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Pictured: Cambridge U
On Nov. 14-16, 2008, the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) completed its sixth annual conference at Yale U. The conference was organized by Tim Barringer, Janice Carlisle, and a team of colleagues from Yale (Tanya Agathocleous, Cassandra Albinson, Imogen Hart, Katherine Haskins, Margaret Homans, Stefanie Markovits, Karuna Mantena, Richard Maxwell, Linda H. Peterson, Frank Prochaska, Mridu Rai, Ruth Bernard Yeazell and the graduate-student administrators, Emily Coit and Caroline Murphree). The year of 2008 also saw our fifth set of panels at the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE; May 31-June 3), a tradition we hope to continue every year. The 2008 panel was organized by Dennis Denisoff. Keith Wilson (U of Ottawa) organized our panel(s) for May 2009, when ACCUTE occurred at the U of Ottawa. For news about the organization, see our Summer 2009 Newsletter, which includes news of interest to Victorianists and a list of recent or forthcoming publications by our members.
The 2009 conference will be run by Clare Pettitt and Peter Mandler (co-chairs), along with Michael Ledger-Lomas, Anna Vaninskaya, Adelene Buckland, and Simon Goldhill, and will occur at Cambridge U on July 13-15, 2009. The deadline for paper proposals is now past. For more information, please visit the following URL:
http://www.victorians.group.cam.ac.uk/Past-vs-Present.html/
If you are not yet a member, we encourage you to join. Note that regular membership costs only a few dollars more than a Victorian Studies subscription, which is one of the benefits of membership. Also, student, unaffiliated, and retired members receive a subscription to Victorian Studies for much less than the advertised cover price. Members may attend our annual conference and will benefit from other resources and initiatives (a graduate-student award for best essay at the annual conference; the password-protected NAVSA Directory and members-only web space; and a web-based archive for Victorian scholarship and pedagogy that we are aiding to establish, named NINES or Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship). NAVSA members also receive a 30% discount at both Oxford UP and Ohio UP on almost a thousand titles of interest to Victorianists. If you are a member in good standing and would like to know the discount codes, you can e-mail Dino Franco Felluga at navsa@purdue.edu.
Our Executive Council and Advisory Board eagerly invite suggestions about the organization’s composition and aims; questions and comments can be sent to navsa@purdue.edu. For the e-mails of the current Executive Council and Advisory Board, click on "Contact NAVSA" in the left-hand menu. The members of the Council and Board are listed below.
2003 Conference: Indiana University
2005 Conference (Sept. 30 to Oct. 2): U of Virginia
2006 Conference (Aug. 31 to Sept. 3): Purdue U
2007 Conference (Oct. 11-14): Victoria, Canada
2008 Conference (Nov. 14-16): Yale U
2009 Conference (July 13-15): Cambridge University
2010 Conference (Nov. 11-13): Montreal, Canada
2011 Conference: Vanderbilt U
2012 Conference: U of Wisconsin, Madison
2013 Conference: The Huntington, Los Angeles, CA
| Executive Council | Advisory Board | |
|---|---|---|
| Meegan Kennedy (Executive Secretary) | Christopher Keep (Canadian Representative) | |
| Lauren Goodlad (ex-officio, editor of NINES) | Cannon Schmitt (Canadian Representative) | |
| Dino Franco Felluga (Chair) | Lorraine Janzen Kooistra (Canadian Representative) | |
| Jason B. Jones (Webmaster) | Elaine Freedgood (American Representative) | |
| Ivan Kreilkamp (ex officio, editor of Victorian Studies) | Jay Clayton (American Representative) | |
| Andrew Miller (ex officio, editor of Victorian Studies) | Stephen Arata (American Representative) | |
| Sean Grass (Executive Secretary) | Anne Helmreich (Disciplinary: Art History) | |
| Chris Vanden Bossche (Secretary-Treasurer) | Julie Codell (Disciplinary: Non-British Literature) | |
| Dennis Denisoff (Canadian Representative) | Erika Rappaport (Disciplinary: History) | |
| Melissa Valiska Gregory (Executive Secretary) |