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Congratulations to Our 2022 VPR Prize Winners!

Having been officially announced at our annual conference, congratulations to our 2022 winners of our Victorian Periodicals Review awards, the Rosemary VanArsdel Prize and our first-ever Expanding the Field Prize! VanArsdel Prize Winner The winner of this year’s VanArsdel Prize is Alycia Gilbert (University of Washington) for her essay “‘Her Speech Betrayeth Her’: The New Woman and Gendered Slang in the Periodical Press.” The committee notes, “This essay skillfully combines analysis through the lenses of gender studies and periodical studies with a linguistics-based approach. The author brings in a consideration of the intersections of class and gender as they shape the use of […]

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Congrats to our 2nd Annual Mitchell Prize Winner!

The results are in! Our 2022 Mitchell Dissertation Prize Winner is Maryam Sikander for her “Oudh Punch (1877-1915): Satire and Parody in the Colonial Contact Zone.” Dr. Sikander’s dissertation examines the transcultural life of Punch in India through the framework of the colonial “contact zone.” Per our Mitchell Prize committee, this ambitious project demonstrates a deft touch in managing the breadth of translation and archival work as it crosses historical and geographical boundaries. It makes a clear contribution to the study of Victorian periodicals and their transformations in colonial contexts. Honorable Mention An honorable mention goes to Elizabeth Rawlinson-Mills’s “Bards, Priests and Prophets: […]

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Congratulations to our 2022 Award Winners

The results are in for our Colby, Peterson and Field Development awards and grants! Robert and Vineta Colby Book Prize The winner of this year’s Robert and Vineta Colby Book Prize is Priti Joshi’s Empire News: The Anglo-Indian Press Writes India (SUNY Press, 2021). The prize committee praised Empire News as “a valuable, innovative and timely study that brings to life the circulations of English language newspapers published in mid-century India with an immaculate level of care and attention to archival detail.” This book “compellingly illuminates the ways in which the empire was not a monolithic construct of the press, […]

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Congratulations to our 2022 Curran Fellowship Winners!

In case you missed it in our last (March) newsletter, we’re pleased to announce this year’s Eileen M. Curran Fellowship winners! These travel and research grants are intended to aid scholars of 19th-century British periodicals who wish to study primary print and archival sources. These fellowships are made possible by a generous bequest of the late Eileen Curran, Professor Emerita of English at Colby College and inspired by her pioneering research on Victorian periodicals. Our 2022 fellows are: Sue Chen, “Preparing the Child for Science”: Victorian Children’s Periodicals and Scientific Literacy Richard Scully, The Last Victorian: Sir Bernard Partridge, Pictures, […]

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Help Us Improve the Curran Index

Using the Curran Index: Experiences, Search, and Improvements (Focus Group) 17 March 2022 from 6-7:30pm (GMT) /2-3:30pm (EDT) Dr. Lara Atkin and Dr. Emily Bell, editors of the Curran Index, invite Victorianist researchers and teachers to attend this focus group to feed directly into planned changes to the search and navigation of the Index. The Curran Index is a treasure trove of information about who was writing the articles, reviews, stories, novels, and poems of the Victorian periodical press. This is an opportunity to discuss your experience and issues using the existing Index interface, and provide feedback on what would […]

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Half-Day Workshop on Multilingualism and Periodical Studies

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals in conjunction with the European Society for Periodical Research is excited to announce Multilingualism and Periodical Studies A Half-day Virtual Workshop 31 March 2022 3pm-6pm (BST/CET) This two-part online workshop brings together scholars and researchers on the topic of multilingualism in periodicals scholarship. It seeks to spotlight ongoing projects in academic research across languages, as well as to ask questions about the challenges and possibilities that pertain to multilingual approaches. Because of their generic hybridity and varying circulations, periodicals have always invited interdisciplinary methods, which our participants expand into the study of periodicals’ linguistic […]

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