MVSA President, 2009-2011 | MVSA Executive Board, 2000-2004, 2007-2015
Professor of History, Washburn University
Research Interests: Victorian and post-colonial history
Selected Publications: “Ethnicity as Marker in Henry Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor,” Fear, Loathing, and Victorian Xenophobia (Ohio State, 2013); “‘A Strange Incongruity’: The Imaginary India of the International Exhibitions” (Nineteenth-Century Contexts, 2012)
MVSA President, 2011-2013 | MVSA Executive Board, 1977-1982, 1998-2002, 2009-2015
Professor of English, University of Iowa
Research Interests: Victorian poetry; William Morris and the Pre-Raphaelites; working-class literature
Selected Publications: History and Poetics in the Early Writings of William Morris (Ohio State, 2015); Working-Class Women Poets of Victorian Britain: An Anthology (Broadview, 2008); The Design of the Earthly Paradise (Edwin Mellen, 1990); Dante Gabriel Rossetti: A Critical Source Study (Mouton, 1976); Editor of William Morris Archive
MVSA President, 2013-2015 | MVSA Executive Board, 1988-1991, 2011-2015
Professor, Art History, Arizona State University
Research Interests: Victorian visual culture and the Victorian press; Indian culture under the British Raj; life writings in Britain and India (autobiographies and biographies)
Selected Publications: The Victorian Artist: Artists’ Life Writings in Britain, 1870-1910 (Cambridge, 2003; rev. ed. ppr. 2012). Edited collections — The Political Economy of Art (Fairleigh Dickinson, 2008); Power and Resistance: The Delhi Coronation Durbars (Mapin, 2012); Transculturation in British Art, 1770-1930 (Ashgate, 2012); Imperial Co-Histories (Fairleigh Dickinson, 2003). Co-editor with L. Hughes, Replication in the Long 19th Century: Re-makings and Reproductions (Edinburgh, 2018); with J. DelPlato, Orientalism, Eroticism, and Modern Visuality in Global Culture (Ashgate, 2016); with L. Brake, Encounters in the Victorian Press (Palgrave, 2004); with D. S. Macleod, Orientalism Transposed (Ashgate, 1998)
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| Old Capitol Building – University of Iowa, Iowa City |
Conference Highlights
** All events included in the registration fee.
— Friday, May 1
12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Registration – Old Capitol Building
12:30 p.m. – 12:45 p.m. | Opening Remarks – Old Senate Chamber
12:45 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. | Plenary Panel – Old Senate Chamber
2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Conference Session – Old Senate Chamber
4:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Walk to the Iowa Memorial Union
4:30 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. | Jane Stedman Plenary Lecture – Iowa Memorial Union
5:45 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. | Welcoming Reception and “The Lotus Eaters” – Iowa Memorial Union
— Saturday, May 2
7:45 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. | Registration – English-Philosophy Building
7:45 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. | Breakfast and Conversation – Gerber Lounge
8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Seminars – English-Philosophy Building
8:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Conference Sessions – Old Senate Chamber and Gerber Lounge
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. | Registration – Old Capitol Building
12:00 p.m. – 12:45 p.m. | Luncheon, Presentation of Arnstein Award – Sheraton Dining Room
12:45 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. | Premiere of Michael Field, Attila, My Attila – Sheraton Dining Room
2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. | Conference Sessions – Old Senate Chamber and Gerber Lounge
4:00 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. | Refreshments – Old Capitol Lawn
4:15 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. | Conference Sessions – Old Senate Chamber and Gerber Lounge
5:45 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. | Dinner in Iowa City
7:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. | The Victorians, Highland Dance, and the Midwest: Lecture and Group Dance
– Old Senate Chamber
— Sunday, May 3
8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. | Coffee and Conversation – Gerber Lounge
8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Conference Sessions – Gerber Lounge
12:00 p.m. – 12:30 p.m. | Presentation of Burgan Prize, Final Remarks – Gerber Lounge
12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. | Boxed lunch at close of conference (sign up at Registration table)
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Plenaries
MVSA’s 2015 Jane Stedman Plenary Speaker will be Linda M. Shires, David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English, Yeshiva University. Her talk is entitled “Coming to our Senses: Colors in the 19th Century.” She is the author of Perspectives: Modes of Viewing and Knowing in 19th-Century England (2009), co-author with Steven Cohan of Telling Stories: A Theoretical Analysis of Narrative Fiction (1988; 2002), and editor of Rewriting the Victorians (1992; 2012) and From Romantic to Victorian: Essays by U.C. Knoepflmacher (forthcoming).
