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Check your mailbox for a new issue of VPR! This double issue is packed with exciting scholarship, including our VanArsdel and Expanding the Field Prize winners and a Roots of RSVP interview with Brian Maidment. muse.jhu.edu/issue/54262 @RS4VP

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Ryan D. Fong examines E. Pauline Johnson/Tekahionwake’s work for the Toronto periodical Saturday Night to show how she cannily negotiated the demands of a settler culture that was violently working to assimilate First Nations peoples. Read more in VPR56.4 muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

Kristin Kondrlik @kekondrlik is seeking contributors to the RSVP Bibliography 2020-24. This project is a great way to keep up with new scholarship in our field, and all contributors will be acknowledged in the published work. For more info, visit rs4vp.org/call-for-contr… @RS4VP

.@SophiavanOs examines the ethnographic portrayal of the Sámi in the nineteenth-century illustrated press to show how imperialist rhetoric was used to justify domestic colonies within Europe. Read more in VPR 56.4: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/… @RS4VP

Michelle Prain-Brice and Jennifer Hayward analyze the cultural transfer of the Ale-Quillén myth through C19 Chilean and Anglo-Chilean print culture. Learn more about the shifting narratives surrounding Chile’s Indigenous Mapuche people in VPR 56.4 muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/… @RS4VP

.@CarolineBressey analyzes reports of violence endured by William King, an African American man who migrated to Australia and became ensnared in the Victoria prison system. Read about The Tocsin’s textual tactics and political limitations: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/… @RS4VP

Porscha Fermanis examines ethnographic accounts of the Orang Asli of Malaysia to reveal how scientific periodicals shifted from context-driven studies of Indigenous peoples to an emphasis on numerical data such as cranial measurements. Read more in VPR56.4 muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

VPR’s special issue “Race and Transnationalism” is hot off the press! Read guest editors Lars Atkin and Matt Poland’s introduction, “On Not Mastering Race and Transnationalism in Victorian Periodicals Studies,” here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/… @RS4VP

I am delighted to announce the winners of the 2024 @VPReditors Prizes: rs4vp.org/2024-vpr-prize…. Congrats to Nilkantha Pal (Indian Institute of Science Education and Research) and @AdeleGuyton (KU Leuven).

EXTENDED DEADLINE: If you'd like to submit your essay for VPR's Expanding the Field Prize or the VanArsdel Prize, you have until July 1, 2024. @RS4VP

Barbara D. Ferguson analyzes surprising responses to the fraud case against spiritualist medium D. D. Home. Check out VPR 56.3 to learn how the PMG’s correspondents turned a critical eye on the discourse of scientific authority: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/… @RS4VP

Rob Breton argues that Eliza Cook redirected the rhetoric of “leveling up” to critique the middle classes in her popular journal. Learn how she affirmed working-class culture in VPR 56.3: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/… @RS4VP

Marysa Demoor marks the 200th anniversary of @TheLancet by tracing its long history of battling misinformation from the 19th-c to the present. Read it in VPR 56.3: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/… @RS4VP

The RSVP Bibliography: 2017-20 indexes scholarship on C19 journalism in Britain and across the empire. This installment includes a whopping 631 works! Check out this essential reference for the state of Victorian #PeriodicalStudies in VPR 57.3: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/… @RS4VP

CFP: VPR's Expanding the Field Prize for an essay that diversifies the existing geographic, racial, and ethnic composition of 19th-c periodical studies. Winner receives $500 and publication in VPR. Deadline June 15. rs4vp.org/awards @RS4VP @navsa @BAVS_UK

Hello Grad Students! @VPReditors is now accepting essay submissions for the annual VanArsdel Prize, deadline June 15. Visit rs4vp.org/awards/vanarsd… for more info. @RS4VP @navsa @BAVS_PGs

Check out our latest issue for the RSVP Bibliography: 2017-20 and fabulous articles on the Lancet's 200th anniversary, the rhetoric of class improvement in Eliza Cook's Journal, and science versus spiritualism in the Pall Mall Gazette. muse.jhu.edu/issue/52556 @RS4VP

We’re wrapping up VPR 56.2 with Andrea Stewart’s feminist approach to DH. Learn more about the set of digital tools she created using biodata for over seven hundred women writers of the long nineteenth century: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/… @RS4VP

Jasper Heeks demonstrates the unique attributes of digitized sources by tracing the transnational coverage of Australian street gangs. Discover the depth and breadth keyword searching can offer in the latest issue of VPR: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/… @RS4VP