Madeline at NAVSA 2022

2022 North American Victorian Studies Association Conference

September 29 – October 2, 2022
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA

Madeline will present her paper, “Just Late-Victorian Voices in the (Partially-)Digital Classroom,” at the 2022 North American Victorian Studies Association Conference, which will be held at and near Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. This paper is part of a roundtable entitled, “Just Assignments: Rethinking Student Work in the Victorian Studies Classroom,” which includes presentations from several educators using innovative methods to teach Victorian Studies in varying classroom settings. In her presentation, Madeline will speak to her experiences teaching and designing three courses on Victorian periodicals using digital materials, tools, and methods.

Madeline at NAVSA 2019

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 MagazineThe (De)collected War of the Worlds.

Madeline at NAVSA 2018

2018 North American Victorian Studies Association Conference

Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront Hotel (St. Petersburg, FL)
October 11-14, 2018

Madeline will present her paper “‘Scotland as Though It Were a Foreign Country’: Victorians Looking Northward in Stevenson’s Kidnapped” at the 2018 North American Victorian Studies Conference. This paper argues that Kidnapped maps the imperial romance onto Scotland in a way that portrays Highland Scots as native peoples subjugated by the English, their lands colonized and culture outlawed. Madeline’s readings of William Boucher’s illustrations in conjunction with Stevenson’s text reveal a distinctive “looking Northward”—both textual and literal—that Stevenson and Boucher collaboratively construct through their presentation of Jacobite-era Scotland.