Biography
Kaitlyn Fralick is a Ph.D. Candidate and Teaching Fellow at Queen’s University and a Graduate Research Assistant on the Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry project at the University of Victoria. She holds an M.A. from the University of Victoria (with a concentration in Nineteenth-Century Studies) and a B.A. (Hons, with distinction) from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), both in English Language and Literature. Her research interests include nineteenth-century literature and culture, the Victorian periodical press, popular fiction, print culture, and the digital humanities.
Research Interests
- Victorian Literature & Culture
- Victorian Periodical Press
- Print Culture
- Popular Fiction
- Digital Humanities
Selected Publications
- “‘Friend in Need’: Cultivating Homosocial Communities in Love Story Magazine’s Fiction and Editorial Departments.” (Journal article.) The Journal of American Culture, vol. 47, no. 3, 2024.
- "Rewriting Fiction Across the English and Irish Press: Le Fanu’s Uncle Silas in the Dublin University Magazine." (Conference presentation.) Event 2024, North American Victorian Studies Association (NAVSA), Concordia University, Montreal, QC, 20-22 September 2024. [confirmed speaker]
- “Maternity and Maternal Loss: Navigating Pregnant Bodies in the Victorian Novel.” (Conference presentation.) Victorian Nature and Artifice, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Canmore, AB, 26-27 April 2024.
- “Motherhood in the Slums: Constructing the Working-Class Mother in Arthur Morrison’s A Child of the Jago.” (Conference presentation.) Victorian Making / Making Victorians, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, Winnipeg, MB, 5-6 May 2023. Recipient of the Founders’ Circle Award for best conference presentation by a graduate student or emerging scholar up to 5 years post-graduation.
- with Kailey Fukushima, Martin Holmes, and Sarah Karlson. “How we Tripled our Encoding Speed in the Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry Project.” (Conference presentation.) What is Text, Really? TEI and Beyond, Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Conference, University of Graz, Austria, 16-20 Sept. 2019.
- with Kailey Fukushima, and Sarah Karlson. “Victorian Poetry and Progress: Encoding Echo Figures with the TEI.” (Conference presentation.) Digital Humanities Summer Institute Conference & Colloquium, University of Victoria, BC, 8 Jun. 2019.
- “Revised and Republished: Reframing Le Fanu’s Checkmate (1870-71).” (Conference presentation.) Victorian Sociability, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, University of Calgary, AB, 1-3 May 2019.
- “Localized Identity and the Periodical Press: The Strand and the Strand.” (Conference presentation.) The Body and the Page in Victorian Culture: An International Conference, Research Society for Victorian Periodicals / Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada, University of Victoria, BC, 26-28 Jul. 2018.
Awards and Recognition
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Queen’s University (2023-2024)
Founders’ Circle Award, Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada (2023)
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, Queen’s University (2022-2023)
Alfred Bader Graduate Fellowship in the Humanities, Queen’s University (2021)
Additional Information
Courses Taught
- ENGL231: Special Topics in Genre: Sensation Fiction (Fall 2024)
Areas of Study
Print Culture and Textual Studies
