Erica Haugtvedt
@ehaugtvedt.bsky.social
19C British literature; seriality; transmedia; popular culture; fictionality.
Assoc. Prof of English. Author of Transfictional Character and Transmedia Storyworlds in the British Nineteenth Century, Palgrave 2022. Views are my own, not my employer's.
Assoc. Prof of English. Author of Transfictional Character and Transmedia Storyworlds in the British Nineteenth Century, Palgrave 2022. Views are my own, not my employer's.
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Erica Haugtvedt
@ehaugtvedt.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Transfictional Character and Transmedia Storyworlds in the British Nineteenth Century
This book studies the emergence of transfictional and transmedia storytelling in the nineteenth century, interrogating the nature of fictional character.
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My first book came out in 2022! 10 years in the making!
Your institution may have access via Springer's database of ebooks, but if you don't already have access, using this link gets me a better royalty check ;) Please read!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Your institution may have access via Springer's database of ebooks, but if you don't already have access, using this link gets me a better royalty check ;) Please read!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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📣BREAKING NEWS! We've extended our CFP deadline for #RSVP2026 "Movements and Migrations"! Proposals now due 21 November 2025. Full CFP and more details about all things conference on our website: rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...
October 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
📣BREAKING NEWS! We've extended our CFP deadline for #RSVP2026 "Movements and Migrations"! Proposals now due 21 November 2025. Full CFP and more details about all things conference on our website: rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...
I need help finding scans of _Boys of England_ vol. 1, issues 1-? (early issues, 1866). If you are able to help, please message me. Thank you!
October 8, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I need help finding scans of _Boys of England_ vol. 1, issues 1-? (early issues, 1866). If you are able to help, please message me. Thank you!
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Our next #RSVPDigiEv is about a month away! Join us Oct. 17 to hear about recent updates to the Curran Index from editors @emilyjlm.bsky.social+Lars Atkin in a talk, "From Periodicals to Dailies: Attribution Scholarship and the Joys and Challenges of Archival Plenitude." rs4vp.org/oct-digital-...
Oct. Digital Event: "From Periodicals to Dailies" – RSVP
Our October DigiEvent features a talk by editors of the Curran Index on the joys and challenges of archival plenitude. Join us October 17!
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September 18, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Our next #RSVPDigiEv is about a month away! Join us Oct. 17 to hear about recent updates to the Curran Index from editors @emilyjlm.bsky.social+Lars Atkin in a talk, "From Periodicals to Dailies: Attribution Scholarship and the Joys and Challenges of Archival Plenitude." rs4vp.org/oct-digital-...
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💼 We're hiring! RSVP seeks a new Editor or pair of Co-Editors to lead the Curran Index into its next phase. Many many thanks to our outgoing Editors, @emilyjlm.bsky.social+Lars Atkin for their dedication to this ongoing DH project. Applications due 15 October! rs4vp.org/curran-edito...
Lead the Curran Index as Our New Editor – RSVP
RSVP seeks a new Editor or Editors to lead the Curran Index! Applications should be sent to VP Alison Chapman by October 15.
rs4vp.org
September 4, 2025 at 9:11 PM
💼 We're hiring! RSVP seeks a new Editor or pair of Co-Editors to lead the Curran Index into its next phase. Many many thanks to our outgoing Editors, @emilyjlm.bsky.social+Lars Atkin for their dedication to this ongoing DH project. Applications due 15 October! rs4vp.org/curran-edito...
RSVP generously supports Periodicals research through several grants competitions. Maybe one fits your project!
Peterson Fellowships open today! Named for Yale professor and our dear friend, Linda H. Peterson, the Peterson Fellowship is designed to support one scholar for four full-time months conducting research focused on the British periodical press of long #19thC. Applications due Nov. 15!
The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship – RSVP
The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship was named after the widely influential Yale professor and longtime RSVP Board member and Vice President, Linda Peterson. The purpose of the Peterson Fellowship is to…
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September 16, 2025 at 12:38 AM
RSVP generously supports Periodicals research through several grants competitions. Maybe one fits your project!
I'm excited to announce that I've been elected to the Board of Directors for the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals! Eager to work more closely with the members of this awesome society!
a painting of a young girl in a white dress and black shoes
ALT: a painting of a young girl in a white dress and black shoes
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September 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
I'm excited to announce that I've been elected to the Board of Directors for the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals! Eager to work more closely with the members of this awesome society!
