Saturday, September 11
9am CST/3pm BST (60 min)
1A. Fiction: Character, Imperialism, Pedagogy
- Erica Haugtvedt, “The Evolution of Transfictional Character through Periodical Parts”
- Leslee Thorne-Murphy, Cosenza Hendrickson, Alex Malouf, Elizabeth Condie, and Daniel Daw, “Evolving Pedagogy: Teaching Victorian Literature with Periodical Short Fiction”
Chair: Troy Bassett
1B. Illustration and Visualization
- Alison Hedley, “The Evolution of Data Visualization in Popular Victorian Print: Findings of the Graphical Materials Project”
- Madeline Gangnes, “Detection Drawn: Taxonomizing illustrated Periodical Detective Stories”
- Michelle Reynolds, “Aubrey Beardsley to Ethel Reed: The Visual Evolution of the New Woman in The Yellow Book
- Anne Anderson, “Fearful Consequences through the Laws of Natural Selection and Evolution: Punch, the Aesthetes and Degeneration”
Chair: Alison Hedley
15 minute break
10:15 CST/4:15pm BST (60 min)
2B. Evolutions in Editorship
- Anne Stapleton, “‘Edited and Published by Ladies’: The Waverly Journal and The Englishwoman’s Review under Eleanor Duckworth’s Leadership”
- Julie Sorge Way, “Female Editorial Evolutions: Mrs. Beeton at the Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine”
- Matthew Smith, “Henry Morley’s editorship of The Examiner: literary critical professionalization, institutional transition, and the problems of progress”
- Kathryn Ledbetter, “The Delicate Task of Sub-Editing: Edmund Yates, Charles Thomas, and the World”
Chair: Marion Grant
2C. The Evolving Practice of Journalism
- Annemarie McAllister, “The Evolution of William Hoyle”
- Chris Shoop-Worral, “Interrogating the Political Significance and Legacy of the Late-Victorian New Journalism”
Chair: Solveig Robinson
11:30 CST/5:30 BST (60 min)
Wolff Lecture: Marysa Demoor, “The Revolution of the Specialized Journal: the Case of the Lancet“
15 minute break
12:45 CST/6:45 BST (60 min)
4A. International Circulations
- M. H. Beals, “Mapping Metadata and Chronicling Collections: Reassessing Digitised Newspapers”
- Paul Fyfe, “Lajos Kossuth and the International Press System”
- Jennifer Hayward, “Circulating Stories and Settler Colonialism: The Chilean Indian in the British Newspaper Press”
Chair: Sophie van den Elzen
4B. Subversive Voices and Colonialism in Periodicals
- Sophia Prado Huggins, “Reading in the Shoals: Black West Indian Responses to the Jamaica Slave Rebellion of 1831 in the Anti-Slavery Reporter”
- Tanya Agathocleous and Jason Rudy, “Recombined: Genres of Indian and Australian Anticolonialism”
- Caroline Bressey, “Circulating Bodies: An African American in Late 19th Century Australia”
Chair: Jasmine Mattey
4C. The Review Process
- Laurel Brake, “Exeunt, pursued by a bear” Circulation and the Silent Work of the Book Review”
- Mark Turner, “The Miscellaneity of Reviews”
- Fionnuala Dillane, “Reviewer as Avatar: Shape-Shifting Subjectivities and Critical Creativity”
- Samantha Crain, “Early-Victorian Periodicals Learn to Embrace the Novel”
Chair: Julie Codell