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Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social · 15h

The deadline for application is Oct 15. If you or somebody you know works on periodicals and attribution research, do apply (or spread the word).

Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 17h

Are you doing #19thC attribution research? Do you have DH skills and nowhere to use them? YOU could be the next editor of the Curran Index! We're still accepting applications thru next week on 15 Oct. Lead this ongoing + fully supported DH project into its next iteration! 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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Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social · 5d

Congrats, Matthew! Woohoo (and in only four years, wow!).
Love the newspaper. Of course!

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Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social · 6d

I love Sagar's web project and the book is a marvel -- his intros are esp wonderful and really challenge the tradition narrative about Indian public discourse in this period. They complicate Indian anti-colonialism and nationalism so well.
Sorry about your colleague.

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Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social · 6d

Love the slide ruler! And congrats -- both on teaching & house!

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Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social · 6d

The deadline for Curran Fellowships is fast approaching: Oct 15 (letters due a week later). Who doesn't want money for travel & research? So much exciting work to do on British/empire periodicals of the long 19th c!

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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Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social · 7d

Deadline to submit proposals is a month away! Don't miss the boat!

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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Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social · 9d

Chaiyya Chaiyya is truly a brilliant number, Mani Ratnam, AR Rahmam, SRK, and Farah Khan (the choreographer) in top for. The movie itself (Dil Se) is, I think one of Ratnam's best, superior to the other two in the trilogy.

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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 10d

William & Mary University in Virginia is looking for an assistant professor of Global Victorian Literatures. Application deadline is November 9. williammary.wd12.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WM/det... #C19th #19th-c

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 16d

Drawing on a transatlantic archive, @miladaskalova.bsky.social explores the experience of time in asylum #periodicals. Learn how these publications served as instruments of both recalibration and resistance in the latest issue of VPR: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org

Front page of The Gartnavel Gazette; or Monthly Journal of the Glasgow Royal Lunatic Asylum, Wednesday, July 6, 1853, image courtesy of Wellcome Collection, https://wellcomecollection.org/works/jvk8aued/items?canvas=7. Accompanied by text that says: Mila Daskalova, Passing the Hours: Measuring, Recording and Experiencing Time Through Periodical Publishing in Victorian Asylums, Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 1, Spring 2025.

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Rare Book School @rarebookschool.bsky.social · 28d

RBS is happy to announce that we are now accepting applications for:

𝗥𝗕𝗦-𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘀 (apply by 𝟮 𝗡𝗼𝘃.)

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗠. 𝗖. 𝗟𝗮𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗼𝘄𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽 𝗶𝗻 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝗸 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆, 𝗕𝗶𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗛𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗰𝗲𝘀 (apply by 𝟳 𝗗𝗲𝗰.)

Details: rarebookschool.org/2025-scholarships-fellowships/

A vertically oriented graphic shows a white box will a yellow border. Inside the box, black and blue text reads, “Apply Now! RBS-Awarded Scholarships Application Deadline: Sunday, 2 November 2025. The M. C. Lang Fellowship in Book History, Bibliography & Humanities Teaching with Historical Sources Application Deadline: Sunday, 7 December 2025.” On a black bar at the bottom of the graphic, white and yellow text says, “Learn more & apply at: rarebookschool.org/2025-scholarships-fellowships.” The background of the graphic is a photo of two smiling women standing beside a table covered in books. They are holding notebooks and taking notes with pencils.

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Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social · 20d

Nilkantha's paper at RSVP-Chicago was terrific & I'm excited to read this essay.

Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 20d

Nilkantha Pal investigates the emergence of children’s #periodicals in Bengali literary culture. Learn how these vernacular periodicals helped shape a literary selfhood among Bengali middle classes from the 1870s onward: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org #ExpandingTheField

Illustration titled “Andhamunir Putraśok” from Sandeś 2, no. 1 (Baiśāk 1321/April–May 1914), courtesy of Jadavpur University Central Library, Kolkata. Image accompanied by text that says: Nilkantha Pal, Imagining Childhood in Colonial Bengal: Children’s Periodicals, Readership, and
Vernacular Publishing, ca. 1880–1920, Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 1, Spring 2025.

