British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS) 25th Anniversary Conference

Conference banner with images of Victorian ladies in different dresses

Images from the John Johnson Collection (via Proquest), with the permission of the Bodleian Libraries.

 

University of Oxford, 23–25 July 2025

( PGR/ECR Professionalisation Afternoon on 22 July)

 

The Oxford Faculties of English and History are delighted to host this 25th anniversary conference of the British Association for Victorian Studies on 23–25 July. 

The programming includes a dedicated presentation of Victorian resources at the Ashmolean Museum (with capacity for up to 40 people). We are also delighted to announce a wine reception and a special performance, both free to conference attendees, of a Punch and Judy suffrage routine. Spike Bones’ Punch and Judy show is a new perspective on an old tradition – commissioned by The Judy Project: https://thejudyproject.exeter.ac.uk/. 

The walking tour indicated on our call for papers has been removed in order to allow more space for speakers, but maps and suggested routes for independent exploration of Oxford will be provided.

Registration

Registration for the conference will open in May for conference speakers and in June for all other attendees. 

In order to keep costs low, we will be asking attendees to book their own accommodation (a list of suggested options will be provided). All aspects of the ECR/PGR event will be free, excepting accommodation.

 

Scroll down to see the provisional conference programme, or download the programme as a pdf.

PGR/ECR Professionalisation Afternoon

The PGR/ECR Professionalisation Afternoon will be held on the afternoon of 22 July. New this year for early career researchers and postgraduates is the opportunity to exchange writing for peer review, including proposals for first monographs and postdoctoral fellowships. If you are interested in participating in these workshops and can commit to peer review and discussion, please contact Dr Christy Wensley, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, via bavs@ell.ox.ac.uk. See a provisional programme for the PGR/ECR Professionalisation Afternoon below; scroll down for the full conference programme.

TUESDAY 22 July: PGR/ECR PROFESSIONALISATION AFTERNOON PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

14:00-17:00: Registration, St Cross Building, Upper Concourse 

Colonial Countryside book display and Publishers’ Tables

14:00-14:10: Welcome (Lecture Theatre 2)

14:15-15:45: Session 1

  1. Victorian Pedagogies: Theories and Methodologies (Seminar Room K)
  2. Careers In and Beyond Academia (Lecture Theatre 2)

15:45 – 16:15: Tea and coffee break (St Cross Building, English Faculty lobby and lower concourse)

16:15-17:45: Session 2

  1. Peer review workshops (Seminar Rooms A and B)
  2. In the Victorian Parlour: Games and Gatherings (Seminar Room K)

18:00-19:45: Dinner (St Cross Building, outdoor terrace)

20:00-21:00: The Last Séance: A Gothic Victorian Fantasy in One Act (ticketed event)

Provisional conference programme

WEDNESDAY 23 JULY

9:00-18:00: Registration, St Cross Building, Manor Rd, main reception area

9:30-45: Conference Welcome (Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre)

9:45-11:00: Panel session 1

  1. Victorian Textualities
  1. ‘Modelling Character: Stone Inscriptions in the Page World of the Victorian Novel’—Marcus Waithe (U Cambridge)
  2. ‘This Valuable Autograph’— Lucy Whitehead (Royal Holloway, U London)
  3. ‘“Among a World of Ghosts”: Spectral Imaging and Textual Apparitions in the Tennyson and Shelley Circles’—Michael Sullivan (U Oxford)

  1. Victorian Asia
  1. ‘The Formations of Transcultural Knowledge in the Victorian Periodical Press: Translating and Reviewing Classical Chinese Poetry, 1870s – 1900s’—Lynn Qingyang Lin (Lingnan U)
  2. ‘The Chinese Canon in English: James Legge and the Chinese Classics’—Colin Cavendish-Jones (Xiamen U, Malaysia)
  3. ‘Picturing Meiji Japan in Victorian Visual Culture, c.1880-1901’—Jin Chenxiao (U St Andrews)

  1. Brontës
  1. ‘Brontë Weather’—Krista Lysack  (King's University College at U Western Ontario)
  2. ‘“God watch that sail!’: Brontë’s Villette and Victorian Vagueness’—Alexander Lynch (U Cambridge)
  3. ‘That nursery of folly and impertinence’: The Influences of The Cottagers of Glenburnie on Jane Eyre’—Gem Kirwan (U Edinburgh)