Hotel Accommodations, Transportation, and Venues
The Sheraton Iowa City Hotel has rooms reserved for MVSA 2015 at a convention price of $109 per night. The Iowa Memorial Union also has a smaller number of rooms set aside at a convention price of $70-$90 per night. There are only a limited number of rooms available at these rates, so make sure to book your reservations early. The Sheraton is located at 210 South Dubuque Street, Iowa City, Iowa 52240, and can be reached by phone at 319-337-4058. The Memorial Union is located at 125 South Madison Street, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, and can be reached by phone at 319-335-3513.
For air travel, the Eastern Iowa Airport (Cedar Rapids Airport) is most convenient. The shuttle to Iowa City costs $34. It may be possible to arrange to be picked up if you are arriving on Thursday; write to Florence Boos at florence-boos@uiowa.edu. Sharing a taxi can be arranged in advance through Yellow Cab of Iowa City for about $35. The official taxis at the airport charge about $50.
Conference events will take place in the Old Capitol Building, the English-Philosophy Building of the University of Iowa, the Iowa Memorial Union, and the Sheraton Iowa City Hotel. Registration will take place in the Old Capitol Building, Old Senate Chamber.
For more about visiting the University of Iowa, click here. Additional directions and travel information available at this link.
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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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.
The 2014 conference organizer is Mary-Catherine Harrison, Associate Professor of English at University of Detroit Mercy. If you have any questions or concerns about this year’s conference, please e-mail her at mc.harrison@udmercy.edu.
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| Law Library at University of Michigan—Ann Arbor |
MVSA will hold its 2014 conference at the University of Michigan–Ann Arbor, April 11-13. Presentations will focus on the theme “Victorian Violence.” This includes conflict or resistance and its representations in art, music, history, or literature: violence in the army, the colonies, the prisons, the streets, the workplace, the family, the home, and even the animal kingdom. This year MVSA will also feature three seminars on the topics “Sensational Violence,” “Political Violence,” and “Colonial Violence.” We are planning a collection of essays based on the conference. Click the following link to register, or download the schedule of events.
Conference Highlights
** All events included in the registration fee. All events at the Michigan League except the Saturday morning seminars in Angell Hall and Museum Tour at University of Michigan Museum of Art.
— Friday
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. | Registration, 2nd floor of the Michigan League
1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. | Carillon Performance, Burton Memorial Tower (across from Michigan League)
2:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. | Plenary Panel — Visual Afterlives of Victorian Violence
4:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Jane Stedman Lecture — Lara Kriegel
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. | Reception
8:00 p.m. | The Gondoliers, Mendelssohn Theater in the Michigan League
— Saturday
8:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Seminars, Angell Hall
9:30 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. | Coffee and Conversation
9:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | University of Michigan Special Collections Exhibit: “Violence as Entertainment”
10:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Conference Panels
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Lunch and Business Meeting
1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Performance by University of Michigan Gilbert and Sullivan Society
1:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. | Conference Panels
— Sunday
8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. | Coffee, Bagels, and Conversation
8:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Conference Panels
11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Farewell Remarks
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | University of Michigan Museum of Art Tour —
“An Eye of the Empire: Photographs of Colonial India and Egypt”
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Plenaries
MVSA’s 2014 Jane Stedman Lecture will be given by Lara Kriegel (Indiana University). Dr. Kriegel’s presentation is titled “Graceful Exits: War Cemeteries, Violent Legacies, and the Afterlife of the Crimean War.” The conference will also host a plenary panel on “Visual Afterlives of Victorian Violence,” featuring Julie Codell (Arizona State University), “The Ruins of Violence: The Aftermath of the 1857 Rebellion in the Photographs of Robert and Harriet Tytler”; Alexis Goodin (The Clark Institute), “Concealing Violence and Decay in Ancient Egypt at the Sydenham Crystal Palace”; and Thomas Prasch (Washburn University), “Anti-Colonial Violence, Imperial Retribution, and the Aura of the Art Object in the Benin Punitive Expedition of 1897.”
Venues
The Michigan League provides the University community with elegant facilities and superb catering services, providing the perfect location and atmosphere for meetings and special events. In addition, the twenty-one room Inn at the Michigan League offers convenient and comfortable accommodations for visitors, and the Mendelssohn Theatre, with 640 seats, provides a unique entertainment experience. The League also houses a convenience store and information desk, a cyber lounge, several eateries, and various sitting areas, including space in the charming garden. The Michigan League is located at 911 North University Avenue, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109. All events at the Michigan League except the Saturday morning seminars in Angell Hall and Museum Tour at University of Michigan Museum of Art.
