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All events take place in the Martin E. Segal Theater unless otherwise indicated
Welcome
8:45 – Mario DiGangi
Executive Officer
PhD Program in English
CUNY Graduate Center
Moderator: Jonathan Farina, Seton Hall University
9:00-10:30am – What’s in a Book?
Rachel Sagner Buurma
Swarthmore College
“Note, Index, Topic: The Preparation of the Victorian Novel”
Nicholas Dames
Columbia University
“Books and Days: Counting Time in the Novel”
10:30-10:45 – Break
10:45-12:15 – What is a Book?
Elizabeth Miller
University of California at Davis
“Reading in Review”
Deidre Lynch
Harvard University
“Paper Slips: The Nineteenth-Century Album and other misadventures in book-keeping”
LUNCH
12:15 P.M. – 2:15 P.M.
2:15-3:45pm – The Victorian Digital Sublime
Natalie Houston
University of Houston
“A Change of Scale: Reading Victorian Poetry in the New Scholarly Archive”
Paul Fyfe
North Carolina State University
“The .txtual condition of Victorian newspapers”
3:45-4:00pm – Break
4:00-5:45pm – Roundtable: The History and Future of Victorian Media
Chair: Andrew Stauffer, University of Virginia
Andrew Stauffer
University of Virginia
“Traces in the Stacks”
Patrick Leary
Independent Scholar
“Scarcity and Abundance in Periodicals Research”
Lisa Gitelman
New York University
“Digital Representations of the Not-Digitized”
Meredith Martin
Princeton University
“Prosody as Archive”
Reception
6:00 P.M.
Segal Theater