Highlights

The 2005 NAVSA conference will occur at the U of Virginia in Charlottesville, site of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello in the foothills of the Blue Ridge: September 30 to October 2. Plenary speakers will be George Levine and Mary Poovey; seminars will be run by Laurel Brake, Jay Clayton, Helena Michie, and Anthony Wohl; master clases will be taught by Isobel Armstrong, Neil Hertz, and U. C. Knoepflmacher. {More}

At the 2005 conference banquet, we will present the second annual Donald Gray Prize for best essay published in the previous year. Like last year, we will be awarding a prize for the best paper presented at the annual conference: deadline for papers is October 10. For the first time this year, NAVSA will also be awarding four travel grants to graduate students. {More}

Victorian Studies has decided to run another special issue dedicated to the NAVSA conference. Vol. 47, Issue 2 will publish some of the best papers from the 2004 Toronto conference. {More}

NAVSA is proud to advertise the recent and forthcoming publications of our members. As you'll see if you have a look, our members are continuing to define the field as we know it. {More}

NAVSA is happy to inform our membership of various news items of interest to Victorianists. {More}

The tradition continues: NAVSA will be running two more NAVSA panels at the 2006 ACCUTE conference in Toronto, Canada. Marjorie Stone is putting together a panel on "Nation and Migration" and one on Elizabeth Barrett Browning. {More}

Plans are set for a bigger than usual NAVSA conference in 2006. Run jointly with the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism, the conference will offer double the fun for one low price: August 31 to September 3 (Labor Day weekend) at Purdue University. The CFP deadline is Feb. 15. Plenary speakers will be Catherine Gallagher and Thomas Laqueur. NAVSA seminars will be run by Timothy Barringer, Ross Chambers, Tracy Davis, Regenia Gagnier, Yopie Prins, and Martin Wiener; NAVSA workshops on specific topics will be run by Anna Clark, Julie Codell, Elaine Hadley, John Kucich, Christopher Lane, and Andrew Miller. {More}