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BAVS @bavs-uk.bsky.social · 28d

The deadline for applications is today at 5pm. We'd love to hear from ECRs interested in this post!

BAVS @bavs-uk.bsky.social · Aug 21

Do you want to join the BAVS Executive Committee? We have a vacancy for an ECR/Postdoctoral Representative (x 3-year term), and we'd love to hear from you if so! The deadline for applying is 10th September. More info here: bavs.ac.uk/executive-co...

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BAVS @bavs-uk.bsky.social · 28d

Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social · Sep 8

Much looking forward to speaking in the Tennyson Talks Zoom series on 2 October: ‘“Among a World of Ghosts”: Tennyson’s Texts’. Joining details via the poster @engfac.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social

Poster of the Tennyson Talks 4th Series indicating that events are at 7.30pm London time on the first Thursday of each month, held via Zoom. Joining details can be obtained from Professor Valerie Purton.

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Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · 29d

Any #ECRs wanting to represent and support @bavs-uk.bsky.social (and work with me, yay!) you have until this Wednesday 10th September (5pm UK) to apply ⬇️🎉

BAVS @bavs-uk.bsky.social · Aug 21

Do you want to join the BAVS Executive Committee? We have a vacancy for an ECR/Postdoctoral Representative (x 3-year term), and we'd love to hear from you if so! The deadline for applying is 10th September. More info here: bavs.ac.uk/executive-co...

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Ruth-Anne @ruthannereads.bsky.social · 28d

✨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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Ruth-Anne @ruthannereads.bsky.social · 28d

If you're interested in reviewing any of these texts for @bavs-uk.bsky.social, or any other recent releases, email us at [email protected]

We're always happy to work with first time reviewers. So if you're a PGR or ECR, and you're unsure where to start, we're just an email away 😇

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BAVS @bavs-uk.bsky.social · Sep 4

We are delighted to announce that Dr Yasmin Akhter is the 2025/26 BARS/BAVS Nineteenth-Century Matters Fellow, to be hosted at the University of Edinburgh with mentorship from Dr Gerard McKeever. Congratulations Yasmin!

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Romance, Revolution & Reform @rrrjournal.bsky.social · Sep 3

📢 Just a few weeks left to submit your abstracts for our exciting conference at the University of Stirling in January!

🗓 Deadline: 22 Sept
📩 Email: [email protected]

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BAVS @bavs-uk.bsky.social · Aug 21

Do you want to join the BAVS Executive Committee? We have a vacancy for an ECR/Postdoctoral Representative (x 3-year term), and we'd love to hear from you if so! The deadline for applying is 10th September. More info here: bavs.ac.uk/executive-co...

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Simon Kövesi @kovesi.bsky.social · Aug 18

@bars.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social @studiesinrom.bsky.social #AcademicSky
Please circulate!

Simon Kövesi @kovesi.bsky.social · Aug 18

The Ronald Blythe Fellowship is John Clare Society's new scheme awarding a PhD student focusing on Clare a £1000 bursary to support their work.
Please pass on - &/or contact me or Honorary Secretary of the Society, Karen Lakey, for further information:
johnclaresociety.wordpress.com/contact-us/

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Amy Waterson @ireadoldbooks.bsky.social · Aug 19

Becoming a BAVS Newsletter Reviewer is easy!

1: Become a BAVS Member
2: Email [email protected] with your name, affiliation (if applicable), status, and five key research words
3: Let us know what you would like to review!

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BAVS @bavs-uk.bsky.social · Aug 13

And the BAVS 2025 Rosemary Mitchell Prize for Best PhD Student's Paper Presentation Runner-Up is Claudia Sterbini (University of Edinburgh)!

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BAVS @bavs-uk.bsky.social · Aug 13

We are delighted to confirm that the winner of the BAVS 2025 Rosemary Mitchell Prize for Best PhD Student's Paper Presentation is Chandrica Barua (University of Michigan).

Chandrica is the first to be awarded this new prize. Congratulations, Chandrica!

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BAVS @bavs-uk.bsky.social · Aug 6

Our wonderful Newsletter Editors have published the BAVS summer newsletter. Take a look at the reviews, news, and CfPs and more!

