Call for Applications: VPR Expanding the Field Prize

deadline for submissions: 
June 15, 2024
full name / name of organization: 
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
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Victorian Periodicals Review Expanding the Field Prize

The RSVP Expanding the Field Prize is awarded annually for an outstanding essay that diversifies the existing geographic, racial, and ethnic composition of nineteenth-century periodical studies. Submissions for this prize should do at least one of the following:

  • Deepen our understanding of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) founders, editors, contributors, and readers of periodicals
  • Interrogate Anglocentric perspectives
  • Enact anti-racist or anti-colonial values
  • Consider the cultural impact of the British Empire around the world

The annual awardee will receive $500 and publication of their article in Victorian Periodicals Review

More information related to this award can be found here: https://rs4vp.org/awards/victorian-periodicals-review-expanding-the-fiel...

Please email your submissions directly to the VPR editor: vpr@rs4vp.org

Applications open May 1 and are due June 15.


Submission Guidelines

Essays should be approximately 4,000–7,500 words (or 15–25 pages), excluding notes and bibliography. Formatting should be double-spaced throughout with one-inch margins and a standard font such as Times New Roman, size 12. Please also note:

  • Graduate students, independent scholars, and faculty of all ranks are eligible submit their work.
  • Manuscripts should not be under submission elsewhere or previously published.
  • Submissions should be emailed as an MS Word attachment.