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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals

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An organization dedicated to researching and teaching about newspapers, magazines, and serial print forms in Britain and its empire throughout the long nineteenth century.

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 23/09/2026
Our next #RSVPDigiEvent is on the horizon! Come feel some regional feels and get a sneak peak of the forthcoming Edinburgh Companion to the Regional Magazine (2028) from some of its editors and contributors! Join us Friday, 16 October at the usual time: rs4vp.org/preview-edin...
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Off Centre: A Preview of the Edinburgh Companion to the Regional Magazine (2028) – RSVP
Join us on 16 October for a sneak peak of the Edinburgh Companion to the Regional Magazine (forthcoming for Edinburgh UP, 2028)!
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 22/09/2026
The recording of our conversation with @jrvaldez.bsky.social, Sharin Schroeder + Caroline Jones on making the most of your conference experiences is now live! Just in time to get cracking on all those CFPs you're working on, right? #RSVPDigiEvents Watch now: youtu.be/vvRu4u8F-mE
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How to Conference Effectively: A Professional Development Conversation
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 17/09/2026
Such an exciting week we're having over here at RSVP! Congratulations to our winners!
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 17/09/2026
ICYMI in our last (newsletter), we're joining forces with @vpfa.bsky.social for our first-ever collaborative Online Study Day (5-6 Feb. 2027) on "Fiction in Victorian and Edwardian Social Periodicals." CFP open through 31 Oct. More details here: rs4vp.org/vpfa-online-...
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 15/09/2026
And the fun just keeps coming: Peterson Fellowship applications are now open! This award offers $20,000 USD to support 4 months of dedicated primary research into long #19thC periodicals worldwide. Open to faculty, independent, and retired scholars. Applications due 15 Nov: rs4vp.org/awards/peter...
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Peterson Fellowship Guidelines – RSVP
Each year, the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) intends to grant one Linda H. Peterson Fellowship (henceforth, “the Peterson Fellowship”) in the amount of $20,000 to a single research...
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 15/09/2026
Many CFPs have pinged across our digital radar lately. Make the most of your 2027 conference season by attending our next #RSVPDigiEvent ✨️THIS✨️ Friday, 18 Sept. Our 2026 committee will share their best tips on writing proposals, networking, and giving killer presentations! rs4vp.org/how-to-confe...
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How to Conference Effectively – RSVP
Get ready for the 2027 conference season by learning tips and tricks from the pros! Our 2026 conference committee are ready to share their expertise.
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19 Century Studies Association @ncsascholars.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
We are pleased to share our CfP: Framing the Human in the 19th Century. We meet in #Philadelphia, March 11-13, 2027. 🎃 Proposals due October 31, 2026. For more details, visit: ncsaweb.net/2027-confere... 💰We have four Conference Travel Grants, due January 15, 2027: ncsaweb.net/grants-fundi...
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 02/09/2026
The latest entry from our friends over @gwmreynoldssociety.bsky.social!
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 01/09/2026
The applications portal for #RSVP2027 is now officially open! We invite all of your latest ideas on the intersections of 'Structure' and #19thC periodicals/print culture. Final proposals due 1 November. Get inspired and more information on our website: rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 30/08/2026
It was brought to our attention that our CFP image included a small but VERY important typo. Proposals will be accepted 1 Sept-1 Nov ✨2026! That will teach us to do graphic design in the wee hours 🙄 Corrected image attached. Full CFP still on our website: rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 29/08/2026
Ok, we've had time to reminisce. It's time to look forward. We are thrilled to announce our CFP for #RSVP2027 is now live! We'll consider the theme of 'Structures' at our next annual gathering. The applications portal opens next week on 1 Sept. More details on our website: rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 26/08/2026
In keeping with the nostalgic turn we've taken this week, the full recordings of our #RSVP2026 Dublin keynotes are now available to stream on our YouTube channel! 🧵 below features direct links to both talks.
