The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) is hiring a Digital Content Manager (DCM).
RSVP is a scholarly organization dedicated to promoting and supporting research in the periodical culture of Britain and its colonies in the long nineteenth century. We support an annual conference, an academic journal (Victorian Periodicals Review), and provide scholarly support to researchers (approximately $100,000 per year).
A Message from President Priti Joshi You’ll see our familiar logo and favorite graphics, but also a renewed site that creates a dynamic space tailored to you! We envision this refreshed space as a place for visitors to return to often to learn about nineteenth-century British and colonial periodicals; to […]
RSVP’s Digital Events is pleased to welcome Leslie Howsam who will speak on “Eliza Orme’s Leader-Writing: a Challenge to Periodical Studies” on October 11, 2024 at 8 a.m. PT / 11 a.m. ET / 4 p.m. BT / 5 p.m. CET.Leslie Howsam will build on the work of her new […]
Update Your Calendars!To accommodate the significant planning and substantial lead time often required by awardees of the Peterson Fellowship, RSVP has slightly adjusted the Peterson application period to occur earlier in the academic year. To balance the award schedule, the application period for the Curran fellowships has been pushed back […]
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 VPR Prizes! Expanding the Field into Indian Children’s Periodicals This year’s Expanding the Field Prize goes to Nilkantha Pal (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research) for his essay “Imagining Childhood in Colonial Bengal: Children’s Periodicals, Readership, and Vernacular Publishing, […]
RSVP’s Digital Events committee is delighted to celebrate new books by two long-standing members, staunch supporters, and Board members: Teja Varma Pusapati’s Model Women of the Press: Gender, Politics and Women’s Professional Journalism, 1850–1880 (Routledge 2024) and Mary Shannon’s Billy Waters is Dancing: Or, How a Black Sailor Found Fame in Regency Britain (Yale 2024). Exciting New Directions […]
