Today is the day! Send us your proposals, folks!

Reminder: The extended deadline to submit your proposal for VSAWC 2026 is in five days!

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!

Abstracts due today!

Please see vsawc.org/events/ for more details!

A reminder to submit proposals for VSAWC's 2026 conference on VICTORIAN TRADE by December 1!

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"--

Congratulations, Katharine!

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.

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

📢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

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!

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)

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

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!

The latest issue is up on Muse! Featuring a forum on reproductive and sexual justice with the Victorians, a cluster of essays on Victorian video games, our Hamilton Prize winner for 2024, and the lovely and talented Aurora Leigh. Plus book reviews as always. Happy reading! muse.jhu.edu/issue/55679

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

Victorians loved writing fan mail. Celebrities - historians included - were not necessarily equally thrilled about this specimen of modern fan culture: cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/d...

Nice review for Dickensland in Victorian Studies muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... ... it's for anyone but I guess just academic enough to interest academics looking at literary tourism, history and heritage in London; or, indeed, Dickens.

Our CFP for our May 2026 conference is live! Please see the attachment or the thread for details about our upcoming conference on VICTORIAN TRADE

VSAWC's next conference, on Victorian Trade, will take place in Winnipeg MB (Treaty One Territory) on May 1 and 2, 2026. We look forward to welcoming Dr. Sarah Fee (Senior Curator, Global Fashion & Textiles; Royal Ontario Museum) as our plenary speaker. +

✨Call for reviewers ✨ There are lots of new Victorianist books this autumn, and we're looking for reviewers at the @bavs-uk.bsky.social newsletter. It’s the perfect opportunity for Victorian scholars to read the latest releases and publish a review. Full details here 👇 bavs.ac.uk/newsletters/

Reminder! We are accepting proposals for a forum on Daniel Deronda to mark the 150th anniversary of its publication. Our forums feature short, op-ed style essays guest-edited by leading scholars. Deadline for proposals is Sept. 1. See our website for more details: victorianreview.org?cat=217

VR does not accept essay, forum, or book review submissions written with Generative AI. VR staff does not use AI assistance in our email correspondence or editorial practices. We work collectively to adjudicate, edit, publish, and promote scholarly writing. victorianreview.org?page_id=364

Check it out — Victorian Review has a new website!

I love this so much—can’t wait to try it!! ❤️❤️❤️

Abstracts due today, if anyone's still considering the 2026 Dickens Society panel at NeMLA!

meant to write brief chapter about 19C song-and-supper rooms in Covent Garden and its already 6,000 words. 'It's a subject you know about already,' I told myself. 'How many relevant sources can there be?'* [*every awful late-19C/early 20C memoir ever, as it turns out.]

SEL 63.3 summer issue is coming! A cite-worthy quote from one of our contributors Juliana Beykirch on embodiment in Aphra Behn's II Rover: “Her striking embodiment and verbal dexterity profoundly destabilize and collapse the boundaries between...erotic consumption and literal devouring.” (26) 🎙️

There's a Victorian periodicals story with a Chicago connection: the loss of Herbert Ingram, founder of the Illustrated London News, in the wreck of the Lady Elgin in Lake Michigan in 1860. His pocket watch, found at the bottom of the lake, has now returned to England: tinyurl.com/y763rhhv #C19th

Daniel Deronda is turning 150 in 2026. Help us observe this milestone by submitting a short, op-ed style essay to an upcoming forum, guest edited by Ilana Blumberg, on George Eliot's world-changing novel. See our blog for details: victorianreview.org?cat=217

Wooohooo! the crowd errupts with joy at learning that #RSVP2026 will be held at Trinity College Dublin, 23-25 July! 🥳 #RSVP2025

Reminder that the Hamilton Prize deadline is July 1! Get your essays in!

Hey grad students! Reminder: the Hamilton Prize deadline is coming up July 1. The winning essay gets publication in Victorian Review and $500 CAD. Visit the website for details victorianreview.org?page_id=358

Hey, grad students! Do you have a great essay you’d like to publish? The deadline for the Hamilton Prize is coming up: July 1, 2025. The winner will have their work published in the journal and receive $500 CAD. See the website for details. victorianreview.org?page_id=358

🎶From reverent compositions to subversive street ballads🎶 Queen Victoria’s image was contested and co-opted through 19th-century popular song. Learn more about the monarch’s complex cultural after life in music: jvc.oup.com/2021/09/16/m...

See the call for @victorianpoetry.bsky.social’s 2025 Early Career Essay Prize (more info below & in the alt text) — please help me get the word out, with thanks!

I welcome the open access format, and, for art historians especially, the undertaking to publish exhibition reviews.

met this thing for the very first time yesterday at @peoplesbooktakoma.com— a weird feeling, truthfully, to see eight years of your life condensed into a 1-pound stack of paper. But it is very pretty & I hope some of you guys like it 🌿

CFP for a special issue of Victorian Periodicals Review in honour of Brian Maidment:

Hey, grad students! Do you have a great essay you’d like to publish? Consider submitting it to the Victorian Review’s Hamilton Prize. The winner gets publication in the journal and receives $500 CAD! Submissions are due July 1st, 2025. See the website for details. victorianreview.org?page_id=358

Check out Daniel Hannah's blog post about his new article on Henry James' In the Cage (1897) and its reflections upon air, contagions, and illness in Victorian Review 50.1. muse.jhu.edu/issue/54558 Post: victorianreview.org?p=2205 Article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Congratulations, @saruzzza.bsky.social!!

VR 50.1 just dropped! Check out our forum on Victorian studies and climate change, guest-edited by Barbara Leckie. +The Secret Garden! In the Cage! The French Revolution! Mary Barton! Robert Elsmere! Happy reading. muse.jhu.edu/journal/508

not sure it will add that much to my book, but I've spent two weeks trying to compile every mention I can find of shops in Covent Garden in the 1790s in newspaper ads and trade directories.

MVSA: engrossing talk by Kristen Renzi based on her work in the Foundling Hospital archives, now (partially) online at archives.coram.org.uk

Here's the latest edition of Open Access 19th-century Periodicals, with a number of new listings, ranging from the Journal of the Institute of Bankers to the Asiatic Quarterly Review to Wide World Magazine. Suggestions very welcome. www.victorianresearch.org/openaccesspe... #C19 #19th-c

Call for submissions to the Gaskell Journal for the 2026 Joan Leach Graduate Student Essay Prize. See below for details, or visit the Gaskell Journal website: www.gaskelljournal.co.uk.

Call for submissions to the Gaskell Journal for the 2026 Joan Leach Graduate Student Essay Prize. See below for details, or visit the Gaskell Journal website: www.gaskelljournal.co.uk.

Hey! You need a break. I can tell! Consider joining the super kind, fun, and interesting folks at VISWAUS! Meet me in St. Louis for VISAWUS 2025: Gateways October 3-5, 2025 Saint Louis University Keynote Speaker: Kristin Mahoney, Michigan State University Proposal deadline extended to March 31!