As we prepare for BAVS 2026, which will take place from 27 – 29 July, we would like to create an opportunity for PGRs to connect ahead of the conference. We are therefore exploring the possibility of hosting an online social meet-up and conference preparation session, giving attendees a chance to meet, share ideas, and […]

Dr Emily Jessica Turner is a writer, researcher, and occasional picture-maker. By day she works in charity communications, and by candlelight she reads, writes, and draws. Her background is in journalism and academia, and she has a BA in English and Fine Art, an MA in Literature and Culture 1700-1900, and a doctorate in the medical […]

Thomas Hardy Week in July The 27th International Thomas Hardy Festival and Conference will attract literature enthusiasts from across the globe from 25th July to 1st August 2026. This week-long event offers an extensive celebration of Thomas Hardy, the renowned Victorian novelist and poet. Delegates will enjoy morning lectures by keynote speakers at the Dorford […]

Digital Humanities Workshop with Gale Online | Tuesday 19th May 2026 | 3.15 – 4.30pm (UK time) Register HERE ……. VPFA is proud to be partnering with Gale to provide a digital humanities workshop FREE for all members. Excitingly, this comes with a generous offer from Gale to provide FREE access to Gale Digital Scholar Lab to Universities based […]

A one-day conference at the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, on Wednesday 2 September 2026 (funded by a Royal Society of Edinburgh collaborative project award) In his chapter “‘The Second City of the Empire’ Glasgow – Imperial municipality” in Driver and Gilbert ed. Imperial Cities (2003), John Mackenzie argued that although population was the principal criterion for […]

We are delighted to announce a new online event to mark Dickens’s passing. On this occasion, our theme does not dwell on the Inimitable’s death, but focuses instead on his ever-expanding life on the big and small screen. Dickens was first adapted for silent cinema in 1901, and since then his work has appeared countless […]

Conference date: Saturday 10 October 2026 Format: in-person Location: Senate House, London We are pleased to announce the call for papers for this year’s Dickens Day on the topic of ‘Dickens and Family’. Coinciding with the 180th anniversary of the publication of Dombey and Son in October 1846, the day will focus on how the concept of […]

Spring Talks – African Atlantic Lives and Visual Culture Research Network Contact: Jenny Terry j.a.terry@durham.ac.uk All welcome to these three talks! Network thanks are due to the British Association for American Studies for support via a BAAS Development Grant and the Centre for Visual Arts and Culture (CVAC) at Durham for their community building. Please […]

The 3rd British Music Hall Society ConferenceSaturday 21st and/or Sunday 22nd November 2026The Cinema Museum, 2 Dugard Way, London SE11 4TH “CATERING FOR PEOPLE’S DESIRES AND NEEDS IN THE MUSIC HALL”  CALL FOR PAPERS Illustration of the Alhambra from The Cornhill Magazine, p.8, Vol. IV, July to December 1861. A FRENCHMAN’S IMPRESSIONS OF ENGLAND at […]

Nineteenth-Century Matters 2026 Liverpool John Moores University Outline Nineteenth-Century Matters is an initiative jointly run by the British Association for Romantic Studies and the British Association for Victorian Studies. Now in its tenth year, it is aimed at postdoctoral researchers who have completed their PhD, but who are not currently employed in a full-time academic […]

Human–Animal Relations in Victorian Popular Literature and CultureA special issue of Victorian Popular Fictions Journal Guest-edited by Bethany Dahlstrom and Helena Esser Victorian popular fiction is replete with animals – racing horses, loyal dogs, caged birds, exotic creatures, and anthropomorphic companions. These beings carried immense symbolic significance: they could function as status symbols, metaphors for […]

Registration Open: Centre for Victorian Studies Colloquium 2026 – ‘New Directions in Nineteenth-Century Studies’Explore new horizons in Victorian Studies at our one-day colloquium!Date: 30 April 2026 Venue: Royal Holloway, University of London (Egham Campus) Dear colleagues, We’re delighted to announce that booking is now open for the Centre for Victorian Studies Colloquium 2026, which this year is on […]

Dear BAVS members, I’m getting in touch with a reminder of our EGM next Monday, which has been called to bring the BAVS constitution in line with current practice. The EGM is open to all BAVS members and we warmly encourage you to attend. At this short meeting, we will outline and vote on the […]

In our efforts to make BAVS more accessible, we are rebranding The Victorianist as a blog for everyone, expanding its audience while continuing to share news, CFPs, and updates for Victorianists. PGR and ECR work will continue to be featured and promoted via our Researcher Blog.  We are also moving the primary BAVS posting from Twitter/X to […]

Victorian Expansions: Cross-Cultural Migrations Conference – Friday, April 24, 2026Conference Page                                   Image: The Last of England, Ford Madox Brown, 1855 About the Conference The Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York, in collaboration with the Centre for Modern Studies and the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies at York, is pleased to […]

Senior Assistantship in English Literary Studies 90 % Start of employment is 1 August 2026 The English Department of the University of Zurich invites applications for a postdoctoral teaching and research position (Oberassistenz) in the field of English Literary Studies (British, North American and/or New Anglophone Literatures and Cultures) to start on 1 August 2026. […]

