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The Victorians Institute is an organization of scholars and students centered in the Mid-Atlantic Region of the USA.


The Victorians Institute sponsors an annual conference and publishes the Victorians Institute Journal, an award-winning, refereed scholarly annual that publishes articles, reviews, and newly edited texts of interest to Victorianists.

2010 Conference

By the Numbers

The University of Virginia, Charlottesville

1-3 October

Keynote: Daniel Cohen, George Mason University

Author of Equations from God: Pure Mathematics and Victorian Faith, 2007; and director of the Center for History and New Media (http://chnm.gmu.edu).
Call for Papers (PDF). Deadline for submissions 15 April.

For further information, contact Andy Stauffer, ams4k@virginia.edu


2009 Conference

Creativity and the Arts
in Victorian Culture

Converse College, Spartanburg, SC

October 16 & 17, 2009

Conference Information

Keynote speaker:

Linda Peterson
Professor of English, Yale University
Author of Becoming A Woman of Letters:  Myths of Authorship, Facts of the Victorian Market.  Princeton UP, Forthcoming (2009)

Victorians Institute Journal (VIJ)

Special Section: "Victorian Scotland"

The 2009 issue (volume 37) of Victorians Institute Journal will feature a special section on "Victorian Scotland,"as well as other essays on Thackeray, Robert Browning, Peacock, Emily Brontë, et al. All members of the Institute receive VIJ; individual copies are $20 (postpaid).