Registration is now open for the Romance, Revolution and Reform journal’s annual conference. This year’s theme is Play in the Long Nineteenth Century, and it will take place at the University of Kent on Friday, 17th January 2025. You can view the provisional programme here. Though the long nineteenth century may not immediately conjure images of playfulness in the popular imagination, scholars recognise it as a …
George Moore: Back in Dublin Again At TU Dublin, Aungier Street21 March 2025 NCFIS and the George Moore Association will hold this one-day event on 21st March 2025 to examine the writings, life, connections and interests of a trail-blazing Irish author. George Moore (1852-1933) was a prolific, talented, often-controversial writer who lived in Mayo, Dublin, Paris …
Call for Papers – The Conference of the International Walter Pater Society: Trans/Pater Cornell University, Ithaca, NYSeptember 5-7, 2025 Organizers: Barbara Black, Skidmore CollegeMichael Davis, Le Moyne CollegeEllis Hanson, Cornell University Organized with the support of the Central New York Humanities Corridor Walter Pater (1839-1894) was a major presence in late-nineteenth-century British intellectual life, a …
Vernon Lee in America: Text, Application, and PracticeCall for Papers 29 June – 2 July 2025Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO, USA Vernon Lee in America: Text, Application, and Practice seeks papers or workshops on a wide range of topics that showcase how her ideas can be studied or applied not only in scholarly works but …
The Creative Child and the Natural World: Call for Submissions to a Special Issue of the Journal of Juvenilia Studies Concerns about the increasing disconnect between humans and the environment have made nature connection for children a matter for discussion and debate since at least the Industrial Revolution. In the western world, recent decades have …
Registration is now open for the Romance, Revolution and Reform journal’s annual conference. This year’s theme is Play in the Long Nineteenth Century, and it will take place at the University of Kent on Friday, 17th January 2025. You can view the provisional programme here. Though the long nineteenth century may not immediately conjure images of playfulness in the popular imagination, scholars recognise it as a …
‘Jump Billy!’, Wed. 19th March 2025, Cecil Sharp House London, 7.30pm A celebration of English folk’s diverse history, through the life of celebrity Black Regency busker Billy Waters. A one-off concert to mark the anniversary of Billy Waters’ death, with live music from Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne, Clarke Camilleri, Hamilton Gross, and Angeline Morrison, and also featuring Maz O’Connor and one other very special …
Register now: https://www.york.ac.uk/english/about/events/2025/annual-victorian-studies-conference-2025/ Friday 21 February 2025, 10am to 7.30pm University of York, Heslington West, room to be announced nearer the time The Victorian era witnessed the emergence of eclectic forms and genres that pushed against geographical and chronological margins – by highlighting engagements across the Empire and the European, Atlantic, and Oceanic continents, and …
International conference Date: 18-19 September 2025 Venue: Bâtiment Olympe de Gouges, 8 Place Paul-Ricoeur, Paris Name of organisation: LARCA (Université Paris Cité), CELIS (Université Clermont Auvergne); in collaboration with the International Vernon Lee Society The work of Vernon Lee (1856-1935), a cosmopolitan British author and essayist who was precociously European-minded, covers a vast field, from …
Deadline for submissions: September 30, 2025 Salem State University Rethinking Race, Nation and Empire: Charles Dickens, Slavery, and the American Civil War considers how the writings of Charles Dickens are shaped by—and contribute to—Victorian discourses of race, nation, and empire in the middle of the nineteenth century. The “discursive roots of modern racism lie in British, …
Workshop | Call for Papers 12–13 September 2025 | University of Geneva Hochschule der Künste Bern / Université de Genève /Haute école de musique de Genève [For French, see below.] Coming together cooperatively to make art is a disposition shared by many music and theatre ensembles in the 18th and 19th centuries. Whether latent or …
Courtesy of Gallica, Bibliothèque Nationale de France We are pleased to invite proposals from postgraduate and early-career researchers to participate in a twelve-person, interdisciplinary research workshop, ‘Genres of Revolt: Cultural Afterlives of 1848’, to be held on 12-13 June 2025, at Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge. In the history of revolutions, 1848 has …
Writing About 19th Century Mid-size Cities: An International Conference at the University of Tours, France, 19–20 November 2026 Over the course of the nineteenth century, the growth of cities led to irreversible changes in the balance of populations and power, particularly in relation to the emergence of the modern industrial state. These cities were dynamic …
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 eighth 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 …
The BAVS Executive Committee currently has two positions open for two postgraduate representatives (2-year term). If you would like to be considered, please send the Secretary, Dr Claire Wood, an email with a Statement of Interest (indicating your suitability for and interest in the position and how you propose to contribute) of 300 words maximum and a short …
