[ecrea] CFP on Digital Pedagogies for Victorian Periodicals Review

Call for submissions for a special number of Victorian Periodicals Review:

“Digital Pedagogies: Building Learning Communities for Studying 
Victorian Periodicals”





Essays of 6,000-7,000 words are sought for a special number of Victorian 
Periodicals Review inspired by the range of research and good practice 
that has been developed in recent years by scholars of the nineteenth 
century periodical press.



Since Patrick Leary’s seminal essay “Googling the Victorians”, first 
published in 2005, significant advancements have been made in the field 
of periodical research, largely as a result of the rise in digital 
projects. In almost ten years of scholarship, researchers have been 
examining and developing new digital methods for analysing and 
extrapolating data. Scholars have been considering not only the 
construction of digital resources but how they can be used in many 
different ways; to enhance research, to identify neglected texts, to 
inspire and engage students. This special number of VPR gives us the 
opportunity to bring together these ideas and debates, to reflect on how 
the field of periodicals research has changed as a result of the digital 
revolution and to consider where it may be in the next ten years.





Possible topics might include:

• The role of the digital archive in uniting disparate periodicals and 
newspapers

• Building, constructing, maintaining digital projects on periodicals

• Rise of the collaborative digital project

• New methods for research and data analysis of circulation figures, 
distribution and ‘popularity’ of publications

• Advances in the visualisation of data for identifying patterns of 
consumption

• Contribution of genealogy studies to identifying periodical authors

• New software packages for the presentation of periodical research and 
analysis

• Models of good practice in teaching and learning with periodicals and 
newspapers

• Student publishing – selection, editing and curation of periodicals 
projects

• Building learning communities for staff and students to enhance 
knowledge of the nineteenth century press

• Debates about the emergence of an alternative ‘digital’ canon of 
periodicals and newspapers

• Digital literacy/digital competency in accessing periodicals online







Please submit completed manuscripts by 1st July 2014 (for publication in 
2015) in Word (no PDFs please) to (C.L.Horrocks /at/ ljmu.ac.uk)

In the meantime, informal queries or expressions of interest are welcome.








Clare Horrocks BA (Hons), MA, CT VCM, PHD
Senior Lecturer, Humanities and Social Science



Advisory Editor for Gale Cengage – Punch Historical Archive 1841 - 1992

Webmaster for the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals

(RSVP) www.rs4vp.org
John Foster Building 80-98 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, L3 5UZ
t: 01512315035 e: (C.L.Horrocks /at/ ljmu.ac.uk)

Convenor of the Victorian Print and Popular Culture Seminar Series (LJMU 
Research Centre for Literature and Cultural History) and Project Lead 
for the Punch and the Victorian Periodical Press Resource, LJMU Special 
Collections http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/HSS/124772.htm



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