Welcome to VISAWUS, an organization whose aim is to bring together all those with an interest in the Victorian era as defined by Britain and its empire from 1837 to 1901. Membership in VISAWUS includes a subscription to Victorian Review.

VISAWUS 2008

VISAWUS, the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States, will hold its annual meeting October 2-4, 2008 in Seattle, Washington, USA. The theme this year is "The Public and Private Politics of Victorian England."

Conference Hotel Information

This year's conference will be held at The Watertown Inn. Here is their address (Map):

The Watertown Inn
4242 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105

For reservations, call toll free at 1-866-944-4242, or email reservations@watertownseattle.com. Conference rates will apply for October 1-4, and the nightly cost will be $130.

When the Watertown Inn fills up, VISAWUS attendees also have arrangements for The University Inn (which is next door). Here is their address (Map):

4140 Roosevelt Way NE
Seattle, WA 98105

The nightly cost at the University Inn will be $115 (make sure to mention VISAWUS to receive the discounted rate). For reservations, call toll free 1-800-733-3855, or email reservations@universityinnseattle.com.

Keynote Speaker

We are pleased to announce that the 13th anniversary keynote speaker will be Antony Harrison, who is Professor of English and Department Head at North Carolina University. His authored books include Swinburne's Medievalism, Christina Rossetti in Context, Victorian Poets and Romantic Poems, and Victorian Poets and the Politics of Culture. He has also edited The Letters of Christina Rossetti (4 vols.), a special double issue of the journal Victorian Poetry on Christina Rossetti, and a special issue of the John Donne Journal on "The Metaphysical Poets in the Nineteenth Century." He is co-editor of The Blackwell Companion to Victorian Poetry, The Culture of Christina Rossetti, and Gender and Discourse in Victorian Literature and Art.

He is the recipient of fellowships from the National Humanties Center, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the ACLS. He is currently completing a new book, The Cultural Production of Matthew Arnold, and has begun a major project on Victorian taste, while continuing to work as a completing editor for The Correspondence of Dante Gabriel Rossetti (10 vols.). He serves on the Advisory Board of the NINES and the Dante Gabriel Rossetti Hypertext Archive, as well as the Editorial Boards of RaVoN, Victorian Poetry, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, the Journal of Pre-Raphaelite Studies, and the Victorians Institute Journal.