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Learn More About Zotero with RSVP

April 5, 2021

12 April 2021 at 1pm EST / 6pm UK
(12pm CST, 7pm Central Europe)

Do you keep hearing about the importance of using a reference management software? Are you concerned you’re not using yours to its full potential? This workshop will give an overview of the basics of Zotero. You will learn how to use this tool to keep track of citations and store primary or secondary research materials.

Join us on Monday, 12 April 2021 at 1pm EST / 6 pm UK for a walk through on setting up Zotero and how to use its many capabilities. Registration is free and open to all.

This event was inspired by our February RSVP Digital Salon brainstorming session, where members expressed much interest in reference management software.

A Hands-On Workshop

This will be a hands-on workshop, so please make sure you download and install the Zotero desktop app as well as the Zotero Connector plugin for the internet browser you use for research. Zotero is an open-source reference management software and free to use. If your library gets larger than 300 MB, you can choose to pay for back-ups. 

To use Zotero to its full potential, including back-ups and syncing on multiple devices, make sure to register for a free account too.

About Our Presenter

Marie Léger-St-Jean is an independent scholar and digital humanist based in Montréal. She researches early Victorian fiction published in penny weekly numbers and its role as a nexus in a Western transmedia popular culture. She has been using Zotero religiously for over a decade.

Filed Under: RSVP News

Household Words: How to Do Primary Source Research at Home

March 30, 2021

22nd April 2021, 6 pm UK / 12 pm CT

Illustration for Charles Dickens’ Bleak House by Phiz (Hablot K. Browne).

With research libraries around the world closed to readers due to the pandemic, many researchers have struggled to access primary sources necessary to the study of Victorian periodicals. At the same time, it is a truth universally acknowledged that since the 1990s, readers around the world have gained unprecedented access to Victorian print thanks to the proliferation of digital archives and bibliographies. What resources and methods enable us to research Victorian periodical culture during the pandemic?

RSVP will explore this question in an informal virtual roundtable with editors of open-access digital resources of great importance to the study of Victorian periodicals: Emily Bell (Curran Index; Charles Dickens Letters Project) and Stephen Basdeo and Jessica Thomas (George W.M. Reynolds Archive).

Dr. Stephen Basdeo researches 18th and 19thc popular literature and has recently focused on G.W.M. Reynolds and Pierce Egan Jnr. He is currently editing Reynolds’s newspaper writings for an open access website co-edited by Jessica Elizabeth Thomas.

Dr. Emily Bell is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Leeds. Her research interests lie in Victorian and Edwardian authorship, periodical culture, Dickens studies, and digital humanities. She is an editor for the Charles Dickens Letters Project, and co-editor of the Curran Index to Victorian periodicals. 

Jessica Elizabeth Thomas recently completed her MA in Nineteenth Century Literature and Culture at Chester University. Her BA in English was earned at Aberystwyth University. Currently, she is collaborating with Stephen Basdeo to edit Reynolds’s journalism. She has also catalogued Gladstone’s books and pamphlets at St. Deiniol’s library in Hawarden, for an AHRC-funded research project. 

Register Now

Register here for this free online event. Participation does not require RSVP membership and all are welcome to attend. If you have any questions about this event, please don’t hesitate to contact us and direct your enquiry to the Vice President.

Filed Under: Members News, RSVP Digital Events, RSVP News

CFP: Multilingualism and Periodical Studies

March 8, 2021

Proposal for a Special Session at MLA 2022

In keeping with the MLA 2022 presidential theme of multilingualism, the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) invites proposals for a special session on multilingualism in nineteenth-century periodicals and periodicals studies. How does periodicals studies confront monolingual biases or move beyond them? What research examples, collaborations, institutional conditions, or teaching practices facilitate or hinder multilingual periodicals scholarship and, by turn, the widening of nineteenth-century studies?

Submit 250-word abstracts to paul.fyfe@ncsu.edu by March 24, 2021. Applicants do not need to be RSVP members to submit — and feel encouraged to circulate this call to scholars and teachers in other fields.

Accepted panelists must be (or become) members of MLA and be able to attend the MLA convention in Washington, DC in January 2022.

Filed Under: Conference News

Join Our Conversation on Teaching 19 March

March 4, 2021

Join us on 19 March 2021 at 5 pm UK / 1 pm EST for the next installment of our #RSVPDigitalSalon 2021 series, “Teaching With Nineteenth-Century Periodicals Online”! We’ll learn more about how to teach periodicals effectively online during a time when many have had to adapt their syllabi to distance learning. Our panelists and topics include:

Melissa H. Range, Using Digital Newspapers in Teaching Nineteenth Century African American Writers

Melissa Range is the author of two collections of poetry: Scriptorium, a winner of the 2015 National Poetry Series (Beacon Press, 2016), and Horse and Rider (Texas Tech University Press, 2010). Her third collection, in progress, is an archivally driven collection that examines the abolitionist movement in the nineteenth century United States. Range is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Originally from East Tennessee, she teaches creative writing and American literature at Lawrence University in Wisconsin.

