V21 and Vcologies at NAVSA: Social hour and panels!

This year’s NAVSA theme is “Looking Outward,” and V21 honors the theme in both scholarly presentations and collective sociality. We are excited to join Vcologies this year in welcoming all NAVSA-goers to a joint V21/Vcologies @ NAVSA Social Hour on Saturday October 13, 8pm-10pm at The Dali Bar, conveniently located inside the conference hotel. We enthusiastically welcome proposals for future conference streams and other V21 initiatives; please write to us at v21collective@gmail.com.

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NAVSA panels featuring V21 affiliates

Thursday, October 11th

SESSION 1, 2:00pm-3:30pm
1A. Outing Fractures in the Archive…………………………………………St. Petersburg I**
Moderator: Mary Mullen, Villanova University
Maeve Adams, Manhattan College
“Looking for Nothing: Manuscript Evidence and Elizabeth Gaskell’s Fragmentary Syntax”
Megan Ward, Oregon State University
“Outing Our Mutual Friend’s Queer Collections”
Heidi Kaufman, University of Oregon
“The Morant Bay Rebellion: Looking Out From the Photographic Archive”

 

1C. Industrial Pollution………………………………………………………………Harborview Moderator: John Miller, Allegheny College
Kent Linthicum, Georgia Institute of Technology
“‘I wish there were no such thing as coal’—Fossil Fuel in Coningsby and Sybil”
Holly Fling, University of Georgia
“Beyond the Human: Lady Audley’s (Nonhuman) Secret”
Michael Tondre, Stony Brook University (SUNY)
“Conrad’s Carbon Imaginary: Oil, Imperialism, and the Victorian Petro-Archive”
Kyoko Takanashi, Indiana University- South Bend
“Gaskell’s Industrial Fiction and the Problem of Institutions”

1F. Temporality…………………………………………………………………………………..Skyway Moderator: Benjamin O’Dell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Carolyn Betensky, University of Rhode Island
“Time Out: On Seriality and Not (Necessarily) Looking Forward”
Melissa Merte, University of Minnesota
“‘On the Edge of Some Labyrinth’: Possibilities of Time and Closure in Margaret Oliphant’s Hester”
Jeffrey Kessler, University of Illinois- Chicago
“Rethinking the Philosophical Novel: Outward Temporalities in Marius the Epicurean”
Dan Abitz, Georgia State University
“The Time Traveler and Queer Utopia in H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine”

SESSION 2, 4:00pm-5:30pm

 2H. Political and Social Theory…………………………………………………………….Bayboro
Moderator: Beth Newman, Southern Methodist University
Maha Jafri, Sewanee: The University of the South
“‘An Outward Trance’: George Eliot and the Utopian Psyche”
Alicia Williams, Rutgers University
“Addressing ‘A People’: Dickensian Democracy in Bleak House”
Maddie Reynolds, Cornell University
“Bleak House‘s Divergent Industrial Narrative”

Friday, October 12th

SESSION 3, 11:00am-12:30pm

3A. Deep Time of the Nineteenth-Century: Victorian Media Archaeologies…………………………………………………………………..St. Petersburg I**
Moderator: Roger Whitson, Washington State University
Roger Whitson, Washington State University
“Gender and Time: Ada Lovelace’s Feminist Media Archaeology”
Richard Menke, University of Georgia
“Fairy Lights: Electric Outlooks in Iolanthe at the Savoy Theatre”
Imogen Forbes-Macphail, University of California, Berkeley
“Time, Space and Mathematical Ekphrasis”
Rebecca Stern, University of South Carolina
“Forming” 

3B. Ways of Reading……………………………………………………………St. Petersburg II* Moderator: Patrick Fessenbecker, Southern Denmark University
Rachel Sagner Buurma, Swarthmore College
Laura Heffernan, University of North Florida
“J. Saunders Redding Reads David Copperfield”
Elaine Auyoung, University of Minnesota
“What We Mean by Reading”
Karen Bourrier, University of Calgary
“The Social Lives of Books: Reading the Victorians on Goodreads” 

3D. Digital EBB: Teaching, Scholarship, and Collaboration…………………….Harborview* Moderator: Patricia Rigg, Acadia University
Meredith Martin, Princeton University
“Teaching EBB Then and Now”
Natalie Houston, University of Massachusetts Lowell
“A Distant Reading of EBB’s Rhymes”
Dino Felluga, Purdue University
“Can Elizabeth Barrett Browning Save the Humanities?”
Joshua King, Baylor University
“Emplaced Networks: “The Cry of the Children” and Local-Virtual Pedagogy and  Scholarship”

3H. On the Look Out: Imperial Citizens Decentering Empire …… Hilton Training Center 4* Moderator: Ellen Rosenman, University of Kentucky
Ryan Fong, Kalamazoo College
“The Stories Outside the African Farm: Hearing the Indigenous Oralities of Colonial Mzansi”
Amy Kahrmann Huseby, Florida International University
“‘Dwell in My Voice’: The Whole Society of Amar Jiban”
Tricia Lootens, University of Georgia
“Looking Beyond (and Before) ‘Ancient Ballads’: Toru Dutt’s Sheaf and the Force of Abolition Time”

