The 2014 Research Society for Victorian Periodicals conference will be held at the University of Delaware’s Wilmington campus on September 12 and 13. The conference theme is “Places, Spaces and the Victorian Periodical Press.” In addition to a wide range of panels, the program will include the Michael Wolff […]
Call For Papers Readers, Purveyors, Creators, and Users: Studying Victorian Print Consumption in 2014 16-17 June 2014, Moore Institute for Research in the Humanities and Social Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway Deadline for Proposals: 16 April 2014. Plenary speakers: Dr Stephen Colclough, Bangor University and Dr Niall Ó Ciosáin, […]
The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals is pleased to announce the winners of the Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize in 2013, awarded to the scholarly books that most advance the understanding of the nineteenth-century British newspaper or periodical press. The joint winners are: David Latane, William Maginn and the […]
RSVP has the pleasure of announcing: the winners of the 2013 Curran Fellowship here. The winner of the Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship here. The shortlist for the 2013 Robert & Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize here.
The VanArsdel Prize is awarded annually to the best graduate student essay investigating Victorian periodicals and newspapers. The prize was established in 1990 to honor Rosemary VanArsdel (at left), a founding member of RSVP whose groundbreaking research continues to shape the field of nineteenth-century periodical studies. The deadline for next […]
A new edition of the Curran Index by Gary Simons and the late Eileen Curran has been published. See our Curran Index page under the Research menu item for details. For subsequent editions, scholars are encouraged to contribute their own discoveries about the authorship of stories, poems, and articles in […]
