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Madeline at NeMLA 2024 (Two Panels)

Madeline Gangnes

2024 NeMLA (Northeast Modern Language Association) Convention

March 7-10, 2024
Sheraton Boston, MA

Madeline presented two papers at the 2024 Northeast Modern Language Association Convention. The first, “Multimodal Approaches in the Undergraduate Victorian Studies Classroom,” describes the development of an upper-division undergraduate course (“Digital Victorians”) that models ways in which humanities courses can incorporate digital materials, tools, and methods into individual and collaborative projects. It was part of the panel, “An Excess of Expression: Multimodal Pedagogy in the Humanities.”

Her second presentation, “Geologic Time, Climate Anxiety, and Hope in Environmental Literature Classrooms,” was part of the “Geologic Time: An Eternal Excess” roundtable. This paper explores the concept of solastalgia: a term coined by Glenn Albrecht to describe a form of homesickness one gets when one is still at ‘home’ when that place has been changed, especially by climate disruption. Madeline described her students’ climate anxiety and shared example texts from her courses that evoke and provoke solastalgia.

Summer 2023 Conference Presentations

Madeline Gangnes

2023 SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing) Conference

June 26-30, 2023
Online

Madeline will present her paper, “Digital, Archival, and/or Collaborative Approaches in the Victorian Studies Classroom,” at the 2023 Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP) Conference, which will be held online. This paper describes the development of an upper-division undergraduate course (“Digital Victorians”) that models ways in which literature courses can move beyond reading texts in facsimile to incorporating digital materials, tools, and methods into individual and collaborative projects. In learning-through-doing how Victorians read, students contribute to a greater understanding and articulation of the course subject than would be possible through more “traditional” engagements with Victorian literature.

2023 ASLE (Association for the Study of Literature and Environment
+ AESS (Association for Environmental Studies and Sciences) Conference

July 9-12, 2023
Portland, Oregon

Madeline will present her paper, “Teaching Literature of the Environment at a Jesuit Institution,” at the 2023 joint conference of the ASLE and AESS, which will be held at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, Oregon. This paper describes the development of three complementary courses on literature of the environment at the University of Scranton that contribute to its Environmental and Sustainability Studies concentration. Guided by the Society of Jesus’ Universal Apostolic Preferences and other principles of Catholic environmentalism, and through a combination of literary studies and community-based learning, these new courses demonstrate the power of literature to further environmental justice.

Value for Money in Young Folks

Madeline Gangnes

“Editor, Reader, and Value for Money in Young Folks” appears in the Autumn 2022 issue of Victorian Popular Fictions. In this article, Madeline explores some of the ways in which the paper’s editors built their community of readers, explained changes to the paper’s length, format, and price and incorporated reader contributions to promote circulation. Through an examination of interactions between “the Editor” (James Henderson’s editorial team) and readers of Young Folks, she charts a concerted effort to keep readers persuaded that every change made to the paper was in service of value to the consumer.

Madeline at RSVP 2021

Madeline Gangnes

2021 Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Conference

September 7-12, 2021
Temple University, Pennsylvania

Madeline will be participating in a Q&A regarding her paper, “Detection Drawn: Taxonomizing Illustrated Periodical Detective Stories,” as part of the 2021 Research Society for Victorian Periodicals Conference, which will be held virtually and hosted by Temple University in Philadelphia, PA. This paper describes a taxonomy for illustrations of late-Victorian periodical detective stories published in The Strand Magazine, The Ludgate Monthly, and The Harmsworth Magazine. A video recording of Madeline’s presentation, as well as related files, are hosted here.

Material Romance

Madeline Gangnes

“Material Romance: Kidnapped In and Out of Young Folks Paper” appears in the Summer 2020 issue of the Victorian Periodicals Review. In this article, Madeline proposes that the serial publication of Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped (1886) in Young Folks Paper presents a vision of Highland and Hebrides Scotland that is similar to colonial locales featured in imperial romantic adventure narratives.

Reviews in Digital Humanities

Madeline Gangnes

Dr. Amanda Visconti has published a review of Madeline’s digital project, The (De)collected War of the Worlds, in Reviews in Digital Humanities #1.3. The project itself is hosted at decollected.net.

Madeline at MLA 2020 (Two Panels)

Madeline Gangnes

2020 Modern Language Association Convention

Washington State Convention Center
and Sheraton Grand Seattle (Seattle, WA)
January 9-12, 2020

Madeline will present two papers at the 2020 Modern Language Association Convention. The first, “Comics ARchitected: Translation Augmentation with Structural Integrity,” is part of the “Comics and the Digital Humanities” roundtable. Through her digital humanities project called “Comics ARchitected,” this paper demonstrates that when augmenting comics, it is vital to consider their structural integrity and avoid disrupting the fragile architecture of the comics page.

Her second paper, “Making Victorian Serialized Fiction Accessible through the Digital ‘Edition’,” is part of the “Serial Compositions” session. With an emphasis on access and accessibility, this paper explores ways in which Victorian serialized novels can be presented through digital projects that place them within their periodical contexts. One such project is Madeline’s The (De)collected War of the Worlds.

Madeline at NAVSA 2019

Madeline Gangnes

2019 North American Victorian Studies Association Conference

Hilton Downtown Columbus (Columbus, OH)
October 17-19, 2019

Madeline will present her paper “The (De)collected War of the Worlds: Victorian Serialized Fiction and the Digital ‘Edition'” at the 2019 North American Victorian Studies Conference. This paper explores ways in which the material and cultural contexts of Victorian serialized novels might be made more visible and accessible through digital projects that place them within their periodical presentations. One such project is Madeline’s annotated web presentation of The War of the Worlds as it was serialized in Pearson’s Magazine, The (De)collected War of the Worlds.

Art and Science in Word and Image (2019)

Madeline Gangnes

“Wars of the Worlds: H.G. Wells’s Ekphrastic Style in Word and Image” appears in the newly-released collection Art and Science in Word and Image: Exploration and Discovery (Brill, 2019). This collection brings together papers presented at the 2014 International Association of Word and Image Studies conference (Dundee, Scotland). Madeline’s chapter examines early illustrations of The War of the Worlds from its initial serialization in Pearson’s Magazine (1897) through the Second World War. Her analysis of illustrations and book covers highlights the difficulties presented for illustrators by texts that are deliberately written to be undepictable. It also addresses the ways in which various technologies and international conflicts influence visual interpretations of the novel.

Madeline at MLA 2019

Madeline Gangnes

2019 Modern Language Association Convention

Hyatt Regency Chicago (Chicago, IL)
January 3-6, 2019

Madeline will present her paper “Reclaiming the ‘Absent Context’ of Late-Victorian Serialized Fiction” at the TM Book History, Print Cultures, Lexicography Forum at the 2019 Modern Language Association Convention. This paper examines key works of late-Victorian serialized fiction that are widely read today in collected and revised formats, focusing on H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds as illustrated by Warwick Goble for Pearson’s Magazine. An analysis of serialized versions alongside collected editions demonstrates the necessity of engaging the various versions of such works in scholarship and pedagogy.