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Meet Our Organizers

Coordinating Members of the VPC

Meet Our Organizers
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Imogen
Forbes-Macphail

Assistant Professor, 
University of California, Davis
Caucus Coordinator

Imogen Forbes-Macphail is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Davis. Her research contends that an understanding of historical mathematics can transform the way we think about Victorian poetry by providing a new vocabulary with which to articulate the formal innovations of the era. Her work has been published in Critical Inquiry, ELH, and The Palgrave Handbook of Literature and Mathematics, amongst other places. She is currently co-editing a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies with Anna Henchman, on women’s writing and the production of scientific knowledge (“Longing to Know”). Prior to joining UC Davis, she was a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows (2022–25), and she completed her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. 

 

 

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Ryan Carroll

Ph.D. Candidate,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Graduate Coordinator
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Ryan Carroll is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He researches information theory and aesthetics in 19th-century British and American narratives and poetry. His dissertation studies how narrative texts including sensation novels, encyclopedic fictions, epic poems, slave narratives, and war correspondence, experimented with ways of making information experientially legible. His work has appeared in or is forthcoming from Victorian StudiesVictorian PoetryStudies in the NovelLateral, and Configurations.

Ryan also writes in public outlets on topics including contemporary literature, translation, medical dramas, sitcom families, liberation theology, and more.

Meet Our Advisors

Advising Members of the VPC 

Meet Our Advisors
Meet Our Affiliates
Veronica Alfano
Melissa Valiska Gregory
Elizabeth Howard
Linda Hughes
Rachael Isom
Charles LaPorte
Lindsey O'Neil
Jason Rudy
Marjorie Stone
Heather Witcher

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