V21 at MLA! 2nd Annual Happy Hour, Levine’s Prize, Book Party, Panels!

Join V21 in celebrating the awarding of the James Russell Lowell Prize to Caroline Levine for her tremendous work FORMS: Whole,Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network (Princeton UP, 2015).

2nd Annual V21@MLA Happy Hour/ Levine Prize Party: Friday 6 January, 6:30-8:00pm, Maggiano’s Restaurant (ask for the private room under “Levine”), 1201 Filbert Street (directly across from the convention center).

Book Party: Toast the publication of four stellar affiliate books on Thursday 5 January, 7:00-9:00 at Pub and Kitchen, 1946 Lombard Street.

 

Affiliate panels from the beginning to the end!

42. Moving Image Poetry

Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 406, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the forum MS Screen Arts and Culture

Presiding: Caetlin Benson-Allott, Georgetown Univ.

1. “Being Private in Public: Claudia Rankine and John Lucas’s ‘Situation’ Videos,” Chad Bennett, Univ. of Texas, Austin
2. “Kinetic Typography and Fixed-Width Expression,” Seth Perlow, Univ. of Oklahoma
3. “The Screenshot Image,” Diana Hamilton, Baruch Coll., City Univ. of New York
4. “Baudelaire’s Invitation to the Cinema,” Ellis Hanson, Cornell Univ.

49 We Can’t Stop Talking about Elena Ferrante

Thursday, 5 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 401-403, Philadelphia Marriott

Program arranged by the forum GS Prose Fiction

Presiding: Hester Blum, Penn State Univ., University Park

1. “The Function of Collaboration at the Present Time,” Sarah Blackwood, Pace Univ., New York; Sarah Mesle, Univ. of Southern California
2. “‘She Was Explaining to Me That I Had Won Nothing’: Fierce Friendship and Feminist Historical Resignation in Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook and Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan Quartet,” Pamela Thurschwell, Univ. of Sussex
3. “Ferrante on Good Sex with Bad People,” Tina Lupton, Univ. of Warwick

Responding: David S. Kurnick, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick

 

88. Human-Animal Boundaries in Nineteenth-Century British Literature

Thursday, 5 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., 102B, Pennsylvania Convention Center

A special session

Presiding: Kaitlin Mondello, Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York

1. “Master Betty versus Carlo the Wonder Dog: The Year of Child and Animal Actors,” Michael Gamer, Univ. of Pennsylvania
2. “The Ways of the Dog: Personhood and Animality in Hard Times,” Elisha Cohn, Cornell Univ.
3. “‘But Natural History Is Full of Paradoxes’: G. H. Lewes’s Intimate Animal Studies,” Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze, Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.
4. “‘Thou Art of the Jungle and Not of the Jungle’: Mowgli and the Mediation of the Animal-Human Divide in Rudyard Kipling’s The Jungle Books,” Shun Kiang, Stetson Univ.

 

• 101 Print Culture in Colonial and Postcolonial India

Thursday, 5 January, 3:30–4:45 p.m., 406, Philadelphia Marriott

A special session

Presiding: Jennifer Dubrow, Univ. of Washington, Seattle

1. “A Web of Relations: Indian and Anglo-Indian Editors in Mid-Nineteenth-Century India,” Priti Joshi, Univ. of Puget Sound
2. “Satire and Social Discord,” Jennifer Dubrow
3. “The Right to Say No: Atharva and Modern Marathi Literature in Bombay,” Anjali Nerlekar, Rutgers Univ., Piscataway

 

• 201 Byron and Consumption

Friday, 6 January, 8:30–9:45 a.m., 106B, Pennsylvania Convention Center

Program arranged by the Byron Society of America

Presiding: Ghislaine Gaye McDayter, Bucknell Univ.

1. “Consuming Byron in the Age of Abolition,” Deanna Koretsky, Spelman Coll.
2. “Byron’s Works and Public Consumption,” Gary R. Dyer, Cleveland State Univ.
3. “Consumption on the Margins: Byron’s Secondhand Reading,” Jonathan Gross, DePaul Univ.
4. “Consuming Melodrama,” Michael Gamer, Univ. of Pennsylvania

 

• 305 Reading Surplus: Population, Biopolitics, and Form in the Nineteenth Century

Friday, 6 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 110A, Pennsylvania Convention Center

A special session

Presiding: Kathleen Frederickson, Univ. of California, Davis

1. “Vagrancy and the Poetics of Surplus,” Sarah Nicolazzo, Univ. of California, San Diego
2. “The Symptoms of Population,” Kathleen Frederickson
3. “Conrad, Le Bon, and the Demography of Consciousness,” Emily Steinlight, Univ. of Pennsylvania

 

• 315 That’s Not How Scholarship Works: Exploring the Process of Multimodal Critical Making

Friday, 6 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., Grand Ballroom Salon B, Philadelphia Marriott

A special session

Presiding: Anastasia Salter, Univ. of Central Florida

Speakers: Daniel Anderson, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; Matt Applegate, Molloy Coll.; Cheryl E. Ball, West Virginia Univ., Morgantown; Helen J. Burgess, North Carolina State Univ.; Clarissa Ceglio, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs; Jason Helms, Texas Christian Univ.; Micki Kaufman, Graduate Center, City Univ. of New York; Kimon Keramidas, New York Univ.; Tom Scheinfeldt, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs; Yu Yin To, Binghamton Univ., State Univ. of New York; Roger Whitson, Washington State Univ., Pullman

For abstracts and links, visit notscholarship.selfloud.net/.

