19th Century Group

Who we are

The 19thc Group is an interdisciplinary research colloquium for the study of British literature and culture broadly and openly defined, including trans-Atlantic exchanges, empire, and more. We are interested in the long nineteenth century--including the late eighteenth century and the Edwardian period.

The 19thc Group holds meetings each quarter. Our main purpose is to provide a place where graduate students and faculty can share their work in progress. We also meet to hear papers presented by visiting scholars. Most meetings occur on Tuesdays at 4pm.

If you're interested, please sign up for our mailing list by emailing: grossman@humnet.ucla.edu.

Members of the mailing list who are not attending meetings will eventually be dropped from the list; please just send an email to rejoin the list if you wish.

Graduate Coordinator
Amy Wong

Faculty Coordinator
Jonathan Grossman

 

Previous Graduate Coordinators
Melissa Sodeman (2005-06)
Matt Dubord (2006-07)
Josie Richstad (2007-08)
Katherine Isokawa (2008-09)
Dustin Friedman (2009-10)
Cristina Richieri Griffin (2010-11)

Of Note

2011-12 Schedule

 

Thursday October 13
Humanities 193
*2pm*

 

Josie Richstad (UCLA)

"Fashionable Character"

 


Tuesday
October 18
Hum 193
5pm

 

 Aaron Kunin (Pomona)

 "Wilde in the Age of Ideals"

presented in tandem with M/ELT

 

Tuesday
December 6
Humanities 193
4pm

 

Katie Charles (UCLA)

"The Problem of Education in Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss"

 

 

Tuesday
February 7

 

Charles Dickens at 200
an afternoon of bicentennial birthday events

12 noon: lunch talk, Hum 193
Jonathan Grossman
"A Tale of Two Cities and the Passengers of History"

1:30 YRL lobby
"'...the Sum of a Life': Charles Dickens at 200"
opening of a small exhibit

3pm Hum 193
Movie: David Lean's Great Expectations

 

 

Tuesday
February 28
various times

 

Ronjaunee Chatterjee (UCLA)

Sequencing Alice:
Infinity and Singularity in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There 

 

 

Tuesday
March 13
Humanities 193
4pm

 

Ryan Fong (Davis)

(Re)reading Kipling's India

 

Tuesday
April 10
Humanities 193
4pm

 

Dehn Gilmore (Caltech)

'Truly It Was Astonishing'":
The Exhibition, the Sensation Novel and the Culture of the Spectacular

Tuesday
May 29
Humanities 193
4pm

Alexandra Milsom (UCLA)

tbd

 End of the Year Dinner