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projects.

2020-2021 readings.

INTRODUCTION

Friday

September 4th

3pm EST

Sukanya Banerjee. “Transimperial.” Victorian Literature and Culture 46(3-4): 925-928.

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Sharon Marcus. "Same Difference? Transnationalism, Comparative Literature, and Victorian Studies." Victorian Studies 45.4 (2003): 677-686.

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COMPLICIT LIBERALISM

Saturday

October 3rd

11am EST

Selections from Lisa Lowe. The Intimacies of Four Continents. Duke, 2015.

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Selections from Nasser Mufti. Civilizing War: Imperial Politics and the Poetics of National Rupture. Northwestern, 2017.

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Forthcoming special issue of Victorian Studies.

REGRESSION AND PROGRESSION

Friday

November 6th

3pm EST

Selections from Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak. A Critique of Postcolonial Reason: Toward a History of the Vanishing Present. Harvard, 1999.

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Selections from Jodi A. Byrd. The Transit of Empire: Indigenous Critiques of Colonialism. Minnesota, 2011.

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Selections from Christina Sharpe. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Duke, 2016.

AMBIVALENCE

Saturday

December 5th

11am EST

Tanya Agathocleous."Criticism on Trial: Colonizing Affect in the Late-Victorian Empire." Victorian Studies 60.3 (2018): 434-460.

 

Homi Bhabha. “Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse.” October 28 Discipleship: A Special Issue on Psychoanalysis (Spring 1984): 125-133.

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Alisha Walters. “A ‘white boy…who is not a white boy’: Rudyard Kipling’s Kim, Whiteness, and British Identity.” Victorian Literature and Culture 46.2 (2018): 331-346.

TEACHING AND PEDAGOGY

Friday

January 8th

3pm EST

Carolyn Betensky. “Casual Racism in Victorian Literature.” Victorian Literature and Culture 47.4: 723-51.

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Selections from Antoinette Burton. Empire in Question: Reading, Writing, and Teaching British Imperialism. Duke, 2011.

IMPOSSIBILITIES

Saturday

February 6th

11am EST

Zarena Aslami. "Victorian Afghanistan, the Iron Amir, and the Poetics of Marginal Sovereignty." Victorian Studies 62.1 (2019): 35-60.

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Selections from Jennifer DeVere Brody. Impossible Purities: Blackness, Femininity, and Victorian Culture. Duke, 1998.

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Melissa Valiska Gregory. “Race and the Dramatic Monologue.” Victorian Studies 62.2 (Winter 2020): 213-218.

RESISTANCE

Friday

March 5th

3pm EST

Selections from Franz Fanon. The Wretched of the Earth. 1963.

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Selections from Leela Ghandi. Affective Communities:Anticolonial Thought, Fin-de-Siècle Radicalism, and the Politics of Friendship. Duke, 2006.

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Priti Joshi, “Mutiny Echoes: India, Britons, and Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities.” Nineteenth-Century Literature 62.1 (June 2007): 48-87.

UNDISCIPLINING VICTORIAN STUDIES

Saturday

April 3rd

11am EST

Undisciplining Victorian Studies. Eds. Ronjaunee Chatterjee, Alicia Mireles Christoff, & Amy R. Wong. Special Issue of Victorian Studies 62.3 (Spring 2020).

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FUTURE MEETINGS

May 7th

June 5th

Readings TBD upon attendee input.

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Send suggestions at any time!

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