Please join the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals’ next Digital Event, a book launch of Periodical Studies Today: Multidisciplinary Analyses (Brill 2022). We will be joined by the editors (Jutta Ernst, Oliver Scheiding, and Dagmar von Hoff) and several contributors who will discuss periodicals as relational artefacts, highlighting editorial constellations, material conditions, translation, design, marketing, and the consumption of newspapers and magazines from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. The meeting’s goal is to explore new and multidisciplinary ways to analyze periodicals.
Join Us July 19
Join us at the usual time – 8 a.m. PST / 11 a.m. EST / 4 p.m. GMT / 5 p.m. CET. As always, the event is free but registration is required to receive a zoom link.
Our Participants
We will hear from the following editors and contributors to the volume:
- Andreas Beck is Associate Professor of German Studies at Ruhr U Bochum, Germany, where he works on 18th-century comedies, architectural emblematics, and text-image relations in illustrated journals.
- Jutta Ernst, Professor of American Studies at Mainz U, Germany, and co-founder of the research initiative “Transnational Periodical Cultures,” currently investigates the role of translation in 20th-century magazines.
- Sabina Fazli is a postdoctoral research associate at the collaborative research center “Human Differentiation” at Mainz U, Germany, working on the representation of difference in contemporary magazines and zines.
- Florian Freitag received his PhD in North American Literature from U Konstanz and has been a professor of American Studies at U Duisburg-Essen since 2019, where he works on theme parks, suburbia, and magazines.
- Vincent Fröhlich is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Media Studies in Marburg, Germany. He heads a research project on illustrated film magazines (“Seeing Film between the Lines”) and is co-founder and editor of the open access journal periodICON: Studies in the Visual Culture of Journals.
- Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Senior professor of French Cultural Studies and Intercultural Communication at Saarland U, Germany, is currently working on transcultural media history and on the translations of encyclopedias in the 18th to 20th centuries.
- Mark Noonan is Professor of English at New York City College of Technology and former President of the Research Society for American Periodicals. His current book project is Revolutionary Ink: Colonial Printers of New York and the Promise of Democracy, scheduled for release in 2026.
- Oliver Scheiding is Professor of American Studies at The Obama Institute, Mainz U, Germany. His research focuses on magazine studies, print culture, and print activism.
