Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants designed to facilitate original scholarship on primary print and archival sources. They are awarded annually and open to researchers from any discipline who explore the 19th-century British periodical press (including magazines, newspapers, and serial publications of all kinds) as an object of study in its own right, and not only as a source of material for other historical topics.
Previous Curran Fellowship recipients and their projects are listed below. Some projects include links to researchers’ reports about their projects undertaken with Curran Fellowship funds. These reports provide an example of the kinds of research Curran Fellowships make possible and represent some of the most exciting developments in the field.
2026
Tarini Bhamburkar, “Regionalising the Women’s Movement: Women-led Feminist Periodicals from Bombay, 1890-1905”
Sarah Bliss, “Scottish Periodicals and Detective Fiction”
Taryn Hakala, “Dialect Acts: Identity Performance on the Victorian Page and Stage”
Paul Hamann-Rose, “Printing the Spirit of Invention: Patents and Discoveries in Romantic-Era British Periodicals”
Caroline Jones, “Sensationalism in the Provinces: Tabloid culture and the construction of local identities in the late nineteenth-century British provincial press”
Kartika Puri, “Mannequin/Frame: Staging Fashion in Victorian Print”
Paul Smith, “‘Monstrosities and abortions’: Photographic Reproduction in the Anglo-American Press, 1897–1907”
Fauve Vandenberghe, “Moveable Types, Moveable Borders: The Newspaper Press and the Making of Empire in the Multilingual Caribbean, 1760s-1830s”
2025
Charlotte Boyce, Hunger, Memory and Masculinity in the Irish-American (1851-1890)
Mary Chapman, Medical Women and Medical Journals in Britain and India, 1890-1914
David Finkelstein, British Socialist Labour Press Responses to Foreign Migrant Labour, 1890-1910
Betty Hagglund, The New Age, 1894-1907: An Initial Survey
Martin Hewitt, Patterns of Authorship in Chamber’s Journal During the Editorship of James Payn, 1859-1872
Jonathan Foster, Bureaucratic Fiction and Literary Collectivities in British Civil Service Periodicals
Joshua Grey, The Right-Wing Press and British World, 1780-1830
Graham Law, Book Reviewers in the Mid-Victorian Times: Dallas, Lucas, at al.
Candace Ward, Printing the Cosmopolis: The Colonial Caribbean Press and the Circulation of Pan-Caribbean Identities
Aurélien Wasilewski, Meeting the Victorians Who Gardened: A Quantitative, Qualitative and Comparative Case Study of the Readership of Three Gardening Magazines, 1871-1918
2024
Chandrika Kaul, Imperialism, Nationalism and Cultures of Print: Mahatma Gandhi & the Periodical Press, 1880s-1914
Chieko Ichikawa, “Woman’s Corner” in The Co-operative News: Finding a Female Network to Care and Share
Clare Burnett, “Degradation and Ruin”: The Construction of Public Opinion About Cannabis in British and Australian Periodicals 1880-1901
James Mussell, Cast as Required: The Introduction of Hot-Metal Composition in the Late Nineteenth Century
Katherine Hobbs, Margaret Oliphant and the Woman Question in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
Kristine Moruzi, Literary Cultures in Children’s Periodicals
Preeshita Biswas, Circulating Inter-Imperial News: Mapping Imperial Affinities and Resistance in British Periodicals in Meiji Japan, 1860 to 1900
Sarah Ghasedi, Sophia Jex-Blake’s Anonymous Journalism and the Battle for Female Doctors in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Wanda Ieremia-Allan, O le Lamepa o le Pasefika–The Pacific Lantern
2023
Abigail Farrier, “A Pioneer Editress”: Frieda Cassin’s Complex Contributions to the 19th Century Caribbean Creole Literary World
Abigail Clayton, Marginal Voices, Miscellaneous Fragments: Black Journalism and the Transatlantic Editing of Abolition, 1850–1860
Marzena Kubisz, “In the service of the helpless”: (R)evolutions of Vegetarian Periodicals for Children, 1893-1914
Sarah Pedersen, British Newspaper Coverage of Nordic Women’s Suffrage Campaigners and Women Politicians, 1870-1914
Stephan Pigeon, Sub-Editorial Wages and Precarity in Journalism
Courteney Smith, “Most earnest in their endeavours to abate this evil”: Newspapers, the Contagious Diseases Acts, and the Creation of Moral Identities in Britain
Ellen Smith, Letters to the Editor: Uncovering “Ladies” in Imperial Newspapers in the 1857 Indian Rebellion and Beyond
Simon Young, Newspaper Notes and Queries: Local Print Communities in Victorian Britain and Ireland
2022
Catherine Birch, Female Punch Contributors, 1868-1918
Sue Chen, “Preparing the Child for Science”: Victorian Children’s Periodicals and Scientific Literacy
Beth Rodgers, L.T. Meade and the Professionalisation of Authorship at the Fin de Siècle
Stéphane Sadoux, The Cheap Cottages Crusade: Rural Bylaws and the Periodical Press, 1901-1905
Richard Scully, The Last Victorian: Sir Bernard Partridge, Pictures, Periodicals, and Politics in Britain, 1861-1945
Julie Sorge Way, Inviting Submission: Isabella Beeton’s Journalism and Editorial Work at the Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine, 1857-1865
Tsz Ting Yan, China, Humour, and the Opium Wars in Punch: An Intertextual Enquiry
