
Rae X. Yan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of British Literature, 1830-1900
University of Florida
Presentations
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS​
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2021
“On the Relationship between Victorian Fiction and Chinese Literary Revolution.” North American Victorian Studies Association. Virtual Series. https://www.ncrc.hku.hk/navsavirtualseries.
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2020
“Framing the Human through Victorian Anatomies.” Modern Language Association. Seattle, WA.
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2019
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“Carmilla and Rhetorics of Nineteenth-Century Homeopathy” (Panel Organizer). North American Victorian Studies Association. Columbus, OH.
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“Carmilla and the Matter of ‘Monsieur Buffon, and his big book': Popular Natural History in the Supernatural Tale.”
Victorian Popular Fiction Association. London, UK.
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“Workshop on the Academic Job Market” (co-organizer w/ Doreen Thierauf). British Women Writers Conference. Auburn, AL.
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2018
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“The Science Behind the Supernatural in Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s In a Glass Darkly.” North American Victorian Studies Association. St. Petersburg, FL.
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2017
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“Robert Louis Stevenson’s Preservation of Dr. Robert Knox.” North American Victorian Studies Association. Banff, Albert, CA.
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“The Philosophical Anatomy of Robert Louis Stevenson.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies. Philadelphia, PA.
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2016
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“Sickening Narratives of Lu Xun’s ‘Diary of a Madman’.” Invited Speaker for the Council of Conferences Sponsored Graduate Student Panel. Association for Asian Studies, Seattle, WA.
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“Human Nature Under the Lens: George Eliot and the Tissue as Ultimate Fact.” Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies. Asheville, NC.
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2015
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“Chinese Patterns in George Meredith’s The Egoist.” South Atlantic Modern Language Association, Durham, NC.
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2014
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“Ekphrastic Reflections on Politics in Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Casa Guidi Windows.” British Women Writers Conference, Binghamtom, NY.
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“Violence and Insurrection Among the Wolf-Children of W.H. Sleeman’s A Journey Through the Kingdom of Oude in 1849-1850.” Midwest Victorian Studies Association Conference, Ann Arbor, MI.
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2013
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“Minding the Savage Child: Dickens and Medical Discourse in the 19th Century.” English Student Association Conference, NYC, NY.
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CAMPUS AND COMMUNITY TALKS​
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2019
“Redefining Anatomy in the Victorian Age.” Center for Humanities in the Public Sphere, Synergy Series, University of Florida.
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2017
“Mourning and Portraiture” in Persuasion. Jane Austen Summer Program, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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2016
“Pugs in Art" in Mansfield Park. Jane Austen Summer Program, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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2015
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Film Panel on Adaptions of Emma. Jane Austen Summer Program, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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2014
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Film Panel on Adaptations of Sense and Sensibility. Jane Austen Summer Program, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.