AUSTRALASIAN VICTORIAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION

The Australasian Victorian Studies Association 2007 Conference, Victorian Beginnings' (celebrating 170 years since Victoria ascended the throne) will be held at the University of Western Australia February 7-11 2007. Our key-note speaker will be renowned scholar Lyn Pykett. AVSA is an interdisciplinary association and welcomes historians, fine art specialists, musicologists, architectural historians, literary and cultural studies specialists, and all who do research in the field of Victorian Studies. There will be a session dedicated to the topic 'Travel and Translation'. More information about the conference and submission of abstracts (deadline 31 October 2006) is available on http://www.uq.net.au/avsa//index.html.

The Bible has played a significant part in British culture since the Reformation. It has been a major reference not only in the field of religious experience but also, more broadly, in artistic expression and intellectual reflection. At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the Evangelical Revival thus placed the Scriptures at the heart of religious practices and certain Romantics reasserted the importance of the Bible in renewing its reading.

Every era, however, and perhaps even every author, appropriates the Bible in its own particular way and, consequently, the interpretation of the Bible may be subjected to a variety of influences due to intellectual developments as well as the evolution of society. What characterises the nineteenth century is the importance of social changes (notably a growing population and the industrial revolution), as well as an enthusiastic, all-embracing intellectual energy which radically transformed existing views on the Scriptures. Science and philosophy, for instance, discussed Man's place in nature, his origin and his destiny. Artists and writers who were inspired by their reading of Biblical texts were led to deal with them in a way that was different from previous generations. As the years went on, new controversies emerged about the authority of the Bible and the question of its inerrancy.

It is therefore interesting to raise the question of the relationship between culture in the broad sense of the term (including literature, philosophy, science, theology, etc.) and the Bible. Following the LISA volumes devoted to "Re-Writings" I and II, this issue will be concerned less with the specifically religious matters then at stake than with the analysis of the evolution of the relationship between the Word and its Re-Wordings in nineteenth-century British literature and thought.

Co-ordinators of this issue: Christophe Duvey, Elise Ouvrard, Frederic Slaby.

Please send your proposals (one A4 page maximum) before January 15, 2006, to:

Elise Ouvrard (ouvrard_elise@hotmail.com) or Frederic Slaby (fredericslaby@yahoo.fr).

Authors are requested to include a short bio-bibliography.

As regards presentation norms, please follow the submission guidelines which appear on the LISA e-journal website:

http://www.unicaen.fr/mrsh/anglais/lisa/english/consignes.php

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COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
MAISON FRANCAISE (BUELL HALL)

Steven Marcus has been for many decades a greatly admired teacher, scholar, and colleague. "The Long Nineteenth Century" has been organized to bring together all of us who wish to celebrate his many accomplishments and to honor the intellectual debt we owe to his work and his example. The program comprises papers that explore cultural and aesthetic issues, topics, problems, and discplinary questions that currently preoccupy students of the long nineteenth century and that consider in some way Steven Marcus's pioneering efforts in charting the parameters of our discussion.

Speakers include Jonathan Arac, Rita Charon, Arnold Cooper, Andrew Delbanco, Mario Klarer, George Levine, Eric Lott, Deborah Epstein Nord, James Olney, Jonah Siegal, and Patricia Meyer Spacks.

FOR DETAILS OF PROGRAM, REGISTRATION, DIRECTIONS, AND ACCOMMODATIONS, PLEASE GO TO:

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/english/announce.htm

The Dickens Project Summer Conference

The topic for 2006 is: "Urbanism, Urbanity, and the Nineteenth-century European Novel"
The dates are: August 3-6, 2006
The place: UC Santa Cruz
2-page proposals are due by January 15, 2006.
For more information, contact The Dickens Project: dpj@ucsc.edu or go to:
http://humwww.ucsc.edu/dickens/index.html

The 14th Annual Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference
March 23-26, 2006
The University of Florida

Call for Papers

This year's theme, "(Re)Collecting British Women Writers," encourages interdisciplinary approaches to writers of the period, with a special interest in issues related to archival scholarship and memory and how those issues manifest themselves in collections, exhibitions, and canons.

We are very pleased to announce that our keynote speakers will be Talia Schaffer (CUNY-Queens College), Carolyn Steedman (University of Warwick), and Lynne Vallone (Texas A&M University).

