Spring 2026 got off to a fabulous start with Mandakini Dubey's talk on Esoteric Orientalisms (CUP, 2025), which examines Victorian esotericism and academic Orientalism as the nineteenth century’s most significant comparative frameworks for understanding global religions, languages, and cultures.

Large Servings of Slop: Writing and Research in the Age of AI Poet and author Meena Kandasamy has found she that is being regularly cited in academic research papers as well as online articles and blog posts with hallucinated quotes falsely attributed to her.

"Poet and author Meena Kandasamy has found she that is being regularly cited in academic research papers as well as online articles and blog posts with hallucinated quotes falsely attributed to her"
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Thank you, Mary!!

Graphic design of the two book covers of Colby Prize winners in ovals on a navy blue back with white wavy design. Text reads, "2025 Colby Book Prize Winners - Congratulations!"

As announced at the close of #RSVP2025, congratulations are in order to our two Colby Book Prize winners, Andrew Lewis and @tejapusapati.bsky.social! You can read what our committee has to say about these fantastic additions to the field of periodical studies here: rs4vp.org/awards/colby...

Thank you so much, Priti!!

Painting featuring three young Indian women, sitting facing left in different coloured saris

Three girls (1932)
by Amrita Sher-Gil #womensart

Thank you so much!

Turns out Punch illustrations have a lively afterlife in the antique shops in Jodhpur, Rajasthan! @catherinefaver.bsky.social, these special correspondent type artists seem to be hot favourites!

Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History | Stanford University Press Digital spaces are saturated with metaphor: we have pages, sites, mice, and windows. Yet, in the world of digital textuality, these metaphors no longer function as we might expect.

🏆 We'd like to officially congratulate @eve.gd, whose *Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History* (Stanford University Press, 2024) won our 2025 SHARP Book History Book Prize! www.sup.org/books/media-...

Thank you very much, Cathy! The book was fundamentally shaped by my conversations with you and by your scholarship! So looking forward to meeting you in Dublin :)

Oh, this is such a pleasant surprise! Thank you so much :)

Thank you, Priti!

Thank you, @mdamkjaer.bsky.social! And many, many congratulations on winning the 2025 BAVS Rosemary Mitchell Prize for your brilliant book :) Soo looking forward to celebrating with you at the next RSVP!

Thank you so much, Clare!

Thank you so much, Priti! You were so fantastic-managed to create a moment of real suspense before the announcement! It was such a joy to be able to join in. I am terrible at reading digital rooms, and I seem to have logged off prematurely! But will try and make up for this next year in Dublin :)

Delighted to share the 2025 Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize with Dr. Andrew Lewis's brilliant study of the British West Indian Press.
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Thrilled to share that my monograph 'Model Women of the Press: Gender, Politics and Women’s Professional Journalism, 1850–1880' is one of the two winners of the 2025 Robert and Vineta Colby Book Prize, awarded by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org