Jan Schroeder
@janschrayder.bsky.social
professor and chair of English at Carleton U
editor of Victorian Review
jigsaw puzzle influencer, tea convert, cat butler
editor of Victorian Review
jigsaw puzzle influencer, tea convert, cat butler
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Was joking a bit last week that @victorianreview.bsky.social should promote the fact that a single *experienced human copyeditor who we know* works on every journal issue, but maybe journals/publishers that do that really should promote that as a big advantage of working with them 🤔
May 27, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Was joking a bit last week that @victorianreview.bsky.social should promote the fact that a single *experienced human copyeditor who we know* works on every journal issue, but maybe journals/publishers that do that really should promote that as a big advantage of working with them 🤔
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Hey grad students! The deadline for the Hamilton Prize is coming up July 1! Get your work published in Victorian Review and receive $500 CAD. See website for details victorianreview.org?page_id=358
May 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Hey grad students! The deadline for the Hamilton Prize is coming up July 1! Get your work published in Victorian Review and receive $500 CAD. See website for details victorianreview.org?page_id=358
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Check out Ronja Frank's new post to learn how fairies in children's literature disrupted Victorian binaries!
Blog post: victorianreview.org?p=2199
Full article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Full issue: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54558
Blog post: victorianreview.org?p=2199
Full article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Full issue: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54558
April 22, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Check out Ronja Frank's new post to learn how fairies in children's literature disrupted Victorian binaries!
Blog post: victorianreview.org?p=2199
Full article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Full issue: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54558
Blog post: victorianreview.org?p=2199
Full article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Full issue: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54558
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Check out Daniel Hannah's blog post about his new article on Henry James' In the Cage (1897) and its reflections upon air, contagions, and illness in Victorian Review 50.1. muse.jhu.edu/issue/54558
Post: victorianreview.org?p=2205
Article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Post: victorianreview.org?p=2205
Article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
April 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Check out Daniel Hannah's blog post about his new article on Henry James' In the Cage (1897) and its reflections upon air, contagions, and illness in Victorian Review 50.1. muse.jhu.edu/issue/54558
Post: victorianreview.org?p=2205
Article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Post: victorianreview.org?p=2205
Article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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VR 50.1 just dropped! Check out our forum on Victorian studies and climate change, guest-edited by Barbara Leckie. +The Secret Garden! In the Cage! The French Revolution! Mary Barton! Robert Elsmere! Happy reading. muse.jhu.edu/journal/508
April 8, 2025 at 12:01 PM
VR 50.1 just dropped! Check out our forum on Victorian studies and climate change, guest-edited by Barbara Leckie. +The Secret Garden! In the Cage! The French Revolution! Mary Barton! Robert Elsmere! Happy reading. muse.jhu.edu/journal/508
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This year's Surridge Prize winner is Sarah Scaturro @saruzzza.bsky.social for her essay "'Penitential and Self-Mortifying': Mourning Crape in Fashion" in VR 49.1. It was judged "impressively wide-ranging" with an argument "eminently transportable." Congratulations, Sarah! muse.jhu.edu/issue/51172
April 7, 2025 at 8:30 PM
This year's Surridge Prize winner is Sarah Scaturro @saruzzza.bsky.social for her essay "'Penitential and Self-Mortifying': Mourning Crape in Fashion" in VR 49.1. It was judged "impressively wide-ranging" with an argument "eminently transportable." Congratulations, Sarah! muse.jhu.edu/issue/51172
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Hey, grad students! Do you have a great essay you’d like to publish? Consider submitting it to the Victorian Review’s Hamilton Prize. The winner gets publication in the journal and receives $500 CAD! Submissions are due July 1st, 2025. See the website for details. victorianreview.org?page_id=358
April 5, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Hey, grad students! Do you have a great essay you’d like to publish? Consider submitting it to the Victorian Review’s Hamilton Prize. The winner gets publication in the journal and receives $500 CAD! Submissions are due July 1st, 2025. See the website for details. victorianreview.org?page_id=358
This will be good. If you're in Ottawa, join us!
save the date, Ottawa friends -- we are honoured to host @kqandrews.bsky.social at Carleton on Feb 26th
January 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This will be good. If you're in Ottawa, join us!
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🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
January 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
🥁 Announcing the Public Domain Image Archive! 🥁
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
We are v excited to share our new sister-project, the Public Domain Image Archive (PDIA), a curated collection of 10k+ out-of-copyright historical images, all free to explore and reuse: pdimagearchive.org @pdimagearchive
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Student Stories from the Arts and Social Sciences at Carleton University, a series ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP5t...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP5t...
Carleton University Arts and Social Sciences — Student Stories
YouTube video by Carleton Arts and Social Sciences
www.youtube.com
December 10, 2024 at 4:38 PM
Student Stories from the Arts and Social Sciences at Carleton University, a series ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP5t...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP5t...
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Many hands on the VR team are busy proofreading our upcoming issue! How does the climate crisis affect our work? Plus: The Secret Garden! The French Revolution! Robert Elsmere! More! You won't want to miss it.
December 10, 2024 at 1:08 PM
Many hands on the VR team are busy proofreading our upcoming issue! How does the climate crisis affect our work? Plus: The Secret Garden! The French Revolution! Robert Elsmere! More! You won't want to miss it.
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The CFP for the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada's 2025 conference, EXHIBITING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, May 23-24 in Regina, Saskatchewan is live! Please circulate and send abstracts by Jan. 5. Travel grants available for students + underemployed/contingent faculty 👇
vsawc.org/events/
vsawc.org/events/
November 29, 2024 at 5:05 PM
The CFP for the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada's 2025 conference, EXHIBITING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, May 23-24 in Regina, Saskatchewan is live! Please circulate and send abstracts by Jan. 5. Travel grants available for students + underemployed/contingent faculty 👇
vsawc.org/events/
vsawc.org/events/
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[redoing this b/c my original post contained a wrong date!]
