The Interdisciplinary Nineteenth-Century Studies conference included current faculty members Narin Hassan, who moderated a panel (Dynamic Journeys) and read a paper, “Botanical Energies: Marianne North’s ‘Strange Science’ and the Pleasures and Pursuits of Botany,” and Carol Senf, who moderated a panel (Two Hundred Years of Vampire Energy) to commemorate the birth, in 1814, of James Malcolm Rymer, author of Varney the Vampire; Sheridan Le Fanu, author of “Carmilla”; and George W.M. Reynolds, author of The Mysteries of London.

Also at INCS were the following former Brittain Fellows:

• Scott Banville (Nicholls State University): “Harnessing the Energy of the Hive Mind: Dracula and Competing Modes of Collective Thought and Action”
• Leeann Hunter (Washington State University): “Building Digital Bridges Between Nineteenth-Century Studies and the Public Humanities”
• Roger Whitson (Washington State University): “Steampunk, Or, A History of Nineteenth-Century Physical Computing”
• Olan Bjork (University of Houston, Downtown): “A Tale of Tw Media: Gustave Dore, Blanchard Jerrold, and the Power of Social Journalism in London: A Pilgrimage”

Georgia Tech will host INCS in April 2015.