2018 LUCVS Conference Schedule
Hideous Progeny: The Gothic in the Nineteenth Century
October 27, 2018
Presented by The Loyola University Chicago Victorian Society
Information Commons 4th floor
8:00-8:30am Coffee and Light Breakfast
8:30am Welcome and Opening Remarks
Dr. Brandiann Molby (Loyola University Chicago)
8:40am Introduction of Plenary Speaker
Dr. Frederick Staidum, Jr. (Loyola University Chicago)
8:40-9:45am Plenary Speaker:
Dr. Alison Booth, University of Virginia
"Gothic Anachronism, Heterotopia, and Gender: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (with some forays in The Castle of Otranto)"
9:45-11:00am Panel 1: Gothic Vision
Moderator: Lydia Craig, Loyola University Chicago
"Gender Under Surveillance in Charlotte Brontë's Villette"
Amy Bower, Independent Scholar
"Gothic Mutations of Pity in Oscar Wilde's "The Star-Child"
Chris Foss, University of Mary Washington
11:00-12:15pm Panel 2: American Gothic
Moderator Wren Romero, Loyola University Chicago
"Salem Belles and Seductresses: Transatlantic Witch Lore and American Gothic Anxiety"
Sylvia Cutler, Brigham Young University
"Death by Romance: The Tortured Textuality of Alcott's A Modern Mephistopheles"
M. Fontenot, Michigan State University
"The Impossible Union of Spheres: Class Contact and the Feminine Gothic in Henry James' 'In the Cage' and 'The Jolly Corner'"
Josh Richards, Williams Baptist University
12:15 - 1:30pm Lunch
1:30 - 2:30pm Panel 3: Neo-Gothic
Moderator: Dr. Brandiann Molby (Loyola University Chicago)
“Gothic Infrastructures: Smoke, Ventilation, and Sewage in Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton and Charles Kingsley's Alton Locke"
Jeremy Goheen, the University of Texas at Austin
“Reinventing the Gothic: The Uncanny Portrait in Lady Audley's Secret"
Olivia Xu Lingyi, Northwestern University
"Arches, Cloisters, and Tracery: Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale and the Gothic Revival"
Jo Devereaux, Western University
2:30 - 2:45pm Coffee
2:45 - 4pm
Panel 4: Textual Studies
Moderator Michael Paradiso-Michau, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
“Orgiastic Authorship and Misattribution in Wilde's 'Teleny' and 'Des Grieux'”
Sandra M. Leonard, Kutztown University of Pennsylvania
“Frankenstein's Amputated Paratexts: On the Occult Advertisements in Lackington & Co.'s First Edition”
Michael Van Hoose, University of Virginia
“Parliamentary Alchemists and Electric Colossi: Scientific Imagery in Sir John Tenniel's Punch Cartoons”
Grayson Van Beuren, Independent Scholar
4:15-4:20pm
Introduction of Keynote Address
Dr. Micael Clarke (Loyola University Chicago)
4:20-5:25pm
Keynote Address:
Dr. Suzy Anger, University of British Columbia
"Victorian Fiction and Mind: A 'turbid, muddled, gothic sort of affair' or 'strictly measuring science'?
5:25 Reception
The Loyola Victorian Society thanks Dr. Paul Eggert, Martin J. Svaglic Endowed Chair of Textual Studies, the Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, the Writing Program, and the Department of English for their support of our conference. We are also also grateful to Dr. Micael Clarke, Dr. Melissa Bradshaw , and Dr. Priyanka Jacob for their ongoing mentorship. We’re on Twitter @loyolavictorian!
