Jessica R. Valdez

.@uniofeastanglia has announced a programme of compulsory redundancies that will see 170 staff members lose their jobs, amid an ongoing financial crisis across the UK higher education sector. @JulietteRowsell reports bit.ly/4fYPWBV

excited to read this!

Our latest #RSVPDigEv talk "Publishing Academic Research" is now on YouTube. This was such a wonderful discussion, and our most well-attended digital event to date! Many thanks to our guests from @EdinburghUP and @C19thNewshound for moderating! youtu.be/XwGWpGUBiIQ

@S_Insley_H OMG my first reaction ... for the mums, why are mothers having such a hard autumn?!

Middle-aged thought of the day: “This is a rough autumn for the mums.”

Hey 19th century friends, don't forget to submit your abstract to RSVP (Research Society for Victorian Periodicals) for 2025's conference in Chicago: rs4vp.org/rsvp-conferenc…

@S_Insley_H Yeah, we're actually still in the long nineteenth century.

Lotta misinformation out there, folks

If you had to miss our September book launch of @teja_pusapati's *Model Women of the Press* and @marylshannon's *Billy Waters is Dancing*, you're in luck! Check it out on our YouTube channel at your earliest convenience: youtu.be/4R2axeUUEWQ

RSVP is hiring! Check out this paid, part-time position on our newly revamped website: rs4vp.org/rsvp-is-hiring/

@ProfMHewitt Congratulations!

Final corrections submitted! Publication date mid-November. Am now more than slightly queasy at the thought that it's too late to pick up any more errors. But at least I finally have a cast iron argument against further attempts to ferret out more reactions to Darwin.

@zarenaaslami Thanks! :)

I'm late in sharing this news, but I'm thrilled (chuffed, as some might say) to have my essay -- "The Memetic Form of Bret Harte's Ah Sin: From the American West to The Way We Live Now" -- in the most recent issue of Victorian Studies (muse.jhu.edu/article/931277).

If you're interested in issues of migration, imperialism, media, and/or Trollope, check it out! If you don't have access, please message me and I'll be happy to share the pdf.

Novel: A Forum on Fiction is now soliciting submissions for volume 58 (2025)! We are looking for article-length pieces on novel history and theory, approx 6500-9000 words. Please send submissions to novel_forum@brown.edu or see dukeupress.edu/novel for more information.

More books to launch! Join the #RSVPDigEv team next Friday, Sept. 13 to hear from RSVP's own @teja_pusapati and @marylshannon about their recently published work! As always, this is a *free* virtual event! Read more and register here: rs4vp.org/september-book…

@clairejowitt @gloucesterwreck Congratulations!

Oh my ... @gloucesterwreck is shortlisted for 'Research Project of the Year: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences' ... timeshighereducation.com/news/awards-20…

@scriblerian Good luck!

Pls RT: @HakluytSociety Essay Prize 2025 for essays by ECRs in humanities/social sciences on history of travel, exploration & cultural encounter, their effects, or critically engage with the Society's work. 1st prize £1250, 2nd prize £250; deadline 1/3/25 hakluyt.com/hakluyt-societ…

Early career colleagues reading this: this doesn’t apply to the humanities. At least not literary studies. Ignore and carry on.

@S_Insley_H Can't wait to see you there!! And you're welcome to come visit in Baton Rouge too hehe.

Have been placed on the first and last MLA sessions. Come hang out with me in NOLA, I guess?