Latitudes
Northeast Victorian Studies Association
Amherst, April 12-14, 2019
University of Massachusets
Registration is now open for NVSA 2019. Please register BEFORE March 29th (now), when a late registration fee ($60) will go into effect.
Two different ways to access: you can either go to the landing page, https://umass.irisregistration.com/Site/NVSA
Or, skip right to the login page: https://umass.irisregistration.com/Form/NVSA
Hotels:
The closest and lowest-priced ($169 per night) hotel is:
Hotel UMass, University of Massachusetts: 877-822-2110
Use group code” NVS19C and reserve by March 15 for our group rate.
A block of rooms is also reserved (mention NVSA for a lower rate) at the significantly pricier but lovely Inn at Boltwood, which is about 20 minutes away. There are numerous hotels of different sorts in Amherst.
DRAFT PROGRAM (subject to some small time adjustments)
Schedule of Events
Friday, April 12
Panels will take place in Room 917
10:00-11:00am OPTIONAL: Tour of Emily Dickinson Museum
12:00-1:00pm OPTIONAL: Tour of Emily Dickinson Museum
1:00pm (and following) Registration in Amherst
2:00pm Welcome
2:15–3:45pm Panel 1: Formal Latitudes and Taxonomies
(Jason Rudy, University of Maryland), Chair
Devin Griffiths (USC): “Area Studies, Geopolitics, and the Birth of ‘Victorian Studies’”
Lindsey E. R. O’Neil (U of Maryland, College Park): “E. Pauline Johnson: ‘Double Life’ and the Dramatic Monologue”
Carolyn Jacobson (Grinnell College): “Dialect of the Prussian Slaves: Punch, Minstrelsy, and Empire”
3:45–4:15pm Coffee
4:15–5:45pm Panel 2: Ecocritical Interventions
(Anna Henchman, Boston University), Chair
Elisabeth Strayer (Cornell): “Towards a Victorian Environmental Justice:
Representing Indigenous South African Voices”
Michael Tondre (SUNY Stony Brook): “Conrad’s Carbon Imaginary: Oil,
Imperialism, and the Victorian Petro-Archive”
Amy King (St. John’s): “Detail, Natural History, and a more Global
Victorian: Representations of Jamaica in the work of Marianne North
and Philip Henry Gosse”
6:00–7:00pm Opening Reception at Bistro 63
7:00pm Optional group dinners: various local restaurants
Saturday, April 13
9:00–10:00am Breakfast in Amherst Room
10:00am–12:00pm Keynote Panel in Honor of Carole Silver
Jonathan Farina (Seton Hall University), Chair
Sukanya Banerjee (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
Ankhi Mukherjee (Johns Hopkins University/Wadham College, Oxford)
Tim Watson (University of Miami)
12:00–1:45pm Lunch Meeting at TBD
2:00–4:00pm Panel 3: Remapping Coordinates of Centers and Peripheries
(Justin Thompson, University of Maryland), Chair
Austin Lim (San Francisco State U): “Realizing Singapore: The Archipelagic
Metropolis of The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither”
Sarah Weaver (Independent Scholar): “Dialect, Jargon, Patois, Creole: The
Latitudes of Victorian Language”
Kyle McAuley (Rutgers, New Brunswick): “‘Lat. Long.’: Geographic
Description and the Imperial Romance”
Natalie Prizel (Princeton): “Pre-Raphaelite in Black” Futures Past and Present
4:00–4:30pm Coffee
4:30–6:00pm Panel 4: Archives of Empire
(Tanya Agathocleous, Hunter College), Chair
James Najarian (Boston College): “Back to School: The Textbook Afterlife of
Matthew Arnold’s Sohrab and Rustum”
Adrian S. Wisnicki (U of Nebraska-Lincoln): “Recovering the Many Voices of
the British Empire”
Cara Murray (CUNY Queensborough): “Awards of Empire: Prize-winning
Essays of the Bombay Presidency”
Aaron Worth (Boston U): “Imperial Prestige”
6:00-6:30pm Archival Interlude
Heather F. Ball, (St. John’s University): “Erasing Disciplinary Lines and Unifying Scholars through Code: How a Medievalist Librarian and Postcolonial Literary Historian Work in Tandem on Victorian Explorer David Livingstone’s Expeditionary Writings”
7:00–9:00pm Dinner Banquet at Inn on Boltwood
(30 Boltwood Ave, Amherst)
Sunday, April 14, 2019
8:00–9:00am Breakfast in Amherst
9:00–10:15am Expanding the Field
Cornelia Pearsall (Smith College), Chair
Alicia Christoff (Amherst College)
Amy Wong (Dominican U of California)
Ronjaunee Chatterjee (Concordia U)
10:15–10:30am Coffee
10:30–12:00pm Panel 5: Transcultural Mediations
(Esther Hu, Boston University), Chair
Yan Yang (Peking University): “Seeking Spiritual Light from Ancient
India: Max Müller’s Interpretation of Vedic Religion”
Esther Hu (Boston University): “Charlotte Yonge, Missionaries, and Cross-
Cultural Friendship in Nineteenth-Century China”
Livia Arndal Woods (Trinity College): “Dreamland: William Morris,
Anthony Trollope, Instagram, and Iceland”
12:00–1:00pm Conference Wrap-Up
Nasser Mufti (U Illinois at Chicago)