2021
Anne Anderson, Philistines versus Aesthetes: Punch’s Campaign Against Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetes
Brittany Carlson, (Re)mediating Math Anxieties with The Narrative, the Ephemeral, and the Visual, 1830-1940
Eoin Carter, Richard Carlile and Radical Print Culture (1815-43)
Eloise Forestier, The Victoria Press: A Transnational Platform of Periodical Editorship
Alan Guenther, Christian-Muslim Relations in Victorian Periodicals
Vaibhav Singh, Before the Revolution: Technology, Mechanization, and the Periodical Press in Colonial India
Francesca Strobino, Investigating William Henry Fox Talbot’s Experiments in Photomechanical Printing
Jessica Terekhov, The Life Cycle of the Part-Issued Victorian Novel
2020
Diana Muriel Cooper-Richet, English-Language Periodicals Published in French Provincial Towns (1818-1912)
Lydia Craig, Female Philanthropic Knitting: Lady Harriet Scott’s “Grandmother” Patterns in The Queen
Laura Diaz-Esteve, The Southeast Asia British Press and the Philippine-American War (1898-1902)
Beth Gaskell, The History of Early Regimental Journals
Erica Haugtvedt, Transfictional Character and Transmedia Storyworlds in the British Long Nineteenth Century
Sofia Huggins, Blank Spaces: Global Geographies of Moral Capitalism in the Anti-Slavery Reporter, 1831-1833
Haejoo Kim, Anti-Vaccination Periodicals and the Rise of Lay Medical Agency in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Carole O’Reilly, Satirising the City: Civic Humour, Place and Accountability in the Later Nineteenth Century Satirical Press
Neil Ramsey, Romantic Era Military Periodicals and the Emotions of War
Maryam Sikander, Punch in India: The Transcultural Life of a British Institution
Matthew Wale, The Natural History Periodicals of Edward Newman (1801-1876)
2019
Sarah Ailwood, Literary Copyright and the Periodical Press Law in Colonial Australia
Lara Atkin, Migrating Forms: Transculturation and Transnational Imaginaries in Early Anglophone Newspaper Poetry (1820-1860)
Alison Hedley, Graphical Thinking: Data Visualization in Popular British Magazines, 1830-1910
Gary Hutchison, The Conservative Party and the Scottish Press, 1832-1880
Lindsay Janssen, Networks of Textual Reuse in South-African Periodical Culture, 1870-1902
Annemarie McAllister, Activist Writers: Conviction and Career
Joellen Masters, How to Travel with Sir Henry Lunn
Jennifer Phegley, Magazine Mavericks: Marital Collaborations and the Invention of New Reading Audiences in Mid-Victorian England
Isabelle Richet, English-Language Periodicals in Italy: Mapping the Terrain, Identifying the Authors
Fionnghuala Sweeney, Fugitive Ground: Black Abolitionists and Irish Periodical Press, 1840-1865
Christine Woody, Illness, Disability, and Periodical Production: Printing the Quarterly Review Under William Gifford (1809-1824)
2018
Elisa Beshero-Bondar on Mary Russell Mitford’s involvement with periodicals
John Handel, Money Power: The Making of the Financial System in Modern Britain and its Empire, 1815-1914
Claire Landes, “Let Us Reason Together”: The Promotion of (Women’s) Shared, Embodied
Knowledge in Eliza Sharples’s The Isis
Kathryn Ledbetter, Edmund Yates, Gossip, and Personal Journalism in Victorian Print Culture
Dallas Liddle, “New Machines”: Technology and Agency in British Daily Journalism, 1785-1885
Maire Ni Fhlathuin on poetry in the periodical press of 19th-c British India
Beth Palmer, Modes of Sensation: Press, Page and Stage in Victorian Culture
Candace Ward on the rise of a free Black pan-Caribbean press
2017
Susan Cahill, That is No Country for Young Girls?: The Irish Girl and Her Literary Cultures, c. 1880-1930
Deborah Canavan, Gender in the Production of and Representation Within the British Workwoman (1863 – 1913?)
Deborah Logan, Women’s Periodicals
James Mussell, William Frederick Poole: Archives and Indexes
Mark Neuendorf, Print Cultures of British Psychiatry, c.1850-1914
Teja Pusapati, Britannia’s Monthlies: The Rise of Slow-Paced Journals of Empire in the Age of Newspapers
Clare Stainthorp, The Secular Review and the freethought press, 1876-1907
Anna Gielas
Helena Goodwyn
Lauren Miskin
Johanna Seibert
2016
Jessie Reeder, Victorian Buenos Aires
Stephan Pigeon, Scissors-and-Paste Journalism in the Victorian Newspaper and Periodical Press
Molly Youngkin, Oral Testimony and Legitimate Records of Spiritualist Phenomena in William Stainton Moses’s Light
Anne-Marie Beller
Paul Raphael Rooney
Lauren Weiss
2015
Dennis Denisoff, The Evergreen Project: Visualizing the Community of Fin-de-siècle Celtic Politics
Brian Maidment, research on the comic artist, Robert Seymour
Rebecca Rainof, Van Gogh and the Victorians
Gary Simons, Report on the Curran Index
Elizabeth Tilley, Nineteenth Century Irish Periodicals: New Perspectives
2014
Troy Bassett, At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901
Kirstie Blair, Poetry, Press and Community in Scotland
Bradley Cesario, Official Navalism, Popular Navalism, and the Journalist as Middleman, 1885-1914
Emma Goldsmith
2011
2010
Clare Horrocks, Punch and the Victorian Periodical Press Collection
Michelle Tusan, How Victorians Invented the East: The Periodical Press and the Eastern Question