General interest posts
Join Us for a Virtual Seminar on The Foreign Language Press RSVP and ESPRit are delighted to host a joint online event featuring colleagues from TransfoPress, the Transnational network for the study of Foreign Language Press from the 18th to the 20th century. The seminar will take place 8th December 2022 at 5 p.m. GMT […]
RSVP is now hiring a new Communications Coordinator! With many thanks and best wishes for our current coordinator, Alison Hedley, we find ourselves in search of someone to follow in her illustrious footsteps. The RSVP Communications Coordinator administers communications related to awards, events, member news, and elections. Supervised by the […]
Having been officially announced at our annual conference, congratulations to our 2022 winners of our Victorian Periodicals Review awards, the Rosemary VanArsdel Prize and our first-ever Expanding the Field Prize! VanArsdel Prize Winner The winner of this year’s VanArsdel Prize is Alycia Gilbert (University of Washington) for her essay “‘Her Speech Betrayeth Her’: […]
The results are in! Our 2022 Mitchell Dissertation Prize Winner is Maryam Sikander for her “Oudh Punch (1877-1915): Satire and Parody in the Colonial Contact Zone.” Dr. Sikander’s dissertation examines the transcultural life of Punch in India through the framework of the colonial “contact zone.” Per our Mitchell Prize committee, this ambitious project […]
The results are in for our Colby, Peterson and Field Development awards and grants! Robert and Vineta Colby Book Prize The winner of this year’s Robert and Vineta Colby Book Prize is Priti Joshi’s Empire News: The Anglo-Indian Press Writes India (SUNY Press, 2021). The prize committee praised Empire News […]
In case you missed it in our last (March) newsletter, we’re pleased to announce this year’s Eileen M. Curran Fellowship winners! These travel and research grants are intended to aid scholars of 19th-century British periodicals who wish to study primary print and archival sources. These fellowships are made possible by […]
