Congratulations to Ian Haywood, Professor of English at the University of Roehampton, UK, who has been awarded the second Linda H. Peterson Fellowship for his project: “The Rise of Victorian Caricature: Satirical Periodicals 1830-1850”. Further details of Professor Haywood’s project can … Continue reading
The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize is The Routledge Handbook to Nineteenth-Century British Periodicals and Newspapers co-edited by Andrew King, Alexis Easley and John Morton. … 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
A memorial gathering to celebrate the life and work of Michael Jonas Wolff will be held on Sunday, February 19, 2017 at 9:30AM at the Jewish Community of Amherst. There will then be a gathering back at the Marriott Courtyard … 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
In 2017 the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals will award one Linda H. Peterson Fellowship to provide a researcher with the most valuable scholarly resource—time. The Peterson Fellowship is intended to support, first and foremost, primary research on the nineteenth-century newspaper … Continue reading
Call for Papers: ‘Visual Design: the Periodical Page as a Designed Surface’ International Conference of the DFG research unit “Journalliteratur“ (FOR 2288), 23-25 November 2017, Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany) The conference “Visual design: the periodical page as a designed surface” is concerned … Continue reading
In 2017 the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals will award one RSVP Field Development Grant to a single researcher or a team of researchers pursuing a project that would facilitate research by other scholars. Two smaller awards may be given … 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
The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals is seeking nominations and suggestions of books published in 2016 which are eligible for consideration for the Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize. Please see the Colby Prize page of our website for … Continue reading
