Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada
@vsawc.bsky.social
Bringing a community of scholars committed to interdisciplinary research and innovative teaching about the Victorian period together since 1972.
Our journal is @victorianreview.bsky.social
Our website is https://vsawc.org
Our journal is @victorianreview.bsky.social
Our website is https://vsawc.org
Registration for ‘VSAWC 2026: Victorian Trade’ is now open! You will find the link you need to register at vsawc.org/registration/
We look forward to sharing a draft program with you soon.
We look forward to sharing a draft program with you soon.
Registration – Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada
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February 6, 2026 at 2:11 PM
Registration for ‘VSAWC 2026: Victorian Trade’ is now open! You will find the link you need to register at vsawc.org/registration/
We look forward to sharing a draft program with you soon.
We look forward to sharing a draft program with you soon.
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The Gaskell Journal invites applications for the position of co-Editor.
The Gaskell Journal is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published annually, dedicated to disseminating the most authoritative, dynamic and agenda-setting research in Gaskell Studies. +
The Gaskell Journal invites applications for the position of co-Editor.
The Gaskell Journal is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published annually, dedicated to disseminating the most authoritative, dynamic and agenda-setting research in Gaskell Studies. +
February 6, 2026 at 2:02 PM
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The Gaskell Journal invites applications for the position of co-Editor.
The Gaskell Journal is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published annually, dedicated to disseminating the most authoritative, dynamic and agenda-setting research in Gaskell Studies. +
The Gaskell Journal invites applications for the position of co-Editor.
The Gaskell Journal is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published annually, dedicated to disseminating the most authoritative, dynamic and agenda-setting research in Gaskell Studies. +
CFP for the Undergraduate and Graduate Victorian Studies Association (UGSVA) fourth annual online conference! The conference will take place on Tuesday April 28st from about 9:00 AM-4:00 PM EST (time approximate) via Zoom. CFP deadline is on Sunday.
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/...
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/...
cfp | call for papers
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February 6, 2026 at 1:26 PM
CFP for the Undergraduate and Graduate Victorian Studies Association (UGSVA) fourth annual online conference! The conference will take place on Tuesday April 28st from about 9:00 AM-4:00 PM EST (time approximate) via Zoom. CFP deadline is on Sunday.
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/...
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/01/...
Today is the day! Send us your proposals, folks!
Reminder: The extended deadline to submit your proposal for VSAWC 2026 is in five days!
Had a busy week? You're in luck! The deadline to submit your proposals to present at our May 2026 conference on Victorian Trade as been extended to December 15th! Please go to vsawc.org/events/ for more details!
December 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Today is the day! Send us your proposals, folks!
Reminder: The extended deadline to submit your proposal for VSAWC 2026 is in five days!
Had a busy week? You're in luck! The deadline to submit your proposals to present at our May 2026 conference on Victorian Trade as been extended to December 15th! Please go to vsawc.org/events/ for more details!
VSAWC Conference 2026 – Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada
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December 11, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Reminder: The extended deadline to submit your proposal for VSAWC 2026 is in five days!
Had a busy week? You're in luck! The deadline to submit your proposals to present at our May 2026 conference on Victorian Trade as been extended to December 15th! Please go to vsawc.org/events/ for more details!
VSAWC Conference 2026 – Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada
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December 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Had a busy week? You're in luck! The deadline to submit your proposals to present at our May 2026 conference on Victorian Trade as been extended to December 15th! Please go to vsawc.org/events/ for more details!
Abstracts due today!
A reminder to submit proposals for VSAWC's 2026 conference on VICTORIAN TRADE by December 1!
Our CFP for our May 2026 conference is live! Please see the attachment or the thread for details about our upcoming conference on VICTORIAN TRADE
December 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Abstracts due today!
Please see vsawc.org/events/ for more details!
November 28, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Please see vsawc.org/events/ for more details!
A reminder to submit proposals for VSAWC's 2026 conference on VICTORIAN TRADE by December 1!
Our CFP for our May 2026 conference is live! Please see the attachment or the thread for details about our upcoming conference on VICTORIAN TRADE
November 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
A reminder to submit proposals for VSAWC's 2026 conference on VICTORIAN TRADE by December 1!
