19 Century Studies Association
Official account for the 19th Century Studies Association. Come here for our CFP, prizes, and publication news.
- New from one of our members! www.routledge.com/Routledge-Re...
- Of potential interest to our colleagues!
- My friend Paulina Choh and I are running an elemental media studies panel at #CAA2026! we are asking how the insights of media studies can be applied to 19th-century visual culture. Paper proposals due Aug 29! caa.confex.com/caa/2026/web... please repost and share!
- Reposted by 19 Century Studies Association#ArrestingBeauty at #TheMorganLibrary takes visitors into the mystical world of #19thcentury photographer #JuliaMargaretCameron. If you are unfamiliar with her, I recommend that rabbit hole. Pictured here: 1. “Vivien and Merlin,” 1874 2. “Rebecca at the Well,” 1869-70 3. “The Annunciation,” 1865-66
- Reposted by 19 Century Studies AssociationSpent the afternoon exploring the #Sargent & #Paris exhibit at the @metmuseum.org. It’s an extraordinary collection of his work. Pictured here: 1. “Lady with the Rose” 1882 2. “Le Verre de Porto” 1884 3. “Unfinished Replica of #MadameX” Ca. 1884 4. “Venetian Interior” Ca. 1880-82 #blueskyart #art
- Reposted by 19 Century Studies AssociationBeloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."
- Reposted by 19 Century Studies AssociationIt's publication day!! Thank you to all of the folks at @urochester.bsky.social press and @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social who helped to make this book so beautiful. And thank you AGAIN to all of the folks in my (very earnest) acknowledgments.
- Reposted by 19 Century Studies AssociationThe Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum, remained shuttered Monday — not by war, not by terror, but by its own exhausted staff, who say the institution is crumbling from within.
- Reposted by 19 Century Studies Association@ncsascholars.bsky.social opens submissions to the Emerging Scholars Award, the Article Prize, and the BIPOC Scholars Award. Winners will each receive $500 at the Annual NCSA Conference in 2026. Details below! Award submission deadline: July 1, 2025 tinyurl.com/yc3pnt4s
- Reposted by 19 Century Studies AssociationCheck out the special section of NCFS that Cary Hollingshead-Strick and I co-edited—“Fueling the Nineteenth Century"! It was so great working with all these wonderful authors!🔥🚂⛴️🌲 www.ncfs-journal.org/current-toc
- Reposted by 19 Century Studies Association🚨 Last call! 🚨 We're HIRING an Editorial Officer — deadline is this 📅 Sunday, 8 June 2025! If you're an academic passionate about open access publishing, we encourage you to apply. Fully remote position! Apply now: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/edit...
- Reposted by 19 Century Studies AssociationHello fellow lovers of 19th-century studies!! The CFP for @incsa.bsky.social's 2026 annual conference is now open. 21-24 July 2026 National Union Building, Washington, DC In-Person and Online Proposal Deadline: 31 October 2025 Details 👇 in-csa.com/2026-call-fo...
- Reposted by 19 Century Studies AssociationOur VAF exhibit is open. Come check out books from 14 publishers such as @uchicagopress.bsky.social @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social @gettymuseum.bsky.social @lsupress.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social @utpress.bsky.social @utexaspress.bsky.social and more! #vaf2025
- Reposted by 19 Century Studies Associationi learned from Emma Mason that Christina Rossetti asked to have herself buried in a wicker coffin for this reason, which turns this bleak nursery rhyme from *Sing-Song* (1872) into an autoreferential meditation on solidarity with those who have returned to the earth:
- Reposted by 19 Century Studies Association🎉 Congratulations to @asecsoffice.bsky.social member Crystal B. Lake for receiving a prestigious @acls1919.bsky.social Project Development Award for "Reading/Making: Handcrafting Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century"! www.acls.org/fellow-grant...
- Reposted by 19 Century Studies Associationif anybody wants to buy it, they gave me a 30% discount code: UCPNEW. But if you’d like to read it & don’t have the money, please send me a quick message?
- Deadline extended! Submit your proposals by 5/31.
- A new CFP from the Victorian Institute: vi2025.wordpress.com
- Reposted by 19 Century Studies AssociationCFP: "Listening to the Past: Digital Approaches to the History of Sound and Language," workshop at the GHI in March 2026, proposals due May 28: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...
- Reposted by 19 Century Studies AssociationOpened my email just now to learn THE BARBARA JOHNSON COLLECTIVE received enthusiastic final board approval — it will officially be in the world soon(ish)!!!!!!! @nathankhensley.bsky.social is the best co-editor. Can’t wait for these brilliant, gorgeous, sometimes gutting essays to appear in print.
