Spring 2026 got off to a fabulous start with Mandakini Dubey's talk on Esoteric Orientalisms (CUP, 2025), which examines Victorian esotericism and academic Orientalism as the nineteenth century’s most significant comparative frameworks for understanding global religions, languages, and cultures.

"Poet and author Meena Kandasamy has found she that is being regularly cited in academic research papers as well as online articles and blog posts with hallucinated quotes falsely attributed to her" thewire.in/tech/large-s...

As announced at the close of #RSVP2025, congratulations are in order to our two Colby Book Prize winners, Andrew Lewis and @tejapusapati.bsky.social! You can read what our committee has to say about these fantastic additions to the field of periodical studies here: rs4vp.org/awards/colby...

Three girls (1932) by Amrita Sher-Gil #womensart

Turns out Punch illustrations have a lively afterlife in the antique shops in Jodhpur, Rajasthan! @catherinefaver.bsky.social, these special correspondent type artists seem to be hot favourites!

🏆 We'd like to officially congratulate @eve.gd, whose *Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History* (Stanford University Press, 2024) won our 2025 SHARP Book History Book Prize! www.sup.org/books/media-...

Delighted to share the 2025 Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize with Dr. Andrew Lewis's brilliant study of the British West Indian Press. @rs4vp.org

Thrilled to share that my monograph 'Model Women of the Press: Gender, Politics and Women’s Professional Journalism, 1850–1880' is one of the two winners of the 2025 Robert and Vineta Colby Book Prize, awarded by the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org