Advisory Board Elections 2012
To vote, send an e-mail to navsa@purdue.edu. All votes must be received by March 15, 2012. You may choose ONE person in “Canadian (Open Category)”; ONE person in “American (Open Category)”; and ONE person in “Art History (Open Category)”. These Advisory Board position are for three-year terms.
ADVISORY BOARD: CANADIAN
Lorraine Janzen Kooistra
Lorraine Janzen Kooistra is Professor of English at Ryerson University in Toronto and member of the Joint Graduate Program in Communication and Culture (Ryerson and York University). A longstanding member of NAVSA, she has been on the Advisory Board since 2009. Currently Ryerson University's representative to the Canadian Federation of the Humanities and Social Sciences, she is also a member of the Canada Research Chair College of Reviewers. She is a member of the Editorial Board for the Rossetti Archive, RaVon, NINES (Victorian division), the Journal of Illustration Studies and the William Morris Society Journal. Her monographs include Poetry, Pictures, and Popular Publishing: The Illustrated Gift Book and Victorian Visual Culture 1855-1875 (2011), Christina Rossetti and Illustration: A Publishing History (2002) and The Artist as Critic: Bitextuality in Fin-de-Siècle Illustrated Books (1995). She is co-editor The Yellow Nineties Online and its digital edition of The Yellow Book (www.1890s.ca), and of The Culture of Christina Rossetti: Female Poetics and Victorian Contexts (1999). She has published numerous articles and book chapters on Victorian visual-verbal relations and publishing history, including “Poetry and Illustration” in the Blackwell Companion to Victorian Poetry and “Christina Rossetti” in the forthcoming Cambridge Companion to the Pre-Raphaelites. Together with her colleague, Dennis Denisoff, she is working on a collaborative SSHRC research project, The Yellow Book, 1890s Print Culture, and the Digital Vision. Her new project, “Laurence Housman and the Book Arts,” is in its formative stages.
Deanna Kreisel
Deanna Kreisel received her Ph.D. in English from Northwestern University and was graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in English from the University of Pennsylvania. She has taught in the English department at the University of British Columbia since 2006, until 2011 as an Assistant Professor and now as Associate Professor. Before coming to UBC she taught at Warren Wilson College, Duke University, Mississippi State University, and Keene State College. Her first book, Economic Woman: Demand, Gender, and Narrative Closure in Eliot and Hardy, was published mere days ago by the University of Toronto Press; it explores the relationship among the economic demand function, collective fears of capitalist stagnation, and images of degraded or feminized sexuality in the novels of Eliot and Hardy. Part of the monograph appeared in Novel: A Forum in Fiction. Other publications include articles on George Eliot's Adam Bede in ELH; on Kipling and boredom in Representations; on Henry James and Wes Anderson in Mosaic; and others on Austen, Hardy, and Bram Stoker. She is currently at work on a new book project on concepts and configurations of space in the mid-to-late Victorian period, with a focus on architecture, aesthetic theory, and geometry.
Barbara Leckie
Barbara Leckie is an Associate Professor in the Department of English and ICSLAC (Institute for the Comparative Study of Literature, Art, and Culture) at Carleton University in Ottawa. She is the author of Culture and Adultery: the Novel, the Newspaper, and the Law, 1857-1914 (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999) and a volume editor for the forthcoming Sanitary Reform in Victorian Britain (Pickering & Chatto, General Editor, Michelle Allen-Emerson). She was Associate Director of the Institute of Interdisciplinary Studies at Carleton, Graduate Chair of ICSLAC, and is currently Graduate Chair of the English Department. She has been involved with VSAO (Victorian Studies Association of Ontario) for many years and was President of this organization from 2008-2010. She is currently completing a book project entitled Open Houses: Architecture, Poverty, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel; parts of this book project have been published, or are forthcoming, in Nineteenth-Century Studies, Victorian Space(s) (Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies), and Approaches to Teaching Dickens's Bleak House (MLA Publications)
ADVISORY BOARD: AMERICAN
Stephen Arata
Stephen Arata is Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia, where he teaches courses in nineteenth- and twentieth-century British literature as well as the history of the novel. Publications include Fictions of Loss in the Victorian Fin de Siècle (1995, 2008), editions of News from Nowhere (2002), New Grub Street (2007), and The Time Machine (2009), and a range of essays and book chapters including, most recently, essays on Marius the Epicurean and on Stevenson and Gothic and the chapter on the Victorian fin de siècle for the new Cambridge History of English Literature. With J. Paul Hunter and Jennifer Wicke, he is editor of the forthcoming Blackwell Companion to the Novel. With Penny Fielding, Anthony Mandal, and Richard Dury, he is General Co-Editor of the Edinburgh University Press edition of The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson. He has received fellowships from the Whiting Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the Fulbright Foundation. He is currently writing a history of the novel in Britain, 1660-2000, for Blackwell.
