News from Other Organizations

 

Although NAVSA reserves its e-mail distribution list for organization-related purposes, we are pleased to provide information about related activities:

• The Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (NCSA) announces its "Emerging Scholars" award; the deadline is 15 November 2006 {More}
• The NCSA also announces its 28th annual conference, on the theme of "Race and Ethnicity in the Nineteenth Century," will be held 8-10 March 2007 at Susquehanna University; abstracts are due 1 November 2006. {More}
• Temple University announces a series of events around "Nineteenth-Century Reproductions {More}
• The Society for Textual Scholarship will hold its 2007 conference at NYU from March 14-17. Proposals are due by 31 October 2006. {More}
• The Thomas Hardy Association will hold its 2007 conference at Yale University from June 14-17. Proposals on "'A Phantom of His Own Figuring': Thomas Hardy and Fetishism" are due by 15 December 2006. {More}
• The Centre for Victorian Studies at the University of Exeter announces a conference on "Neo-Victorianism: The Politics and Aesthetics of Appropriation," to be held 10-12 September 2007; abstracts are due by 31 October 2006 {More}
• The University of Alabama will host the 2007 Victorians Institute conference, on the theme "Victorian Secrets," on 2-4 November 2007; abstracts are due 31 March 2007 {More}
• The University of Toronto at Mississauga invites applicants for a tenure-track job.
• The University of Alberta invites applicants for a tenure-track job.

 

NCSA Emerging Scholars Award

 

The work of emerging scholars represents the promise and long-term future of interdisciplinary scholarship in 19th-century studies. In recognition of the excellent publications of this constituency of emerging scholars, the Nineteenth Century Studies Association (NCSA) announces the creation of the Emerging Scholars Award.

This award recognizes an outstanding article or essay published within five years of the author's doctorate. Entries can be from any discipline focusing on any aspect of the long 19th century (the French Revolution to World War I), must be published in English or be accompanied by an English translation, and must be by a single author.

The winner will receive $500 to be presented at the following annual meeting of the NCSA. Prize recipients need not be members of the NCSA, but are encouraged to attend the conference to receive the award.

Eligibility

1. Entrants must be within five years of having received a doctorate or other terminal professional degree, and must have less than seven years of experience either in an academic career, or as a post-terminal-degree independent scholar or practicing professional
2. Articles published in any scholarly journals, including on-line journals, or in edited volumes of essays are eligible.
3. Articles submitted to the NCSA Article Prize are ineligible for the Emerging Scholars Award.
4. Only articles physically published in 2005 (even if the citation date of the journal is different) are eligible for the 2007 Emerging Scholar Award.

Submission Process

1. An article can be submitted by an author or by the publisher or editor of a journal or essay collection.
2. In any given year, an applicant can submit more than one article for this award.
3. The winning article will be selected by a committee representing diverse disciplines. Send three off-prints or photocopies to: Chair of the Emerging Scholars Award, Professor Michael Duffy, Department of Art, Jenkins Art Center, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC, 27858. Submitted materials will not be returned. Inquiries to: duffym@ecu.edu
4. DEADLINE: Postmarked November 15, 2006.

 

Race and Ethnicity in the Nineteenth Century

28th Annual Conference of the Nineteenth-Century Studies Association (NCSA)

Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA, March 8-10, 2007

We invite submission of papers and panel proposals that explore all aspects of race and ethnicity in the 19th century, from all disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives. Topics might connect race and ethnicity with social identity or social control; with land use, ecology, city planning or industrialism; with emigration and immigration patterns; with aesthetics or with the sciences; with gender and sexuality. The organizers encourage the broadest interpretation of the topic, and the widest application to cultural phenomena.

The wealth of racial and ethnic history in Pennsylvania's Central Susquehanna Valley will provide an excellent focal point for wide ranging discussions. Fergus Bordewich, author of Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the Soul of America (2005 Amistad), will present the first public lecture; Malcolm Dick, author of Joseph Priestley and Birmingham (Studley 2005), will present the second public lecture on race, religion, and the legacy of Joseph Priestley. Karen James of the PA Historical and Museum Commission will anchor a roundtable discussion on research methods for recovering African American involvement in the Underground Railroad. Local scholars will lead special tours of Underground Railroad sites and 19th-century architecture, including buildings of Joseph Priestley, Thomas Edison, and Eli Slifer.

