Josephine Richstad (UCLA, English)

"Proofs of so wild a story":
Authority at Stake in Bram Stoker's Dracula

 

Julie Codell (ASU, Art History)

 

Jim Masland (UCLA, English)

Authoring a British Identity:
Narratives of Afro-Caribbean Masculinity

 

 

Joseph Childers (UC Riverside, English)

Mr. Mukharji Goes to London

 

 

Anna Kornbluh (UC Irvine, English)

'Money expects Money':
The Economic Problem of Satire
in The Way We Live Now

 

 

Hilary Schor (USC, English)

George Eliot and the Curious Bride;
or Maidens Choosing.

 

Adam Lowenstein (English, UCLA)

Henry James and the Evolution of the Art-Novel

Noelle Chao (English, UCLA)

At the Border of Musical Letters: Technologies of Recording in Scott

Kent Puckett (English, Berkeley)

Before and Afterwardsness in Henry James

 

Dickens Project
Winter Graduate Conference
(registration required)

 

Anne Stiles (English, UCLA)

H.G. Wells and the Evolving Brain:
Reading the Neurological Romance

John Plotz (English, Brandeis)

Nature and Knowledge:
Race and Portable Culture in Daniel Deronda and Theophrastus Such

 

Matt Dubord (English, UCLA)

Romantic Stories, Prosaic Findings:
The Detective Function in Hound of the Baskervilles

 

 

Shelley Salamensky (Theater, UCLA)

Sexing Syntax: Wilde Language & Desire in Three Fin-de-Siècle Romans-à-Clef

 

Heather Wozniak (English, UCLA)

Taming the Gothic on Stage:
Strategies of Adaptation

 

Dustin Friedman (English, UCLA)

"Artificial Artlessness":
Euphuism and "the task of poetry" in Walter Pater's Marius the Epicurean

 

 

Oscar Wilde at 150
Clark Library

This conference is not specifically a 19thc group event, but is arranged by one of our own, Joseph Bristow.

 

Joanne Tong (English, UCLA)

Building Empire: The Semi-Detached House of Britain and Hong Kong

 

Gerhard Joseph (CUNY)

Sounding the Strangeness of the Poet's Name: "Tennyson, Tennyson, Tennyson"

 

Kirstie McClure (Political Science, UCLA)

Political Truths, Statistical Frictions: The 'Condition of England Question' chez Carlyle and Elsewhere

 

Alison Harvey (English, UCLA)

Historicizing Ireland: Tradition, Modernity, and the 'Personal Element'
in the Works of Emily Lawless

 

 

Politicizing Jane Austen

This conference is not a 19thc group event, but is arranged by one of our own, Anne Mellor.

 

 

Jonathan Grossman (English, UCLA)
work-in-progress: chapter one

 

 

 

Tricia Lootens (U of Georgia)

Two Elephants in the Parlor?
Barrett Browning, Racialized Poetess Writing and the Diffusion of Victorian Poetry