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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.

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.