CFP: Special Issue of Victorian Periodicals Review Essays in Honor of Sally Mitchell Proposals due March 1, 2018 Completed Essays due September 1, 2018 Sally Mitchell (1937-2016) was a pioneering feminist scholar and teacher in the field of Victorian … Continue reading
Registration is now open for ‘Women in Punch 1841 – 1920’, 02 Nov 2017, Senate House, London. Punch: or the London Charivari first appeared in 1841, published as a weekly magazine with a strong political agenda. Although some work has … Continue reading
Congratulations to RSVP member Dr. Paul Fyfe winner of this year’s Donald Gray Prize for the best essay published in the field of Victorian studies. Dr. Fyfe’s article ‘An Archaeology of Victorian Newspapers‘ was published in the Winter 2016 edition of Victorian … Continue reading
Jennifer Wood recently finished her Masters degree and is hoping to begin a PhD in 2018 to continue her work. She is researching the history of divorce in Victorian literature and its role in pushing the boundaries of decency … Continue reading
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
