#victorianist

[phdbff]

ATTN women/LGBT+ folx in Academia!!! <3

Would you like to be on a podcast? Particularly, a female/queer-powered podcast that analyzes science fiction television?

I’m currently booking interviewees for my Warehouse 13 Podcast, Podcast 13!

I have a co-host already, but each episode will have a brief segment called “Cataloging the artifacts,” where we discuss the show’s representation of a given historical object. You do not need to be an expert on the TV show itself (you don’t even have to have seen it before!) if you have relevant historical knowledge for this particular segment.

This segment requires me to find academic experts in EACH of these disparate things: Rheticus; The Crusades; Alessandro Volta and/or Tycho Brahe; Sylvia Plath; Timothy Leary; Harriet Tubman. 

The commitment is fairly small: watch a 40 minute episode of TV, and participate in a Skype interview of 20-30 minutes about the object/historical person.

Interested, but unsure if you’re “technically” qualified? You probably are! We’re not gatekeepers, and it’s MORE than possible to be a historical expert without a PhD. DM me for more info!

[paxvictoriana]

Of Candles and Lovers

I did another guest-blog for The Victorianist, the postgrad blog of BAVS, this time on Elizabeth Barrett (later - Browning), candles, and what literary studies means when you’re thinking materially. Check it out here!

[paxvictoriana]

Sarah Ross works as a PhD candidate at Johns Hopkins University, researching instances of deliberate destructive fire across Victorian fiction and culture. Her essay, “Brave Hermeneutics, the…

My first-ever guest blogpost for the BAVS Postgrads’ blog, The Victorianist! On the matter of ‘Stop-Drop-and-Roll for Victorians,’ including fireguard skirts, flaming ballerinas, and at least one very distressed coroner. Find it here: https://victorianist.wordpress.com/2018/07/16/stop-drop-and-roll-for-victorians/

[nihil-tamen-omnia]

Just found a "victorianist" on this website.

Explains the rampant ace-phobia and enby-phobia I saw on their blog. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but I would feel like a worthless person without those terms and communities.

Just because you think you should have lived during the Victorian Age doesn't give you the right to insinuate that peoples' struggles aren't real.

[vivianangrisani]

Hi, I’m Vivian, and this is my shiny new Tumblr. Happy to have you here.

I’m a photographer, writer, illustrator, printmaker, etc. from Washington, DC. Basically your all-around art type with a deep love for history, classical music, the great outdoors, and all things British. I have a bachelor’s degree in Studio Art and acquired minors in Art History and Luxury Brand Management + Marketing from a liberal arts college in Pennsylvania. I’m a passionate Victorianist with an ever-growing collection of books on 19th century literature, art, and culture and I aspire to earn a master’s degree in Victorian Studies.

This blog will be a collection of my photographs, artwork, writing, and travels. I intend for it to serve as an archive, a place of growth, and of course a springboard for building community. Thanks for visiting. Cheers!

- V

[vangoghspillow]

any other Victorianists out there??? holla at me, let’s be friends, let’s talk about the field !

[victorianscribblers-blog]

Uploading Episode 1! I have the world’s slowest internet, so it will be just a bit longer. But it’s on its way! 

[phdbff]

You know you’re a Victorianist when

I just wrote a 100+ word sentence that had two separate semicolons (used properly) in it; I re-read it about a dozen times before I even noticed, and then, after some consideration, reached the disappointing conclusion that my academic paper should probably be written a little more modernly.