Summer 2023 Conference Presentations

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.

Summer 2021 Conference Presentations

2021 Midwest Victorian Studies Association Conference

May 21-22, 2021
Auburn University, Alabama

Madeline will present her paper, “Thinking Periodically: Victorian Serialized Fiction and the Accessible Digital ‘Edition’,” at the 2021 Midwest Victorian Studies Association Conference, which will be held virtually and hosted by Auburn University, Alabama. 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.


2021 Victorian Popular Fiction Association Conference

July 14-16, 2021
University of Greenwich, London

Madeline will present her paper, “Imageless Imagetext: Illustration Excluded from Collected Late-Victorian Periodical Fiction,” at the 2021 Victorian Popular Fiction Association Conference, which will be held virtually and hosted by the University of Greenwich, London. This paper explores visual absences in several popular works of late-Victorian periodical fiction from which illustrations have been excluded, including works by H. G. Wells, R. L. Stevenson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Arthur Morrison, C. L. Pirkis, and L. T. Meade.