Past Evening Lectures

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”