RSVP Digital Events

12 April 2021 at 1pm EST / 6pm UK
(12pm CST, 7pm Central Europe)

Do you keep hearing about the importance of using a reference management software? Are you concerned you’re not using yours to its full potential? This workshop will give an overview of the basics of Zotero. You will learn how to use this tool to keep track of citations and store primary or secondary research materials.

Join us on Monday, 12 April 2021 at 1pm EST / 6 pm UK for a walk through on setting up Zotero and how to use its many capabilities. Registration is free and open to all.

This event was inspired by our February RSVP Digital Salon brainstorming session, where members expressed much interest in reference management software.

A Hands-On Workshop

This will be a hands-on workshop, so please make sure you download and install the Zotero desktop app as well as the Zotero Connector plugin for the internet browser you use for research. Zotero is an open-source reference management software and free to use. If your library gets larger than 300 MB, you can choose to pay for back-ups. 

To use Zotero to its full potential, including back-ups and syncing on multiple devices, make sure to register for a free account too.

About Our Presenter

Marie Léger-St-Jean is an independent scholar and digital humanist based in Montréal. She researches early Victorian fiction published in penny weekly numbers and its role as a nexus in a Western transmedia popular culture. She has been using Zotero religiously for over a decade.

Join us on 19 March 2021 at 5 pm UK / 1 pm EST for the next installment of our #RSVPDigitalSalon 2021 series, “Teaching With Nineteenth-Century Periodicals Online”! We’ll learn more about how to teach periodicals effectively online during a time when many have had to adapt their syllabi to distance learning. Our panelists and topics include:

Melissa H. Range, Using Digital Newspapers in Teaching Nineteenth Century African American Writers

Melissa Range is the author of two collections of poetry: Scriptorium, a winner of the 2015 National Poetry Series (Beacon Press, 2016), and Horse and Rider (Texas Tech University Press, 2010). Her third collection, in progress, is an archivally driven collection that examines the abolitionist movement in the nineteenth century United States. Range is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Originally from East Tennessee, she teaches creative writing and American literature at Lawrence University in Wisconsin.

Jennifer Phegley, Introducing Periodicals to Undergraduates: Serial Reading Blogs and Wiki Magazine Projects

Jennifer Phegley chairs the English Department at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She is the author of Educating the Proper Woman Reader: Victorian Family Literary Magazines and the Cultural Health of the Nation and Courtship and Marriage in Victorian England as well as several edited collections and numerous articles on authorship, publishing, periodicals, and pedagogy. Her current project, Magazine Mavericks: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, John Maxwell, and the Emergence of New Readings Audiences in Mid-Victorian England, has been supported by a Harry Ransom Center Research Fellowship, a Curran Fellowship, and an NEH Summer Stipend. She started teaching online courses in 2010 and never looked back!

Lindsy Lawrence, Indexing Poetry in the Digital Classroom

Dr. Lindsy Lawrence is Professor of English at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith. She has published work on Elizabeth Gaskell, serial poetry publication, and Neo-Victorian themes in contemporary television series such as Downton Abbey. Her recent publications include an article on women poets in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine in Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s-1900s: The Victorian Period (2019). She also published a recent article on the Victorian Christmas serial tradition in contemporary television and Doctor Who for the Journal of Neo-Victorian Studies. She teaches a variety of courses in composition, cultural studies, and eighteenth and nineteenth-century British literature with a focus on publication history, gender roles, and digital humanities. She is Co-Director of the Periodical Poetry Index.

James Mussell, “Mechanical exigencies” and the enabling difference: looking again at the look of the page

James Mussell is Associate Professor in Victorian Literature at the University of Leeds.  He is the author of Science, Time and Space in the Late Nineteenth-Century Periodical Press (2007) and The Nineteenth-Century Press in the Digital Age (2012).  He is one of the editors of the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018); and books on W.T. Stead (2012) and Oliver Lodge (2020).  He is currently working on a monograph, Whispers of Print, and an edited collection on letterpress printing.

Register Now

Register for this free online event here. Participation does not require RSVP membership and all are welcome to attend. If you have any questions about this event, please don’t hesitate to contact us and direct your inquiry to the Vice President.

We warmly invite you to join us on Friday, 22 January 2021 at 1 p.m. (EST) / 6 p.m. (GMT) for “A Discussion on Decolonizing Periodical Studies,” part of the Research Society for Victorian Periodicals’ Digital Salon Series 2021.

This event, like those taking place in cognate scholarly organizations and in
wider public arenas, will engage with biases that shape nineteenth-century
periodical studies. It will also provide the foundation for the development of a
nineteenth-century periodical studies reading group focused on race and
transimperialism. Our roundtable participants include:

• Caroline Bressey, Reader in Cultural and Historical Geography,
  specialist in the Black Presence in Victorian Britain, University College
  London
• Priti Joshi, Professor of 19th-century British literature and culture, with
  an emphasis on colonialism and race relations, University of Puget
  Sound, Washington
• Candace Ward, Professor of English, specializing in early Anglo-
  Caribbean literature and culture, Florida State University

Register for this free online event here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Registrants will also receive optional readings authored by our roundtable participants to spur our discussion about a week prior to the event.

Participation does not require RSVP membership; all are welcome. You may also learn more about our work as an organization and how to join RSVP by exploring our website.

For any queries about this event, please send an email directed to our Vice President.