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Bringing a community of scholars committed to interdisciplinary research and innovative teaching about the Victorian period together since 1972. Our journal is @victorianreview.bsky.social Our website is vsawc.org

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VictorianLondon @victorianlondon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
AI fake email of the day: "I’m Victoria Derbyshire, and on my BBC Radio 2 show, we actively build a home for social historians, authors, and transformative researchers on air. This isn't a brief history soundbite or routine book plug. It's a real, unhurried, and authentic conversation ..."
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We're really looking forward to seeing your proposals for the VSAWC and VISAWUS joint May 7-8 2027 conference on VICTORIAN BORDERS in Vancouver, Canada — due November 1! Visit vsawc.org/events/ for details and send em in, folks!
Walter Crane, Imperial Federation — Map of the World Showing the Extent of the British Empire in 1886 (supplement to The Graphic, 24 July 1886)
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Devin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
This issue is stellar, & @emmadavenport.bsky.social ‘s essay is a true banger! And plz remind folks about the early career essay prize (deadline approaching) — more info below!
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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Daniel Deronda… Charlotte Yonge… “The Goblin Market” … a Book Talk and more await you. Here’s the link–you know what to do with it: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57090
image is the cover for Volume 51, Number 2, Fall 2025 of the Victorian Review
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Graduate students! A reminder to submit your essays for the @victorianreview.bsky.social Hamilton Prize by July 1! For more information, please follow the link below:
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Hamilton Prize – Victorian Review
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 01/06/2026
If you are attending ACCUTE this week, please visit our sponsored panel on Thurs, 4 June @ 10:30am local time! Our speakers - Kaitlyn Fralick, Lisa C. Robertson, Stephan Pigeon + @maeasley.bsky.social - will reflect on journalism as a profession through periodical studies: rs4vp.org/rsvp-accute-...
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RSVP at ACCUTE 2026 – RSVP
If you're attending ACCUTE, RSVP is hosting a panel on June 4 at 10:30 a.m. local time. Come here our panelists talk periodicals!
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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Graduate students! The Hamilton Prize deadline is coming up July 1. Publish your work in VR and win cash! See our website for details. victorianreview.org?page_id=2110
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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Dr. Susan Zieger’s blog post teases her article and discusses the circulation of coal and its artistic depiction in the nineteenth century through the paintings of Turner, Van Gogh, and Monet. Blog on our website: victorianreview.org?p=2622 Article on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56547
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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
📣 Job Alert (permanent) 📣 Lecturer in English Literature (Romanticism), The Open University www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRQ222/l...
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Daniel Grey @djrgrey.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Today's the day to email in your paper proposal, people (22nd May)! Thanks so much to everyone who has already submitted 🌟 We'd love to hear from you & while spaces are limited, we definitely will have some room for non-presenting delegates to attend too on 4 September 😀
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Richard Fallon @richardfallon.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I wonder if H.R. Giger ever came across Georg Liljevall's fleshy, somewhat unnerving retouched photo illustrations of graptolites? These ones (Monograptus priodon and Isograptus gibberulus) are from the c.1890s, published by Oliver Bulman in the early 1930s #FossilFriday
A plate with close-ups of the fleshy curling thecae of a Monograptus The facehugger-like Isograptus gibberulus
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Ronja Charlotte @ronja-charlotte.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
I got to present a paper at the @vsawc.bsky.social Conference on Victorian Trade this past weekend! Thanks to the organizers for putting together such an amazing event, and thank you to Sabrina for inviting me to be part of such a great panel! 👾📚🌱
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Amy Woodson-Boulton @amywb.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
CFP for VISAWUS 2026 online series on teaching. Please apply and share! TIME FOE TEACHING! A roundtable series to address the crisis in teaching Victorian Studies. Literary scholars, historians, art historians please join us! #VictorianStudies #19thCentury #AcademicSky
Good teaching is never easy, but has it ever been this hard? Since the COVID-19 pandemic, educators have been asked to pivot and reimagine their pedagogical practices again and again. Six years later, the "new normal" has yet to arrive. Instead of a return to business as usual, culty are facing a barrage of legislative attacks on academic freedom and the dizzyingly rapid adoption of AI by universities and students alike. As teachers, we are being tasked with simultaneously revolutionizing our approach to assignment design and assessment, while ridding our curriculum and lesson plans of material associated with DEI initiatives or deemed "divisive" by politicians.
