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CFP: Four Nations & Beyond – Periodical Studies and National Identities in the British Isles and Ireland

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) and the Scottish Centre for Victorian and Neo-Victorian Studies (SCVS) presents Four Nations and Beyond: Periodical Studies and National Identities in the British Isles and Ireland Trades Hall, Glasgow 20 May 2022 This one-day workshop will explore how Victorian periodical and newspaper cultures operated in the different nations of the British Isles and Ireland, and in their diaspora cultures that emerged through emigration and imperialism. We hope to interrogate how periodicals constructed Irish, Scottish and Welsh identities, in relation to or in opposition to a range of ‘English’ identities, as well as examining […]

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Announcing a New Annual VPR Prize!

RSVP is excited to announce a new annual prize! The Victorian Periodicals Review Expanding the Field Prize will be awarded annually for an outstanding essay that diversifies the existing geographic, racial, and ethnic composition of nineteenth-century periodical studies. We encourage submissions that deepen our understanding of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) founders, editors, contributors, and readers of periodicals; interrogate Anglocentric perspectives; enact anti-racist or anti-colonial values; and/or consider the cultural impact of the British Empire around the world. The awardee will receive $500 and publication of their article in Victorian Periodicals Review. Graduate students, independent scholars, and faculty […]

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Please Welcome Our Newest Board Members

And the votes are in! Please welcome our four newest board members: Priti Joshi Matt Poland Catherine Waters Teja Varma Pusapati We appreciate your willingness to help lead our organization during an exciting time in Victorian scholarship. And of course, thanks to all who voted! Meet Our Newest Board Members Priti Joshi is a Professor of English and Asian Studies at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, located on the unceded territories of the Puyallup people. She has spent the last dozen years in the archives of 19th-century Indian newspapers and is the author of Empire News: The […]

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Curran Index Seeks PT Paid Research Assistant

We are delighted to announce that The Curran Index is recruiting a part-time, paid research assistant to help the current editors, Dr. Emily Bell and Dr. Lara Atkin, to expand the attribution data that is currently incorporated into the Index. The Role A Research Assistant is required to undertake archival work examining the Chambers Journal ledgers at the National Library of Scotland. The ideal candidate will be based in easy travel distance of the NLS and will have a research background in Victorian periodical studies, either studying for a PhD or post-doctoral. The Work You will be expected to examine […]

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Household Words: How to Do Primary Source Research at Home

22nd April 2021, 6 pm UK / 12 pm CT With research libraries around the world closed to readers due to the pandemic, many researchers have struggled to access primary sources necessary to the study of Victorian periodicals. At the same time, it is a truth universally acknowledged that since the 1990s, readers around the world have gained unprecedented access to Victorian print thanks to the proliferation of digital archives and bibliographies. What resources and methods enable us to research Victorian periodical culture during the pandemic? RSVP will explore this question in an informal virtual roundtable with editors of open-access […]

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Congratulations to Our Curran Award Winners!

RSVP is pleased to announce the following winners of this year’s Curran Fellowships! Curran Fellowships are a set of travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying 19th-century British magazines and newspapers in making use of primary print and archival sources. This year’s projects cover a fascinating array of topics, including a wide variety of transnational and interdisciplinary studies. Our winners for 2021 include: Anne Anderson, Philistines versus Aesthetes: Punch’s Campaign Against Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetes Brittany Carlson, (Re)mediating Math Anxieties with The Narrative, the Ephemeral, and the Visual, 1830-1940 Eoin Carter, Richard Carlile and Radical Print Culture (1815-43) Eloise Forestier, The […]

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