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Erica Haugtvedt

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19C British literature; seriality; transmedia; popular culture; fictionality. Assoc. Prof of English. Author of Transfictional Character and Transmedia Storyworlds in the British Nineteenth Century, Palgrave 2022. Views are my own, not my employer's.

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Erica Haugtvedt @ehaugtvedt.bsky.social · Nov 19

My first book came out in 2022! 10 years in the making!

Your institution may have access via Springer's database of ebooks, but if you don't already have access, using this link gets me a better royalty check ;) Please read!
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Transfictional Character and Transmedia Storyworlds in the British Nineteenth Century

This book studies the emergence of transfictional and transmedia storytelling in the nineteenth century, interrogating the nature of fictional character.

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Erica Haugtvedt @ehaugtvedt.bsky.social · 2d

I need help finding scans of _Boys of England_ vol. 1, issues 1-? (early issues, 1866). If you are able to help, please message me. Thank you!

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 21d

Our next #RSVPDigiEv is about a month away! Join us Oct. 17 to hear about recent updates to the Curran Index from editors @emilyjlm.bsky.social+Lars Atkin in a talk, "From Periodicals to Dailies: Attribution Scholarship and the Joys and Challenges of Archival Plenitude." rs4vp.org/oct-digital-...

Oct. Digital Event: "From Periodicals to Dailies" – RSVP

Our October DigiEvent features a talk by editors of the Curran Index on the joys and challenges of archival plenitude. Join us October 17!

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Sep 4

💼 We're hiring! RSVP seeks a new Editor or pair of Co-Editors to lead the Curran Index into its next phase. Many many thanks to our outgoing Editors, @emilyjlm.bsky.social+Lars Atkin for their dedication to this ongoing DH project. Applications due 15 October! rs4vp.org/curran-edito...

Lead the Curran Index as Our New Editor – RSVP

RSVP seeks a new Editor or Editors to lead the Curran Index! Applications should be sent to VP Alison Chapman by October 15.

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Erica Haugtvedt @ehaugtvedt.bsky.social · 24d

RSVP generously supports Periodicals research through several grants competitions. Maybe one fits your project!

Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 24d

Peterson Fellowships open today! Named for Yale professor and our dear friend, Linda H. Peterson, the Peterson Fellowship is designed to support one scholar for four full-time months conducting research focused on the British periodical press of long #19thC. Applications due Nov. 15!

The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship – RSVP

The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship was named after the widely influential Yale professor and longtime RSVP Board member and Vice President, Linda Peterson. The purpose of the Peterson Fellowship is to…

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Erica Haugtvedt @ehaugtvedt.bsky.social · Sep 9

I'm excited to announce that I've been elected to the Board of Directors for the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals! Eager to work more closely with the members of this awesome society!

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Aug 16

📣 Curran Fellowships are now OPEN! Per our most recent newsletter, we've moved up our Curran awards to allow recipients time to plan summer travel. Applications due Oct. 15. As always, guidelines and more info are on our website!
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The Curran Fellowships – RSVP

The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century in making use of primary print and archival so...

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Sep 1

✨ It's official! We're now accepting proposals for #RSVP2026, "Movements and Migrations"! We invite scholars to examine the relationship between periodicals, migrations, and movements for our 2026 conference in Dublin. Full CFP and more details on our main website.

RSVP Annual Conference – RSVP

The nineteenth century was marked by unprecedented migration, as people moved to urban centers; were forcibly or semi-forcibly relocated; and emigrated to escape war, famine, economic instability, or…

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Erica Haugtvedt @ehaugtvedt.bsky.social · Sep 5

I'm running for a board position, so remember to vote by today!

Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Sep 2

☑️ Don't forget to vote for your preferred candidates for our two open Board positions and new Recording Secretary for the Board. Polls close THIS Friday, 5 September! Didn't get your ballot via email? Ensure your membership is active first, and if so, then contact our Communications Coordinator.

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Fan Studies Network @fanstudies.bsky.social · Jul 24

New #FanStudies article ⬇️ ⬇️⬇️

Zhang, L.-T. (2024). From subculture to mainstream: Nostalgia, criticism and negotiation in a fan community. Convergence, 31(4), 1366-1382.

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From subculture to mainstream: Nostalgia, criticism and negotiation in a fan community - Leticia-Tian Zhang, 2025

Extensive research has been conducted on social media and fandom, particularly on how digital platforms facilitate community formation and cultural production a...

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · Jul 23

This is another routine reminder that our journal @advancesjournal.bsky.social is actively seeking proposals for themed issues. Do get in touch with me directly if you are interested in submitting a proposal.

Journal details 👇
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Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research

Explore the latest peer-reviewed articles and learn how to publish your work in Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research.

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Erica Haugtvedt @ehaugtvedt.bsky.social · Jul 22

Rapid City is RAP

Erica Haugtvedt @ehaugtvedt.bsky.social · Jul 17

The latest issue of Victorian Popular Fictions Journal has dropped! It is open access, as always: victorianpopularfiction.org/publications...

Table of Contents ArticlesCarolyn W de la L Oulton. Call that Reading? Creative Approaches to Literary Studies and Literary HeritageChristine Choi. Sanctimonious or Sensational? Ellen Wood, the “Go…

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Jul 14

Hot on the heels of #RSVP2025, here is the latest from the field, a fitting continuation of the wonderful work you, our dear followers, do on a daily basis! Give it a read!

Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · Jul 14

VPR's special issue "Currents and Currencies in the #Victorian #PeriodicalPress" is out now! Huge thanks to guest editors Victoria Clarke (@vjctorianist.bsky.social) and Annemarie McAllister. Check out their intro essay: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org

Cover of VPR 57.4, Special Issue: Currents and Currencies. Image credit: “The Revolution in France,” London Illustrated News, February 26, 1848, 118.

