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

It was great to attend @bavs-uk.bsky.social last week! Incredible conference and beautiful people! And particularly excited to have won the runner-up prize for best PhD paper!!! Thank you BAVS!

Happy 25th birthday @bavs-uk.bsky.social! Thank you for the beautiful conference dinner and the fiendishly difficult quiz! Glorious Victorian architecture provided by Oxford Town Hall… it felt a bit like dining inside a wedding cake… #BAVS2025

Wonderful conference dinner for @bavs-uk.bsky.social in the glorious high Victorian Oxford Town Hall. The post-dinner quiz was so difficult I don't think I can claim to be a Victorianist any more 🤣

Had a great time @bavs-uk.bsky.social 2025 in #Oxford - as well many fascinating papers and new friends made, there was also a seance, a punch & Judy show, a fiendishly difficult quiz at the conference dinner and a private tour of the @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social victorian galleries.

Here are a few of the #BirkbeckVictorianists on tour again, this time at the @bavs-uk.bsky.social 2025 Conference in Oxford. With @janetteleaf.bsky.social, @helenaesser.bsky.social and @nonfictioness.bsky.social.

It's the first time in a long time that I've been at a conference for the duration, which is testament to how brilliant the @bavs-uk.bsky.social 2025 anniversary event was! A lovely bonus to speak on two panels with the wonderful @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social and @jendeavour.bsky.social 🙌

Had a great time @bavs-uk.bsky.social last week. Not been for a long time and was really impressed by the quality of the papers and the great chats I had with so many. Thanks also to my PhD sister @jendeavour.bsky.social for getting this pic of me in action, probably laughing at one of my own jokes.

Thanks to all those who gave me positive feedback on my paper on Mary Cowden Clarke and Dickens’ 1848 production of The Merry Wives of Windsor @bavs-uk.bsky.social 2025 as part of the Gendered Entertainments panel. Made a very nerve-wracking experience a positive one!

Really looking forward to tomorrow's ECR Professionalisation Day, kicking off the amazing @bavs-uk.bsky.social conference! Careers advice, jigsaw puzzles, séances all in one day - what more could you want?

Great to speak about using print and digital archives in teaching, on the Victorian Pedagogies panel with @timgao.bsky.social and @harbottlestores.bsky.social at @bavs-uk.bsky.social PGR/ECR Professionalisation Afternoon Also had sneaky peek at the Tales of Weird collection at Oxford's Blackwells!

The #BAVS2025 @bavs-uk.bsky.social conference kicked off with the ECR/PGR Professionalisation Day @engfac.bsky.social - an insightful pedagogy & careers panel, a fun Victorian Parlour Games session, productive peer review workshops & a fantastic séance magic show from @careenafenton.bsky.social 📚👻

New website on Trollope that may be of interest to Victorianists: www.discovertrollope.com

You can now get hold of my book Form and Modernity in Women’s Poetry in paperback, for a mere £34.39 in the Routledge sale (isn't that about the price of a flat white in London these days?)