Session Description:

Most digital scholarship reprises written forms despite the affordances of the medium. In this digital session, an interdisciplinary group of scholars and editors who challenge these dominant methods of scholarly production reveal their critical making processes—the invisible labor behind multimodal scholarship, as documented in physical and digital artifacts.

 

• 337 Biographia Literaria at Two Hundred

Friday, 6 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 106A, Pennsylvania Convention Center

Program arranged by the forum LLC English Romantic

Presiding: Margaret E. Russett, Univ. of Southern California

1. “The Latent Mechanics of the Imagination,” Jocelyn Holland, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
2. “Reading for the Pause in the Biographia Literaria,” Anne McCarthy, Penn State Univ., University Park
3. “‘The Path of Sound through Air’: Coleridge’s Biographia and Twentieth-Century Poetry,” Jacob Risinger, Ohio State Univ., Columbus

Responding: Margaret E. Russett

 

• 550 “Victorian” in a Comparative Field

Saturday, 7 January, 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., 109B, Pennsylvania Convention Center

Program arranged by the forum LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English

Presiding: Pamela K. Gilbert, Univ. of Florida

Speakers: Elaine Auyoung, Univ. of Minnesota, Twin Cities; Sukanya Banerjee, Univ. of Wisconsin, Milwaukee; Joseph Lavery, Univ. of California, Berkeley; Sharon Marcus, Columbia Univ.; Yopie Prins, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Alex Woloch, Stanford Univ.

Session Description:

Participants discuss the implications and challenges of studying Victorian literature beyond prescribed national and temporal boundaries.

 

• 641 Medieval and Victorian Temporalities

Saturday, 7 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 202A, Pennsylvania Convention Center

Program arranged by the forums LLC Victorian and Early-20th-Century English and LLC Chaucer

Presiding: Catherine Sanok, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Speakers: Mary Bowden, Indiana Univ., Bloomington; Seeta Chaganti, Univ. of California, Davis; Megan Cook, Colby Coll.; Daniel Hack, Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor; Nathan K. Hensley, Georgetown Univ.

Session Description:

This session brings together medievalists and Victorianists to compare how the literature in their respective fields figures temporal scale and to discuss what the temporal scale of critical practice is or should be.

 

 

• 663 Barely Legal: Erotic Innocence at Nineteen

Saturday, 7 January, 5:15–6:30 p.m., 203B, Pennsylvania Convention Center

Program arranged by the forum GS Children’s and Young Adult Literature

Presiding: Marah Gubar, Massachusetts Inst. of Tech.

Speakers: Ellis Hanson, Cornell Univ.; Natasha Hurley, Univ. of Alberta; Kenneth Byron Kidd, Univ. of Florida; Derritt Mason, Univ. of Calgary; Carol Mavor, Univ. of Manchester

Responding: James R. Kincaid, Univ. of Southern California

Session Description:

Scholars working in Victorian studies, art history, queer theory, film studies, and children’s literature and childhood studies discuss how the controversial work of James R. Kincaid has transformed their fields.

 

 

• 708 Anthropocene Digital Humanities

Sunday, 8 January, 10:15–11:30 a.m., 112A, Pennsylvania Convention Center

A special session

Presiding: Amanda Starling Gould, Duke Univ.

1. “Post-cinema, Digital Video, and Envisioning the Eclipse of Human Experience,” Shane Denson, Stanford Univ.
2. “Restor(y)ing the Ground: Digital Environmental Media Studies and Ecocritical DH,” Amanda Starling Gould
3. “Steampunk as Anthropogenic Design Fiction: Technological Infrastructure in the ‘Flooded London’ Exhibition,” Roger Whitson, Washington State Univ., Pullman
4. “Machine Dream Anthropocene,” Helen J. Burgess, North Carolina State Univ.; Anna Coluthon, independent artist

 

• 781 Pornographic, Grotesque, Stupid: Rethinking Victorian Character

Sunday, 8 January, 1:45–3:00 p.m., 203B, Pennsylvania Convention Center

A special session

Presiding: Rachel Teukolsky, Vanderbilt Univ.

1. “The Old Pornography Shop,” Joseph Lavery, Univ. of California, Berkeley
2. “Dickens’s Caricatures,” Rachel Teukolsky
3. “Feeling Stupid,” Rae Greiner, Indiana Univ., Bloomington