RSVP is pleased to announce Mary Shannon as the 2021-2022 recipient of the Peterson Fellowship for her project on “Billy Waters, Periodicals, and Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture.” Committee members lauded her work on Billy Waters, a Black entertainer who received coverage in the transatlantic periodical press, as “a fascinating and timely project.” They also noted its potential to contribute to current critical conversations about “undisciplining” Victorian studies, about “vernacular culture” in its complexity, and about disability in the Victorian period.
Congratulations to Mary and thanks to all who submitted applications for this year’s award!