  1. Pre-Raphaelitism
  1. ‘Pre-Raphaelitism as a Nightmare: Artistic, Linguistic and Temporal Adaptation’—Susie Beckham (U York)
  2. ‘Edith Coleridge and the Rossettis’—Molly Watson (U Nottingham)
  3. ‘Creating Space for Holman Hunt’s “The Light of the World”: J.T. Micklethwaite Renovates Keble College Chapel’—Victoria M. Young (U St. Thomas, Minnesota)

  1. Illustration
  1. ‘Queering the Sister Arts: Aubrey Beardsley’s Queer Narrative and Image-Text Dynamics in Under the Hill’—Robert Steele (U Toronto)
  2. ‘Althea Gyles: Feminist Symbolist Illustrator’—Michelle Reynolds (U Exeter)
  3. ‘Two Copies, Two Visions: The Interplay of Word and Image in the Illuminated Idylls of the King’—Dominique Iannone (U Salerno, Italy)

  1. Poetry
  1. ‘Alliteration as “Early Style” in the Poetry of William Barnes, Eliza Keary and Mathilde Blind’—Timothy Anderson (U East Anglia)
  2. ‘Octopods and Pofflikopps: Edward Lear and the Mundellas’—Amy Wilcockson, (U Glasgow)
  3. ‘“I am in love, meantime”: Nonmutual Time in Arthur Hugh Clough’s Amours de Voyage’—Dana Moss (U Michigan)

11:00-11:45: Tea and coffee break (St Cross Building, English Faculty lobby and lower concourse)

11:45-13:00: Keynote Lecture 1 (Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre) Prof Sarah Meer

13:00-14:00: Lunch (St Cross Building, English Faculty lobby and lower concourse)

13:30-14:00: Film screening of ‘The Man Who Painted His House’ (Gulbenkian lecture theatre)

14:00-15:15: Panel session 2

  1. ‘The Man Who Painted His House’: Uncovering a Victorian Art-Workman
  1. Victoria Mills, Senior Lecturer in Victorian Literature and Culture (Birkbeck, U London)
  2. Claire Jones, Senior Lecturer in History of Art (U Birmingham)
  3. Zoe Thomas, Associate Professor in Modern History (U Birmingham)

  1. Theatre and Visual Culture in the Mid-Nineteenth Century
  1. ‘Painting, Theatre, and Remediation: Delaroche and Gérôme’— Patricia Smyth (U Exeter) & Emma Sutcliffe (U Burgundy)
  2. ‘Louisa Ruth Herbert, Lady Audley and the Pre-Raphaelite Image on the Nineteenth Century Stage’— Caroline Radcliffe (U Birmingham)
  3. ‘Immersion and Innovation in Melodrama’—Kate Newey (U Exeter)

  1. Travel in the East
  1. ‘Lucie Duff Gordon’s Gendered Travel Narratives of Encounter in the Easts’—Claudia Capancioni (Bishop Grosseteste U, Lincoln)
  2. ‘Conrad and the Malay Archipelago’—Michelle Beth Chong (U Oxford)
  3. ‘Reimagining Isabella Bird: Cross-Cultural Representations in Japanese Neo-Victorian Fiction and Manga’—Akira Suwa (Doshisha U)

  1. Good and Gifted Daughters
  1. ‘A useful, steady daughter’: Charlotte Yonge’s Tractarianism and the Ideology of Female Self-Sacrifice’—Fabia Buescher (U Cambridge)
  2. ‘the well-nigh magical influence exerted by this gifted woman (for only a woman could succeed in such a task)’: repositioning women in the narrative of nineteenth-century ragged schools and refuges’—Jillian Southart (Royal Holloway, U London)
  3. ‘List to the Convent Belles’ : Music & the Convent Schoolgirl in Victorian Ireland’—Emma Arthur (U Oxford)