Submit a one page abstract of a 20 minute paper, with author and title in heading, and one page vita by Nov. 1, 2006. Send materials or inquiries to Drew Hubbell, Conference Organizer: hubbell@susqu.edu. Registration, transportation, and accommodation information available in the Fall: http://www.msu.edu/~floyd/ncsa/

 

Nineteenth-Century Reproductions

 

 Weigley Lounge, History Department, 914 Gladfelter Hall, 1115 W. Berks Street, Temple University Main Campus

Sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at Temple and the Nineteenth Century Forum


October 5, 2006, 4:00-6:00 Light

Kate Flint, English, Rutgers University

Chris Otter, History, New York University

Respondent:  Alan Trachtenberg, English and American Studies, Yale University


November 16, 2006, 4:00-6:00 Evolution

Nancy Armstrong, English, Comparative Literature and Modern Culture & Media, Brown University

Jay Clayton, English, Vanderbilt University

Respondent:  Henrika Kuklick, History and Sociology of Science, University of Pennsylvania


February 15, 2007, 4:00-6:00 Birth

Rachel Fuchs, History, Arizona State University

Kathy Psomiades, English, Duke University

Respondent:  Sally Mitchell, English, Temple University


February 24, 2007, Graduate Student Conference
8:30-5:00, Student Center, Rm. 200, Temple Main Campus

Keynote Speaker, Nancy Cott, History, Harvard University


March 29, 2007, 4:00-6:00 Performance

Jonathan Rose, History, Drew University

Alison Winter, History, University of Chicago

Respondent:  Deirdre David, English, Temple University


Conference organizers: Peter Melville Logan and Elizabeth Varon
All events free and open to the public.

For information, contact:

Center for the Humanities at Temple
10th Floor, Gladfelter Hall
1115 W. Berks Street
Philadelphia, PA 19122-6089
phone 215-204-6386
reproductions@temple.edu

 

Hardy at Yale

JUNE 14-17, 2007
YALE UNIVERSITY, NEW HAVEN, CT
Sponsored by The Thomas Hardy Association


SPECIAL GUEST SPEAKER
Andrew Motion (Poet Laureate and Royal Holloway College, London University, Poet in Residence)

PLENARY SPEAKERS
Dame Gillian Beer (King Edward VII Professor of English Literature (Cambridge University)
Professor J. Hillis Miller (University of California at Irvine Distinguished Research Professor)
Professor Christopher Ricks (Professor of Humanities, Boston University; Professor of Poetry, Oxford University)

GUEST LECTURERS
Dr Linda Shires (Syracuse University)
Dr. Keith Wilson (University of Ottawa)
Dr. Ruth Yeazell (Yale University)
Dr. Birgit Plietzsch (University of St. Andrews) University)

CHAIRS: MASTERCLASS/SYMPOSIUM/SEMINAR

Professor Bill Morgan (Illinois State University)
Professor Richard Nemesvari (St. Francis Xavier
Gillian Forrester (YCBA, Yale University)

SESSION LEADERS
Professor Suzanne Keen (Washington and Lee University); Dr. Angelique Richardson (Exeter University); Professor Dennis Taylor (Boston College); Professor William Davis (College of Notre Dame of Maryland); Dr. Betty Cortus (Independent Scholar); Dr. Tim Dolin (Curtin University of Technology, Perth); Dr. Claire Seymour (Queen’s College, London); Phillip Mallett (University of St. Andrews); Anne DeWitt (Yale University); Professor Shouhua Qi (University of Western Connecticut); Hugo Walter (Berkeley College, NY)

FOR CONFERENCE DETAILS CONTACT

Rosemarie Morgan	Richard Nemesvari
Department of English	Department of English
Yale University	St. Francis Xavier University
Tel. (203) 624-6976	Tel. (902) 867-2159
rosemarie.morgan@yale.edu	rnemesva@stfx.ca

Conference Website: http://arts.st-andrews.ac.uk/hay

 

Neo-Victorianism: The Politics and Aesthetics of Appropriation

“The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it.”

(Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians, 1918)

An international conference hosted by the Centre for Victorian Studies at the University of Exeter, 10-12 September 2007

Keynote speakers: Professor Cora Kaplan, Professor John Sutherland and Professor Imelda Whelehan

Confirmed participants to include: Regenia Gagnier, Ann Heilmann, Philip Hensher, Martina Lauster, Brian Maidment, Rick Rylance

Who were ‘the Victorians’, and why have they continued to exert such an influence throughout the twentieth century and beyond? From the domestic goddess to hegemonic globalisation, from neo-Victorian novels to the Dickensian ‘soap opera’, from ‘new Victorian’ feminism to ‘boy’s own’ masculinity, and from Victorian values to the Victoria sponge, this conference is interested in the ways in which a Victorian legacy has both inspired and haunted succeeding national and international generations.

We welcome abstracts from those working in all areas and disciplines. Topics will include but are not limited to:

• Architecture and interior design
• Cooking and consumption
• Drama, display and exhibitions
• Fashion, shopping and commodity culture
• Feminism and post-feminism
• Film and television adaptation
• Gender and sexuality
• Globalisation and imperialism
• Literary and visual culture
• Medicine
• Politics
• Religion
• Time, space and place
• Victoriana

Please send abstracts of 300-500 words by October 31st 2006 to Dr Becky Munford and Dr Paul Young at: Neo-Victorianism@exeter.ac.uk.

Victorians Institute

University of Alabama

Fall 2007: November 2-4

Keynote Speaker: John Kucich (Rutgers University)

Conference Website: http://bama.ua.edu/~apionke/VI2007/VI2007welcome.htm

The University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa will host the Victorians Institute annual conference on the subject of Victorian Secrets. Papers will be welcome that address this topic from any of the specific disciplines represented in the Victorians Institute---including, but not limited to, art, history, literature, music, political science, sociology, and theology--as well as those that work across and outside of traditional disciplinary boundaries.

Topics for papers of 15 to 20 minutes in length might include:

• Secrecy and social respectability
• Secrecy and gender construction
• Secrecy and Victorian formulations of race
• Secrecy and religion
• Secrecy and business
• Theories of Victorian secrecy
• Textual secrecy: narrative red-herrings; the revelation of characters' interior lives; secret letters, billet-doux, clandestine encounters
• The revelation of hitherto unknown individuals, collectives or texts from the Victorian period

Please send proposals of no more than 500 words by May 31, 2007 to Dr. Albert Pionke, Department of English, 103 Morgan Hall, Box 870244, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0244. Email: apionke@bama.ua.edu.

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO AT MISSISSAUGA, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO

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, Drama and Performance Studies; Women and Gender Studies; Institute of Communication and Culture--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; supervision of graduate theses. 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 2007. The deadline for applications is 10 November 2006.

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.

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA

The Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta invites applications for a tenure track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in the area of Victorian Literature and Culture. We would especially welcome candidates with research emphases or associated interests in feminism and women's writing, textual studies, popular culture, children¹s literature, colonialism, transnationalism, ethnicity, and/or critical race theory. Applicants should have a PhD, or be close to finishing it at the time of appointment, as well as relevant teaching experience and publications. They should be prepared to teach broadly-based introductory courses as well as more specialized senior courses, and to supervise student work at both undergraduate and graduate levels. The appointment will commence 1 July 2007.

Candidates should send the Chair a letter of application, a complete curriculum vitae (with full contact information, including phone numbers and e-mail address), a writing sample (20-page maximum), the names of three referees, and, if available, a teaching dossier and evaluations of teaching performance. Candidates are responsible for ensuring that official copies of undergraduate and graduate transcripts, and letters of reference from the three named referees, are sent directly to the Department. The closing date for applications is 15 November 2006. All application materials should be sent directly to:

                  Garrett PJ Epp, Chair
                  Department of English and Film Studies
                  Humanities Centre 3-5, University of Alberta
                  Edmonton AB T6G 2E5 Canada

For further information about the position, or the Department, please contact the Chair by email at garrett.epp@ualberta.ca.

All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. The University of Alberta hires on the basis of merit. We are committed to the principle of equity in employment. We welcome diversity and encourage applications from all qualified women and men, including persons with disabilities, members of visible minorities, and Aboriginal persons.