Endnotes

2014 VanArsdel Essay Prize

VPR is pleased to announce the winner of the 2014 VanArsdel Prize: Ann M. Hale, a doctoral student at the University of Greenwich. Her essay, “W. T. Stead and Participatory Reader Networks in the Link and the Review of Reviews,” will appear in the Spring 2015 issue of VPR. She is also the recipient of a $300 cash award. We offer her 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, 2015. For more information, see http://rs4vp.org/vanarsdel-prize/.

Curran Fellowship for Research on the Victorian Press

Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to help scholars studying nineteenth-century British magazines and newspapers make use of primary print and archival sources. These annual awards are made possible through the generosity of the late Eileen Curran, Professor Emerita of English, Colby College, and are inspired by her pioneering research on Victorian periodicals. This year, up to five prizes will be awarded in amounts up to $4,000 each. 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 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 2015 is October 15, 2014. Applications for the Curran Fellowship must be submitted in electronic form and sent to curranfellowship@gmail.com. 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, 2015. Successful applicants will be required to submit a brief report to RSVP describing the results of their research 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://rs4vp.org/curran-fellowship/.

A set of additional guidelines for applicants may be found at http://rs4vp.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/curran_fellowship_guidelines.pdf.

Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize

The annual Robert and Vineta Colby Prize is intended to honor original book-length scholarship about Victorian periodicals and newspapers—the kind of work that Robert and Vineta Colby themselves produced during their careers. The annual prize is awarded to the book published during the preceding year that most advances our understanding of the nineteenth-century British press. All books exploring periodicals of the period are eligible (including single-author monographs, edited collections, and editions) so long as they have an official publication date of 2014. The winner will receive a monetary award of up to $2,000 and will be invited to speak at a future RSVP conference. The prize is made possible by a generous gift from Vineta Colby in honor of Robert Colby, a devoted, longtime member of RSVP and a major scholar in the field of Victorian periodicals.

To nominate a book, please email the prize committee by December 1, 2014. You or your press will be asked to supply the committee with five copies of the book by mid-December 2014. Self-nominations are welcome. For more information, see http://rs4vp.org/colby-prize/.

Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship in Nineteenth-Century Media

RSVP is pleased to announce the fourth annual Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship, made possible by the generosity of Gale/Cengage Learning. This prestigious award supports research that makes substantial use of full-text digitized collections of nineteenth-century British magazines and newspapers. A prize of $1...