  1. Photographic
  1. ‘The Empire’s Follies and Julia Margaret Cameron as Ethnographer in David Rocklin’s The Luminist (2011): Contesting the Civilising Mission’—Maria Isabel Romero Ruiz (U Málaga)
  2. ‘“Speak of a Radiance”: The Photographic Surface as Transmissive Membrane for Affective Horror in The Terror’— Helen Victoria Murray (U Lancaster)
  3. ‘“And She Herself in White”: Echoes of Victorian Death Ritual in Photographic Interpretations of Tennyson’s Elaine, the Lily Maid of Astolat’—Meg Dolan (U St Andrews)

  1. Deep Time
  1. ‘Show them iron!’: History and Deep History in Grant Allen’s ‘Pallinghurst Barrow’—Billie Gavurin (U Birmingham)
  2. Acting, Re-acting and Reacting to Richard Marsh's The Beetle in Three Neo-Victorian, Gothic Dramas’—Janette Leaf (Birkbeck, U London)
  3. ‘Inheritance and Descent in A Pair of Blue Eyes’—Amy Waterson (Royal Holloway, U London)

  1. Intertextualities
  1. ‘Christina Rossetti’s Plato: Goblin Market and the Phaedrus’—Laura Greene (U St Andrews)
  2. ‘Wordsworthian Duty and Spinozan Liberty: A Study of Middlemarch Chapter 80’—Mari Seaword (U Edinburgh)
  3. ‘Lost and Found in Translation: Rudyard Kipling’s “If –” in Fifteen Georgian Voices’—Natia Kvachakidze (Akaki Tsereteli State U)

15:15-15:45: Tea and coffee break (St Cross Building English Faculty lobby and lower concourse)

15:45-17:00: Panel session 3 

  1. Realism
  1. ‘Free Indirect Style and the Realist Novel: Or, How to Read Jane Austen and George Eliot Today’—Doug Battersby (U Leicester)
  2. ‘Fredric Jameson, Reader of the Nineteenth-Century Novel’—Athanassia Williamson (New York U)
  3. Trollope’s Serial World-Building - Gregory Brennen (Oklahoma State U)

  1. Tea
  1. ‘Plantation Commercials: Advertising tea, empire, and racialized labour’—Chandrica Barua (U Michigan)
  2. ‘A Transatlantic Tale of Two Tea Cities: Exporting the Glasgow Tearoom to New York’—Lucie Touzot (U Tours)
  3. ‘Blue China, Red Blood: Japonisme and Masculinity in the Late-Victorian Domestic Interior’—Margaret Gray (U Newcastle)

  1. Victorian Futures
  1. ‘Beyond the Sage: Sibyls and the Gender of Prophecy in Victorian Literature’—Isabella Viega (Goldsmiths, U London)
  2. ‘“We Shall Make That Idle Water Work”: Energetic Fantasies in the Sensation Novel’—Lauren Cullen (U British Columbia)
  3. ‘Neo-Victorianism and Fictions of the Not Yet: Anachronism, Speculation, and the Future of the (Neo)Victorian Past’—Kate Mitchell (Australian National U)

  1. National Characters
  1. ‘Penny Periodicals and National Identity’—Lucy Warwick (Oxford Brookes U)
  2. ‘Sketching National Character in the Pall Mall Gazette in 1865’— Rebekah Cohen (U Cambridge)
  3. ‘National literature in the Service of Social Change: Teaching The Faerie Queene at the Working Men’s College’—Agnieszka Serdynska (KCL)

  1. Rural and Provincial
  1. ‘Cornwall in Manuscript: The Multimediality of Wilkie Collins’ Rambles Beyond Railways’—Christopher Pittard (U Portsmouth)
  2. ‘Death Omens and Pluralities of Belief in Nineteenth-century Rural England’—Claire Cock-Starkey (Birkbeck, U London)
  3. ‘Tourism in the Pyrenees and the Pau’—Laurence Roussillon-Constanty (Université de Pau et des Pays de l’Adour)

  1. Gendered Entertainments
  1. ‘“[O]ne of the most peculiarly bright episodes of my life”: Mary Cowden Clarke, The Merry Wives of Windsor, and amateur performance’—Kathryn Waters (U Oxford)
  2. ‘A Remarkable Woman: Pragmatic Feminism in May Morris’s Plays’—Serena Trowbridge (U Birmingham)
  3. ‘Punch & Judy and the Long 19th Century’—Alissa Mello (U Exeter) and Tony Lidington (U Exeter)

