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With Rae Greiner
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Join Professor Rae Greiner for a discussion of why Jane Austen's Persuasion and other works have endured as often taught and read novels!
In the second half of the hour, audience members are invited and encouraged to ask questions in an open Q&A with Rae.
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RAE GREINER is associate professor of English at Indiana University. She is the author of Sympathetic Realism in Nineteenth-Century British Fiction and the forthcoming Stupidity after Enlightenment. She is also coeditor of Victorian Studies.
With Ronjaunee Chatterjee
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Join editor Ronjaunee Chatterjee for a discussion of why George Eliot's Middlemarch has endured as and often taught and read novel! In the second half of the hour, audience members are invited and encouraged to ask questions in an open Q&A with Ronjaunee!
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RONJAUNEE CHATTERJEE is assistant professor of English at Queens University. Her primary field of interest is nineteenth-century literature, especially poetry and the novel. She is the author of Feminine Singularity: The Politics of Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century Literature, coeditor of a special issue of Victorian Studies (with Alicia Mireles Christoff and Amy R. Wong), and coauthor of an introductory essay, “Undisciplining Victorian Studies,” which won the North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA) Donald Gray Prize for best essay in Victorian Studies. Her essays and reviews have appeared in differences, Mediations, Victorian Literature and Culture, Nineteenth-Century Literature, ASAP Journal, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Inquiry, and other publications.
With David Kastan and Matthew Hunter
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Join David Kastan and Matthew Hunter for a discussion of why Christopher Marlowe's most famous play, Doctor Faustus, has endured in Early Modern Literature.
In the second half of the hour, audience members are invited and encouraged to ask questions in an open Q&A with David and Matthew.
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With Phillip Mallett and Jane Thomas
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Join Phillip Mallett (University of St. Andrews) and Jane Thomas (University of Hull) for a discussion of why Thomas Hardy's novels, particularly TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES, have endured as often taught and read collections! In the second half of the hour, audience members are invited and encouraged to ask questions in an open Q&A with Professors Mallett and Thomas. Everyone is welcome and registrants will receive a recording of the event.
PHILLIP MALLETT is Honorary Senior Lecturer in English at the University of St
Andrews, a Vice-President of the Thomas Hardy Society, and an honorary fellow of both the
Centro Universitario di Studi Vittoriani e Edoardiani and the French Association for Thomas
Hardy Studies. He was the Editor of the Thomas Hardy Journal from 2008-2018. His
published work includes Rudyard Kipling: a Literary Life (2003), eight edited collections of
essays, including Thomas Hardy in Context (Cambridge UP, 2013) and The Victorian Novel
and Masculinity (Palgrave, 2015), as well as Norton Critical Editions of The Return of the
Native and The Mayor of Casterbridge, and editions of Under the Greenwood Tree and Flora
Thompson’s Lark Rise to Candleford for Oxford World’s Classics.
JANE THOMAS is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Hull. She is a VicePresident of the Thomas Hardy Society and was for over a decade the Society’s Academic
Director. Her publications include Thomas Hardy, Femininity and Dissent: Reassessing the
‘Minor’ Novels (Palgrave, 1999); Thomas Hardy and Desire: Conceptions of the
Self (Palgrave, 2013); and editions of Hardy’s The Well-Beloved with The Pursuit of the
Well-Beloved, A Changed Man and Other Stories, and Life’s Little Ironies. She has also
written on Thomas Hardy and the visual arts, with special reference to the sculpture of Hamo
Thornycroft, on Hardy and the Boer War, and on Hardy and masculinity. She is co-editor
with Sue Kennedy of British Women’s Writing, 1930-1960: Between the Waves (Liverpool
University Press, 2020).
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