WLM 14 | 7 May 2026 | online via Zoom
Paraphrasing Linda Hutcheon, the neo-Victorians have a habit of adapting just about everything – and in just about every possible direction. The stories of Victorian poems, novels, plays, operas, paintings, songs, dances, and tableaux vivants are constantly being adapted from one medium to another and then back again not only on film, television, radio, and digital or social media, but also theme parks, historical enactments, and virtual reality experiments. In this meeting, we would like to explore the interactions and connections between the different ways contemporary culture engages with the traces of the Victorian past as well as how these different genres or expressions interact.
We welcome papers exploring and investigating various intermedial connections. Possible topics include but are not limited to:
- Returns to and/or rewritings of Victorian cultural narratives across media
- Trends and developments in period/costume drama
- Steampunk cultures
- Re-adaptations/adaptations adapted
- Neo-Victorian game cultures (computer games, board games, etc.)
- Media including both images and text, including neo-Victorian manga, comics and graphic novels
- Performance, theatre and the theatrical
- Everyday encounters with the (neo-)Victorian
Important dates:
27 February 2026 deadline for a 250‒word abstract and a 100-word biographical note via this form
by 10 March 2026 notifications of acceptance
by 30 April 2026 submission of complete papers [up to 30 000 characters] to be shared with other presenters
For questions, reach out to the organisers at qaqv@uw.edu.pl
To learn more about the format of the meeting, please visit qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/warsaw-literary-meetings/
Convenors: Dr Daný van Dam (BAVS, Leiden University) & Dr Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko (QAQV, University of Warsaw)