I found the topic of Undisciplining Victorian Studies in this class's discussion to be very interesting. Historically speaking Victorian studies have been seen as a prodominetly white community, not much of the literature was written or published by people of colour. Many works that have been studied have been dug up and rediscovered. I have taken different courses at ryerson that allow the student community to explore different cultures literature and have gotten the opportunity to study texts from all over the world that are post colonial texts but the Victorian era is one where I have not seen much diversity in terms of literature. The concept of 'undiscipling' Victorian texts seems like a very big task to me, since almost if not all Victorian texts I have read have been writen by white authors and published by white publishers. I also found it very interesting today when I learned that Pamela Colman Smith had published her own work in the Green Sheaf. She as a women of colour had writen, illustrated and published this work at the age of 21 I believe and I think that is completely extraordinary. I think that the key of Undisciplining Victorian studies is the continuos hunt and conversation around new texts. What I mean by this is that many works were not published of recognized because they or the authors who wrote them were not deemed as equals in society. This has changed in todays society as its important to try and dig into Victorian texts that were unacknowledged and revive them for the sake of education of Victorian society and they could help gather a more full rounded approach to understanding Victorian society.