CFP: Victorian Periodicals Review Special Issue "Digital Pedagogies" (7/1/2014)

Call for submissions for a special number of Victorian Periodicals Review: "Digital Pedagogies: Building Learning Communities for Studying Victorian Periodicals"
Deadline: July 1, 2014

Essays of 6,000-7,000 words are sought for a special number of Victorian Periodicals Review inspired by the range of research and good practice that has been developed in recent years by scholars of the nineteenth century periodical press.

Since Patrick Leary's seminal essay "Googling the Victorians", first published in 2005, significant advancements have been made in the field of periodical research, largely as a result of the rise in digital projects.  In almost ten years of scholarship, researchers have been examining and developing new digital methods for analysing and extrapolating data. Scholars have been considering not only the construction of digital resources but how they can be used in many different ways; to enhance research, to identify neglected texts, to inspire and engage students.  This special number of VPR gives us the opportunity to bring together these ideas and debates, to reflect on how the field of periodicals research has changed as a result of the digital revolution and to consider where it may be in the next ten years.

Possible topics might include:

• The role of the digital archive in uniting disparate periodicals and newspapers
• Building, constructing, maintaining digital projects on periodicals
• Rise of the collaborative digital project
• New methods for research and data analysis of circulation figures, distribution and 'popularity' of publications
• Advances in the visualisation of data for identifying patterns of consumption
• Contribution of genealogy studies  to identifying periodical authors
• New software packages for the presentation of periodical research and analysis
• Models of good practice in teaching and learning with periodicals and newspapers
• Student publishing - selection, editing and curation of periodicals projects
• Building learning communities for staff and students to enhance knowledge of the nineteenth century press
• Debates about the emergence of an alternative 'digital' canon of periodicals and newspapers
• Digital literacy/digital competency in accessing periodicals online 

Please submit completed manuscripts by July, 1 2014 (for publication in 2015) in Word (no PDFs please) to C.L.Horrocks@ljmu.ac.uk

In the meantime, informal queries or expressions of interest are welcome.

CFP: 2013 VanArsdel Essay Prize (5/1/2013)

Graduate students are invited to submit essays for the 2013 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. Submissions should be 15-25 pages, excluding notes and bibliography. Manuscripts should not have appeared in print. Send e-mail submissions to VPR Editor Alexis Easley (maeasley@stthomas.edu) by May 1, 2013. Submissions should be formatted as Word files in Chicago style with identifying information removed. In an accompanying e-mail, applicants should include a description of their current status in graduate school.

Reminder: special number of Victorian Periodicals Review on the theme of "Work and Leisure" (6/30/2012)

  

This is a reminder that the deadline to submit essays on the theme of Work and Leisure for special number of Victorian Periodicals Review is fast approaching. I also need to inform you of a change of email address to which you should send your essay. Please find again the CFP that was distributed last summer.


Essays of 6,000-7,000 words are sought for a special number of Victorian Periodicals Review on the theme of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals.

Much of the Victorian Press was built on an interdependency of work and leisure. But what was the “leisure” that the press promoted and how different was it from work? Reading the press itself is obviously an insufficient answer: reading could be work for teachers, reviewers or those trying to entertain children or colleagues. To what extent, indeed, was leisure but a ruse? How far did the Victorian press inscribe women’s domestic labour as a form of leisure, or male work as pleasurable? More generally, how did the press fit into the wider context of the entertainment industry: the theatre, travel, music, exhibitions, sport - and shopping?

Not all of the press was devoted to leisure and its limits. What of that enormous sector that unashamedly named their focus as work-related: the trade and professional press, newspaper pages devoted to the stock market and commodity prices, articles worrying over women in the workplace, over the masculinity of the civil servant, or over the demands of labourers on strike?

Finally, what of the “cultural work” of the Victorian press? What was the function of the press in and on society? How might that cultural work relate to the pleasures of leisure?

Please submit completed manuscripts by 30 June 2012 (for publication in 2013) in Word (no PDFs please) to andrew.king@canterbury.ac.uk. In the meantime, informal queries or expressions of interest are welcome.

Please submit completed manuscripts by 30 June 2012 (for publication in 2013) in Word (no PDFs please) to a.king@greenwich.ac.uk. (Please note my new email address as given here.)

I look forward to the pleasure of reading your submission.
With best wishes,

Andrew King

University of Greenwich