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Felipe Espinoza
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Lecturer in English, Postcolonial and Media Studies Uni Muenster. Transnational film/media studies & C19 (popular) fiction, he/him
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Guess who’s having the best time teaching and getting some research done at the Universidade de Lisboa before term starts back home? So far it’s been seminars on cultural histories, neo-Victorianism, Stuart Hall, and #UndiscipliningVictorianStudies!
Person in the middle-distance sitting in a mid-century auditorium, occupying one of uncountable mint-ish green chairs, all of which are embroidered with “U Lisboa” A late-50s university building entrance with huge, rectangular columns in the early evening, groups of people sit and stand in front of it.
September 29, 2023 at 11:55 AM
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My short take on current challenges for Neo-Victorian Studies is out in Victorian Literature and Culture

Grateful to all at VLC: Rachel Ablow & Daniel Hack for editing & publishing this, and to Ariana Nadia Nash for all the support!

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doi.org/10.1017/S106...
What will it take for neo-Victorian studies to keep its promise of moving beyond the toxic legacies of its Victorian forebears and enter into meaningful dialogues with disciplines such as Indigenous studies, African studies, Black studies, or postcolonial studies? Could the neo-Victorian even become a field that scholars from these disciplines might choose to engage with to a much larger degree? These disciplines are, after all, acutely aware of how contemporary hegemonies and paradigms relate to a significant degree to the long nineteenth century's colonial exploitations. Just as Victorian studies is tasked with its undisciplining, such an approach to neo-Victorian studies would require critical (self-)assessments of the field's disciplinarity, its structures and epistemologies of exclusion, its methodological and conceptual limitations.Footnote 9 These interventions cannot be made effectively if they come from within the current domains of neo-Victorian scholarship alone.
September 20, 2023 at 7:58 PM