"If you could change one common opinion about the English Literature degree or literature in general, what would it be?" In preparation for our symposium (www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/englishcre...), we've asked our student panellists the question above. Here's the first of many insights they'll share!

We are thrilled to announce the winner of VPFA's First Book Prize 2025: Rebecca Nesvet, James Malcom Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family! Honourable mentions were Riley McGuire, Dysfluent in Fiction: Vocal Disability & Nineteenth-Century Literature and Jay Sullivan, Egyptian Gothic: 1884-1920.

Inspiring annual conference @englishassociation.bsky.social today and an unforgettable chance to celebrate becoming a fellow together with incredible peers on its 120th anniversary.

Immensely proud of the co-edited collection celebrated in this blog @vpfa.bsky.social and thanks to @manchesterup.bsky.social victorianpopularfiction.org/we-celebrate...

I have written a Blog Post for @vpfa.bsky.social about my time at @chawtonhouse.bsky.social as a Visiting Fellow! To read about the value of organisations like Chawton House to scholarly associations like VPFA, and an amusing snippet from a woman's diary: victorianpopularfiction.org/in-which-i-s...

Registration for BAVS 2026 is now live! We look forward to seeing you in Liverpool in July: bavs.ac.uk/2026-confere...

🔔 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...

Time for more questions and comments for our panel at Beyond Guilty Pleasure @lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social @jennifletcher.bsky.social

Beyond Guilty Pleasure @lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social celebrating the romance genre as editors, writers, academics and students!

It may be raining in Lincoln but the dragons in the Castle are keeping the fire 🔥 going

Happy Sunday! And Virginia Woolf’s birthday. I love to celebrate the occasion with a few of her essays or entries from her diaries.

The 31 JANUARY 2026 deadline for submitting proposals for the Tennyson 2026: Ecology, Landscape, Environment conference (14-17 July 2026) is fast approaching. To read the details have a look at the details here: tennysonsociety.com/tennyson-202...

A bicerin at Bar Giorgio 🤩, National Gallery! Thank you Locatelli for a special touch to this Epiphany Tuesday!

An important essay for all of us interested in the Victorian archaeology of generations and generational thinking.

Get ready for BAVS 2026!

Research Grant The John Galt Society welcomes applications for a grant (of up to ₤1000) to defray expenses incurred in connection with research into the works, life or influence of John Galt. For more details, visit: thejohngaltsociety.com/research-gra...

We are pleased to announce that the 2025 winner of the Hamilton Prize is Katharine Williams (CUNY Graduate Center) for the essay "Missing Members in Charlotte Yonge's The Clever Woman of the Family." Congratulations! The essay will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal.

I'm really looking forward to this, do come along!

🚨Applications for the Local Innovation Partnerships Fund are now open! This £500 million investment will support partnerships of civic authorities, businesses, and researchers to develop and scale up local innovation, to grow local economies, jobs, and skills. Apply: www.ukri.org/what-we-do/b...

Sign up to attend the VPFA's Third Sex Reading group's October session on Natasha Pulley's The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, a neo-Victorian novel To sign up this month, please email [email protected] with 'FAO: Third Sex No. 43' and ask to be added to the attendees list.

@Lemn Sissay’s event at the Lincoln Book Festival 2025 with colleagues and students of @lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social celebrating National Poetry Day.

Thanks to Lemn Sissay for leading us into hopeful, bright poems which pour the light in!!!

Tonight we are celebrating National Poetry Day at the Lincoln Book Festival 2025!

This lunch time we are launching the Lincoln Book Festival 2025

This week the Tennyson Society celebrates the anniversary of Alfred, Lord Tennyson by launching the CoP for Tennyson 2026 Ecology, Landscape, Environment. Go to tennysonsociety.com/tennyson-202...

A great meal with great conference pals! @vpfa.bsky.social #VPFAextremes

It was an honour and a pleasure to give this paper today at the wonder #VPFAextremes conference! Many thanks to the lovely audience 💜

Enjoying an artistic, magnificent break at Birmingham cathedral thanks to Burne-Jones and Morris.

We now have Casey Reeves discussing Renee Vivien and Natalie Burney’s poetry and their use of Sappho to signal to the queer community #VPFAExtremes

So glad to have made in time to enjoy a panel in both afternoon sessions #VPFAExtremes: Intertextuality and Adaption first and Sappho and Swinburne at present.

We are #VPFAExtremes

Travelling to my #VPFAExtremes destination offers me a chance to reflect on the academic year 2024-25 and congratulate the graduating students! I look forward to celebrating their achievements and the English team’s outstanding NSS2025 🤩 results at Graduation!

Finally on my way to #VPFAExtremes after the final exam board. Looking forward to the amazing programme!

❗️You now only have 5️⃣ DAYS left to register for the hybrid 17th VPFA Annual Conference "Heights, Depths, and Extremes" (14th-16th July at Birmingham University)❗️ Register here: victorianpopularfiction.org/vpfa-annual-...

We are so looking forward to the VPFA’s Annual Conference 2025!

Next month, I'll be delivering a plenary session called 'Before De-Extinction: Encountering Prehistoric Animals in Victorian Popular Fiction' at the annual conference of @vpfa.bsky.social. VPFA this year is being held at that classic site on the Victorian lecture circuit, the @bmi1854.bsky.social.

Seeking 3 conference "tweeters" to provide live updates: - ideally in person attendee - have BlueSky and X account - Registration fees waived - allocation of panels is first-come first-serve - post-conference report required Send a short expression of interest and bio to [email protected]

On my way to Glasgow for the first time. I look forward to meeting colleagues and discovering this city very much.

This is excellent news! Comfortably Hungry has been shortlisted in the audio category for the @fortnumandmason.bsky.social food & drink awards! A huge thank you to Thom at @deliciouslegacy.bsky.social for mixing the episodes & of course to Dr Peggy Brunache for being such a superb guest.