NAVSA/ACCUTE

 

For the sixth consecutive year, the Association of Canadian College and University Teachers of English (ACCUTE) conference will feature panels co-sponsored by NAVSA. The conference this year is at Carleton University from May 23-26, 2009. For full details and the original CFP, see the 2009 NAVSA/ACCUTE page.

Keith Wilson (University of Ottawa), has organized two excellent sessions under the rubric of "Victorian Health."

Session I: Victorian Women and Health

1. "The Fashionable Disease: Illness, Spiritualism and Victorian Femininity" (Kimberly Hereford, University of Washington)
2. "'A Healthy Exertion': Social Dancing in Victorian Fiction" (Goldie Morgentaler, University of Lethbridge)
3. "The Healthy Girl: Fitness and Beauty in the Girl's Own Paper" (Kristine Moruzi, University of Melbourne)
4. "'The Whole Structure is Rotten': National Health, the Servant Problem, and George Gissing's 'The Foolish Virgin'" (Ryan Stephenson, University of Ottawa)

Session II: The Threat to Victorian Good Health: Real, Imagined, and Metaphorical

1. "'A choking sensation always follows the stink': Coal Gas and Consumer Health in Victorian London" (Anne Clendenning, Nipissing University)
2. "Walter Pater, John Addington Symonds and the Health of the English Language" (Lene Ostermark-Johansen, University of Copenhagen)
3. "Women and Unprofessional Medicine" (Sylvia A. Pamboukian, Robert Morris University)
4. "'I was ill just then': Ada Cambridge's Discourse of Invalidism in Thirty Years in Australia" (Christa Zeller Thomas, University of Ottawa)