A Newsletter for UMW Faculty and Staff
Eric Lorentzen, Associate Professor of English, gave a talk in Raleigh, North Carolina, at this year’s Victorians Institute Conference, which was thematized around ideas of Victorian STEM/STEAM. His paper on Dickens was titled “Hard Times, Critical Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies: STEM as the New Utilitarianism.”
Eric Lorentzen, associate professor of English, presented a talk at this year’s Victorians Institute conference, held in Charlotte, Oct. 23-25. The theme of the 43rd annual conference was “The Mysteries at Our Own Doors,” and his talk was entitled “‘The Narrative of the Tombstone’: Teaching English 251S — British Victorian Detective and Sensation Novel.” In this talk, he was able to share, with Victorian colleagues from across the country, the pedagogical philosophies and praxes that he has employed in his course for the Department of English, Linguistics, and Communication, as well as an argument about the goals and objectives of this course and genre. He also connected the talk to a summer course here at the University of Mary Washington in which he and his students pursue the study of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and his famous detective, Sherlock Holmes.
Eric Lorentzen, associate professor of English, gave a pedagogical talk entitled “The Victorian Psychological Novel and Memory: Wordsworthian Echoes, Freudian Anticipations” at the Northeastern Modern Language Association Conference in Harrisburg, Pa. on April 4. He also chaired the panel “Literary Genealogies: British Romantic Poetry and Victorian Novels.”
Eric Lorentzen, associate professor of English, gave a talk entitled “Teaching Dickens and Cultural Studies in the 21st Century” at Converse College on Nov. 15, as part of a conference on scholarship, pedagogy, and the intersections of popular culture.
Eric Lorentzen, associate professor of English, gave a scholarly talk at this year’s annual Northeastern Modern Language Association conference in Boston, for a panel called “Dickens at 201.” The talk was titled “Cultural Studies, Critical Pedagogy, and Connecting with ‘Boz’ in the 21st Century.”
Eric Lorentzen, associate professor of English, gave an invited lecture at the University of Connecticut on Wednesday, March 20 entitled “‘The Catechizing Infection’: Subverting Dangerous Pedagogy in the Novels of Austen, Dickens, and Charlotte Brontë.“
Eric G. Lorentzen, associate professor of English, gave a scholarly talk on Friday, March 16 at the Northeastern Modern Language Association annual conference entitled “‘You ask rather too many questions’: Co-Opting the Catechistic Method in Jane Eyre.”
Associate Professor of English Eric Lorentzen’s article “Dickens at 200: Still Relevant After All These Years” has been picked up by the McClatchy-Tribune newswire and has appeared in numerous publications, including McClatchy D.C., the Sacramento Bee, the Bradenton Herald (Fla.) and the Bellingham Herald (Wash.).
The piece, originally published in The Free Lance-Star on Sunday, Feb. 5, explores the enduring relevance of Dickens’ work in light of the bicentennial of his birth.
Eric G. Lorentzen, associate professor of English, gave a talk, “Doing British Literature and Popular Culture: Critical Pedagogy in the University Literature Classroomd,” at the “Culturing the Popular” conference at Converse College in Spartanburg, S.C., in September.