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Mitchell Prize Submission Guidelines – RSVP Eligible applicants for the Sally Mitchell Dissertation Prize will have successfully defended their dissertation within the previous calendar year (i.e., the 2025 prize winner defended in 2024). Proje...

🔔 Attention ECRs! Just a reminder that March 1 (next Sunday) is the last day to get your applications in for our annual Mitchell Dissertation Prize! Winners receive $1,000 USD + a 2-yr. membership to RSVP. We look forward to reading your work! rs4vp.org/awards/mitch...

Time for more questions and comments for our panel at Beyond Guilty Pleasure @lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social @jennifletcher.bsky.social

Beyond Guilty Pleasure @lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social celebrating the romance genre as editors, writers, academics and students!

It may be raining in Lincoln but the dragons in the Castle are keeping the fire 🔥 going

Happy Sunday! And Virginia Woolf’s birthday. I love to celebrate the occasion with a few of her essays or entries from her diaries.

The 31 JANUARY 2026 deadline for submitting proposals for the Tennyson 2026: Ecology, Landscape, Environment conference (14-17 July 2026) is fast approaching. To read the details have a look at the details here: tennysonsociety.com/tennyson-202...

A bicerin at Bar Giorgio 🤩, National Gallery! Thank you Locatelli for a special touch to this Epiphany Tuesday!

An important essay for all of us interested in the Victorian archaeology of generations and generational thinking.

Get ready for BAVS 2026!

Research Grant
The John Galt Society welcomes applications for a grant (of up to ₤1000) to defray expenses incurred in connection with research into the works, life or influence of John Galt.

For more details, visit: thejohngaltsociety.com/research-gra...

We are pleased to announce that the 2025 winner of the Hamilton Prize is Katharine Williams (CUNY Graduate Center) for the essay "Missing Members in Charlotte Yonge's The Clever Woman of the Family." Congratulations! The essay will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal.

I'm really looking forward to this, do come along!

Area of investment and support Area of investment and support: Local Innovation Partnerships Fund The Local Innovation Partnerships Fund (LIPF) is a new £500 million UKRI-led programme. It empowers innovation leadership through local ‘triple helix’ partnerships between civic institutions, business and universities, delivering impact, at scale. Budget: Up to £500 million through two funding strands. Duration: 2026 to 2031 Partners involved: UK Research and Innovation (UKRI)

🚨Applications for the Local Innovation Partnerships Fund are now open!

This £500 million investment will support partnerships of civic authorities, businesses, and researchers to develop and scale up local innovation, to grow local economies, jobs, and skills.

Apply: www.ukri.org/what-we-do/b...

Sign up to attend the VPFA's Third Sex Reading group's October session on Natasha Pulley's The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, a neo-Victorian novel To sign up this month, please email
vpfareadinggroup@gmail.com with 'FAO: Third Sex No. 43' and ask to be added to the attendees list.

@Lemn Sissay’s event at the Lincoln Book Festival 2025 with colleagues and students of @lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social celebrating National Poetry Day.

Thanks to Lemn Sissay for leading us into hopeful, bright poems which pour the light in!!!

Tonight we are celebrating National Poetry Day at the Lincoln Book Festival 2025!

This lunch time we are launching the Lincoln Book Festival 2025

This week the Tennyson Society celebrates the anniversary of Alfred, Lord Tennyson by launching the CoP for Tennyson 2026 Ecology, Landscape, Environment. Go to tennysonsociety.com/tennyson-202...

A great meal with great conference pals! @vpfa.bsky.social #VPFAextremes

It was an honour and a pleasure to give this paper today at the wonder #VPFAextremes conference! Many thanks to the lovely audience 💜

Enjoying an artistic, magnificent break at Birmingham cathedral thanks to Burne-Jones and Morris.

We now have Casey Reeves discussing Renee Vivien and Natalie Burney’s poetry and their use of Sappho to signal to the queer community #VPFAExtremes

So glad to have made in time to enjoy a panel in both afternoon sessions #VPFAExtremes: Intertextuality and Adaption first and Sappho and Swinburne at present.

We are #VPFAExtremes

Travelling to my #VPFAExtremes destination offers me a chance to reflect on the academic year 2024-25 and congratulate the graduating students! I look forward to celebrating their achievements and the English team’s outstanding NSS2025 🤩 results at Graduation!

Finally on my way to #VPFAExtremes after the final exam board. Looking forward to the amazing programme!

❗️You now only have 5️⃣ DAYS left to register for the hybrid 17th VPFA Annual Conference "Heights, Depths, and Extremes" (14th-16th July at Birmingham University)❗️
Register here: victorianpopularfiction.org/vpfa-annual-...

We are so looking forward to the VPFA’s Annual Conference 2025!

American issue of Pearson's magazine, spotlighting H. G. Well's story 'Aepyornis Island'. An illustration of a man swimming unconvincingly away from a giant struthious bird.

Next month, I'll be delivering a plenary session called 'Before De-Extinction: Encountering Prehistoric Animals in Victorian Popular Fiction' at the annual conference of @vpfa.bsky.social. VPFA this year is being held at that classic site on the Victorian lecture circuit, the @bmi1854.bsky.social.