Call for Papers: Women’s Studies Area of the Popular Culture Association
and American Culture Association Joint Conference

The Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association invites
submissions for individual papers, and for complete panels, for its
Women’s Studies area for its forthcoming national conference, to be held
in Washington, D.C. 2013.

We welcome papers and panels on any facet of popular culture relating to
the study of women and gender, including, not by no means limited to:

*   Women’s participation in, and creation of, literary works and print
culture
*   Women’s involvement as consumers and producers of film and
television culture, and representations of women within television and
film
*   Women as the subjects of, audiences for, and responders to advertising
*   Women’s engagement with popular music, as artists, consumers, and fans
*   Women’s engagement with social media and their work as bloggers and
cultural critics

ALL PROPOSALS AND ABSTRACTS MUST BE SUBMITTED TO THE PCA
DATABASE<http://ncp.pcaaca.org/> FOR CONSIDERATION.

The deadline for paper and panel proposals is 30 November 2012.

Please send all queries to Holly Kent, at
hkent3@uis.edu

—
Holly M. Kent, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of History
University of Illinois-Springfield
hkent3@uis.edu<mailto:hkent3@uis.edu>
(217)-206-8497
UHB 3056

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals is pleased to announce this year’s call for submissions for the Robert and Vineta Colby
Scholarly Book Prize, awarded to the scholarly book that most advances the understanding of the nineteenth-century British newspaper or
periodical press.

All books exploring the British press of the period
are eligible (including single-author monographs, edited collections, and editions) so long as they have an official publication date of 2012.
The winner will receive a monetary award of up to $2,000, and will be invited to speak at the RSVP conference in Manchester (July 12-13, 2013). The prize was first made possible by a generous gift from the late Vineta Colby in memory of her husband, Robert, and now honors both Colbys for their pioneering scholarship in the field of Victorian periodicals and their dedicated service to RSVP.

To nominate a book, please email the chair of the prize committee, Linda Hughes (l.hughes@tcu.edu), by December 1, 2012.  You or your press will be asked to supply the committee with five copies of the book by mid-December, 2012.  Self-nominations are welcome.

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals (RSVP) is an interdisciplinary and international association of scholars dedicated to the exploration of the richly diverse world of the 19th-century press, both its magazines and its newspapers. More information about RSVP and its lively journal, Victorian Periodicals Review, may be found at
http://rs4vp.org

The Bibliographical Society of America
2013 Fellowship Program Announcement

The BSA invites applications for its sixth annual Katharine Pantzer Senior
Fellowship in Bibliography and the British Book Trades as well as its annual short-term fellowship program, all of which support bibliographical inquiry and research in the history of the book trades and in publishing history.
Eligible topics may concentrate on books and documents in any field, but
should focus on the book or manuscript (the physical object) as historical
evidence. Such topics may include establishing a text or studying the
history of book production, publication, distribution, collecting, or
reading. Thanks to the generosity of donors, certain special fellowships
support research in particular areas of study. Applicants should therefore
read the fellowship titles and guidelines here to determine project
eligibility and fit. Please note: these fellowships do not support
enumerative bibliography (i.e. the preparation of lists). Individuals who
have not received support in the previous five years will be given
preference. All fellowships require a project report within one year of
receipt of the award, and a copy of any subsequent publications resulting
from the project, to be sent to the BSA.

I. Fellowships:

–The Senior Katharine Pantzer Fellowship ($6,000); Supports research in
topics relating to book production and distribution in Britain during the
hand-press period as well as studies of authorship, reading, and collecting
based on the examination of British books published in that period, with a
special emphasis on descriptive bibliography.

–The BSA-ASECS Fellowship for Bibliographical Studies in the Eighteenth
Century ($3,000); Recipients must be a member of the American Society for
Eighteenth-Century Studies at the time of the award.

–The BSA Fellowship in Cartographical Bibliography ($3000); Supports
projects dealing with all aspects of the history, presentation, printing,
design, distribution, and reception of cartographical documents from
Renaissance times to the present, with a special emphasis on
eighteenth-century cartography

–The BSA-Mercantile Library Fellowship in North American Bibliography
($2,000).