BAVS are hosting two Early Career Researcher Funding Workshops in November and January open to all BAVS Postgrads and ECRs. Please save the below dates and spread the word and we hope you are able to join us while we demystify the funding landscape for ECR-specific funding opportunities, including major fellowships, grants, and tips around …
This two-day event at Manchester Metropolitan University celebrates the continuing relevance of Nineteenth Century ideas in the Twenty-first, and the transformative impact of those ideas have today. With talks, films and performances by individuals and groups who – influenced by the 19th century – are doing innovative work to support culture and communities today, the aim is …
Fernando M. Bufalari is a PhD candidate in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the University of São Paulo (Brazil), with a MA in English Language and Literature from the same institution. His research interests include various cultural and literary aspects of the Victorian era, as well as Gothic literature and social history. Trigger Warning: This …
CfS RRR Conference 2025, Play copy (2)Download This post has been re-published by permission from the BAVS Postgraduates Blog. Please see the original post at https://victorianist.wordpress.com/2024/11/03/call-for-papers-play-in-the-long-nineteenth-century/
The Year’s Work in English Studies is an annual review of scholarly work on English language and literatures written in English from 601 to the present; expert critical commentary is provided for each essay and book covered. YWES is the largest and most comprehensive work of its kind and the oldest evaluative work of literary criticism. Applications are …
As we begin another academic year, history feels both more fragile – and more essential – than ever. In a world of global pandemics, political unrest, environmental collapse, the cost of living crisis, and the financial devastation of Higher Education, educators and students are navigating a shared sense of precarity. We are tasked with understanding …
In July of 2026 Punch magazine will be 185 years old! The Punch’s Pocket Book Archive team are editing a special commemorative issue of Victorian Periodicals Review to celebrate Punch, both the magazine and the evolution of a clear brand identity that witnessed many imitations and adaptations across the world. We would like to invite expressions of interest from scholars who are working …
The British Museum’s Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory is reopening the recruitment of: Curator of Modern European Collections, 1800 to present. This is an exciting opportunity for a mid-career scholar/curator to join a dynamic team and to work in one of the world’s leading museums. Please see the updated job description and salary offer, with …
The Department of English in the College of the Liberal Arts at the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA, invites applications for the George and Barbara Kelly Professorship in Nineteenth-Century English and American Literature in the College of the Liberal Arts. This is a tenure-track position and will be hired at the rank of …
07 March 2025– University of Warwick Confirmed keynote speakers: Prof.Corinna Wagner (University of Exeter)Prof.Sarah Lamble (Birkbeck, University of London) According to Julia Kristeva, decay is a ‘privileged site of mingling, of the contamination of life by death, of begetting and ending’ (1982). As a cyclic organic process where life and death inexorably meet, decay is an …
Join the Third Sex Reading Group for a discussion on Sarah Waters’ grippingly Queer novel Fingersmith! Date: Wednesday 30th October 2024Time: 17:30–19:00 (GMT) Join us online for a captivating event centered around Sarah Waters’ acclaimed novel, Fingersmith. Dive into the intricate plot twists, rich characters, Victorian-era setting, and most importantly, the queer romance, that make …
The 56th Annual Northeast Modern Language Association Convention will take place in Philadelphia, PA, 6-9 March 2025. For the Dickens Society sponsored panel, we invite proposals for 15-20 minute papers that explore recent (r)evolutions in Dickens Studies, including, but not limited to, emerging approaches and methodologies, new contexts, recent research discoveries, exploration of less well-known …
We are delighted to announce the programme for our online seminar series. To receive more information and links, please sign up to our mailing list: https://www.pre-raphaelitesociety.org/graduate-network. 14 October GLOBAL PRE-RAPHAELITISM I Meisam Ganjkhani, ‘Singing in Ruins of Authenticity: A Comparative Analysis of Tennyson’s “The Lady of Shalott” and Forough Farrokhzad’s “In the Green Waters of …
We are thrilled to share the Call for Papers for the 34th Annual International Conference on Virginia Woolf on the theme of ‘Woolf and Dissidence’. We are delighted to bring the Annual International Virginia Woolf Conference back to the UK and to two sites – King’s College London and the University of Sussex – with such …
The new programme of seminars for 2024-2025 starts tonight, with Professor Caroline Bressey (UCL) at 6pm, Senate House (room tbc). Professor Bressey will be exploring the representation of Black history as set out in Dickens’s periodical All The Year Round. For more, see: Representing Black Victorians: A view of ‘The Black Man’ in Britain from Dickens’s All the Year …