We encourage proposals focusing on but not limited to:

Collections and Archives:
- Politics of display and archiving
- Textual and physical collections
- Intersections of written and visual arts
- Collecting in the (pseudo)sciences
- Exhibiting the empire
- The family: children's culture
- Collections and archives in the classroom

(Re)envisioning the Canon:
- Recovering women's writing
- Intersections between canonical and non-canonical writers
- Intersections between male and female writers
- De-marginalizing and de-centering groups, texts, crafts
- Theatrical adaptations of canonical and non-canonical texts
- Women's access to words: female literacies and publishing
- Children's literature in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries
- Transatlantic links in children's culture

Influence and Textual Memory:
- Colony and the empire
- Nation, nationality, and the body
- Life writing: journals and letters
- Travel narratives
- Gendered intertexualities
- Subjectivity, agency, and authorship
- Family as a microcosm or metaphor
- The politics of historical representation


Please submit 1-2 page abstracts for individual presentations and panel proposals (including the name of a moderator) by September 30, 2005. Please do not include any identifying information in your abstract.

Proposals may be submitted via an online form at http://www.english.ufl.edu/bwwc/cfp_submission.shtml after July 11, 2005.

Proposals may also be sent via regular mail (include a cover sheet with your name, mailing address, email address, phone number, and institutional affiliation) to:

British Women Writers Conference
University of Florida
Department of English
P.O. Box 117310
Gainesville, Florida 32611-7310


For more information about the conference, please visit our website at http://www.english.ufl.edu/bwwc

MVSA Annual Conference
Detroit, Michigan April 21-23, 2006

CALL FOR PAPERS

The Thirtieth Annual Midwest Victorian Studies Association meeting will be held at Wayne State University in Detroit. Our theme this year is "Eminent Victorians," a phrase whose Stracheyan ironies have inflected discussions of Victorian public and private lives for almost a century. The long-awaited publication of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, with its more than 20,000 entries on famous, infamous, and hitherto obscure men and women who lived during the Queen's reign, makes timely a fresh look at Victorian lives and life-writing.

In keeping with its long interdisciplinary and inclusive tradition, MVSA welcomes proposals from any disciplinary perspective consonant with this broad theme. We encourage panels and individual papers that look afresh at one or more Victorian lives; at the relationship between "life" and "works"; at the nature of biography, then and now; and at the processes by which inclusion or exclusion from "eminence" operates in areas as diverse as politics, literature, art, science, commerce, and the professions.

Possible approaches might include: *collections, from Lives of the Engineers to the DNB *biography as a publishing phenomenon *memoirs and memory *fictional characters as eminent Victorians *survivors and the shaping of the official Life *the obituary as genre *heroes and the heroic *lives as cautionary moral tales *gender and life-writing *portraiture and the construction of public identity *the destruction of letters and diaries

About the conference: We will meet at Wayne State University in Detroit, with lodgings at the elegantly renovated Inns on Ferry provided at a specially discounted conference rate. Our keynote speaker will be

Victorianists studying and working in the midwestern or southern United States are especially encouraged to attend at MVSA, and to make a home in this distinguished scholarly organization. Graduate students are particularly welcome as attendees and presenters at MVSA conferences, where they will find a stimulating and collegial atmosphere, and where conference fees are adjusted to make attendance more affordable. MVSA annually awards the Bill and Mary Burgan Prize for an outstanding paper by a graduate student at the conference, while the prestigious Arnstein Prize supports dissertation research of an interdisciplinary kind. Conference news can be found on the MVSA website at http://www2.ic.edu/MVSA/

Submissions: By October 31st, email a 500-word (only) abstract to Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, Asst. Professor of English, Indiana University East: aclappit@indiana.edu. Please mention "MVSA 2006 Paper Submission" in the Re: line and include your own name, title, institution, email and snail mail addresses, a phone number, and abstract in the text. If you must send an attachment, please include all information about yourself on the attachment, too. If you do not receive an email confirmation of receipt, please re-submit.

MVSA Arnstein Prize

The Midwest Victorian Studies Association announces the Fifteenth Annual Walter L. Arnstein Prize for Dissertation Research in Victorian Studies.  It awards $1500 for dissertation research in British Victorian Studies undertaken by a student currently enrolled in a doctoral program in a U.S. or Canadian university.  Proposals may be submitted in literature, history, art history, or musicology; proposals, however, should have a significant interdisciplinary component that will render them of interest to scholars studying Victorian Britain across a range of disciplines, approaches, and subfields. Forms may be requested from:  Linda K. Hughes, English Department, TCU Box 297270, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX 76129; e-mail:  l.hughes@tcu.edu.  The deadline for applications is 1 February 2006; the award will be announced at the Association's 2006 annual meeting, to be held in Detroit on 21-23 April 2006.  The Association reserves the right not to make an award in a given year if, in the opinion of reviewers, submissions do not justify it.

Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies

We would like to announce a new peer-reviewed, online journal—Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies—and invite submissions for the inaugural issue.

Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies is committed to publishing insightful and innovative scholarship on gender studies and nineteenth-century British literature, art and culture. The journal is a collaborative effort that brings together advanced graduate students and scholars from a variety of universities to create a unique voice in the field. We endorse a broad definition of gender studies and welcome submissions that consider gender and sexuality in conjunction with race, class, place and nationality.

The journal is published twice a year (April/ November) and accepts both scholarly articles and book reviews year-round. We welcome articles of 4,000-8,000 words on gender studies and British literature, art and culture during the long nineteenth century. Submissions should be in MLA format and must include a brief biographical note which will be posted if accepted for publication. Please send an electronic version of your submission in Word to: Stacey Floyd (sefloy2@uky.edu) and Melissa Purdue (mpurd2@uky.edu). To facilitate the peer review process, please send two files, one with your article absent of all identifying information and another with your brief biographical note.

Possible topics include, but are certainly not limited to:

Gender informed (Feminist/Queer Theory/Masculinity Studies/etc.) readings of
literature,
authors/artists or works of art
Gender and empire
Gender and class
Gender and medicine
Gender and law
Gender and race
Gender and sexuality
Gender and humor
Gender and science
The body
Gendered spaces or locations
"New Woman" writers
The canon
Gender and migration/immigration/emigration
Gender and travel
Transatlantic connections
Intersections between written and visual arts
British literature/art in European context
Domestic violence
Gender and popular fiction

Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies also plans to publish a diverse range of book reviews including short reviews of single works, multiple book reviews, short review essays (devoted to 2 or more recent books on a single topic), and full-length review essays (assessing recent developments in established or emerging areas of nineteenth-century studies). Scholars interested in reviewing recent publications should contact the Reviews Editor, Lauren Goodlad, at lgoodlad@uiuc.edu

To be considered for our November 2005 issue, submissions must be received before Sept. 15th.

For further information, please visit our website at www.ncgsjournal.com

Travel, Tourism, and Resorts

27th ANNUAL CONFERENCE

OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY STUDIES ASSOCIATION

Salisbury University, Salisbury, Maryland, March 16-18, 2006

Tourism and the rise of resorts reflect nineteenth-century economic, social, and cultural developments which brought about increased time for leisure, sport, entertainment, and vacation activities beyond prescribed hours of "work." While both the nature of the Grand Tour (formally restricted to the wealthy) and desirable destinations for travel evolved over time, sport, leisure, and vacation activities also extended to various levels of society: resort businesses boomed, exotic locales drew tourists, advances in transportation opened new destinations, and tourism became an attractive and widespread diversion. Other travel, however, was inspired by the desire to map space, to explore new territories and gather species of plants or animals there, to engage in missionary work or to study other peoples, to flee famines, and to migrate to a new home. Travel and tourism altered conceptions of home, nation, and progress as people adapted to (or even resisted) the demands and/or pleasures of their journeys and destinations.

For our 27th Annual Conference, NCSA encourages proposals that explore the meanings of travel, tourism, and resorts from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. Possible topics include but are not limited to the following:

Travels through time and space
Travel of the mind/inward
Travel companions/solitary or group travelers
The laws of travel
Economies/Business of travel
Travel destinations—city/walking/boat tours
Tours/Travels with children
Mysterious, quiet, indiscreet travelers
Traveling spectacles
Traveling secrets
Journeys East or West/home or abroad
The Middle Passage
Means/Modes of Travel
Travel innovations and progress
Traveling artists, preachers, teachers, & librarians
The distance we've traveled
Migration, immigration, emigration
Getaways and hideaways
Resort architecture; architecture of sport & leisure
Architectural sites as travel destination
Representation of travel in art & literature
Representation of sport and leisure in art/lit

Papers may come from the fields of architecture, art history, ethnic or race studies, history, literature, medicine, museum or library studies, music, or the social sciences. NCSA was founded to promote interdisciplinarity; proposals which approach the theme of the conference from an interdisciplinary basis are especially encouraged.

The conference will be held in Salisbury, on Maryland’s Eastern shore, within thirty minutes of the Chesapeake Bay to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Plans to tour 19th century sites in Berlin, Maryland, and the summer resort of Ocean City, Maryland (founded 1875), are in development. Direct flights serve Salisbury from Charlotte, NC and Philadelphia, PA.

