Victorian Colloquium
The Victorian Colloquium is a group of Princeton graduate students and faculty working on the British nineteenth century and related fields. Our primary responsibility is to invite scholars from other universities (as well as Princeton-affiliated scholars) to share their work with us at formal talks, often followed by receptions and dinners that allow students the opportunity to speak more informally with our guests. Along with our neighbors at Rutgers, delegates from the Victorian Colloquium also organize a yearly symposium for graduate students at both universities; the 2017 theme was “The Un/natural Nineteenth Century.” Many members of the Victorian Colloquium are moreover active participants in the Long Nineteenth Century Workshop, an interdisciplinary works-in-progress group for graduate students working in the period. But beyond our purely academic initiatives, the Victorian Colloquium seeks to foster a close intellectual community of students (and faculty!) with shared interests. Happy hours and dinners give Princeton Victorianists a chance to connect across cohorts, and to share advice and experiences. The first events for 2017-18 will be announced in the summer. We hope to see you there next academic year.
Past Events
In making incarnation a key term for her fiction, George Eliot exemplifies a broader Victorian effort to transmute Christian sentiment into a secular ideal of sympathy and an aesthetic of realism. At the same time, the critical tendency to situate Eliot in relation to a New Testament paradigm has obscured her engagement…
- Sierra Eckert, Perkins Fellow, Humanities Council
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for Digital Humanities
Professor Cornelia Pearsall is Professor of English at Smith College. She is also affiliated faculty in the Program for the Study of Women and Gender, and earned her bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees from Yale University.
Sponsored by The Department of English and The Bain-Swiggett Fund
War Scare: Nuclear Tennyson
The 13th annual Princeton-Rutgers Victorian Symposium, Print Ecologies, will feature three panels of graduate students presenting on interdisciplinary themes from the environmental humanities, media studies, book history, and more.
Friday, February 19
1:30 – 3:00, Panel 1: Capital Accounts
On the Threshold of Friendship: Socialist Sympathy at the Fin de Siècle
Gemma Holgate (Royal Holloway, University of London)
The Social Division of Intellectual Labor as a Condition of England in Kingsley's Alton Locke
Marie Sanazaro (Princeton University)…
This event has been canceled.
Outline and the Racialization of Surface in Hardy's "Sketch of Temperament"
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
It Really Works: George Eliot, Trans Studies, and the Rhetoric of Technique
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Co-sponsored with the Theory Colloquium.
Thomas Hardy's Poetry: Waiting and the Ethics of Attention
Reception in Thorp Library to follow talk.
Victorians, Obviously
Human Scale: Utopia in the Era of Climate Change
Reception in Thorp Library to follow talk.
Panel Discussion: Ethics and Victorian Studies
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Title TBA
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Thinking with Characters: Rumination and the Concept of Moral Time
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
Singing in a Foreign Land: Anglo-Jewish Poetry in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Reception in the Thorp Library to follow talk.
State of the Field: Victorian Studies
In recent years, the future direction of Victorian studies has become a controversial topic. Scholars have vigorously discussed the role that history and historicism should play in our work, and the extent to which our scholarship should…