Johnsen, Rosemary

NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL

• "Contagion and History in Fred Vargas's Have Mercy on Us All."  18th Annual Meeting of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion.  St. Mary's University College, Twickenham, U.K., July 2009.
• Special session organizer and presider, "Penguin Publishing and British Culture: The Legacy of Allen Lane."  Modern Language Association Convention.  San Francisco, December 2008.
• "F. Tennyson Jesse's Tales of Crime: True, Fictional, and Fictionalized."  Crime Cultures: Figuring Criminality in Literature, Media, and Film.  University of Portsmouth, U.K., July 2008.
• " 'A Certain Joy in his Hatred': Individual and Collective Violence in Orwell and Hamilton."  17th Annual Meeting of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion.  University of California, Riverside, June 2008.
• " 'One of the First Protestant Martyrs': Shaw's Joan."  International Joan of Arc Society session, 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies.  Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2008. 
• "Escaping the Weather of the London Streets."  Literary London 2007 Conference.  University of Westminster, London, U.K., July 2007.
• "Candace Robb's York: Setting and Subject."  42nd International Congress on Medieval Studies.  Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2007. 
• "Class and Culture in the Works of F. Tennyson Jesse." Popular Culture Association 2007 National Conference. Boston, Massachusetts, April 2007.
• "Mimetic Desire in Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy."  15th Annual Meeting of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion.  Saint Paul University, Ottawa, Ontario, June 2006.
• "David Park and Deirdre Madden: Writing Northern Ireland in a Global Context."  ACIS 2005.  University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, April 2005.
• "Sharan Newman's Epigraphic Imagination."  39th International Congress on Medieval Studies.  Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2004.
• "Sleuths on the Syllabus."  Panel discussion with authors and scholars.  39th International Congress on Medieval Studies.  Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2004.
• "Suffrage, Suffering, and Strength: The Crime Novels of Miriam Grace Monfredo and Gillian Linscott."  Hystorical Fictions: Women, History and Authorship Conference.  University of Wales, Swansea, U.K., August 2003.
• "Rosamond Lehmann: One of Edith Wharton's Inheritors."  Edith Wharton in London: 2003 Conference of the Edith Wharton Society.  Roehampton, University of Surrey, U.K.,
   July 2003.
• " 'Preaching to the Converted': Passions of the Media in Northern Ireland."  12th Annual Meeting of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion. Faculty of Theology, University of Innsbruck, Austria, June 2003. 
• Session organizer and presider, "Contagious Women."  11th Annual Meeting of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion.  Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, June 2002.
• "Marriage, Money, and Mimesis in the Novels of Edith Wharton."  11th Annual Meeting of the Colloquium on Violence and Religion.  Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, June 2002.
• "Wandering Women in Gemma O'Connor's Crime Fiction."  IASIL 2001: Odysseys.  Dublin, Ireland, August 2001.
• "Seneca Falls Inheritance: Disentangling Women, Legislation, and Violence in Monfredo's Historical Crime Fiction."  8th Annual Meeting of the Colloquium on Violence & Religion.  Emory University, Atlanta, June 1999.
• "The Professional Writer and Literary Politics."  Conference on W. Somerset Maugham: A Summing Up.  Baylor University, Waco, Texas, January 1996.  By invitation.
• "Somerville and Ross: Women in the Big House."  Conference on Gender and Nineteenth-Century Ireland.  Dublin, Ireland, April 1995.

REGIONAL/LOCAL

• “Building Bridges: Title V Grants for Hispanic-serving Institutions and Your Secondary Students.”  Michigan World Language Association Annual Conference.  Lansing, Michigan, October 2008.
• "Travels at Home: Inter-war Reportage and Fiction."  Modern Literature section, Midwest MLA.  Cleveland, November 2007.
• "The Legacy of An American Tragedy: From Children's Literature to High Opera."  Midwest MLA.  Chicago, November 2006. 
• "The Thompson-Bywaters Case, 1922: Narrating History or Telling Tales?"  Great Lakes History Conference.  Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids, Michigan, October 2005.
• "Alongside Modernism: Patrick Hamilton's Sociological Fiction."  Midwest Conference on British Studies.  University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana, September 2005.
• "Hystory Girls: Young Readers Respond to Depictions of Girlhood in Historical Fiction."  Women in Literature section, Midwest MLA.  Chicago, November 2003.
• "Being Irish Somewhere Else: Deirdre Madden's Interrogation of Irish Identity."  Irish Studies section, Midwest MLA.  Minneapolis, November 2002.
• "Women on the Prairie: From Cather's Red Grass to Smiley's Toxic Runoff."  ASLE, Midwest MLA.  Minneapolis, November 2002.
• "Re-Living History: The Ballad Novels of Sharyn McCrumb."  Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association Conference.  Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 2002.
• "Using History to Reform Mystery: Gillian Linscott and her Suffragette Sleuth."  Midwest MLA.  Minneapolis, November 1999.
• " 'The Only Ireland Whose Name I Can Sing': Dermot Bolger's Vision of Irish Nationalism, Hope, and Soccer."  Irish Studies section, Midwest MLA.  Minneapolis, November 1999.
• "The Real Charlotte: Ireland in Transition."  Midwest MLA.  Minneapolis, November 1996.
• "Ann Radcliffe on 'The Servant Question.' "  Third Annual Conference on Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers.  East Lansing, Michigan, April 1994.