I’m glad to report that “The Commercial History of a Penny Magazine” (1833), ed. Laurie Dickinson and Sarah Wadsworth (1995), is now available again, at the Internet Archive: • http://wayback.archive-it.org/4530/20150917234658/http://english.umn.edu/PM/PennyMag.html
Application for 2016 Curran Fellowships now open
Applications for the Curran Fellowships for research to be undertaken in 2016 must be submitted in electronic form to curranfellowship@rs4vp.org no later than November 1, 2015. Applicants should send a current c.v., the names and contact information of two scholars who are familiar with the applicant and his or her research goals, and a description of the project to which these funds will be applied. Any questions about these awards can be sent to curranfellowship@rs4vp.org
See our Awards Pages for further details on eligibility and how to apply
Midwest Victorian Studies Association CFP Victorian News: Print Culture and the Periodical Press
CFP: Victorian News: Print Culture & The Periodical Press
Midwest Victorian Studies Association 2016 #MVSA 2016
April 8-10, University of Missouri, Columbia
Taking as its starting point the remarkable explosion in the periodical press and the availability of cheap print in the Victorian Era, the conference aims to attract papers that reflect fresh and current thinking about the topic. Proposals for papers of twenty minutes in length are sought from scholars working in art history, musicology, history, science, philosophy, theater, and literature. We particularly encourage presentations that will contribute to cross-disciplinary discussion, a special feature of MVSA conferences.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to: new perspectives on Victorian print culture; innovations in the periodical press; print technologies and “cheap print”; periodicals and the arts: fiction, poetry, art, music, and theater; the specialist press; publications for children, women, hobbyists, and the professions; science and the press; the serialization of novels; poems in periodicals; technologies of illustration; interplay of text and image; the press and popular culture; crime, sensationalism, and the press; viral news and literature; the press in the Colonies; politics and the press; gender and print culture; criticism and reviews; journalism as a profession; the economics of periodical publishing; newspaper and magazine advertising; the role of the press in the construction of taste; “neglected” publications; and newspapers as historical sources.
MVSA’s 2016 Jane Stedman Plenary Speaker will be Leanne Langley, Associate Fellow at the University of London’s Institute of Musical Research, social and cultural historian of music, and leading authority on music journalism in nineteenth-century Britain.
MVSA is an interdisciplinary organization welcoming scholars from all disciplines who share an interest in nineteenth-century British history, literature, and culture.
For individual papers or panels, send a 300-word abstract and 1-page vita (as MWord documents) by October 31, 2015, to conferencesubmissions@midwestvictorian.org.Even if you do not submit a paper or seminar proposal, we hope you will plan to attend the conference.
For more information and a full CFP, please visit www.midwestvictorian.org
MVSA Seminars:
For the third year, MVSA’s conference will feature three seminars open to faculty, graduate students, and independent scholars led by senior scholars on topics related to the conference theme. Seminar participants pre-circulate 5-to-7 page papers; during the seminars, the seminar leader and participants will identify important points of intersection and divergence among the papers and identify future areas of inquiry and collaboration. The seminar format allows a larger number of scholars to participate in MVSA and to seek financial support from their respective institutions to attend the conference and discuss a shared area of scholarly interest. Seminars are limited to 12 participants.
All seminar proposals are due October 15, 2015 and are submitted directly to the seminar leader. Seminar proposals that are not accepted may be submitted to the general pool of MVSA conference submissions, due October 31.
Detailed Seminar CFPs are available at the conference website: http://www.midwestvictorian.org/p/conference.html
MVSA 2016 Seminar Topics:
Print Culture and the Mass Public: Dissemination and Democratization
Seminar Leader: Julie Codell, School of Art, Arizona State University
Finding/Creating a Voice in the Periodical Press
Seminar Leader: Leanne Langley, IMR Lifetime Fellow, University of London
The Transatlantic Periodical Press
Seminar Leader: Jennifer Phegley, Department of English, University of Missouri – Kansas City
PhD Studentships – Professions and the Press
If any colleagues have outstanding students about to complete their MA or BA and who might be interested in doing a PhD on any aspect of professions and the press (except medical) in the long nineteenth century, they should consider applying to the University of Greenwich, UK
http://www2.gre.ac.uk/research/study/studentships.
Prospective candidates are also welcome to contact the Director of Studies informally:
Professor Andrew King: a.king@gre.ac.uk.
2015 Ghent Conference Follow-up
Following an extremely successful conference in Ghent this summer a Storify link of Tweets from the event has now been set up. With thanks to Shannon Smith for encouraging colleagues to Tweet throughout the event and Helena Goodwyn for bringing the collection together, herewith is the address where the full story can now be found:
https://storify.com/RS4VP/life-and-death-in-the-19th-century-press
VPR Summer 2015 Digital Pedagogies Issue – Accompanying Resources
“Digital Pedagogies: Building Learning Communities for Studying Victorian Periodicals”
Since Patrick Leary’s seminal essay “Googling the Victorians”, first published in 2005, significant advancements have been made in the field of periodical research, largely as a result of the rise in digital projects. In almost ten years of scholarship, researchers have been examining and developing new digital methods for analysing and extrapolating data. Scholars have been considering not only the construction of digital resources but how they can be used in many different ways; to enhance research, to identify neglected texts, to inspire and engage students. This special number of VPR gives us the opportunity to bring together these ideas and debates, to reflect on how the field of periodicals research has changed as a result of the digital revolution and to consider where it may be in the next ten years.
Resources:
Jennifer PHEGLEY Victorian Family Magazines Class
Kylee Ann Hingston & Caley Ehnes