Proposals should consist of a one-page, single-spaced abstract (12-point font), with the title of the paper and author as heading; the paper must be able to be presented within 20 minutes. Proposals should be accompanied by a one- to two-page vita. Please send materials to both Program Directors, Heidi Kaufman and Lucy Morrison. The deadline for submissions is October 14, 2005 . Acceptances will be sent by mid-December, 2005.

Email: kaufman@udel.edu and lxmorrison@salisbury.edu
Post: Heidi Kaufman, 212 Memorial Hall, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716

Lucy Morrison, English Department, Salisbury University, 1101 Camden Avenue,
Salisbury, MD 21801

Fax: Kaufman 302-831-1586 / Morrison 410-548-2142

Further information about registration and accommodations will be available in the Fall from Local Arrangements Director Lucy Morrison (contact details above).

Northeast Victorian Studies Association: 2006 Conference

CALL   FOR PAPERS

VICTORIAN FATIGUE

32 nd   Annual Meeting:   April 7-9, 2006 at Drew University, Madison, NJ.

            In a culture proverbially work-obsessed, relentlessly energetic, innovative, imperially and technologically expansive, endlessly inventive, why does fatigue play so important a role in its art, its theory, its science, even its pharmacopeia?   What might the Victorians look like seen through the lens of fatigue rather than of work?   How are various forms of fatigue (exhaustion, indolence, boredom, stress, degeneration, entropy, etc.) understood, not only ethically, or in economic discourse, but in medicine, aesthetics, psychology, technology, and the emerging social sciences?   What role does fatigue play in the era's major scientific theories?    How and to what extent are norms within these diverse realms defined in terms of, or motivated by, the challenge of fatigue?   How might fatigue be imagined, not only as a threat but also as a potential pleasure, an objective or completion or fulfillment?

Topics might include (but are not limited to):

          The gospel of work and its discontents: fatigue as anxiety, impetus, fulfillment, ground of resistance

           Body and mind: weakness, nervous exhaustion, invalidism, depression, insomnia, narcolepsy, neurasthenia, indolence (debilitating and/or luxuriant), boredom, ennui, sensory overload, affective exhaustion, the gendering of fatigue

           Social and cultural fatigue: degeneration, decadence, decline; worn-out or exhausted ideologies, artistic forms, discourses, traditions, points of view

             Natural and technological fatigue: entropy, degeneration, mechanical fatigue (engineering stress, metal fatigue,   corrosion), technological obsolescence

            Forms of treatment: exercise, sport, relaxation, vacations, rest cures, spas, stimulants (chemical and otherwise), opiates, sleep, asylums, domestic comforts, cultural renewal

            Energy and fatigue in the discourses of empire and national identity

            For a teaching roundtable, we also welcome separate proposals regarding the relations between undergraduate and graduate instruction in Victorian literature and culture: how do the aims, expectations, emphases, and challenges of teaching the Victorians vary at different levels?   (Roundtable contributors should aim at creating an atmosphere for stimulating discussion rather than presenting a formal paper.)

Proposals (no more than two double-spaced pages) by Oct. 15, 2005 (e-mail submissions encouraged):

Professor Eileen Gillooly
e-mail: eg48@columbia.edu
Chair, NVSA Program Committee
English Department
602 Philosophy Hall
Columbia University
New York, NY 10027

Please do not send complete papers, and do not include your name on your proposal: we review proposals anonymously.   Please do include your name, institutional and email addresses, and proposal title in a cover letter.   Papers should take 15 minutes (20 minutes maximum) so as to provide ample discussion time.   

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) will hold its annual conference September 15th through 18th at the George Washington University in Washington, DC. Conference highlights include keynote addresses by Professors Sally Mitchell (Temple University) and Leslie Howsam (Windsor University), a tour of the Library of Congress led by John Cole, Library of Congress Historian and Director of the Center for the Book, a tour of the Whistler Exhibit, "Small Masterpieces," at the Freer Gallery of Art, and a host of interesting panels on topics ranging from periodicals and imperialism, fin de siecle periodicals, and women's periodicals. Patrick Leary will lead a brown bag discussion on digitization initiatives and nineteenth-century periodical accessibility, and representatives from the Waterloo Directory, Cambridge University, Thomson Gale, and ProQuest will make a presentation on "The Future of Victorian Periodical Research." Please consult RSVP's website, www.rs4vp.org, for full information on conference registration, local arrangements, and a complete program.

University of Toronto: Position in Victorian Literature

Applications are invited for an Associate or Full Professor position, Department of English, University of Toronto, St. George campus.   Qualifications: Ph.D. in English with specialization in Victorian Literature .   Applications are welcomed from candidates qualified to teach, supervise theses, and carry out research in that area.   The University of Toronto is a three-campus university with a unitary graduate department on the St. George campus.   Duties consist of research and undergraduate and graduate teaching on the St. George campus.   Applicants must have established records of excellence in research and teaching.   Salary commensurate with experience and qualifications.

