All events on Thursday and Friday, 7 and 8 October, will take place at the University of Delaware in Newark, DE.
Transportation will be provided between hotels—Courtyard Newark at the University of Delaware, Homewood Suites, Sleep Inn—and other campus venues. Click here for the bus schedule [pdf].

On Saturday, 9 October, conference activities will move to Winterthur Museum & Country Estate and the Delaware Art Museum, both located in Wilmington, DE. Bus transportation will be provided in both directions, along with instructions for those who may wish to drive.

Program

Thursday, 7 October

2–6 p.m. Shuttle bus serving Courtyard Newark, Homewood Suites, Sleep Inn, and the University of Delaware Library

3–7 p.m. Registration, Class of 1941 Lecture Room, University of Delaware Library

4.30 p.m. Keynote Lecture, Reserve Room, University of Delaware Library
Introduction: Theodore F. Killheffer, Senior Vice President, University of Delaware Library Associates
Welcome: Ann L. Ardis, Interim Deputy Dean, Senior Associate Dean for the Humanities and Director, Interdisciplinary Humanities Research Center, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Delaware
“The Useful and the Beautiful: Henry James and Mark Twain”
Fred Kaplan, biographer and Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Graduate Center, City University of New York
Sponsored by the University of Delaware Library Associates and the University of Delaware Library

5.30–7 p.m. Reception and Viewing, University of Delaware Library
London Bound: American Writers in Britain, 1870–1916 and The Multifaceted Mr. Morris exhibitions

6–11.30 p.m. Shuttle bus serving University of Delaware Library, Courtyard Newark, Homewood Suites, Sleep Inn, and Main St. From 6.30–9 p.m. the bus will also stop at Bayard Sharp Hall.

7.30 p.m. Concert, Bayard Sharp Hall, University of Delaware
“Kindred Spirits: William Morris, Arnold Dolmetsch and Music”
Karen Flint (harpsichord), Laura Heimes (soprano), John Burkhalter (recorders),
Music drawn from the Dolmetsch repertory, including works by Byrd, Farnaby, Gibbons, Purcell, Handel, and Arne
Space is limited and attendees will be seated on a first come, first served basis until the hall is filled.

Friday, 8 October

7.45–11.45 a.m. Shuttle bus serving Homewood Suites, Sleep Inn, and Clayton Hall/Courtyard Newark

8–9 a.m. Breakfast and Registration, Clayton Hall, University of Delaware

9 a.m.–3.30 p.m. Conference Sessions, Clayton Hall, University of Delaware

9 a.m. Welcome: George H. Watson, Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Delaware
Remarks: Mark Samuels Lasner, Senior Research Fellow, University of Delaware Library

9.15–10.45 a.m. Session 1

LITERARY CONNECTIONS

“Transatlantic Confrontation: A Study of Utopian Dreamers, Edward Bellamy and William Morris”

Annette M. Magid, Professor of English, SUNY-Erie Community College

“Disenchanting William Morris’s The Wood Beyond the World: James Branch Cabell’s The Cream of the Jest (1917)”

Kathleen O’Neill Sims, independent scholar, Manchester, NH

“Walt Whitman—‘Poet of the Revolution’ ”

David Taylor, Honorary Research Fellow, Roehampton University and Royal Holloway College

Chair: Heidi Kaufman, Associate Professor of English, University of Delaware

INTERIORS AND IDEAS

“Living Up To My China: Morris and the Palette of the American Pre-Raphaelite Interior”

John Burrows, J. R. Burrows & Company, Rockland, MA

“ ‘Boston has an aestheticism of its own’: A. H. Davenport Co. and Bostonian Influence on the Furnishings of Iolani Palace, Honolulu, Hawaii, 1882”

Deborah Kraak, curatorial consultant, Wilmington, DE

“Gustav Stickley’s Debt to England: The Influences of Ruskin, Morris, Ashbee, Voysey and Baillie Scott”

David Lowden, lawyer (Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP) and book collector

“Candace Wheeler and the Woman’s Building Library of the World’s Columbian Exposition”

Sarah Wadsworth, Associate Professor of English, Marquette University
Chair: Siobahn Carroll, Assistant Professor of English, University of Delaware

MAKING

“A Suitable Handicraft for a Woman?: William Morris and Newcomb Pottery”

