If you’d like to see what a Digital Victorianist looks like in the flesh (hint: pasty and out of shape) then you might like to come and see one of my forthcoming talks. Over the next 6 months I’ll be giving at least four conference papers:
- 17th March 2012 – “Goodbye, old fellow, I must skedaddle!”: Reading the American Voice in the Late-Victorian Press
London Nineteenth-Century Studies Seminar, Institute of English Studies, 11:00-17:00. Free entry [details available here]
- 16th -17th April 2012 – Imagining America: W. T. Stead’s Vision of the New World
W. T. Stead: Centenary Conference for a Newspaper Revolutionary, British Library. Registration (until 31 January 2012): £70 (£60 postgraduates / over 65s); Day rate: £45 (no concessions). [details available here]
- 21st – 23rd June – “Goodbye, old fellow, I must skedaddle!”: American Slang and the Victorian Popular Press
5th Annual British Scholar Conference, University of Edinburgh. [details available here]
- 5th July- 7th July – The Laughter of Good Fellowship? Negotiating the past, present, and future in Anglo-American humour, 1870-1900
History and Humour – 1800 to Present, Freiburg University. [details available soon]
As of next week I’ll also be leaving Manchester to take up a temporary lecturing post at Swansea University. If you find yourself in South Wales (and have nothing better to do) then stop by and say hello!
Do you find it difficult to research 19th century America from the UK? I’m in the US and I keep thinking how much more I could do with access to the resources in the British Library, or even just the ability to stroll around London.
It can be a little tricky. In truth, the majority of my research focuses on the place of America in British culture – so, my key sources are all on this side of the Atlantic. I’ve also got access to a good range of digital archives. That said, I’d be able to do a whole lot more with the Library of Congress on my doorstep!