Conference Agenda

Overtaken by the Past: National Trauma and Fictions of Authorship in Charles Dickens and Grace Aguilar

Beth Newman

Speeding Toward Fame: Precocity and Intersectionality in Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Amy Levy

Linda K HUGHES

"At the Speed of Life: A Scholar and her Subject"

Meri-Jane ROCHELSON

Accelerative Energy v. Haunting Memory in Jules Verne’s The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras

Charlotte BOYCE

‘Accelerated Arctic Scientific and Technological Ambitions’

Claudia Capancioni

Speed and Frozen Time in Arctic Explorations: New Experiences of the Unknown

Mariaconcetta Costantini

Drift: Art After Decadence

Frankie DYTOR

Drag: Decadence in the Time of the Culture Wars

Alice CONDE

Painting a Queer Future: The Character, the Artist, and Questions of Agency in The Picture of Dorian Gray

Cas Lisko

Deliquescence: Decomposition, Rot, and Ornamented Decay

Jessica Elizabeth Gossling

Backward Desires: Sex Work in Tolstoy’s Late Fiction and Russia’s Late Landlord Economy

Fiona Bell

Holding Difficult Stories: Russian Literature and the Slow Work of Listening for Medical Professionals

Jehanne GHEITH

"Inflatable Globules": Tolstoy's Deceleration

David HERMAN

Nostalgic Modernity: Preservation, Display, and the Technology of Progress in 1880s London

Frank Christianson

The Pages of Time: Libraries as Emblems of Social Acceleration

Abigail Mann

Looting Time: Deceleration in Anglo-Indian Museum Culture and Rudyard Kipling’s Kim

Johana GODFREY

Fear and FOMO in the Late Nineteenth Century. Social Anxieties Surrounding the Picture Postcard and a New Media Landscape

Ann Kristine Eriksen

Slowing Down Time: Embodied and Generational Resistances to Speed and Acceleration

Teresa L MANGUM, Eileen Cleere, Jessica Howell, Narin Hassan

Second-Hand Clothes and the Material Anxieties of Accelerated Waste Colonialism in the Nineteenth Century Imagination

Danielle Mariann DOVE

New Imperialism and the Occult in Richard Marsh’s The Goddess: A Demon (1900)

Patricia PULHAM

Victorians at War: Vernon Lee and Times out of Joint

Pamela GILBERT

Vernon Lee's Deconstructivist Feminist Aesthetics

Sharon WORLEY

Accelerated spots of time: Wordsworthian time in Woolf’s nonfiction

Paolo Bugliani

Novel Familiarity: Deja Vu & Technologies of Perception

Sam TETT

‘Trying to get rid of the time’: speeding up and slowing down plot in Lady Audley’s Secret

Vanessa SMITH

From Chronos to Affect: Residual Exhaustion and the Disruption of “Moving-on” Time in the Late Nineteenth-Century

Anne MARCOLINE

Fatal Flânerie: The Violent Velocity of Modernity in Edgar Allan Poe

Megi MECOLLI

Deep Time and the City: From the Mid-Nineteenth Century to Ford Madox Ford’s The Soul of London

Laura COLOMBINO

Flâneur Vision in the Work of Medardo Rosso and Eugène Carrière

Jane R. BECKER

Interferences: The Link between Schreber’s Memoirs of my Mental Illness and 19th Century Technological Developments

Melissa ETZLER

Tempus (re)fugit: Michael Field's House Beautiful

Alex Gunn

Queer Crip Michael Field: Rethinking “Poets and Lovers” (in and) “against the world”

Jill EHNENN

‘Fighting the Dragon of Deficit’: Michael Field and Financialization

Alex MURRAY

The Speed of Slender Fingers: access and acceleration in Grant Allen’s The Type-Writer Girl

Mackenzie ASHCROFT

Neoclassical Economics and the Specter of Automation in George Gissing’s New Grub Street

Emily Louise Halliwell-MacDonald

Value of a Kind: New Grub Street, Intellectual Labor, and Generative AI

Soomin KIM

“Nineteenth Century Up-to-Date with a Vengeance”: Intimacy and Technology in Dracula

Kaleigh Langston

Empire and the Unseen Deaths of Jane Eyre

Mike Kleynman

Victorian vindictiveness and the rise of the PMC

Clay COGSWELL

Generations beyond supersession in Margaret Oliphant’s fiction

Helen KINGSTONE

Hastening Forgetting: Historical Erasure and Melodrama's Rise

Matthew BUCKLEY

Rhythmic Acceleration in Melodramatic Form

Carolyn WILLIAMS

“‘They’d Fly Along the Lines with the Speed of Lightning’: Telegraphy, Telephony, and Phonography on the Victorian Stage”

Daniel A Novak

Dramatization as Accelerated Reading

Marty Gould

Manso, the Ghost or the Useful Obsolescence of Knowledge

Elena Cueto Asín

Speed, Crime, and Danger on the Rails: The Night Train from Paris to Madrid in Two Short Stories by Emilia Pardo Bazán

Linda WILLEM

“Tiene usted una enfermedad nueva, muy rara, de las de última moda…” Religion, Science and Medical Practices in the Spanish Nineteenth-Century

Sara Muñoz-Muriana

Destroyed, Dispatched, Delivered: Dynamic Christian Ethics and the Fallen Woman on the fin de siècle Stage

Marija Reiff

A Whirlwind of Disparate Forms: Dollie Radford’s Avant-Garde Drama

LeeAnne M. Richardson

Decelerating the Modern: Queer Timing, Slow Motion, and Wilde's "Salome" at Dublin's Gate Theater

Yvonne IVORY

Parataxis in the Age of Speed: Fragmented Discourse in the Long Nineteenth Century

Alberto GABRIELE

A New Form for a New Crisis: the emergence of the novel-essay and the case of Walter Pater’s Marius the Epicurean

Michele BRUGNETTI

Accelerated Celebrity and the Rise of Biography in France: The Case of Empress Eugénie

Keri YOUSIF

Fin-de-siècle prose poetry and weird fiction: Arthur Machen’s “Ornaments in Jade” and C. F. Keary “‘Twixt Dog and Wolf”

Cecilia FABARO

Architectural Biometrics: Lidar Scanning and Subaltern Impressions in Architecture

Peter CHRISTENSEN

Entangled: Colonial and Genealogical Temporalities

Mrinalini Rajagopalan

Parowan Gap: making and preserving slow time

Shundana YUSAF

On Island Time

Judith MADERA

“The Pace and Space of Barcelona’s Modernisme: How a Swift Urban Modernization Transformed the Catalan Capital’s Self-Understanding”

Leigh MERCER

Accelerated Collecting: Japanese Ceramics as a Metonymy of Spanish Modernity in Benito Pérez Galdós's Lo prohibido (1885)

David R. George Jr.

Amazons and Centaurs: Equestrian Culture and Unbridled Modernity in 19th-Century Spain

Nicholas WOLTERS

The Threat of Women’s Emancipation in María del Pilar Sinués’ El ángel del hogar (1857)

Gabrielle MILLER