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Welcome to Our Revamped Website!
A Message from President Priti Joshi You’ll see our familiar logo and favorite graphics, but also a renewed site that creates a dynamic space tailored to you! We envision this refreshed space as a place for visitors to return to often to learn about nineteenth-century British and colonial periodicals; to obtain inspiration, ideas, and collaborators; and to share news and tidbits. Why A Redesign? We had several goals for this update: To create a dynamic site that visitors come to for its refreshed offerings and leave excited about researching and teaching nineteenth-century British and colonial periodicals; To create a site […]
Eliza Orme’s Leader-Writing: A Challenge to Periodical Studies
RSVP’s Digital Events is pleased to welcome Leslie Howsam who will speak on “Eliza Orme’s Leader-Writing: a Challenge to Periodical Studies” on October 11, 2024 at 8 a.m. PT / 11 a.m. ET / 4 p.m. BT / 5 p.m. CET.Leslie Howsam will build on the work of her new book, Eliza Orme’s Ambitions: Politics and the Law in Victorian London (Open Book, 2024) to discuss Britain’s first woman lawyer in the context of her signed and anonymous contributions to periodicals, especially leading articles in a “Radical” Liberal newspaper. Leslie will draw on the collective expertise of participants to consider […]
Revised RSVP Award Deadlines
Update Your Calendars!To accommodate the significant planning and substantial lead time often required by awardees of the Peterson Fellowship, RSVP has slightly adjusted the Peterson application period to occur earlier in the academic year. To balance the award schedule, the application period for the Curran fellowships has been pushed back slightly. The new deadlines for these awards are below:New Peterson Fellowship DeadlinesSeptember 15 – The application period opensNovember 15 – The application period closesNovember 22 – Recommendation letters are dueNew Curran Fellowship DeadlinesNovember 15 – The application period opensJanuary 15 – The application period closesJanuary 22 – Recommendation letters are […]
2024 VPR Prize Winners Announced!
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 VPR Prizes! Expanding the Field into Indian Children’s Periodicals This year’s Expanding the Field Prize goes to Nilkantha Pal (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research) for his essay “Imagining Childhood in Colonial Bengal: Children’s Periodicals, Readership, and Vernacular Publishing, ca. 1880-1920.” This work impressed the judges “with its erudition, its broad scope of reference, and its nuanced application of Robert Darnton’s circulation model of print culture to a colonial context.” The Expanding the Field Prize is awarded annually for an outstanding essay that diversifies the existing geographic, racial, and […]
Join Us in September for a Few Book Launches
RSVP’s Digital Events committee is delighted to celebrate new books by two long-standing members, staunch supporters, and Board members: Teja Varma Pusapati’s Model Women of the Press: Gender, Politics and Women’s Professional Journalism, 1850–1880 (Routledge 2024) and Mary Shannon’s Billy Waters is Dancing: Or, How a Black Sailor Found Fame in Regency Britain (Yale 2024). Exciting New Directions in Periodicals’ Scholarship Teja Pusapati’s book elucidates the mid-century rise of ‘model women of the press’: atypical but exemplary women journalists who stormed the male bastions of social and political journalism. It draws on extensive archival research to offer fresh insights into the working lives of celebrity writers like Harriet […]