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The Annual Meeting of the ASECS 0th NWSECS Annual Meeting0th124. “Intersecting Perspectives: Defining the Marginal, Then and Now”(New Lights Forum)Alvarado G40th Chair: NWSECS Jennifer VANDERHEYDEN, Annual MeetingMarquette University1. Barbara ABRAMS, Suffolk University, “Le Bizarre and Le Décousu inthe Novels and Theoretical Works of Denis Diderot: How the Idea ofMarginality Originated in Eighteenth-Century France”2. Maria DEBLASSIE, University of Washington, “Voluptuous Texts:Textual Transgressions in Wollstonecraft’s Maria: Or the Wrong ofWoman”3. Aya TANAKA, Rutgers University, “Unconsummated History andEmerging Novel in Prévost’s Grecque moderne”LCD PROJECTOR125. “Spain and Italy in the Eighteenth-Century: Cultural Influences”(Ibero-American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) – IAlvarado BChair: Gloria EIVE, Emeritus, Saint Mary’s College of California1. Gloria ALLAIRE, University of Kentucky, “Spanish Cultural Influencesin the Regno di Napoli”2. Robin L. THOMAS, Pennsylvania State University, “From Naples toMadrid: Charles III and Civic Architecture of Reform”3. Elizabeth Franklin LEWIS, University of Mary Washington, Translationand Legitimization: Josefa Amar y Borbón’s Italian Roots”LCD PROJECTOR ANDCD/DVD PLAYER W SPEAKERS126. “Lesbian Queer?: Investigating Eighteenth-Century Notions ofWomen’s Love, Homosociability, Homosexuality, and Queerness”(Gay & Lesbian Caucus) Suite 418Chair:Kristi L. KRUMNOW, Utah State University AND Michael ThomasTAYLOR, University of Calgary1. Lena HEILMANN, University of Washington, “Under the Covers:Locating Female Friendships in Beds During the Eighteenth Century”2. Caroline GONDA, St. Catherine’s College, “Lesbian Narrative and theQueer Workings of Allusion, 1723-1835”3. Terra CAPUTO, Allegheny College, “Queer Desire and the Politics ofGender: Constructions of Lesbianism in the Works of Aphra Behn”4. Emily BOWLES-SMITH, Lawrence University, “Breaking GenderedVows: Cross-Dressing, Genderfucking, and Lesbian Queer Identities inAphra Behn’s Narrative Prose”38