RSVP award the following prizes and awards:
- The Curran Fellowship
- The Robert Colby Scholarly Book Prize
- The Ashgate / RSVP Travel Awards
- The Rosemary VanArsdel Prize
- The Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship in Nineteenth-Century Media
The Curran Fellowship is intended to aid scholars studying 19th-century British magazines and newspapers in making use of primary print and archival sources. The Curran Fellowship, made possible through the generosity of Eileen Curran, Professor Emerita of English at Colby College, and inspired by her pioneering research on Victorian periodicals, will be awarded annually in the form of two grants of $2,500 each. The full Call for Proposals may be found here. Additional guidelines are available here. Applications should be sent to curranfellowship @ rs4vp.org.
The Curran Fellowship is open to researchers of any age from any of a wide range of disciplinary perspectives who are exploring the 19th-century British press as an object of study in its own right. This is an annual award and the deadline for applications for research in 2011 will be 1 October, 2010. Enquiries can be addressed to president @ rs4vp.org.
Fellows are asked to produce a report outlining their research. Click on the links below to read reports from some previous holders of the Curran Fellowship:
- 2010: Clare Horrocks (Liverpool John Moores, UK) and Michelle Tusan (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA).
- 2009: Liz Miller (University of California at Davis, USA) and Sydney J. Shep (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand).
This year's Colby Book Prize has been awarded to Mark Schoenfield for his book, British Periodicals and Romantic Identity (Macmillan, 2008), and to Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor for their work as editors of The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism (Academia and the British Library, 2009).
The Colby Book Prize has been endowed in honour of one of RSVP's most devoted members by Vineta Colby, another long-time member of RSVP. The annual prize is given to the book published during the preceding year which made the most significant contribution to the study of nineteenth-century periodicals. The winner receives a monetary award of up to $3,000, and is invited to speak at the following year's RSVP conference.
To nominate a book published in 2010, please email committee chair Linda Peterson at vp @ rs4vp.org by December 1, 2010. You or your press will be asked to supply the committee with five copies of the book by the beginning of January, 2011. Self-nominations are welcome.
Previous winners of the Robert Colby Scholarly Book Prize:
- 2009: Catherine Waters, Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words: The Social Life of Goods. Ashgate 2008.
- 2008: Kathryn Ledbetter, Tennyson and Victorian Periodicals: Commodities in Context. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2007.
- 2007: David Finkelstein, Print Culture and the Blackwood Tradition, 1805-1930. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005.
- 2006: Linda Hughes, Graham R.: Rosamund Mariott Watson, Woman of Letters. Athens: Ohio UP, 2005.
- 2006: Peter Morton, The Busiest Man in London: Grant Allen and the Writing Trade, 1875-1900. New York and Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
These awards are designed to help defray the cost of travel to the RSVP conference for graduate-student members of the Society (or prospective members). Please send inquiries to president @ rs4vp.org.
These awards are funded by donations from members; please consider donating toward these funds in honor of Barbara and Joe.
Previous winners of the Schmidt and Altholz Travel Awards:
- 2009: Marie Léger-St-Jean, Andrea Korda and Lise Butler
- 2008: Shih-Wen Sue Chen and Mary Bell.
- 2007: Kristine Moruzi and Kim Duong.
- 2006: Amy Lloyd, Beth Palmer, and Lorna Shelley.
RSVP are pleased to announce Rebecca Soares (University of Wisconsin-Madison) is the winner of the 2010 VanArsdel Prize. Her essay is entitled 'Literary Graftings: Hannah Crafts's The Bondwoman's Narrative and the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Reader' and will be published in Victorian Periodicals Review 44:1 (Spring 2011).
Entries for the VanArsdel Prize for the best student paper on, about, or extensively using Victorian periodicals must be received by April 1 of the year in which the prize is awarded.
Students are reminded that the papers should be 15-25 pages and should not have appeared in print. The winner receives a plaque, a check for $300.00 (USD), and publication of the prize essay in Victorian Periodicals Review. Please send entries to:
Kathryn Ledbetter, VPR Editor
Department of English
Texas State University
601 University Drive
San Marcos, TX 78666-4616
Submissions are not accepted by email, but inquiries are welcome to editor @ rs4vp.org
Previous winners of the VanArsdel Prize:
- 2009: Anne DeWitt
- 2008: Paul Fyfe
- 2007: Jennifer Regan
- 2006: Christopher Pittard
- 2005: Monica Flegel
- 2004: Lorna Huett
- 2003: Marty Gould
- 2002: Troy Gregory
- 2001: Rebecca Edwards
- 2000: Mary Elizabeth Leighton & Russell Wyland
- 1999: no award
- 1998: Jennifer Ruth
- 1997: Michelle Tusan
- 1996: Anya Clayworth
- 1995: Anne Baltz Rodrick
- 1994: no award
- 1993: Virginia McKendry
- 1992: Gary Weber
- 1991: Jerry Coates
- 1990: Andrea Broomfield
The Gale Dissertation Research Fellowship in Nineteenth_Century Media is awarded to the best dissertation research that makes substantial use of full-text digitized collections of 19th-century British magazines and newspapers. The Fellowship is made possible made possible by the generosity of the publisher Gale, part of Cengage Learning.
Winners of the Fellowship receive a prize A prize of $1500 (USD) and one year's passworded subscription to selected digital collections from Gale, including 19th Century UK Periodicals and 19th Century British Library Newspapers. Applications to galefellowship @ rs4vp.org by 15 October 2010. For full details of how to apply, click here.
The winner of the first Fellowship, for 2009, was Bob Nicholson (Manchester University). Bob's research makes use of full-text searchable digital resources to trace idioms and phrases across the Atlantic and through the British press.
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