📢 It's Curran Fellowship time! These awards support research on #19thC periodicals as objects of study in their own right. Multiple awards of up to $6,000 (USD) are given each year, thanks to the generosity and enduring legacy of Eileen Curran. Apps due 15 Oct. Full guidelines here: buff.ly/Vw4Q3Tr

Curran Fellowship Guidelines – RSVP

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) grants at least six Curran Fellowship awards each calendar year. Applicants may request any amount of support up to $6000; the Curran Fellowships…

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In keeping with the nostalgic turn we've taken this week, the full recordings of our #RSVP2026 Dublin keynotes are now available to stream on our YouTube channel! 🧵 below features direct links to both talks.

I am honored to have been invited to present on The Fraud for Folger Shakespeare Library's Virtual Book Club on August 13 from 6:30-8pm ET. This is a marvelous, multi-faceted novel! Registration is free, so I hope you will consider joining us! www.folger.edu/whats-on/fol...

Folger Book Club: 'The Fraud' by Zadie Smith | Folger Shakespeare Library

From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who gets to tell their story—and who g...

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What a great looking bunch of periodical scholars! Thank you for a memorable conference!! ♥️ Exec+ 📸 Pete Clarke (the best!)

#rsvp2026 has wrapped up and I'm heading home across the pond. Thank you for a collegial and collaborative conference. It was an honor to present at Trinity College Dublin! #printinmotion

Absolutely loving Francesca Colonnese's paper on media reports of Robert Browning's wax cylinder reporting, in which periodicals promoted both Browning's poetic legacy and the new technology of Edison's phonograph. @rs4vp.org #RSVP2026 #MovementsAndMigrations #PrintInMotion

My heart is warmed (literally) to be in a packed room for the panel on Masculinity and the Working Classes (mostly Chartism!) for the last session of @rs4vp.org #RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion!

Jennifer Conary speaks about how as an expert reader, she realized after moving to an admin job that her reading skills had deteriorated. We assume that our students can deep read, but this is a complex skill that needs to be developed actively. #rsvp2026 #printinmotion

From "V21 Forum on Strategic Presentism": "think critically about the past in the present in order to change the present" (David Sweeney Coombs & Danielle Coriale, “Introduction” p. 88) "active listening to the past" @annakornbluh.bsky.social (“Present Tense Futures of the Past” p. 100) #RSVP2026

Project MUSE - Victorian Studies-Volume 59, Number 1, Autumn 2016

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Martin Hewitt starts his tenure as new Curran Index editor with a workshop about how to pursue missing author biographical info online. 75% of the 19C press was anonymous, so the Curran Index fulfills an essential function when it identifies contributors #RSVP2026 #PrintinMotion

@3volumenovel.bsky.social and @marielsj.bsky.social was generous enough to tout my book as a fun academic read at the beginning of our panel. Thank you! #RSVP2026 #PrintinMotion Find it here link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Transfictional Character and Transmedia Storyworlds in the British Nineteenth Century

This book studies the emergence of transfictional and transmedia storytelling in the nineteenth century, interrogating the nature of fictional character.

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While presenting @ehaugtvedt.bsky.social, @3volumenovel.bsky.social praised her book—a very fun read, he says. Check it out! #RSVP2026

So excited to discuss toy theater as transmedia extension with @marielsj.bsky.social Wonderful opportunities to learn and collaborate at #RSVP2026 #PrintinMotion

Marie Léger-St-Jean@marielsj.bsky.social · last mo.

It feels like a blast from the past to hear @ehaugtvedt.bsky.social talk about toy theatre, which I researched just before the pandemic, also thinking about it as transmedia storytelling! #RSVP2026

In 1837, the *Public Ledger* joined the other London dailies in dropping volume numbers, indicating its publishers were no longer assuming the issues would be gathered and bound together for posterity, argues @jimmussell.bsky.social #RSVP2026

@jimmussell.bsky.social thus uses the numbering of issues in mastheads to assess how proprietors link their newspapers to —or decouple them from— their prior incarnations (and volume numbering —or not— as their relationship to archiving and posterity). #RSVP2026

#RSVP2026 Christopher Pittard is now telling us about Doyle’s appropriation of a common journalistic cliche in subtitling his story “The Devil’s Foot” a “Cornish horror”!!!