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I am so grateful to Doreen Thierauf for the invitation to contribute to this forum! As Jill Ehnenn points to in her response, the political (and disciplinary!) landscape has changed significantly since writing my contribution, "After the Tipping Point"--
Issue 50.2 of Victorian Review is out on Project Muse! First up in this issue is a forum edited by Doreen Thierauf, "Thinking Reproductive and Sexual Justice with the Victorians after Dobbs: Future Paths Previously Trod"
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55679
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55679
Project MUSE - Victorian Review-Volume 50, Number 2, Fall 2024
muse.jhu.edu
October 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I am so grateful to Doreen Thierauf for the invitation to contribute to this forum! As Jill Ehnenn points to in her response, the political (and disciplinary!) landscape has changed significantly since writing my contribution, "After the Tipping Point"--
Congratulations, Katharine!
We are pleased to announce that the 2025 winner of the Hamilton Prize is Katharine Williams (CUNY Graduate Center) for the essay "Missing Members in Charlotte Yonge's The Clever Woman of the Family." Congratulations! The essay will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal.
October 16, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Congratulations, Katharine!
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More time to perfect your abstract on space, place, and community (anywhere) for queer bib. These lively, friendly, sustaining conferences are entirely worth the time + energy. **Hybrid**, so you don't even need to leave house. Althrough the organisers are working hard to make it worth the travel.
October 15, 2025 at 11:54 AM
More time to perfect your abstract on space, place, and community (anywhere) for queer bib. These lively, friendly, sustaining conferences are entirely worth the time + energy. **Hybrid**, so you don't even need to leave house. Althrough the organisers are working hard to make it worth the travel.
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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
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
OLHJ_CfP.pdf
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October 3, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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
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
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📢CFP -- "Mediating Medicine: Health and Illness in the Victorian Age", 5 December 2025, Online Workshop
Send us your proposals for 15min papers or 5min flashlight talks by 30 Sept!⚕️💉👨⚕️🚑📖📰
PGR, ERC & NeoVictorian contributions very welcome 🫶
#MedHum #19Century #Victorian
shorturl.at/ePhU5
Send us your proposals for 15min papers or 5min flashlight talks by 30 Sept!⚕️💉👨⚕️🚑📖📰
PGR, ERC & NeoVictorian contributions very welcome 🫶
#MedHum #19Century #Victorian
shorturl.at/ePhU5
Mediating Medicine CfP_final.pdf
cloud.uni-konstanz - creative.together
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July 2, 2025 at 12:21 PM
📢CFP -- "Mediating Medicine: Health and Illness in the Victorian Age", 5 December 2025, Online Workshop
Send us your proposals for 15min papers or 5min flashlight talks by 30 Sept!⚕️💉👨⚕️🚑📖📰
PGR, ERC & NeoVictorian contributions very welcome 🫶
#MedHum #19Century #Victorian
shorturl.at/ePhU5
Send us your proposals for 15min papers or 5min flashlight talks by 30 Sept!⚕️💉👨⚕️🚑📖📰
PGR, ERC & NeoVictorian contributions very welcome 🫶
#MedHum #19Century #Victorian
shorturl.at/ePhU5
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Auckland university is hiring a Lecturer (that’s Assistant Prof for all you Americans) in English, specialising in the long nineteenth century, to a permanent position commencing before Semester 1, 2026 (or by negotiation). Focus is nineteenth century fiction - details below!
Lecturer - English
Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandThe University of Auckland is New Zealand’s pre-eminent University, with a turnover of $1.1bn, including research revenue of over $...
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October 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Auckland university is hiring a Lecturer (that’s Assistant Prof for all you Americans) in English, specialising in the long nineteenth century, to a permanent position commencing before Semester 1, 2026 (or by negotiation). Focus is nineteenth century fiction - details below!
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Want to attend NAVSA 2025: Aftermaths but can't make it to DC? Want MORE brilliant Victorianist scholarship than you can get at the in-person event? The NAVSA 2025 DIGITAL PRESESSION is free and open to all —registration required for security
(thread of papers below)
(thread of papers below)
#NAVSA2025 is running special digital panels on Fri, Nov 7 and Sat Nov 8! Registration is FREE but required: tinyurl.com/hy2zhe2y
NAVSA 2025: Aftermaths // Digital Pre-Session Registration
Attendance at the NAVSA 2025 digital pre-sessions is free but you must register in order to receive zoom links for both dates (Friday, November 7th and Saturday, November 8th). Please register if you ...
