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Maebh Long @maebhlong.bsky.social · 5d

Auckland university is hiring a Lecturer (that’s Assistant Prof for all you Americans) in English, specialising in the long nineteenth century, to a permanent position commencing before Semester 1, 2026 (or by negotiation). Focus is nineteenth century fiction - details below!

Lecturer - English

Company Description: Waipapa Taumata Rau | The University of AucklandThe University of Auckland is New Zealand’s pre-eminent University, with a turnover of $1.1bn, including research revenue of over $...

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 7d

Want to attend NAVSA 2025: Aftermaths but can't make it to DC? Want MORE brilliant Victorianist scholarship than you can get at the in-person event? The NAVSA 2025 DIGITAL PRESESSION is free and open to all —registration required for security

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NAVSA 2025 @navsa2025.bsky.social · 7d

#NAVSA2025 is running special digital panels on Fri, Nov 7 and Sat Nov 8! Registration is FREE but required: tinyurl.com/hy2zhe2y

NAVSA 2025: Aftermaths // Digital Pre-Session Registration

Attendance at the NAVSA 2025 digital pre-sessions is free but you must register in order to receive zoom links for both dates (Friday, November 7th and Saturday, November 8th). Please register if you ...

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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 7d

Issue 50.2 of Victorian Review is out on Project Muse! First up in this issue is a forum edited by Doreen Thierauf, "Thinking Reproductive and Sexual Justice with the Victorians after Dobbs: Future Paths Previously Trod"

muse.jhu.edu/issue/55679

Project MUSE - Victorian Review-Volume 50, Number 2, Fall 2024

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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 7d

We were so excited about this issue that we typed too fast and failed to highlight the cluster's focus, Victorians and Video Games! Check it out!

Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 7d

Next up in this issue, a special essay cluster edited by Brooke Cameron and Lin Young, featuring articles by Cameron and Young, Molly Boggs, and Hannah Mummert.

The issue also features Olivia Krauze's Hamilton Prize-winning article "What is a Violent Emotion?" and +

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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · 7d

The latest issue is up on Muse! Featuring a forum on reproductive and sexual justice with the Victorians, a cluster of essays on Victorian video games, our Hamilton Prize winner for 2024, and the lovely and talented Aurora Leigh. Plus book reviews as always. Happy reading! muse.jhu.edu/issue/55679

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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 7d

Hannah Schultz's article "Cut Off from the Green Reconciling Earth": Patriarchal Preservation and Ecological Subjectivity in Aurora Leigh"

Plus reviews of recent books by Denae Dyck, Ben Parker, Adrian Desmond, Alexander Bubb, and @njdames.bsky.social

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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 7d

Next up in this issue, a special essay cluster edited by Brooke Cameron and Lin Young, featuring articles by Cameron and Young, Molly Boggs, and Hannah Mummert.

The issue also features Olivia Krauze's Hamilton Prize-winning article "What is a Violent Emotion?" and +

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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 7d

The forum on reproductive and sexual justice features essays by Livia Woods, Ashley Miller, @drrd.bsky.social, Erin Spampinato, @sdraucker.bsky.social, Dara Rossman Regaignon, @dustinfriedman.bsky.social, Riley McGuire, Simon Joyce, @alexisdoeslit.bsky.social, and Jill R. Ehnenn

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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 7d

Issue 50.2 of Victorian Review is out on Project Muse! First up in this issue is a forum edited by Doreen Thierauf, "Thinking Reproductive and Sexual Justice with the Victorians after Dobbs: Future Paths Previously Trod"

muse.jhu.edu/issue/55679

Project MUSE - Victorian Review-Volume 50, Number 2, Fall 2024

muse.jhu.edu

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Elise Garritzen @egarritzen.bsky.social · 15d

Victorians loved writing fan mail. Celebrities - historians included - were not necessarily equally thrilled about this specimen of modern fan culture: cliosfootnotes.wordpress.com/2025/09/26/d...