Ruth-Anne @ruthannereads.bsky.social · Aug 5

Great to see the @bavs-uk.bsky.social newsletter out in the world 📰

Featuring a review of Jessica Campbell’s new book on “The Brontës and the Fairy Tale” from @ohiostatepress.bsky.social 🧚‍♀️📕

Thank you, as always, to all our amazing reviewers for bringing this issue together ✨

Amy Waterson @ireadoldbooks.bsky.social · Aug 5

Something to add to your summer reading list. The latest issue of the BAVS Newsletter is out now! News, reviews, and all things Victorianist, @ruthannereads.bsky.social and I hope you enjoy. @bavs-uk.bsky.social

bavs.ac.uk/newsletters/

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Amy Waterson @ireadoldbooks.bsky.social · Aug 5

Something to add to your summer reading list. The latest issue of the BAVS Newsletter is out now! News, reviews, and all things Victorianist, @ruthannereads.bsky.social and I hope you enjoy. @bavs-uk.bsky.social

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Michael J Sullivan @michaeljsullivan.bsky.social · Jul 28

Excellent to attend and speak at the British Association of Victorian Studies 25th Anniversary Conference, and to hear its inspiring roundtable from presidents past and future. Isobel Armstrong on the future of the discipline: ‘Be dauntless’. #BAVS2025 @bavs-uk.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social

Excerpt from conference Programme for BAVS 25th Anniversary Conference depicting the conference registration, welcome, and first panel.

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Claudia Sterbini @claudiasterbini.bsky.social · Jul 29

It was great to attend @bavs-uk.bsky.social last week! Incredible conference and beautiful people! And particularly excited to have won the runner-up prize for best PhD paper!!! Thank you BAVS!

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Dr Lucy Whitehead @drlucywhitehead.bsky.social · Jul 24

Happy 25th birthday @bavs-uk.bsky.social! Thank you for the beautiful conference dinner and the fiendishly difficult quiz! Glorious Victorian architecture provided by Oxford Town Hall… it felt a bit like dining inside a wedding cake… #BAVS2025

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Claire Cock-Starkey @nonfictioness.bsky.social · Jul 25

Wonderful conference dinner for @bavs-uk.bsky.social in the glorious high Victorian Oxford Town Hall. The post-dinner quiz was so difficult I don't think I can claim to be a Victorianist any more 🤣

Ornate plaster domed roof with chandelier and people in foreground seated at round dinner tables plus big screen saying BAVS 2025

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Kathryn Waters @waters-writes.bsky.social · Jul 25

Had a great time @bavs-uk.bsky.social 2025 in #Oxford - as well many fascinating papers and new friends made, there was also a seance, a punch & Judy show, a fiendishly difficult quiz at the conference dinner and a private tour of the @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social victorian galleries.

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jeremynewton64.bsky.social @jeremynewton64.bsky.social · Jul 25

Here are a few of the #BirkbeckVictorianists on tour again, this time at the @bavs-uk.bsky.social 2025 Conference in Oxford. With @janetteleaf.bsky.social, @helenaesser.bsky.social and @nonfictioness.bsky.social.

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Jennifer Wallis-Bernard @harbottlestores.bsky.social · Jul 25

It's the first time in a long time that I've been at a conference for the duration, which is testament to how brilliant the @bavs-uk.bsky.social 2025 anniversary event was! A lovely bonus to speak on two panels with the wonderful @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social and @jendeavour.bsky.social 🙌

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Pam Lock @pamplemoussepam.bsky.social · Jul 26

Had a great time @bavs-uk.bsky.social last week. Not been for a long time and was really impressed by the quality of the papers and the great chats I had with so many. Thanks also to my PhD sister @jendeavour.bsky.social for getting this pic of me in action, probably laughing at one of my own jokes.

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Kathryn Waters @waters-writes.bsky.social · Jul 26

Thanks to all those who gave me positive feedback on my paper on Mary Cowden Clarke and Dickens’ 1848 production of The Merry Wives of Windsor @bavs-uk.bsky.social 2025 as part of the Gendered Entertainments panel. Made a very nerve-wracking experience a positive one!

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Sarah Parker @profsarahparker.bsky.social · Jul 21

Really looking forward to tomorrow's ECR Professionalisation Day, kicking off the amazing @bavs-uk.bsky.social conference! Careers advice, jigsaw puzzles, séances all in one day - what more could you want?

Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · Jul 15

1 week today the @bavs-uk.bsky.social ECR committee will be kicking off the BAVS Conference by hosting the ECR Professionalisation Day! We have talks from experts on #C19 pedagogy, careers, peer review workshops, immersive Victorian games & even a séance magic show from @careenafenton.bsky.social 🎉

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Dr Jen Baker @jendeavour.bsky.social · Jul 22

Great to speak about using print and digital archives in teaching, on the Victorian Pedagogies panel with @timgao.bsky.social and @harbottlestores.bsky.social at @bavs-uk.bsky.social PGR/ECR Professionalisation Afternoon

Also had sneaky peek at the Tales of Weird collection at Oxford's Blackwells!

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