Andrew Miller--"Reading Thoughts: Casuistry, the Display of Thinking, and Victorian Perfectionism," September 2002
Ginger Frost--"'The Black Lamb of the Black Sheep': Illegitimacy in the English Working Class, 1850-1939," January 2003
Mary Ann O'Farrell--"Jane Austen's Mafia," Spring 2003
Rebecca Stern--"Brinks Jobs: Servants, Thresholds, and Portable Property," March 2004
Louise Penner--"Defending Home and Country: Florence Nightingale's Training of Domestic Detectives," March 2004
Adrienne Munich--"Diamonds, Scrambled Humanity, and Middle-class Fables: South African Domestic Novels," March 2004
James Epstein--"Politics of Colonial Sensation: The Trial of Thomas Picton and the Cause of Louisa Calderon," Spring 2004
Tracy Davis--"Dramatic License; or, Hissing Tinker Bell," April 2004
VSS Conference: "This Year in Victorian Studies at Rice," May 2004
Leah Price--"Reader's Block," November 2005
Disciplinary Flashpoints: Conversations between History and Literature, (Visiting Speakers: Jerome Christensen, James Epstein, Elizabeth Helsinger, Dane Kennedy, and Lara Kriegel), April 2005
Seth Koven--"An Archival Love Story: The Match Girl and the Heiress in early 20th century Britain," April 2006
Jonathan Grossman--"Now and Meantime: International Connections in Little Dorrit," November 2006
Poetry in the Age of the Novel
Samuel Baker--"Written on the Water: British Romanticism and the Maritime Empire of
Culture," November 2007
James Buzard--”Narrative, Interruption, and Autoethnography,” March 2008
Food studies meetings on the Victorian Literature and Culture Special Issue and Mrs. Beeton--October 2008, January 2009
Teresa Mangum--”The Guests Who Wouldn’t Leave,” March 2009