In concert with other university, academic, and intellectual organizations and institutions, the V21 Collective unequivocally condemns all hate speech and hate acts with racist, Islamophobic, xenophobic, homophobic, transphobic, anti-semitic, ableist, sexist, and bigoted agendas. A central tenet of V21’s project has been the embrace of “strategic presentism,” a mode of literary and cultural analysis that opens …read more
Graduate Students! How does V21 change the field for you? What can V21 do for you? We are keen to brainstorm widely about grad projects, and here’s a new one: if you read our special issue of boundary2online offering the proceedings of our inaugural symposium “Presentism, Form, and the Future of History” we want to …read more
This year’s NAVSA theme is “Social Victorians,” and V21 honors the theme in both scholarly presentations and collective sociality. We welcome all NAVSA-goers and Phoenix-region friends and foes to join us for the 2nd annual V21 @ NAVSA Social Hour on Friday November 4th, 9pm-11pm at Hanny’s Bar & Restaurant, a couple of blocks from …read more
On this first anniversary of our inaugural symposium, we are delighted to announce that the symposium proceedings are now published in a special issue of boundary2 online. Table of Contents below; to access any article, follow links here. b2o: v21 special issue b2o: an online journal is an online-only, open access, peer-reviewed journal published by …read more
A finely crafted syllabus is one of the best antidotes to positivist historicism, because instead of just doing the default period-driven grabbag (“Mid Victorian Literature”) it can create a narrative or make an argument, and focus on conceptual or formal concerns (“Mid-Victorian Experiments in Omniscience and the Science of Mind”). Affiliates have contributed syllabi below; …read more
V21 is pleased to announce our second annual Summer Reading Group series. This year’s topics are Symptom, World, and Scale; readings include primary texts, philosophical texts, and literary criticism. The Chicago area group will meet for SCALE August 18 3-5pm, in the DePaul Library Rosati Room (2350 N Kenmore Ave). Specifics for groups in …read more
Exploring theory of the novel in comparative frames is a central vector for V21. Join us in Pittsburgh at the Society for Novel Studies, 13-14 May. We welcome all conference-goers and area friends and foes to help us kick things off with drinks Thursday evening, 12 May, 8pm-10pm at Fuel & Fuddle (basement room reserved). …read more
V21’s commitment to more comparative work leads us regularly to the American Comparative Literature Association. We welcome all conference-goers and Boston-area friends and foes to join us for our second annual ACLA Happy Hour, Saturday 19 March, 5pm-7pm, Alden & Harlow bar, 40 Brattle St. Seminars include: Marxism and Formalism Today Anthropocene Reading Hard Metaphors …read more
V21 is delighted to announce its plenary session at the upcoming Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies conference on Natural and Unnatural Histories, “Towards a Strategic Presentism”, 11:00am Friday 11 March. Friends, fans, and foes are invited to join affiliates for drinks at the V21 Moonlight Hour, Renaissance Hotel bar, 9:30pm Friday. “Towards a Strategic Presentism” Although …read more
The Collective cordially invites you to a V21 @ MLA Happy Hour, Thursday 7 January, 5pm-7pm, at Clive Bar. Below is a roster of MLA 2016 Sessions featuring the work of V21 Affiliates. Ink them on your dance card. 63. Lukács’s Theory of the Novel at One Hundred: Historicism, Realism, Critique Thursday, 7 January, 1:45–3:00 …read more