17:15-18:30: Keynote Lecture 2 (Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre) Prof Matthew Rubery

18:30-19:30: Drinks Reception (St Cross Building English Faculty lobby and lower concourse); Rosemary Mitchell Prize announcement; Punch and Judy performance

THURSDAY 24 JULY

09:15-17:00: Registration (St Cross Building, upper concourse)

9:30-10:45: Keynote Lecture 3 (Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre) Prof Pablo Mukherjee

10:45-11:15 : Tea and coffee break (St Cross Building English Faculty lobby and lower concourse)

11:15-12:45: Panel session 4

  1. Affective Containment and the Boundaries of Feeling in Victorian Prose
  1. ‘Psychological and Sexual Containment in The Golden Bowl’—Harry Daniels (U Oxford)
  2. ‘“Marvellously self-contained”: Samuel Butler’s Erewhon’—Sophie Franklin (U College Dublin)
  3. ‘Affect and Translation at the End of the Nineteenth Century’—Olivia Krauze (U Cambridge)
  4. ‘Containing First Impressions’—Fraser Riddell (Durham U)

  1. Artist Activists
  1. ‘Fast Fashion in the Victorian Era: The Fight Against Exploitation’—Chiaki Yokoyama (Keio U)
  2. ‘So much more than just “the new Charles”: George R. Sims and the Artist/Activist in the Commercial Arts’—Hayley Bradley and Maggie B. Gale (U Manchester)
  3. ‘These dear old friends’: Mosses, Lichens and Victorian Socialism’—Ingrid Hanson (U Manchester)

  1. Forgotten Archives, Fragmented Lives: Explorations in Female Identity, Voice, and Feeling
  1. ‘The Material Legacy of Marie Corelli and Bertha Vyver’—Anouska Lester (U York)
  2. ‘The Role of Affect in the Archive’—Catherine Archer-Richards (U Roehampton)
  3. ‘Pocket-making and Privacy: Archival Traces of Georgian and Victorian Sex-Workers’—Emma Mitchell (Brunel U)
  4. ‘The Scandals of Lola Montez’—Mollie Clarke (The National Archives)

  1. India
  1. ‘Miss Harkness Writes Mrs. Besant: Encounter in India’—Sucheta Bhattacharya (Jadavpur U)
  2. ‘Reactionary Lines: Victorian Poetry and the Indian Rebellion’—Paolo D’Indinosante (Sapienza U Rome and U Silesia in Katowice)
  3. ‘Crosscurrents in the Late Victorian Feminist Press: Interviews with Indian Women Reformers’—Tarini Bhamburkar (U Bristol)

  1. Victorian Diversities Research Network
  1. ‘Ethical Solidarities’— Éadaoin Agnew (U Kingston)
  2. ‘Indigenising the Nineteenth Century’—Lars Atkin (U Kent)
  3. ‘Formerly/formally: Expanding the Literary Horizons of Empire’—Ross Forman (U Warwick)
  4. ‘Uncertain Alliances: The Work of Race and Empire in Victorian Fictions’— Tara Puri (U Bristol)

  1. Pater and Wilde
  1. ‘Translation and the Transhistorical in Pater’s Marius the Epicurean’—Giles Whiteley (Stockholm U)
  2. ‘[M]oral pestilence’: Oscar Wilde, the Aesthetic Condition, and Epidemic Disease at the Fin de Siècle’—Emily Vincent (U Birmingham)
  3. ‘Oscar Wilde’s Rhyme Crimes’—Dylan Kelly (Queen’s, Belfast)
  4. ‘The courts of the city of God are not open to us now’: Oscar Wilde’s Criticism in a Secular Age’—Damian Walsh (UCL)

  1. Medical / Institutional
  1. ‘Curing the Gout: Water Cure and Wilkie Collins’—Niyati Sharma (Jindal Global U
  2. ‘Nonsexuality and “The Real Demi-Vierge”: George Moore’s ‘John Norton’ (1895) as a Sexological Case Study’—Claudia Sterbini (U Edinburgh)
  3. ‘The College Girl in Fiction and in Fact’—Angharad Eyre (Senate House Library, U London)
  4. “‘The poetry of nursing’: Domestic Caregiving in William Buchan’s Domestic Medicine (1769) and Florence Nightingale’s Notes on Nursing (1860)’ —Charlotte Wilson (U Oxford)