- Reposted by 19 Century Studies AssociationJOB: TT Assistant Professor, English, University of Regina World Literatures in English universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...
- Reposted by 19 Century Studies Association🚨FT Permanent Job 🚨 My department is hiring a lecturer (B/B) in 18th-c. Irish history, with the desire for someone whose research and teaching pertains to the Irish 'long eighteenth century (1690-1830)...and broader international, political and intellectual context of the period.' 🗃️
- Welcome to all our new followers! For those of you who would like to receive occasional updates by email, please subscribe to our mailing list at the link below: mailchi.mp/4b3379af336e...
- Reposted by 19 Century Studies AssociationSave the date for January's Inaugural Lecture (17 Jan, 6pm) On Literary Taste | SELCS - UCL – University College London www.ucl.ac.uk/european-lan... By Professor Patrick Bray
- We’re writing with a quick update. NCSA has decided to quit Twitter. Our account is still open for now, but we will permanently close it on 7 July, 2025. You can help us by spreading the word to our C19 colleagues. We’ve already built quite a following over the past year!
- Reposted by 19 Century Studies AssociationI had a marvelous time at the 2025 NCSA Conference in New Orleans! So many interesting papers and kind scholars. I enjoyed sharing my work on Berthe Morisot, Julie Manet, and the Bois de Boulogne. I also visited NOMA and the historic home of Edgar Degas's family. 🎨 @ncsascholars.bsky.social
- Reposted by 19 Century Studies Association🔎 #MedHums101 From interviews and people's stories through to films and visual art, the medical humanities extends what counts as evidence in health research. Read some of our top articles on this theme 👉 thepolyphony.org/tag/evidence/
- Reposted by 19 Century Studies AssociationIt's that time again! I'm happy to announce the CFP for this year's Dickens Day, to be held on Saturday 11 October in Senate House, London. This year's topic is "Dickens and art" - send us your proposals (or sketches) by 30 June! ies.sas.ac.uk/events/dicke...
- Reposted by 19 Century Studies AssociationHappy Transgender Day of Visibility! To celebrate, why not listen to our episode with Dr. Rachel Mesch on her book Before Trans, which talks about three famous 19th-century Parisian female writers who identified as men: www.thefrenchhistorypodcast.com/before-trans...
- Visitors will see works from the Royal Collection by many of the period’s most celebrated names, including Carl Fabergé, Frederic, Lord Leighton, Edward Burne-Jones, Laurits Tuxen, John Singer Sargent, Olive Edis, Philip de László, William Morris, Oscar Wilde and Edward Elgar.
- The Edwardians: Age of Elegance The King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace 11 April – 23 November 2025 This spring, a major exhibition at The King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace will immerse visitors in the glamour and opulence of the Edwardian era. 1/2 www.rct.uk
- The Edwardians: Age of Elegance The King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace 11 April – 23 November 2025 This spring, a major exhibition at The King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace will immerse visitors in the glamour and opulence of the Edwardian era. 1/2 www.rct.uk
- Our 2025 Conference, #NCSAfusions, wrapped up yesterday afternoon, but we’re already looking forward to our 2026 conference. Keep your eyes out for our #CFP, and for ways to get involved over the coming months!
- Finally, our President’s Award goes to Emily Burns of the University of Oklahoma. Congratulations again to all our winners! #ncsafusions
- BIPOC Travel Award Winner: Chandrica Barua, University of Michigan Paper Title: "Plantation B/blackness"
- Student Travel Grant Winner: Karina Sembe, PhD Student (ABD). Boston University, Boston, MA. Paper title: "Across National Borders, Across Color Lines: How a Brazilian Soldier Became a Poster Child for U.S. Abolitionism."
- Scheuerle-Zatlin International Travel Award Winner: Daen Palma Huse, University College London, London, UK. Paper title: “Late Nineteenth-Century Print Ephemera in Lima: Motifs and Materialities.”
- Followed by: Faculty Development Travel Award Winner: Martina Saric, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK. Paper title: “Imaginary Fusions: Text, Skin and Sculpted Body in Victorian Pygmalion Fantasies.”
- …with Honorable Mentions to: Honorable Mention 1: Katie Brandt Sartain (kbrand7@uic.edu) University of Illinois at Chicago Honorable Mention 2: Sophie van Os (sophiakarolina@gmail.com) PhD Candidate, Radboud University
- EMERGING SCHOLARS AWARD Winner: Ty Vanover, Dickinson College, “Sex, Sign, Subversion: Symbolist Art and Male Homosexuality in 19th-Century Europe.” Arts 13.103 (2024): 1-20.
