CFP: 'The Victorians and Memory', AJVS special issue (Deadline: 10 Aug 2015)

AJVS is a refereed multi-disciplinary journal published by the Australasian Victorian Studies Association (AVSA), with articles in Victorian Studies welcome from any disciplinary or cross-disciplinary area of the humanities, particularly from Australasian scholars or on topics relating to the region. While this call is for a special issue, papers on other topics/themes for general issues may also be submitted via the OJS system (see below for link to register, login, and submit).

Special Issue, 'The Victorians and Memory'. Deadline 10 August 2015

Following on from the recent AVSA Conference in Auckland, and inspired by the great range of papers given there, the Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies is calling for papers relating to this theme. Topics may include but are not limited to print culture, poetics, museums, science, hauntings, historiography, memory (and forgetting), colonial and post-colonial memory, politics, memorials, biography, memoir, art, film, theatre.  Authors need not have presented at the conference, and any papers that were delivered should be reworked as scholarly articles before submission to the Journal - please see the ‘Author Guidelines’ at the AJVS website.

Papers should be 5-7,000 words in length, be accompanied by an abstract, and use MLA style citations. Please register and submit via the online journal’s website.

Co-editors for this issue will be Professor Joanne Wilkes, University of Auckland j.wilkes@auckland.ac.nz and Assoc. Prof. Meg Tasker, Federation University Australia, m.tasker@federation.edu.au.  If you have any problems with the online registration or submission process, you may email the Journal Manager, Dr Kris Moruzi kristine.moruzi@deakin.edu.au or Meg Tasker as General Editor.  Please note that the Journal will be moving to a new publishing system at the end of the year, so submissions after August may not be able to be lodged online. The new server/host will be announced once confirmed. We expect to use the same software and will continue to operate as a free open-access journal.  All back issues will be preserved.

Journal Announcement: Special issue of AJVS on Neo-Victorianism

Issue 18.3 (2013) of the Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies has just been published and is freely available at the journal website. It is a special themed issue on Neo-Victorianism guest edited by Michelle J. Smith.

Articles:
*Neo-Victorianism: An Introduction
Michelle J. Smith

*Neo-Victorian Biofiction and the Special/Spectral Case of Barbara Chase-Riboud’s Hottentot Venus
Marie-Luise Kohlke

*Neo-Victorian Presence: Tom Phillips and the Non-Hermeneutic Past
Christine Ferguson

*Twisting Dickens: Modding Childhood for the Steampunk Marketplace in Cory Doctorow’s “Clockwork Fagin” (2011)
Sharon Bickle

*Tme Machine Fashion: Neo-Victorian Style in Twenty-First Century Subcultures
Christine Feldman-Barrett

*Robert Browning and Mick Imlah: Forming and Collecting the Dramatic Monologue
John Morton

*The Spectre and the Stage: Reading and Ethics at the Intersection of Psychoanalysis, the neo-Victorian, and the Gothic
Jessica Gildersleeve

Book Reviews
*Dickens and Modernity by Juliet John, ed. (rev.)
Grace Moore

*Neo-Victorianism and the Memory of Empire by Elizabeth Ho (rev.)
Kristine Moruzi

*Neo-Victorianism: The Victorians in the Twenty-First Century, 1999-2009 by Ann Heilmann and Mark Llewellyn (rev.)
Michelle J. Smith

*Neo-Victorian Gothic: Horror, Violence and Degeneration in the Re-Imagined Nineteenth Century by Marie-Luise Kohlke and Christian Gutleben, eds (rev.)
Tammy Ho Lai-Ming

Issue 18.2 of the Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies has now been published and is available online. The issue includes the following articles and book reviews.

