salford University September 2002	"Illustrating Byron’s Afterlife"
The Versatile Text Centre for the History of the Book Edinburgh April 2002	"The Handling of Byron's Hebrew Melodies"
NASSR 'Romantic Subjects' University of Washington, Seattle August 2001	"The Handling of Byron's Hebrew Melodies"
27th International Byron Conference New York Public Library August 2001	"(De)Forming the Legacy of Hebrew Melodies" "Tom Mole was excellent" -Peter Cochran, The Byron Journal 30
BARS 7th International Conference University of Liverpool July 2001	"Findens Illustrations and Byron's Afterlife"
Marking Time University of Bristol September 2000	"Romantic Studies and the Question of Historical Agency"
26th International Byron Conference Nottingham University July 2000	"'This Liberated Eye': Looking in The Bride of Abydos" "This session was one of the best in the conference" -Christine Kenyon Jones and Bernard Beatty, The Byron Journal 29
Myths of the New Southampton University April 2000	"Beppo and the New Byronism"
25th International Byron Conference Greece September 1999	"Narrative Desire and the Body in The Giaour" "excellent value [...] I can't remember enjoying the opening session of a conference more than this" -Bernard Beatty, The Byron Journal 28
BARS 6th International Conference Keele University July 1999	"Scandal! Byronic Revelations"
One day Romantic Studies Conference University of Bristol February 1998	"From Palimpsest to Print: Confessions of an English Opium Eater"