Joseph Levine

Joe Levine is Distinguished Professor of History in the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. His intellectual interests include Tudor and Stuart England, the intellectual history of Early Modern Europe, and historiography. Professor Levine has taught previously at the University of Pennsylvania and Rutgers, and is spending the current academic year at Cal Tech. His numerous publications include Dr. Woodward's Shield (University of California, 1977, 1991), Humanism and History: Origins of Modern English Historiography (Cornell, 1986), The Battle of the Books: History and Literature in the Augustan Age (Cornell, 1991, 1994) and, recently, Re-enacting the Past: Studies in the Evolution of Modern English Historiography (Ashgate, 2004). Professor Levine will be presenting a paper entitled: "The Key to English Neoclassicism".

Devoney Looser

Devoney Looser is an Associate Professor in the English Department at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Her intellectual interests include feminism, cultural history, and historiography across the long English eighteenth-century. Professor Looser has previously taught at Indiana State University, Louisiana State University, and Arizona State University, where she was named the Graduate Scholars of English Association Faculty teacher of the Year in 2001. Professor Looser's publications include Generations: Academic Feminists in Dialogue (co-edited with Ann Kaplan, Minnesota, 1997), Jane Austen and the Discourses of Feminism (edited collection, St. Martin's 1995) and British Women Writers and the Writing of History 1670-1820 , (John Hopkins, 2000, 2005). Her presentation will be entitled "'Eminent Ladies are Long- Lived'British Women Writers and Old Age, 1750-1850."