CFP: 2011-12 JVC Graduate Student Essay Prize (6/30/2011)

ANNOUNCEMENT

Journal of Victorian Culture

 Graduate Student Essay Prize 2011-12

  

We are pleased to announce the next competition. The aim of the JVC Essay Prize is to promote scholarship among postgraduate research students working on the Victorian period in any discipline in the UK and abroad. The essay, which must be no longer than 7000 words in length (including footnotes), may be on any aspect of Victorian culture appropriate for the scope of the journal (this embraces literature and history, including cultural, intellectual, social, political, economic and religious history; the history of music, science, technology, medicine, theatre and visual culture; historical geography). The editorial board welcomes essays that adopt an interdisciplinary approach to their subject matter. However, the board also encourages essays which, while focusing on one sub-discipline, reflect on the implications of their argument for other Victorian studies constituencies. Authors should keep in mind this question: how is this research of interest to other Victorianists?

The essay must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere, and should not be submitted to any other journal until the outcome of the competition is known. Applicants who are completing doctoral degrees are advised to check with their institutions any regulations covering the publication of material extracted from their theses prior to the submission of the whole thesis.

 

The prize 

Publication of the winning essay in JVC, £100 cash prize, and a free year’s subscription to JVC.

Conditions 

Word limit: maximum of 7000 words, plus an abstract (250 words), keywords and a word count (with and without footnotes).

Entrants should follow the JVC style guidelines in link below

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=1355-5502&linktype=44

Closing date for submissions to the Editor: 30 June 2011

The competition will open to anyone currently registered for a higher research degree, or is within 3 years of the completion of one. An entry form will be available on the JVC website and will require the signature of the Academic Supervisor, confirming the entrant’s status.   

Judging 

Entries should be submitted to the journal in the normal manner, but must also be accompanied by the downloadable JVC Essay Prize entry form (available from the publisher’s website:

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rjvc

All published essays will be subject to the same copyright terms as everything else published in JVC. The decision of the judges will be final and no correspondence will be considered. There is only one prize and the judges reserve the right to award no prize if submitted material is not of an appropriate standard.  The judges for the prize will be the Editorial Board of the Journal of Victorian Culture.  The process of selection will, accordingly, fulfil the requirements of peer review.  The judges reserve the right to recommend revisions to the prize-winning essay prior to publication.

 Previous prize winning essays 

Louise Lee, "Voicing, De-Voicing and Self-Stuttering: Charles Kingsley’s Stuttering Christian Manliness" (winner, 2007-8)


 Tiffany Watt-Smith, "Darwin’s Flinch: Sensation Theatre and Scientific Looking in 1872" (winner, 2009-10)


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