Pamela K. Gilbert
Pamela K. Gilbert is Albert Brick Professor of English at the University of Florida. She publishes mainly in the areas of Victorian literature, cultural studies and the history of medicine. Her books are Disease, Desire and the Body in Victorian Women’s Popular Novels (Cambridge 1997), Mapping the Victorian Social Body (SUNY, 2004), The Citizen’s Body (Ohio State, 2007), and Cholera and Nation (SUNY, 2008). She has edited the collection entitled Imagined Londons (SUNY, 2002), a teaching edition of Rhoda Broughton’s novel, Cometh Up as a Flower (Broadview 2010), and the Companion to Sensation Fiction (Blackwell, 2011). She also co-edited Beyond Sensation: Mary Elizabeth Braddon in Context (SUNY, 1999). Her recent articles include “‘A Nation of Good Animals’: Popular Beliefs and the Body,” in A Cultural History of the Body; “Feminism and the Canon: Recovery and Reconsideration of Popular Novelists” in Antifeminism and the Victorian Novel: Rereading Nineteenth Century Women Writers; "History and its Ends in Chartist Epic" in Victorian Literature and Culture; “The Idea of the City: Epilogue” in The Idea of the City; “Sex and the Modern City: English Studies and The Spatial Turn,” in The Spatial Turn; “Interdisciplinarity and the Body,” an introductory essay for a special issue of Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net; “Dangers Lurking Everywhere: Sex Offenders as Pollution,” in Dirt: New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination. Professor Gilbert chaired the Department of English at UF from May 2007- May 2011, serves on several editorial boards, the program committee of the MLA (2009-2012), and has recently served as a judge for the Donald Gray Prize for NAVSA 2011. She participated in the NEH summer institute for developing modes of evaluating digital scholarship in 2011, along with several other NAVSA members, and has served on the editorial board of NINES. She is currently working on the history of the body in nineteenth century Britain, specifically, Victorian Skin.
Ellen Rosenman
Ellen Rosenman is a Provost’s Distinguished Service Professor in the English Department at the University of Kentucky. Her research interests include sexuality and gender, popular fiction, and working-class fiction, politics, and culture. She is the author of Unauthorized Pleasures: Accounts of Victorian Erotic Experience (Cornell UP 2003) and co-editor, with Claudia Klaver, of Other Mothers: Beyond the Maternal Ideal (Ohio State UP 2008). Her current book project involves penny issue fiction and its relationship to popular politics and the working class social imaginary. She has also published on Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Ellen Wood, Henry Mayhew, Victorian fashion, and film/television adaptations of Victorian novels. A member of NAVSA since its inception, she served on the program committee this fall. She is also the chief organizer for the spring 2012 Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies conference, “Picturing the Nineteenth Century.” She edits the Victorians Institute Journal, including the newly-established VIJ Digital Annex, which publishes archival material, book reviews, and the best conference papers from the Victorians Institute annual conference in partnership with NINES. Professionally, she is especially concerned about the future of graduate education and the employment of graduate students.
ADVISORY BOARD: ART HISTORY
Pamela Fletcher
Pamela Fletcher is Associate Professor of Art History at Bowdoin College. Her research and teaching center on Victorian and Edwardian painting, with a focus on questions of narrative, sentiment and play in the context of nineteenth-century exhibition culture. She is the author of Narrating Modernity: The British Problem Picture 1895-1914 (Ashgate, 2004) and co-editor (with Anne Helmreich) of The Rise of the Modern Art Market in London 1850-1939 (Manchester University Press, 2011). She is currently writing a book on the mid-Victorian painting of modern life, portions of which have appeared in the Oxford Art Journal, Victorian Studies, and Nineteenth-Century Contexts. As a scholar in the art-historically underappreciated area of Victorian art, she has found the interdisciplinary field of Victorian Studies to be a critically important intellectual community. She has been a member of NAVSA since the inaugural conference, and has also served on the board of the Historians of British Art, the program committee for NVSA (Northeast Victorian Studies Association), and the advisory board for Visual Culture in Britain.
Nancy Rose Marshall
Nancy Rose Marshall is an associate professor of art history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she specializes in Victorian art and visual culture. Author of City of Gold and Mud: Representing Victorian London, forthcoming in March 2012 from Yale University Press, London, and the Paul Mellon Centre, Marshall is a co-organizer of NAVSA 2012 in Madison, for which she and her students are preparing an exhibition of nineteenth-century British watercolors on the theme of "networks." Articles by Marshall have appeared in Victorian Studies, Art History, the British Art Journal and edited volumes from Yale University Press and Ashgate. She is currently working on a monograph on Dante Gabriel Rossetti and a study of Victorian representations of fire.
