Speaker: Winter Jade Werner, Associate Professor of English, Wheaton College
Moderator: Daniel Elam, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, HKU
Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2026
Time: 4:00 pm Hong Kong Time
Venue: Faculty Lounge (Room 430), 4/F, Run Run Shaw Tower, HKU
All are welcome. Registration is required.
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How do we see more clearly the non-Western intellectual labor embedded in popular Victorian fiction? This talk proposes “citation chaining” as an archival methodology for that project, tracing how the penanggalan—a Malay vampiric figure—traveled from Abdullah bin Abdul Kadir’s 1819 description in a missionary periodical through colonial print networks to Bram Stoker’s research notes for Dracula, unattributed.
Winter Jade Werner is Associate Professor of English at Wheaton College and Visiting Scholar at Universiti Malaya. She is the author of Missionary Cosmopolitanism in Nineteenth-Century British Literature (Ohio State UP, 2020), and her book in progress traces the entanglements of British missionary print culture and Victorian ideas of “world literature.” Her work is forthcoming or appears in ELH, Victorian Studies, Comparative Literature, and MLQ.
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