Inspiring annual conference @englishassociation.bsky.social today and an unforgettable chance to celebrate becoming a fellow together with incredible peers on its 120th anniversary.
Time for more questions and comments for our panel at Beyond Guilty Pleasure @lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social @jennifletcher.bsky.social
Beyond Guilty Pleasure @lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social celebrating the romance genre as editors, writers, academics and students!
It may be raining in Lincoln but the dragons in the Castle are keeping the fire 🔥 going
Immensely proud of the co-edited collection celebrated in this blog @vpfa.bsky.social and thanks to @manchesterup.bsky.social
victorianpopularfiction.org/we-celebrate...
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We are thrilled to announce the winner of VPFA's First Book Prize 2025:
Rebecca Nesvet, James Malcom Rymer, Penny Fiction, and the Family! Honourable mentions were Riley McGuire, Dysfluent in Fiction: Vocal Disability & Nineteenth-Century Literature and Jay Sullivan, Egyptian Gothic: 1884-1920.
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Registration for BAVS 2026 is now live! We look forward to seeing you in Liverpool in July: bavs.ac.uk/2026-confere...
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By Claudia Capancioni, with Mariaconcetta Costantini and Julia KuehnThis June we celebrate how, four years ago, the Victorian Popular Fiction Association (VPFA) hosted its first International Study…
I have written a Blog Post for @vpfa.bsky.social about my time at @chawtonhouse.bsky.social as a Visiting Fellow! To read about the value of organisations like Chawton House to scholarly associations like VPFA, and an amusing snippet from a woman's diary: victorianpopularfiction.org/in-which-i-s...
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🔔 Attention ECRs! Just a reminder that March 1 (next Sunday) is the last day to get your applications in for our annual Mitchell Dissertation Prize! Winners receive $1,000 USD + a 2-yr. membership to RSVP. We look forward to reading your work! rs4vp.org/awards/mitch...
"If you could change one common opinion about the English Literature degree or literature in general, what would it be?"
In preparation for our symposium (www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/englishcre...), we've asked our student panellists the question above.
Here's the first of many insights they'll share!
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A reflection by Rebecca HamiltonI spent the entire month of August feeling as though I were a character in a Jane Austen’s novel, in the very place Jane Austen wrote all her major novels: Chawton. …
Eligible applicants for the Sally Mitchell Dissertation Prize will have successfully defended their dissertation within the previous calendar year (i.e., the 2025 prize winner defended in 2024). Proje...
