A new issue of Victorian poetry is live — open access and full of incredible new work! We are also continuing to accept submissions for the 2025 Early Career Essay Prize. See the image / alt-text for more info. Please share widely! muse.jhu.edu/issue/55160

Excited to share the call for Victorian Poetry’s 2025 Early Career Prize! Please circulate widely. Happy to answer any questions (see the attached CFP for more details)!

Today's the day! I invite close readers to see if they can find the places where I channeled the most rage into this project. It is supposed to make you uncomfortable. You are supposed to try to dismiss it as "praxis" vs. "theory" and then you are supposed to be convinced otherwise.

"Does aesthetics play a legitimate role in our evaluation of an argument’s validity? Are computational proofs beautiful?" From our new issue, read Imogen Forbes-Macphail's "The Four-Color Theorem and the Aesthetics of Computational Proof": www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Victorian Poetry is thrilled to announce a new open-access special issue, “Transition and Transformation.” Guest edited by Erik Gray, it features contributions by Florence Boos, Mary Ellis Gibson, @lindakhughes.bsky.social , Britta Martens, & Herbert F. Tucker. muse.jhu.edu/issue/53644

End of term grading got you down? Why not take a break and work up a proposal for VSAWC's upcoming conference "Exhibiting the Nineteenth Century"? To find out more, click on the link below! vsawc.org/events/

Patrick & I would be so grateful if ppl would circulate this to their smartest + most interesting academic friends. We are excited to welcome everybody to DC 🙏💙

Thanks to generous support from @hopkinspress.bsky.social, Victorian Poetry is co-sponsoring next year’s NAVSA conference. The CFP is now live—check it out and submit your work! So looking forward to all of it, including some new journal-related festivities. ✨

Announcing the Vcologies Working Group’s 2025 Early Career Prize! Such a great opportunity—see the CFP below for more details.

I think I made a starter pack? go.bsky.app/fkgPH6

Lots of incredible work on C19 poetries in the forthcoming spring issue of @criticalinquiry.bsky.social (ToC previewed below on the back of the forthcoming winter issue), including brilliant work by Imogen Forbes-Macphail, leader of the Victorian Poetry Caucus! ✨ Watch for both issues!

The advert for our Research Associate post in Victorian Cultural and Material History is now up on jobs.ac.uk - www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKS158/r... Please spread the word!!!!

Some words in remembrance of Sandra M. Gilbert (and, of course, Susan Gubar), whose field-shifting work on women writers like Elizabeth Barrett Browning shaped not only feminist literary and Victorian studies, but also Victorian poetry in transformative and still-ongoing ways.

📢 CfP: Delighted to invite submissions for the British Association for Romantic Studies ECR & PGR Conference, 'Romantic (Un)Consciousness'. 🗓️ Trinity Hall, Cambridge, 4-5 September, & Online, 12 September 2025 Abstracts due on 6 January 2025. 🔗 More Details: barsconference2025.wixsite.com/home

Hi again Victorianist peeps! It's lovely to follow so many folks doing such fascinating work. Also to see lots of old friends. I'm re-upping this because VIC has been so quiet lately, and yet it's a great place for longer-form C19 queries, answers, and discussions than can easily be posted here.

Who out there is working on “bad” Victorian or Victorian-adjacent poetry and its aesthetic categories?

We are pleased to announce that the Hamilton Prize winner for 2024 is Olivia Krauze for the essay "What is a Violent Emotion?" We look forward to publishing Olivia's essay in an upcoming issue. The runner up is Lucy Lawrence for an essay on "The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal (1895-97)."

📢 @jbhist.bsky.social & I are very pleased to announce that we are seeking a f/t 2-year Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History to join our major @ahrcpress funded research project on the Victorian Hand. Closes 6 December. Spread the word!!! hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Hello! It's nice to see you here. Check out our latest issue, VR 49.2 muse.jhu.edu/issue/53136 and stay tuned for 50.1, coming soon, featuring a forum on Victorian studies and the climate crisis and our 2023 Hamilton Prize winner.

Starter pack for journals of literary scholarship. Please share so we can add to the list as more journals create accounts here. go.bsky.app/2Asc5P2

Check out this amazing issue on INFRASTRUCTURE just out in Victorian Literature and Culture!

I’m always so proud of the work that we do with Global c19 Studies! Congrats, all! @clarehooper.bsky.social @livunipress.bsky.social

Delighted to announce that @emmadavenport.bsky.social is the inaugural winner of Victorian Poetry’s early career prize! Watch for her brilliant essay, “Crediting Women’s Poetic Labor: _Paradise Lost_ and Toru Dutt’s ‘Our Casuarina Tree’.” Read more abt it below or in the alt-text. Congrats, Emma! ✨

These reflections on the field are great as we all migrate to BlueSky and consider how to keep our studies—and ourselves—alive for another 20 years.

Victorian Poetry is on Bluesky! Check out our latest blockbuster issue & keep an eye out for exciting things to come (new lewk, winner of inaugural early career prize, another fantastic issue, & more). See bio link for info abt our new keywords initiative, too. muse.jhu.edu/issue/52956