MVSA Executive Secretary, 2015-2017 | MVSA Executive Board, 2015-2017
Assistant Professor of English, University of Colorado–Boulder
Research Interests: British literature; Victorian literature; gender and sexuality studies; poetics aesthetics
Selected Publications: Second Person Singular: Late Victorian Women Poets and the Bonds of Verse (Virginia, 2014); “Augusta Webster: Time and the Lyric Ideal,” The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Poetry (Oxford, 2013)
MVSA Treasurer, 1995-2017 | MVSA Executive Board, 1995-2017
Department of English, University of Missouri–Columbia
Research Interests: Victorian religion; Victorian women’s religious writings
Selected Publications: Victorian Religion: Faith and Life in Britain (Praeger, 2008); Editor of Women’s Theology in 19th-Century Britain: Transfiguring the Faith of Their Fathers (Garland, 1998); Co-editor of Nanora Sweet, Felicia Hemans: Reimagining Poetry in the 19th Century (Palgrave, 2001)
The registration fee for the conference is $185 for faculty, and $150 for graduate students, adjuncts, and independent scholars. To register, use the PayPal feature below to select the appropriate rate and complete the transaction online; please also submit this Google Doc survey form, which includes a place to enter information about dietary restrictions and other accommodations you might need during the conference. Attendees are kindly asked to become members when registering ($40 for faculty, $30 for graduate students, adjuncts, and independent scholars). The registration fee covers all conference events.
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Faculty ($185 fee + $40 membership) | $225.00 USD Grad/Adjunct ($150 fee + $30 membership) | $180.00 USD Faculty registration only (for current members) | $185.00 USD Grad/Adjunct registration only (for current members) | $150.00 USD
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MVSA depends primarily on registration and membership dues to pay for its annual conference and publications. Donations also help keep MVSA affordable for scholars and students committed to the study of the Victorian period. If you would like to make a donation to MVSA, click the PayPal button below and follow the prompts. Nota Bene: All donations to MVSA are tax deductible.
If you would prefer to send any payments via check, please complete and submit this form.
MVSA Executive Board, 2012-2015
Research Interests: Victorian culture, history, and science; women’s writing; life writing |
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The Midwest Victorian Studies Association will hold its 2016 annual conference at the University of Missouri–Columbia, April 8-10. Taking as its starting point the remarkable explosion in the periodical press and the availability of cheap print in the Victorian Era, the conference presentations will reflect fresh and current thinking about this theme. This includes topics on new perspectives on Victorian print culture; innovations in the periodical press; print technologies and “cheap print”; periodicals and the arts: fiction, poetry, art, music, and theater; the specialist press; publications for children, women, hobbyists, and the professions; science and the press; the serialization of novels; poems in periodicals; technologies of illustration; interplay of text and image; the press and popular culture; crime, sensationalism, and the press; viral news and literature; the press in the Colonies; politics and the press; gender and print culture; criticism and reviews; journalism as a profession; the economics of periodical publishing; newspaper and magazine advertising; the role of the press in the construction of taste; “neglected” publications; and newspapers as historical sources. Click the following link to register, or download the program.
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Plenaries
MVSA’s 2016 Jane Stedman Plenary Speaker will be Leanne Langley, Associate Fellow at the University of London’s Institute of Musical Research, social and cultural historian of music, and leading authority on music journalism in nineteenth-century Britain. Her talk is entitled “Musical Times: The Achievement of the Musical Press in Nineteenth-Century England.”
Hotel Accommodations, Transportation, and Venues
The Broadway, a downtown hotel, has rooms reserved for MVSA 2016 at a convention price of $129 per night; to make a reservation, call 573-875-7000, or book online using the group code “MVS” to receive the conference rate. The Hampton Inn & Suites Columbia (at the University of Missouri) also has rooms available at a reduced convention price of $119 per night; to make a reservation, call 573-214-2222, or book online using the group code “VSA” to receive the conference rate. Please make reservations by March 12 in order to receive the MVSA discount.