Friday night, MVSA participants will enjoy the University of Michigan Gilbert and Sullivan Society’s spring performance of The Gondoliers; or, The King of Barataria. This performance will take place in the Mendelssohn Theatre, inside the Michigan League. On Saturday, members of UMGASS will entertain conference participants with a private performance after lunch.
Saturday morning seminars and Sunday panels will be held on the third floor of Angell Hall, hosted by the University of Michigan Department of English Language and Literature. The address is 435 South State Street, 3187 Angell Hall, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109.
The University of Michigan Museum of Art will host a guided tour of the photography exhibit on An Eye on the Empire: Photographs of Colonial India and Egypt directly after the conference on Sunday afternoon. UMMA has also put together a small study case of images related to the conference theme of “Victorian Violence” for our members.
You can find an interactive campus map on the University of Michigan’s website. Driving directions to the Michigan League are also provided online. A customized MVSA conference map is available via Google Maps, which includes conference venues, hotels, parking, restaurants, coffee shops, and libraries and entertainment.
Hotel Accommodations, Transportation, and Parking
The following hotels and bed and breakfasts have reserved rooms for MVSA 2014. The Inn at the League is on site, upstairs from the conference. Ann Arbor Bed and Breakfast and Campus Inn are both a few minutes walk from the conference. The Hilton Garden Inn is 3.5 miles from the conference, a 10-minute drive; there is also bus stop close within sight of the hotel that goes to campus. The Microtel Inn is 4 miles from the conference, with a shuttle service to/from campus available in the morning and the evening.
All rooms include free wi-fi. Free on-site parking is included at the Ann Arbor Bed and Breakfast, Campus Inn, and Hilton Garden Inn; free off-site parking is included at the Inn at Michigan League.
The university is approximately 25 miles from Detroit Metropolitan Airport (DTW), an easy 30- to 40-minute drive from the conference hotels. Visit Ann Arbor maintains a list of car services and taxis that provide door-to-door airport transportation. Average cost is $45 to $55. Bill’s Van Service is one recommended service and especially economical for groups.
AirRide provides an affordable public bus service between the Detroit Airport and Ann Arbor ($12 one way). One of the AirRide bus stops in Ann Arbor is the Blake Transit Center, the main hub for The Ride, Ann Arbor’s municipal bus service system. From the Blake Transit Center, you can either take a 4-minute ride on the bus #2 to the Michigan League, or walk in about 11-12 minutes.
There is limited parking in the downtown area (free parking is provided if you stay at one of the conference hotels, each of which is in walking distance to the Michigan League and Angell Hall). If you are commuting to the conference, the closest public lots to the Michigan League are the Liberty Square and Maynard Parking Structures.
MVSA Executive Secretary, 2005-2014 | MVSA Executive Board, 2005-2015
Professor of English, Indiana University East
Research Interests: Victorian literature and music; Victorian children’s hymns
Selected Publications: British Hymn Books for Children, 1800-1900: Re-Tuning the History of Childhood (Ashgate, 2016); Angelic Airs, Subversive Songs: Music as Social Discourse in the Victorian Novel (Ohio, 2002)
The registration fee for the conference is $160 for faculty, and $125 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). Registration includes entrance to all plenary sessions and panels, the MVSA reception and Gilbert and Sullivan performance on Friday night, the business luncheon on Saturday, and a light breakfast Sunday morning. The Special Collections library exhibit and exhibits at UMMA are free.
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| Faculty ($160 fee + $40 membership) | $200.00 USD Grad/Adjunct ($125 fee + $30 membership) | $155.00 USD Faculty registration only (for current members) | $160.00 USD Grad/Adjunct registration only (for current members) | $125.00 USD |
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.
This year’s conference entertainment includes a performance of The Gondoliers; or, The King of Barataria by the University of Michigan Gilbert and Sullivan Society. You can purchase additional tickets to this event for friends or family members ($20 each) using the PayPal feature below.
If you would prefer to send any payments via check, please complete and submit this form.
Ann Arbor Bed and Breakfast | 734-994-9100 | Group Block Code: MVSA
Campus Inn | 800-666-8693 | Group Block Code: MVSA/UM English department, Group # 10147
Inn at Michigan League | 734-764-3177 | Group Block Code: MVSA14
Microtel Inn | 734-997-9100 | Specify MVSA
MVSA Web Coordinator, 2007-2012 | MVSA Executive Board, 2007-2013
Research Interests: Victorian novel, gender studies, post-colonial literature
Selected Publications: “‘What do you play, boy?’: Card Games in Great Expectations” (Dickens Quarterly, 2010)
