This article examines the papers presented during the 2017 NAVSA Conferenec held in Banff, Alberta, which focus on the problem of futurity. It discusses the late-Victorian time travel narratives by Sara C. Alexander, the topos of stopped time in two late-Victorian Gothic narratives "The Beetle," by Richard Marsh and "Dracula," by Bram Stoker, and literary works that seek to complicate ecocriticism with insights drawn from queer theory.