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📣 Curran Fellowships are now OPEN! Per our most recent newsletter, we've moved up our Curran awards to allow recipients time to plan summer travel. Applications due Oct. 15. As always, guidelines and more info are on our website!
rs4vp.org/awards/curra...
rs4vp.org/awards/curra...
The Curran Fellowships – RSVP
The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century in making use of primary print and archival so...
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August 16, 2025 at 3:47 PM
📣 Curran Fellowships are now OPEN! Per our most recent newsletter, we've moved up our Curran awards to allow recipients time to plan summer travel. Applications due Oct. 15. As always, guidelines and more info are on our website!
rs4vp.org/awards/curra...
rs4vp.org/awards/curra...
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✨ It's official! We're now accepting proposals for #RSVP2026, "Movements and Migrations"! We invite scholars to examine the relationship between periodicals, migrations, and movements for our 2026 conference in Dublin. Full CFP and more details on our main website.
RSVP Annual Conference – RSVP
The nineteenth century was marked by unprecedented migration, as people moved to urban centers; were forcibly or semi-forcibly relocated; and emigrated to escape war, famine, economic instability, or…
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September 1, 2025 at 2:49 PM
✨ It's official! We're now accepting proposals for #RSVP2026, "Movements and Migrations"! We invite scholars to examine the relationship between periodicals, migrations, and movements for our 2026 conference in Dublin. Full CFP and more details on our main website.
I'm running for a board position, so remember to vote by today!
☑️ Don't forget to vote for your preferred candidates for our two open Board positions and new Recording Secretary for the Board. Polls close THIS Friday, 5 September! Didn't get your ballot via email? Ensure your membership is active first, and if so, then contact our Communications Coordinator.
September 5, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I'm running for a board position, so remember to vote by today!
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New #FanStudies article ⬇️ ⬇️⬇️
Zhang, L.-T. (2024). From subculture to mainstream: Nostalgia, criticism and negotiation in a fan community. Convergence, 31(4), 1366-1382.
doi.org/10.1177/1354...
Zhang, L.-T. (2024). From subculture to mainstream: Nostalgia, criticism and negotiation in a fan community. Convergence, 31(4), 1366-1382.
doi.org/10.1177/1354...
From subculture to mainstream: Nostalgia, criticism and negotiation in a fan community - Leticia-Tian Zhang, 2025
Extensive research has been conducted on social media and fandom, particularly on how digital platforms facilitate community formation and cultural production a...
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July 24, 2025 at 10:27 AM
New #FanStudies article ⬇️ ⬇️⬇️
Zhang, L.-T. (2024). From subculture to mainstream: Nostalgia, criticism and negotiation in a fan community. Convergence, 31(4), 1366-1382.
doi.org/10.1177/1354...
Zhang, L.-T. (2024). From subculture to mainstream: Nostalgia, criticism and negotiation in a fan community. Convergence, 31(4), 1366-1382.
doi.org/10.1177/1354...
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This is another routine reminder that our journal @advancesjournal.bsky.social is actively seeking proposals for themed issues. Do get in touch with me directly if you are interested in submitting a proposal.
Journal details 👇
www.tandfonline.com/journals/ran...
Journal details 👇
www.tandfonline.com/journals/ran...
Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research
Explore the latest peer-reviewed articles and learn how to publish your work in Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research.
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July 23, 2025 at 8:14 AM
This is another routine reminder that our journal @advancesjournal.bsky.social is actively seeking proposals for themed issues. Do get in touch with me directly if you are interested in submitting a proposal.
Journal details 👇
www.tandfonline.com/journals/ran...
Journal details 👇
www.tandfonline.com/journals/ran...
The latest issue of Victorian Popular Fictions Journal has dropped! It is open access, as always: victorianpopularfiction.org/publications...
Victorian Popular Fictions volume 7 issue 1 (Spring 2025)
Table of Contents ArticlesCarolyn W de la L Oulton. Call that Reading? Creative Approaches to Literary Studies and Literary HeritageChristine Choi. Sanctimonious or Sensational? Ellen Wood, the “Go…
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July 17, 2025 at 8:22 PM
The latest issue of Victorian Popular Fictions Journal has dropped! It is open access, as always: victorianpopularfiction.org/publications...
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Hot on the heels of #RSVP2025, here is the latest from the field, a fitting continuation of the wonderful work you, our dear followers, do on a daily basis! Give it a read!
