Lecture by Mary L. Shannon at the Nelson-Atkins Museum
September 9, 2016
Video of Mary L. Shannon’s Lecture
Dr. Mary L. Shannon is a Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Roehampton, London, where she is newly-appointed having held a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship there for three years. She is the author of Dickens, Reynolds and Mayhew on Wellington Street: The Print Culture of a Victorian Street(2015) which won the 2016 Robert and Veneta Colby Scholarly Book Prize. She received her PhD from King’s College London in 2013, and did her undergraduate studies in English at the University of Cambridge. She has taught at the University of Westminster, King’s College London, and Queen Mary University of London, and was network co-ordinator for the Romantic Illustration Network 2013-16. She is currently developing a project about the soundscape of London’s streets as found in fiction, journalism and illustrations from the early-Victorian period.
Lecture by Jim Mussel at the Linda Hall Library
September 10, 2016
Video of Jim Mussell’s Lecture
Dr James Mussell is Associate Professor of Victorian Literature at the University of Leeds. He is the author of Science, Time, and Space in the Late Victorian Periodical Press (2007) and The Nineteenth-Century Press in the Digital Age (2012). He is one of the editors of the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008) and two publications on W.T. Stead: W.T. Stead: Newspaper Revolutionary (2012) and a special issue of the journal 19. From 2008-2015, Dr. Mussell was editor of the Digital Forum in the Journal of Victorian Culture and, from 2013-2015, led the AHRC Research Network “Making Waves: Oliver Lodge and the Culture of Science, 1875-1940.” At Leeds, Professor Mussell serves as the Director of the Centre for the Comparative History of Print, an interdisciplinary research center that considers forms of print culture, from the hand-press era to digital printing, in different places and periods.