Call for Book Chapter Submissions Edited Collection: Women and Humour in the Long Nineteenth Century (Autumn 2026) The long nineteenth century saw a rich tapestry of humour and comedy, from the satirical sketches of Charles Dickens to the political cartoons of Gillray and Cruikshank, and from the lively routines of the music hall to the …
Northumbria University and the British Library are pleased to offer an exciting PhD studentship opportunity: The Northern Echo and the Politics of Place The establishment of The Northern Echo newspaper, in 1870, disrupts our understanding of the concept of a ‘regional/national’ press in Britain. This project seeks to challenge current understandings of nineteenth-century press history …
Overview Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom (UVC) announces a call for assignments at the intersection of race and dis/ability. Anyone with relevant professional interests is encouraged to apply, but the organizers are especially interested in submissions from early-career scholars and those with backgrounds that are underrepresented in Victorian Studies. Submission Deadline: May 30, 2025 Submit your proposal by …
LSHH 2025 Postgraduate Research Symposium & Public Lecture Wednesday 7th May 3pm – 6.30pm, Co-op Lecture Theatre (MB0312) This showcase provides a platform for LSHH PGR (PhD) students to present papers on their research, and this year the event will also feature a keynote lecture in assocation with the Nineteenth Century Ressearch Group: Professor Roger …
Dickens Day 2025: ‘Dickens and Art’ Event date: Saturday 11 October 2025, Senate House, London, UK (in-person)CFP deadline: Monday 30 June 2025 We are pleased to announce the call for papers for this year’s Dickens Day on the topic of ‘Dickens and Art’. Dickens’s frank admission in Pictures from Italy that he was not mechanically …
Dickens Death Day Virtual Event June 7th, 2025 The Dickens Society is delighted to share a call for presentations for an online event entitled Dickens and Death, which will be livestreamed on the morning of Saturday, June 7th 2025, and then will be aired on the Society’s YouTube channel on Dickens’s Death Day (June 9th). …
Kaya Purchase has just graduated with an English Literature MA from the University of Liverpool. She is currently applying to do a PhD in creative writing. She loves writing both creative pieces and literary journalism. Her words have been featured in Aurelia Magazine, Tribune and World Literature Today and she regularly contributes book reviews and …
Pre-Raphaelite Society Review Special Issue: Autumn/Winter 2025 Title: Working Wonders: Work, Pre-Raphaelites, and Utopian Visions Our Autumn/Winter Special Issue aims to dispel the notion that the Pre-Raphaelites were only interested in high literary culture and art, rather than politics, current affairs or the lives of working people. D.G. Rossetti famously wrote ‘My friends […] consider …
Deadline: 11 April 2025 Archives Workshop: 12 May 2025 RHS Lindley Library, 80 Vincent Square, London This one-day workshop seeks to raise awareness among humanities scholars of the rich archival holdings at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS). Working with nineteenth-century archival sources selected from the Plant Collector Archive, delegates and archivists will work together to …
Visual Theology III Beauty and FaithPart One: Imperfect Beauty: Visions of Fractured Faith 24-26 October 2025 Deadline for Part One proposals: 30 April 2025 Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.Roger Scruton Beauty and Faith is a two-part conference, the first of which will take place in New York City, …
OutlineNineteenth-Century Matters is an initiative jointly run by the British Association for Romantic Studies and the British Association for Victorian Studies. Now in its ninth year, it is aimed at postdoctoral researchers who have completed their PhD, but who are not currently employed in a full-time academic post. Nineteenth-Century Matters offers unaffiliated early career researchers …
28-29 August 2025, School of English, University of St Andrews Female detection in the nineteenth century took many forms. In Britain, America, Australia, and India, amongst other countries, women worked with the police to uncover crime. Many were employed by private enquiry offices or ran their own agencies; rode buses, trains, and trams detecting crime; …
The BAVS Newsletter Editor, Amy Waterson, and the Assistant Editor, Ruth-Anne Walbank, invite you to submit notices for inclusion in the upcoming newsletter. These may include CFPs, notices of Victorianist interest, new publications, and more. Additionally, they are always looking for new reviewers and feature contributors. Below are a few areas they are keen to …
Longing to Know: Gender and the Production of Scientific Knowledge Special Issue of Nineteenth-Century Gender StudiesIssue editors: Imogen Forbes-Macphail and Anna Henchmanhttps://www.ncgsjournal.com/ Call for Papers Historians of science have long criticized the 19th-century concept of the scientist as a solitary (male) genius. Recent scholarship has been particularly fruitful in tracing labor that was made invisible by …
Public Lecture: Empire, the West Country and Thomas Hardy Date & Time: Friday 4 July 2025, 18.00-19.00 Venue: Dorset Museum & Art Gallery, Dorchester (Victorian Hall) Speakers: Professor Corrine Fowler and Dr Rena Jackson With extensive reference to Museum displays, this joint talk explores the histories and heritages of the British Empire in the West …
