Publications and Other Activities
This list is comprised of publications and presentations about or related to the Christina Rossetti in Music project, in reverse chronological order.
activities
"A Gift for Christmas" is an online activity that focuses on the musical settings of Christina Rossetti's many poems that revolved around the Advent and Christmas seasons.
Arseneau, Mary, Emily McConkey and Sarah Pennington. "The Christina Rossetti in Music project." Exhibits: Digital Humanities and the Arts, Arts in April, 17 Apr. 2019, Perez Hall, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario. Poster-style presentation.
book chapters
Arseneau, Mary. "Musico-literary Pre-Raphaelite Poetry." Defining Pre-Raphaelite Poetics, edited by Heather Bozant Witcher and Amy Kahrmann Huseby, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, pp.143-178.
Arseneau, Mary. "Poetic Pre-texts: Musical Settings of Christina Rossetti's Poetry." Love, Knowledge and the University: Essays and Poetry from the Christianity and Literature Study Group, Victoria, 2013, edited by John S. North, Waterloo, ON: North Waterloo Academic Press, 2014, pp. 127-138.
articles
Arseneau, Mary. "The Victorian Salon and Pre-Raphaelite Melo-Poetics." Special Issue: "The Victorian Salon," edited by Linda K. Hughes and Phyllis Weliver, Victorian Poetry, vol. 60, no. 2, 2022. Accepted.
presentations
Arseneau, Mary, and Roxanne lafleur. "Discovering Christina Rossetti in Music.” DH Toolbox, 6 Oct. 2021, online, University of Ottawa, Ottawa. Workshop. YouTube, uploaded by SHN-DH at uOttawa, 6 Oct. 2021, https://youtu.be/gQZJLNaTeps
Arseneau, Mary. "Musico-literary Pre-Raphaelite Collaborations." National ACCUTE Annual Conference, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities 2021: Northern Relations, 30 May 2021, online, Edmonton, Alberta. Conference presentation.
Hughes, Linda, and Phyllis Weliver, Mary Arseneau, Dino Felluga, Alison Chapman, Elizabeth Howard, Vincent A. Lankewish, Kathleen McCormack, Sarah Weaver, Kirstie Blair, Michael Sanders, Pearl Chaozon Bauer. "Roundtable with contributors to Victorian Poetry's forthcoming special issue on the Victorian salon, edited by Phyllis Weliver and Linda K. Hughes." International Victorian Poetry Caucus of the North American Victorian Studies Association Round Table and Salon, 20 May 2021, online, United States. Arseneau presented on her article "Musico-literary Pre-Raphaelite Poetry."
Arseneau, Mary, and Saeideh Rajabzadeh. "Inside Heart & Hereafter: episode 6 - Six Sorrow Songs & Christina Rossetti." YouTube, uploaded by Elizabeth Llewelyn, 8 May 2021, https://youtu.be/kCsIN3rfUTg. Promotion for Elizabeth Llewellyn's recording of Samuel Coleridge Taylor’s Six Sorrow Songs, setting of six lyric poems by Christina Rossetti on her debut album Heart & Hereafter.
McConkey, Emily. "'What Can I Give Him?': Musical and Theological Interpretations of Christina Rossetti’s ‘A Christmas Carol' (.In the bleak mid-winter')." Christianity and Literature Study Group, Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities 2021: Northern Relations, 8 May 2021, online, King’s University, London, Ontario. Conference presentation.
Rajabzadeh, Saeideh. "'Haply I may remember, And haply may forget': Fusion of Sorrow Songs and Western Art Music in Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Six Sorrow Songs, Op. 57." Graduate Music Student Association Internal Conference, 7 Apr. 2021, online, Ottawa. Conference paper.
Rajabzadeh, Saeideh. "'Haply I may remember, And haply may forget': Fusion of Sorrow Songs and Western Art Music as a Vehicle for Narrative Construction in Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s 'Too Late for Love' From Six Sorrow Songs, Op. 57." McGill Music Graduate Virtual Symposium, 13 March 2021, online, Montreal. Conference paper.
Rajabzadeh, Saeideh. '"Haply I may remember, And haply may forget': Fusion of Sorrow Songs and Western Art Music in Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Six Sorrow Songs, Op. 57." University of Toronto Graduate Music Conference, 7 March 2021, online, Toronto. Conference paper.