VPR's special issue "Currents and Currencies in the #Victorian #PeriodicalPress" is out now! Huge thanks to guest editors Victoria Clarke (@vjctorianist.bsky.social) and Annemarie McAllister. Check out their intro essay: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org
July 14, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Hot on the heels of #RSVP2025, here is the latest from the field, a fitting continuation of the wonderful work you, our dear followers, do on a daily basis! Give it a read!
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Enjoying Prof Jason Camelot's Wolff lecture on voice, sound, and elocution in the 19thC American periodical press. Periodicals were serialised textbooks for oratory schools and election performances, as correspondence courses. But why is Chicago seemingly the hub for public speakers? #RSVP2025
July 12, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Enjoying Prof Jason Camelot's Wolff lecture on voice, sound, and elocution in the 19thC American periodical press. Periodicals were serialised textbooks for oratory schools and election performances, as correspondence courses. But why is Chicago seemingly the hub for public speakers? #RSVP2025
I do my teaching and scholarship during regular work-day hours. Is there always more to do? Yes, but clocking off for the evening and weekends has not hindered my productivity and has made my life much richer.
“Flexible schedule” in academia means you are free to work whenever you feel guilty.
July 12, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I do my teaching and scholarship during regular work-day hours. Is there always more to do? Yes, but clocking off for the evening and weekends has not hindered my productivity and has made my life much richer.
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Just adding that it’s very insane that the situation has deteriorated to where repeating postwar Anglo-American boilerplate abt knowledge in a democratic society is a take!
“It is good for students to learn actual things from trained experts!” [thrown in a gulag]
“It is good for students to learn actual things from trained experts!” [thrown in a gulag]
July 12, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Just adding that it’s very insane that the situation has deteriorated to where repeating postwar Anglo-American boilerplate abt knowledge in a democratic society is a take!
“It is good for students to learn actual things from trained experts!” [thrown in a gulag]
“It is good for students to learn actual things from trained experts!” [thrown in a gulag]
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Terrific panel on C19 periodical advertising at #rsvp2025. Here’s one of @vjctorianist.bsky.social ‘s slides, showing adverts vs sales in the Northern Star. #19th-c #victorian
July 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Terrific panel on C19 periodical advertising at #rsvp2025. Here’s one of @vjctorianist.bsky.social ‘s slides, showing adverts vs sales in the Northern Star. #19th-c #victorian
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Fascinating work from Ge Tang on photography of Chinese gold labourers in the journal South Africa. The 'modernity' of photography is used as a PR strategy to mask the slave-like conditions of indentured labourers in the Transvaal. #RSVP2025 #VoicesVisions
July 12, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Fascinating work from Ge Tang on photography of Chinese gold labourers in the journal South Africa. The 'modernity' of photography is used as a PR strategy to mask the slave-like conditions of indentured labourers in the Transvaal. #RSVP2025 #VoicesVisions
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Delighted to see a paper on "The String of Pearls: A Romance" from Edward Lloyd's *The People's Periodical and Family Library* (1846-1847)!
Paulina Hernández-Trejo looks at representations of empire and racial capitalism, leading to legitimate and illegitimate cannibalisms.
#RSVP2025 #BookHistory
Paulina Hernández-Trejo looks at representations of empire and racial capitalism, leading to legitimate and illegitimate cannibalisms.
#RSVP2025 #BookHistory
Work Information in Price One Penny - Cheap Literature 1837-1860
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July 12, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Delighted to see a paper on "The String of Pearls: A Romance" from Edward Lloyd's *The People's Periodical and Family Library* (1846-1847)!
Paulina Hernández-Trejo looks at representations of empire and racial capitalism, leading to legitimate and illegitimate cannibalisms.
#RSVP2025 #BookHistory
Paulina Hernández-Trejo looks at representations of empire and racial capitalism, leading to legitimate and illegitimate cannibalisms.
#RSVP2025 #BookHistory
So excited to read this!
THRILLED to share that my book has won the VPFA Second Book Prize! 🎉
We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2024 VPFA Second Book Prize:
Tara MacDonald, Narrative, Affect, and Victorian Sensation: Wilful Bodies (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Prof. MacDonald will receive a £200 cash prize and be honoured at the Annual Conference AGM.
Tara MacDonald, Narrative, Affect, and Victorian Sensation: Wilful Bodies (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Prof. MacDonald will receive a £200 cash prize and be honoured at the Annual Conference AGM.