Day 2 at #RSVP2026! Following 3 panel sessions + a working lunch Curran Index workshop, today's highlight was Katherine Bode’s Wolff Lecture, a world-rocking analysis of how #19thC periodicals scholars are well-equipped to navigate the "new material conditions" brought on by LLMs. 📸 Pete Clarke

And if you don't have such a bookshelf, then might I suggest exploring #TheStrand via this digital one? It's still #PrintInMotion when you're turning the digital page. 😉 #RSVP2026

Erica Haugtvedt@ehaugtvedt.bsky.social · last mo.

Mercedes Sheldon takes up the late Brian Maidment's invitation to take up any mass produced image on your bookshelf and see where it takes you. #RSVP2026 #Printinmotion

Gregory Brennan discusses Trollope's authorial interventions, storyworld building, and format hopping. Trollope set out to write 48 pages per week! Diligent! #RSVP2026 #PrintinMotion experts.okstate.edu/gregory.bren...

@3volumenovel.bsky.social fiction from the penny press moved into the select circulating library. This is significant because the penny press was widely derided as "trash" and Victorians thought that respectable types never read it, but the differences are only light editing #RSVP2026 #PrintinMotion

Marie Léger-St-Jean@marielsj.bsky.social · last mo.

Kicking off a panel they've organized is @3volumenovel.bsky.social—the man who needs no introduction He shows that narratives—far from being intrinsically designed for different sets of readers—could travelled from the penny weekly *Family Herald*➡️3-volume novels for circulating libraries #RSVP2026

@marielsj.bsky.social is incredibly generous to provide her slides and links to digital resources for her talk at #RSVP2026 #PrintinMotion

Marie Léger-St-Jean@marielsj.bsky.social · last mo.

Before I forget, here will be my slides at my presentation next session: sources for images and links to the digital surrogates in the speaker's notes! If you can't attend, you should be able to understand my paper by just flipping through the slides! #RSVP2026

#RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion Katherine rejects divide between qualitative and quantitative analysis. There's a lot of unjustified leaning on quantitative methods as more objective. e.g. data is a form of writing. Universities (science and humanities) need to defend knowledge production together.

#RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion Cites Michael Wolf, foundational periodicals scholar, for her point: wants to look at our scholarly infrastructure as an object of study, as well as using it for her research

Has moved on from seeing books as fixed objects, more as processes, now she is thinking about entanglement of objects and infrastructures #RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion

Wolff Lecture #RSVP2026 - an incredible thinker around LLMS & probabalistic thinking. She's weaving bibliographic arrangements, libraries, 19c newspapers, word embeddings & paratexts to comment on commercial LLMs (w/o selling us anything or pushing an agenda!)

Martin Hewitt reminds us that digitized resources can be riddled with errors, such as awful OCR, transcription errors, and "names are distressingly unreliable markers of identity." Finally "lack of presence is not proof of absence" #RSVP2026 #PrintinMotion

@rs4vp.org #RSVP2026 off to a great start! Thanks to the labor of so many, particularly Clare Clarke and Mary Grant. A few from the coffee break where folks excitedly reconnected.

Their winning books: www.routledge.com/British-West... www.routledge.com/Model-Women-... #RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion

British West Indian Newspapers and the Abolition of Slavery

This book is the first overall survey of the British West Indian press in the early nineteenth century—a critical period in the history of the region. Based on extensive and ground-breaking archival r...

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Colby keynote #rsvp2026 🥰 Teja Varma Pusapati and Andrew Lewis in conversation!

Happening now in the Davis Theatre! Colby Conversation, featuring @tejapusapati.bsky.social + Andrew Lewis in conversation with Caroline Sumpter! #RSVP2026 #PrintInMotion