12:45-13:45: Lunch (St Cross Building English Faculty lobby and lower concourse)

13:00-13:45: BAVS Executive Committee Meeting (with lunch)

13:45-15:15: Panel Session 6

  1. Environments
  1. ‘Transnational Ecology and Democracy: Kumagusu Minakata’s British Experience and Environmental Legacy’—Madoka Nagado (U the Ryukyus)
  2. ‘“An infernal overture, loud with the expectation of lust and death”: Spaces of Decay in Arthur Machen’s Hill of Dreams’—Michele Brugnetti (Sapienza U, Rome)
  3. ‘Travels in South America: Imperial Eyes, Enmeshed Life Forms and a Planetary Consciousness in von Humboldt, Darwin and North’—Julia Kuehn (U Groningen)
  4. ‘Controlling the Climate of Fiction: Mark Twain’s The American Claimant (1892)’—Sebastian Lund (U Oxford)

  1. Race
  1. ‘Anthropocene Fictions: Race, Decay, and the Limits of Omniscience in Dickens and Lyell’—Ella Mershon (Newcastle U)
  2. ‘The filthy scum of white society, who have stolen from us a complexion denied to them by nature’: T.D. Rice and Blackface Entertainment at the Gaiety Theatre, London 1868-1886’—Eilidh Innes (Independent Scholar)
  3. ‘On Not Seeing Colour: Albinism, Race, and The Invisible Man (1897)’—Timothy Gao (U Bristol)

  1. Health and Domestic Management
  1. ‘Giving birth on the road: Shifting bodies of mother and child in Lucy Atkinson’s Recollections of the Tartar Steppes and their Inhabitants (1863)’—Anne-Florence Quaireau (U Angers, France)
  2. ‘Testing boundaries: 19th-century Child Health Manuals in Transnational Perspective’—Anna Gasperini (U Galway)
  3. ‘The Medical Maladies of Jane Welsh Carlyle: A Case Study’—Clarice Säävälä (U Helsinki)
  4. ‘Defeating Muddle, Fast and Slow: The Temporalities of Mid-Century Domestic Management Advice’—Angel Perazzetta (Radboud U, the Netherlands)

  1. Changing Marital Conventions
  1. ‘Fairy Brides, Ballerinas, and Ballets That Made the Tale’—Jacqueline Smith (U Oxford)
  2. ‘Into the frilled mysteries beneath’: Trousseaus in Victorian England’—Maggie Kalenak (U Cambridge)
  3. ‘Three “Victorian” Novels and their Reception: I promessi sposi, Salammbô, Doña Perfecta’—Andrea Selleri (Bilkent U)

  1. Political Forms
  1. ‘Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Gladstone, Music: Bedrocks of Victorian Liberalism’— Phyllis Weliver (Saint Louis U)
  2. ‘The Paris Commune and Liberalism in Robert Browning’s Aristophanes’ Apology (1875)’— Christopher Blandford (U Kent)
  3. ‘Improving the Industrialist: Isabella Banks’s The Manchester Man (1876) and the Portico Library’—Michelle D. Ravenscroft (Manchester Metropolitan U)

  1. Art Criticism and Curation
  1. ‘Measuring Art: Victorian Models of Criticism and Geometry’—Amanda Paxton (Trent U, Durham)
  2. ‘Soapsuds and Paint Flinging: Art Criticism and Turner at the Whistler v Ruskin Trial’—Deborah Lam (U Bristol)
  3. ‘Shelley’s Influence on Ruskin’—Naomi Lightman (Guild of St George)

  1. Victorian Afterlives
  1. ‘“Lifting the Veil”: Neurodivergence and Accessible Victorian Literary Futures’—Louise Creechan (U Durham)
  2. ‘Possessive Passion in Neo-Victorian Fiction: Rewritings of Wuthering Heights’—Daný van Dam (Leiden U)
  3. ‘(Re-)Imagining Legal Others and Feminist Jurisprudence in Neo-Victorian Trial Narratives’—Danielle van den Brink (U Groningen)

