Jenna Kosnick's Journey to their First Conference Talk
Jenna Kosnick '26, pictured alongside Dr. Mary Mullen and Julia Reagan '26 I recently sat down with Jenna Kosnick, who’s in their second year of pursuing a master’s degree in English, to hear about their experience attending 2025’s North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA 25) conference last month. Hosted by Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., from November 13th to 16th, NAVSA 25 invited Victorian Studies academics from across the country to discuss how their work identifies and examines the ripple effects of and linkages between the Victorian period and today’s modern world. NAVSA 25 offered panels with focus ranging across disciplines, including “Urban Aftermaths: The Literary City,” “Art and Intimate Spaces in the Victorian Home,” “Cognition, Belief, and The Real,” and “Empire, Slavery, and The Gothic,” which was moderated by the department’s own Dr. Mary Mullen and featured Jenna’s talk, “The Gothic Reigns in Demerara ...