2019
Vcologies Early Career Paper Prize:
❖ First Place: Maddison McGann, “‘Dreaming of Dawn’: Anticipation in Charlotte Bronte’s Shirley”
❖ Honorable Mention: Megan O’Donnell, “Forms of Power: Energy and the Ecological Affordance of Victorian Fairies”
Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies (INCS): “Demonumentalizing the Human: The Victorian Eco-Gothic Imagination,” Dennis Denisoff, Deanna Kreisel, Jiwon Min, Frances Thielman, Lynn Voskuil
INCS: “Victorian Energy Systems and Anthropocene Monuments: Solar, Electric, Carbon,” Barbara Leckie, Kyle McAuley, Michael Tondre, Lynn Voskuil
MLA (Modern Language Association): “Ecological Crisis in the Long Nineteenth Century,” Sukanya Banerjee, Devin Griffiths, Nathan Hensley, Deanna Kreisel, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, Benjamin Morgan, Lynn Voskuil, Daniel Williams
MLA: “Rotten Ideas: New Approaches to Decay,” Erin Edwards, Jacob Jewusiak, Amanada Kotch, Margaret Linley, Ella Mershon, John MacNeill Miller,
2018
NAVSA (North American Victorian Studies Association): “Industrial Pollution,” Holly Fling, Kent Linthicum, John MacNeill Miller, Kyoko Takanashi, Michael Tondre
NAVSA: “Methodology from the Outside,” Sukanya Banerjee, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, John MacNeill Miller, Benjamin Morgan, Lynn Voskuil
NAVSA: “The Transatlantic Sky I: Reading and Writing the Heavens,” Carrie Tirado Bramen, Kyle McAuley, Justine Pizzo, Daniel Williams
NAVSA: “The Transatlantic Sky II: Literary Ecologies,” Carrie Tirado Bramen, Siobhan Carroll, Margaret Linley, Daniel Williams
NAVSA: “Natural History Pedagogy Workshop,” Sarah Leonard, Bryan Rasmussen
Vcologies Workshop 2018, University of Nevada, Reno, organized by Jen Hill
INCS: “Ecological Temporalities I: Carboniferous and Evolutionary Timescales,” David Agruss, Ann Garascia, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, Benjamin Morgan, Lynn Voskuil
INCS: “Ecological Temporalities II: Cycles, Interruptions, Delays,” Barbara Leckie, Ashley Miller, Kate Thomas, Lynn Voskuil
INCS: “Intimate Ecologies,” Kathleen Fredrickson, Ella Mershon
2017
NAVSA-Banff (Canada): Keynote by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, “Extraction Ecologies and Victorian Literature”
NAVSA-Banff (Canada): “Constructing Environmental Histories,” Bud Clark, Chris J. Thomas, Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi
NAVSA-Banff (Canada): “The Genius Loci Eco-Jam,” Siobhan Carroll, Dennis Denisoff, Margaret Linley, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, Lynn Voskuil
NAVSA-Banff (Canada): “Saving Life,” Elisha Cohn, Kathleen Frederickson, Devin Griffith, Jesse Oak Taylor
NAVSA-Banff (Canada): Seminars:
❖ “Victorian Sustainability,” led by Deanna Kreisel
❖ “Victorians in the Anthropocene,” led by Jesse Oak Taylor
❖ “The Historical Ocean,” led by Cannon Schmitt
Vcologies Workshop 2017, University of Houston, organized by Lynn Voskuil, Devin Griffiths, and Sebastian Lecourt
Victorian Environments Workshop 2017, University of Southampton, organized by Justine Pizzo
NAVSA-Florence (Italy): “Charles Darwin I,” David Amigoni, Miranda Butler, Devin Griffiths, George Levine
NAVSA-Florence (Italy): “Charles Darwin II,” John Holmes, Isobel Armstrong, Cannon Schmitt, George Levine
NAVSA-Florence (Italy): “Ecology and Ecocriticism,” Kate Flint, Deanna Kreisel, Kyle McAuley, Ashley Miller
NAVSA-Florence (Italy): “Garden and Anti-Garden,” Barbara Leckie, Samantha Nystrom, Lindsay Wells
NAVSA-Florence (Italy): “The Victorians and Natural History,” Kyriaki Hadjiafxendi, Anna Henchman, Sue Zemka
INCS: “Bodies, Ecology,” Barbara Barrow, Miriam Rowntree, Michael Tondre, Daniel Williams
INCS: “Ecologies of the Body I: Diffuse Bodies, Precarious Subjects,” Barbara Leckie, Margaret Linley, Justine Pizzo, Lynn Voskuil, Daniel Williams
INCS: “Ecologies of the Body II: Decomposing Life, Composing Forms,” Devin Griffiths, Deanna Kreisel, John MacNeil Miller, Lynn Voskuil
2016
NAVSA: “Victorians and the Web of Life,” Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, Benjamin Morgan, Lynn Voskuil, Jesse Oak Taylor
Vcologies Workshop 2016, organized by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller and Deanna Kreisel
INCS: “Melancholy Ecologies,” Natalie Deam, Nora Gilbert, John MacNeill Miller, Barbara Leckie, Daniel Williams
INCS: “Eco-Histories,” Erika Behrisch Elce, Devin Griffiths, Deanna Kreisel, Lynn Voskuil
MLA: “Anthropogenic Agency in the Nineteenth Century,” Siobhan Carroll, Gordon Mitchell Sayre, Timothy Sweet, Jesse Oak Taylor
2015
NAVSA: “Ecology, System, Empire I: Form,” Nathan Hensley, Jen Hill, Elizabeth Carolyn Miller, Philip Steer
NAVSA: “Ecology, System, Empire II: Scale,” Sukanya Banerjee, Nathan Hensley, Philip Steer, Lynn Voskuil
INCS: “Botanies and Ecologies: The Lives of Plants,” Devin Griffiths, Deanna Kreisel, Lynn Voskuil