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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.

2009 Conference

Creativity and the Arts
in Victorian Culture

Converse College, Spartanburg, SC

October 16 & 17, 2009

Conference Information

Call for Papers--Deadline July 15

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)

Deadline for Paper Proposals: July 15

Victorians Institute Journal (VIJ)

Special Section: "Victorian Scotland"

Victorians Institute Journal welcomes submissions for a special section titled “Victorian Scotland” in Volume 37 (2009). We are happy to consider essays, edited texts, reviews, and other material related to the experience of Scotland during the reign of Queen Victoria. While essays relating to authors and figures long represented in the canon of English literature are welcome, we especially look forward to receiving news of doings North of the Tweed which may be less familiar.

Deadline for Paper Proposals: August 1