Reno, Seth, and Heather Bozant Witcher, Amy Kahrmann Huseby, Mary Arseneau, John Holmes, Florence Boos, Robert Wilkes, Heather McAlpine, Serena Trowbridge, Elizabeth Helsinger, Hannah Comer, Dinah Roe. "Defining Pre-Raphaelite Poetics. "International NAVSA book launch, 18 Feb. 2021, online. Panel presentation, including Arseneau's presentation on her chapter "Musico-literary Pre-Raphaelite Poetry."
Witcher, Heather Bozant, and Amy Kahrmann Huseby, panelists, and Mary Arseneau, John Holmes, Florence Boos, Robert Wilkes, Heather McAlpine, Serena Trowbridge, Elizabeth Helsinger, Hannah Comer, Dinah Roe. "Defining Pre-Raphaelite Poetics." The De Morgan Foundation event, 5 Feb. 2021, online. Panel discussion and question-and-answer session, including Arseneau's chapter "Musico-literary Pre-Raphaelite Poetry."
McConkey, Emily, speaker. "'Christina Rossetti's In the Bleak Mid-winter' in Pop Culture: The Legacies of Holst and Darke’s Tunes." What, Like It's Hard?, with host, Kirstin, from Buzzsprout, 13 Dec. 2020, https://www.buzzsprout.com/606685/6823171. Guest lecture.
Arseneau, Mary, and Roxanne Lafleur and Emily McConkey. "Music and Literature with Mary Arseneau." School of Music Graduate Music Student Association, 3 Feb. 2020, Perez Hall, University of Ottawa, Ottawa. Guest lecture.
Hemingway, Ann, and Irene Makaryk, Mary Arseneau, Jada Watson. Panel discussion, "Digital Pedagogy: Teaching with Omeka." DH Toolbox, 13 March 2019, Perez Hall, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario.
Arseneau, Mary. "Illustration, Music, and Interpretation of ‘Goblin Market.'" Christina Rossetti and the Illustrated Poetry Book Symposium, 17 Dec. 2018, Watts Gallery – Artists’ Village, Compton, Surrey and 18 Dec. 2018, 43 Gordon Square, School of Arts, Birkbeck College, University of London, London. Conference presentation.
Lafleur, Roxanne, and Mary Arseneau, Antonia Holden, Geneviève Bazinet. "Artifacts + JSTOR Forum + Omeka = Experiential Learning." DH Toolbox, 17 Oct. 2018, Perez Hall, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. Workshop on the use of JSTOR Forum and Omeka in three projects at the University of Ottawa.
Arseneau, Mary. "Outward and Forward: Christina Rossetti and the Role of Musical Settings." Looking Outward, Annual Conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association, 12 Oct. 2018, Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront Hotel, St. Petersburg, Florida. Conference presentation.
Pennington, Sarah, and Mary Arseneau. "Voice and Adaptation in Musical Settings of Christina Rossetti's 'Up-hill.'" Looking Outward, Annual Conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association, 14 Oct. 2018, Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront Hotel, St. Petersburg, Florida. Poster presentation.
McConkey, Emily, and Mary Arseneau. "'In the Bleak Mid-winter': the Musical Transcendence of a Rossetti Carol." Looking Outward, Annual Conference of the North American Victorian Studies Association, 14 Oct. 2018, Hilton St. Petersburg Bayfront Hotel, St. Petersburg, Florida. Poster presentation.
Arseneau, Mary. "Christina Rossetti and Music: An Underdeveloped Field in Rossetti Studies." Many Directions for Haywood and Rossetti, New Directions: 26th Annual Conference of the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Association, 14 April 2018, College of Liberal Arts Building, University of Texas, Austin, Texas. Conference paper.
Pennington, Sarah, and Mary Arseneau, Roxanne Lafleur. "Christina Rossetti in Music: Musical Settings of 'A Birthday'." Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program (UROP) Symposium 2017, 23 March 2017, Tabaret Hall, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario. Poster presentation.
Arseneau, Mary. "Musico-Literary Collaborations: Pre-Raphaelite Poetry in Music." Victorian Classes and Classifications, The North American Victorian Studies Association Annual Conference, 14 Nov. 2014, London Hilton, London, Ontario. Conference presentation.