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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 16px;">Please join English Language & Literature this Friday for a talk by Lisa Hager (University of Wisconsin-Waukesha), who will be giving a talk titled “Towards a Queer Literary
History of Gender Identity: Steampunk, Gender Nonconformity, and Victorian Studies.” </font></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 16px;">As an alternate history genre, steampunk literature builds its worlds by answering the “what if?” question of science fiction and fantasy with a re-imagining of nineteenth-century
history and literature and engaging with cultural discourses of the day. Indeed, one of the primary methods by which steampunk enacts and revises the Victorian is through its deployment of period aesthetics and its thematisation of the relationship between
aesthetics and technology. Through a reading of comingled aesthetics and technology in Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan trilogy, this talk will consider how the series suggests a more trans- and nonbinary-inclusive vision of how Victorian studies might conceptualise
nineteenth-century gender identities and, in so doing, will contend that such a critical approach ultimately provides the field with provocative and productive methodological questions.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size: 16px;">Dr. Hager’s talk will take place at 1:00 pm in PAS 2438, and is free and open to the public. Please feel free to forward this email and the attached poster to any interested parties.</span></font></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 16px;">John Savarese</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 16px;">Assistant Professor</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 16px;">Department of English Language and Literature</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 16px;">University of Waterloo</font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><a href="https://uwaterloo.ca/english/people-profiles/john-savarese" style="color: purple;"><font face="Times New Roman" style="font-size: 16px;">https://uwaterloo.ca/english/people-profiles/john-savarese</font></a></p>
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