This roundtable series, organized by the Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States (VISAWUS), is dedicated to the problem and practice of teaching, Victorian studies in an era marked by retrograde policies and techno-optimistic imperatives. It asks, how do we teach nineteenth-century literature and culture, while remaining present to the challenges of the twenty-first century university? And what might we gain by employing Victorian modes of embodied Icarning-such as object lessons and recitation assignments—in the contemporary classroom?
This series will take place over several dates in Fall 2026 and will be geared toward resource sharing and community building. Participants will be invited to share a 6-8 minute presentation, as well as a tangible part of their classroom practice: an assignment, exercise or activity. We invite proposals from contingent faculty, graduate students, early career scholars, and senior faculty alike.
Possible topics may include, but are not limited to:
• Teaching reading and writing in the age of I.L.Ms and Al
• Navigating contemporary politics in the Victorian classroom
• Forms of attention and distraction and/or strategies for cultivating focus
• Object lessons, especially models for hands-on engagement and approaches to teaching material cult…
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
NAVSA is seeking nominations for the Donald Gray Prize for best essay published in the field of Victorian Studies in 2025. You can nominate yourself! The deadline (June 15) approaches. navsa.org/Donald-Gray-...
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NAVSA - Donald Gray Prize
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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
This year's Surridge Prize winner is Matthew Skwiat for the essay "Feeling History: Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, and the Melodramatic Mode" in VR 50.1. The runner up is "Breathing the 'Air of Reality' in Henry James's In the Cage" by Daniel Hannah. Congratulations! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54558
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Anthony Hamber on Diane Waggoner's _Lewis Carroll's Photography and Modern Childhood_, and D.G. Willey on Joseph McQueen's _Liturgy, Ritual, and Secularization in Nineteenth-Century British Literature_.
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Project MUSE - Victorian Review-Volume 51, Number 1, Spring 2025
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
And there are book reviews! Stick around for Angela Fowler on Johan Adam Warodell's _Conrad's Decentered Fiction_, Sara L. Pearson on Jessica Lewis's _Anne Brontë and Lord Byron: Lost Echoes of Influence_, Robert Finnigan on _Victorian Literary Culture and Ancient Egypt_, ed. by Eleanor Dobson, +
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
And there are book reviews! Stick around for Angela Fowler on Johan Adam Warodell's _Conrad's Decentered Fiction_, Sara L. Pearson on Jessica Lewis's _Anne Brontë and Lord Byron: Lost Echoes of Influence_, Robert Finnigan on _Victorian Literary Culture and Ancient Egypt_, ed. by Eleanor Dobson, +
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Also featured is a lively forum on Victorian breeds and breeding, guest edited by Kristen Guest and Ronja Frank. See short pieces by Harriet Ritvo, Richard Nash, Michael Worboys, David Arnold, Anika Zuhlke, Helen Cowie, Kate Whiston, Margo DeMello, Catherine Burton, and Maryssa Grayer!
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Victorian Review 51.1 (@victorianreview.bsky.social), a special issue on Post-Carbon Victorian Studies guest edited by Michael Tondre, is out today — featuring amazing articles from Susan Zieger, Chandrica Barua, Corbin Hiday, Sarah Comyn, Kent Linthicum, and Elizabeth Carolyn Miller.
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Project MUSE - Victorian Review-Volume 51, Number 1, Spring 2025
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 20/02/2026
Don't forget to join us next week for an exciting discussion about the transnational press of the long #19thC. As a reminder, all of our #RSVPDigiEvents are free and open to all, but you must register to receive the Zoom link. buff.ly/rD2BgEG
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 23/02/2026
🔔 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...
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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...
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Registration for ‘VSAWC 2026: Victorian Trade’ is now open! You will find the link you need to register at vsawc.org/registration/ We look forward to sharing a draft program with you soon.
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Ben Moore (B.P.Moore@uva.nl) and Rebecca Styler (rstyler@lincoln.ac.uk) by Monday 2nd March 2026. Short-listed applicants will be invited to attend an informal online interview. Applicants should be aware that the position is not remunerated.