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October 3, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Want to attend NAVSA 2025: Aftermaths but can't make it to DC? Want MORE brilliant Victorianist scholarship than you can get at the in-person event? The NAVSA 2025 DIGITAL PRESESSION is free and open to all —registration required for security
(thread of papers below)
(thread of papers below)
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Issue 50.2 of Victorian Review is out on Project Muse! First up in this issue is a forum edited by Doreen Thierauf, "Thinking Reproductive and Sexual Justice with the Victorians after Dobbs: Future Paths Previously Trod"
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55679
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55679
Project MUSE - Victorian Review-Volume 50, Number 2, Fall 2024
muse.jhu.edu
October 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Issue 50.2 of Victorian Review is out on Project Muse! First up in this issue is a forum edited by Doreen Thierauf, "Thinking Reproductive and Sexual Justice with the Victorians after Dobbs: Future Paths Previously Trod"
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55679
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55679
We were so excited about this issue that we typed too fast and failed to highlight the cluster's focus, Victorians and Video Games! Check it out!
Next up in this issue, a special essay cluster edited by Brooke Cameron and Lin Young, featuring articles by Cameron and Young, Molly Boggs, and Hannah Mummert.
The issue also features Olivia Krauze's Hamilton Prize-winning article "What is a Violent Emotion?" and +
The issue also features Olivia Krauze's Hamilton Prize-winning article "What is a Violent Emotion?" and +
October 3, 2025 at 3:39 PM
We were so excited about this issue that we typed too fast and failed to highlight the cluster's focus, Victorians and Video Games! Check it out!
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The latest issue is up on Muse! Featuring a forum on reproductive and sexual justice with the Victorians, a cluster of essays on Victorian video games, our Hamilton Prize winner for 2024, and the lovely and talented Aurora Leigh. Plus book reviews as always. Happy reading! muse.jhu.edu/issue/55679
October 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The latest issue is up on Muse! Featuring a forum on reproductive and sexual justice with the Victorians, a cluster of essays on Victorian video games, our Hamilton Prize winner for 2024, and the lovely and talented Aurora Leigh. Plus book reviews as always. Happy reading! muse.jhu.edu/issue/55679
Issue 50.2 of Victorian Review is out on Project Muse! First up in this issue is a forum edited by Doreen Thierauf, "Thinking Reproductive and Sexual Justice with the Victorians after Dobbs: Future Paths Previously Trod"
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55679
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55679
Project MUSE - Victorian Review-Volume 50, Number 2, Fall 2024
muse.jhu.edu
October 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Issue 50.2 of Victorian Review is out on Project Muse! First up in this issue is a forum edited by Doreen Thierauf, "Thinking Reproductive and Sexual Justice with the Victorians after Dobbs: Future Paths Previously Trod"
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55679
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55679
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Victorians loved writing fan mail. Celebrities - historians included - were not necessarily equally thrilled about this specimen of modern fan culture: cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/d...
Dear Historian: Agnes Strickland, Fan Mail, and Historical Knowledge as a Franchise
There was a group of ladies in Plymouth, Massachusetts, who were enthusiastic about Charles Dickens. In fact, their enthusiasm was so intense that they decided to write to their idol to request a s…
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September 26, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Victorians loved writing fan mail. Celebrities - historians included - were not necessarily equally thrilled about this specimen of modern fan culture: cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/d...
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Nice review for Dickensland in Victorian Studies muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... ... it's for anyone but I guess just academic enough to interest academics looking at literary tourism, history and heritage in London; or, indeed, Dickens.
Project MUSE - <i>Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens’s London</i> by Lee Jackson (review)
muse.jhu.edu
September 26, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Nice review for Dickensland in Victorian Studies muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... ... it's for anyone but I guess just academic enough to interest academics looking at literary tourism, history and heritage in London; or, indeed, Dickens.
Our CFP for our May 2026 conference is live! Please see the attachment or the thread for details about our upcoming conference on VICTORIAN TRADE
September 26, 2025 at 2:58 AM
Our CFP for our May 2026 conference is live! Please see the attachment or the thread for details about our upcoming conference on VICTORIAN TRADE
VSAWC's next conference, on Victorian Trade, will take place in Winnipeg MB (Treaty One Territory) on May 1 and 2, 2026. We look forward to welcoming Dr. Sarah Fee (Senior Curator, Global Fashion & Textiles; Royal Ontario Museum) as our plenary speaker. +
September 26, 2025 at 2:50 AM
VSAWC's next conference, on Victorian Trade, will take place in Winnipeg MB (Treaty One Territory) on May 1 and 2, 2026. We look forward to welcoming Dr. Sarah Fee (Senior Curator, Global Fashion & Textiles; Royal Ontario Museum) as our plenary speaker. +
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✨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/
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/
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September 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
✨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/
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/