Highlights

The 2004 conference at the U of Toronto was a wondrous experience: about 250 conference registrants congregated on the St. George campus to hear talks and attend seminars by James Eli Adams, Patrick Brantlinger, Kate Flint, Linda and Michael Hutcheon, Audrey Jaffe, Dianne Sachko Macleod, Jerome McGann, Harriet Ritvo, and James Vernon, among many others. {More}

At the 2004 conference banquet, we presented the first annual Donald Gray Prize for best essay published in the previous year. The award went to Herbert Tucker and George Behlmer, with an honorable mention to Nicholas Dames. We are also delighted to announce that Heather Morton won the NAVSA award for the best paper presented at the NAVSA conference by a graduate student, with honorable mentions going to Sarah Rose Cole and Kathleen O'Neill Sims. {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}

Don't let the American inauguration confuse you: It is now time to vote for NAVSA's elections to the Advisory Board and Executive Council. Deadline for e-mail ballots is Feb. 1. The candidates who are elected will replace outgoing members, Mary Wilson Carpenter (Canadian open category), Yopie Prins (Comparative Literature) and Cannon Schmitt (Secretary-Treasurer). Tim Barringer (American open category) will be running for a second term. Click on "More" to see candidate bios and instructions for voting. {More}

Plans are set for a spectacular conference at the U of Virginia (Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 2005). The CFP deadline is Feb. 1. Plenary speakers will be George Levine and Mary Poovey. Seminars will be run by Jay Clayton, Linda Colley, Helena Michie, and Anthony Wohl. As a new conference development, master classes will be run by Isobel Armstrong, Neil Hertz, and Ulrich Knoepflmacher. {More}

NINES (Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-century Electronic Scholarship) has announced a grant competition for a Mellon-subsidized weeklong workshop at the U of Virginia. Deadline: Jan. 15. {More}