DACH Victorianists

The Computational Literary Studies Research Group at the University of Bremen invites you to its hybrid lecture series in the winter term 2026/27, which also features talks on Victorian literature and culture (see attached programme). The research group explores and develops digital approaches and theoretical frameworks for the study of literature. Through its events, it aims to bring researchers together – particularly those based in and around Bremen – to pool existing knowledge, encourage methodological innovation and foster lasting collaborations. Whether you are already working on a digital humanities project or simply curious about applying computational methods to literary studies, you are very welcome to join. All sessions will be held in a hybrid format, both on site in Bremen and via Zoom, so you can participate even if you are not based in Bremen. For online participation, please sign up here . For more information, see the attached programme below.

Save the date! The DACH Victorianists Reading Group will resume its meetings in the winter term. Our next session will be on Friday, 23 October 2026, from 2-3 pm , as usual, on Zoom. We will discuss a section from Kathy Alexis Psomiades's Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology, the Novel, and Sexual Modernity (OUP, 2023). Here's a teaser from the publisher's website: "Marriage is the novel's traditional subject matter. But what happens to the novel when another genre of writing lays claim to the novel's traditional material? Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology, the Novel, and Sexual Modernity shows how the foundational ideas of the new discipline of anthropology gave late-Victorian novelists and social scientists ways of rethinking heterosexual romance by referring to a new kind of history, one in which marriage systems, sexual behavior, and reproductive practices were temporalized and given historical agency." We're excited that Sophia Jo...

The Centre for Victorian Studies at the University of Leicester will host an online panel on "Empathy and the Victorian Novel" on 22 October 2026, 5:00–6:45 pm (UK time) , featuring Elaine Auyoung, Suzanne Keen, and Rachel Ablow. The event is free to attend. Registration is available via Eventbrite. For more information, click here .

Resistance and Adaptation, Flensburg, 19 - 25 July 2026 The Summer School is now in its 4th year of alternating between Vienna and Flensburg after its post-pandemic hiatus, and has had themes such as "Irish Icons and Iconoclasts" (2023), "Irish Cultures in Contact" (2024), "A Sense of Place" (2025). This year's theme is "Resistance and Adaptation." We are pleased to be hosting an exciting line up of speakers, who will be discussing themes related to Irish history, politics, culture, literature, philosophy, film, art, theatre, and more. The week-long school is ECTS-accredited, if it's compatible with your study programmes for the credit transfer. The school is geared towards students at all levels, and we already have a range of BA-, MA-, and PhD students enrolled. This year, we will also be offering introductory Irish language classes. More information about the speakers, the academic and social programme, the theme, and registration ca...

Our fellow DACH Victorianists Tim Sommer (Munich) and Barbara Straumann (Zurich) would like to invite you to their upcoming workshop, Writing Feminine Economies: Gender, Money, and Authorship in Nineteenth-Century Fiction , which will take place in Zurich on 18–19 June 2026 . Please find further details in the attached poster.

UPDATE: We are very pleased to circulate the final programme for this workshop (see below). Hannah Pardey and Carolin Gebauer warmly invite you to attend their upcoming digital DACH Victorianists workshop. If you would like to register, please email Hannah and Carolin by 12 June 2026 . ARCHIVE: The show must go on! The next and ninth DACH Victorianists Workshop will be hosted by Carolin Gebauer (University Wuppertal) and Hannah Pardey (University Düsseldorf) and is entitled 'Terraqueous' Victorians: Global Geographies as Metaphor, Materiality, and Methodology . It will take place on Friday, 26 June 2026 . Abstracts of 250-300 words, along with a short bio, can be sent to either of the organisers until 1 March 2026 . For further information and the full CfP, see below.