Wednesday 25 March 2026 10am – 4pm In celebration of Women’s History Month 2026, Watts Gallery presents a one-day symposium, Victorian Sorority: Sisters in the Arts, coinciding with our exhibition Women of Influence: The Pattle Sisters (Nov 2025 – May 2026). This event explores the creative, cultural, and political roles of sisters in Victorian Britain, […]

Dear BAVS members: On Thursday, at 9 am Eastern (2 pm Britain, 3 pm CET), I will be running a COVE session that just concentrates on images and gallery-building. I’ll show you: 1) how to make use of the hundreds of thousands of images that we have now made available from the Art Institute of […]

The BAVS Newsletter Editor, Amy Waterson, and the Assistant Editor, Ruth-Anne Walbank, invite you to submit notices for inclusion in the upcoming spring BAVS newsletter. These may include CFPs, notices of Victorianist interest, new publications, and more. Additionally, they are always looking for new reviewers and feature contributors.  For further details, please visit the BAVS […]

‘Jump Billy!’, Wed. 25th March 2026, Cecil Sharp House London, 8pm A celebration of English folk’s diverse history, through the life of celebrity Black Regency busker Billy Waters. A one-off concert to mark the anniversary of Billy Waters’ death, with live music from Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne, Clarke Camilleri, Hamilton Gross, and Angeline Morrison, and also featuring Maz O’Connor and Martin Simpson. There’ll be a mix of solo and band […]

The Gaskell Journal invites applications for the position of co-Editor. The Gaskell Journal is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal published annually, dedicated to disseminating the most authoritative, dynamic and agenda-setting research in Gaskell Studies. It is owned by the Gaskell Society and is distributed to its members, as well as being indexed in various academic databases (for […]

Dear colleagues, On behalf of the Centre for Victorian Studies at the University of Leicester, UK, I wanted to extend a warm welcome to a programme of upcoming events of interest to those working in the nineteenth century. The annual public lecture is in person, but the other events are hybrid, so you can attend […]

Nineteenth Century Gender Studies Special Issue – Spring 2027 In the spring of 1826, weavers and their families facing increasing poverty and starvation set out to break power looms installed in mills across east Lancashire, with the intention of disrupting use of the invention that was usurping their livelihood. When the weavers reached Chatterton Old […]

CALL FOR PAPERS  for the Ninth Digital DACH Victorianists Workshop Friday, 26 June 2026, 10:00–16:00h, Zoom ‘Terraqueous’ Victorians: Global Geographies as Metaphor, Materiality, and Methodology Victorian Studies is in the midst of a large-scale conceptual reorientation. Since the new millennium, scholars have increasingly “dismantle[d] its historical and geographical boundaries” (Joshi 2011, 40) and encouraged “a […]

Romance, Revolution and Reform Journal invites submissions of 5,000-8,000 words on ‘Sex in the Long Nineteenth Century’ (1789-1914) in all its forms and in a global context for Issue 9. We encourage broad interpretations of sex and invite submissions that explore its fluid and multifaceted nature. The journal encourages multi- and interdisciplinary papers from across the […]

CFP: Love’s Matter – The Material Culture and Art of Affection, c. 1700-1900Neuchâtel, 12th-13th of November 2026 International Workshop for PhD Students and Early Career Researchers9th edition of the Entretiens de la Fondation Maison Borel Valentine Card, Great Britain : John Windsor & Sons, mid-19th century, Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection. From […]

Visual Theology III Beauty and Faith – Part Two: Beauty and the Revival of Faith The world is charged with the grandeur of God / It will flame out, like shining from shook foil Gerard Manley Hopkins Beauty and the Revival of Faith will take place on 8-10 May, 2026, at the Archbishop’s Palace, Southwell, Nottingham, U.K.  This event […]

Explore new horizons in Victorian Studies at our one-day colloquium! CFP: Centre for Victorian Studies Colloquium – ‘New Directions in Nineteenth-Century Studies’ Date: 30 April 2026 Venue: Royal Holloway, University of London (Egham Campus) About the Colloquium          The long nineteenth century was shaped by profound technological, scientific, cultural, and political transformations, witnessing the emergence […]

2026 NAVSA: TRAFFIC 11-15 November 2026 Hilton Pasadena Pasadena, California The joint NAVSA-NASSR 2026 conference to take place in Pasadena, California November 11-16 is now open for submissions! This is a fully in-person conference; for those who wish to participate online, there will be a Zoom pre-conference on November 6. We welcome papers on any aspect of […]

DEADLINE EXTENDEDCALL FOR PAPERSTHE TWENTY-SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL THOMAS HARDYCONFERENCE AND FESTIVALDorchester, Dorset, UKJuly 25th—August 1st 2026 Paper proposals are welcome on any aspect of Hardy’s life, work, and legacy for the Twenty-Seventh International Hardy Conference and Festival. Significant Hardy anniversaries in 2026 include the 150th anniversary of The Hand of Ethelberta, the 140th anniversary of The […]