The 18/19 GRC is excited to co-sponsor an invited talk with Dr. Caroline Levine: “Studying the Novel in the Climate Crisis, or a Tale of Three Pipelines” on Wednesday, March 6th from 3:30pm to 5:00pm in CMU 120.
The talk is co-sponsored by the Department of English, the Humanities Division, the Program on the Environment, and the Simpson Center.
Caroline Levine, the David and Kathleen Ryan Professor of Humanities at Cornell University, is the author of Forms: Whole, Rhythm, Hierarchy, Network (Princeton 2015, winner of the James Russell Lowell Prize from the MLA), among numerous notable publications. The talk will draw on her recently published book, The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis (Princeton 2023), which shows how formalist methods can be used in the fight for climate justice.
Want a theatrical break while slogging through finals week? Enjoy deeply flawed (but fun!) female characters? The 18/19 Graduate Student Research Cluster is sponsoring a trip to UW Drama’s production of Vanity Fair on Wednesday, March 13 at 7:30 PM at Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse located in U District at 4045 University Way NE. Subtitled “A Novel Without a Hero,” the 1848 serialized satirical novel by William Makepiece Thackeray set the stage for Victorian domestic fiction, and we’re excited to chat about how the production’s staging brings Victorian antiheros to life! To sit with the group (and acquire one of our free tickets, first-come first-served), you can RSVP for the event by clicking here.
UW Drama’s Vanity Fair
Read on for the production’s own description:
“In VANITY FAIR, Becky, orphaned and disadvantaged, is cunning and ambitious, while Amelia, born into privilege, is well-intentioned but naive. As they each strive to secure love, success, and stability in the patriarchy of early 19th-century London they face many obstacles to their dreams. As their parallel stories unfold, the audience is forced to confront our own hypocrisy and the complexities of a world that often rewards those who break the rules. Through Becky and Amelia’s travails, this thrilling, highly theatrical (im)morality play explores the flexibility of our morals when faced with the harsh realities of our lives.”
The 18/19 GRC is hosting a Social at Shultzy’s Bar & Grill on Friday, Mar. 1 at 5:30pm. All are welcome at this event! Come learn about The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Graduate Research Cluster, find out how you can get involved, and see what our group has planned for Spring 2024!
The 18/19 will buy one drink per person (21+), plus some bar food to share. So come prepared to have a good time, meet new people or catch up with old friends, and learn more about the 18/19 GRC!
The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Graduate Research Cluster (18/19) is a graduate student organization that brings together members with diverse research commitments and disciplinary backgrounds who are united by a shared interest in the literary, textual, and cultural artifacts of the global long eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (approximately 1688-1914). Engaging with the sociopolitical, historical, and cultural breadth of eighteenth and nineteenth-century studies, this research cluster seeks to open scholarly dialogue between departments by offering events that consider this period from polycentric, global, and interdisciplinary perspectives.
With sponsorship from UW Textual Studies, the 18/19 GRC is hosting a book talk with Dr. Alexander Bubb (University of Roehampton) on his recent work, Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf (Oxford UP, 2023). The talk will take place on Friday, January 26th at 10:00am PST on Zoom and will feature a presentation from Dr. Bubb with a Q&A to follow!
You can RSVP for the book talk by clicking here or by filling out the form below.
Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf examines the process through which popular translations were written, published, circulated, and eventually read by nineteenth-century readers. Using marginalia, personal diaries, and other readerly traces to describe how casual readers took up translated works, this book talk will be of interest to those working in translation, global nineteenth-century literature, histories of reading and printed culture, digital and archival studies, and textual studies.
Upon registration, participants will receive an event Zoom link and access to an excerpt of Asian Classics on the Victorian Bookshelf.
Space is limited! Please register by clicking here or by filling out the form included below.
