2017 LUCVS Conference Schedule
Aesthetics and Form in Victorian Art, Literature, and Culture
October 28, 2017
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 (Professor Sherrie Weller, LUC)
8:40am Introduction of Plenary Speaker (Dr. Priyanka Jacob, LUC)
8:40-9:45am Plenary Speaker:
Dr. Florence Boos, University of Iowa
"Usable Pasts, Livable Futures: The Pre-Raphaelites, William Morris, and the Construction of Utopia.”
9:45-11:00am Panel 1: Aesthetics and the Individual
Panel Moderator: Brett Beasley, Loyola University Chicago
"Pre-Raphaelite Liberalism Defining Form in the Drafts of Dante Gabriel Rossetti"
Heather Bozant Witcher, St. Louis University
"The Aesthetics of Time in Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray"
Emily Datskou, Loyola University Chicago
“Privileging Senses: Mesmerism and Misreading the Body in Oscar Wilde’s Picture of Dorian Gray” Maria Granic, Benedictine University at Mesa 11:00-12:15pm Panel 2: Form and Social Structures
Panel Moderator: Mary Lutze, Loyola University Chicago
"Hardy's Groups: Cell, Choir, Crowd"
Charlie Tyson, Harvard University
"Unassertive Ownership in Howards End"
Lindsay Munnelly, Indiana University
"The Monk of Liberalism: Aesthetics and the Subject in Against Nature"
Ryan Napier, Tufts University
12:15-1:15pm Lunch
Rare Books Presentation
Kathy Young, Archivist, Special Collections at Loyola University Chicago
1:15-2:15pm Panel 3: Form and Narrative Structures
Panel Moderator: Aleks Galus, Loyola University Chicago
“Form and Affect in the Impossible Spaces of Margaret Oliphant’s Stories of the Seen and Unseen”
Laura Strout, University of Michigan
“Designing the Victorian Serial Novel: Prophecy within The Woman in White” Lauren Peterson, University of California
" 'The maniac's rushing frenzy': Poetic Aesthetics in John Keble's The Christian Year"
Mary Harmon, Loyola University Chicago
2:15-2:30pm Coffee
2:30-3:45pm
Panel 4: Aesthetics and Aestheticism
Panel Moderator: Joe Wapinski, Loyola University Chicago
“Form, Color, and the Child’s Aesthetic Imagination at the Fin-de-Siècle”
Erica Kanesaka Kalnay, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Beauty and the Making of Meaning: Victorian Aesthetics in the Postmodern Era”
Megan Lease, Boston College
“The Aesthetic Movement in Print”
Eric Holzenberg, Director of the Grolier Club
4:00-4:10pm
Introduction of Keynote Address (Dr. Paul Eggert)
4:10-5:15pm
Keynote Address: Dr. Caroline Levine,
Cornell University
“Reading for the Common Good: Formalism and Politics.”
5:15 Reception
The Loyola Victorian Society would like to thank the Writing Program, the Department of English, Dr. Carol Scheidenhelm and the Center for Ignatian Pedagogy, and Dr. Paul Eggert for their support of our conference. We are also thankful to Dr. Micael Clarke, Dr. Melissa Bradshaw , and Dr. Priyanka Jacob for their ongoing mentorship. Stay connected for details regarding our 2019 conference! We’re on Twitter @loyolavictorian!
