Applications for the BAVS/BARS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship hosted at LJMU are now open! You can find out more about this prestigious scheme and how to apply here: bavs.ac.uk/bavs-bars-ni... Deadline for applications: 11th May 2026

The new @bavs-uk.bsky.social newsletter is here and it is ✨stunning ✨ This refresh has been a long time in the making, with lots of work behind the scenes from me and @ireadoldbooks.bsky.social - we hope you love it as much as we do! Read the spring issue here: bavs.ac.uk/wp-content/u...

Reminder: EGM is happening on Monday 23 March 2026! Open to all BAVS members and we warmly encourage you to attend. victorianist.wordpress.com/2026/03/17/r...

Recent Victorianist posts — a thread 🧵 Last chance to send in notices for inclusion in the spring issue of the BAVS Newsletter! Send us your CFPS, events, news of Victorianist interest to [email protected]. DEADLINE: 18th March 2026. victorianist.wordpress.com/2026/03/02/b...

Last chance to send us notices for inclusion in the spring issue of the BAVS Newsletter! Send us your CFPS, events, news of Victorianist interest to [email protected]. DEADLINE: 18th March 2026. @bavs-uk.bsky.social @ruthannereads.bsky.social

Calling all Victorianists! Do you have CFPs/events/news of Victorianist interest you want to share? Let us know at [email protected] and we'll circulate it to the BAVS membership in the spring newsletter. @bavs-uk.bsky.social @ruthannereads.bsky.social

The spring issue of the BAVS Newsletter will be published on 20th March. Please let us know if you have any work/projects/CfPs to include. You can email the newsletter editors at: [email protected]

Our fantastic doctoral student Sarah Dutson is organising the next of our North-West Long Nineteenth-Century Research Seminars, which is a hybrid event focusing on postgraduate and early career research on 19c afterlives. For more info, please click here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nineteenth...

BAVS Rosemary Mitchell Prize now open for submissions!

📢 BOOK GIVEAWAY ends next week: Share this post to win 1 free copy of *Theatrical Afterlives: Nineteenth-Century Women’s Novels on the Stage* (OUP March 2026). global.oup.com/academic/pro... #JaneAusten #WutheringHeights @ncsascholars.bsky.social @19birkbeck.bsky.social @l19cmanmet.bsky.social

Would you like to come and study for a PhD at the University of Surrey? We invite PhD proposals in literature, music and media, and applied theatre. Interdisciplinary proposals welcome as are those from other fields, including film, digital media, cultural studies, and creative writing.

The BAVS/Rosemary Mitchell Prize for a Second Monograph 2026 is now open! If you published your second scholarly monograph in Victorian studies between 17 February 2025 and 17 February 2026, please do consider submitting! You can find more information here: bavs.ac.uk/book-prize-2/

📣CFP Only One Week Left!📣 WLM14: Modes of Engagement – Adapting (Neo-)Victorians 🗓️ 7 May 2026 | Zoom | Hosted by QAQV & @bavs-uk.bsky.social Exploring how today’s culture rewrites & remixes the Victorian past across media 🔍 Abstracts due 27 Feb 2026 Link: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/wlm14/

So excited to be presenting @bavs-uk.bsky.social July 2026 @liverpooluni.bsky.social TITLE: Gulliver Travels to (Gul)liverpool: novel adaptations in Victorian pantomime. Thank you Uni of Kent Special Collections today: discovering Harry Paulton's 1885-1886 pantomime version of Swifts iconic novel.

Calling BAVS ECRs! Join @laurenicullen.bsky.social and I on Zoom today anytime between 5pm - 6pm (GMT) for the @bavs-uk.bsky.social Tea Time! DM us for the link 🫖 ☕️

Had such a great time at the @bavs-uk.bsky.social ECR Tea-Time today. Such a lovely and supportive space, to chat all things Victorian. Thanks to @dremilyvincent.bsky.social and @laurenicullen.bsky.social for hosting. Looking forward to next time! 🫖

Now it's actually out, here's another plug for my new book about #Victorian New Humour, where I prove that Jerome is better than Joyce. Just now realising I should have called it FUN de siecle. @bavs-uk.bsky.social @vpfa.bsky.social link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

A huge thank you to everyone who cane to @rrrjournal.bsky.social ‘s annual conference! We heard fantastic papers that kickstarted conversations about archival method, material culture and sexuality and gender studies. A huge thank you to @bavs-uk.bsky.social for providing generous event funding!

As @drhorrocks.bsky.social @vicmanch.bsky.social noted, Victorianists have the opportunity of back-to-back conferences with #RSVP2026 held in Dublin, 23-25 July & #BAVS2026 held in Liverpool, 27-29 July Too late to apply to RSVP, but submissions still open for BAVS! #BookHistory #PeriodicalStudies

What happens when @bavs-uk.bsky.social and @qaqv.bsky.social join forces? This: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/wlm14/ You've got almost 3 months to submit your idea and then 2 more to complete your paper! Details in the CFP ⤴️

📣 CFP: Modes of Engagement – Adapting (Neo-)Victorians 🗓️ 7 May 2026 | Zoom | Hosted by QAQV & @bavs-uk.bsky.social Exploring how today’s culture rewrites & remixes the Victorian past across media — film, games, theatre, comics, VR & more. 🔍 Abstracts due 27 Feb 2026 Link: qaqv.ia.uw.edu.pl/wlm14/

Check out the BAVS 2026 conference website: www.ljmu.ac.uk/bavs2026 CfP deadline extended until 12th December 2025!