3K. Women and Sexuality………………………………………………………………………Bayboro Moderator: Mary Jean Corbett, Miami University
Doreen Thierauf, North Carolina Wesleyan College
“A Robe, of Purity”: The Hard Whiteness of EBB’s “Hiram Powers’ Greek Slave”
Eileen Cleere, Southwestern University
“See Something, Say Something: Recognizing Sexual Assault in Charlotte Mary Yonge’s 1856 The Daisy Chain”
Irina Strout, Nova Southeastern University
“Gendered space and female confinement in the sensation novels of 1860s”
Molly Clark Hillard, Seattle University
“Tess of the D’Urbervilles: Looking Outward from the Blackmoor Vale to Brazil”

SESSION 4, 2:30pm-4:00pm

4D. Beyond Ordinary Ethics……………………………………………………….Harborview*
Moderator: Kathleen Frederickson, University of California-Davis
Sara Maurer, University of Notre Dame
“Reading Like an Other: The Religious Tract and Narcissistic Reading”
Rachel Ablow, University at Buffalo, SUNY
“Before Reading, Beyond Ethics”
Rachel Teukolsky, Vanderbilt University
“Arendt’s Pariah: Ostracism and the Social Good”

Saturday, October 13th

SESSION 5, 8:30am-10:00am
5B. Organicism Beyond Bounds……………………………………………………………St. Petersburg II*
Moderator: John Kucich, Rutgers University
Devin Griffiths, University of Southern California
“Eliot, Organic Form, and the Outward Event”
Deanna Kreisel, University of British Columba
“The Machine in the Ghost: Mechanism and Organicism in Two Victorian Poems”
John Kucich, Rutgers University
“An Organicism of the Future: News from Nowhere and Non-Teleological Socialism” 

5G. Local and Global Visions…………………………………………..Hilton Training Center 3* Moderator: Joseph Sample, University of Houston-Downtown
Aileen Tsui, Washington College
“Looking Inward/Outward/Again at Whistler’s Arrangement in Grey and Black: Portrait of the Painter’s Mother”
Natalie Prizel, Princeton Society of Fellows
“The Catastrophic Atlantic”
Joe Sample, University of Houston-Downtown
“Fighting the Sacred Ducks of Fanqui: Sino-Orientalism and the Rhetoric of Things Chinese in Victorian Punch”
Shalini Le Gall, Colby College Museum of Art
“Displacement and Vision in Holman Hunt’s The Scapegoat”

SESSION 6, 10:30am-12:00pm

6C. Roundtable: Empire and Form …………………………………………………Demens*
Moderator: Sebastian Lecourt, University of Houston
Tanya Agathocleous, CUNY Graduate Center / Hunter College
Jason Rudy, University of Maryland- College Park
“Local and Metropolitan Archives”
Gordon Bigelow, Rhodes College
“Trollope, Ireland, and the Arbitrariness of the Sign”
Nathan Hensley, Georgetown University
“Catastrophe as Knowledge-Form”
Sebastian Lecourt, University of Houston
“Bengali Renaissance’s Epic Dilemma”
Amy Martin, Mount Holyoke College
“Famine and Form: Irish Poetry during the Great Famine in Ireland”
Mary Mullen, Villanova University
“Realism and Ireland”
Philip Steer, Massey University
“The Bad Form of the Australian River: The Production of Environmental Knowledge  and Value in Henry Lawson”

6D. Queer Peripheries……………………………………………………………….Harborview*
Moderator: Jill Ehnenn, Appalachian State University
Kathleen Frederickson, University of California- Davis
“Little Dorrit’s Edgeplay”
Rae Greiner, Indiana University
“The Dull Boy”
Daniel Wright, University of Toronto
“Pater’s Bedrock and Queer Metaphysics”

SESSION 7, 3:00pm-4:30pm

7C. Roundtable: Methodology from the Outside: The Challenges of Victorian Ecocriticism …………………………………………………………………………………….Demens* Moderator: Lynn Voskuil, University of Houston
Sukanya Banerjee, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
“Ecology and/of Empire: Disciplinary Turns”
Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, University of California- Davis
“Looking Downward: Anthroturbation and the Persistence of the Victorian”
John MacNeill Miller, Allegheny College
“Scenic Overlook”
Benjamin Morgan, University of Chicago
“Scaling as Critical Practice: On Size and Its Values”
Lyn Voskuil, University of Houston
“What is Ecological Reading?”

