e accept presentations covering any aspect of science fiction, fantasy, or fairy tale in the Long Nineteenth Century (spanning from the late eighteenth century through World War I) from any part of the world as well as reinterpretations of the nineteenth century in contemporary literature and media.
Our keynote speaker will be Renee Fox from the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the Jordan-Stern Presidential Chair for Dickens and Nineteenth-Century Studies, Co-director of the Dickens Project, and Co-direct of of the Center for Monster Studies. Her Recent monograph, The Necromantics: Reanimation, the Historical Imagination, and Victorian British and Irish Literature looks at the ways monster stories/poems by writers like Mary Shelley, Robert Browning, and Bram Stoker reflect changing ideas about the form and function of history across the nineteenth century.
For more information about the journal, you can read the most recent issue here and you can follow us on Instagram at incredible19c.
We will be accepting proposals for presentations through April 4th. To submit a proposal or to register to attend, please fill out the form found here.
Created 16 February 2026
Last modified 16 February 2026