V21 Collective at MLA

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 p.m., 401, JW Marriott
A special session
Presiding: Anna Kornbluh, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago
Speakers: Timothy Bewes, Brown Univ.; Joshua Clover, Univ. of California, Davis; Tom Eyers, Duquesne Univ.; Andrew Hoberek, Univ. of Missouri, Columbia; Sandra Macpherson, Ohio State Univ., Columbus; Ignacio Sanchez Prado, Washington Univ. in St. Louis; Emily Steinlight, Univ. of Pennsylvania
Session Description:
Moretti has expressed that Lukács’s The Theory of the Novel (1916) is less a theory than a history (a periodizing claim). This history now has its own history. Panelists ask both what the historicizing gesture looks like one hundred years later and whether the theoretical tenets of Lukács’s analysis can now come into higher relief.

93. What the Victorians Can Do for Theory
Thursday, 7 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., 10A, ACC
Program arranged by the forum LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English
Presiding: Aviva Briefel, Bowdoin Coll.
1. “Darwin’s Affect Theory,” Rachel Ablow, Univ. at Buffalo, State Univ. of New York
2. “The Victorian Novel and British Object Relations Psychoanalysis,” Alicia Christoff, Amherst Coll.
3. “Theories of the Nineteenth Century,” Zachary Samalin, Univ. of Chicago

132. “The Dickens Jukebox”: Music at Work and Play in Narrative Form
Thursday, 7 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 8B, ACC
Program arranged by the Dickens Society
Presiding: Carolyn S. Williams, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick
1. “Dickens’s Music: Harmony, Texture, and Form in Nicholas Nickleby,” Jonathan Farina, Seton Hall Univ.
2. “Musical Surface and Depth in Little Dorrit,” Carolyn S. Williams
3. “Doing and Undoing the Orphan: John Parry’s ‘Peasant Boy,’ Bleak House, and Our Mutual Friend,” Tricia A. Lootens, Univ. of Georgia

321. Air: Atmospheres of Mind and Matter
Friday, 8 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 4A, ACC
Program arranged by the forum LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English
Presiding: David S. Kurnick, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick
1. “Modernism’s Physics of Consciousness,” Maureen Chun, independent scholar
2. “Out of the Earth, into the Sky: On D. H. Lawrence, Coal Mining, and Externality in the Anthropocene,” Rebekah A. Taylor, Kent State Univ., Kent
3. “Air Mass,” Aleksandr Prigozhin, Univ. of Chicago

421. Satire and the Editorial Cartoon
Friday, 8 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 311, JW Marriott
Program arranged by the forum GS Comics and Graphic Narratives
Presiding: Nhora Lucia Serrano, Harvard Univ.
1. “The Radical Genealogy of the Editorial Cartoon,” Frank A. Palmeri, Univ. of Miami
2. “Between Words and Pictures: Telling the Graphic Story of United States Slavery in Abolitionist Satirical Cartoons,” Martha J. Cutter, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs
3. “Punch, Counter-Punch: Mimicry, Parody, and Critique in the Colonial Public Sphere,” Tanya Agathocleous, Hunter Coll., City Univ. of New York
4. “Pulling John Chinaman’s Queue to Get Him in Line: Domesticating Gestures in Nineteenth-Century Punch Cartoons,” Joe Sample, Univ. of Houston, Downtown

469. The Intermedial Eighteenth Century: Stage to Page, Print to Manuscript, Writing to Speech, and Back
Saturday, 9 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 18A, ACC
Program arranged by the forum LLC Late-18th-Century English
Presiding: Jonathan Sachs, Concordia Univ., Montréal
Speakers: Emily Hodgson Anderson, Univ. of Southern California; Michael Gamer, Univ. of Pennsylvania; John Savarese, Univ. of Waterloo; Stuart Sherman, Fordham Univ.; Mark Vareschi, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison
Session Description:
Panelists aim to refine our understanding of the relations of rivalry and remediation that connect the book and the stage, print and manuscript, and writing and orality in the later eighteenth century.

488. What Theory Can Do for the Victorians
Saturday, 9 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 9B, ACC
Program arranged by the forum LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English
Presiding: Carolyn Lesjak, Simon Fraser Univ.
Speakers: Anna Kornbluh, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago; Ivan Kreilkamp, Indiana Univ., Bloomington; Joseph Lavery, Univ. of California, Berkeley; Caroline E. Levine, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison; Nasser Mufti, Univ. of Illinois, Chicago
Session Description:
In short presentations meant to prompt discussion, participants address the contested place of theory in Victorian literary studies today and advocate greater engagement with selected theories and theorists.