Dear Historian: Agnes Strickland, Fan Mail, and Historical Knowledge as a Franchise

There was a group of ladies in Plymouth, Massachusetts, who were enthusiastic about Charles Dickens. In fact, their enthusiasm was so intense that they decided to write to their idol to request a s…

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VictorianLondon @victorianlondon.bsky.social · 14d

Nice review for Dickensland in Victorian Studies muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... ... it's for anyone but I guess just academic enough to interest academics looking at literary tourism, history and heritage in London; or, indeed, Dickens.

Project MUSE - <i>Dickensland: The Curious History of Dickens’s London</i> by Lee Jackson (review)

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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 15d

Our CFP for our May 2026 conference is live! Please see the attachment or the thread for details about our upcoming conference on VICTORIAN TRADE

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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 15d

To learn more about the Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada and past conferences, please visit our website (link in profile!). To learn more about our organization’s journal, Victorian Review, please visit: victorianreview.org

Victorian Review – An Interdisciplinary Journal of Victorian Studies

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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 15d

Our conference will be held at the Alt Hotel in downtown Winnipeg. Graduate students and underemployed scholars will have the opportunity to apply for funding to reduce the cost of participation. Please direct any questions to conference host Dr. Vanessa Warne ([email protected]). +

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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 15d

Please send a proposal of no more than 200 words, accompanied by a brief biographical statement, to [email protected].

In the case of panels or workshops, please share participants’ materials in a single email. Please submit proposals no later than December 1, 2025.

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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 15d

We welcome proposals for papers, panels, and workshops that explore the theme of Victorian Trade. Established scholars, emerging scholars, independent scholars, and graduate students are all encouraged to apply. +

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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 15d

hoarding, frauds, swindles, and scams
neo-Victorian authors who ‘trade’ in Victorian tropes
the trading of ideas in the context of contemporary or Victorian-era education +

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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 15d

non-commercial forms of exchange, including gift culture
material culture and craft
stock exchanges and banking
stamps, monetary systems, and the gold standard
transportation and communication systems
street trade, peddling, arcades, and department stores
mutuality, trust, distrust, and betrayal +

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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 15d

trade unions, guilds, and apprenticeships
vocational schools, workingmen’s libraries, and reading rooms for tradespeople
trade publications
the emergence of new professions and professional identities
national and regional borders
physical and conceptual borders +

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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 15d

the movement of raw materials, manufactured goods, and knowledge between people and places
treaties, agreements, and contracts
the trade in enslaved people and products of their labour
bartering and bargaining
the nineteenth-century book trade
the nineteenth-century art market +

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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 15d

We encourage proposals that expand our ideas about Victorian trade, whether focused on material objects, people, knowledge, identities, values, or emotions.

Topics for exploration include but are not limited to: +

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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 15d

Trade establishes new relationships and shapes existing ones. Nineteenth-century trade evokes not only economic pursuits, labour activism, and the geographical movement of goods but also the exchange of ideas. +

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Victorian Studies Association of Western Canada @vsawc.bsky.social · 15d

VSAWC's next conference, on Victorian Trade, will take place in Winnipeg MB (Treaty One Territory) on May 1 and 2, 2026. We look forward to welcoming Dr. Sarah Fee (Senior Curator, Global Fashion & Textiles; Royal Ontario Museum) as our plenary speaker. +

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Ruth-Anne @ruthannereads.bsky.social · Sep 10

✨Call for reviewers ✨

There are lots of new Victorianist books this autumn, and we're looking for reviewers at the @bavs-uk.bsky.social newsletter.

It’s the perfect opportunity for Victorian scholars to read the latest releases and publish a review.

Full details here 👇

bavs.ac.uk/newsletters/

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Victorian Review @victorianreview.bsky.social · Aug 18

Reminder! We are accepting proposals for a forum on Daniel Deronda to mark the 150th anniversary of its publication. Our forums feature short, op-ed style essays guest-edited by leading scholars. Deadline for proposals is Sept. 1. See our website for more details: victorianreview.org?cat=217

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