University of Brighton
The Neo-Victorian and
the Late-Victorian:
Texts, Media, Politics
2-3 September 2021
Virtual Conference – Microsoft Teams
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Thursday 2 September
09.15-09.45
MS Teams area opens
09.45-10.00
Welcome
(Victoria Margree & Aris Mousoutzanis)
Intro from Professor Graham Dawson,
Director of the Centre for Memory, Narrative and Histories
10:00-11.45
Panel 1: Revisiting the Late-Victorian (Chair: Victoria Margree)
Theadora Jean (Royal Holloway),
‘The Fin De Siècle Monster that Never Dies: Dracula in Neo-Victorian Adaptation’ [Abstract]
Saverio Tomaiuolo (Cassino University, Italy),
‘Detecting the Disease: The Sherlock Holmes Paradigm [Abstract]
Alex Fitch (University of Brighton),
‘Creating, Distributing and Marketing Ally Sloper – Comics’ First Multimedia Superstar’ [Abstract]
Anhiti Patnaik (BITS-Pilani, India),
‘Neo-Victorian Disorientation in Penny Dreadful (Showtime 2015) and Ivan Allbright’s The Picture of Dorian Gray (1944)’ [Abstract]
12.45-13.45
Lunch
13.45-14.45
Keynote 1
Professor Wolfgang Ernst (Humboldt University, Berlin)
‘Disclosing A Different Archive:
A Radical Media-Archaeological Critique
of “Neo-Victorian” Steampunk Techno-Narratives’
(Chair: Aris Mousoutzanis)
14.45-15.00
Comfort Break
15.00-16.30
Panel 3: Photography, Media, Performance (Chair: Stuart Cartland)
Ana Cristina Mendes (University of Lisbonj)
‘Princess Tadj es-Saltaneh and Queen Victoria in the Neo-Victorian Frame’ [Abstract]
Derya Sayin (Central University of Europe),
‘Neo-Victorian, Pre-Raphaelite: Tracing Victorian Art in Contemporary Fashion Photography’ [Abstract]
Marie Léger-St-Jean (Independent Scholar, Québec),
‘“Preserved from Oblivion”: Using Victorian Toy Theatre to Recreate Early Melodrama’ [Abstract]
16.30-16.45
Comfort Break
16.45-18.00
Panel 4: Material Cultures (Chair: Aris Mousoutzanis)
Ksenia Papazova (University of Manchester),
‘Material Culture in the USSR and Steampunk Tinkering: Points of Intersection’ [Abstract]
Kay Lawrence (University of Brighton),
‘Leather Apron Men and Nostalgia: Victorian Industry and Modern Masculinity’ [Abstract]
Sabina Fazli (Mainz University, Germany),
‘The Secret Lives of Neo-Victorian Things’ [Abstract]
Friday 3 September
09.00-10.00
Keynote 2
Professor Kim A. Wagner (Queen Mary, University of London)
‘Afterlives of Empire: Between Nostalgia and Amnesia’
(Chair: Deborah Madden)
10.00-10.15
Comfort Break
10.15-11.30
Panel 5: Neoliberalism, Neocolonialism, Neovictorianism (Chair: Victoria Margree)
Anna Rivers (University of Warwick),
‘Thatcherite “Victorian Values” and Angela Carter’s Nights at the Circus (1984)’ [Abstract]
Deborah Madden and Anita Rupprecht (University of Brighton),
‘Neo-Victorian Constructions of Nursing During Covid-19: Contested and Contesting Representations of Florence Nightingale and Mary Seacole’ [Abstract]
Niyati Sharma (O.P. Jindal Global University, India),
‘Strangulating Fictions of the Empire and the Thuggee in M.J. Carter’s The Strangler Vine (2014)’ [Abstract]
11.30-11.45
Comfort Break
11.45-12.45
Panel 6: Identity, Marginality, Criminality (Chair: Deborah Madden)
Emma Catan (University of Northumbria),
‘Rosie Garland: Challenging the Neo-Victorian Status Quo in The Night Brother (2017)’ [Abstract]
Rachel M. Friars (Queen’s University, Canada),
‘Queer Life and Women’s Activism in Biofictions by Emma Donoghue’ [Abstract]
12.45-13.45
Lunch
13.45-14.45
Keynote 3
Associate Professor Dr Claire Nally (Northumbria University)
‘Steampunk: Race, Englishness and the post-Brexit moment’
(Chair: Victoria Margree)
14.45-15.00
Comfort Break
15.00-16.15
Panel 7: Adaptation, Gender and Race (Chair: Anita Rupprecht)
Stephen Grandchamp (University of Maine at Farmington, US),
‘The Video Game Afterlife of Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)’ [Abstract]
Chandrica Barua (University of Michigan, US),
‘”Terrible Femininity”: Of Ornaments and Automata’ [Abstract]
Alyssa-Caroline Burnette (University of Southampton),
‘19c Female Serial Killers in American Horror Story: Coven (FX 2013) and Crimson Peak (del Toro 2015)’ [Abstract]
16.15-16.30
Comfort Break
16.30-17.45
Panel 8: The Female Detective in Neo-Victorian Crime Fiction (Chair Stephen Grandchamp)
Christa Van Raalte (University of Bournemouth),
‘Enola Holmes and the Mystery of the Missing Mother’ [Abstract]
Annette E. Wren (McMurry University),
‘Re-Visioning the Detective Flâneur: Sherlock Holmes to Charlotte Holmes’ [Abstract]
17.45-18.00
Concluding Remarks
(Victoria Margree & Aris Mousoutzanis)