Table of contents:

Introduction
Currents and Currencies in the Victorian Periodical Press
VICTORIA CLARKE AND ANNEMARIE MCALLISTER

Articles
General News in Early and Mid-Victorian Class Periodicals: The Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1841–70
ALI HATAPÇI

Cash for Questions: Elizabeth Burgoyne Corbett’s Female Detectives, Journalism, and the Case of the Missing Income
SARA LODGE

Commercialised Temperance: The Phenomenon of the Temperance Companion and How It Stayed Afloat
ANNEMARIE MCALLISTER

Crossing Currents: The Mother Tongue, Monolingualism, and Multilingualism in Household Words and All the Year Round
ANNE-MARIE MILLIM

Seriality and Characterisation in the Press: Death Club Sensationalism, the 1848 Revolutions, and Reviews of Mary Barton
CAMILLE STALLINGS

Book Reviews

Biographies

Endnotes

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · Jul 12

Enjoying Prof Jason Camelot's Wolff lecture on voice, sound, and elocution in the 19thC American periodical press. Periodicals were serialised textbooks for oratory schools and election performances, as correspondence courses. But why is Chicago seemingly the hub for public speakers? #RSVP2025

Prof Camlot stands in front of his PowerPoint, which features two pages of the 19thC Chicago periodical The Elecutionist.

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Erica Haugtvedt @ehaugtvedt.bsky.social · Jul 13

Can you add me to the starter pack?

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Erica Haugtvedt @ehaugtvedt.bsky.social · Jul 12

I do my teaching and scholarship during regular work-day hours. Is there always more to do? Yes, but clocking off for the evening and weekends has not hindered my productivity and has made my life much richer.

Upol Ehsan | hiring PhD students Fall'26 @upolehsan.bsky.social · Jul 11

“Flexible schedule” in academia means you are free to work whenever you feel guilty.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · Jul 12

Just adding that it’s very insane that the situation has deteriorated to where repeating postwar Anglo-American boilerplate abt knowledge in a democratic society is a take!

“It is good for students to learn actual things from trained experts!” [thrown in a gulag]

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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · Jul 12

Terrific panel on C19 periodical advertising at #rsvp2025. Here’s one of @vjctorianist.bsky.social ‘s slides, showing adverts vs sales in the Northern Star. #19th-c #victorian

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Dr Vic Clarke @vjctorianist.bsky.social · Jul 12

Fascinating work from Ge Tang on photography of Chinese gold labourers in the journal South Africa. The 'modernity' of photography is used as a PR strategy to mask the slave-like conditions of indentured labourers in the Transvaal. #RSVP2025 #VoicesVisions

A photograph is Chinese labourers arriving at work in 1890s.

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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · Jul 12

Delighted to see a paper on "The String of Pearls: A Romance" from Edward Lloyd's *The People's Periodical and Family Library* (1846-1847)!

Paulina Hernández-Trejo looks at representations of empire and racial capitalism, leading to legitimate and illegitimate cannibalisms.

#RSVP2025 #BookHistory

Work Information in Price One Penny - Cheap Literature 1837-1860

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Erica Haugtvedt @ehaugtvedt.bsky.social · Jul 12

The title is Narrative, Affect, and Victorian Sensation by Tara MacDonald.

Erica Haugtvedt @ehaugtvedt.bsky.social · Jul 12

So excited to read this!

Tara MacDonald @tara-macdonald.bsky.social · Jul 11

THRILLED to share that my book has won the VPFA Second Book Prize! 🎉

Victorian Popular Fiction Association @vpfa.bsky.social · Jul 11

We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2024 VPFA Second Book Prize:
Tara MacDonald, Narrative, Affect, and Victorian Sensation: Wilful Bodies (Edinburgh University Press, 2023). Prof. MacDonald will receive a £200 cash prize and be honoured at the Annual Conference AGM.

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Emma Butler-Way @ebutler-way.bsky.social · Jul 11

Exciting new issue of VPFJ is now out in the world, featuring my review for Helena Esser's fantastic Steampunk London: Neo-Victorian Urban Space and Popular Transmedia Memory. I'm a big fan. Get your libraries on it.
@vpfa.bsky.social @helenaesser.bsky.social
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Helena Esser, Steampunk London: Neo-Victorian Urban Space and Popular Transmedia Memory. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024, 248 pp. HB £85.00. ISBN: 9781350433908 Reviewed by Emma Butler-Way Downlo…

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · Jul 12

Good lectures are good! Humanities professors have expertise, because they’ve trained for many years, + their slowly-acquired thus *real* knowledge is compelling, relevant, even sometimes life-changing! This should all be lavishly funded bc access to truth is @ the basis of a free & just society

Jon Hegglund @jonhegglund.bsky.social · Jul 12

some of my best, most valuable, college classes were straight-up lectures

sure, it depends on audience/context/material, but the wholesale valorization of "student-centered" classrooms (in the humanities at least) ceded the cultural capital of expertise in truly damaging ways

lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · Jul 12

Thing I am an absolute complete total reactionary about: there has not actually been invented a better model of conveying information in a learning environment than the basic structure of a traditional lecture. A speaker standing in some sort of unique focal point for the attention of listeners...

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · Jul 12

Last day of #VoicesVisions! 😭 Amidst our panels + coffee breaks, the AGM is at 12:30 in Kasbeer Hall. We'll wrap up our day with our annual Wolff Lecture by Jason Camlot at 4pm, also in Kasbeer. Stick around to hear where we're headed for #RSVP2026!

Conference Program – RSVP

This year’s conference will take place in person, with some synchronous hybrid components to include colleagues who have elected to present their research virtually. All keynote addresses and the…

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