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
• If possible, you are willing to attend the Gaskell Society conference and/or AGM on occasion, which are usually held in the UK To apply, please submit a CV and a one-page statement of interest, indicating your relevant experience and what you would bring to the role, to +
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
• You have taught and/or published on Elizabeth Gaskell’s works • You have editorial and/or (peer) review experience • You are enthusiastic about taking the journal forward and generating academic interest in Gaskell studies +
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
in collaboration with the Editorial Board and a rotating Guest Judge. The Journal invites applications from interested parties who meet the following requirements: • You are an established or emerging scholar working in Victorian studies (or a closely related area) with a focus on literature +
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
including co-writing the journal’s front matter and receiving and editing reports from the various Gaskell Society branches. The co-Editors are also responsible for coordinating the journal’s biannual Joan Leach Memorial Graduate Student Essay Prize, +
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
In addition, they will assist in answering enquiries, soliciting contributions, and maintaining links with the Gaskell Society and with the journal’s Editorial Board. They will work closely with the Reviews Editor, Production Editor and Editorial Assistant to produce the journal each year, +
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
The successful applicant will become one of two co-Editors responsible for receiving, desk-reviewing and distributing for peer review article submissions, and overseeing the revisions process, as well as contributing to reviewing as suits their expertise. +
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
In a typical issue, the journal publishes 3-4 original articles, 3-4 book reviews, and reports from the Society’s branches across the UK and the world. +
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
It is owned by the Gaskell Society and is distributed to its members, as well as being indexed in various academic databases (for more details, see The Gaskell Journal – The annual Journal of the Gaskell Society). +
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
[Post on behalf of the Gaskell Journal] The Gaskell Journal invites applications for the position of co-Editor. The Gaskell Journal is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published annually, dedicated to disseminating the most authoritative, dynamic and agenda-setting research in Gaskell Studies. +
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
CFP for the Undergraduate and Graduate Victorian Studies Association (UGSVA) fourth annual online conference! The conference will take place on Tuesday April 28st from about 9:00 AM-4:00 PM EST (time approximate) via Zoom. CFP deadline is on Sunday. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/...
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Today is the day! Send us your proposals, folks!
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Reminder: The extended deadline to submit your proposal for VSAWC 2026 is in five days!
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Had a busy week? You're in luck! The deadline to submit your proposals to present at our May 2026 conference on Victorian Trade as been extended to December 15th! Please go to vsawc.org/events/ for more details!
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VSAWC Conference 2026 – Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Abstracts due today!
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
See vsawc.org/events/ for more details!
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Please see vsawc.org/events/ for more details!
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VSAWC Conference 2026 – Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
A reminder to submit proposals for VSAWC's 2026 conference on VICTORIAN TRADE by December 1!
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Alexis A. Ferguson @alexisdoeslit.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
I am so grateful to Doreen Thierauf for the invitation to contribute to this forum! As Jill Ehnenn points to in her response, the political (and disciplinary!) landscape has changed significantly since writing my contribution, "After the Tipping Point"--
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Congratulations, Katharine!
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Malcolm Noble @malcolmjnoble.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
More time to perfect your abstract on space, place, and community (anywhere) for queer bib. These lively, friendly, sustaining conferences are entirely worth the time + energy. **Hybrid**, so you don't even need to leave house. Althrough the organisers are working hard to make it worth the travel.
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a penguin sits at a desk with a stack of books and a pencil in its mouth
Alt: a penguin sits at a desk with a stack of books and a pencil in its mouth
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Julia Ditter @juliaditter.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Call for Contributions: Victorian Infrastructures & their Environmental Legacies We're still looking for articles to be included in our @openlibhums.org special issue! Abstracts are due 31 October, full texts 31 March '26. @bavs-uk.bsky.social @rs4vp.org @asleuki.bsky.social @easlce.bsky.social
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Julia Ditter @juliaditter.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
📢CFP -- "Mediating Medicine: Health and Illness in the Victorian Age", 5 December 2025, Online Workshop Send us your proposals for 15min papers or 5min flashlight talks by 30 Sept!⚕️💉👨‍⚕️🚑📖📰 PGR, ERC & NeoVictorian contributions very welcome 🫶 #MedHum #19Century #Victorian shorturl.at/ePhU5
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Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Auckland university is hiring a Lecturer (that’s Assistant Prof for all you Americans) in English, specialising in the long nineteenth century, to a permanent position commencing before Semester 1, 2026 (or by negotiation). Focus is nineteenth century fiction - details below!
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Lecturer - English
Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandThe University of Auckland is New Zealand’s pre-eminent University, with a turnover of $1.1bn, including research revenue of over $...
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Want to attend NAVSA 2025: Aftermaths but can't make it to DC? Want MORE brilliant Victorianist scholarship than you can get at the in-person event? The NAVSA 2025 DIGITAL PRESESSION is free and open to all —registration required for security (thread of papers below)
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Issue 50.2 of Victorian Review is out on Project Muse! First up in this issue is a forum edited by Doreen Thierauf, "Thinking Reproductive and Sexual Justice with the Victorians after Dobbs: Future Paths Previously Trod" muse.jhu.edu/issue/55679
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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
We were so excited about this issue that we typed too fast and failed to highlight the cluster's focus, Victorians and Video Games! Check it out!
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