{"id":281,"date":"2009-06-29T15:37:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-29T19:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/?page_id=281"},"modified":"2025-10-17T14:35:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T18:35:02","slug":"janice-schroeder","status":"publish","type":"cu_people","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/people\/janice-schroeder\/","title":{"rendered":"Janice Schroeder"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"mb-6 cu-pageheader cu-component-updated md:mb-12\">\n    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 pb-5 after:w-10 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px\">\n                    \n             \n                \n            <\/h1>\n\n    \n    <\/header>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>My research interests cover a wide range of topics, including nineteenth-century print and oral media, voice studies, Victorian women\u2019s and feminist writing, and contemporary adoption narratives. I am the co-editor of two books: a selected edition of Henry Mayhew\u2019s <em>London Labour and the London Poor<\/em> with Barbara Leckie (Broadview 2020), and <em>Ordinary Oralities: Everyday Voices in History<\/em> with Josephine Hoegaerts (De Gruyter 2023). My research has appeared in journals such as <em>Women\u2019s Writing, Victorian Review, Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies, Victorian Periodicals Review,<\/em> and <em>Adoption &amp; Culture<\/em>. I am working on a book on contemporary transnational adoption narratives. In 2023, I became the editor of Canada\u2019s flagship Victorian studies journal, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/victorianreview.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Victorian Review<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My teaching is closely connected to my research. I am currently leading a fourth-year seminar on adoption narratives, where we study texts from orphan fairy tales to the 60s Scoop to adoptee life writing. In connection with my research on Mayhew, I have taught graduate seminars on scholarly editing, as well as seminars on prison writing, women and labour, the Victorian schoolroom, nineteenth-century vocal cultures, and the Victorian periodical press. I would be happy to receive proposals for doctoral research projects on most aspects of Victorian literature and culture, critical voice studies, and\/or adoption narratives. I am currently serving as Chair of the Department of English at Carleton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Selected Recent Publications<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Co-editor, with Josephine Hoegaerts. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.degruyterbrill.com\/document\/doi\/10.1515\/9783111079370\/html?lang=en&amp;srsltid=AfmBOorivL2lqOWZyqbemzuL_HkQgNLAbXvAakNBCTh83-J72p-RQJ1F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ordinary Oralities: Everyday Voices in History<\/a>. <\/em>De Gruyter, 2023.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Co-editor, with Barbara Leckie. <a href=\"https:\/\/broadviewpress.com\/product\/london-labour-and-the-london-poor\/#tab-description\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>London Labour and the London Poor\u00a0<\/em>by Henry Mayhew<\/a>. Broadview 2020.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Co-author, with Barbara Leckie and Jenna Herdman. \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/chapter\/10.1007\/978-3-030-93791-1_4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Working with Mayhew: Collaboration and Historical Empathy in Precarious Times<\/a>\u201d in <em>Victorian Culture and Experiential Learning<\/em>. Ed. Kevin Morrison. Palgrave 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/pub\/30\/article\/855524\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Stolen Child: Maternal Claim and National Belonging in David Bergen\u2019s <em>Stranger<\/em><\/a>\u201d in <em>Adoption &amp; Culture,\u00a0<\/em>2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/muse.jhu.edu\/pub\/30\/article\/839769\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Screen Time: Slow Looking with Libbie Marsh<\/a>\u201d in <em> A Journal of Literature and Culture<\/em>, 2021.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/09699082.2020.1775773\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u2018A Thousand Petty Troubles\u2019: Margaret Hale\u2019s Emotional Labour in <em>North and South<\/em><\/a>\u201d in\u00a0<em>Women\u2019s Writing <\/em>27, 2020.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Editing<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Editor, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/victorianreview.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Victorian Review<em>: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Victorian Studies<\/em><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Published twice annually for the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada by the Johns Hopkins University Press.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Conferences<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>North American Victorian Studies Association, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Interdisciplinary Nineteenth Century Studies, Northeast Victorian Studies Association, Mennonite\/s Writing, ACCUTE, Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Graduate Supervisions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Doctoral co-supervisor for \u201cThe Remediated Mayhew\u201d by Jenna Herdman. 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