Interested in Victorian cultures of display or spectacle; collections; archives; exhibitions; museums; or galleries; or anything else related to EXHIBITING in literature, art, science, material culture, etc? Send us your abstract!
Interested in Victorian cultures of display or spectacle; collections; archives; exhibitions; museums; or galleries; or anything else related to EXHIBITING in literature, art, science, material culture, etc? Send us your abstract!
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The CFP for the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada's 2025 conference, EXHIBITING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, May 23-24 in Regina, Saskatchewan is up! Send us abstracts by Jan. 5. Travel grants available for students + underemployed/contingent faculty 👇
vsawc.org/events/
The CFP for the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada's 2025 conference, EXHIBITING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, May 23-24 in Regina, Saskatchewan is up! Send us abstracts by Jan. 5. Travel grants available for students + underemployed/contingent faculty 👇
vsawc.org/events/
VSAWC Conference 2025 – VSAWC
vsawc.org
November 29, 2024 at 2:27 PM
[redoing this b/c my original post contained a wrong date!]
Interested in Victorian cultures of display or spectacle; collections; archives; exhibitions; museums; or galleries; or anything else related to EXHIBITING in literature, art, science, material culture, etc? Send us your abstract!
Interested in Victorian cultures of display or spectacle; collections; archives; exhibitions; museums; or galleries; or anything else related to EXHIBITING in literature, art, science, material culture, etc? Send us your abstract!
In case anyone else needs this today
Questions to Ask Yourself Before Giving Up
A poem about self care by Kaitlyn Boulding
gutsmagazine.ca
November 26, 2024 at 6:05 PM
In case anyone else needs this today
This is my morning games routine: Wordle, Framed, Quordle, Connections, Strands, Tightrope, Crossword Mini. It has to be in that order, with tea. After work is Octordle and Blossom. Late night is Waffle if I feel like it.
November 26, 2024 at 1:06 PM
This is my morning games routine: Wordle, Framed, Quordle, Connections, Strands, Tightrope, Crossword Mini. It has to be in that order, with tea. After work is Octordle and Blossom. Late night is Waffle if I feel like it.
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Happy that my article "Living on Pea-nuts: Gissing, Fiction, Subsistence" is out in Novel!
November 21, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Happy that my article "Living on Pea-nuts: Gissing, Fiction, Subsistence" is out in Novel!
I'm one year too young to qualify for my university's Voluntary Retirement Incentive Program and it's a limited one-time offer! Not sure what emoji to use
November 20, 2024 at 10:51 PM
I'm one year too young to qualify for my university's Voluntary Retirement Incentive Program and it's a limited one-time offer! Not sure what emoji to use
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Rest well, brilliant woman. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/b...
Sandra M. Gilbert, Co-Author of ‘The Madwoman in the Attic,’ Dies at 87
A poet, scholar and literary critic, she turned a feminist lens on 19th-century writers like Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë, creating a feminist classic.
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2024 at 3:06 AM
Rest well, brilliant woman. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/18/b...
tea with shortbread or tea with biscotti?
November 18, 2024 at 9:01 PM
tea with shortbread or tea with biscotti?
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We are pleased to announce that the Hamilton Prize winner for 2024 is Olivia Krauze for the essay "What is a Violent Emotion?" We look forward to publishing Olivia's essay in an upcoming issue. The runner up is Lucy Lawrence for an essay on "The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal (1895-97)."
November 18, 2024 at 8:49 PM
We are pleased to announce that the Hamilton Prize winner for 2024 is Olivia Krauze for the essay "What is a Violent Emotion?" We look forward to publishing Olivia's essay in an upcoming issue. The runner up is Lucy Lawrence for an essay on "The Evergreen: A Northern Seasonal (1895-97)."
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Fascinating job alert for Victorianistb (UK-based) hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
November 18, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Fascinating job alert for Victorianistb (UK-based) hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
I started watching Disclaimer last night. So far so good but Sacha Baron Cohen in a dramatic role is so disorienting.
November 17, 2024 at 5:53 PM
I started watching Disclaimer last night. So far so good but Sacha Baron Cohen in a dramatic role is so disorienting.
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Reminder to tell all of your friends about this rally on Sunday!
Join Refugee 613 on Sunday, Nov. 17 at 3:00 p.m., and show that Ottawa stands with newcomers!
Hundreds of newcomers are currently sleeping in hockey arenas and community centres across Ottawa, as the City’s shelter system struggles to cope.
Hundreds of newcomers are currently sleeping in hockey arenas and community centres across Ottawa, as the City’s shelter system struggles to cope.
November 14, 2024 at 12:24 PM
Reminder to tell all of your friends about this rally on Sunday!
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Did P.T. Barnum try to buy Shakespeare's birthplace? Did Charles Dickens stop him? Check out Abby Clayton's blog post to find out! Full article in Victorian Review 49.2:
victorianreview.org?cat=217
victorianreview.org?cat=217
November 15, 2024 at 12:28 AM
Did P.T. Barnum try to buy Shakespeare's birthplace? Did Charles Dickens stop him? Check out Abby Clayton's blog post to find out! Full article in Victorian Review 49.2:
victorianreview.org?cat=217
victorianreview.org?cat=217
I will try to remember to come here and post interesting things. I was a failure at Twitter, maybe I'll do better here.
November 15, 2024 at 3:00 AM
I will try to remember to come here and post interesting things. I was a failure at Twitter, maybe I'll do better here.