Gaskell Journal Essay Prize

Joan Leach Memorial Interdisciplinary Essay Prize 2011-2

“The Gaskell Journal is pleased to inaugurate its Graduate Student Essay Prize in honour of Joan Leach MBE, founder and president of the Gaskell Society. The essay competition is open to all graduate students currently registered for an MA or PhD in Victorian Studies. Preference will be shown to essays with a clear interdisciplinary focus, i.e. those that consider Elizabeth Gaskell within contemporary Victorian cultural, aesthetic and scientific debates, or else, through recent critical theory.

Essays that treat Gaskell’s work in more traditional ways, but which nonetheless demonstrate a compelling style and focus, are also very much welcomed. In all cases, clarity of argument and expression is paramount.

The winning essay will be published in the 2012 edition of the Gaskell Journal and its author will receive £200 from the Gaskell Society, as well as a year’s free subscription to the Journal.

Essays should be no longer than 7,000 words and not under consideration for publication elsewhere. The closing date for the essay prize is April 30, 2012.

Essays will be judged by members of the Gaskell Journal Editorial Board, with the final decision being made by the International Editor, Prof. Jill L. Matus.

Please see the Gaskell Journal website for further submission details.”

VanArsdel Prize 2012

Graduate students are invited to submit essays for the 2012 VanArsdel Prize for the best graduate student essay on, about, or extensively using Victorian periodicals. The winner will receive $300 and publication in Victorian Periodicals Review. Manuscripts should be 15-25 pages and should not have appeared in print. Send e-mail submissions to vpr@rs4vp.org by May 1, 2012. Submissions should be formatted as Word files in Chicago style with identifying information removed. In the accompanying e-mail, applicants should include a description of their current status in graduate school.

More information at the RS4VP website

CFP: Production and Consumption in Victorian Literature and Culture

Publication:  Victorian Network
Theme:  Production and Consumption in Victorian Literature and Culture
Closing Date for CFP: July 1
Further Details:
The fifth issue of Victorian Network, guest edited by Dr Ella Dzelzainis (Newcastle University), is dedicated to a reassessment of nineteenth-century investments in concepts of productivity and consumption. Accelerating industrialisation, the growth of consumer culture, economic debates about the perils of overconsumption as well as emerging cultural discourses about industriousness, work ethic and the uses of free time radically altered the ways in which Victorians thought about practices of production and consumption. Literary authors intervened directly in these economic and social debates while also negotiating analogous developments within a literary marketplace transformed by new forms of writing, distributing and consuming literature.

Joseph Conrad Essay Prize

Organisation: Joseph Conrad Society (UK)
Prize: The Juliet McLauchlan Prize
Deadline: May 15
Details

The annual prize is awarded by the Joseph Conrad Society (UK) for an essay on any aspect of the works and/or life of Joseph Conrad. The prize is dedicated to the memory of Juliet McLauchlan, a much loved Conradian and the Society’s original and long-serving chair, by encouraging writing from new Conradians. The value of the prize is £200.

The essay competition is designed to foster work by new Conradians and emerging scholars, including undergraduates, postgraduates, and independent scholars of any age, subject to the proviso that entrants should not have held a full-time academic appointment for more than three years.

Essays must be original, not previously published, and between 5,000 and 7,000 words in length. The essay must be in English and should be typed double-spaced, and cannot have been previously published in any form.

The 2011 competition is now open. The deadline for submission is 15 May.

Link:

Call for Book Reviewers

Victoriographies: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Writing, 1790-1914
Published by Edinburgh Univerisity Press from May 2011
http://www.euppublishing.com/journal/vic

Victoriographies is concerned with writing of the long nineteenth century and writing about the nineteenth century. While committed to addressing the idea of what constitutes Victorian literature, Victoriographies also aims, in returning to the textas text, to explore not only, and as if for the first time, those canonical texts and authors that seem to be familiar, but also to interrogate the understudied, those years, decades, authors and publications which demand a response, and for which the journal aims to take responsibility. Victoriographies encourages articles and research that focus on literary writing aswriting, and not merely as a semi-transparent medium for sociological or historical investigation, naive in the assumption that language is solely a vehicle for presenting reality. The study and close analysis of the rhetoric and form of Victorian writing and the literary from 1790 to 1914 will be taken up with the explicit intention to explore, through close critical engagement and rigorous reading, notions of a ‘deep’ materiality or historicity, by which it is understood that there is a materiality of the letter commensurate with the materiality of history, and that language and literary mediation traces, and translates, the contours of such materiality and historicity.

To join the database, please send me a note at k.hext@ex.ac.uk/kjhext@gmail.com. Potential reviewers will receive biannual book review lists and other select journal updates via my blind e-mail list.
 
Professor Julian Wolfreys, Editor
Dr. Kate Hext, Book Reviews Editor (UK & Europe)
Dr. Megan Becker-Leckrone, Book Reviews Editor (North America)

Recruiting Submissions Editor

[Submission date has now passed]

Victorian Network – Recruiting Submissions Editor

The Victorian Network (ISSN 2042-616X), our online journal dedicated to publishing and promoting the best postgraduate work in Victorian Studies, is recruiting a Submissions Editor. We are looking for a dedicated doctoral student in the first or second year of a PhD in Victorian Studies who is interested in gaining experience and developing career-relevant skills in the publishing process.

The Submissions Editor is an executive member of the Editorial Board, involved in all stages of the publishing process and in charge of managing submissions and liaising with authors.

For more information and details about the application process please send a 250-word statement about yourself and your research interests to victoriannetwork@gmail.com no later than 29 August 2010.

www.victoriannetwork.org

Registration for BAVS Conference

Registration for the British Association for Victorian Studies 2010 conference is now open, and will close on July 31^st.

This year marks the tenth anniversary for the BAVS conference, which will be held in the University of Glasgow on the 2^nd to the 4^th of September. Information on speakers and papers, on the theme of ‘Victorian Forms and Formations’, can be found on the conference website.

The registration form is available here. Postgraduate students are eligible for reduced registration rates.

Victorian Network Volume 2, Issue 1 (Summer 2010)

The second issue of Victorian Network, themed “Victorian Literature and Science” and guest edited by Dr Ian Henderson (KCL), is now available.

Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Nineteenth-Century Studies

[Application date has now passed]

The Cambridge Victorian Studies Group is advertising for two Research Fellows to work for one year from October 2010 on its project, ‘Past vs Present: Abandoning the Past in an Age of Progress’.

Two One-Year Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Nineteenth-Century Studies (any discipline)
Faculty of Classics
Vacancy Reference No: GE06658  Salary: £27,319 per annum
Limit of tenure applies*

The Cambridge Victorian Studies Group of Cambridge University, in association with the Leverhulme Trust, intends to appoint two Research Fellows for one year from 1 October 2010 to work on its project, ‘Past vs. Present: Abandoning the Past in an Age of Progress’.

Those working on any relevant aspect of 19th-century British culture, including but not limited to History of Science, History, Theology, Classical Tradition, Egyptology, Literature, Cultural Studies, Music, Archaeology, Art, Museology, are invited to apply. Candidates may be at any stage in their academic career but must have submitted a PhD before October 2010.

Closing date for applications is June 18th 2010

Full information can be found here on the University of Cambridge website.

The Victorianist: BAVS Postgraduate Pages

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The Victorianist is a newly established blog for graduate students interested in all things Victorian: cultural, literary, political, scientific, artistic. The blog is managed by Alison Wood (King’s College London) and Claire Wood (York University), the current postgraduate representatives to the British Association for Victorian Studies, UK. Visit the blog here.