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Previous Years: Archive of Schedule

2002-03 | 2003-04 | 2004-05 | 2005-06 | 2006-07 | 2007-08 | 2008-09

2008-09 Schedule (archive)

Tuesday, October 14
Humanities 193
4pm

 Helena Michie (Rice)

Victorian(ist) "Whiles" and the Tenses of Historicism

Tuesday, November 25
Humanities 193
4pm

 

Jim Caufield

“Most Free from Personality”:
Arnold’s Method of Ethical Exemplarity


 

Tuesday, March 3
Humanities 193
4pm

 

Josie Richstad

"Fashioning the Fashionable Novel: The Social Exclusivity of English Fiction, 1824-1848"
a dissertation prospectus

 

Tuesday, May 5
Humanities 193
4pm

 

Jami Bartlett (Irvine)

Throwing Things in Thackeray

 

Thursday
May 28
Humanities 193
4pm

 

Elizabeth Miller (UC-Davis)

Measured Revolution:
Poetry and the Late-Victorian Radical Press

 

2007-2008 Schedule

4pm, Tuesday
October 16
Humanities 193

 

Noah Comet

Felicia Hemans and the "exquisite remains"
of Modern Greece

 

4pm, Tuesday
November 6
Humanities 193

 

Matt Dubord

Free, Brave, and Personal:
Art and Politics in Henry James’s The Tragic Muse


 

4pm, Tuesday
November 20
Humanities 193

 

Adam Lowenstein

“Surprises that struck the hour”:
The Tragic Muse and the Representational Crisis of the Jamesian Serial

4pm, Monday
January 28
Humanities 193

Dustin Friedman

dissertation prospectus roundtable:
"Untidy lives": Negativity and Desire in the British Künstlerroman, 1866-1919

4pm, Tuesday
March 4
Humanities 193

Kate Bergren

The Romantic Epigraph in
Lydia Maria Child's Antislavery Writing

4pm, Tuesday
March 18
Humanities 193
David Kurnick (Rutgers)
Acoustics in the Thackeray Theater

4pm, Tuesday
April 8
Humanities 193

“What I Am Doing in the Library”
A Panel Featuring Huntington and Clark Library
Visiting Fellows
Arranged by Joseph Bristow

Stefano Evangelista (Trinity College, Oxford)
Oscar Wilde’s Aesthetic Education

Josephine McDonagh (King’s College London)
Literature in a Time of Migration: Mobility and Locality in Nineteenth-Century British Writing

Mark Turner (King’s College London)
Wilde and the Culture of Journalism in the 1880s

4pm, Tuesday
April 29
Humanities 193

Katherine Isokawa

"The Motor's Come to Stay":
Reading Motion in Howards End

Cancelled

Helena Michie (Rice)

Victorian(ist) "Whiles" and the Tenses of Historicism

 

2006-2007 Schedule (archive)

Tuesday, 4pm
October 31
Humanities 193

 

Josephine Richstad (UCLA, English)

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

 

Tuesday, 4pm
November 14
Humanities 193


Julie Codell (ASU, Art History)

Indian Travelers' Narratives:
The Guest Discourse & Reversing the Grand Tour


Tuesday, 4pm
January 16
Humanities 193

 

Jim Masland (UCLA, English)

Authoring a British Identity:
Narratives of Afro-Caribbean Masculinity

 

Tuesday, 4pm
February 6
Humanities 193

 

Joseph Childers (UC Riverside, English)

Mr. Mukharji Goes to London

 

Tuesday, 4pm
April 24
Humanities 193

 

Anna Kornbluh (UC Irvine, English)

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

 

 

Thursday, 4pm
May 17
Humanities 250


 

Hilary Schor (USC, English)

George Eliot and the Curious Bride;
or Maidens Choosing.