Articles:

*Business and Terror in Charles Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities
Lynn Shakinovsky
*Home Baked: Dickens's English Muffins and Corporate Characters
Susan Elizabeth Cook
*The English Warner Brother triumphs over religious hegemony on the road to celebrity and dynasty.
Ann Lazarsfeld-Jensen

Book Reviews:

*Science, Sexuality and Sensation Novels: Pleasures of the Senses (rev.)
Heidi Logan
*Picturing Scotland through the Waverley Novels: Walter Scott and the Origins of the Victorian Illustrated Novel (rev.)
Josef Alton Olson
*Robert Louis Stevenson in the Pacific: Travel, Empire, and the Author’s Profession (rev.)
Karen McLean
*British Colonial Realism in Africa: Inalienable Objects, Contested Domains (rev.)
Hamish Dalley
*The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination, 1885-1918 (rev.)
Fiona Paisley

Journal Announcement: Colonial Girlhood Special Issue of the Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies

Issue 18.1 of the Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies has been published. This special issue, guest edited by Kristine Moruzi and Michelle J. Smith, focuses on the theme of Colonial Girlhood. All AJVS articles and book reviews are freely available on the journal site.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Articles
* Colonial Girlhood - Kristine Moruzi and Michelle J. Smith
* Girlhood in Transition: Girls’ Shipboard Diaries on Journeys to New Zealand, 1879-1881- Lilja Sautter
* The Disruption Of Fairyland: “Fairies Had Never Known How To Cry Until Then” - Anita Callaway
* She Rides Astride: Mateship, Morality and the Outback-Colonial Girl - Caroline Campbell
* From Victorian Accomplishment to Modern Profession: Elocution Takes Judith Anderson, Sylvia Bremer and Dorothy Cumming to Hollywood, 1912-1918 - Desley Deacon
* “These forces are in our midst”: YWCA “Girls” and Challenges of Transnationalism Between the Wars -
Ellen Warne

Book Reviews
*Genteel Women: Empire and Domestic Material Culture, 1840-1910 - Erin Atchison
*White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940 - Desley Deacon
* X Marks the Spot: Women Writers Map the Empire for British Children, 1790–1895 - Ruth Feingold
* Westward Bound: Sex, Violence, the Law, and the Making of a Settler Society - Laura Ishiguro
* A Sisterhood of Suffering and Service: Women and Girls of Canada and Newfoundland During the First World War - Jan Noel

CFP: Special AJVS neo-Victorian edition

Call for Papers: Special Edition of the Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies on Neo-Victorianism

The Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies (AJVS) invites submissions for a special edition on Neo-Victorianism to be published in September 2013. AJVS is a fully refereed journal published by the Australasian Victorian Studies Association, with articles covering topics as diverse as archaeology, architecture, art, economics, history, literature, medicine, philosophy, print culture, psychology, science, sociology and theatre appearing in its pages.

The past decade has seen  increasing scholarly interest in what Marie-Luise Kohlke, editor of Neo-Victorian Studies, calls "the afterlife of the nineteenth century in the cultural imaginary". This edition aims to contribute to the growing interdisciplinary dialogue about the ways in which the Victorian period is re-imagined in contemporary culture. The guest editor invites research papers on any aspect of the neo-Victorian, including, but not limited to:

• Neo-Victorian literature, popular fiction, graphic novels and comic books;
• Film, television and dramatic adaptations of Victorian literature;
• Steampunk fiction, art and fashion;
• Neo-Victorianism and cultural conservatism;
• Neo-Victorianism and its significance for Victorian Studies;
• Nostalgia and remembering;
• Gender, sexuality and class politics and neo-Victorianism.

Papers of no more than 7,000 words in length should be emailed as a Word document with an accompanying abstract of approximately 200 words to Dr Michelle Smith, msmith[at]unimelb.edu.au by 1 April 2013.

Author guidelines are available at the journal site.

Welcome to the AVSA blog!

AVSA has just enjoyed another successful annual conference at the University of Melbourne. At the Annual General Meeting, members agreed that AVSA ought to have a blog to complement its website and Facebook page. The blog will be a simple and accessible way for Victorianists within Australasia and beyond to keep up with AVSA activities (specifically our journal, the Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies), calls for papers, conference news and new book announcements. 

If you would like to forward an item for inclusion on the AVSA blog, please email your submission to avsablog[at]gmail.com