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 24/08/2026
Last call for Microgrant funding! Applications for Round 3 close on 1 September. Whether you need support for archival or digital access, digital tools, or other research needs, these grants are designed to lower the financial barriers of your latest project! Apply here: buff.ly/7r9cM50
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RSVP Microgrants – RSVP
Microgrants are seed grants designed to support new research projects and/or explore ideas in the field of nineteenth-century British/empire periodical studies. The Microgrants scheme was established…
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 24/08/2026
*sigh* Is it too soon to reminisce about #RSVP2026? For those feeling nostalgic, we are pleased to share this lovely write-up from @tcddublin.bsky.social that fell into our inbox this week. Many thanks again to @clareclarke.bsky.social + team for hosting such a smashing event! tinyurl.com/4pjbwca5
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RSVP Conference 2026 TCD - Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences | Trinity College Dublin
The international RSVP Annual Conference took place from the 23-25 July 2026 in TCD and was organised by Dr Clare Clarke, School of English.
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Long Nineteenth-Century Network @ Manchester Met @l19cmanmet.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Please join the network and our friends on the Punch's Pocket Book Archive team for our upcoming symposium "Global circulations – annuals and pocket books on the move", 26–27 November 2026, U of Caen Normandy. Deadline for proposals = 31 August 2026 caesar-project.unicaen.fr/event/call-f...
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Call for papers for the CaeSAR ‘Punch’s Pocket Book’ project: ‘Global circulations - annuals and pocket books on the move’, 26–27 November 2026, University of Caen Normandy - CaeSAR
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 21/08/2026
Congratulations, Helena! 🎉
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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Check out the latest batch of book reviews in VPR 58.4: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57248 #VictorianStudies @rs4vp.org
Image of bookshelf accompanied by list of book reviews: Eleanor Bird, Beyond the Antislavery Haven: Slavery in Early Canadian Print Culture, 1789–1889, Reviewed by Mary L. Shannon; Marzena Kubisz, Children’s Vegetarian Culture in the Victoria Era: The Juvenile Food Reformers Press and Literary Change, Reviewed by Lesley Peterson; Ruth M. McAdams, Temporality and Progress in Victorian Literature, Reviewed by Madeline B. Gangnes; Maria Damkjær, Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines, Reviewed by Teja Varma Pusapati; Sarah Dewis and Brent Elliott, eds., Nineteenth-Century Gardens and Gardening, vol. 6, The Art of the Gardener, Reviewed by Chetna Jena, Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 4, winter 2025.
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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Sarah Bliss argues that while the #Strand presented British masculinity and nat'l authority as enduring, The Hound of the Baskervilles forecasted the decline of both gendered and nat'l boundaries. In VPR 58.4, Bliss resituates Doyle’s novel in its periodical context: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Black-and-white drawing of a man in a suit with hat and cane in hand, illustration by Sidney Paget for The Hound of the Baskervilles, Strand Magazine 22 (October 1901): 248. Accompanying text says Sarah Bliss, “‘The home of my own people’: Masculinity and Nationalism in The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Strand Magazine,” Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 58, Number 4, Winter 2025.
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 18/08/2026
Our Fall 2026 #RSVPDigiEvent line-up is officially here! 🍂 Check out the graphic below for topics and dates. More info will be forthcoming as each individual event approaches, but you can reserve your spot now by registering here: rs4vp.org/fall-digital...
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 15/08/2026
📢 It's Curran Fellowship time! These awards support research on #19thC periodicals as objects of study in their own right. Multiple awards of up to $6,000 (USD) are given each year, thanks to the generosity and enduring legacy of Eileen Curran. Apps due 15 Oct. Full guidelines here: buff.ly/Vw4Q3Tr
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Curran Fellowship Guidelines – RSVP
The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) grants at least six Curran Fellowship awards each calendar year. Applicants may request any amount of support up to $6000; the Curran Fellowships…
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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Morgan Tanith Coleman examines how periodical fiction expressed public anxieties about outbreaks and intercultural contact as Britain began to recover from recurrent waves of cholera throughout the 1830s–60s. Read it in VPR 58.4: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
Map of England showing cholera prevalence during the 1849 outbreak, sourced from Report on the Mortality of Cholera in England, 1848–49 (London: W. Clowes, 1852), Wellcome Library, https://wellcomecollection.org/works/acv8r4bv, image reproduced under a Public Domain Mark License. Accompanying text says Morgan Tanith Coleman, “Cholera Anxiety and the Judgment of God: Moral Attitudes Toward Disease in Victorian Family Magazines from the 1860s to 1880s,” Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 58, Number 4, Winter 2025.