 

 

2005-2006 Schedule (archive)

Wednesday, October 12
4pm
1301 Rolfe

Adam Lowenstein (English, UCLA)

Henry James and the Evolution of the Art-Novel

Tuesday, November 1
4pm
1301 Rolfe


Ayelet Ben-Yishai (English, Berkeley)

Victorian Commonalities: Gossip, Fiction and the
Problem of Legal Positivism

Tuesday, November 29
4pm
1301 Rolfe

Noelle Chao (English, UCLA)

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

Tuesday, January 31
5 pm
2310 Rolfe

Kent Puckett (English, Berkeley)

Before and Afterwardsness in Henry James

 

February 17 - 19
Royce 306 & 314

 

 

Dickens Project
Winter Graduate Conference

(registration required)

 

 

Tuesday, February 21
4pm
1301 Rolfe


Anne Stiles (English, UCLA)

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

 

Thursday, February 23
4pm
1301 Rolfe


John Plotz (English, Brandeis)

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

 

Tuesday, March 7
4pm
Rolfe 1301

 

 

Matt Dubord (English, UCLA)

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

 

 

Tuesday, April 25
4pm
1301 Rolfe

 

 

Shelley Salamensky (Theater, UCLA)

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

 

 

Tuesday, May 9
3pm
1301 Rolfe

 


Heather Wozniak (English, UCLA)

Taming the Gothic on Stage:
Strategies of Adaptation


 

Tuesday, May 23
4pm
Rolfe 1301

 

 

Dustin Friedman (English, UCLA)

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

 

2004-2005 Schedule (archive)

Friday & Saturday
October 22-23

 


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.

 

Tuesday,
November 9
4pm
Rolfe 1301


Joanne Tong (English, UCLA)

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

 

Wednesday,
November 17
4pm
Rolfe 1301


Gerhard Joseph (CUNY)

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

 

Tuesday
November 30
4pm
Rolfe 1301


Kirstie McClure (Political Science, UCLA)

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

 

 

Tuesday
January 11
4pm
Rolfe 1301

 


Alison Harvey (English, UCLA)

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

 

Thursday
February 10
4pm
Rolfe 1301


Melissa Sodeman (English, UCLA)

"Tattered Dulcinea":
The Ruins of Romance in Frances Burney's The Wanderer

 

Friday & Saturday
March 4-5
Clark Library

 

Politicizing Jane Austen

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

 

Thursday
April 21
4pm
Rolfe 1301

 

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

 

 

Thursday
May 12
4:00pm
Rolfe 1301

 

Tricia Lootens (U of Georgia)

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

 

2003-2004 Schedule (archive)

October 9
3-4:30
Rolfe 2310

Organizational Meeting
Monday
November 17
4pm
Rolfe 2310
Jim Caufield (UCLA, English Dept)
"England Green in Tooth and Claw: W. H. Hudson and the Ideological Thrust of Edwardian Nature Writing"
Monday
December 1
4pm
Rolfe 2310
Lindsey Traub (Cambridge)
"Lessons of the Mistress :
Henry James and Women's Writing"
Monday
January 26
4pm
Rolfe 1301
David Lloyd (USC)
"The Political Economy of the Potato"
Monday
March 22
9:30am-5:30pm
Royce 314
Conference
Speed, Technology, and the Invention of Change, 1800-1919
Tuesday
April 20
3:30 pm
Rolfe 2310
Anne Stiles (UCLA, English Dept)
"Jekyll and Hyde and the Double Brain"

2002-2003 Schedule (archive)

Nov 7
4pm
1301 Rolfe
Organizational mtg
Nov 21
3pm
Open mtg to share research interests
January, various dates
1301 Rolfe
Click here for list of job talks by candidates for the Romanticist position

February 11
2310 Rolfe

Discussion of George Levine's Dying to Know

Wednesday
April 16
12:30pm
1301 Rolfe

Brown bag lunch discussion of conferencing

Wednesday
May 7
4pm
1301 Rolfe

Jill Galvan on Trilby

Wednesday,
May 21
12:30pm
1301 Rolfe

Allison Kroll on Hardy

 

     

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