VISAWUS Fall 2026 Roundtable Series – “Time for Teaching”
Please register for our first panel here.
Panel A: Designing Victorian Literature Courses for Today
September 18th, 3-5pm ET / 12-2pm PT
Multimodal adaptation • embodied learning • serialized reading • teaching amid contemporary politics
Presenters: Alycia Gilbert, Katherine Osbourne, Miriam Burstein, Kristen Waha, and Rebecca Nesvet
Download flyer for Panel A (PDF)
Panel B: Active and Collaborative Assessment in the Age of AI
September 25th, 5-7pm ET / 2-4pm PT
Experiential learning • novels on trial • pandemic-era teaching • oral assignments
Presenters: Jacqueline Dillion, Sumangala Bhattacharya, Rachel Hollander, Anne Summers, and Alexa Kelly
Panel C: Lessons in Embodied Learning: Victorian Literature Pedagogy
Amid Political and Technological Headwinds
October 2nd, 1-3pm ET / 10am-12pm PT
Post-#MeToo Victorian pedagogy • world poetry and empire • essays on abolition and the creation of blackout poetry
Presenters: Doreen Thierauf, Riya Das, and Kim Cox
Panel D: Object Lessons and Assignment Design for the Senses
October 23rd, 3-5pm ET / 12-2pm PT
Culinary pedagogy • printmaking and book history • zines • research craft • ephemeral media
Presenters: Cameron Dodworth, Vanessa Warne, Mary Elizabeth Leighton, Elissa Myers, and Brittany Carlson
Welcome
The Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States (VISAWUS) is a non-profit scholarly association founded in 1995 by Kathleen Peck to promote Victorian interdisciplinary studies. Our aim is to bring together scholars from across the disciplines with an interest in the Victorian period. Members include graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars with interests in Victorian literature, history, music, art, science, and medicine. We place a strong emphasis on mentoring junior faculty and graduate students.
Our annual conference invites faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars working on the long nineteenth century in Britain and within a broader transnational context to showcase the innovative work being performed in the field. The conference is known as a particularly generous site for networking and collaboration. The conference includes themed pedagogy roundtables where participants have the opportunity to discuss pedagogy with new and seasoned instructors and to get feedback on some aspect of their teaching (an assignment, an approach to the text, or a classroom activity).
Each year we award an exemplary graduate student presenter with the William H. Scheuerle Graduate Student Paper Award.
Membership in VISAWUS is open to all who share an interest in its scholarship and goals. Membership includes a one-year subscription to Victorian Review.
Access the membership form here.
The VISAWUS Constitution (PDF, 2023)
