Victorian Periodical Review Prizes

Rosemary VanArsdel Prize: The application period closes on June 15th.

The VanArsdel Prize is awarded annually to the best graduate student essay investigating Victorian periodicals and newspapers. The prize was established in 1990 to honor Rosemary VanArsdel, a founding member of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals, whose groundbreaking research continues to shape the field of nineteenth-century periodical studies.

The awardee will receive $500 and publication of their submission in Victorian Periodicals Review.

More information about the Rosemary VanArsdel Prize can be found here.

VPR Expanding the Field Prize: The application period closes on June 15th.

The VPR Expanding the Field Prize is awarded annually for an outstanding essay that diversifies the existing geographic, racial, and ethnic composition of nineteenth-century periodical studies. Submissions for this prize should do at least one of the following:

• Deepen our understanding of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) founders, editors, contributors, and readers of periodicals
• Interrogate Anglocentric perspectives
• Enact anti-racist or anti-colonial values
• Consider the cultural impact of the British Empire around the world

The awardee will receive $500 and publication of their article in Victorian Periodicals Review. More information about the VPR Expanding the Field Prize can be found here.