Send applications and c.v. to Professor Brian Corman, Chair, Department of English, 7 King's College Circle, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 3K1 .   Have 3 letters of reference (or dossier) and graduate transcripts sent directly to the Department as soon as possible.   Include ONE writing-sample of not more than 25 pages.   Appointment commences 1 July 2006.   The deadline for applications is 11 October 2005 . Applications may not be accepted after the deadline.

The University of Toronto offers the opportunity to teach, conduct research and live in one of the most diverse cities in the world.   The University also offers opportunities to work in a range of collaborative programs, including Book History and Print Culture, Aboriginal, Canadian, environmental, ethno-cultural, sexual diversity, gender and women's studies.   The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from visible minority group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.   All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO AT MISSISSAUGA, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO:
Position in Victorian Literature

University of Toronto at Mississauga (UTM), University of Toronto, English.   Applications are invited for a tenure-stream position, Assistant Professor, Department of English and Drama, University of Toronto at Mississauga, University of Toronto.   Qualifications:   Ph.D. in English, with specialization in Victorian Literature. Applications are welcomed from candidates qualified to teach, supervise theses, and carry out research in that area, and who have evidence of excellence in research and teaching.   Secondary field, particularly in those areas with existing UTM programs—Theatre and Drama, Women and Gender, Culture and Communications—would be strongly preferred. The University of Toronto Department of English is a three-campus graduate department (St. George, U of T at Mississauga, and U of T at Scarborough), and the successful candidate will be a member of the graduate faculty of the University of Toronto. Duties consist of research, teaching undergraduate courses at the UTM campus and graduate courses at the St. George campus.   Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Send applications and c.v. to Professor Leslie Thomson, Chair, Department of English and Drama / University of Toronto at Mississauga / 3359 Mississauga Road North / Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6.   Have 3 letters of reference (or dossier) and graduate transcripts sent directly to the Department as soon as possible.   Include ONE writing sample of scholarly work of not more than 25 pages. Appointment commences 1 July 2006.   The deadline for applications is 14 November 2005.

The University of Toronto offers the opportunity to teach, conduct research and live in one of the most diverse and cosmopolitan locations in the world. The University also offers opportunities to work in a range of collaborative programs.   The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from visible minority group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

Victorians Institute Journal

Victorians Institute Journal, a refereed scholarly annual, invites submissions for its "Texts" section, an on-going project to publish items from the manuscript archive (or rare print items) of interest to scholars of Victorian literature, history, and culture. A list of previously published texts may be found at http://www.vcu.edu/vij/VIJ-texts.html. For further information contact the editors at VIJ, Department of English, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284-2005; vij@vcu.edu.

Victorian Literature and Culture
Call for Papers:

Victorian Literature and Culture seeks articles for an upcoming special issue on Food and the Victorians edited by Ross Forman and Suzanne Daly. Essays should follow MLA guidelines and may address any aspect of the production or consumption of food or drink. Please send two copies by November 1, 2005 to:

Suzanne Daly
Department of English
Bartlett Hall
University of Massachusetts
Amherst MA 01003-9269

Inquiries may be directed to sdaly@english.umass.edu or rf19@soas.ac.uk.

Annual Conference of the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, October 27-29, 2005
Vancouver, British Columbia

Opening Address: W.J.T. Mitchell (Professor of English and Art History, University of Chicago), "Addressing Media, or Why We Shout at the Television Set." Keynote Speakers: Yopie Prins (Associate Professor, Department of English and Comparative Literature, University of Michigan); "Robert Browning, Transported by Meter"; David Finkelstein (Professor of Media & Print Culture, Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, "Print Culture, New Media and Communication Revolutions."

This year’s conference on "Print Culture and New Media," invites investigation into the problem of definition that surrounds the emerging interdisciplinary field of print-culture studies and seeks to explore the research terrain and conceptual boundaries consolidating the field of study. The panel topics encourage analyses of the complex links between print and the nineteenth-century "media explosion." We welcome both theoretical reflections on and historical approaches to Victorian print culture and the intersections of old and new media.

This conference is jointly supported by SFU's Print Culture MA Specialization, Department of English, School of Communications, School for the Contemporary Arts, Graduate Liberal Studies, Department of Humanities, Institute for the Humanities, Master in Publishing Program, W.A.C.Bennett Library Special Collections, the 40th Anniversary Celebrations Fund, Department of History, and the prestigious Munro Lecture Series.