V21 at NAVSA: 2nd annual social hour and panels, panels!

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 the conference hotel. Come debate our special issue of boundary2, and participate in panels featuring V21 affiliates! *NB one panel, “Rethinking Ideology” shares a common text by Raymond Williams; email v21collective at gmail if you’d like a copy.

Session 1, Panel I — Social Failures in Dickens
Matthew Price (Pennsylvania State University) “When Bad Men do Nothing: Dickens’s
Inactive Actors”
Mary L. Mullen (Villanova University) “Origin Stories: The Problem of Biddy’s Relations in
Great Expectations”
Darby Walters (University of Southern California) “‘Mists and Shadows of the Past’:
Miasma and Memory in David Copperfield”
Joshua Gooch (D’Youville College) “Character as Discipline: Great Expectations and the
Volunteer Militia”

Session 2, Panel I — Social Genres
Justin Sider (United States Military Academy, West Point) “Aesthetic Categories and the
Social Life of Genre in Victorian Criticism”
Elliot, Amy (Purdue University) “Novels in Verse: Resisting Closure and Narrative Realism
in Clough’s Amours de Voyage”
Alicia Williams (Rutgers University) “Amoral Sociability and the Frame Narrative in the
Nineteenth-Century Novel”
Jonathan Farina (Seton Hall University) “Agnosticism and Sociality: Victorian Critics on
Skeptical Fictions”

Session 3, Panel A — Haunted Victorians
Elaine Auyong (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities) “Phantoms, Fictional Persons, and
Hardy’s Phenomenology of Loss”
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Aviva Briefel (Bowdoin College) “‘Freaks of Furniture’: The Useless Energy of Haunted
Things”
Johah Siegel (Rutgers University) “Unconquerable Specter/Strange Aphrodite: Ruskin and
the Haunted World”

Session 3, Panel C — India in Print
Priti Joshi (University of Puget Sound) “Networking: Newsmen Managing the Indian
Uprising of 1857”
Danny Sexton (Queensborough Community College) “Gems, Gender, and the Indian Mutiny
in Wilke Collins’ The Moonstone”
Nancy Marshall (University of Wisconsin–Madison) “‘That Sons Should Roast Their
Mothers Alive’: Victorian and Indian Representations of Sati”

Session 4, Panel H — Rethinking Ideology
Emily Steinlight (University of Pennsylvania) “Sciences of Thought and Sites of Labor:
Psychology, Ideology, Narrative”
Zachary Samalin (University of Chicago) “Correctedness and the Disenchanted Novel”
Nasser Mufti (University of Illinois at Chicago) “Where Aid All the Monsters
Go?”
Nathan Hensley (Georgetown University) “Apparatus, Dispositif, Sonnet: Christina Rossetti
After 1988”

Session 5, Panel C — Oceans in the Social World
Michelle Elleray (University of Guelph) “‘Incommicably Separate’: The Diving Suit and
Imperial Sociability in The Ebb-Tide”
Ryan Fong (Kalamazoo College) “Sea Bound Metaphors: Figuring the Oceanic Networks of
Dombey and Son”
Cornelia Pearsall (Smith College) “No Earthly Pole: Tennyson and the Franklin Expedition”

Session 5, Panel E — Reading Daniel Deronda
Emma Graner (Duke University) “Realisms Asociability: How Sympathy Constructs the
Social in Daniel Deronda”
David S. Coombs (Clemson University) “Illiteral Eliot: The Elements of Reference in
Romola and Daniel Deronda”
Rachel Kravetz (Graduate Center of the City University of New York) “The Radiant Skies of
Daniel Deronda”
Jill Rappoport (University of Kentucky) “‘That Blent

Session 6, Panel E — Unconscious Eliot
William Cohen (University of Maryland, College Park) “Unconsciousness (Scenes of
Clerical Life)”
Joseph Lavery (University of California, Berkeley) “Countertransference (Impressions of
Theophrastus Such)’
Alicia Christoff (Amherst College) “Omniscience (Middlemarch)”
Respondent: Pearl S. Brilmyer (University of Oregon)

Session 7, Panel D — Victorian Posthumanities
Lisa Hager (U Wisconsin, Waukesha) “From Chemistry to Cogs: Ether’s Victorian Aestheticism and Contemporary Steampunk.”
Tamara Ketabgian (Beloit College) “The Voices of Things: Steampunk, ‘Savage’ Minds, and
Wells’s ‘Lord of the Dynamos’”
Roger Whitson (Washington State University) “Steampunk as Posthuman Articulation Work
in the Projects of Jake Von Slatt”

