Having been officially announced at our annual conference, congratulations to our 2022 winners of our Victorian Periodicals Review awards, the Rosemary VanArsdel Prize and our first-ever Expanding the Field Prize!
VanArsdel Prize Winner
The winner of this year’s VanArsdel Prize is Alycia Gilbert (University of Washington) for her essay “‘Her Speech Betrayeth Her’: The New Woman and Gendered Slang in the Periodical Press.”
The committee notes, “This essay skillfully combines analysis through the lenses of gender studies and periodical studies with a linguistics-based approach. The author brings in a consideration of the intersections of class and gender as they shape the use of language. Periodicals are central to the study, which explores different genres (editorial, fiction, and reviews) and multiple titles.”
Expanding the Field Prize Winner
The first-ever VPR Expanding the Field Prize goes to Sourav Chatterjee (Columbia University) for his essay “Against Imitation: Anticolonial Caricatures in Basantak or the Bengali Punch.”
The committee writes: “This essay contributes to periodical studies in precisely the way this prize seeks to reward. The scope of research and scholarship is impressive, as the author’s argument and methodology decenter whiteness and advocate for a complex understanding of periodicals in India beyond the Anglocentric periodicals more commonly studied.”
Look for their essays in upcoming issues of Victorian Periodicals Review!