511. Dickens and Disability
Saturday, 9 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 18D, ACC
Program arranged by the Dickens Society
Presiding: Talia C. Schaffer, Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York
1. “The Working Artist and the Literary Man: Disabled Self-Fashioning in Our Mutual Friend,” Natalie Prizel, Yale Univ.
2. “Grotesque Intelligence: Precocity as Disability in Dickens,” Mallory Cohn, Indiana Univ., Bloomington
3. “The Magnification of Jenny Wren,” Rachel Herzl-Betz, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison

609. New Religious Movements and the Victorian Literary Imagination
Saturday, 9 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 10A, ACC
A special session
Presiding: Anne Stiles, Saint Louis Univ.
1. “A Brief History of the Inner Child,” Anne Stiles
2. “Bardolatry as a New Religious Movement,” Charles P. LaPorte, Univ. of Washington, Seattle
3. “Buddhist Nirvana and Victorian Utopias,” Deanna Kreisel, Univ. of British Columbia
4. “Individuality, Exemplarity, Imposture: George Eliot on the Religious Founder,” Sebastian Lecourt, Johns Hopkins Univ., MD

668. Word Books and Material Culture
Saturday, 9 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 9A, ACC
Program arranged by the forum TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography
Presiding: Meredith Martin, Princeton Univ.
1. “Learning to Be Literate: Adult Reading Primers and the Identity of Reading in the Early-Twentieth-Century United States,” Kathryne Bevilacqua, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor
2. “Alphabetic Miniaturization,” Laura Forsberg, Harvard Univ.
3. “Advertisements in Dictionaries,” Michael Hancher, Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities

681. Ancient Philosophy in Times of Crisis
Saturday, 9 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 403, JW Marriott
Program arranged by the forum CLCS Classical and Modern
Presiding: Sarah Winter, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs
1. “Epicurus and Confessional Conflict in Early Modern France,” Eric MacPhail, Indiana Univ., Bloomington
2. “Seneca and the Crises of Late Stuart Rule, 1681–89,” Blair G. Hoxby, Stanford Univ.
3. “Minyan as Coalition: Rabbinic Law and the Crisis of Israeli Democracy,” Irene Tucker, Univ. of California, Irvine

719. Beyond Round and Flat: The History and Form of Victorian Character
Sunday, 10 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 5A, ACC
A special session
Presiding: Anna Clark, Iona Coll.
1. “Character of Many Turns: Manners, Taxonomy, and Affect in The Mill on the Floss,” Jonathan Farina, Seton Hall Univ.
2. “Loose Characters in The Girlhood of Shakespeare’s Heroines,” Lauren Byler, California State Univ., Northridge
3. “Public Character: Theatrical Narration in Realist Novels,” Anna Clark
Responding: Alicia Christoff, Amherst Coll.
For abstracts, write to aclark@iona.edu after 7 Dec.

752. Anthropocenic Agency in the Nineteenth Century
Sunday, 10 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 8C, ACC
A special session
Presiding: Gordon Mitchell Sayre, Univ. of Oregon
1. “Mediating Agency in the Nineteenth-Century Anthropocene,” Siobhan Carroll, Univ. of Delaware, Newark
2. “Evolution’s Aimless Feet: Tennyson and the Forms of Species Being in the Anthropocene,” Jesse Oak Taylor, Univ. of Washington, Seattle
3. “Moby-Dick and Nineteenth-Century Extinction Discourse,” Timothy Sweet, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown
4. “‘Alive and Moving’: Aesthetics, Agency, and Technology in Audubon’s Birds of America,” Gordon Mitchell Sayre

755. Digital Approaches to Fictional Dialogue
Sunday, 10 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 5A, ACC
A special session
Presiding: Marissa Gemma, Max Planck Inst. for Empirical Aesthetics
1. “Speech in Print: Showing and Telling Character in the Nineteenth-Century Novel,” Sarah Allison, Loyola Univ., New Orleans
2. “Narrative Talk: A Historical Study of Speech-Based Forms in Fictional Narration,” Marissa Gemma
3. “Coded Gender: An Algorithmic Approach to Social Performance in Narrative Speech,” Mark Algee-Hewitt, Stanford Univ.

759. Fiction and the Media Ecology, 1900–2015
Sunday, 10 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 9A, ACC
Program arranged by the forum LLC 20th- and 21st-Century English and Anglophone
Presiding: Debra Rae Cohen, Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia
1. “Wastepaper Modernism,” Joseph Elkanah Rosenberg, Univ. of Notre Dame
2. “The Literary Magazine as Incubator of Caribbean Fiction,” Katerina Gonzalez Seligmann, Emerson Coll.
3. “Drone Form: Word and Image at the End of Empire,” Nathan K. Hensley, Georgetown Univ.
4. “Digital Games and Literary Fiction: Toward an Intersectional Analysis,” Patrick Jagoda, Univ. of Chicago