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VanArsdel Prize
The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) is delighted to announce the winner of the 2019 VanArsdel Essay Prize: Louise Logan, a doctoral student at University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Her essay, "Drawing Species Lines: Sensation and Empathy in Illustrations of Vivisection in the Illustrated Police News," will be published in the spring 2020 issue of Victorian Periodicals Review. She will also receive a $500 cash prize.
The VanArsdel Prize was established in 1990 to honor Rosemary VanArsdel, a founding member of RSVP whose ground-breaking research continues to shape the field of nineteenth-century periodical studies. The deadline for next year's award competition is May 1, 2020.
Linda H. Peterson Fellowships
RSVP has awarded two Linda H. Peterson Fellowships for 2019. Congratulations to this year's recipients: Alexis Easley (University of St. Thomas) for her book project, New Periodical Print Media and the Rise of the Popular Woman Poet, 1830–50, and Lorraine Janzen Kooistra (Ryerson University) for her open-access scholarly resource, The Dial Digital Edition on Y 90 s 2.0.
The Peterson Fellowship committee received many strong applications this year and also shortlisted two projects: Trev Broughton (University of [End Page 653] York), Periodical Selves: Autobiography, Journalism, and Print Culture in the Nineteenth Century, and Jennifer Phegley (University of Missouri-Kansas City), Magazine Mavericks: Marital Collaborations and the Invention of New Reading Audiences in Mid-Victorian England.
The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship, named after the widely influential Yale professor and long-time RSVP board member and vice president, was created with funds from a generous bequest to RSVP by the late Eileen Cur-ran, a pioneering researcher and emerita professor of English at Colby College. The purpose of the Peterson Fellowship is to support a scholar for four full-time months to conduct research on the nineteenth-century British periodical and newspaper press.
Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize
The winner of the 2019 Robert and Vineta Colby Scholarly Book Prize is A Fleet Street in Every Town: The Provincial Press in England, 1855–1900 (Open Book Publishers), by Andrew Hobbs (University of Central Lancashire).
The committee described the book as "field-defining," commending the ways in which it "convincingly challenges enduring assumptions that London newspapers acted as the national press in the Victorian period." They praised its "meticulous research, originality, and significance for future scholars" of the provincial press in Britain, noting that it was also "written with imagination, flair, and infectious enthusiasm" that "brings the nineteenth-century press to full, vibrant, pulsating life."
Information about nomination procedures for the 2020 Colby Prize is available from the RSVP website: http://rs4vp.org/colby-prize/.
Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship in Nineteenth-Century Media
The Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship was awarded to Ruth Byrne (Lancaster University) for her project, "Attitudes to Immigrants in the Nineteenth Century: Using Very Large Historical Corpora for Socio-Historical Research."
The Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship in Nineteenth-Century Media is awarded in support of dissertation research that will make the most substantial and innovative use of full-text digitized collections of nineteenth-century British magazines and newspapers. The fellowship is made possible by the generosity of Gale, part of Cengage Learning. For more information, see http://rs4vp.org/awards. [End Page 654]
Upcoming RSVP Conferences
The 2020 conference will be held in Philadelphia in September. Organized by Anna Peak, Genevieve Amaral, and Douglas Greenfield of Temple University's Intellectual Heritage Program, the conference will take advantage of the university's new Charles Library. For more details, visit http://rs4vp.org/rsvp-conference/.
Looking further ahead, the 2021 conference will be in Glasgow, organized by Kirstie Blair and her colleagues from the Scottish Centre for Victorian and Neo-Victorian Studies.
