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Join Our Grad Students for a Research Workshop

Part of the RSVP Digital Salon Series 2021 We warmly invite everyone to join us on Friday, February 26 2021 at 1 p.m. (EST) / 6 p.m. (UK) for our next #RSVPDigitalSalon event, Doing Periodical Research Online: A Graduate-Directed Workshop on Process and Practice! This online workshop is led by graduate students, for graduate students, and welcomes all scholars of the periodical press. Discussions about our research often focus (understandably) on our methodologies. This workshop will turn to our processes and practices as researchers. Graduate students will give brief responses to a series of “How to” questions, followed by an open […]

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Optional Readings for Friday’s Digital Salon Event

We want to remind everyone of our upcoming RSVP Digital Salon event, “A Discussion on Decolonizing Periodical Studies,” this Friday, January 22 at 1 p.m. (EST) / 6 p.m. (GMT)! Registration for the event is free and open to all who wish to attend. You can register for the event here. Our three panelists — Dr. Caroline Bressey, Dr. Priti Joshi, and Dr. Candace Ward — will speak to one or more of the following questions: How do we approach the archive/new readings of the digital archive? What material are we not reading (that we should be) and where do […]

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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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