Session 7, Panel K — Animal Analogy
Kathleen Frederickson (University of California, Davis) “Hysterics, Animals, Populations”
Elisha Cohn (Cornell University) “The Ways of the Dog: Personhood and Animality in Hard
Times”
Daniel Wright (University of Toronto) “The Rooks around Him: Thomas Hardy’s Avian
Worlds”
Pearl Brilmyer (University of Oregon) “Frog Faced: Spontaneity and Character in Eliot and
Stein”

Session 8, Panel J — Artists, Models, and Dressing Up
Joe Kember (University of Exeter) “Gesture, Expression, and the Social Appeal of Life
Model Lantern Slide Shows, 1880-1910”
Natalie Prizel (Yale University) “On Nameless Girls: The Social and Aesthetic Function of
the Victorian Model”
Caroline Dakers (Central Saint Martins, University of Arts London) “A Fondness For
Dressing Up: Artists’ Clubs, The St John’s Wood Clique And The Artists’ Rifles”

Session 8, Panel K — Web of Life
Moderator: Deanna Kreisel (University of British Columbia)
Jesse Oak Taylor (University of Washington) “Eliot’s Insects, or, Narrative Technics and the
Web of Life”
Lynn Voskuil (University of Houston) “The Social Lives of Victorian Plants”
Elizabeth Miller (University of California, Davis) “The Web of Life and the Appropriation of
Work in Late-Victorian Children’s Literature”
Respondent: Benjamin Morgan (University of Chicago)

Session 10, Panel I — Proximities: Remodeling the Social
Christina Griffin (University of California, Los Angeles) “The Architectural and
Psychological Interiorities of Trollope’s Chronicles of Barsetshire”
Beatrice Russell (University of Southern California) “Love’s Labor: Swinburne and the
Erotics of Repetition”
Ronjaunee Chatterjee (University of California, Los Angeles) “Brothers and Sisters:
Liberalism’s Horizontal Imaginary and Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White”

Session 11, Panel D — New Directions in the Victorian Historical Novel
Sebastian Lecourt (Johns Hopkins University) “Individuality and Imposture: George Eliot on
the Religious Founder”
David Womble (University of Chicago) “Non-Historical Time and Collectivized Character in
the Late-Victorian Novel”
Ruth McAdams (University of Michigan) “The Historic-Celebrity Encounter, the Roman-à-
Clef Character, and the Victorian Historical Novel”

Session 11, Panel J — Photography as Social Documentary
Kate Flint (University of Southern California) “What’s Funny about Flash Photography?”
Robert Aguirre (Wayne State University) “Photographic Labor: Muybridge in Central
America, c. 1875”
Carolyn Betensky (University of Rhode Island) “‘A Portfolio of Paradoxes’: Social
Documentary Photography in G.B. Shaw’s An Unsocial Socialist”
Session 11, Panel K — “Self-contained and Self-reliant”: Social Psychology and Self-Discipline
Natasha Rebry (University of Lethbridge) “Self-Discipline as Social Discipline: The Power
of the Will”
Tyson M. Stotle (New Mexico State University) “‘It Ain’t Our Stations in Life that Changes
Us’: Will, Victorian Psychology, and Little Dorrit”
Anna Gibson (Duquesne University) “George Eliot’s Social Psychology: Objectivity,
Subjectivity, and Narrative”

Session 12, Panel H — Socialist Victorians
Moderator: Mark Allison (Ohio Wesleyan University)
Mark Allison (Ohio Wesleyan University) “The Origins of the Fabian Ethos; or, Was George
Eliot the first Fabian Socialist?”
Benjamin Kohlmann (University of Freiburg) “True Ownership: Edward Carpenter and the
Nationalisation of Land”
Eleanor Courtemanche (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign) “Presentism and
Anarchism in William Morris”

Session 12, Panel K — Aesthetic Worlds
Rachel Teukolsky (Vanderbilt University) “Religious Aesthetics: Simeon Solomon’s Jews in
the Victorian World Picture”
Matthew Potolsky (University of Utah) “Around 1848: Picturing Revolution in the Early
Works of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood”
Benjamin Morgan (University of Chicago) “Fin du Globe: Decadent World Ecology”

5:00-6:15 Caroline Levine plenary!