Welcome
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Pictured: Yale U
On Oct. 10-13, 2007, the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) completed its fifth annual conference in Victoria, British Columbia. The conference was run jointly with the annual meeting of the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada (VSAWC). The conference was organized by Lisa Surridge, Mary Elizabeth Leighton, and a team of colleagues from the U of Victoria, the U of British Columbia, Simon Fraser U, U of Northern British Columbia, and UBC Okanagan (Alison Chapman, Rebecca Gagan, Mariel Grant, Judith Mitchell, Suzy Anger, Colette Colligan, Pamela Dalziel, Joy Dixon, Kristen Guest, Kevin Hutchings, Deanna K. Kreisel, Carolyn Lesjak, Margaret Linley, and Oliver Lovesey). Members of NAVSA can still see the papers from the 2007 seminars, led by Nicholas Daly, Seth Koven, Erika Rappaport, and Talia Schaffer. (Click on "Members Only" in the left-hand menu to login, then click on "Documents" after login.) 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) is organizing our panel(s) for 2009, when ACCUTE will occur at the U of Ottawa. For news about the organization, see our Summer 2008 Newsletter, which includes news of interest to Victorianists.
The 2008 conference will occur at Yale U on November 14-16 and will be organized by Timothy Barringer (Art History, Yale) and Janice Carlisle (English, Yale). You'll find Yale U pictured above to the right. Planning for the 2009 conference is also now well underway. The 2009 conference will be run by Claire Pettit and will occur at Cambridge U on July 13-15, 2009. The deadline for paper proposals is coming up fast: September 26, 2008. For more information, please visit the following URL and click on the links for the conference website and the poster/ call for papers:
http://www.victorians.group.cam.ac.uk
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: Montreal, Canada
2011 Conference: Vanderbilt U
2012 Conference: U of Wisconsin, Madison
| Executive Council | Advisory Board | |
|---|---|---|
| Meegan Kennedy (Executive Secretary) | Christopher Keep (Canadian Representative) | |
| Michael Eberle-Sinatra (ex-officio, editor of NINES) | Cannon Schmitt (Canadian Representative) | |
| Dino Franco Felluga (Chair) | Lisa Surridge (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) | Anna Clark (American Representative) | |
| Melissa Valiska Gregory (Executive Secretary) | Tim Barringer (Disciplinary: Art History) | |
| Chris Vanden Bossche (Secretary-Treasurer) | Julie Codell (Disciplinary: Non-British Literature) | |
| Dennis Denisoff (Canadian Representative) | Erika Rappaport (Disciplinary: History) | |