Author: Victorianist

CFP: ‘CATERING FOR PEOPLE’S DESIRES AND NEEDS IN THE MUSIC HALL’ – The 3rd British Music Hall Society Conference

27th March 2026 by Victorianist | Leave a Comment

The 3rd British Music Hall Society ConferenceSaturday 21st and/or Sunday 22nd November 2026The Cinema Museum, 2 Dugard Way, London SE11 4TH “CATERING FOR PEOPLE’S DESIRES AND NEEDS IN THE MUSIC HALL” CALL FOR PAPERS Illustration of the Alhambra from The Cornhill Magazine, p.8, Vol. IV, July to December 1861. A FRENCHMAN’S IMPRESSIONS OF ENGLAND at […]

Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellowship 2026-27

27th March 2026 by Victorianist | Leave a Comment

Nineteenth-Century Matters 2026 Liverpool John Moores University Outline Nineteenth-Century Matters is an initiative jointly run by the British Association for Romantic Studies and the British Association for Victorian Studies. Now in its tenth year, it is aimed at postdoctoral researchers who have completed their PhD, but who are not currently employed in a full-time academic […]

CFP: Human–Animal Relations in Victorian Popular Literature and Culture (A special issue of Victorian Popular Fictions Journal)

23rd March 2026 by Victorianist | Leave a Comment

Human–Animal Relations in Victorian Popular Literature and CultureA special issue of Victorian Popular Fictions Journal Guest-edited by Bethany Dahlstrom and Helena Esser Victorian popular fiction is replete with animals – racing horses, loyal dogs, caged birds, exotic creatures, and anthropomorphic companions. These beings carried immense symbolic significance: they could function as status symbols, metaphors for […]

Registration Open: Centre for Victorian Studies Colloquium 2026 – ‘New Directions in Nineteenth-Century Studies’

23rd March 2026 by Victorianist | Leave a Comment

Registration Open: Centre for Victorian Studies Colloquium 2026 – ‘New Directions in Nineteenth-Century Studies’Explore new horizons in Victorian Studies at our one-day colloquium!Date: 30 April 2026 Venue: Royal Holloway, University of London (Egham Campus) Dear colleagues, We’re delighted to announce that booking is now open for the Centre for Victorian Studies Colloquium 2026, which this year is on […]

Reminder: EGM on Monday 23 March 2026

17th March 2026 by Victorianist | Leave a Comment

Dear BAVS members, I’m getting in touch with a reminder of our EGM next Monday, which has been called to bring the BAVS constitution in line with current practice. The EGM is open to all BAVS members and we warmly encourage you to attend. At this short meeting, we will outline and vote on the […]

Updates to The Victorianist and our social media

17th March 2026 by Victorianist | Leave a Comment

In our efforts to make BAVS more accessible, we are rebranding The Victorianist as a blog for everyone, expanding its audience while continuing to share news, CFPs, and updates for Victorianists. PGR and ECR work will continue to be featured and promoted via our Researcher Blog. We are also moving the primary BAVS posting from Twitter/X to […]

Conference: Victorian Expansions: Cross-Cultural Migrations

16th March 2026 by Victorianist | Leave a Comment

Victorian Expansions: Cross-Cultural Migrations Conference – Friday, April 24, 2026Conference Page Image: The Last of England, Ford Madox Brown, 1855 About the Conference The Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, in collaboration with the Centre for Modern Studies and the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies at York, is pleased to […]

Vacancy: Postdoc Position in English Literary Studies at the University of Zürich

12th March 2026 by Victorianist | Leave a Comment

Senior Assistantship in English Literary Studies 90 % Start of employment is 1 August 2026 The English Department of the University of Zurich invites applications for a postdoctoral teaching and research position (Oberassistenz) in the field of English Literary Studies (British, North American and/or New Anglophone Literatures and Cultures) to start on 1 August 2026. […]

SYMPOSIUM: Victorian Sorority: Sisters in the Arts

6th March 2026 by Victorianist | Leave a Comment

Wednesday 25 March 2026 10am – 4pm In celebration of Women’s History Month 2026, Watts Gallery presents a one-day symposium, Victorian Sorority: Sisters in the Arts, coinciding with our exhibition Women of Influence: The Pattle Sisters (Nov 2025 – May 2026). This event explores the creative, cultural, and political roles of sisters in Victorian Britain, […]

EVENT: COVE Session on Images and Gallery-Building (Thursday 5th March 2026)

3rd March 2026 by Victorianist | Leave a Comment

Dear BAVS members: On Thursday, at 9 am Eastern (2 pm Britain, 3 pm CET), I will be running a COVE session that just concentrates on images and gallery-building. I’ll show you: 1) how to make use of the hundreds of thousands of images that we have now made available from the Art Institute of […]

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