We are pleased to announce the following paper is to be presented at the upcoming Compass Interdisciplinary Virtual Conference (Oct 19-30): Anne Charity Hudley (William & Mary) and Christine Mallinson (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) Communicating about Communication: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Educating Educators about Language Variation’ “The quest to educate non-standardized English-speaking students has been … Continue reading »
Compass Conference Sneak Preview: Text as It Happens: Literary Geography
We are pleased to announce the following paper is to be presented at the upcoming Compass Interdisciplinary Virtual Conference (Oct 19-30): Sheila Hones (University of Tokyo) Text as It Happens: Literary Geography “This article reviews the current situation in geographical work with fiction in the context of an explicitly spatial view of the writing–reading nexus … Continue reading »
Compass Conference Sneak Preview: Sociolinguistics and Sociology: Current Directions, Future Partnerships
We are pleased to announce the following paper is to be presented at the upcoming Compass Interdisciplinary Virtual Conference (Oct 19-30): Christine Mallinson (University of Maryland) Sociolinguistics and Sociology: Current Directions, Future Partnerships “In this article, I discuss the past, present, and future of interdisciplinary scholarship between sociolinguists and sociologists. After detailing some of the … Continue reading »
Compass Conference Sneak Preview: ‘Borderless World’: Globalization, Territory and Identity’
We are pleased to announce the following paper is to be presented at the upcoming Compass Interdisciplinary Virtual Conference (Oct 19-30): ‘Borderless World’: Globalization, Territory and Identity Alexander Diener (Pepperdine University) and Joshua Hagen (Marshall University) “Although declarations or predictions of a borderless world have become somewhat ubiquitous over the last twenty years, state borders … Continue reading »
Google Map for Conference Registrants – A Global Spread!
Many thanks to all those of you who have already registered for the upcoming Compass Interdisciplinary Virtual Conference. We’ve very excited to see so many delegates from around the world and look forward to a truly global conversation during the conference. Why register? The conference website will of course be free and open to all, … Continue reading »
The 28th Dickens Universe, University of California, Santa Cruz (Aug 1 – 8, 2009)
Guest Post: Beth Penney (Monterey Peninsula College) The 29th annual Dickens Universe was held at Kresge College at UC Santa Cruz August 1 through 8, 2009. More than 200 people attended to discuss David Copperfield: approximately 40 faculty members, 50 graduate students, and 120 members of the public. The Universe has worked with David Copperfield … Continue reading »
Hello, Beautiful: The Inaugural Issue of GLOSSATOR Has Arrived!
Con-sider our commentary a love-driven constellation, a double star (binary or optical?) gravitationally caught within these motions, like the subtle turnings of an ungraspable celestial tress. –Anna Klosowska and Nicola Masciandaro, “Beyond the Sphere” Over at the medieval studies weblog In The Middle, we’ve been having some vigorous discussions about oceanic and new critical modes … Continue reading »
Perspectives on BAVS/NAVSA, Cambridge, 13-15 July, 2009 – Report IV
Guest Post: Stella Pratt-Smith (Balliol College, Oxford) The ‘Past vs. Present’ theme for this year’s BAVS/NAVSA conference set up an opposition between two opposed moments in time. Nonetheless, in the opening plenary, Peter Galison suggested that the century was driven by a single ‘stoical’ impulse, which increasingly opposed ‘exact’ science to ‘empirical’ art. That viewpoint … Continue reading »
In My Craft or Sullen Art Exercised in the Still Night: A Belated Report from the International Medieval Congress at Kalamazoo 2009
Figure 1. Bruce Nauman, “Life Death Love Hate Pleasure Pain” (neon sculpture) In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With all their griefs in their arms, I labor by singing light Not for ambition or bread Or the strut and trade … Continue reading »
Perspectives on BAVS/NAVSA, Cambridge, 13-15 July, 2009 – Report III
Guest Post: Martin Dubois (University of Cambridge) The variousness and dynamism of Victorian encounters with the past is mirrored in our own relationship to our nineteenth-century forebears. This was one of the central themes to emerge from the joint BAVS/NAVSA conference, ‘Past versus Present’ (a title adapted from Carlyle’s 1843 study Past and Present), held … Continue reading »