–The Folter Fellowship in the History of Bibliography ($2,000); Supports
projects in the history and development of bibliography and/or the book
trade before 1900.

–The Katharine Pantzer Fellowship in the British Book Trades ($2,000);
Supports bibliographical inquiry as well as research in the history of the
book trades and publishing history in Britain.

–The McCorison Fellowship for the History and Bibliography of Printing in
Canada and the United States: the Gift of Donald Oresman ($2,000).

–The Reese Fellowship for American Bibliography and the History of the Book
in the Americas ($2,000).

–BSA General Fellowships ($2,000); The Society also offers a number of
unnamed fellowships supporting bibliographical research as described above.

II. Application Guidelines:

Applications are due Dec 15 of each year. We regret that we cannot consider
late or incomplete submissions. Applications should include the following
components:

1) application form, available at http://www.bibsocamer.org/fellows.htm;

2) project proposal of no more than 1000 words;

3) applicant curriculum vitae;

4) two signed letters of recommendation on official letterhead submitted
independently by referees. Letters submitted electronically as a signed PDF
via e-mail are preferable, although postal submissions will be accepted. We
ask that recommenders use the subject line ³Recommendation for [Applicant
Name]² that is, ³Recommendation for Chris Smith.²

Complete all application components (including an attached Project
Description and curriculum vitae), save them in a recent version of
Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, or PDF (preferable), and e-mail the full
package to the Society Secretary at fellowships@bibsocamer.org. It is
preferable to submit the application package as a single file with the
subject line ³[Applicant Name]: BSA Fellowship,² that is, ³Chris Smith: BSA
Fellowship.² This application package and two supporting letters of
recommendation must be received by 15 December 2012. We regret that we
cannot consider late or incomplete applications. Applicants are advised to
request recommendation letters well in advance and to direct referees to the
BSA site (http://www.bibsocamer.org/fellows.htm) for guidance.

NOTE: The Society has added an on-line application form as a simpler
alternative to e-mail or postal submission:
http://www.bsafellowships.org/bsa/application_form.php.
This page features fill-in fields for all the information contained in the
traditional application form as well as buttons for electronically
submitting curriculum vitae and Project Description files.

For more information, contact the Society Secretary at
fellowships@bibsocamer.org.

Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers Conference
*
*April 4-6, 2013 in Albuquerque, NM*

The English department at the University of New Mexico is pleased to host
the 2013 British Women Writers Conference. The conference will be April
4-6, 2013 at the Hyatt in downtown Albuquerque, NM. The conference theme is
“Customs,” and we look forward to a wide range of unique presentations on
the topic.

Customs are often thought of as the habits or social norms that dictate
behavior, sometimes so rigidly that they appear to be laws. Conversely,
though, “custom” can refer to a product or service tailored to the
“customer’s” individual specifications, or the taxes or duties on
imports/exports, the governmental department charged with implementing such
fees, or the place in which all items entering a country from foreign parts
are examined for contraband.  Regardless of its particular connotation,
“custom” denotes a sense of rigidity, restriction, or control; it is these
forms of social, economic, and/or personal limitations that we wish to
explore with this year’s conference. Prospective panelists are encouraged
to think of “customs” broadly as the term might apply to British and
Transatlantic women writers and their often-underrepresented contributions
to literary studies.

Potential topics related to this theme might include but are not limited to
the following themes in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British women’s
writing:
Habits, practices, and routines
Fashions and manners
Rituals and ceremonies (religious, political, social, and cultural)
Trade issues in the local and/or global economy
Business and mercantile transactions and expansion
Trade and exchange (economic, cultural, philosophical, or trade in
knowledge and ideas)
Issues of circulation (monetary as well as other goods and services in the
social, political, global, or domestic spheres)
Debt and credit
Traditions and conventions (how they are established as well as how they
are upheld or subverted, modified, or re-imagined)
Customers and patronage
Taxation, duties, and tributes
Law and legal systems

Please send abstracts of 250 words for panel proposals by November 15, 2012
and for individual paper presentations by December 15, 2012 to
BWWC2013@gmail.com

*Check out our website at 2013BWWC.com