social hour at NAVSA 2019!

NAVSA-goers and Columbus companions are warmly invited to join the V21 Collective Social Hour Thursday evening 17 October in the Hilton bar Gallerie, 9pm onward, for camaraderie, contestation, other modes of “social.”

Before and after, check out these affiliate panels amidst the great program:

1G. Romantics and Victorians I: Legacies and Divergences 

Room: George Bellows A
Moderator: Jamison Kantor (The Ohio State University) 

What Victorianists Still Don’t Get About Romanticism 

Andrew Elfenbein (Univ. of Minnesota) 

Epigraphs and (Literary) Mediation in Middlemarch Eirian Yem (University of Oxford) 

“Terror has no diary”: The Irish Gothic as Decadent Archive 

Sean O’Toole (City University of New York, Baruch College) 

2D. Literature, Philosophy, and Form 

Room: Emerson Burkhart A
Moderator: Summer Star (San Francisco State University) 

Alphabets of Nature 

Meredith Martin (Princeton University) 

Victorian Theory 

Jonathan Farina (Seton Hall University) 

The Underground of the Novel 

Daniel Wright (University of Toronto) 

3E. Theories of Character 

Room: Robert King
Moderator: Jessica Valdez (University of Hong Kong) 

Summer Star (San Francisco State University) 

Challenging the Trend Towards Personhood in Character Theory through Genre and Form: Realism, Fantasy, and Other Mediations of the Real in Dickens’ Bleak House
Alex Bove (Pacific University) 

Composite Characters in the Bildungsroman 

Sophia Hsu (Lehman College, CUNY) 

3G. George Eliot at 200: Reassessing Genres 

Room: George Bellows B
Moderator: Nancy Henry (University of Tennessee) 

Formation in the Provinces: George Eliot, the Bildungsroman and English Provincial Fiction
Ruth Livesey (Royal Holloway, University of London) 

Generic Melodrama, Sequestered and Transformed 

Carolyn Williams (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey) Pearl Brilmyer (University of Pennsylvania) 

Dimensions of Genre in Illustrated Complete Works of George Eliot 

Alison Booth (University of Virginia) 

3I. Neo-Victorian Fiction’s Medial Self-Reflections 

Room: George Bellows F
Moderator: Patricia Frick (Otterbein University) 

Literary Subjects: Victorian Forms, Contemporary Mediations 

Molly Clark Hillard (Seattle University) 

Not Just a Ghost Story: Crimson Peak and the Neo-Victorian Gothic Sylvia Pamboukian (Robert Morris University) 

Emma Donoghue and the Wonder of Irish Realism 

Renee Fox (University of California, Santa Cruz) 

4A. Transimperial Genres 

Room: Edna Boies Hopkins
Moderator: Dagni Bredesen (Eastern Illinois University) 

Dixie in Paraguay: Race, Genre, and Indigeneity 

Jason Rudy (University of Maryland) 

Unsettled Histories: Indigeneity and Genre in Colonial South Africa 

Ryan Fong (Kalamazoo College) 

Swadeshi Arts and Crafts
Sukanya Banerjee (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) 

4D. Multiplicities: Of Bodies, Affects, and Desires 

Room: Emerson Burkhart A
Moderator: Diana Bellonby (University of Pennsylvania) 

Victorian Disability and the Problem of Pain 

Travis Lau (University of Texas at Austin) 

Quantity, Quality, Aestheticism 

David Kurnick (Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey) 

The Importance of Being Bitchy: On Wilde’s Generic Gayness 

Gerard Cohen-Vrignaud (University of Tennessee) 

4I. Media, Extraction, Wreckage 

Room: George Bellows F
Moderator: Carolyn Lesjak (Simon Fraser University) 

Turner’s Blue: Extraction and the Material of Wreckage 

Nathan Hensley (Georgetown University) 

The Extractive Gaze and the Wreckage of Empire: Latin America and the Victorian Extraction Narrative
Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (University of California, Davis) 

Kingsley’s Petro-nostalgia: The Poetics of the Imperial Oil Field 

Michael Tondre (Stony Brook University, State University of New York) 

5A. Genre and Coherence in the Victorian Periodical 

Room: Edna Boies Hopkins
Moderator: Madeline Gangnes (University of Florida) 

Decorporatizing the Corporate Author: or, Victorian Periodicals in Pieces 

Carolyn Betensky (University of Rhode Island) 

Bathsheba Everdene, William Brown, and Zelda the Gypsy 

Laura Green (Northeastern University) 

Redefining the Mass-Market Magazine: John Maxwell, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, and the Welcome Guest
Jennifer Phegley (University of Missouri Kansas City) 

5C. ROUNDTABLE: Institution and Mediation 

Room: Elijah Pierce B
Moderator: Maia McAleavey (Boston College) 

The Digital Scholarship Lab: Computational and Collaborative Approaches to Victorian Texts
Sarah Allison (Loyola University New Orleans) 

Corporate Mediation: Disney’s Victorians 

Patrick Fleming (Fisk University) 

On Institutions and Heroines: Nightingale, Seacole, and the Crimean War 

Lara Kriegel (Indiana University) 

The Victorian Educational Anthology: A Global Institution? 