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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
In VPR 58.4, Shih-Wen Sue Chen analyzes how young readers of the religious periodical _The Children’s Prize_ were encouraged to think about their place within their natural environment. Read it at muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl.... @rs4vp.org
Image of child picking flowers, cover illustration for The Prize, September 1884; Accompanying text that says Shih-Wen Sue Chen, “Boys as Destroyers, Girls as Preservers? Gender, Carelessness, and Animal Treatment in The Children’s Prize (1863–1931),” Victorian Periodicals Review, Volume 58, Number 4, Winter 2025.
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 11/08/2026
🚨CFP alert!!
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 10/08/2026
@miladaskalova.bsky.social writes to share that her open-access book, The Nineteenth-Century Asylum Periodical: Britain, America and Beyond, has physical copies now available from Cambridge UP. Congrats, Mila, and thanks for #SharingYourNews! We're so excited to read it! tinyurl.com/2nwyr3w6
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The Nineteenth-Century Asylum Periodical
Cambridge Core - Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology - The Nineteenth-Century Asylum Periodical
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 06/08/2026
Have a spare moment? Want to shape future periodicals' research? Take our short Curran Index survey! There's still plenty of time to add your thoughts!
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 06/08/2026
The latest from the @gwmreynoldssociety.bsky.social digitization project!
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 01/08/2026
Applications are now open for Round 3 of our Microgrants! We’re funding innovative research in #19thC periodicals by providing seed grants for archival travel, digital access to subscriptions or repositories, or digital tools to support your research. Apply by 1 September here: buff.ly/7r9cM50
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 31/07/2026
How has it already been a week since #RSVP2026? If you're feeling some serious conference withdrawal (as we are), why not revisit the experience by taking our conference survey? The survey should take only 5-7 min. and will stay open until Aug. 12. Scan the QR code below to access the survey!
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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Indeed you all are. And, gentle Bluesky readers, check out the news projected behind this team: a British Newspaper Archive discount for RSVP members that saves serious money on that subscription. Negotiated by the inexhaustible Mary. Even more reason for all C19 scholars to join @rs4vp.org!
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 31/07/2026
Such great news! 🥳
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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Some lovely pics from the #RSVP2026 @rs4vp.org Closing Reception 😍😍 📷 By Pete
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 25/07/2026
What a great looking bunch of periodical scholars! Thank you for a memorable conference!! ♥️ Exec+ 📸 Pete Clarke (the best!)
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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Please do take 30 seconds to complete this sustainability survey if you haven’t already! This helps release funding for our lovely conference #RSVP2026 @rs4vp.org
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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
A massive thank you for @rs4vp.org for the @patrickleary.bsky.social Field Development Grant to fund this work. (I owe a bloggy final report - coming soon!) The largest humanities grant from a prof org in the U.S. rt now🎉💙😵 rs4vp.org/awards/leary... 🤩 #rsvp2026 @rs4vp.org
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Patrick Leary Resource Development Grant – RSVP
The Patrick Leary Resource Development Grant is named for long-time RSVP supporter, Board member and former President, Patrick Leary. It is intended to support one scholar or a team of researchers in ...
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 25/07/2026
Did anyone lose a bracelet? Please let us know and we'll make sure it gets to you!
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 25/07/2026
And that is a wrap on #RSVP2026 in Dublin! Sláinte! 🥂 Many many thanks to our host @tcddublin.bsky.social, organizers, keynote speakers, social media volunteers + attendees for an incredible conference! And ICYMI: get ready for #RSVP2027 in OTTAWA next year! 🇨🇦 Safe migrations home to all!
