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All events take place in the Martin E. Segal Theater unless otherwise indicated
Morning Session
8:45 A.M.-12:00 P.M.
Welcome
Steve Kruger
Executive Officer
PhD Program in English
CUNY Graduate Center
Morning Moderator: Steven Amarnick, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY
Global and Racial Victorians
Tanya Agathocleous
Hunter College, CUNY
“Where in the World is Victorian Studies? Globalizing Victorian Literature, Then and Now”
Louisiana State University
“Theorizing Victoria’s ‘Accursed Race’: The Cagots, the West, and Victorian Racial Thinking”
Discussion and Break
Victorian Subjects
Peter Logan
Temple University
“Psychology and Anthropology, in Theory”
Anna Jones
University of Central Florida
“Self-Possession: Toward a Gothic Theory of Liberalism”
Lunch (on your own)
12:00 P.M.-2:00 P.M.
Afternoon Session
2:00 P.M.-6:00 P.M.
Afternoon Moderator: Caroline Reitz, John Jay College, CUNY
Forms and Networks
Caroline Levine
University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Form’s Force: Louis Althusser or Elizabeth Barrett Browning?”
Jonathan Grossman
University of California, Los Angeles
“Meantime”
Victorian Feminisms
Kathy Psomiades
Duke University
“The Way We Read Then: Feminist Theory, Victorian Theory and the Historicity of Knowledge”
Pamela Gilbert
University of Florida
“The Other Victorians: Sexuality and Feminist Readings of Victorian Popular Fiction”
Discussion and Break
Keynote Address (5:00 P.M.):
Andrew H. Miller
University of Indiana
Reception
6:00 P.M.
English Common Space, Room 4406
