| Description | This plenary roundtable is part of a flightless, multi-site, local/global conference on Victorian Studies. Speakers for the Seattle Hub will join presenters from the University of California, Davis to consider what it means to study Victorian culture(s) on the edge of the Pacific.
In-Person Seattle Hub Speakers:
Elizabeth Chang (Independent Scholar) focuses on the literature and culture of the British empire. Publications include Britain’s Chinese Eye: Literature, Empire and Aesthetics in the Nineteenth Century (2010) and Novel Cultivations: Plants in British Literature of the Global Nineteenth Century (2019).
Alexander Dick (University of British Columbia) is the author of Romanticism and the Gold Standard: Money, Literature, and Economic Debate in Britain 1790-1830 (2013) and author and editor of many articles and chapters on literature, philosophy, and political economy.
Matt Poland (University of Washington) researches the circulation of literary texts and genres through the British settler empire. Recently, his writing has appeared in Journal of Victorian Culture, George Eliot-George Henry Lewes Studies, Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom, and Victorian Periodicals Review.
Online UC Davis Speakers:
Ian Duncan (University of California, Berkeley)
Andrew Way Leong (University of California, Berkeley)
Tiffany Jo Werth (University of California, Davis)
Kirsten Schuhmacher (University of California, Davis) |
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