Meghan Freeman, Adjunct Assistant Professor of English, Tulane University

“Towards ‘A Cultural History of the Morris Chair’: Some Preliminary Observations”

Alan T. Gaylord, Winkley Professor Emeritus, Dartmouth College; Senior Scholar, English, Princeton University

“With Paper and Glue: Building the Success of an Arts and Crafts Toy”

Christie Jackson, Ruby Winslow Linn Curator, Old Colony Historical Society

“William Morris and the Turn-of-the-Century American Greeting Card”

Anne Stewart O’Donnell, independent scholar, College Park, MD
Chair: Katherine C. Grier, Professor, Department of History, and Director, Museum Studies Program, University of Delaware

INTO THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

“Design Only By Heaven: Ernest Batchelder’s Invocation of Ruskin and Emerson in his Design in Theory and Practice (1927)”

Lisa Banu, Assistant Professor of Design History, Purdue University

“Interpreting the Craftsman Ideal in Seattle Public Schools, 1900–1920”

M. Helen Burnham, PhD candidate in Art History, Graduate Center of the City University of New York

“The Production of Beautiful Labor: William Morris’s Influence on the Small Press Today”

Michael Desjardins, Sessional faculty at OCAD University, Faculty of Design and master’s student at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Information
Chair: Belinda T. Orzada, Professor of Fashion and Apparel Studies, University of Delaware

11 a.m.–12.30 p.m. Session 2

SOCIALISM

“William Morris and the Making of American Socialism”

Jason Martinek, Assistant Professor of History, New Jersey City University

“Guest and Comrade: News from Nowhere in the American Socialist Press”

Elizabeth C. Miller, Associate Professor of English, University of California Davis

“Art and Anarchy: Walter Crane in Chicago”

Morna O’Neill, Assistant Professor of Art History, Wake Forest University

Chair: Michael Cotsell, Associate Professor of English, University of Delaware

THE RELIGION OF STAINED GLASS

“ ‘Made to the order of H. Holiday Esq. To be sent to Mr Frank Furness, Philadelphia’ ”

George Bryant, AIA Senior Associate, WRT LLC, Philadelphia, PA

“The Anglo-American Tradition in Stained Glass”

Judy Neiswander, independent art historian, Boston, MA

“The Gospel of Beauty: Early Examples of Pre-Raphaelite Stained Glass in America”

Judy Oberhausen, independent art historian, San Mateo, CA

“Religion and Design at Morris & Co. and Tiffany Studios”

Josh Probert, PhD candidate in History, University of Delaware
Chair: B. J. Robinson, Professor of English and Director of the University Press of North Georgia, North Georgia College & State University

ARCHITECTS

“The Impact of William Morris, John Ruskin, Oscar Wilde and the Pre-Raphaelites on the Architecture, Furniture and Art of the San Francisco Bay Region,1878–1910 ”

Leslie M. Freudenheim, Adjunct Scholar, Swedenborgian House of Studies, Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley, CA

“Direct Descendants: From Morris, to Richardson, to Andrews, Longfellow, and Warren”

Maureen Meister, architectural historian, Winchester, MA

“Charles Donagh Maginnis Brings Arts and Crafts to Catholic Art”

Milda Richardson, Lecturer, Art and Design Department, Northeastern University and Fine Arts Department, Emmanuel College

“Transatlantic Sons of Morris: A. J. Penty and Ralph Adams Cram, from Architecture to Medievalist Anti-Capitalism”

John Sharpe, Hagley Fellow, University of Delaware

Chair: Sandy Isenstadt, Associate Professor of Art History, University of Delaware

PRE-RAPHAELITE LITE-RATURE AND ART

“Serving the Pre-Raphaelites on Blue China: America’s Thomas Bird Mosher Phenomena”

Philip R. Bishop, Mosher Books, Ephrata, PA

“Poaching Pre-Raphaelitism in Harper’s Weekly”

Linda K. Hughes, Addie Levy Professor of Literature, Texas Christian University

“Frederick Judd Waugh: The New World and the American Galahad”

Kyle Stoneman, PhD candidate in Art History, University of Washington, Seattle

“Edwin Austin Abbey’s ‘Quest for the Holy Grail’: Murals for the Boston Public Library Made in the Cotswolds”

Linda R. Zieper, Art Librarian, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Chair: Peter Trippi, Editor, Fine Art Connoisseur