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Pictured: Montréal, Canada
On July 13-15, 2009, the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) completed its seventh annual conference at Cambridge U, in collaboration with the British Association for Victorian Studies (BAVS). The conference was organized by Peter Mandler, Clare Pettitt, and a team of colleagues from Cambridge and King's College (Michael Ledger-Lomas, Anna Vaninskaya, Adelene Buckland, and Simon Goldhill). The year of 2009 also saw our sixth set of panels at the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE; May 23-26), a tradition we hope to continue every year. The 2009 panel was organized by Keith Wilson (U of Ottawa). Jason Camlot (Concordia U) will organize our panel(s) for May 2010, when ACCUTE will occur at Concordia U in Montréal. 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 2010 conference will be run by Michael Eberle-Sinatra, Jason Camlot, and Monique Morgan (co-chairs), along with Dennis Denisoff, Tara MacDonald, and Douglas Peers, and will occur in Montréal, Canada on November 11-13, 2010. The deadline for paper proposals will be posted in the fall. For more information, please visit the following URL:
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.
NAVSA maintains a listserv to keep members informed of NAVSA business. To share news from other organizations, we also maintain a twitter feed and a blog, which can be accessed by anyone. "Of Victorian Interest" is NAVSA’s blog: http://navsa.blogspot.com, featuring CFPs and announcements from other organizations. You can follow NAVSA on Twitter at: http://www.twitter.com/navsa/. NAVSA also has a Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=134170556787, which is available only to NAVSA members.
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
2014 Conference: U of Western Ontario, Canada
| 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) |