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Communications Coordinator Wanted – Applications due February 15

RSVP seeks applicants with excellent organizational and time management skills to assist with our daily operations as a Communications Coordinator. As the Communications Coordinator, your responsibilities would include: Working with the President and Vice President to manage and update membership lists Distributing the monthly newsletter Assisting with digital event enrollment and administration Supporting communications related to the annual conference, elections, and awards The Communications Coordinator will receive a $5,000 stipend paid at regular intervals over the course of the appointment. Employment begins on March 1 and runs through December 31, 2021. The position is renewable for the following calendar year. […]

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CFP: RSVP Annual Conference 2021

“Revolution(s), Evolution(s), Circulation(s)” September 7-12, 2021 An Online Conference hosted by Temple University Philadelphia, PA, USA   Our 2021 conference details have been finalized and we issue this formal Call for Papers for the Annual Conference of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals! Importantly, all proposals accepted for the postponed 2020 conference remain approved. We invite additional proposals for papers or panels of three or four related papers that address any aspect of the Victorian periodical or newspaper press. Proposals relevant to the conference theme of Revolution(s), Evolution(s), Circulation(s) are particularly welcome. Topics that might be considered include, but are […]

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Join Us January 22 for Discussion on Decolonizing Periodical Studies

We warmly invite you to join us on Friday, 22 January 2021 at 1 p.m. (EST) / 6 p.m. (GMT) for “A Discussion on Decolonizing Periodical Studies,” part of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals’ Digital Salon Series 2021. This event, like those taking place in cognate scholarly organizations and in wider public arenas, will engage with biases that shape nineteenth-century periodical studies. It will also provide the foundation for the development of a nineteenth-century periodical studies reading group focused on race and transimperialism. Our roundtable participants include: Caroline Bressey, Reader in Cultural and Historical Geography, specialist in the Black […]

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Announcing the Sally Mitchell Dissertation Prize

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) invites submissions for the Sally Mitchell dissertation prize. This prize will recognize the best Ph.D. dissertation, defended in 2020, that explores the 19th-century British periodical press (including magazines, newspapers, and serial publications of all kinds) as an object of study in its own right, and not only as a source of material for other historical topics. We welcome projects from a range of disciplinary perspectives focused on any aspect of the periodical press within Britain itself or in the many countries, within and outside of the Empire, where British magazines and newspapers were […]

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Join us for Some Holiday Cheer Dec. 17

Join the RSVP Digital Salon committee for a holiday-themed (virtual) social gathering this Thursday, December 17 at 1 p.m. EST / 6 p.m. UK. We’ll share a sneak peak at some upcoming virtual events we have planned for 2021, including: A Discussion on Decolonising Periodical Studies (JAN. 2021): A practice-based session with experts at the intersection of critical race studies/transimperialism and periodical studies. We hope to use this discussion gauge interest in starting up a monthly reading group on this very important topic. Maximizing Your Online Periodical Research (FEB. 2021): A roundtable on how to make the most of your […]

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Happy Holidays from the Curran Index

By Patrick Leary This year the Curran Index has a special holiday surprise for Victorianists everywhere.  In this latest update from longtime editor Gary Simons, the names of the authors of tens of thousands of unsigned contributions to three hugely influential Victorian periodicals — Punch, the Athenaeum, and the Saturday Review — are now freely available to researchers through the Curran Index database. What’s New The Index currently identifies the authors of almost 80,000 contributions (both prose and verse) published in Punch between 1848 and 1900. These were drawn from the manuscript ledgers in the Punch Collection of the British Library by Clare Horrocks, Valerie […]

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