CFP: Journal of Victorian Culture Graduate Student Essay Prize Competition (6/30/2013)

The Journal of Victorian Culture is pleased to announce the 2013-2014 JVC Graduate Student Essay Prize 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. Past winners include Louise Lee, Tiffany Watt-Smith, and Bob Nicholson whose essays appear in issues 13.1 (2008), 15.1 (2010) and 17.3 (2012).

The essay, which must be no longer than 7000 words in length (including notes), 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?

Essays 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.

Prize: Publication of the winning essay in JVC; £100 cash prize; a free year’s subscription to JVC.

Requirements: Word limit: maximum of 7000 words, plus an abstract (250 words) and a word count.

Closing date for submissions: 30 June 2013.

For more information, please visit the full call for essays: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13555502.2012.740306

Call for Bloggers: Journal of Victorian Culture Online: Bloggers' Fair (4-5/2012)

At the Journal of Victorian Culture online, we’ve decided to showcase blogs written by Victorianists on any area of nineteenth-century studies. If you are a blogger, you can contribute by sending a short description of your blog and yourself to Lucie at l.m.matthew-jones@ljmu.ac.uk throughout April and May. You can also send images (as jpegs) as well as a hyperlink to your blog. We would also like you to think of key terms or tags that we could use to link your blog with others. We plan to showcase one blog a day throughout May on our website which will be announced on Twitter and Facebook. If you have a Twitter account please let us know your username and then we can link you into the thread. If you have any questions, please contact Lucie on the email address above.

Journal of Victorian Culture Online: http://myblogs.informa.com/jvc/

Call for Contributors: Journal of Victorian Culture online

The Journal of Victorian Culture online is looking for contributors for their blog. Now that Christmas is over, we would love to hear your musings for our blog 'Victorians beyond the Academy'. Have you watched a Victorian period drama on TV, rediscovered a Victorian classic or stumbled upon the Victorians in an usual place? Why not tell us about it? Contributions can be of any length and any topic.

If you have any questions you can email Lucinda Matthews-Jones at l.matthews-jones@swansea.ac.uk; Lisa Hager at lisa.hager@uwc.edu or Ryan Fong at rdfong@ucdavis.edu.

To see past posts take a look at our website http://myblogs.informa.com/jvc/. You can also like us on Facebook at the Journal of Victorian Culture or twitter @JofVictCulture for regular updates.

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)


JVC:  http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t908134896
JVC Online: http://myblogs.informa.com/jvc/