"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!
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.
Immensely proud of the co-edited collection celebrated in this blog @vpfa.bsky.social and thanks to @manchesterup.bsky.social
victorianpopularfiction.org/we-celebrate...
Registration for BAVS 2026 is now live! We look forward to seeing you in Liverpool in July: bavs.ac.uk/2026-confere...
🔔 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...
Beyond Guilty Pleasure @lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social celebrating the romance genre as editors, writers, academics and students!
Inspiring annual conference @englishassociation.bsky.social today and an unforgettable chance to celebrate becoming a fellow together with incredible peers on its 120th anniversary.
It may be raining in Lincoln but the dragons in the Castle are keeping the fire 🔥 going
Time for more questions and comments for our panel at Beyond Guilty Pleasure @lincolnbishopuni.bsky.social @jennifletcher.bsky.social
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...
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…
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...
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. …
