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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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CFP: RSVP Special Session for MLA 2023

The Research Society of Victorian Periodicals seeks proposals for a Special Session at the January 5-8, 2023 MLA convention in San Francisco, in keeping with the presidential theme of “Working Conditions” (News from the MLA 2023 Presidential Theme: Working Conditions). We welcome abstracts of 250-400 words on all aspects of work and working conditions within and represented by the nineteenth-century press. We particularly welcome proposals oriented toward social justice issues that cross geographic (including oceanic) borders and that offer intersectional approaches to race, class, and gender. Topics might include: Hierarchies of working conditions in periodical production and distribution Outsourcing of […]

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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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December Workshop: Framing the Syrian Monument of Xi’an in The Chinese Repository (1832-1851)

The RSVP Race and Transimperialism Workshop Series presents: Framing the Syrian Monument of Xi’an in The Chinese Repository (1832-1851): American Beatitudes of Commercial Christendom, from the Foundation to Destruction of the Canton Mission Press Dr. Kendall A. Johnson (University of Hong Kong) Thursday, 16 December 2021, 4 p.m. GMT / 10 a.m. CST This fourth workshop in our series will focus on the materiality of periodical production in the anglophone missionary press in Canton (Guangzhou). The first American missionaries to China were keen to use metallic fonts in printing the Chinese language. To appreciate why metallic fonts mattered, this talk […]

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