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 25/07/2026
And #RSVP2027 will be hosted next year at…the Carleton Dominion-Chalmers Centre of Carleton University in downtown Ottawa! 🇨🇦
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Antonija Primorac @antonijap.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Xiangtai Zeng kicks off the #RSVP2026 session on The Anglophone Press from Chile to China with his talk on the uses of Shakespearean literary prestige in the Transnational British Press in 19th c. China
Xiangtai Zeng at the #RSVP2026 talking about the uses of Shakespearean literary prestige in the Transnational British Press in 19th c. China
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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
My heart is warmed (literally) to be in a packed room for the panel on Masculinity and the Working Classes (mostly Chartism!) for the last session of @rs4vp.org #RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion!
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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
@mrcblckbrn.bsky.social is an @rs4vp.org virgin & recent convert to #PeriodicalStudies🥳 She enjoys getting out of the parliamentary papers😎 Her talk goes into petition activism in the 40s in the *The Nelson Examiner & New Zealand Chronicle* (1842-74), the 1st newspaper in the South Island #RSVP2026
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The Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle - Wikipedia
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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The cherry on the #RSVP2026 sundae is Flore Janssen, daringly going "sans" PowerPoint... Flore is delighted to get to return to radical English journalist and writer Margaret Harkness (1854–1923) and to her first years as a migrant writer, documented in ‘A Year of My Life’ (*New Review*, Oct 1891)
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Margaret Harkness: A Late Victorian New Woman and Social Investigator
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Kathy Harris @triproftri.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
In my sabbatical haze, I forgot to widely publicize the availability of the Katherine D. Harris Collection of literary annuals on @archive.org w/complete & searchable table of contents, authors, engravers, literary genre, pg ## 😎 IT's ready!! archive.org/details/kath... #rsvp2026 @rs4vp.org
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Katherine D. Harris Collection
About this Collection The Katherine D. Harris Collection consists of approximately 90 nineteenth-century British literary annuals. The most popular titles, including Forget Me Not, The ...
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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Flore Janssen had a methodological problems: what search terms do you use? "migrant workers" is a contemporary term, while "foreign workers" becomes too broad... Trying a to find a case study of Irish workers, she found a lot about Irish lace work... #RSVP2026
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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Maria Gabriella Tigani Sava, a historian of emotions and independent scholar from Malta, is discussing the Three Graces of *The Nation*, published in Dublin from 1842 to its suppression in 1848. #RSVP2026
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The Nation (Irish newspaper) - Wikipedia
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Erica Haugtvedt @ehaugtvedt.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
@3volumenovel.bsky.social fiction from the penny press moved into the select circulating library. This is significant because the penny press was widely derided as "trash" and Victorians thought that respectable types never read it, but the differences are only light editing #RSVP2026 #PrintinMotion
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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
#RSVP2026 Really happy to get the chance to see Sarah Bliss’s paper on detective fiction in Pearson’s magazine. Such fantastic and important work bringing in less known detective fiction from the margins.
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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
And hands-up if you use the British Newspaper Archive and are delighted with news of our new discounted rate for @rs4vp.org members! #RSVP2026
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Clare Clarke @clareclarke.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
And the generously funded RSVP prize and grant winners so far this year are announced to great cheer and applause! @rs4vp.org #RSVP2026
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Erica Haugtvedt @ehaugtvedt.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Jennifer Conary speaks about how as an expert reader, she realized after moving to an admin job that her reading skills had deteriorated. We assume that our students can deep read, but this is a complex skill that needs to be developed actively. #rsvp2026 #printinmotion
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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Jenny Conary warns us: her talk will be unconventional (great!), and perhaps depressing (😭) She is reflecting not just on students' inability to read —also in other disciplines, she learnt from her colleagues— but on her own brain rot, slogging through reading *Middlemarch* for a course. #RSVP2026
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