Jennifer Phegley, Introducing Periodicals to Undergraduates: Serial Reading Blogs and Wiki Magazine Projects

Jennifer Phegley chairs the English Department at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She is the author of Educating the Proper Woman Reader: Victorian Family Literary Magazines and the Cultural Health of the Nation and Courtship and Marriage in Victorian England as well as several edited collections and numerous articles on authorship, publishing, periodicals, and pedagogy. Her current project, Magazine Mavericks: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, John Maxwell, and the Emergence of New Readings Audiences in Mid-Victorian England, has been supported by a Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowship, a Curran Fellowship, and an NEH Summer Stipend. She started teaching online courses in 2010 and never looked back!

Lindsy Lawrence, Indexing Poetry in the Digital Classroom

Dr. Lindsy Lawrence is Professor of English at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith. She has published work on Elizabeth Gaskell, serial poetry publication, and Neo-Victorian themes in contemporary television series such as Downton Abbey. Her recent publications include an article on women poets in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine in Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s-1900s: The Victorian Period (2019). She also published a recent article on the Victorian Christmas serial tradition in contemporary television and Doctor Who for the Journal of Neo-Victorian Studies. She teaches a variety of courses in composition, cultural studies, and eighteenth and nineteenth-century British literature with a focus on publication history, gender roles, and digital humanities. She is Co-Director of the Periodical Poetry Index.

James Mussell, “Mechanical exigencies” and the enabling difference: looking again at the look of the page

James Mussell is Associate Professor in Victorian Literature at the University of Leeds.  He is the author of Science, Time and Space in the Late Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press (2007) and The Nineteenth-Century Press in the Digital Age (2012).  He is one of the editors of the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018); and books on W.T. Stead (2012) and Oliver Lodge (2020).  He is currently working on a monograph, Whispers of Print, and an edited collection on letterpress printing.

Register Now

Register for this free online event here. Participation does not require RSVP membership and all are welcome to attend. If you have any questions about this event, please don’t hesitate to contact us and direct your inquiry to the Vice President.

Filed Under: Members News, RSVP News

Congratulations to Our Curran Award Winners!

February 19, 2021

RSVP is pleased to announce the following winners of this year’s Curran Fellowships! Curran Fellowships are a set of travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying 19th-century British magazines and newspapers in making use of primary print and archival sources.

This year’s projects cover a fascinating array of topics, including a wide variety of transnational and interdisciplinary studies. Our winners for 2021 include:

  • 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

You can read more about the projects here.

Want to Apply for Next Year?

Inspired by and made possible through the generosity of the late Eileen Curran (Professor Emerita of English, Colby College), Curran Fellowships are awarded annually. Applications open in mid-November for the following year. While our funding cycle for this year is now closed, there’s always time to get started on next year’s applications! Learn more about the Curran Fellowship‘s history, application guidelines, and past winners on our website.

Filed Under: Awards News, Members News, RSVP News

Join Our Grad Students for a Research Workshop

February 12, 2021

Part of the RSVP Digital Salon Series 2021

We warmly invite everyone to join us on Friday, February 26 2021 at 1 p.m. (EST) / 6 p.m. (UK) for our next #RSVPDigitalSalon event, Doing Periodical Research Online: A Graduate-Directed Workshop on Process and Practice! This online workshop is led by graduate students, for graduate students, and welcomes all scholars of the periodical press.

Discussions about our research often focus (understandably) on our methodologies. This workshop will turn to our processes and practices as researchers.

Graduate students will give brief responses to a series of “How to” questions, followed by an open discussion where audience contributions will be encouraged. We hope to share our practices, provide each other with practical insights, and generate a shareable list of tips, tricks, and resources as we continue to conduct much of our work online.

We’ll answer questions like “How do you:

  • Discover primary research materials?
  • Identify secondary materials?
  • Organize your sources and notes?
  • Write? (ideas, drafts, revision…)
  • Use particular tools or practices?
  • Fit your research into ongoing discussions?
  • Pivot when obstacles come up?

Register here for this free online event. Participation does not require RSVP membership; all are welcome.

Though this event is organized by graduate students in support of graduate students, supervisors and anyone interested in periodical research are also encouraged to attend!

For any queries about this event, please contact us and direct your enquiry to our Vice President.

 

 

Filed Under: Graduate News, Members News, RSVP News

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