Morna O'Neill
Morna O'Neill (University of Notre Dame, B.A.; Yale, Ph.D.) is assistant professor of art history in the Department of Art at Wake Forest University, where she teaches courses in eighteenth and nineteenth-century European art and the history of photography. Prior to her arrival at Wake Forest, she taught in the History of Art Department at Vanderbilt University and served as a postdoctoral research associate in the Department of Research at the Yale Center for British Art. Her work addresses the conjunction of art, design, and politics at the end of the nineteenth century. She is the author of Walter Crane: The Arts and Crafts, Painting, and Politics (Yale University Press, 2011), and she was curator of the exhibition 'Art and Labour's Cause is One:' Walter Crane and Manchester, 1880-1915 (Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester, August 2008-June 2009) and author of the exhibition catalogue (Whitworth Art Gallery, 2008). Other research projects include the display of decorative arts at international exhibitions (1889-1911) and the place of Hugh Lane (1875-1915) in the global art market. She is the co-editor, with Michael Hatt (University of Warwick), of The Edwardian Sense: Art, Design, and Performance in Britain, 1901-1910 (Yale University Press, 2010).
ADVISORY BOARD: GRADUATE-STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE (NORTH)
Rebecca Soares
Rebecca Soares is a PhD candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is ABD, having defended her proposal in December 2010, and is currently working on the second chapter of her dissertation, which considers the ways in which the discourse of spiritualism and the supernatural allowed British and American writers of the nineteenth century to imagine the creation and maintenance of a vibrant transatlantic literary community. Her other interests include transatlantic nineteenth-century literature, the Victorian periodical press, and theories of reading and authorship. Soares was the recipient of the 2010 Van Arsdel Prize for best graduate student paper given by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, and her article, "Literary Graftings: Hannah Crafts’s The Bondwoman’s Narrative and the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Reader," was published in the Spring 2011 edition of Victorian Periodical Review. She attended NAVSA in Montreal in 2010 where she presented "Serial Readers and Readerly Detectives: The Paper Trail of Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret," and at the 2011 meeting in Nashville she presented her paper entitled "Transatlantic Word Play: Cross-Cultural Imitation and the Unauthorized Sequels to Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Daniel Deronda."
Inna Volkova
Inna Volkova, originally from Ukraine, is a 5th-year (ABD) doctoral student at Michigan State University. Her dissertation is titled "'There is something in all this very like democracy': Cultures of Political Discussion in the Victorian Novel." Among her research interests are nineteenth-century fiction and non-fiction, Victorian liberalism, the public sphere, and critical theory. The 2011 conference was her first time presenting at NAVSA, and she hopes to contribute to NAVSA activities and events in the future.
ADVISORY BOARD: GRADUATE-STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE (SOUTH)
Nicole Lobdell
Nicole Lobdell is a doctoral candidate at the University of Georgia. She is currently at work on her dissertation "Everything Bought, Nothing Sold: Hoarding in the Nineteenth-Century" an exploration of hoarding as an organizing principle for nineteenth-century literature with chapters on Austen, Dickens, Tennyson, and Gaskell. She has conducted dissertation research at the V&A Museum on Dickens’ corrected proofs for Bleak House and at the British and Bodleian Libraries on nineteenth-century newspaper accounts of hoardings and extreme collections. When she is not dissertating, her other research interests include nineteenth-century technology, economy, and the novel. The recipient of several travel grants from NAVSA, Yale, and UGA, she has presented papers at NAVSA, the British Women Writers Conference, and several graduate student conferences. In 2007, she won the UGA Robert E. Park Award for "Best Essay by a Graduate Student." With a strong interest in department service, Nicole served four years on the executive council for the UGA chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society. Two of those years, she was chapter President and organized annual academic conferences for UGA undergraduates. She hopes to serve graduate students by representing their interests and concerns to the governing body of NAVSA.
Laura Eidam
Laura Eidam is a fourth-year PhD candidate in literature at Purdue University, where she is working on her dissertation, "Architectural Bodies and Human Surfaces: Locating the Urban Picturesque in Victorian London." The dissertation demonstrates that Victorian illustrations of the urban picturesque intentionally subvert early picturesque techniques to critique their implicit dehumanizing perspective and replace it with an altruistic one. This project draws on a number of research interests, including periodical, novel, and children’s book illustration; narrative empathy; and the digital humanities. Though the 2011 conference was her first time presenting at NAVSA, she has been a member since 2006 and has worked as one of NAVSA’s administrative assistants since 2009. Her other professionalization experiences include organizing the Pacific Rim Conference on Literature and Rhetoric, presenting at the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States conference, writing successful grant proposals, and authoring an article – "Reexamining Illustration’s Role in Treasure Island: Do Images Pirate Texts?" – forthcoming in English Literature in Transition, 1880 – 1920. She would be delighted to represent NAVSA graduate members while promoting the development of NAVSA’s professionalization opportunities for its graduate-student contingent.