CFP: Special issue of Victorian Periodicals Review: The Strand Magazine Described by Reginald Pound as a ‘national institution’, the Strand Magazine (1891–1950) was the foremost British New Journalistic fiction paper of the 1890s. This heavily illustrated monthly promised its readers … Continue reading
Registration is now open for ‘Editing the 20th Century’ As part of the British Academy funded project, ‘Editing the Twentieth Century’, a one-day conference will take place at the British Library on 5 September 2017 exploring the key role played … Continue reading
Call for papers: Magazines on the Move: North American Periodicals and Travel A one-day seminar hosted by the Centre for Travel Writing Studies, Nottingham Trent University, in collaboration with the Network for American Periodical Studies. Friday 22nd September 2017, Nottingham … Continue reading
Quintus van Galen is a PhD candidate at Edge Hill University, working on the application of computerised textual analysis to historical questions in periodical studies. His thesis will focus on the methodological viability of such analyses within historiography, by … Continue reading
Katie Bell is a PhD student at the University of Leicester. Her thesis is titled “The Diaspora of Dickens: Death, Decay and Regeneration”, the focus of which is the intertextuality of Dickens’s works and 20th century American texts of the … Continue reading
Members of the RSVP community may be interested in the following CFP: ‘Editing the Twentieth Century’, The British Library. 5 September 2017 Call for Papers: What do editors actually do? What makes a good editor? And more importantly, what makes a successful … Continue reading
The call for papers for our next conference Borders and Border Crossings is still open and the website can be found here. The conference will take place at Freiburg University, Germany, 27th – 29th July 2017. RSVP is an interdisciplinary and international organization … Continue reading
Sam Saunders is a current PhD candidate at Liverpool John Moores University, where he is researching the role of the periodical press on the construction and evolution of Victorian detective fiction. His research explores non-fiction periodical discussions on the … Continue reading
The Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship in Nineteenth-Century Media The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) is pleased to announce that the eighth annual Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship is now open for applications. Made possible by the generosity of publisher Gale, part … Continue reading
The website for the upcoming annual RSVP conference ‘Borders and Border Crossings’ hosted at Freiburg University, Germany 27th – 29th July 2017 is now live. Here you will find the CFP, information on travelling to the conference and advice on accommodation. The … Continue reading
