Victorian Literature and Culture

VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE SPEAKER: Amanda Anderson, Brown University Amanda Anderson is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and English and Director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities at Brown University.

VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE SPEAKER: Erik Gray, Columbia University The use of personification in English poetry decreased dramatically over the course of the nineteenth century. With at least one major exception: the concept of love continued to be...

VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE SPEAKER: Anna Henchman, Boston University Anna Henchman is Associate Professor of English at Boston University. Her first book, The Starry Sky Within revealed links between stellar astronomy and vertiginous shifts in point...

VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE SPEAKERS: Kelsey Quinn, BU; Iana Seerung, Brandeis; Kristen Starkowski, MIT Kelsey Quinn (BU), “Disgusting Digestion and Digesting Disgust in Victorian Literary Animal Encounters” Iana Seerung (Brandeis), “The Formal...

VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE SPEAKER: S. Pearl Brilmyer, University of Pennsylvania S. Pearl Brilmyer is associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of The Science of Character: Human...

VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE SPEAKER: Sarah Allison, Loyola University Sarah Allison is the Hutchinson Distinguished Professor and Director of Composition at Loyola University New Orleans and the author of Reductive Reading: A Syntax of Victorian...

VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE SPEAKER: Ben Parker, Brown University B.A., Columbia (2005); Ph.D., Columbia (2013). Professor Parker specializes in the history and theory of the novel, particularly the Victorian era. He has written for English Literary...

VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE SPEAKERS: Ketan Jain (Tufts University), Shalisa James (Harvard University), Imogen Forbes-Macphail (Harvard University)

VICTORIAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE SPEAKER: Naomi Levine, Yale University "The theory of badness in poetry has never received the study which it deserves, partly on account of its difficulty." So wrote I. A. Richards in 1924. We still don't have a good...