External Conferences

Rice graduate students and faculty in the Nineteenth-Century British Literature Cluster regularly attend national and international conferences, including:

  • Dickens Universe and the Winter Dickens Conference
  • ICR (International Conference on Romanticism)
  • INCS (Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies)
  • ISSN (International Society for the Study of Narrative)
  • MLA (Modern Language Association) Annual Convention
  • NASSR (North American Society for the Study of Romanticism)
  • NAVSA (North American Victorian Studies Association)
  • SLSA (Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts)

Rice was a founding member of the Dickens Project and sends two students each year to participate in the week-long summer Dickens Universe Conference at UC Santa Cruz; these students also present their work at a second conference in the winter, which provides opportunities to develop relationships with faculty and graduate students from many institutions.

Jennifer Hargrave tours the Library of Congress in Washington DC with the North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (NASSR, 2014).
Thad Logan and Maggie Harvey take a break on the Santa Cruz pier during Dickens Universe (2013).

Conferences at Rice

  • The Wide Nineteenth Century (May 2017)
  • Rice Seminar “Exchanges and Temporalities in the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Victorianism” (April 2015)
  • Dickens Winter Conference (April 2011)
  • Long Nineteenth Century (October 2010)
  • Poetry in the Age of the Novel (March 2007)
  • Disciplinary Flashpoints (April 2005)
  • 19th-Century Geographies (March 1998)
Materials from some past Rice conferences.
Sophia Hsu presents her research (2014).