- Up next: The Emerging Scholars Award goes to…
- “Hugo, Translated: The Measures of Modernity in Muhạmmad Rūhị̄ al-Khālidī’s Poetics of Comparative Literature” PMLA (2023): 616-638.
- Honorable mention goes to: Shaden M. Tageldin (tageldin@umn.edu) Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature and Distinguished University Teaching Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota for…
- “The Translatability of Love: The Romance Genre and the Prismatic Reception of Jane Eyre in Twentieth-Century Iran.” In Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close Reading a World Novel Across Languages, edited by Matthew Reynolds. Open Book Publishers, 2023.
- Winners: Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould Kayvan Tahmasebian, Postdoctoral Researcher at SOAS University of London Rebecca Ruth Gould, Distinguished Professor, Comparative Poetics & Global Politics at SOAS University of London for their article…
- Up next, the winners of our Article Prize:
- BIPOC Scholars Prize Winner: Nana Osei Quarshie, Assistant Professor in the Program in the History of Science and Medicine, Yale University, "Spiritual Pawning: ‘Mad Slaves’ and Mental Healing in Atlantic-Era West Africa." Comparative Studies in Society and History 65.3 (2023): 475–499.
- We’ve just reached 1’400 followers on bsky and It’s awards season again! Here are the latest updates. First up, our BIPOC Scholars Prize:
- Welcome to Day 2 of #ncsafusions! Join us for our morning sessions, and then our annual business luncheon and keynote lecture by Prof. Michelle Foa of Tulane University on Degas in New Orleans. liberalarts.tulane.edu/art/people/f...
- Reminder to #NCSAfusions attendees, admission to the New Orleans Museum of Art is free when you show your conference badge. noma.org
- And we’re off! #NCSAfusions is now underway. After lunch, Sessions IV and V will begin, and make sure to stop by our reception in the Waterbury Room at the Sheraton this evening at 6. If you’re posting, don’t forget to tag us with #NCSAfusions!
- Reposted by 19 Century Studies AssociationHey Nineteenth Century Studies Association attendees, we'll see you bright and early tomorrow morning for breakfast and of course book browsing. We're in the Bayside Foyer on the 4th floor and we have plenty of discounted books and journals from 22 publishers! #NCSA2025
- This is the week! NCSA 2025 New Orleans begins in two days. We can’t wait to see you there!
- North-West Long Nineteenth-Century Research Seminar: Transnational Popular Print in the Long Nineteenth Century Wednesday 2 April, 12.00 - 17.00 BST Geoffrey Manton Building, GM.09A & ONLINE (Hybrid event) Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Details below:
- Reposted by 19 Century Studies AssociationVictorian Poetry is thrilled to announce a new open-access special issue, “Transition and Transformation.” Guest edited by Erik Gray, it features contributions by Florence Boos, Mary Ellis Gibson, @lindakhughes.bsky.social , Britta Martens, & Herbert F. Tucker. muse.jhu.edu/issue/53644
- A new CFP from the Victorian Institute: vi2025.wordpress.com
- Of potential interest to our members: www.up.pt/eventos/even...
- Just a reminder for our attendees to register our conference: ncsaweb.net/conferences/...
- The latest from our grad caucus: www.facebook.com/share/p/1HQa...
- For all our dixneuvièmistes out there, test your knowledge of Impressionism with this NYT Quiz: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
- Here’s an event that may be of interest to our members. See link for further details: nabmsa.org
- Registration for NCSA 2025 in New Orleans is now open! ncsaweb.net/conferences/...
- New CFP for the 16th Biennial Notre Dame History of Astronomy Workshop. Find their CFP here: www.nd.edu/~histast/
- NCSA Grad Caucus presents a new scholars in progress session:
- NCSA invites proposals for our 2025 conference, to be held in New Orleans, 27-31 March. ncsaweb.net/2025-confere...
- Nineteenth Century Studies is soliciting articles for a special issue (Volume 37), with an amazing team of co-editors, Wendy Castenell and A. Maggie Hazaard. Details available here: ncsaweb.net/ncs-current-...
- Reposted by 19 Century Studies AssociationIs anyone working on the history of bioprospecting for the beauty industry?
- Our 2024 conference is barely in the rearview, but we’re already looking ahead to NCSA 2025. Check this space for updates! ncsaweb.net/2025-confere...