Please reshare! I'd love to hear from potential candidates with research interests in disability studies and the arts... @bavs-uk.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social @ukdishisthub.bsky.social

Thank you to NAVSA, to my colleaugues in BAVS and SFEVE, and also the many colleagues with whom I have worked to develop Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom, One More Voice, Livingstone Online, and COVE. I have learned so much from you and treasure the opportunities created by our shared work.

Throughout my career I have sought to promote international dialogue among Victorianists and I have used my DH projects to create a welcoming space for the academy’s most structually-vulnerable scholars. I am deeply honored to have received the President’s Award from @navsa.bsky.social for my work.

Check your inboxes for some weekend reading! The winter issue of the BAVS Newsletter is out now! Featuring Elizabeth Gaskell's House, Prof. Armstrong's reflections on an unduly neglected text, reviews, and reports. We hope you enjoy! @bavs-uk.bsky.social @ruthannereads.bsky.social

I’m truly honoured to be on this list and looking forward to meeting the other authors on 2nd December. Yale UP has a 50% off sale this November, so the pbk of my book’s a snip at just under £6. A good stocking filler, & I’m v happy to sign & send! @bavs-uk.bsky.social @vpfa.bsky.social

📢Tell the BAVS Newsletter team about any Victorianist News, Events, CFPs, Exhibitions, Displays, Opportunities you would like us to shout about in the Winter issue!📢 Send notices to [email protected] @bavs-uk.bsky.social @ruthannereads.bsky.social

Do come and join us in Liverpool next July, we look forward to welcoming you!

Anyone else planning to put a paper in? Love Liverpool so hard to resist!

Another VPFA Study Day: 'The Critical Age in Victorian Popular Literature' ❓literary representations of the (peri-) menopause 🌏 online 📅 19th May 2026 💰 free for VPFA Members/ £5 for non-members Send proposals (250) to [email protected] and [email protected] by 19th February 2026

The BAVS 2026 Annual Conference CfP is now live: victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c... We hope you can join us in Liverpool next year!

The official CFP is a few days off, but I can't wait that long to announce that #BAVS2026 will be held in Liverpool, 27-29 July. We hope that some of the @rs4vp.org crowd will be able to make the trip over from #RSVP2026 and join @bavs-uk.bsky.social for more Victorian stuff. Details to follow.

Victorianists get ready for BAVS 2026 in Liverpool!

We're delighted to welcome Prof @vicmanch.bsky.social as the new BAVS President. Huge thanks to our wonderful past President, Prof @peptriss.bsky.social, for her excellent leadership of BAVS!

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

The deadline for applications is today at 5pm. We'd love to hear from ECRs interested in this post!

Any #ECRs wanting to represent and support @bavs-uk.bsky.social (and work with me, yay!) you have until this Wednesday 10th September (5pm UK) to apply ⬇️🎉

✨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/

If you're interested in reviewing any of these texts for @bavs-uk.bsky.social, or any other recent releases, email us at [email protected] We're always happy to work with first time reviewers. So if you're a PGR or ECR, and you're unsure where to start, we're just an email away 😇

We are delighted to announce that Dr Yasmin Akhter is the 2025/26 BARS/BAVS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellow, to be hosted at the University of Edinburgh with mentorship from Dr Gerard McKeever. Congratulations Yasmin!

📢 Just a few weeks left to submit your abstracts for our exciting conference at the University of Stirling in January! 🗓 Deadline: 22 Sept 📩 Email: [email protected]

Do you want to join the BAVS Executive Committee? We have a vacancy for an ECR/Postdoctoral Representative (x 3-year term), and we'd love to hear from you if so! The deadline for applying is 10th September. More info here: bavs.ac.uk/executive-co...

@bars.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social @studiesinrom.bsky.social #AcademicSky Please circulate!

Becoming a BAVS Newsletter Reviewer is easy! 1: Become a BAVS Member 2: Email [email protected] with your name, affiliation (if applicable), status, and five key research words 3: Let us know what you would like to review! @bavs-uk.bsky.social

We are delighted to confirm that the winner of the BAVS 2025 Rosemary Mitchell Prize for Best PhD Student's Paper Presentation is Chandrica Barua (University of Michigan). Chandrica is the first to be awarded this new prize. Congratulations, Chandrica!

Our wonderful Newsletter Editors have published the BAVS summer newsletter. Take a look at the reviews, news, and CfPs and more!

Something to add to your summer reading list. The latest issue of the BAVS Newsletter is out now! News, reviews, and all things Victorianist, @ruthannereads.bsky.social and I hope you enjoy. @bavs-uk.bsky.social bavs.ac.uk/newsletters/

Excellent to attend and speak at the British Association of Victorian Studies 25th Anniversary Conference, and to hear its inspiring roundtable from presidents past and future. Isobel Armstrong on the future of the discipline: ‘Be dauntless’. #BAVS2025 @bavs-uk.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social