‘Authors as Characters in Fiction, Film and Graphic Narratives’ Université de Lorraine, Nancy (France)12-13 March 2026Avenue de la Libération Keynote Speakers: Stephanie Barron (author) Lucia Boldrini (Goldsmiths, University of London) Belén Vidal (King’s College London) Xavier Giudicelli (Université Paris Nanterre) The great paradox of the modern age appears to be that, since Roland Barthes announced …
Deadline for submissions: 1 February 2026 The Gaskell Journal runs a biennial Graduate Student Essay Prize in honour of Joan Leach MBE, founder of the Gaskell Society. The winning essay will be published in the Gaskell Journal (with revisions as appropriate), and its author will receive £200 from the Gaskell Society, and a complimentary copy …
In June 2025, Royal Holloway, University of London, in collaboration with the British Association of Victorian Studies and the British Association of Romantic Studies, will host an in-person research day on Tuesday 3rd June examining realisms across literary, artistic, theatrical, and critical forms, and considering the continuing influence of nineteenth-century thought on our current moment. …
The Oscar Wilde Society invites abstracts for a special session at the 2026 MLA Convention… Oscar Wilde, French by Sympathy? Toronto, 8-11 January 2026. Oscar Wilde, an Irish playwright educated at Oxford, found his greatest literary success in London and the West End, nevertheless, writing in French to the author and critic Edmond de Goncourt, …
Being Human is the UK’s national festival of the humanities. Each year we invite researchers and staff from universities and research organisations to take part in our national festival by organising a public engagement event or activity, rooted in humanities research. This year’s festival will take place 6-15 November with the theme ‘Between the Lines’. Being Human is …
Periodisation, Generations, and the Gaps Between Date & Time: Wednesday 7 May 2025, 13.00-17.00 Venue: International House, Institute of Advanced Studies, Loughborough University (Hybrid) This symposium examines how periodisation, ageing and generational thinking shape our understanding of literary history. It will address how categorising individuals by period or movement shapes perceptions of their relevance, timeliness, …
As we prepare for BAVS 2025, which will take place from July 23rd to 25th, we are delighted to announce a dedicated PGR/ECR Professionalisation Afternoon on July 22nd, 2025. This day is specifically designed to support postgraduate researchers and early career researchers in Victorian Studies through professional development opportunities, skill-building workshops, and discussions of emerging …
British Association for Victorian Studies The 25th Anniversary Conference University of Oxford, 23-25 July Call for Papers: Submission deadline 17 March 2025 Keynotes include: Lauren Goodlad, Catherine Maxwell, Sarah Meer, Pablo Mukherjee, Matthew Rubery Founded in 2000, the British Association for Victorian Studies supports and promotes research in Britain and beyond. The Oxford Faculties of …
From Queen Anne to Queen Victoria 9 Conference “The past is never dead. It’s not even the past.” Dobra 55, Warsaw, Poland 24-26 September 2025 Slowly approaching a significant anniversary, we would like to start looking at the past and decided to use William Faulkner’s quotation as our theme. We call for papers that engage …
The 17th Annual Conference of the Victorian Popular Fiction Association Heights, Depths, and Extremes The Birmingham & Midland Institute, Birmingham UK 14th-16th July 2025 The Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA) is delighted to announce its 17th annual conference for 2025, inviting scholars, researchers, and enthusiasts of Victorian literature to explore this year’s theme, Heights, Depths, and Extremes. This …
We are delighted to announce that, following the recent election, Lilyemma Whalley and Marijke Valk have been elected as the new postgraduate representatives on the BAVS Executive Committee! Lilyemma Whalley (lilyemma.whalley@qmul.ac.uk) Lilyemma is pursuing a PhD in English Literature at Queen Mary University of London. Her research explores how Victorian children’s literature fosters a sense …
Call for ParticipantsGlobal Decadence and Aestheticism Lesson Plan Cluster (2024) Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom Overview Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom (UVC), a digital humanities project that reimagines how to teach Victorian Studies through a positive, race-conscious lens, invites contributors to an innovative lesson plan cluster about global decadence and aestheticism. Contributors are welcome to explore any …
Dress, Feminism, and New Woman Writing by Claire Allen-Johnstone (Amherst, New York: Cambria Press, 2025) 336 pp., $114.99 (hardcover), hardcover ISBN 9781638571964, epub ISBN 9781638573418 Dress, Feminism, and New Woman Writing explores the connections between dress, feminism, and New Woman writing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with a focus on Britain. It reveals how …
The University of Leicester’s Centre for Victorian Studies is delighted to invite you to the hybrid Spring Seminar Series. The programme is outlined below; each talk starts at 5.15 pm (UK time) and lasts for approximately 50 minutes, followed by Q&A. You can book for our first two events now by following the Ticket Tailor …
Research Conversation and Book LaunchDownload This post has been re-published by permission from the BAVS Postgraduates Blog. Please see the original post at https://victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/02/07/cncs-research-showcase-and-book-launch-wed-19-march-2025-gmt-300pm-to-530pm-in-person-and-online/