The 18th- and 19th-Century Colloquium of the Yale English Department is delighted to invite you to a conference celebrating Victorian Women Writers in honor of our late colleague, Linda Peterson, on May 7-8, 2016.
A member of the Yale community for 38 years, Linda was an eminent scholar of Victorian prose and an authority on life writing. She served as Chair of the Yale English Department for seven years, played a major role in shaping its undergraduate writing program, and enhanced the scope and tenor of our department. She was an adventurer and life-wonderer, a scholar, teacher, and friend.
The aim of this conference is to celebrate Linda in a context that reflects her wishes, honors her legacy, and lauds the publication of her final book, The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Women’s Writing. What we most want to capture, however, is the spirit of that work. In our conference schedule, you’ll notice a diverse range of speakers, dedicated to engaging with the poetry, prose and careers of Victorian Women Writers. The conference will conclude with a “State-of-the-Field” roundtable, designed to grapple with the status of Victorian Studies today. We are particularly proud of the fact that this roundtable features six of Linda’s former graduate students (now teachers and scholars in their own right) and is chaired by Linda’s former adviser at Brown University, Professor George Landow.
You can register for “Victorian Women Writers” by contacting either of the 18th- and 19th-Century Colloquium’s graduate co-conveners, Margaret Deli or Natalie Prizel. Information about the conference is available at: https://victorianwomenwriters.wordpress.com/