Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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#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
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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)
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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/
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Reminder! We are accepting proposals for a forum on Daniel Deronda to mark the 150th anniversary of its publication. Our forums feature short, op-ed style essays guest-edited by leading scholars. Deadline for proposals is Sept. 1. See our website for more details: victorianreview.org?cat=217
August 18, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Reminder! We are accepting proposals for a forum on Daniel Deronda to mark the 150th anniversary of its publication. Our forums feature short, op-ed style essays guest-edited by leading scholars. Deadline for proposals is Sept. 1. See our website for more details: victorianreview.org?cat=217
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VR does not accept essay, forum, or book review submissions written with Generative AI. VR staff does not use AI assistance
in our email correspondence or editorial practices. We work collectively to adjudicate, edit, publish, and promote scholarly writing. victorianreview.org?page_id=364
in our email correspondence or editorial practices. We work collectively to adjudicate, edit, publish, and promote scholarly writing. victorianreview.org?page_id=364
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September 9, 2025 at 10:11 PM
VR does not accept essay, forum, or book review submissions written with Generative AI. VR staff does not use AI assistance
in our email correspondence or editorial practices. We work collectively to adjudicate, edit, publish, and promote scholarly writing. victorianreview.org?page_id=364
in our email correspondence or editorial practices. We work collectively to adjudicate, edit, publish, and promote scholarly writing. victorianreview.org?page_id=364
Check it out — Victorian Review has a new website!
Check out our beautiful new website! victorianreview.org
Victorian Review – An Interdisciplinary Journal of Victorian Studies
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September 10, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Check it out — Victorian Review has a new website!
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I love this so much—can’t wait to try it!! ❤️❤️❤️
Here you go! I'll write some new ones for this semester too. They loved them. The "read without your phone or screens in the room" was a revelation, and many of them decided to keep doing it. They had NO IDEA (& were horrified) how often they interrupt themselves to look at a phone for no reason.
![Reading Scenario Experiments. This series of prompts is designed to get you thinking about how the setting for reading affects concentration, comprehension, and even the existential experience of reading. Every week, one of the following prompts will appear on the syllabus. I encourage you to try all of them that you are able. How does a different reading setting affect your mood? Your receptiveness to the prose? Your pleasure or difficulty reading? What are the particular impacts of changing your lighting or surroundings? What do you notice about yourself and about the work you are reading during this experiment?
1. read by candlelight (use a small lamp in dorms where no candles are allowed!)
2. read for one hour without checking any devices, answering texts, etc.
3. walk out into nature (climb a tree, sit on a rock, grab a spot in a hammock) and read
4. host a reading night with friends & food (sit in companionable silence, reading without chatting)
5. read aloud a chapter to someone else
6. climb into bed at night and read by flashlight under the covers for at least 30 minutes, as if you’ve already been told “lights out” as a kid
7. reread a chapter and see what new things you notice the second time through
8. change your ambient-noise level: add music if you normally read in the quiet; or read without music if you are normally a music-listener
9. read with a sketchpad at hand and sketch scenes, characters, or other elements from the story
10. practice focused listening: have someone read to you
11. make yourself a special, fancy snack on a real plate to nibble while eating: pay attention to the cooking or arranging or choosing of ingredients to make it especially appetizing first
12. make tea (even if you’re not usually a tea drinker), and read and sip
13. invent a new reading scenario for yourself, or repeat the one you liked the best from this term
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September 8, 2025 at 12:01 AM
I love this so much—can’t wait to try it!! ❤️❤️❤️
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Abstracts due today, if anyone's still considering the 2026 Dickens Society panel at NeMLA!
We are currently seeking submissions for the 2026 NeMLA panel “(Re)generating Dickens Studies” on social media. Link is here: cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S...
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September 8, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Abstracts due today, if anyone's still considering the 2026 Dickens Society panel at NeMLA!
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meant to write brief chapter about 19C song-and-supper rooms in Covent Garden and its already 6,000 words. 'It's a subject you know about already,' I told myself. 'How many relevant sources can there be?'*
[*every awful late-19C/early 20C memoir ever, as it turns out.]
[*every awful late-19C/early 20C memoir ever, as it turns out.]
August 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
meant to write brief chapter about 19C song-and-supper rooms in Covent Garden and its already 6,000 words. 'It's a subject you know about already,' I told myself. 'How many relevant sources can there be?'*
[*every awful late-19C/early 20C memoir ever, as it turns out.]
[*every awful late-19C/early 20C memoir ever, as it turns out.]
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SEL 63.3 summer issue is coming! A cite-worthy quote from one of our contributors Juliana Beykirch on embodiment in Aphra Behn's II Rover:
“Her striking embodiment and verbal dexterity profoundly destabilize and collapse the boundaries between...erotic consumption and literal devouring.” (26) 🎙️
“Her striking embodiment and verbal dexterity profoundly destabilize and collapse the boundaries between...erotic consumption and literal devouring.” (26) 🎙️
August 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
SEL 63.3 summer issue is coming! A cite-worthy quote from one of our contributors Juliana Beykirch on embodiment in Aphra Behn's II Rover:
“Her striking embodiment and verbal dexterity profoundly destabilize and collapse the boundaries between...erotic consumption and literal devouring.” (26) 🎙️
“Her striking embodiment and verbal dexterity profoundly destabilize and collapse the boundaries between...erotic consumption and literal devouring.” (26) 🎙️
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There's a Victorian periodicals story with a Chicago connection: the loss of Herbert Ingram, founder of the Illustrated London News, in the wreck of the Lady Elgin in Lake Michigan in 1860. His pocket watch, found at the bottom of the lake, has now returned to England: tinyurl.com/y763rhhv #C19th
Watch lost in US shipwreck comes home to UK after 165 years - BBC News
The pocket watch belonged to Boston MP Herbert Ingram, who drowned in Lake Michigan in 1860.
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July 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
There's a Victorian periodicals story with a Chicago connection: the loss of Herbert Ingram, founder of the Illustrated London News, in the wreck of the Lady Elgin in Lake Michigan in 1860. His pocket watch, found at the bottom of the lake, has now returned to England: tinyurl.com/y763rhhv #C19th
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Daniel Deronda is turning 150 in 2026. Help us observe this milestone by submitting a short, op-ed style essay to an upcoming forum, guest edited by Ilana Blumberg, on George Eliot's world-changing novel. See our blog for details: victorianreview.org?cat=217
July 16, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Daniel Deronda is turning 150 in 2026. Help us observe this milestone by submitting a short, op-ed style essay to an upcoming forum, guest edited by Ilana Blumberg, on George Eliot's world-changing novel. See our blog for details: victorianreview.org?cat=217