Julia Quinn is a best-selling author of historical romance fiction whose novels have appeared on The New York Times Best Sellers List and have garnered world-wide popularity. Her Bridgerton series was adapted for Netflix in 2020, and has since graced the screens of audiences all over the world, being crowned one of the streaming platform’s most popular shows of all time.
We invite you to join us to hear about the author’s journey to publication, her career as a writer, and the whirlwind popularity of her Regency-era romance series! The event will also feature a Q&A with the audience. You can RSVP to this event by clicking here or by filling out the form below.
All are welcome to attend and we encourage you to share this invite with others!
The 18/19 GRC is excited to announce that we’re hosting a Book Making Lecture and Workshop Series throughout spring quarter! These events will feature hands-on book-arts activities paired with invited talks focused on various aspects of book production.
We extend a warm invitation to everyone who is interested in the materiality and history of books, textuality, and the art of book making! We hope you can join us for this exciting event series!
The series consists of three sessions: the first on papermaking, the second on book making and binding, and the third on printing. Throughout the process, participants will get to make their own books from start to finish, pulling their own paper sheets, binding them into a book, and linocut printing their own impressions.
The first day in our series will feature a lecture by Nikita Willeford Kastrinos (University of Washington, English) on the subject of European papermaking in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The lecture will be followed by a hands-on activity in papermaking, led by Anne Duncan (University of Washington, English). Participants will get to make their own hand-laid paper that we’ll later bind into book form.
Book Making and Binding | Friday, May 12th 3:00pm to 5:00pm
Location: Allen Library South, Basement, Special Collections Classroom
The second day in our series will feature a lecture by Dr. Geoffrey Turnovsky (University of Washington, French & Italian Studies) on the subject of book production in the hand-press period. The lecture will be followed by a hands-on activity in book making and binding, led by Anne Duncan (University of Washington, English). Participants will get to bind their own hand-laid paper sheets into book form using glue and stab-stitch binding techniques.
Printing | Thursday, May 18th from 3:00pm to 5:00pm
The third and final day in our series will feature a lecture by Kat Lewis (University of Washington, Special Collections) on the subject of eighteenth and nineteenth century printing. The lecture will be followed by a hands-on activity in linoleum printing, led by Anne Duncan (University of Washington, English). Participants will get to finish their book arts projects by printing their own block prints upon the books we’ve been creating over this series.
To register for the events in this series, please RSVP using this link. Each session will be capped at 30 participants, and registration will be first-come-first-serve.
We look forward to welcoming you to our community of book lovers!
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the 18/19 GRC at nikitaw@uw.edu.
Want to get peer feedback on a draft of a seminar paper, abstract, conference paper, article, or dissertation chapter? Join us for a Works-In-Progress Workshop this Friday, March 10th at 2:00pm in the Grad Lounge.
This informal peer-to-peer workshop is designed for graduate students at any stage in the program, from first-years to those finishing their dissertations. It’s a low-stakes opportunity for you get peer feedback and writing support as you finish up your work for the quarter. Any draft (including partial drafts) are welcome!
Come co-work or bring your in-progress writing to share! Snacks and drinks will be provided!
Questions? Contact Nikita Willeford Kastrinos at nikitaw@uw.edu.
On Friday, March 3rd at 2:30pm, the 18/19 GRC is hosting a film screening event of the 2011 adaptation of Jane Eyre in the Allen Auditorium of the Allen Library.
The event is open to all! We’ll watch the film with a discussion to follow!
During the event, we’ll hear from Dr. Jesse Oak Taylor and a few presenters from his English 333 Moby Dick vs. Middlemarch course who are doing some multimodal projects in the realm of nineteenth century studies.
We’ll also preview upcoming 18/19 events for this academic year and conduct our own poll on the question of Moby Dick vs. Middlemarch with a reveal at the end!
All are welcome! Come celebrate the end of the quarter and hear about these amazing projects!
Come join us as we read Tennyson’s famous elegy aloud! You can participate as a reader or simply come to listen. We’ll take turns reading round-robin style until the poem is complete.
