ALT Our panel critically examines and interrogates the promises of Victorian feminism. Offering new analysis of Victonan leminist thought and new directions for the study of the Victonan femimst canon. We explore the way Victorian teminism has shuped contemporary femin st theory and practice. and propose new modes of teaching, preserying, and writing about Victorian feminism. *Economie Promises & our Neoliberal Present" - Lana L. Dally, California State U Fullerton *Victorian Studies & the Category of Woman" - Doreen Thierauf, North Carolina Wesleyan U *Utopian Visions in Victorian Piction" -Tara MacDonald, U of Idaho *Orlando: Time Travels in Feminist Victorian Literary Criticism, 2005 & 2022" - Karen Bourrier, U of Calgary "The Menace of Victorian Feminism: Temperance, Eugenics, Racial Uplift & Other *Promising' Directions in Short Biographies of Activists" Alison Booth, U of Virginia

ALT Join us for our Virtual Roundtable Series 2022-23: Victorian Promises. 14 October--Promises of Religion 4 November--The Promises of Feminism January 2023 TBA--The Promise of the Cosmos 24 February 2022--Promises of the Victorian Art Market All sessions will be on Zoom.

ALT Zoom Series 2022-23: Victorian Promises A Virtual Roundtable Friday, 16 September 2022 9:00 AM Pacific Time Join us for a conversation about the prospects of widening Victorian Studies by integrating the methods and knowledges of Area Studies and Critical Comparativism. Participants will explore the following questions.Are there horizons to “widening” the field of Victorian Studies? How can scholars and teachers overcome the obstacles—both real and imagined, mental and institutional—to such “widening”? For instance, how can we address language barriers or scanty knowledge of non-western vernacular texts? How do we develop networks of collaborators, including vernacular speakers, translators, regional specialists?