ResVic
The ResVic Working Group is coordinated and funded by the Department of English.
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 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.
Upcoming Events
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[CANCELLED] Jonathan Dick WIP: "The Pedagogic Fallacy"
May 2, 2025 - 3:00pm to 5:30pm
Past Events
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Jessie Reeder (SUNY Binghamton): "Victorians in the River Plate"
February 20, 2025 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm -
Eighteenth-Century Candidate Meet and Greet
January 28, 2025 - 10:00am to 11:00am -
Jonathan Dick WIP: "Colonial Mixed Metaphors"
May 2, 2024 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm -
Manu Chander (Georgetown): Browntology
April 17, 2024 - 3:00pm to 4:30pm -
Tanya Agathocleous (CUNY)
March 14, 2024 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm -
Jacob Nielsen WIP: "Hybridizing the Colonies: Thomas Hardy's Brazil and the Limits of Informal Empire"
February 29, 2024 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm -
Kimberly Takahata (Villanova)
February 22, 2024 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm -
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