Presentations at Conferences and Workshops - Monika Class
Class, Monika. "The Triple Mimesis of Gendered Body Movements in The Mill on the Floss (1860)" Invited Lecture, English Studies, Lund University, Sweden (2022)
Class, Monika. “The Novel Reader in the Novel: Promoting the Hermeneutics of Suspicion by Its Opposite,” The Reader in Book Conference, Senate House, University of London, Virtual Conference, UK (2021)
Class, Monika. “Remembering and Forgetting the Dismembered Royal Slave,” British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, Virtual Format, UK (2021)
Class, Monika. Panel Organisation by SHARP (accepted - not held due to pandemic): The Materiality of the Book and the Senses: Revisiting Novel Reading as a Transformative Practice in Nineteenth-Century British Culture’, SHARP 2020: The Power of the Written Word, Amsterdam (2020 postponed to 2022) & Paper held at substitute workshop ‘Sensing the Tragic Heroine in The Mill on the Floss’, 19th Century Study (Online) Workshop, University of Mainz and Bielefeld (2020)
Class, Monika. ‘Trace, Tide and Time in George Eliot’s The Mill on the Floss’, Conceptualising Trace (Online Workshop), University of Mainz (2020)
Presentations at Conferences and Workshops - Natasha Anderson
Anderson, Natasha. “The Body and the Book: Visceral Reading Experiences in the Victorian Novel.” Second Digital DACH Victorianists Workshop, 1 July 2022, organized by Ariane de Waal (Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany) and Sandra Dinter (University of Hamburg, Germany), Virtual Forum, https://dachvictorianists.blogspot.com/p/second-online-workshop.html. Conference Presentation.
Anderson, Natasha. “Violent and Vulnerable Bodies in Television Adaptations of Brontë’s and Hardy’s Novels.” Adapting Violence in/from Classic Texts, 24 March 2022, organized by Amy Brown (University of Bern) and Lucy Fleming (New College, Oxford), Virtual Forum, https://amybrownresearch.net/adapting-violence-in-from-classic-texts/. Conference Presentation.
Anderson, Natasha. “Stories as Sanctuaries: Bibliophiles from the Victorian Novel to Young Adult Fiction.” Reading for/and Escape: an online conference, 17 March 2022, organized by The History of Books and Reading (HOBAR) Research Collaboration, English & Creative Writing, The Open University and supported by SHARP (The Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing), Virtual Forum, https://www.open.ac.uk/arts/research/book-history/conferences/reading-for-escape. Conference Presentation.
Anderson, Natasha. “Interconnected Itinerants: Walking at Home and Abroad in the Victorian Novel.” 53rd Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Annual Convention, 13 March 2022, John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA, Virtual Forum, https://www.buffalo.edu/content/dam/www/nemla/2022/NeMLA%202022%20Convention%20Program.pdf. Conference Presentation.
Anderson, Natasha. “Sensory Sympathy: Shared Experiences of Embodiment in Tess of the d’Urbervilles.” Tess of the d’Urbervilles – Annual Thomas Hardy Society Study Day 2021, 23 October 2021, Dorchester, UK, Virtual Forum, https://www.hardysociety.org/oxo/385/tess-of-the-durbervilles-rescheduled-annual-ths-study-day-2021/. Conference Presentation.
Anderson, Natasha. “Viscerally Enacting Victorian Fiction: Embodied Reader Participation in Novels of the Brontë Sisters.” The German Association for the Study of English (Deutscher Anglistenverband) Anglistentag 2021, 20 September 2021, University of Passau, Germany, Virtual Forum, https://www.uni-passau.de/anglistentag-2021/programm/, http://www.anglistenverband.de/tagungen/anglistentag-2021. Conference Presentation.
Anderson, Natasha. “Small Motions and Strong Emotions: Readers’ Interaction with Expressive Movement in Mansfield Park and The Portrait of a Lady.” Moved by Movement in Novels: Phenomenological Approaches, 9 September 2021, University of Mainz, Germany, Virtual Forum, https://visceral-novel-reader.fb05.uni-mainz.de/conferences/moved-by-movement-in-novels-phenomenological-approaches/. Conference Presentation.
Anderson, Natasha. “Between Inclusion and Exclusion: Immersive Embodiment in Wilkie Collins’ Fiction.” 13th Annual Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA) Conference “Victorian Inclusion and Exclusion”, 16 July 2021, University of Greenwich, London, UK, Virtual Forum, https://victorianpopularfiction.org/vpfa-annual-conference/. Conference Presentation.
Anderson, Natasha. “Revolutions of Embodied Reading: Experiential Cosmopolitanism in Modern Magazines and Victorian Novels.” Revolutions in Reading: Literary Practice in Transition, 22 June 2021, Stockholm University, Sweden, Virtual Forum, https://www.su.se/ike/english/revolutions-in-reading. Conference Presentation.
Anderson, Natasha. “Innovative and Intercultural Language Learning: Digital Media Enhance Global Awareness.” Foreign Language Association of Virginia (FLAVA) Virtual Spring Conference 2021 “Languages: Beyond Boundaries”, 27 March 2021, VA, USA, Virtual Forum, https://flavaweb.org/conference/spring-2020-conference/. Conference Presentation.
Anderson, Natasha. “The Self-Reflective, Emotive, and Interactive Reader in Novels of the Brontë Sisters.” The Reader in the Book: Reading and Libraries in Fiction, 18 March 2021, Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK, Virtual Forum, https://www.ies.sas.ac.uk/events/conferences/reader-book-books-reading-and-libraries-fiction. Conference Presentation.
Anderson, Natasha. “Increasingly Insidious Sounds: Speech and Silence in the Victorian Novel.” 52nd Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Virtual Annual Convention, 11 March 2021, University at Buffalo, NY, USA, Virtual Forum, http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention/VirtualConvention-page.html. Conference Presentation.
Anderson, Natasha. “From the Moors to Modernity: The Brontë Sisters in the Online Classroom.” 52nd Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) Virtual Annual Convention, 11 March 2021, University at Buffalo, NY, USA, Virtual Forum, http://www.buffalo.edu/nemla/convention/VirtualConvention-page.html. Conference Presentation.
Anderson, Natasha. “Erasing Trace: Material Deception and Visceral Possession in The Portrait of a Lady.” Connecting the Dots: Conceptualising ‘Trace’ in the Nexus of Novels and Readers’ Sensory Imaginings, 24 September 2020, University of Mainz, Germany, Virtual Forum, https://visceral-novel-reader-trace.fb05.uni-mainz.de/. Conference Presentation.
Anderson, Natasha. “Only Skin-Deep: Negotiations and Manipulations of Tactility in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.” Anne Brontë at 200: Exploring her Literary Works and (After)Life, 18 January 2020, University of Bonn, Germany, https://www.iaak.uni-bonn.de/de/events-iaak/17.-18.01.-anne-bronte-at-200-exploring-her-literary-works-and-after-life. Conference Presentation.
Anderson, Natasha. “Mobility and Madness of Medical Bodies in Victorian Literature.” In Extremis: The Limits of Life, Death and Consciousness in the Long Nineteenth Century, 11 January 2020, University College Dublin, Ireland, http://www.inextremis2020.com/Conference-Schedule.php. Conference Presentation.