Upcoming Joint RSVP/ESPRit Online Event

Join Us for a Virtual Seminar on The Foreign Language Press RSVP and ESPRit are delighted to host a joint online event featuring colleagues from TransfoPress, the Transnational network for the study of Foreign Language Press from the 18th to the 20th century. The seminar will take place 8th December 2022 at 5 p.m. GMT / 6 p.m. CET via Zoom, and will last approximately 90 minutes. During the seminar, the below speakers will give 15-minute presentations, followed by Q&A and discussion. The seminar is free and all are welcome. Invited Speakers At this online event, we’re pleased to welcome the following colleagues from the Transfopress […]

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RSVP Seeks New Communications Coordinator

RSVP is now hiring a new Communications Coordinator! With many thanks and best wishes for our current coordinator, Alison Hedley, we find ourselves in search of someone to follow in her illustrious footsteps. The RSVP Communications Coordinator administers communications related to awards, events, member news, and elections. Supervised by the President, the Communications Coordinator consults with the Vice-President and Treasurer as needed and collaborates with the Webmaster and Social Media Coordinator. Help RSVP Thrive in This Paid Position The work of the Communications Coordinator is estimated at 5 hours per week and paid at the rate of $20 USD per […]

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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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