July 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
So excited to read this!
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Exciting new issue of VPFJ is now out in the world, featuring my review for Helena Esser's fantastic Steampunk London: Neo-Victorian Urban Space and Popular Transmedia Memory. I'm a big fan. Get your libraries on it.
@vpfa.bsky.social @helenaesser.bsky.social
doi.org/10.46911/TWO...
@vpfa.bsky.social @helenaesser.bsky.social
doi.org/10.46911/TWO...
Victorian Popular Fictions 7.1 8 Butler-Way
Helena Esser, Steampunk London: Neo-Victorian Urban Space and Popular Transmedia Memory. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024, 248 pp. HB £85.00. ISBN: 9781350433908 Reviewed by Emma Butler-Way Downlo…
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July 11, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Exciting new issue of VPFJ is now out in the world, featuring my review for Helena Esser's fantastic Steampunk London: Neo-Victorian Urban Space and Popular Transmedia Memory. I'm a big fan. Get your libraries on it.
@vpfa.bsky.social @helenaesser.bsky.social
doi.org/10.46911/TWO...
@vpfa.bsky.social @helenaesser.bsky.social
doi.org/10.46911/TWO...
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Good lectures are good! Humanities professors have expertise, because they’ve trained for many years, + their slowly-acquired thus *real* knowledge is compelling, relevant, even sometimes life-changing! This should all be lavishly funded bc access to truth is @ the basis of a free & just society
some of my best, most valuable, college classes were straight-up lectures
sure, it depends on audience/context/material, but the wholesale valorization of "student-centered" classrooms (in the humanities at least) ceded the cultural capital of expertise in truly damaging ways
sure, it depends on audience/context/material, but the wholesale valorization of "student-centered" classrooms (in the humanities at least) ceded the cultural capital of expertise in truly damaging ways
Thing I am an absolute complete total reactionary about: there has not actually been invented a better model of conveying information in a learning environment than the basic structure of a traditional lecture. A speaker standing in some sort of unique focal point for the attention of listeners...
July 12, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Good lectures are good! Humanities professors have expertise, because they’ve trained for many years, + their slowly-acquired thus *real* knowledge is compelling, relevant, even sometimes life-changing! This should all be lavishly funded bc access to truth is @ the basis of a free & just society
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Last day of #VoicesVisions! 😭 Amidst our panels + coffee breaks, the AGM is at 12:30 in Kasbeer Hall. We'll wrap up our day with our annual Wolff Lecture by Jason Camlot at 4pm, also in Kasbeer. Stick around to hear where we're headed for #RSVP2026!
Conference Program – RSVP
This year’s conference will take place in person, with some synchronous hybrid components to include colleagues who have elected to present their research virtually. All keynote addresses and the…
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July 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Last day of #VoicesVisions! 😭 Amidst our panels + coffee breaks, the AGM is at 12:30 in Kasbeer Hall. We'll wrap up our day with our annual Wolff Lecture by Jason Camlot at 4pm, also in Kasbeer. Stick around to hear where we're headed for #RSVP2026!
@nmhouston.bsky.social cautions periodicals scholars to remember that we are not encountering the poem itself but rather search results that have been prioritized by an algorithm very few of us deeply understand. #RSVP2025
July 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
@nmhouston.bsky.social cautions periodicals scholars to remember that we are not encountering the poem itself but rather search results that have been prioritized by an algorithm very few of us deeply understand. #RSVP2025
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Excited to hear my co-panelist from #RSVP24, @francescac.bsky.social!
She just defended her dissertation on how subjective and embodied experiences of time interact with poetics, with a focus on how form interacts with neuroscientific and philosophical models of perception.
#RSVP2025 #BookHistory
She just defended her dissertation on how subjective and embodied experiences of time interact with poetics, with a focus on how form interacts with neuroscientific and philosophical models of perception.
#RSVP2025 #BookHistory
July 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Excited to hear my co-panelist from #RSVP24, @francescac.bsky.social!
She just defended her dissertation on how subjective and embodied experiences of time interact with poetics, with a focus on how form interacts with neuroscientific and philosophical models of perception.
#RSVP2025 #BookHistory
She just defended her dissertation on how subjective and embodied experiences of time interact with poetics, with a focus on how form interacts with neuroscientific and philosophical models of perception.
#RSVP2025 #BookHistory