The Curran Index to Nineteenth-Century Periodicals
The Curran Index to Nineteenth-Century Periodicals
Well the news is out! I'll be the next Editor of the Curran Index. Thrilled to have the opportunity to take the Curran forwards for the next five years. Looking forward to building on the work of Emily Middleton and Lars Atkin and making the Curran even more central to Victorian scholarhip.
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ποΈOne month to go until our 8th issue drops and RRRβs annual conference in Stirling!
There are still a few tickets available β something to look forward to after the Christmas break.
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2026 RSVP Conference Paper Submission Form - The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP)
Application portal
πΆ "Tomorrow, tomorrow / I'll send my #RSVP2026 proposal in!" That's right, proposals to our upcoming conference, "Movements & Migrations," are due tomorrow at 11:59 p.m. PST. The conference will be held in Dublin 23-25 July 2026. All proposals should be sent via our online portal.
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Black-and-white printed image of crowd of people overlaid with CFP announcement that says "Movements and Migrations Trinity College, Dublin, 23-25 July 2026 New proposal deadline 21 November 2025"
π£BREAKING NEWS! We've extended our CFP deadline for #RSVP2026 "Movements and Migrations"! Proposals now due 21 November 2025. Full CFP and more details about all things conference on our website: rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...
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This yearβs day of the dead alter
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RSVP Annual Conference β RSVP
The nineteenth century was marked by unprecedented migration, as people moved to urban centers; were forcibly or semi-forcibly relocated; and emigrated to escape war, famine, economic instability, orβ¦
Just two weeks left to get your applications in for #MovementsMigrations aka #RSVP2026 in Dublin! We're looking forward to your hot takes on the ways in which the press shaped and was shaped by the movements and migrations throughout the long #19thC. See the full CFP on our website:
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Congratulations!!!!
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The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship β RSVP
The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship was named after the widely influential Yale professor and longtime RSVP Board member and Vice President, Linda Peterson. The purpose of the Peterson Fellowship is toβ¦
Peterson Fellowships open today! Named for Yale professor and our dear friend, Linda H. Peterson, the Peterson Fellowship is designed to support one scholar for four full-time months conducting research focused on the British periodical press of long #19thC. Applications due Nov. 15!
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RSVP Conference 2026 β RSVP
Dates July 23-25, 2026
conference.rs4vp.org
RSVP @rs4vp.org conference in Dublin at Trinity @tlrhub.bsky.social in 2026. So exciting!
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Looking forward to #ESPRit2026 being closer by in Brussels on 9-11 September at the beautiful Koninklijke Bibliotheek van BelgiΓ« (KBR).
The CFP will be circulated by the end of the month!
#ESPRit2025
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We have a wonderful line up of keynote speakers for RSVP-Dublin:
KATHERINE BODE (Australian National University) will deliver the Wolff keynote and ANDREW LEWIS and TEJA VARMA PUSAPATI will be in conversation for the Colby keynote!
And you too can be there - submit a proposal by Nov 1.
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RSVP Annual Conference β RSVP
The nineteenth century was marked by unprecedented migration, as people moved to urban centers; were forcibly or semi-forcibly relocated; and emigrated to escape war, famine, economic instability, orβ¦
β¨ It's official! We're now accepting proposals for #RSVP2026, "Movements and Migrations"! We invite scholars to examine the relationship between periodicals, migrations, and movements for our 2026 conference in Dublin. Full CFP and more details on our main website.
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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...
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Victorianist. President of the British Association for Victorian Studies, and Editor of the Curran Index for the RSVP. Author: Darwinism's Generations. The Reception of Darwinian Evolution in Britain, 1859-1909 (2024). Check me out at profmartinhewitt.com
Publishing on the study of periodicals and newspapers in Europe from the seventeenth century to the present; the flagship journal of ESPRit, published bi-annually by Ghent University.
art & architectural historian / visual, material & religious culture
AHRC PhD student at Newcastle University | Late-Victorian print culture, the environmental humanities, periodical studies, aestheticism/decadence, Celtic studies, & the history of science | she/her
Assistant Commissioning Editor for
Literary Studies, Edinburgh University Press
PhD student. Victorian culture. #women's networks. #The EWJ. #Empowerment.
Cultural historian interested in the UK temperance movement, including its songs, buildings, publications, entertainments, teaching activities, and much more, together with its legacy and contemporary resonances.
Nineteenth-century, O/A journal welcoming Humanities and Social Sciences research from scholars at all career stages.
www.rrrjournal.com
EiC @katiemacleann | Dep Ed Andie Lloyd
Researches Victorian periodicals, visual culture, and literature. Teaches English lit. Probably the least online person you'll meet online.
Author of Discourses of Vision in C19th Britain: https://tinyurl.com/5bxvawy6
PhD, teacher, researcher in DH & 19c womenβs periodicals, general lover of in-between spaces π
Historian, author, researcher. Specialising in the C19th press. PhD from Edge Hill University & The British Library, funded by the AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme. Thesis focuses on short-lived nineteenth-century newspapers.
English professor, book historian. 19th C, mainly. I wrote Selling Sexual Knowledge (CUP, 2025). Now working on MANUFACTURING LITERATURE and a few smaller projects. https://sarahbull.me/
Assistant Professor of Digital History and AI @ University of Amsterdam | visual and digital history | http://thomassmits.eu/
By day: literary historian and editor for hire. By night: historian and enthusiast of Chartism, 19thC British writing and politics, sausage rolls, and women's, workers', queer and trans rights β she/her, views own
drvicclarke.co.uk
Professor at NC State University. Wandering between worlds of C19th British lit, comparative media studies, critical data literacies. Book *Digital Victorians* https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/digital-victorians
University-Policy Engagement & ARIs at UPEN/UCL β£ Impact at the RCA β£ Researches Victorian literature, social history, freethought periodicals β£ Book: Constance Naden: Scientist, Philosopher, Poet β£ she/her
https://clarestainthorp.wordpress.com/
Course leader and Senior Lecturer in English Literature. Victorian lit and culture, detective fiction, Arthur Conan Doyle, Dickens, Wilkie Collins. New book: *Literary Illusions: Performance Magic and Victorian Literature* (Edinburgh UP, 2025).
Reading poetry with computers | Assoc Prof, digital humanities & Victorian literature, U Mass Lowell | personal productivity coach for academics & adults with ADD | vegan, dog companion
Lecturer in English Lit, focusing on Victorian poetry and the weirdness of subjective time.