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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 21d

REMINDER: Deadline to apply to be the next SHARP News Bibliographer(s) coming up soon!

Apply by October 01 2025.

See the link for details:
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...

#BookHistory #Bibliography #Bibliographer #Research #Zotero #Publishing #Books

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Victorian Periodicals Review @vpreditors.bsky.social · 23d

NEW ISSUE ALERT! It's a happy day when you find the latest VPR in your mailbox. This number includes the 2024 VanArsdel and Expanding the Field essays as well as articles on asylum periodicals and the bookselling trade. Treat yourself to some delightful reading: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55567 @rs4vp.org

Cover of Victorian Periodicals Review, volume 58, number 1, spring 2025; burgundy background with illustration of alien aircraft from H. G. Wells's _The War of the Worlds_.

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Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social · 23d

A wonderful opportunity with good financial support for a scholar of British periodicals of the 19th c to have time to research, write, think for a period of 4 mos.

Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 23d

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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Tom Ue @tomue.bsky.social · 25d

Victorianists: Got a new book? Want to review one? Hit me up! Next deadline's the end of this calendar year.

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Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social · 29d

I'm so excited to see this project in print. This is a brilliant and important project! Congrats, Susan!
Everyone else: get your hands on this ASAP!

Susan Zieger @susanzieger.bsky.social · 29d

My book is out today! Find out how logistics organizes modern power: www.ucpress.edu/books/logist...

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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · Sep 8

Please spread the word—The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print at AAS Jan. 12-15, 2026. A writing workshop and intro to archives for junior scholars working on the dissertation or first book. Fully funded. Apply by Oct. 15 2025. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD

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Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social · Sep 6

Looks like a great volume -- what a range!

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Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social · Sep 5

We have a wonderful line up of keynote speakers for RSVP-Dublin:
KATHERINE BODE (Australian National University) will deliver the Wolff keynote and ANDREW LEWIS and TEJA VARMA PUSAPATI will be in conversation for the Colby keynote!
And you too can be there - submit a proposal by Nov 1.

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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Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social · Sep 5

Rahul Sagar's site is a GEM -- as is the volume of pieces from it he edited!

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Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social · Sep 5

What's not to like about this amazing opportunity for a dedicated periodicals studies scholar! Apps due by Oct 15.

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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Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social · Sep 4

No, RSVP doesn't hand out 50,000 GBP -- but up to 6,000 USD (for the Curran Fellowship) and $20k (for the Peterson). Join this session to learn how to write a strong proposal! (Advance registration required.

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

Working on your Curran application? Thinking about a Peterson Fellowship (applications open 15 September)? We just so happen to have a panel of experts ready to share what makes standout grant application. Join us TOMORROW for this free #RSVPDigiEvent at the usual time. Register now!

Digital Events Resume September 5 – RSVP

Join us Friday, Sept. 5 for our next Digital Event - a grants-crafting workshop on applying for a Curran Fellowship!

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Jessica R Valdez @jrvaldez.bsky.social · Sep 4

The theme of RSVP's 2026 conference in Dublin is movements and migrations -- submit an abstract! rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...

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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Priti Joshi @pritijoshi.bsky.social · Sep 2

This attitude drives me crazy. When people -- even faculty colleagues -- say "June-July-Aug," I retort: yes, I cram in those 3 mos the 3rd part of my job that I hardly have time to glance at during the other 9 mos bc the 1st two parts are so time-sucking!

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

#RSVPDigiEvents is getting into the back-to-school spirit on Friday, 5 Sept. We'll learn from our experts on how to create standout grant application, just in time for Curran and (upcoming) Peterson Fellowship season! As always, registration is free and open to all: rs4vp.org/digital-even...

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