Wednesday, February 16: Invited Speaker Alisha Walters

The “Sallow Mr. Freely”: Sugar, Appetite, and Unstable Forms of Whiteness in George Eliot’s “Brother Jacob” 3:30 p.m., Wednesday, February 16 on Zoom https://tennessee.zoom.us/j/97160713573

Dr. Walters’ talk is part of her current book project,
Affective Hybridities: Race, Mixture, and British Nationality from 1850-1901.

Alisha R. Walters is an Assistant Professor of Victorian Literature and Culture at Penn State University, Abington College. Her work examines representations of race and racial mixture in the nineteenth century, and her research focuses on the tensions between scientific and affective ideas of race, particularly in depictions of people of color in Victorian fiction. She also writes about colonial and literary depictions of food, as she considers what Victorians wrote about food and the dynamic process of national identity formation. Her work has appeared in journals such as Victorian Literature and Culture, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, and Women’s Writing and Victorian Review.