Conference Agenda

The Spectacle of Speed: Crossing the Channel on the Romantic-Era Stage

Diego SAGLIA.

Woman and God: Shaping the Divine Feminine In Nineteenth-Century Print Culture

Kayla Becknuss

“Reading ‘Hieroglyphical’ Geologies: Racialist Images of Natural Theology in Poe’s Pym”

Philip Bax

Worshipped as Mercury

Daniel BRESLAND

Against Speed: Mabel Gardner's Painted Virgins and the Workshop Tradition

Valerie Mendelson

“Back to the Future: Dickens, Ali Smith, and (Un)Changing Times”

Michael LEWIS

“Victorian Orphans / Postmodern Clones: Figures of Time in Dickens and Ishiguro”

Leslie S. Simon

Queer Nineteenth Century Retellings: Accelerating Jane Austen and Robert Louis Stevenson

Melanie A. Marotta

“Serial Media and Slow Reading in the Victorian Studies Classroom”

Kirsten Andersen

Speed-Reading World Literature: Sir John Lubbock’s Liberal Education

Alexander BUBB

Victorian Fiction at 1.5x - Accelerated Reading from the Assembly Line to the Audiobook

Ashley Nadeau

Open Assembly: Strategies for Combating the Collapse of the Humanities

Dino Franco FELLUGA

‘I had no idea a scullery could be such a cosy place’: Domestic Labour, Social Hierarchy and Professional Women’s Identity in Institutional Spaces

Tabitha LAMBERT-BRAMWELL

Home, Alone: Subversive Female-led Households in Walter Besant’s Children of Gibeon and George Gissing’s The Unclassed

Rosanne BROOKS

Revisions of Romance in Amy Levy’s The Romance of a Shop and Ella Hepworth Dixon’s The Story of a Modern Woman

Katarina GEPHARDT

“The More Things Change…”: The Legislative and Literary Treatments of Prostitutes

Katie Peel

Temporalities of Childlessness: Queerness, Psychoanalysis, and the Narrative Speed of Demography in C19 America

Nat HURLEY

Depressive Realism, Arrested Generations

Dana LUCIANO

Sex Work and the City

Jordan Alexander STEIN

Toward A Black Trans*Ecology

Jennifer James

“Mental Speed: Accelerating Intelligence in the Nineteenth-Century”

Suzy ANGER

Speed and Detective Fiction at the Turn of the Century: the Case of Sherlock Holmes

Andrea BELMONTE

Conan Doyle’s Sorting Demon: Sherlock and Information Entropy

Barri J Gold

Perceiving time: technoscience and the sublime in late 19th century photography

Dariusz PNIEWSKI

Lapse and Collapse: Perceptions of Time and Memory in 19th Century Spirit Portraiture

Tabetha Madsen

Olive Schreiner's Hallucinatory Realism

Jayda Coons

Seeing and Being Seen: Perception, Power, and The Claude Glass

Anna Mae Tempus

George Eliot and the Interweaving of Abstract and Concrete Time

Ayşe Çelikkol

"While the heart beats, bruise it": Circulation, Poison, and Narrative Collapse in Eliot's "The Lifted Veil"

Rebecca SHEPPARD

Middlemarch: Love at First Sight?

Kathleen MCCORMACK

Tempo Deviant: Dorothea Brooke’s Stilled Pose as Accelerated Time Exposure in Talbot’s Calotype

Rebecca Warburton BOYLAN

Houses and other gimmicks: new domestic sciences in Victorian popular literature

Heidi Rennert

Modernity Across the Threshold: Augusta Webster and Co-Operative Housekeeping

Julie WISE

Annie Thomas’s The Modern Housewife and Trad Wives: The Persistence of Nineteenth-Century Domestic Ideology in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Camille STALLINGS

Time for School

Donal Edmund MULCAHY

The Time Machine Society and the Epoch of Rest, Or, Prison and Its Abolition

Shea Hennum

Diagrams of Generation, Duration, and Relation: Mapping Serial Passage, Experimental Animals, and Pathology at the Imperial Institut Pasteur

Kathleen PIERCE

“Stops and Starts: the Frustrations and the Revelations of Slow Travel”

Silvia ANTOSA

Slow Across Disciplines

Frankie DYTOR

Slow Archives

Charles GOUGH

“Slow Undisciplining”

Kristin Mahoney

Slow Projects

Rebecca N. Mitchell

Slow Curation

Jessica Straley

Crossing times and building worlds. On steampunk seriality in the 19th century futuristic novel

Valérie Stiénon

Cultural Acceleration and 19th-Century Aftermaths: Bridgerton and the Erasure of Empire

Alexi DECKER

“Time is everything with him:” Podcasts and Playing with Chronology in Re:Dracula

Mariah Hudec

A Chaos of Contending Times: Social Acceleration and the Compensations of Deep Time in Hugh Milelr's Geology

Bruce Levy

Soundscapes of Deep Time: Experiencing Geological Time in the 19th Century

Leore Joanne Green, Naomi Yuval-Naeh

Speed on the Flowing Frontier: Western Rivers and Antebellum Steamboats

Gabriele Ferracci

“‘[T]here’s more than engines to a ship’: Steamships & Accelerated Unities in Rudyard Kipling’s The Day’s Work (1898).

Muireann O'CINNEIDE

How to Accelerate a Ruin

Ivan Ortiz

“Steady Cadence, Tempering”: Eco-Industrial Speed in the Romantic Poetry of Rivers

Michael Ziser

Controlling the Climate of Fiction: The Acceleration of Narrative in Mark Twain’s The American Claimant (1892)

Sebastian LUND

Stéphane Mallarmé and Paper Acceleration in fin-de-siècle France

Karen Quandt

Bazaar Futures: Women’s Dress Reform and Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s The Coming Race

Leslee Thorne-Murphy

The Bicycle Craze in Women’s Fashion: Dress Reform, the New Woman, and Modernity in Late-Nineteenth-Century Spanish Periodicals and Visual Culture

Ines Corujo Martin

Kate Chopin: Change Through Fashion

Paola NARDI

The Idea of Autocracy in Russia's Long Nineteenth Century

Alison Smith

From Woman Wanderer to Feminotopia: Traversing Temporalities in Aleksandra Murzina’s The Blossoming Rose

Amanda Ewington

“Acceleration and Gender in Sevastopol: Tolstoy and Bakunina Recount the Siege”

Sara DICKINSON

SLOWING THINGS DOWN: COULD DARWIN AND LAMARCK BOTH HAVE BEEN RIGHT?

George LEVINE

Fiction’s Rush to Perfect the Species: Lamarckian and Darwinian Time

Jay CLAYTON

“How Charles Darwin sped up George Eliot’s sense of time.”

Nathan ELLIOTT