Jessica R Valdez

Assistant Professor in 18th Century Literature at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin Discover an exciting academic career path as a Assistant Professor in 18th Century Literature at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!

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ooo thank you for sharing ... this looks fascinating, and I'll be reading it asap!

On left, black-and-white illustration of a woman in profile reading a book. On right, text says: Interested in reviewing for VPR? Visit rs4vp.org/vpr to message our new Book Reviews Editor, Lauren Ottaviani.

We’re delighted to announce that @laurenottaviani.bsky.social (KU Leuven) has joined VPR's staff as Associate Editor. Lauren will oversee book reviews, and she welcomes suggestions for special features. Visit rs4vp.org/vpr/ to message the editors or volunteer to review a book. #VictorianStudies

Pick-a-Periodical with Katherine D. Harris – RSVP Join us March 6 for our "Pick a Periodical" event with Kathy Harris, who will introduce us to the racial anxieties within the Forget Me Not.

Enjoyed today's #RSVPDigiEvent? Can't wait for more #19thC periodicals' chat? Our March event is just around the corner next Friday, March 6! @triproftri.bsky.social will talk to us about the "Racial Anxieties of Polite Culture in the Forget Me Not for 1825 + 1833." Register now!

total number of billionaires in each year

"The richest Americans saw their net worth soar 120% between 2017+2025, a colossal leap from the 45% growth they had seen over the previous nine years.

The number of U.S. billionaires jumped 50% by some estimates between 2017+2025, to more than 900 people."

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

Hi all, the Race and Transimperialism Group is hosting another session this Friday, Feb 6th at 1PM EST, or 6PM GMT. DM me for more details. Readings include Carrie Hyde and Derrick R. Spires on "New Citizenship Studies" and Jessie Reeder on "Victorians in South America."

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Hi all, the Race and Transimperialism Group is hosting another session this Friday, Feb 6th at 1PM EST, or 6PM GMT. DM me for more details. Readings include Carrie Hyde and Derrick R. Spires on "New Citizenship Studies" and Jessie Reeder on "Victorians in South America."

PhD students in the UK with a Victorianist bent will want to take particular note of the placement titled "Illustrated Newspapers: Beyond the Illustrated London News": cdn.sanity.io/files/v5dwki...
@rs4vp.org #Victorian

For anyone interested in our 18-month post in British Studies please follow the link below. @ihr.bsky.social

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Reading Rooms at the British Library are closed *all week* because so many of its workers refuse to work for pitiful wages in a contemptuously authoritarian and obliviously managed environment.
We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out!
It’s a mess and a disgrace.
Lift it up!!

RSVP Conference 2026 – RSVP Dates July 23-25, 2026

Don't forget to submit an abstract for RSVP's Dublin conference on movements and migrations by tomorrow!
conference.rs4vp.org

Others: How do you like Baton Rouge?
Me: It's fine, but I really, really miss walking -- I miss living in a walkable city.

Also Me: feeling ECSTATIC because I got a parking spot just a little bit closer to my office so I don't have to walk as far.

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CFP: BAVS 2026 Conference Liverpool BAVS Liverpool 202627 – 29 July 2026 Keynote Speakers: Dr Alison Chapman (University of Victoria, BC), others to be confirmed. The Centre for Modern and Contemporary History (CMCH) at Liverpool Joh…

It’s lovely to see our BAVS CFP out. If you research/teach any aspect of the Victorian period (broadly defined) do consider joining us! You can submit a paper, roundtable, creative workshops/ pedagogical paper. We really are open to a wide range of talks! victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c...

We’re excited in Liverpool to hear that LJMU will be hosting the fab @bavs-uk.bsky.social conf in July. I can’t wait to see Victorian scholars treading the corridors of my historic c19th building. Well done to @drhorrocks.bsky.social for getting this off the ground! Now to dust of my organisers hat…

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

The deadline for Curran Fellowships is fast approaching: Oct 15 (letters due a week later). Who doesn't want money for travel & research? So much exciting work to do on British/empire periodicals of the long 19th c!

bit.ly/3IxZOqW Fellowship: Curran Fellowships (Application deadline: 10/15/25)

Rhetoric and Resistance by Maeve Adams

today in books received!

go @maeveadams.bsky.social !!

Nilkantha's paper at RSVP-Chicago was terrific & I'm excited to read this essay.

The Race and Transimperialism Reading Group has returned! On September 26th at 1PM EST, we're discussing Guilmette's “Unsettling the Coloniality of the Affects" (2019) and Samalin's “Affect Theory’s Colonial Sources" (2022) on Zoom. @navsa.bsky.social DM for details.

“UC Berkeley released the names of individuals and their ‘potential connection’ to reports of alleged antisemitism.”

Potential, alleged, reports: these words tell us that any student, at any time, can now make any claim, w/ or w/o evidence, & get a faculty member investigated, fired, &/or arrested

hey if you're going to @navsa2025.bsky.social & want to split a room with somebody to help keep costs down, the wonderful Kate Oestreich has built a crowdsourced roomshare page, which is available below and at the website: navsa.georgetown.edu

soo exciting that @susanzieger.bsky.social's Logistics and Power is out today! We're lucky to have her coming to LSU in early October.

Abstract for an essay "Ali Smith and the Unfinished Book: Novels, Middles, and Serialization in an Electronic Age"

Proofs!
I hope that novel people and #19thc people will like this essay on Ali Smith & her remaking of Victorian serial fiction (hey, I hope that people like and read Ali Smith!). Many thanks to @ceyingst.bsky.social for their help in the final stages of the essay's preparation.

I'm so sorry -- it's devastating.

today in faculty work under authoritarianism: not one but two meetings on same day w PhD students about their departure, emigration, exile from the U.S., how to finish dissertations, how to never return, how to renounce citizenship, how to mourn student visas, how to find a life elsewhere

so thrilled to have been included in this book -- many thanks to @katiabowers.bsky.social and Margarita Vaysman for everything. My chapter is "Victorian Realisms in the Age of Global Trade."

We have a wonderful line up of keynote speakers for RSVP-Dublin:
KATHERINE BODE (Australian National University) will deliver the Wolff keynote and ANDREW LEWIS and TEJA VARMA PUSAPATI will be in conversation for the Colby keynote!
And you too can be there - submit a proposal by Nov 1.