Casie LeGette (University of Georgia) 

The Victorian University as an Idea and Institution 

Mary L. Mullen (Villanova University)

The Life and Death of Victorian Institutions 

Kyoko Takanashi (Indiana University South Bend) 

5D. Head Trip: Brain, Skull, and the (Im)materiality of Consciousness 

Room: Emerson Burkhart A
Moderator: Aaron Worth (Boston University) 

“I Have Novel on the Brain”: Vernon Lee’s Neural Media 

Megan Arkenberg (University of California, Davis) 

George Eliot’s Brains and the Limits of Realism 

Elisha Cohn (Cornell University)

“A Grinning Skull Beneath”: Nicholas Nickleby, Physiognomy, and the Legibility of the Body
Tyson Stolte (New Mexico State University) 

Materialist Criticism and Thackeray’s Automated Minds 

Jamison Kantor (The Ohio State University) 

5H. ROUNDTABLE: New Directions in Victorian Studies and Economics 

Room: George Bellows A
Moderator: Deanna Kreisel (University of Mississippi) 

The Future of Economics and Literary Criticism 

Audrey Jaffe (University of Toronto) 

Making a Case for Victorians through the study of Political Economy and Economics
Elaine Hadley (University of Chicago) 

Preference: Modern Forms of Decision-Making in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Political Economy
Aman Garcha (The Ohio State University) 

On the Use and Abuse of the Nineteenth Century 

Zachary Samalin (University of Chicago) 

The Dignity of the Poor: Teaching Victorian Literature, Economic Inequality, and Human Rights
Sarah Winter (University of Connecticut) 

6C. Thinking Across Media 

Room: Elijah Pierce B
Moderator: Sharon Marcus (Columbia University) 

The Burlesque Body in Motion, Across Media 

Victoria Wiet (Harvard University) 

Absorption, Theatricality, Nonreciprocity 

Elaine Auyoung (University of Minnesota) 

Ruskin’s Media: Visual Technologies of the Gothic 

Rachel Teukolsky (Vanderbilt University) 

6G. Those Other Victorian(ist)s 

Room: George Bellows F
Moderator: Amy Wong (Dominican University of California) 

C.L.R. James, the Best Victorianist

Nasser Mufti (University of Illinois at Chicago) 

Decolonizing Sex with Those Other Victorians 

Ronjaunee Chatterjee (Concordia University) 

Victorian Transits of Empire 

Alicia Mireles Christoff (Amherst College) 

6I. Victorian Allegory 

Room: George Bellows B
Moderator: Maha Jafri (Sewanee: The University of the South) 

 “What Belonged to the Storm”: The Allegorical Limits of Realist Narration in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette
Clay Cogswell (Northwestern University) 

Typology to Allegory: Revising The Missionary Winter Werner (Wheaton College) 

The Decay of Allegory? 

Maha Jafri (Sewanee: The University of the South) 

7A. Henry James and the Play of Genre 

Room: Robert King
Moderator: Thomas Recchio (University of Connecticut) 

Performing the “Art” of Ignorance: Private Theatricals and Playing with the Bildungsroman in Henry James
Lauren Pinkerton (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) 

Victorian Novels and the Novel of Ideas 

David Coombs (Clemson University) 

Fanatical Inertness: James, Conrad, and the Late-Century Anarchist Novel 

Kailana Durnan (Rutgers) 

7H. Nature, Extinction, Doubt: The Limits of Knowledge 

Room: George Bellows A
Moderator: Jessie Reeder (Binghamton University) 

Scale, Denial, and Free Indirect Discourse 

Allen MacDuffie (University of Texas at Austin) 

Last Men: Mediating Extinction Through Narrative Form 

Jessie Reeder (Binghamton University) 

Anne Brontë’s Wager: Doubt, Denial, and the Stakes of Belief 

Aubrey Plourde (The University of Texas at Austin) 

