2012-13
Tina Young Choi (Department of English, York University) “Journeys Through Space and Time: Geography and Narrative in Victorian Railway Guides”
Keith Wilson (Deptartment of English, University of Ottawa) “Thomas Hardy as Correspondent: Volume Eight of the Collected Letters,”
Mark Knight (Department of English, University of Toronto) “Proclaiming Go(o)d Words: Religion and the Novel in a Mid-Victorian Periodical”
2011-12
Jennifer Esmail (Department of English and Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University) “‘I wonder what a chimpanzee would say to this?’: Primate Perspective in the Victorian Evolutionary Debates”
2010-11
Jurgen Kramer (English and American Studies, University of Dortmund) “Not a warrior, but a Worrier Ghost: A Reading of Henry James’s ‘Sir Edmund Orme’”
Sukeshi Kamra (English, Carleton University) “Arresting Publics: Law and the Periodical Press in India, 1857-1910”
Susan Brown (English, University of Guelph) “The Agency of the Letter: Mary Barton and Text Technologies”
Alison Syme (Art History, University of Toronto) “Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ladybird”
Lauren Gillingham (English, University of Ottawa) “Fashioning the Contemporary as History in Silver-Fork and Sensation Fiction”
2009-10
Cannon Schmitt (English, University of Toronto) “Tidal Conrad”
2008-09
Alison Halsall (English, York University) “‘A Parade of Curiosities’: Neo-Victorianism in the Contemporary Graphic Novel”
Stephen Heathorn (History, McMaster University) “The Absent Site of Memory: The Cawnpore Memorial Well, Empire Pilgrimage and the Commemoration of the 1857 Indian Mutiny”
2007-08
Suzanne Waldman (English, Carleton University) “Revisioning Dante’s Erotics: Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Illustrations of Dante’s La Vita Nuova”
Suzanne Bailey (English, Trent University) “‘Thought Without Words’; or, What Do Sir Francis Galton and Robert Browning Have in Common?”
Anne Clendinning (History, Nipissing University) ” ‘A Most Disgusting Offensive Liquor’: Urban Pollution and the Victorian Gas Industry”
2006-07
Gisela Argyle (Humanities, York University) “From Female Life-Writing to Male Fiction: George Meredith’s Tragic Comedians and Diana of the Crossways”
Ann Gagne (English, University of Western Ontario) “Framing it with Her Hands: Touching George Egerton’s ‘Gone Under'”
Alexandra Kimball (English, University of Western Ontario) “‘A Pandemonium of Posters’: Advertising Sensation in the New Journalism”
M. Daniel Martin (English, University of Western Ontario) “The Pleasures of Imminent Disaster: Thrill Rides and British Imperialism from the Big Wheel to the London Eye”
Cecilia Morgan (OISE, University of Toronto) “Imperial Culture and Victorian Spectacle Canadian Tourists in Britain”
2005-06
Bernard Lightman (Humanities, York University) “Scientific Authorship at Century’s End: Rambles with Radiant Suns and Extinct Monsters”
Lorraine Janzen Kooistra (English, Ryerson University) “The Illustrated Gift Book as ‘a branch of national industry’ or, Why is Poetry Like a Cotton Mill?”
Janice Schroeder (English, Carleton University) “Self Teaching: Mary Carpenter, Public Speech, and the Discipline of Deliquency”
2004-05
Christine Sypnowich (Philosophy, Queen’s University) “Morris and the Aesthetic Road to Equality”
William Whitla (Humanities, York University) “The Albert Memorial: Art and Imperialism”
Lesley Higgins (English, York University) “Hopkins: Confessing the Flesh”
2003-04
Wayne Morgan (Popular Culture, Museum Curator) “Brownies Now Seldom Idle Stand”
Fred Hall (Music, McMaster University) “Nostalgia, Temperance, and War: Canadian Songs for the Parlour and Stage”
David Kent (English, Centennial College) “Christina Rossetti’s Notes on Genesis and Exodus”
2002-03
Lynn McDonald (History, University of Guelph) “New Scholarship on Florence Nightingale: The Uses of a ‘Collected Edition'”
Dennis Denisoff (English, Ryerson University) “Sexual Visuality in Novels by Mary Elizabeth Braddon and Dinah Mullock”
Christine Bolus-Reichert (English, University of Toronto) “William Morris’s Revision of the Picturesque”
2001-02
Caroline Roberts (History, University of Toronto) “Sex and Somnambulism: Mesmerism, Hysteria and the Medical Profession in Victorian England”
Elizabeth Miller (English, Memorial University) “Break a Fang: Bram Stoker, Dracula, and the Victorian Stage”
George Elliott Clarke (English, University of Toronto) “Reading the ‘Canadian’ Slave Narrative”
2000-01
E. Warwick Slinn (Massey University, New Zealand) “Victorian Poetry as Cultural Performative”
David Wright (History of Medicine, McMaster) “Being Insane in Sane Places: Victorian Society and the Rise of the Lunatic Asylum”
Christopher Keep (English, Western Ontario) “‘A Certain Expansion of Her Consciousness’: The Gendering of Telegraphy in the Nineteenth Century”