Call for posts! Send a short, pictorial submission to the Victorian Review for the chance to be published on our blog. See attached flyer for further details:

We're excited to share the cfp for the joint VSAWC & VISAWUS conference: "Victorian Borders." Please circulate widely and submit your proposal by November 1st.

Click the link to read our first ever Book Talk! Book Talks include an hour of conversation between an author of a new book in Victorian studies with an interlocutor of their choice. Read the conversation between Nathan K. Hensley and Anna Gibson now! muse.jhu.edu/issue/57090

The latest issue of the Victorian Review includes a forum on Daniel Deronda at 150. Click the link below to see what scholars are saying about this novel 150 years after it was initially published: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57090

Daniel Deronda… Charlotte Yonge… “The Goblin Market” … a Book Talk and more await you. Here’s the link–you know what to do with it: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57090

Congratulations to Professor Barbara Leckie, who has won a Carleton University Research Achievement Award! Read more here: carleton.ca/english/2026...

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Victorian Review invites graduate students to submit their unpublished work by July 1st for consideration to win the Hamilton Prize. See victorianreview.org?page_id=2110 for further details and where to submit!

Dr. Susan Zieger’s blog post teases her article and discusses the circulation of coal and its artistic depiction in the nineteenth century through the paintings of Turner, Van Gogh, and Monet. Blog on our website: victorianreview.org?p=2622 Article on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56547

Graduate students! The Hamilton Prize deadline is coming up July 1. Publish your work in VR and win cash! See our website for details. victorianreview.org?page_id=2110

This year's Surridge Prize winner is Matthew Skwiat for the essay "Feeling History: Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, and the Melodramatic Mode" in VR 50.1. The runner up is "Breathing the 'Air of Reality' in Henry James's In the Cage" by Daniel Hannah. Congratulations! muse.jhu.edu/issue/54558

Sarah Comyn's latest blog post explores the moral panic and transcolonial interest in the illicit diamond buyer. Blog on our website: victorianreview.org?p=2591 Article on Project Muse: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56547

New! A thrilling special issue on "Post-Carbon Victorian Studies" edited by Michael Tondre. A fantastic forum on "Victorian Breeds and Breeding" edited by Kristen Guest and Ronja Frank. Reviews of new books on Conrad, A Brontë, Carroll, and others! Read us on Project Muse muse.jhu.edu/issue/56547

We are pleased to announce that the 2025 winner of the Hamilton Prize is Katharine Williams (CUNY Graduate Center) for the essay "Missing Members in Charlotte Yonge's The Clever Woman of the Family." Congratulations! The essay will be published in an upcoming issue of the journal.

Apparently "The Son's Veto" was Thomas Hardy's personal favourite of his short stories. Check out Riya Das's blog about it on our website: victorianreview.org?p=2573 Link to the issue, VR 50.2: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55679

Our CFP for our May 2026 conference is live! Please see the attachment or the thread for details about our upcoming conference on VICTORIAN TRADE

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VSAWC's next conference, on Victorian Trade, will take place in Winnipeg MB (Treaty One Territory) on May 1 and 2, 2026. We look forward to welcoming Dr. Sarah Fee (Senior Curator, Global Fashion & Textiles; Royal Ontario Museum) as our plenary speaker. +

The latest issue is up on Muse! Featuring a forum on reproductive and sexual justice with the Victorians, a cluster of essays on Victorian video games, our Hamilton Prize winner for 2024, and the lovely and talented Aurora Leigh. Plus book reviews as always. Happy reading! muse.jhu.edu/issue/55679

VR does not accept essay, forum, or book review submissions written with Generative AI. VR staff does not use AI assistance in our email correspondence or editorial practices. We work collectively to adjudicate, edit, publish, and promote scholarly writing. victorianreview.org?page_id=364

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Reminder! We are accepting proposals for a forum on Daniel Deronda to mark the 150th anniversary of its publication. Our forums feature short, op-ed style essays guest-edited by leading scholars. Deadline for proposals is Sept. 1. See our website for more details: victorianreview.org?cat=217

Conference Announcement: Tennyson 2026: Ecology, Landscape, Environment - cfp and details attached. Victorians scholars please circulate @lindakhughes.bsky.social @victorianreview.bsky.social @victorianpoetry.bsky.social @thevicsoc.bsky.social @victorianmasc.bsky.social @jofvictculture.bsky.social

Daniel Deronda is turning 150 in 2026. Help us observe this milestone by submitting a short, op-ed style essay to an upcoming forum, guest edited by Ilana Blumberg, on George Eliot's world-changing novel. See our blog for details: victorianreview.org?cat=217

Matthew Skwiat's latest post details how the use of melodrama was a crucial part of Carlyle's radical conservativism in The French Revolution (1837). Blog Post: victorianreview.org?cat=217 Full Article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Hey grad students! Reminder: the Hamilton Prize deadline is coming up July 1. The winning essay gets publication in Victorian Review and $500 CAD. Visit the website for details victorianreview.org?page_id=358

Found this + outsourcing to companies that employ clearly unqualified/inexperienced/severely overworked human editors a huge problem. One collaborative project I'm involved in has been delayed for months b/c of botched production.

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Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..

Was joking a bit last week that @victorianreview.bsky.social should promote the fact that a single *experienced human copyeditor who we know* works on every journal issue, but maybe journals/publishers that do that really should promote that as a big advantage of working with them 🤔

Check out Allison Reising's latest post to learn about how Mary Ward represents the influential powers of the mesmerist in Robert Elsmere. Blog Post: victorianreview.org?p=2221 Full Article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Hey grad students! The deadline for the Hamilton Prize is coming up July 1! Get your work published in Victorian Review and receive $500 CAD. See website for details victorianreview.org?page_id=358

Check out Ronja Frank's new post to learn how fairies in children's literature disrupted Victorian binaries! Blog post: victorianreview.org?p=2199 Full article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... Full issue: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54558

Check out Daniel Hannah's blog post about his new article on Henry James' In the Cage (1897) and its reflections upon air, contagions, and illness in Victorian Review 50.1. muse.jhu.edu/issue/54558 Post: victorianreview.org?p=2205 Article: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

VR 50.1 just dropped! Check out our forum on Victorian studies and climate change, guest-edited by Barbara Leckie. +The Secret Garden! In the Cage! The French Revolution! Mary Barton! Robert Elsmere! Happy reading. muse.jhu.edu/journal/508