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Keynote Speakers and Plenary Panelists<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Keynote Speakers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Susan Stryker<\/strong>, “The Shape of Gender”<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Susan Stryker is Professor Emerita of Gender and Women\u2019s Studies at the University of Arizona. Since retiring she has been a Presidential Fellow and Visiting Professor of Gender, Women\u2019s, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University (2019-2020), Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Women\u2019s Leadership, Mills College (2020-2022), and Marta Sutton Weeks External Faculty Fellow, Stanford University Humanities Center, 2022-23.  She will join the faculty in Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Southern California in 2024. Former founding executive co-editor of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly<\/em>, Dr. Stryker continues to serve as co-editor of the Duke University Press book series ASTERISK: gender, trans-, and all that comes after. <\/em>She is the author of Transgender History: The Roots of Today\u2019s Revolution<\/em> (2008, 2017), co-editor of the multi-volume Transgender Studies <\/em>readers, and co-director of the Emmy-winning documentary film Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton\u2019s Cafeteria <\/em>(2005). A collection of her essays, When Monsters Speak<\/em>, edited by McKenzie Wark, is forthcoming from Duke in 2024. Dr. Stryker is currently working to complete a book manuscript, Changing Gender, <\/em>under contract to Farrar Straus Giroux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Stryker\u2019s keynote, “The Shape of Gender” will be held on Friday, March 22, from 4:45 to 6:15<\/em> at the Hyatt Regency.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Deborah Denenholz Morse<\/strong>, “Transoceanic Trauma, Haunted Waters: Enslavement, Impressment, and Whaling in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Sylvia’s Lovers<\/em>“<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The inaugural Sara E. Nance Eminent Professor of English at William & Mary from 2017-22, Deborah Denenholz Morse<\/strong> was designated a Plumeri Faculty Excellence Scholar a second time for the years 2022-24. On the heels of her first set of lectures for The Great Courses, The Bront\u00ebs: Romantic Passion and Social Justice<\/em> (Audible, 2021), she is continuing her publicly engaged scholarship in a second series, entitled \u201cVictorian Animals: Social Critique from Black Beauty<\/em> to \u2018The Owl and the Pussycat\u2019\u201d (forthcoming in 2024). Her work on the Bront\u00ebs and Anthony Trollope and in animal studies has had a significant influence on Victorian studies. Her twelve articles and chapters on the Bront\u00ebs form the basis of her monograph-in-progress, Bront\u00eb Violations<\/em>, which traces the influence of social issues, particularly transatlantic abolition, on Bront\u00eban narrative form; she is also co-editor of five Bront\u00eb volumes, including The Blackwell Companion to the Bront\u00ebs<\/em> (with the late Diane Long Hoeveler). Her work on Anthony Trollope includes the monographs Women in Trollope\u2019s Palliser Novels <\/em>and Reforming Trollope: Race, Gender, and Englishness in the Novels of Anthony Trollope<\/em>; and two co-edited volumes, The Routledge Research Companion to Anthony Trollope<\/em> (with Margaret Markwick and Mark Turner) and The Politics of Gender in the Novels of Anthony Trollope <\/em>(with Markwick and Regenia Gagnier). With Martin Danahay, she edited the groundbreaking Victorian Animal Dreams<\/em>, along with publishing several additional essays in animal studies. She is currently co-editing The MLA Approaches to Teaching Elizabeth Gaskell<\/em> (with Deirdre d\u2019Albertis), building on her seven published essays on Gaskell. Deborah\u2019s newest project on contemporary Yorkshire writer Pat Barker continues her extensive feminist scholarship on twentieth- and twenty-first-century women writers from Kay Boyle to A. S. Byatt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Morse\u2019s keynote, “Transoceanic Trauma, Haunted Waters: Enslavement, Impressment, and Whaling in Elizabeth Gaskell’s Sylvia’s Lovers<\/em>,” will be held on Saturday, March 23, from 4:45 to 6:15<\/em> at the Hyatt Regency.<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Plenary Panelists<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Sarah Meer<\/strong>, “When is a Translation not a Translation? On Adaptation from the French”<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Meer<\/strong> is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Uncle Tom Mania: Slavery, Minstrelsy, and Transatlantic Culture in the 1850s<\/em> (2005), and American Claimants: The Transatlantic Romance, c. 1820-1920<\/em> (2020). She was also one of the co-editors of Transatlantic Stowe: Harriet Beecher Stowe and European Culture <\/em>(2006). Most recently, she edited a special issue of Nineteenth Century Theatre and Film<\/em> on Dion Boucicault. This included the first modern edition of a long-overlooked comedy, set in Dublin but first performed in Boston: Andy Blake; or, the Irish Diamond.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Lissette Lopez Szwydky<\/strong>, “Transmedia Cultural History and\/as Literary History”<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Lissette Lopez Szwydky<\/strong> is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Arkansas, where she also serves as Associate Director of the Arkansas Humanities Center. She teaches and publishes in the areas of nineteenth-century literature and culture, adaptation studies, transmedia storytelling, gender studies, and career education. She is the author of Transmedia Adaptation in the Nineteenth Century<\/em> (Ohio State University Press 2020), co-editor of Adaptation Before Cinema<\/em> (Palgrave 2023), and is currently working on a new book entitled \u201cFrankenstein\u2019s Bride: A Transmedia Cultural History of Her Own.\u201d Szwydky spent four years working in academic administration before landing a tenure-track job, and she is committed to helping arts and humanities students prepare for professional life and helping faculty train to mentor students for a range of careers. She teaches undergraduate and graduate-level courses on exploring and preparing for a wide range of careers. You can read about her experience in \u201cFrom Alt-Ac to Tenure-Track: The Need for Diversifying Faculty Experience\u201d (published in MLA\u2019s Profession<\/em>), and you can follow her on Twitter @LissetteSz. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“The Toy Theatre: Transgression and Transmediation in the Victorian Home”<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Sharon Aronofsky Weltman<\/strong> is the Chair of the English Department at TCU, a Margaret Belcher Visiting Fellow in Victorian Studies at St Hugh\u2019s College, Oxford, and co-editor of Nineteenth-Century Theatre and Film<\/em>. She is the author of Ruskin\u2019s Mythic Queen<\/em> (1999) and Performing the Victorian <\/em>(2007). Her Victorians on Broadway: Literature, Adaptation, and the Modern American Musical<\/em> (2020), won the 2021 SCMLA Book Prize and was named a \u201cMUST READ\u201d theatre book by Playbill<\/em>. Her article \u201cMelodrama, Purimspiel<\/em>, and Jewish Emancipation\u201d on Elizabeth Polack, the first Anglo-Jewish woman playwright, won the 2020 Nineteenth Century Studies Association Best Article Prize.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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