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2014 VanArsdel Essay Prize

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. For submission guidelines, see http://www.rs4vp.org/prizes.html.

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

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals will hold its annual conference at the University of Delaware, September 12-13, 2014, on the theme “Places, Spaces, and the Victorian Periodical Press.” In addition to plenary lectures and concurrent panels on the Wilmington campus of the University, the conference will hold the annual Wolff lecture at the Delaware Museum of Art, followed by a reception, dinner, and tours of the Bancroft collection of Pre-Raphaelite art (see http://www.preraph.org). On September 11, there will be pre-conference small-group visits to the Winterthur (http://www.winterthur.org), the Mark Samuels Lasner collection (http://www.lib.udel.edu/ud/spec/msl), the Hagley Museum and Library (http://www.hagley.org), and the Delaware Historical Society (http://www.hsd.org). For further information about the conference, see the RSVP website (http://www.rs4vp.org/conference.html) or contact the local organizer, Iain Crawford, icrawf@udel.edu. [End Page 156]

Curran Fellowship for Research on the Victorian Press

The Curran Fellowship is a travel and research grant made possible through the generosity of the late Eileen M. Curran, Professor Emerita of English, Colby College, which is intended to aid scholars studying nineteenth-century British magazines and newspapers. The 2014 Curran Fellowship awarded grants of $4,000 each to the following five scholars:

Troy Bassett Associate Professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University, will expand his online database, At the Circulating Library: A Database of Victorian Fiction, 1837–1901, to include novel serializations in twenty Victorian magazines and newspapers.

Kirstie Blair, Chair of the Department of English at the University of Stir-ling, will study the dissemination of poetry, particularly working-class verse, in the Scottish press.

Bradley Cesario, a doctoral student in history at Texas A&M University, College Station, will study the influence of pro-naval journalists on British public opinion and Admiralty policy in the years leading up to World War I.

Emma Goldsmith, a doctoral student in history at Northwestern University, will study parish magazines in English port cities, 1870–1930.

Tara Puri, Global Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick, will study women’s magazines in imperial and colonial Britain, in English and Hindi, 1900–14.

The Curran committee received many splendid proposals this year and wishes to express its thanks to all who applied as well as its hearty congratulations to the winners. Details about the next Curran competition will be posted on the RSVP website in September: http://www.rs4vp.org/prizes.html. [End Page 157]

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