NAVSA/ACCUTE

 

For the fourth consecutive year, the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) conference will feature panels co-sponsored by NAVSA. For more details, see the 2007 NAVSA/ACCUTE page.

Christopher Keep has organized two sessions this year under the rubric "Size Matters":

Size Matters I: The Management of Growth

• James Buzard (MIT), "The Mid-Victorian Drama of Management"
• Juliette Atkinson (UC London), "Appreciable Magnitude or Little Morsels of Oddity: Size and Proportion in the Dictionary of National Biography"
• Grace Kehler (McMaster), "The Technological Sublime versus the Industrial Gothic"

Size Matters II: Taking the Measure of Bodies and Books

• Michael Tavel Clarke (Calgary), "The Height of Civilization: Victorian Science and the Management of Stature"
• Ryan Stephenson (Ottawa), "Desultory Reading in the 'Overgrown Jungle of Information': Frederic Harrison, George Gissing, and the Threats to Victorian Knowledge"
• Lisa Surridge & Mary Elizabeth Leighton (Victoria), "Great Expectations: Pregnancy, Illustration, and Serial Reading in Wilkie Collins' The Law and the Lady"