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Professor Devoney Looser: “The Making of Jane Austen”

Friday, Nov. 9th 3:30-4:30 Armstrong Browning Library Lecture Hall Dr. Devoney Looser (Foundation Professor of English, Arizona State University) presented her talk, “The Making of Jane Austen:” How did Jane Austen (1775-1817), a moderately successful English novelist in her own lifetime, become an international…

Workshop by Prof. Clare Simmons: “Publishing your First Paper and Submitting for Conferences”

Flyer for the Workshop led by Prof. Clare Simmons

Friday, Sept. 21 3:30-4:30 ABL Seminar Room Workshop led by Professor Clare Simmons, 2018 Three-month Research Fellow at the ABL: “Publishing your First Paper and Submitting for Conferences.”

Ecology and Religion: Events and Opportunities

Ecology and Religion in 19C Studies Conference Logo

Read below about several events and opportunities coming up regarding ecology and religion in nineteenth-century studies. 1. “Alternative Sources of Power: Victorian Religious Ecologies” Seminar at MVSA 2019, led by Dr. Joshua King. Putting “religion” next to “power” in scholarship on nineteenth-century Britain…

MVSA 2019 Conference Seminar CFP

Dr. Josh King (English, Baylor) will be leading a seminar titled, “Alternative Sources of Power: Victorian Religious Ecologies” at the Midwest Victorian Studies Association 2019 Conference in April. See the Seminar CFP below for details about the seminars, and visit the MVSA website…

2018 OGSPAs: Nicholas Krause and Nicole Bouchard

2018 OGSPA Flyer

Friday, September 14 3:45-4:45 ABL Lecture Hall  The 2018 Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Award (OGSPA) winners will present talks based on their papers. Nicholas Krause (Doctoral Student, Theology and Ethics) will present “Scarcity, Economy, and the Poetics of Creation: Chartist Reimaginings of Political-Economic Space,”…

Reception for Prof. Clare Simmons and Sabbatical Talk by Dr. Kristen Pond:”‘I Spy a Stranger!’:Victorian Newspapers and the Stranger at the Great Exhibition of 1851″

Flier for Professor Clare Simmons's Reception and Dr. Kristen Pond's Sabbatical Talk

Friday, Sept. 7 2:45-3:30 ABL Cox Hall Reception for Professor Clare Simmons, 2018 Three-month Research Fellow at the ABL 3:30-4:30 ABL Lecture Hall  Dr. Kristen Pond (English, Baylor) will present her Sabbatical Talk titled, “‘I Spy a Stranger!’: Victorian Newspapers and the Stranger at the…

Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Awards

Graduate Students: Submit a paper in 19th-C studies by Friday, May 25th for the 2018 OGSPAs. Details below.

Dr. Tracy Hoffman: “Washington Irving Brouhaha: What’s Brewing in Irving Studies”

Friday, April 13 3:30-4:30 ABL Lecture Hall Dr. Tracy Hoffman (Baylor University) will present “Washington Irving Brouhaha: What’s Brewing in Irving Studies.”  

British Women Writers Conference 2018

The 18th and 19th Century British Women Writers Association is holding their 26th annual conference hosted by the University of Texas at Austin on April 11-15. The conference is titled New Directions, and you can view the program here: BWWC 2018 Program.

Browning Day 2018–Dr. Kirstie Blair: “Such Fierce Radicals: The Brownings and Working-Class Culture”

Friday, April 20th: Browning Day 2018 3:00-3:30 Reception in the Armstrong Browning Library Cox Reception Hall 3:30-4:30 Music and Lecture in the Armstrong Browning Library Foyer of Meditation Dr. Kirstie Blair (U. of Strathclyde, Scotland) will present “Such Very Fierce Radicals: The Brownings…