7K. Utopia as (Not) a Genre 

Room: George Bellows D
Moderator: Deanna Kreisel (University of Mississippi) 

Infrastructure versus Eudaimonia: Dynamic Utopias in Wells and Matthew Arnold
Eleanor Courtemanche (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) 

“Dr. Karl Marx’s International”: The International Workingmen’s Association as Utopia
Mark Allison (Ohio Wesleyan University) 

Trouble in Ecotopia 

Deanna Kreisel (University of Mississippi) 

8A. Colonial Figments and Experiments 

Room: Edna Boies Hopkins
Moderator: Priti Joshi (University of Puget Sound) 

Session 8 

Describing the Mapuche: The Colonial Imaginary in the Victorian Periodical Press of Latin America
Michelle Prain-Brice (Universidad Adolfo ibáñez), Jennifer Hayward (The College of Wooster) 

“No Experiment Has Ever Failed More Dismally”: Eugenic Anxiety and Colonial Investigation on Norfolk Island
Adrian Young (Denison University) 

Magic, Mediality, Empire 

Aaron Worth (Boston University) 

9F. Novels Reflecting on “the Novel”: Case Studies from Caroline Clive, Anthony Trollope, and Charlotte Ridell 

Charlotte Bronte’s Queer Dolls: Female Relationships and Caring Labor in 

Jane Eyre and Villette 

Elissa Myers ( Room: George Bellows E
Moderator: Tara MacDonald (University of Idaho) 

Caroline Clive’s Paul Ferroll and Victorian Forms Tara MacDonald (University of Idaho) 

Anthony Trollope’s Serial Aesthetics

Jessica Valdez (University of Hong Kong) 

A Serious Novel by a Lady Novelist: Charlotte Riddell’s A Struggle for Fame (1883)
Tabitha Sparks (McGill University) 

10F. ROUNDTABLE: Genres of Proof

Room: Robert King
Moderator: Elaine Auyoung (University of Minnesota) 

Alien Evidence and Infrastructuralism 

Paul Fyfe (North Caroline State University) 

The Way We Quote Now: Reading Middlemarch, 1960-2015 Sierra Eckert (Columbia University) 

Middling Evidence 

Rachel Sagner Buurma (Swarthmore College) 

Citational Community 

Talia Schaffer (Queens College, CUNY, and Graduate Center, CUNY) 

Do We Believe Realism? 

Megan Ward (Oregon State University) 

10I. Ruskin the Polymath 

Room: Edward Parker Hayden
Moderator: Annael Jonas-Paneth (Boston University) 

Realist Form and Moral Mediation in Ruskin’s Modern Painters Thomas Albrecht (Tulane University) 

The Social Thought of Aerial Perspective in Turner and Ruskin 

Annael Jonas-Paneth (Boston University)
Michelle Radnia (University of California, Los Angeles) 

12B. Narrating Empire by Other Means: Domesticity, Kinship, Childhood 

Room: Robert King
Moderator: Benjamin O’Dell (Georgia Gwinnett College) 

Writing for the Nation, Healing the Nation: Soldierly Domesticity and the Genre of Reform in Rural Rides and Bleak House
Yon Ji Sol (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) 

Grandpaternalism: Generating Empire in Kipling’s Kim Jacob Jewusiak (Newcastle University) 

Jack Sheppard and the Imperial Boy Brooke Fortune (University of Florida) 

12E. Modes of Reading Victorian and Contemporary Fiction 

Room: Emerson Burkhart B
Moderator: Thomas Albrecht (Tulane University) 

Swallowing Time: Suspension, Suspicion, and Sensation in The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Soomin Kim (Brown University) 

Burning Bodies and Anti-Inflammatory Reading in Desperate Remedies Aaron Vieth (University of Wisconsin-Madison)  

Creating Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Image on Stage and Screen: 

from The Barretts of Wimpole Street to The Forgotten Front 

Towards a Queer Humanism: Thomas Hardy’s The Well-Beloved and André Aciman’s Call Me By Your Name
Dustin Friedman (American University) 

12J. World Media Cycles 

Room: Elijah Pierce B
Moderator: Ronjaunee Chatterjee (Concordia University) 

Cycles of Forgetting: Cairnes’s The Slave Power and the Political Economy of Racism
Gordon Bigelow (Rhodes College) 

Cyclical Emergency: The Political Ecology of the 1876-1878 Madras Famine
Benjamin Morgan (University of Chicago) 

Bigger Love: Financialization and Seriality across the Longue Durée 

Lauren Goodlad (Rutgers)