The Victorians Institute and VIJ

Welcome to the home page for the Victorians Institute, an organization of scholars and students centered in the Mid-Atlantic Region of the USA. We sponsor an annual meeting, which features papers by speakers from around the world, as well as the Victorians Institute Journal, an award-winning annual that publishes articles, reviews, and newly edited texts of interest to Victorianists. Current issue: Vol. 34 (2006).

Victorians Institute meeting for 2008:
DISRUPTING VICTORIAN STUDIES: Inconvenient Facts, Shocking Discoveries, Surprising Events, Forgotten Voices, Unknown Writings, Mangled Texts
University of South Carolina, Columbia, 3-4 October.

The 2007 Victorians Institute was held at the University of Alabama, November 9-12. The topic was "Victorian Secrets." Keynote Speaker, John Kucich, Professor of English at Rutgers University. For further information see http://bama.ua.edu/~apionke/VI2007/VI2007welcome.htm.

The 2006 meeting, "Gender and Reform in Victorian Culture," was October 20-21 at Converse College, Spartanburg, SC. Keynote speaker: Alison Booth, University of Virginia. The conference homepage on the web can be found at http://www.converse.edu/vi

The 2005 meeting of the Institute was "The Nine Lives of Victorian Poetry," April 1-2, at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Keynote speaker: Tricia Lootens, University of Georgia.

Information about previous meetings.

How to become a member.

Officers Present and Past.

Constitution.

Print out a Library Recommendation Form

2007 VI Treasurer's Report.

Information about the Victorians Institute Journal

Editorial about the Institute from VIJ volume 1.

Membership

Membership is open to anyone interested in Victorian literature, history, and culture. Dues of $20 are payable to "Victorians Institute":

Annette Van
Treasurer, Victorians Institute
Department of English
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, NC 27402-6170

Benefits of membership include the Victorians Institute Journal. Members are encouraged to attend the annual meeting, and participate in the governance of the organization.

President: Deborah Logan, Western Kentucky University
Vice President: Patrick Scott, University of South Carolina
Secretary: Albert Pionke, University of Alabama
Treasurer: Annette Van, UNC-Greensboro

Council members at large:

Carla E. Coleman, University of South Carolina, Aiken
Devon Fisher, Lenoir-Rhyne College
Brooke McLaughlin Mitchell, Wingate University

Editors of the Victorians Institute Journal:

David Latané, Virginia Commonwealth University
Deborah Denenholz Morse, College of William and Mary

Victorians Institute Journal

The Victorians Institute Journal, an annual publication of studies in Victorian literature, art, and culture, is produced under the auspice of the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. VIJ began publishing in 1972, under the editorship of Conrad Festa. It was for many years edited by Donald Lawler at East Carolina University, and from 1994-1999 was edited by Beverly Taylor (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Mary Ellis Gibson (UNC-Greensboro).

Subscriptions:
Subscriptions are included in the membership; subscriptions from libraries and institutions are $20 per year. From foreign addresses add postage of $5.00. Orders for back issues are $12 ppd. For U.S. addresses, $16 for institutions; add $5.00 postage for foreign addresses. Institutional and foreign subscriptions, orders for back issues, reprint permission requests, queries about advertising, and other business communications should be addressed to the Victorians Institute Journal, Department of English, Box 842005, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23284-2005. (Phone: 804-8 28-1331; FAX 804-828-8684; e-mail vij@vcu.edu). Arrangements may be made to pay in Sterling, Euros, and Australian dollars; contact the editor at vij@vcu.edu

Submissions Guidelines

Library Recommendations:
We would appreciate your recommendations to university, public, or school libraries. Form to print out.

Forthcoming in the Victorians Institute Journal:
Volume 35 (2007) will feature essays on Collins, Gaskell, Arnold and other Victorian topics, and a full slate of reviews.

Table of Contents of Volume 35 (2007) -- PDF format.

Table of Contents of Volume 34 (2006) -- PDF format.

Table of Contents of Volume 33 (2005) -- PDF format.

Tables of Contents for Previous Issues

Texts