7L. Womens’ Narratives………………………………………………………………………Williams Moderator: Eileen Cleere, Southwestern University
Dagni Bredesen, Eastern Illinois University
“Expanding the Terrain of the Imaginable: Mid-Victorian Anti-heroines and ‘Ideal  Womanhood’”
Virginia (Piper) Leclercq, High Point University
“Unwieldy Forms: The Short Story, the Generation, and the Woman Question in Geraldine Jewsbury’s ‘Agnes Lee’”
Lauren Wilwerding, Boston College
“Reading Outward from the Middle: The Case of Miss Marjoribanks”
Amy Montz, University of Southern Indiana
“‘The Will and Pleasure of Women’: Appreciation of Fashion as Social Rebellion in Victorian Women’s Literature”

Sunday, October 14th

SESSION 8, 8:00am-9:30am

8B. Radical Economics and Imperial Relations………………………………St. Petersburg II* Moderator: Eleanor Courtemanche, U of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Eleanor Courtemanche, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Socialist Imperialism: Shaw, Schreiner, and the Boer War Controversy”
Supritha Rajan, University of Rochester
“Scales of Inequality: Political Economy and the Victorian Novel from Center to Periphery”
Matthew Reznicek, Creighton University
“A Swarm of Beggars and Harpies: Sympathy and the Urban Poor in the Novels of Maria Edgeworth and Sydney Owenson”

SESSION 9, 9:45am-11:15am
9A. Emergent Forms: Perception, Description, Dynamism …………………St. Petersburg I**
David Coombs, Clemson University
“The Ecological Approach to Formal Perception: James Gibson and the Theory of Affordances”
Anna Gibson, North Carolina State University
“Form and Life: The Strategy and Tactics of Victorian Novel Form”
Danielle Coriale, University of South Carolina
“The Life-Forms of Middlemarch” 

9B. Life, Unexpectedly: Animation in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture……………………………………………………………………St. Petersburg II*
Moderator: Aviva Briefel, Bowdoin College
Susan Zieger, University of California- Riverside
“Logistical Life: Nineteenth-Century Narratives of Commodity Animation”
Aviva Briefel, Bowdoin College
“Hands at a Séance: Spiritualism and Bodily Animation”
Renee Fox, University of California- Santa Cruz
“Reanimating Frankenstein: Adaptation, Inheritance, and the Historical Imagination” 

9F. Representations of Slavery ……………………………………….Hilton Training Center 2*
Frank Emmett
“From Bledlow to Barbados: Interventions for Good by the Stephen Family, 1800-1857”
Keith Clavin, United States Coast Guard Academy
“Translating Cuba: A Slave’s Writing and the Stakes of Colonial Poetics”
Sarah Allison, Loyola University- New Orleans
“The Miss Austen of Sweden in Cuba: Creating Distance from Slavery in Fredrika Bremer’s Homes of the New World (1853)”

9G. Transnationalism ………………………………………………….Hilton Training Center 3*
Robert Sirabian, University of Wisconsin- Stevens Point
“Looking Outward through William Watson’s The Purple East: A Series of Sonnets on England’s Desertion of Armenia”
Tyson Stolte, New Mexico State University
“‘Watchful Eyes and Itching Fingers’: Martin Chuzzlewit and American Phrenology”
Jonathan Farina, Seton Hall University
“Telescopic Misanthropy: English Critics on Russian Novelists”
John McBratney, John Carroll University
“The Modern Subject under Transnational Irony: The Strange Cosmopolitanism of Matthew Arnold” 

9L. Technology………………………………………………………………………………………….Pier
Barbara Leckie, Carleton University
“Getting Things Done: Steam, Industrial Modernity, and Procrastination in James Watt, Karl Marx, and John Ruskin”
Kathryn Powell, University of Tennessee
“Plotting New Trajectories in Margaret Oliphant’s The Railway Man and His Children”
Alex Bove, Pacific University
“Dickens’ Uncanny Flicker Effect: Projection, Characterization, Looking Ahead to Cinema”

SESSION 10, 11:30am-1:00pm

10A. Roundtable: Looking at the Novel from the Victorian Theatre………………………..St. Petersburg I**
Moderator: Victoria Wiet, Columbia University
Victoria Wiet, Columbia University
“Telling Conduct: Judging the Body on the Stage and the Page”
Carolyn Williams, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
“Melodramatic Form Writ Large in Little Dorrit”
Lauren Eriks Cline, University of Michigan
“Looking for/as the Plot: Spectatorship and the Victorian Novel”
David Kurnick, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
Respondent
Sharon Aronofsky Weltman, Louisiana State University
Respondent

10E. Looking Beyond Wage Labor……………………………………Hilton Training Center 1*
Moderator: Kira Braham, Vanderbilt University
Kira Braham, Vanderbilt University
“‘A Man Without a Calling’: George Gissing and the Victorian ‘Gig Economy’”
Marcus Waithe, Cambridge University
“Outwardly Free: Middle-Class Voluntarism and the Legacies of Slavery”
Mark Allison, Ohio Wesleyan University
“‘Every Man Becomes a Working Man’: The Transvaluation of Wage Labour in Marx’s The Civil War in France”