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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 NAVSA 2022

Madeline Gangnes

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.

Summer 2022 Conference Presentations

Madeline Gangnes

2022 Joint Conference of the International Graphic Novel & Comics Conference
and the International Bande Dessinée Society

June 21 – July 1, 2022
Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Ireland

Madeline will present her paper, “Marvel Comics and the Ethics of Responding to 9/11,” at the 2022 Joint Conference of the International Graphic Novel & Comics Conference and the International Bande Dessinée Society, which will be held at the Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology in Dublin, Ireland. Through an examination of Marvel Comics’ multifaceted diegetic and extra-diegetic responses to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, this paper argues that while on the surface, post-9/11 Marvel comics like The Amazing Spider-Man (vol. 2) #36 may read as oversentimental and aggressively patriotic, they also present a clear moral and ethical stance on the tragedy.

2022 Victorian Popular Fiction Association Conference

UNABLE TO ATTEND DUE TO ILLNESS

July 13-15, 2022
Loughborough University, England

Madeline will had planned to present her paper, “The Diseased Victorian Masculine Adventure Narrative in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness as Illustrated by Matt Kish,” at the 2022 Victorian Popular Fiction Association Conference, which will be held at Loughborough University in England. This paper reads Heart of Darkness as descended from, and indebted to, the kind of masculine adventure fiction and imperial romance seen in the Victorian popular press. It argues that Matt Kish’s 2013 illustrated edition of the novella presents the masculine adventure as self-consuming, and highlights the sickness of late-Victorian empire and its potential to infect its perpetrators across the ocean.

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.