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Pictured: Madison, Wisconsin (photo by Bryce Richter)
On November 3-6, 2011, the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) completed its ninth annual conference at Vanderbilt U in Nashville, TN. The conference was organized by Jay Clayton, Carolyn Dever, and Rachel Teukolsky of Vanderbilt, and a team of colleagues from Rhodes College (Gordon Bigelow), Mississippi SU (Shalyn Claggett), Vanderbilt (Jim Epstein), the U of Tennessee, Knoxville (Nancy Henry), and U Kentucky (Ellen Rosenman). The year of 2011 also saw our eigth year with a NAVSA panel at the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE; May 28-31), a tradition we hope to continue every year. The 2011 panel was organized by Mary Rimmer (U New Brunswick). Jennifer Esmail (Wilfred Laurier U) is organizing our panel(s) for May 2012, when ACCUTE will occur in Waterloo, Ontario. For news about the organization, see our summer 2011 newsletter.
The 2012 conference will be run by Susan Bernstein, Caroline Levine, Mario Ortiz-Robles and Nancy Rose Marshall (co-chairs) and will occur at the U of Wisconsin, Madison on September 28-30, 2012. Madison, WI is pictured above.
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 page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/North-American-Victorian-Studies-Association/163185293754089; I encourage you to visit the page to indicate you 'like' NAVSA.
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
2004 Conference: U Toronto
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 (Nov. 3-6, 2011)
2012 Conference: U of Wisconsin, Madison (Sept. 28-30, 2012)
2013 Supernumerary Conference: Venice, Italy (jointly with BAVS and AVSA: June 3-6, 2013)
2013 Conference: The Huntington, Pasadena, CA (October 23-27, 2013)
2014 Conference: U of Western Ontario, Canada
2015 Conference: Philadelphia, PA
2016 Conference: Arizona SU, Phoenix
2017 Conference: Banff, AB (jointly with VSAWC)
| Executive Council | Advisory Board | |
|---|---|---|
| Meegan Kennedy (Executive Secretary) | Marjorie Stone (Canadian Representative) | |
| Lauren Goodlad (ex-officio, editor of NINES) | Cannon Schmitt (Canadian Representative) | |
| Dino Franco Felluga (Chair) | Lorraine Janzen Kooistra (Canadian Representative) | |
| Meagan Timney (Webmaster) | Alison Booth (American Representative) | |
| Ivan Kreilkamp (ex officio, editor of Victorian Studies) | Kate Flint (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) | Sharon Marcus (Disciplinary: Non-British Literature) | |
| Jason Camlot (Canadian Representative) | Erika Rappaport (Disciplinary: History) | |
| Melissa Valiska Gregory (Executive Secretary) | Ken Crowell (Graduate-Student Representative: North) | |
| Jay Clayton (ex officio, NAVSA 2011) | Heather Bowlby (Graduate-Student Representative: South) | |
| Susan Bernstein (ex officio, NAVSA 2012) | ||
| Michela Vanon Alliata (ex officio, NAVSA 2013) | ||
| Christopher Keep (ex officio, NAVSA 2014) | ||
| Elaine Freedgood (ex officio, NAVSA 2015) | ||
| Marlene Tromp (ex officio, NAVSA 2016) | ||
| Susan Hamilton (ex officio, NAVSA 2017) |