15:15-15:45: Tea and coffee break (St Cross Building English Faculty lobby and lower concourse)

15:45-17:00: Panel Session 7

  1. Poetry
  1. ‘“Fused and Blent”: Body and Soul in D. G. Rossetti’—Fergus McGhee (U Oxford)
  2. ‘The Two Loves: Victorian Poetry and the Problem of Embodiment’—Erik Gray (Columbia U)
  3. ‘Picture-Word Entanglements: D. G. Rossetti’s Productive Messiness’—Nicholas Dunn-McAfee (U York)

  1. Celebrity and Fandom
  1. ‘Palmerston and Tiverton: Celebrity and Memory in Victorian Britain 1835-1885’—Frederick Hyde (U Southampton)
  2. ‘Not just an ‘arch and ferocious lion-huntress’?: Reappraising the Victorian society hostess in her quest for celebrities’—Jane Harrison (U Portsmouth)
  3. ‘“life seems to me a dark, dreadful enigma”: Writing to Dickens’—Claire Wood (U Leicester) and Julian North (U Leicester)

  1. Renewing Old Forms
  1. ‘Performing Victorian Tableaux Vivants for Contemporary Audiences: Madame (2023) by CienfuegosDanza’—Laura Monrós-Gaspar (Catedrática de Universidad)
  2. ‘“Myself It Speaks and Spells”: Neo-Victorian Versions of Hopkins’—Saverio Tomaiuolo (U Cassino and Lazio Meridionale)
  3. ‘Turner: Always Contemporary? Curating JMW Turner 250 in Liverpool’—Melissa L Gustin (Curator of British Art, National Museums Liverpool)

  1. Body and Age Construction in the Periodicals
  1. ‘Generational patterns in Nineteenth-Century Periodical Culture’—Helen Kingstone (Royal Holloway, U London)
  2. ‘“Crazed on the subject of being too fat!”: Body Image in The Girl’s Own Paper’—Charlotte Boyce (U Portsmouth)
  3. ‘Constructing the Middle-Aged Woman in Late Victorian Periodicals’—Bridget Morgan (U Aberystwyth)

  1. Music and Morality
  1. ‘Song Cycles, Cycle Songs: Gender, Sexuality, and the Bicycle in and around “Daisy Bell”’—Chloe Green (U Oxford)
  2. ‘“A dirty and disgusting diatribe”: Moral panic in British responses to Tolstoy’s The Kreutzer Sonata—Suzanne Robinson (U Melbourne)
  3. ‘Frédéric Chopin in Decadent Fiction’—Victoria Roskams (Greene's Tutorial College)

  1. Teetotalling—or not
  1. ‘Entertaining Temperance’—Annemarie McAllister (Independent Scholar)
  2. ‘Time for a tipple? Nipping, tippling and late-Victorian drinking behaviours’—Jennifer Wallace (Imperial, London) and Graham Harding (Independent Scholar; U Oxford)
  3. ‘“[H]ave what you’re a mind to, Poll. I’m going’ to stand treat”: Women Drinking for Pleasure and Company’—Pam Lock (U Bristol)

  1. Pictorial
  1. ‘Rest In Pictures: Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s Deathbed and its Pictorial Afterlives’—Morgan Lee (U Cardiff)
  2. ‘No Use to Painter or Man”: William Holman Hunt’s Orientalist Female Figures’—Dorka Lippai (Eötvös Loránd U)
  3. ‘George Cruikshank’s Engagement in Social Issues After 1847: Multiplicate or “Monomaniacal”?’—Eleanor Parkin-Coates (U Lorraine and Anglia Ruskin U)

17:00 -18:15: Keynote Lecture 4 (Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre) Prof Catherine Maxwell

19:15- late: Conference Dinner, Oxford Town Hall, St Aldates

FRIDAY 25 JULY

8.45-10:00: Private tour of the Ashmolean Museum Victorian galleries [sign-up in advance; maximum 40 people]

10:00-12:00: Registration (St Cross Building, upper concourse)

10:15-10:45: 19th-Century Literature in Transition: A Roundtable—Gail Marshall (U Reading), Marion Thain (U Edinburgh), Andy Stauffer (U Virginia)