Perspectives on BAVS/NAVSA, Cambridge, 13-15 July, 2009 – Report II
Guest Post: Alexandra Lewis (Trinity College, Cambridge) This summer in Cambridge has seen the streets festooned with banners, and set the lecture theatres and concert halls reverberating with the music of discussion in celebration of certain milestones. The 800th anniversary of the University of Cambridge in 2009 coincided, in July, with the international Darwin Festival, … Continue reading »
Perspectives on BAVS/NAVSA, Cambridge, 13-15 July, 2009 – Report I
Guest Post: Stéphanie Prévost (University of Tours, France) The theme of the Joint Meeting of the British Association for Victorian Studies and of the North American Victorian Studies Association, held at Churchill College in Cambridge, UK, was ‘Past v. Present’. Alluding to Thomas Carlyle’s 1843 essay, Past and Present, the very title of the conference … Continue reading »
MLA 08 Panel Report VIII – Roundtable: What Is a Scholarly Journal? Identity Issues in Our Digital Age
Monday, 29 December 618. Roundtable: What Is a Scholarly Journal? Identity Issues in Our Digital Age 3:30–4:45 p.m., Union Square 14, Hilton Program arranged by the Council of Editors of Learned Journals Presiding: Robert Lowry Patten, Rice Univ. Speakers: Elizabeth Brown, Johns Hopkins Univ.; Martha J. Cutter, Univ. of Connecticut, Storrs; Sheri Spaine Long, Univ. … Continue reading »
Sally Ledger Memorial Service, 22 June 2009
There will be a memorial service for Sally Ledger at 2pm on 22 June 2009 at the Chapel, Founder’s Building, Royal Holloway, University of London. Full details and an RSVP can be found in this PDF.
MLA 08 Panel Report VII – Anthologizing British Literature: Negotiating the Canon for the Classroom
Monday, 29 December 572. Anthologizing British Literature: Negotiating the Canon for the Classroom 1:45–3:00 p.m., Franciscan B, Hilton Program arranged by the Division on the Teaching of Literature Presiding: John Paul Riquelme, Boston Univ. 1. “Anthologizing British Literature,” Emma Bennett, Wiley-Blackwell 2. “Coverage between the Covers,” Don N. LePan, Broadview 3. “A Vital Literary Culture … Continue reading »
The Spaceship Has Landed: Announcing ‘postmedieval’
[cross-posted to In The Middle] Sometimes there is really good news to report about academic publishing and medieval studies. It is with no little sense of mirth and hope that I share the news that today marks the official arrival of the joint venture between Palgrave Macmillan and the BABEL Working Group: postmedieval: a journal … Continue reading »
Conference Report: ‘Tennyson’s Futures’, English Faculty, University of Oxford, 27-28 March 2009
Image: Alfred Tennyson as the Dirty Monk, photographed by Julia Margaret Cameron, May 1865. Guest Post: Martin Dubois (University of Cambridge) Given how many of Tennyson’s poems make only halting progress, it was apt that speakers at this bicentenary conference were repeatedly drawn to return to that most familiar of critical themes: what T.S. Eliot … Continue reading »
Signaling to Each Other from Inscrutable Depths: A Response to Gabrielle Spiegel’s “‘Getting Medieval’: History and the Torture Memos”
[cross-posted to In The Middle] I don’t understand why scholars — even my favorite ones — totalize fields when they talk about them, and usually do so without citing any work at all. (Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, from here) What does the regulating principle of medieval/modern periodization hold in place, and what does it help to … Continue reading »
MLA 08 Panel Report VI – Defoe, James, and Beerbohm: Computer-Assisted Criticism of Three Authors
Saturday, 27 December 52. Defoe, James, and Beerbohm: Computer-Assisted Criticism of Three Authors 5:15–6:30 p.m., Union Square 15, Hilton Program arranged by the Association for Computers and the Humanities Presiding: Mark Algee-Hewitt, New York Univ. 1. “The Compleat Semantic Unconscious of Robinson Crusoe,” Martin Joel Gliserman, Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick 2. “Style Evolution in Henry … Continue reading »
MLA 08 Panel Report V – Public Shakespeares
Screenshot: ‘Foul Whisperings, Strange Matters: Shakespeare’s Macbeth in SecondLife’ Image source: Flickr Sunday, 28 December 247. Public Shakespeares 12:00 noon–1:15 p.m., Continental 1–2, Hilton Program arranged by the Division on Shakespeare Presiding: Mary Thomas Crane, Boston Coll. 1. “Screen Play,” Katherine A. Rowe, Bryn Mawr Coll. 2. “Stupefying Vulgarity,” Gary Taylor, Florida State Univ. 3. … Continue reading »
