JVC Seeking Editorial Assistant(s) for JVC Online

Closing date: May 31

The Editorial Board of the Journal of Victorian Culture (JVC) is pleased to invite applications from doctoral or recent postdoctoral researchers in the field of Victorian Studies for the position of Editorial Assistant(s) to the JVC Online. The competition is open to current doctoral students and those scholars who have recently received their doctoral degrees.

The Editorial Assistants will play a significant role in editing and developing content for the newly-launched JVC Online, which provides a stimulating forum for news, reviews, and short articles complementing our highly-regarded journal issues.

The successful candidate(s) will receive a stipend of £1000 p.a. over the course of the year and be expected to show initiative in content generation and site development in addition to gaining valuable experience of more conventional academic editorial and publication practices. Specific tasks will include ensuring the regular updating of our conference, events, and resources pages; contributing to our discussion forum; raising the profile and developing the interactivity of the site through bookmarking and social networking.

Read more and download application form at JVC online.

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)