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From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria
@qaqv.bsky.social
a research group based at the University of Warsaw | literature and culture of the 18th &19th centuries and contemporary rewritings of those periods |
open to collaborations
🌐 qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl
We’re thrilled to welcome Dr. Barbara Braid to the QAQV Research Group!

Barbara is based at the Institute of Literature and New Media, University of Szczecin, where she explores Neo-Victorianism, biofiction, the Gothic, comics & graphic novels, and much more

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October 13, 2025 at 11:50 AM
✨ Here are some moments from the 9th From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria Conference: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.” ✨

📚 So many discussions had, presentations heard, and ideas exchanged. 📚

#QAQV9 #AcademicConference
October 1, 2025 at 8:06 PM
✨ Now that we’ve had a chance to catch our breath after all the excitement of #QAQV9, we want to say a huge thank you to everyone who made it what it was!
We’re thrilled with the quality of the papers and the rich discussions that followed each panel. We can’t wait to see you all again next time! 💙
September 30, 2025 at 3:40 PM
🎉The QAQV9 Conference is over — and what a success it was! 🎉

Huge thanks to everyone for your amazing contributions. We’re so grateful for this community and can’t wait to see you at the next one! 💙 Your energy and engagement made it unforgettable.

#QAQV9 #Academicconference #Victorian
September 30, 2025 at 9:56 AM
It's the final countdown🎶

🎤Jerome De Groot
A ‘Maternal Genealogy’ of the Historical Novel from Jane Porter to Louise Erdrich

🎤 Valerie Purton
Reliving the Past: Mourning in Dickens, Tennyson and Queen Victoria

🎤 Mina Gorji
Lyric Listening: Soundings in Romantic Poetry

#QAQV9
September 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
🎉 Don't forget about our QAQV9 conference and the amazing keynote speakrs that we host! 🎉

Jerome De Groot 🗓 24 September | 🕙 10:15

Valerie Purton 🗓 25 September | 🕟 16:30

Mina Gorji 🗓 26 September | 🕐 13:00

Venue: Faculty of Modern Languages, Dobra 55, room: 1.110, Warsaw

#conference2025
September 23, 2025 at 8:41 AM
The QAQV9 conference’s list of panels concludes with bold rewritings and radical retellings. These panels explore evolving visions of womanhood—poetic, political, and deeply personal.

🌹 WOMANHOODS

📚 20th-CENTURY REWRITINGS

See you soon!

📍 24–26 September 2025 | University of Warsaw, Dobra 55
September 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
📚 Here's another set of panels from our upcoming QAQV9 conference:

🌐 BORDER CROSSING IN THE 18th CENTURY II

🕰 DICKENS & THE PAST

🎨 RECOVERING THE PAST THROUGH THE ARTS

🌏 TRANSCULTURAL & TRANSTEMPORAL

📍 24–26 September 2025 | University of Warsaw, Dobra 5

#victorian #conference #dickens
August 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
🏴‍☠️ Outlaws, Borders & Dangerous Books ✒️

Here's another set of panels for the upcoming QAQV9 conference:

🎭 BRITISH LITERATURE IN THE 1750s

🗡 REBELS & OUTLAWS

🌍 BORDER CROSSINGS

🚻 DICKENS & GENDER

📍 24–26 September 2025 | University of Warsaw, Dobra 55

We just can't wait!
August 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
QAQV9 conference is coming!

📅 24–26 Sept 2025

📍 Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Warsaw

Here's more of our panel highlights:

🖋 Eliza Haywood Intervenes

⚔️ Victorian Medievalisms

👀 The Victorians Look Back

📖 Emma Donoghue Looks Back

Stay tuned for more!

#victorian #conference
July 21, 2025 at 3:49 PM
QAQV9 conference is coming!

24–26 Sept 2025

📍 Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Warsaw

Here are some of our panels highlights:

✨ THE REGENCY STRIKES BACK

🧬 BIOFACTS & BIOFICTIONS

🏺 IT’S ALL ANCIENT HISTORY TO ME

🦇 GOTHICISING

Stay tuned for more!
July 9, 2025 at 6:18 PM
📢 QAQV 9 Keynote Speaker Announcement! 🎉

We’re delighted to welcome Professor Valerie Purton from Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge, as the third keynote speaker for QAQV 9: "The past is never dead. It’s not even past."

Her research includes: Victorian literature, gender studies, and more!
March 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
📢 QAQV 9 Keynote Speaker Announcement! 🎉

We’re delighted to welcome Dr. Mina Gorji from Pembroke College, Cambridge as the second keynote speaker for QAQV 9: "The past is never dead. It’s not even past."

Her research interest include: Romantic Poetry, Literary margins, Sound studies, and more
March 19, 2025 at 11:12 AM
📢 QAQV 9 Keynote Speaker Announcement! 🎉

We’re delighted to welcome Professor Jerome De Groot from the University of Manchester as the keynote speaker for QAQV 9: "The past is never dead. It’s not even past."

His research explores Public History, historical fiction, and the English Revolution.
March 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
And here we are;)
February 27, 2025 at 5:00 PM
The limited no. of print copies arrived and if you're joining us for the book launch, give them a perusal!
📅February 26, 2025
🕔5 pm
🏫The Faculty of Modern Languages Library Reading Room, Dobra 55
If you don't, don't worry - the Open Access version will be available next week - we'll keep you posted!
February 20, 2025 at 6:19 PM
More Pride, Less Prejudice: Jane Austen at 250👇
sites.google.com/view/morepri...
January 27, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Vol. 8 will be out soon - watch this space!
January 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Don't forget: #QAQV9 is coming!
qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl
January 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
We're here, hoping to reconnect with our old friends and make some new ones!

There are 17 of us, mostly from the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, at different stages of academic life, sharing passion for the 18th & 19th c. & their rewritings
qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/group-members/
January 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM