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Summer 2024 Conference Presentations

Madeline Gangnes

2024 SHARP (Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing) Conference

July 1-5, 2024
University of Reading and Online

Madeline will present her paper, “Access and Accessibility in Digital (De)collections,” at the 2024 Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP) Conference, a hybrid conference in which she will be participating remotely. This paper explores ways in which periodical texts—particularly serials—can be made more approachable, legible, and accessible through digital projects that place texts within historical and aesthetic contexts with an eye toward universal design. Madeline will use her project, The (De)collected War of the Worlds (decollected.net), to show how one might reconfigure and recontextualize a periodical text to highlight meanings that can become obscured through republication as volumes.

Victorian Popular Fiction Association Conference

July 15-17, 2024
Canterbury Christ Church University and Online

Madeline will present her paper, “Corrupted Spaces and Places in Conrad’s Heart of Darkness as Illustrated by Matt Kish,” at the 2024 Victorian Popular Fiction Association Conference, a hybrid conference in which she will be participating remotely. 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. With a focus on setting and characters’ psychological responses to physical environments, Madeline examines Kish’s depictions of people and places both within and outside of the Congo, and illuminates Kish’s visual-critical suggestion that one cannot return from an imperial space to a European space without bringing the corrupting influence of empire home.

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.