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Jo Carruthers
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Writing a long book on roughness & class in Victorian Britain & a short book on biblical allusion in Victorian Lit; otherwise: Bible & literature, aesthetics & politics; sand & coastlines; teaches Eng Lit at Lancaster Uni, UK. Cat convert. She/her
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We’re live everybody— join us in DC in November 2025??
November 27, 2024 at 5:42 PM
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Here's a list of journals, scholarly societies, and book series devoted to 19th-c. Britain. If you're aware of others that should be added, please let me know.
www.victorianresearch.org/journals.htm...
VRW: Journal Guide
www.victorianresearch.org
November 23, 2024 at 11:18 PM
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In "'So Many Friends!': Gregariousness and Its Discontents in Jane Austen," Michael Greaney provides a new reading of friendship across Austen's fiction. Out now in SEL 62.4, read on ProjectMUSE https://bit.ly/3YORRlx (Sense and Sensibility illustration c/o British Library 012624.g.5)
November 13, 2024 at 7:15 PM
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I’m pleased to say that English Literature at the University of Glasgow are advertising two new permanent posts. Applications for the James Murray Beattie Lectureships in Victorian Literature, and in Fantasy Literature, close on 6th May 24. More info here: gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/
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April 8, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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Join us next week for a pair of virtual events. Register for EVENT 2024 to gain access to the Zoom sessions as well as COVE Conferences, where social annotation is now live for both panels. www.event2024.org/registration
February 22, 2024 at 6:32 PM
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Social annotation is now live on COVE Conferences for next week’s EVENT 2024 virtual panels.
Join us next week for a pair of virtual events. Register for EVENT 2024 to gain access to the Zoom sessions as well as COVE Conferences, where social annotation is now live for both panels. www.event2024.org/registration
February 22, 2024 at 6:45 PM
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The EVENT 2024 Fellowship offers free conference registration to scholars in financial need. Apply by Feb 26: bit.ly/3OQw88m
February 20, 2024 at 6:04 PM
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For all your #18thC, #19thC, #Romantic, and #Victorian needs:
Ta DAH! It’s our 2024 seminar series! Join us in conversation with some brilliant scholars, incl our own postgraduates! Free, online, & all welcome! Thursdays, 6-7 pm. @SMCoulombeau & @TinoOudesluijs kick us off on 29/2. More details & sign ups here: sites.edgehill.ac.uk/ehu19/events/
February 7, 2024 at 7:09 AM
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The deadline for proposal submissions is quickly approaching! Submit a proposal for the September face-to-face hub events by February 1, 2024 at EVENT2024.org/call-for-papers.
January 23, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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10 days until the deadline for submitting an abstract for Event2024. At the Lancaster hub we welcome papers or panels on any ‘Event’ theme and especially: the working classes, religion, the environment, and adaptation. The theme can be interpreted broadly: catastrophe; …
January 22, 2024 at 9:35 PM
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"It turns out the most effective way to improve employee mental health is by reducing stress, rather than adding new ways to cope with it." Quelle surprise.
Work ‘wellness’ programmes don't make employees happier - but I know what does | André Spicer
Sinking time and money into mindfulness apps and resilience training ignores the real problem: workplace stress, says author André Spicer
www.theguardian.com
January 18, 2024 at 7:58 AM
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#19thc to #20th English lit job alert for those doing environmental and medical humanities at Université Paris Cité, MCF level post
2) English literatures, environmental and medical humanities

www.galaxie.enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/ensup/Listes...
January 18, 2024 at 3:14 PM
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Live annotation for the Vcologies panel has begun in COVE Conferences! If you’ve registered, check your email for login info and instructions. For help using COVE, go to EVENT2024.org/frequently-asked-questions.
January 18, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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VCOLOGIES online event, January 26, 2024
Panelists:
Sukanya Banerjee (UC Berkeley), Nathan Hensley (Georgetown U), John Macneill Miller (Allegheney College), Liz Miller (UC Davis), Philip Steer (Massey U), Jesse Oak Taylor (U of Washington), Paul Young (U of Exeter)
See www.event2024.org/digital
January 18, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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1st Feb is the deadline for Event2024 abstracts. Proposals can be for individual 20-min papers or for a panel (3 x 20-min or 5 x 10-min papers). Any ‘Event’-related topics welcome but especially on the working classes, religion, the environment or adaptation.
January 17, 2024 at 9:37 AM
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At the Lancaster hub we want to make the most of the face-to-face - so alongside the programme of talks there will be spaces and events to enable connection and collaboration among attendees. Visit www.event.org/call-for-pap... to submit a proposal.
January 17, 2024 at 9:40 AM
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Only one group in the UK sees immigration as a big issue. From Financial Times research.
December 15, 2023 at 9:12 AM
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As our series on labour history and song nears an end, @vjctorianist.bsky.social invites us to take inspiration from Wham! in challenging peoples, work and belonging
sslh.org.uk/2023/12/22/i...
December 22, 2023 at 7:42 AM
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Terrific 5-yr career development post in OE-ME at Lincoln College, Oxford. Closing date 16 Feb.
lincoln.ox.ac.uk/discover/vac...
Vacancy - Simon and June Li Fellowship in English Literature (Fixed Term) | Lincoln College Oxford
Vacancy for Simon and June Li Fellowship in English Literature (Fixed Term)
lincoln.ox.ac.uk
January 16, 2024 at 10:24 AM
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Lancaster’s hub for Event2024 is one of many in-person gatherings that complement the brilliant online events going on across 2024. The first online panel is VCOLOGIES, on 26 Jan, and is free! Register via event2024.org
January 16, 2024 at 12:01 PM
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Brilliant (and never dull) Lancaster hub keynotes : Professor Ruth Livesey - whose writing includes Stage Coaches, Middle England and the ‘dull life’ - and Professor John Bowen whose research spans from Dickens’s umbrellas to Wilkie Collins’s style
January 16, 2024 at 12:02 PM
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We've got lots of book to review at the BAVS newsletter, from a potential double Dickens review to important new perspectives on empire, poetry, and dress 📚
More info, including a full list and contact details, here: bavs.ac.uk/newsletters/
January 15, 2024 at 9:45 AM
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Highly recommend this internship for the fabulous 19! I did it a few years ago and learned so much.
If you’re a CHASE- funded PhD student with an interest in editorial work, online publishing and world-leading C19th research, apply for this internship with us! www.chase.ac.uk/placements/1...
January 15, 2024 at 3:04 PM
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Victorianists! Lancaster Uni is excited to host a hub for Event2024 - a NAVSA / BAVS / AVSA / VI / DACH-V flightless conference on 19-21 Sept. Cfp deadline is 1st Feb - find out more at www.event2024.org
January 15, 2024 at 2:54 PM