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CFP: Victorian Soundings (Proposal Deadline: 1/31/26) | NAVSA

NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · 5d

CFP: Victorian Soundings (Proposal Deadline: 1/31/26) bit.ly/4he8EaB

CFP: Adapting Thackeray (Abstract Deadline: 1/19/26) | NAVSA

NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · 5d

CFP: Adapting Thackeray (Abstract Deadline: 1/19/26) bit.ly/4pULaeg

Prize: Keats-Shelley Prize (Submission Deadline: 2/2/26) | NAVSA

NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · 6d

Announcement: NAVSA is joining Instagram! Follow us there @/navsaorg for continued updates regarding upcoming opportunities in Victorian studies, member publication announcements, and more. www.instagram.com/navsaorg/

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NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · 18d

Prize: Keats-Shelley Prize (Submission Deadline: 2/2/26) bit.ly/47TuzRI

Fellowship: Curran Fellowships (Application deadline: 10/15/25) | NAVSA

NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · 18d

bit.ly/3IxZOqW Fellowship: Curran Fellowships (Application deadline: 10/15/25)

Sarah E. Maier and Rachel M. Friars, Neo-Victorian Lesbians on Screen | NAVSA

NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · 23d

Member Publication: Sarah E. Maier and Rachel M. Friars, Neo-Victorian Lesbians on Screen bit.ly/3HZ8OFB

Sarah E. Maier, Neo-Victorian Young Adult Narratives | NAVSA

NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · 23d

Member Publication: Sarah E. Maier, Neo-Victorian Young Adult Narratives bit.ly/4mieicA

CFP: Teaching Dickens’s Compositional Process & Serial Form (Submission Deadline: 1/31/26) | NAVSA

NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · Aug 25

CFP: Teaching Dickens’s Compositional Process & Serial Form (Submission Deadline: 1/31/26) bit.ly/3HLOtmX

CFP: Journal of Postcolonial Writing Special Issue, Telling the Story of Oceans and Archives: Rethinking the Novel Form (Abstract Deadline: 11/15/25) | NAVSA

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NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · Aug 19

CFP: Journal of Postcolonial Writing Special Issue, Telling the Story of Oceans and Archives: Rethinking the Novel Form (Abstract Deadline: 11/15/25) bit.ly/4miqNpa

CFP: Nineteenth-Century Medievalisms (Proposal Deadline: 9/15/25) | NAVSA

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NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · Aug 19

CFP: Nineteenth-Century Medievalisms (Proposal Deadline: 9/15/25) bit.ly/4g3PXpv

CFP: Victorian Review, Forum on Eliot’s Daniel Deronda (Proposal Deadline: 9/1/25) | NAVSA

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NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · Aug 19

CFP: Victorian Review, Forum on Eliot’s Daniel Deronda (Proposal Deadline: 9/1/25) bit.ly/47D6Rc5

CFP: Tennyson 2026: Ecology, Landscape, Environment (Abstract Deadline: 1/31/26) | NAVSA

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NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · Aug 19

CFP: Tennyson 2026: Ecology, Landscape, Environment (Abstract Deadline: 1/31/26) bit.ly/4mO9BYv

Sarah Weaver, Tennyson’s Philological Medievalism | NAVSA

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NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · Jul 31

Member Publication: Sarah Weaver, Tennyson’s Philological Medievalism bit.ly/3Heue0T

Considers Tennyson’s poems, from the elegiac In Memoriam to the Arthurian Idylls of the King, in the context of Victorian interest in philology.

CFP: Youth Writers and Their Worlds Conference (Proposal Deadline: 11/1/25) | NAVSA

NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · Jul 31

CFP: Youth Writers and Their Worlds Conference (Proposal Deadline: 11/1/25) bit.ly/3Jap5Yc

Conference: Undercover Agents: Women, Crime, and Detection in the Global 19th Century (8/28/25-8/29/25) | NAVSA

NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · Jul 7

Conference: Undercover Agents: Women, Crime, and Detection in the Global 19th Century (8/28/25-8/29/25) bit.ly/408NS4O

CFP: Special Issue of Women’s Writing on Margaret Oliphant at 200 (Proposal Deadline: 12/1/25) | NAVSA

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NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · Jul 7

CFP: Special Issue of Women’s Writing on Margaret Oliphant at 200 (Proposal Deadline: 12/1/25) bit.ly/4krM5PC

Erik Gray and Veronica Alfano, Victorian Poetry: An Anthology | NAVSA

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NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · Jun 27

Member Publications: Erik Gray and Veronica Alfano, Victorian Poetry: An Anthology bit.ly/46gwmiI

CFP: Forging an American Musical Identity (Proposal deadline: 7/30/25) | NAVSA

NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · Jun 27

CFP: Forging an American Musical Identity (Proposal deadline: 7/30/25) bit.ly/448nfiU

Prize: The Hamilton Prize (Deadline: 7/1/25) | NAVSA

NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · Jun 23

Prize: The Hamilton Prize (Deadline: 7/1/25) bit.ly/43VtyWL

Stefanie Markovits, The Number Sense of Nineteenth-Century British Literature | NAVSA

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NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · Jun 8

Member Publication: Stefanie Markovits, The Number Sense of Nineteenth-Century British Literature bit.ly/3FueJRN

Prize: Henry James Review, Leon Edel Prize (Deadline: 11/1/25) | NAVSA

NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · May 23

Prize: Henry James Review, Leon Edel Prize (Deadline: 11/1/25) bit.ly/3F8eP1f

Workshop: MVSA Virtual Summer Seminars (Application Deadline: 5/25/25) | NAVSA

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NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · May 15

Workshop: MVSA Virtual Summer Seminars (Application Deadline: 5/25/25) bit.ly/3S6b8vW

Sarah Bilston, The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession | NAVSA

NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · May 8

Member Publication: Sarah Bilston, The Lost Orchid: A Story of Victorian Plunder and Obsession bit.ly/4iXKhNw

CFP: Midwest Conference on British Studies (Proposal Deadline: 6/6/25) | NAVSA

NAVSA @navsa.bsky.social · May 8

CFP: Midwest Conference on British Studies (Proposal Deadline: 6/6/25) bit.ly/42YRHLP