18th Century Society

I'm presenting an essay at the Canadian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Conference at Memorial University in Newfoundland this October. The essay is titled, "Sterne's Darling Maid: Charting the Influence of Laurence Sterne on Jane Austen". I went to the CSECS/NEASECS Conference in Ottawa last year, which was great, and I am very excited to attend this year's conference because Pat Rogers is scheduled to be a plenary speaker, who I met at BSECS 2008. He's worked on Sterne in the past. WATCH OUT NEWFOUNDLAND! Anyway, now I am revising, revising, revising the essay, which is good. I think people only listen in conferences about 60% of the time anyway; it's a lot to retain in a short time, plus some people are naturally boring.