2016 LUCVS Conference Schedule
Past and Present: New Directions in Victorian Studies
October 29, 2016
Presented by The Loyola University Chicago Victorian Society
8:00-8:30am Coffee and Light Breakfast
8:30am
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Dr. Patricia Mooney-Melvin, Interim Dean, The Graduate School
8:40am
Introduction to Plenary Speakers
Dr. Melissa Bradshaw, Advanced Lecturer and LUCVS Faculty Sponsor
Plenary Speakers: V21 9:45-11:00am
Panel 1: Realism
Moderator: Grace Stevens, Loyola University Chicago
Corbin Hiday, the University of Illinois at Chicago “Realism as Production in Silas Marner and Remainder”
Benjamin D. O’Dell, the University of Illinois at Chicago (Urbana-Champaign) “The Victorian Pastoral Novel as Historical Fiction”
Jessica R. Valdez, the University of Hong Kong “Ephemera and the Realist Novel”
11:00-12:15pm
Panel 2: Labor and Dickens
Moderator: Brett Beasley, Loyola University Chicago
Zachary Tavlin, the University of Washington “Market Value and Victorian Hybrids: Dickens and Marx against Latour”
Robert Ryan, the University of Illinois at Chicago “Paranoid Connexions: Dickens, Pynchon, and a Formalist Theory of Length”
Lydia Craig, Loyola University Chicago “Water, Mist, and Fire: Elements as Class Metaphor in Great Expectations”
12:15-1:15pm Lunch
1:15-2:30pm
Panel 3: History
Moderator: Mary Harmon, Loyola University Chicago
Robert C. Petersen, Middle Tennessee State University “Agnes and Elizabeth Strickland’s Lives of the Queens of England: Rereading The Glorious Revolution from the Perspectives of Victorian Historians”
Laura Merrell, Indiana University “More Than a Bedtime Story: Little Arthur’s History of England as National History”
2:30-2:45pm Coffee
2:45-4:00pm
Panel 4: Art History
Moderator: Emily Datskou, Loyola University Chicago
Lindsay Wells, the University of Wisconsin-Madison “Preservation and Transformation: Edward Burne-Jones and the Victorian Language of Flowers”
Jeffrey C. Kessler, Indiana University “Vernon Lee and the Imaginary Portrait as Aesthetic Historicism”
Brandiann Molby, Loyola University Chicago “Right Seeing: Visual Ethics of Victorian Art Interpretation”
4:15-4:25pm
Introduction to Keynote Address:
Dr. Micael Clarke, Associate Professor of English and LUCVS Faculty Sponsor
4:25-5:15pm
Keynote Address:
Dr. Elaine Hadley, the University of Chicago
5:15 Reception
The Loyola Victorian Society would like to thank The Graduate School, The English Department, and Dr. Paul Eggert, the Martin J. Svaglic Endowed Chair in Textual Studies, for their support of our conference. We would also like to extend our gratitude to Dr. Clarke and Dr. Bradshaw for their ongoing mentorship. Stay connected for details regarding our 2017 conference! We’re on Twitter @loyolavictorian!