10:45-12:00: Panel session 8

  1. Vampirism
  1. ‘“The blood is the life”: Natural Vampirism and Positivism in Bram Stoker and Mary Elizabeth Braddon’—Madeline Potter (U Edinburgh)
  2. ‘Cowboys and Vampires: Imperial Meat, Industrialized Metabolism and Gothic Hunger’—Paul Young (U Exeter)
  3. ‘Transgressive Transformations: Packaging and Re-Packaging Short Form Gothic’—Jen Baker (Warwick U)

  1. New Women
  1. “Certainly, I should like to raise my voice in the biggest city“: Forming Voices in Henry James’ The Bostonians’—Johanna Harrison-Oram (Royal Holloway, U London)
  2. ‘Professional Identity and Domestic Labour in the Life-Writing of Constance Maynard’—Tabitha Lambert-Bramwell (U Birmingham)
  3. ‘Mona Caird, Anthropology, and Feminist Aesthetics at the Fin de Siècle’—Sara Lyons (U Kent)

  1. Packing a ‘Punch’: Into the Archives with Mr Punch
  1. ‘Into the Archives with Mr Punch’—Clare Horrocks (Liverpool John Moores U)
  2. ‘Dark Humour: Eco-Satire and Smoke Abatement in Punch’—Lucy Lawrence (Newcastle U)
  3. ‘Linley Sambourne: Punch, Networking and the Illustrate Letter’—Elliot Andrews (U Leicester)

  1. Imperial and Anti-imperial
  1. ‘Representations of the Ottoman Empire, Masculinity, and Imperialism in Victorian Boys’ Magazines’—Sercan Öztekin (Kocaeli U)
  2. ‘A Victorian Game of Thrones? Ouida’s Helianthus (1908) as Anti-Imperial Satire’—Helena Esser  (Independent Scholar)
  3. ‘Conceptualising International Solidarity in the British Freethought Press’—Clare Stainthorp (Royal College of Art)

  1. War and Its Afterlives
  1. ‘Browning's Strafford: Victorian Debates on the English Civil War Legacy’— Monika Masurek (Instytut Filologii Angielskiej)
  2. ‘Veteran Participation in Nineteenth-Century Battlefield Tourism at Waterloo’—Clare Tonks (Yale Center for British Art)
  3. ‘The many afterlives of a Victorian literary genre: The First World War and the (Re-) Interpretation of Victorian and Edwardian Future-war Literature’—Christian K. Melby (Western Norway U Applied Sciences, Bergen)

  1. Extraordinary Bodies: Satire and the Grotesque in Victorian and Neo-Victorian Popular Culture (A Panel Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Brian Maidment)
  1. ‘Imagining the King of the Beggars: Disability, Performance and Visual Culture’— Mary Shannon (U Roehampton)
  2.  ‘The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Edward Gorey: Unravelling the Dark Humours of Childhood Culture in Neo-Victorian Picturebooks’—Kirara Akashi (U Roehampton)
  3. ‘Jest in time: Mirth, Mouths and Momus in Victorian Joke Books’—Ian Haywood (U Roehampton)
  4.  ‘From Text to Image: Exposing Imperial Grotesquerie in British Women’s Travel Writing’—Himan Hidari (U Roehampton)

  1. New Pedagogies
  1. ‘From Modern Tweets to Victorian Broadsheets: Refining Sentiment Analysis for Victorian Literature’—Emily Middelton (Leeds U)
  2. ‘Open Assembly and the Digital Condition’— Dino Franco Felluga (Purdue U)
  3. ‘Around the Victorian Globe in One Year’—Adrian Wisnicki (U Nebraska-Lincoln)

12:00-12:15: Tea and coffee break (St Cross Building English Faculty lobby and lower concourse)

12:15-13:30: Keynote Lecture 5 (Gulbenkian Lecture Theatre) Prof Lauren Goodlad

13:30-14:15: Lunch (St Cross Building English Faculty lobby and lower concourse)

14:15-14:45: Rosemary Mitchell Prize Book Panel

14:45-16:00:  Past Presidents’ Panel and Closing Remarks (Gulbenkian lecture theatre, Moderator: Patricia Pulham)