Conference Agenda

Session

PS9C: Acceleration on Stage (1)

Time:

Friday, 20/June/2025:

2:00pm - 3:30pm

Session Chair: Diego SAGLIA

Location: Aula C (Polo Didattico delle Fontane, first floor)

Presentations

Hastening Forgetting: Historical Erasure and Melodrama's Rise

Matthew BUCKLEY

Rutgers University, United States of America

Rhythmic Acceleration in Melodramatic Form

Carolyn WILLIAMS

Rutgers University, United States of America

“‘They’d Fly Along the Lines with the Speed of Lightning’: Telegraphy, Telephony, and Phonography on the Victorian Stage”

Daniel A Novak

University of Alabama, United States of America

Dramatization as Accelerated Reading

Marty Gould

University of South Florida, United States of America