Alternatively, for those traveling to the conference by car, the Stoney Creek Hotel & Conference Center is located only 1.74 miles from campus, offering rooms with extra amenities starting at $135 per night. Further away, but still convenient for those who are driving, is Candlewood Suites Columbia, which books rooms at around $119 per night.
To reach the University of Missouri by car, turn left on Elm Street, drive past Peace Park, and cross 9th Street. The Hitt Street Garage, which you can enter from Elm Street (turn right), has visitor parking and is most convenient for the Friday sessions. For the Saturday sessions, the Turner Avenue Garage would be more convenient: take Elm Street to 9th Street, turn right on 9th, and follow the road around, past Jesse Hall. The garage will be on your left. A campus map is available here.
The registration fee for the conference is $185 for faculty, and $150 for graduate students, adjuncts, and independent scholars. To register, use the PayPal feature below to select the appropriate rate and complete the transaction online. Attendees are kindly asked to become members when registering ($40 for faculty, $30 for graduate students, adjuncts, and independent scholars). The registration fee covers all conference events.
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Faculty ($185 fee + $40 membership) | $225.00 USD Grad/Adjunct ($150 fee + $30 membership) | $180.00 USD Faculty registration only (for current members) | $185.00 USD Grad/Adjunct registration only (for current members) | $150.00 USD
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MVSA depends primarily on registration and membership dues to pay for its annual conference and publications. Donations also help keep MVSA affordable for scholars and students committed to the study of the Victorian period. If you would like to make a donation to MVSA, click the PayPal button below and follow the prompts. Nota Bene: All donations to MVSA are tax deductible.
If you would prefer to send any payments via check, please complete and submit this form.
MVSA Executive Secretary, 1977-1980 | MVSA President, 1988-1990
MVSA Executive Board, 1990-1992
Professor Emeritus, English, University of Illinois–Chicago
Research Interests: Religion in 19th-century Britain; late-Victorian musical culture
Selected Publications: The Antagonist Principle: John Henry Newman and the Paradox of Personality (Virginia, 2014)
MVSA President, 1977-1980 | MVSA Executive Board, 1984-1988
Professor Emeritus of History, University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests: Victorian politics and religion; social and economic movements
Selected Publications: Queen Victoria (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003); Protestant Versus Catholic in Mid-Victorian England (Missouri, 1982); Britain Yesterday & Today: 1830 to the Present (Lexington, MA., 1st ed, 1966; 8th ed., 2001); The Bradlaugh Case: A Study in Late Victorian Opinion and Politics (Oxford, 1965; updated ed., Missouri, 1983)
MVSA President, 1991-1993 | MVSA Executive Board, 1980-1984, 1989-1995
James Rudy Professor Emeritus, English, Indiana University–Bloomington
Research Interests: Race and empire; postcolonial studies; cultural studies
Selected Publications: States of Emergency: Essays on Culture and Politics (Indiana, 2013); Taming Cannibals: Race and the Victorians (Cornell, 2011); Victorian Literature and Postcolonial Studies (Edinburgh, 2010); Dark Vanishings: Discourse on the Extinction of Primitive Races (Cornell, 2003); The Reading Lesson: Mass Literacy as Threat in British Fiction (Indiana, 1998); Crusoe’s Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America (Routledge, 1990); Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism, 1830-1914 (Cornell, 1988)
MVSA President, 2017-2019 | MVSA Executive Secretary, 2014-2015
MVSA Executive Board, 2013-2023
Associate Professor of English, University of Detroit Mercy
Research Interests: Victorian fiction and poetry; literature and ethics; narrative empathy; psychology of reading
Selected Publications: “How Narrative Relationships Overcome Empathic Biases: Elizabeth Gaskell’s Empathy Across Social Difference” (Poetics Today, 2012); “The Paradox of Fiction and the Ethics of Empathy: Reconceiving Dickens’s Realism” (Narrative, 2008)
