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2013 VanArsdel Essay Prize

VPR is pleased to announce the winner of the 2013 VanArsdel Prize: Paul Rooney, a doctoral student at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His essay, "Readership and the Steamship Newspaper in the Telegraphic Age: The Serialization of Arthur Griffiths' Fast and Loose (1883-84) in Home News for India, China, and the Colonies," will appear in the Spring 2014 issue of VPR. He is also the recipient of a $300 cash award. We offer him our warmest congratulations!

The VanArsdel Prize is awarded annually to the best graduate student essay investigating Victorian periodicals and newspapers. The prize was established in 1990 to honor Rosemary VanArsdel, a founding member of RSVP whose groundbreaking research continues to shape the field of nineteenth-century periodical studies. The deadline for next year's award competition is May 1, 2014.

Research Society for Victorian Periodicals 46th Annual Conference at the University of Delaware September 12-13, 2014

We are pleased to invite paper proposals for the 2014 RSVP Conference. As always, proposals for papers that address any aspect of nineteenth-century British periodicals or newspapers will be considered. However, this year we particularly encourage proposals on the topic "Places and Spaces" in the nineteenth-century press. Possible topics include: [End Page 436]

  • • The country/city dynamic, seen through the lens of the periodical press.

  • • The provincial or urban press (regional niche markets).

  • • Industrial spaces (occupational niche markets).

  • • Periodicals and a "sense of place."

  • • Locality: representation of London's spaces.

  • • Mapping of networks, transatlantic exchange.

  • • Place and image; travel narrative and illustration; colonial spaces; grand tour representation.

  • • Social position and classed spaces.

  • • Selling places (where periodicals were sold).

  • • Forbidden spaces (taboo topics).

  • • Imaginary places (and children's periodicals).

  • • Scale and page layout.

  • • Poetry "spaces" on the page.

  • • Illustration, cartoons, adverts, and other things that take up space.

Please e-mail two-page (maximum) proposals for individual presentations or panels of three to rs4vp2014@gmail.com. Please include a one-page curriculum vitae with relevant publications, teaching, and/or coursework. Final papers should take fifteen minutes (twenty minutes maximum) to present.

The deadline for submission of proposals is February 1, 2014.

The program will include the annual Michael Wolff Lecture by a distinguished scholar, a presentation by the winner of the 2014 Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize, and workshops devoted to digital resources and methods of teaching periodicals.

For more information about the conference, visit the RSVP website, http://www.rs4vp.org/conference.html, or contact Iain Crawford, icrawf@udel.edu.

Curran Fellowship for Research on the Victorian Press

The Curran Fellowship is made possible through the generosity of pioneering scholar Eileen Curran. Two grants of $2,500 are awarded annually. These awards are intended to aid scholars studying nineteenth-century British magazines and newspapers in making use of primary print and archival sources. The projected research may involve study of the periodical press in any of its manifold forms and may range from within Britain itself to the many countries within and outside of the empire where British [End Page 437] magazines and newspapers were bought, sold, and read during the long nineteenth century (ca. 1780-1914).

The deadline for the sixth annual Curran Fellowship competition for research to be undertaken in 2014 is October 15, 2013. Applications for the Curran Fellowship must be submitted in electronic form and sent to curranfellowship@rs4vp.org. Applicants should send a CV, the names and contact information of two scholars who are familiar with the applicant and his or her research goals, and a description of the project to which these funds would be applied. Any queries about the application may be sent to the same address.

Applicants will be notified by January 15, 2014. Successful applicants will be required to submit a brief report describing the results of their research to RSVP at the conclusion of the funded portion of their project and are asked to acknowledge the fellowship in any published work based on that research.

The full call for applications may be found on the RSVP website at http://www.rs4vp.org/prizes.html. A set of additional guidelines for applicants may be found at http://www...

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