ResVic
WELCOME!
The Restoration to Victorian ("ResVic") Studies Reading Group at the University of Pennsylvania brings together graduate students and faculty from various disciplines to discuss writing and cultural production in the period from the Restoration through the Victorian era. The group provides a space to explore different theoretical and methodological approaches to Anglophone literature produced in England, Scotland, Ireland, the Caribbean and North America. Group activities include invited scholarly lectures from scholars worldwide and discussions of literary and critical texts. The group also provides a forum for scholars within the Penn community and beyond to present new work ("works-in-progress"), as well as hosts workshops focused on the state of the field and professionalization.
For event times and locations, as well as pre-circulated papers, please contact Ailin Jain or Mursal Sidiqi to be added to the listserv.
Resources
Organizations
• ACLA: American Comparative Literature Association
• ASECS: American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies
• MLA: Modern Language Association
• NASSR: North American Society for the Study of Romanticism
• NAVSA: North American Victorian Studies Association
• The Dickens Project
Links Pages
• Eighteenth-Century Resources, maintained by Jack Lynch: An extensive and various collection of links on all things 18th, including a comprehensive catalogue of Eighteenth-Century E-Texts--thank you Jack!
• Voice of the Shuttle Romantics Page, maintained by Alan Liu: An extensive collection of links to Romantic period e-text archives, author pages, organizations, and listsevs. Also helpful are the Restoration & 18th century and Victorian pages.
Past Events
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Zachary Samalin (NYU): "Gandhi, Ruskin, and the Limits of Civilizational Thinking"
November 17, 2023 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm -
Zarena Aslami (Michigan State University): The Afghan Political Sublime: Race and Sovereignty in Pre-Victorian Travel Writing
October 19, 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
Yoon Sun Lee (Wellesley): Race, Labor, Time, and Gratitude in Austen's Emma
September 26, 2023 - 5:15pm to 7:00pm -
A Work-in-Progress by Molly Young
April 21, 2023 - 2:30pm to 4:00pm -
A Virtual Discussion of John Ruskin with Graduate Consortium
April 7, 2023 - 3:00pm to 5:00pm -
Ashley Cohen (USC): The Global Indies: British Imperial Culture and the Reshaping of the World, 1756–1815
March 13, 2023 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm -
A Talk by Simon Reader (CUNY, College of Staten Island)
March 2, 2023 - 5:30pm to 7:00pm -
Joint Book Launch: Jed Esty, Nancy Yousef (Rutgers) & Jonah Siegel (Rutgers)
February 23, 2023 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm -
A Talk by Dustin Stewart (Columbia): "Crabbe's Habitats"
February 16, 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
A Work-in-Progress by Katie Charles (Washington College)
February 2, 2023 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm