We are happy to announce nine RSVP Curran Fellows for 2024. The projects on which the Curran Fellows are working demonstrate the ongoing expansion and development of our fields of inquiry and objects of study. We very much look forward to hearing more about their work. Congratulations to:
- Chandrika Kaul for Imperialism, Nationalism and Cultures of Print: Mahatma Gandhi & the Periodical Press,1880s-1914
- Chieko Ichikawa for “Woman’s Corner” in The Co-operative
News: Finding a Female Network to Care and Share - Clare Burnett for “Degradation and Ruin”: The Construction of
Public Opinion About Cannabis in British and Australian Periodicals 1880-1901 - James Mussell for Cast as Required: The Introduction of Hot-Metal Composition in the Late Nineteenth Century
- Katherine Hobbs for Margaret Oliphant and the Woman Question in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine
- Kristine Moruzi for Literary Cultures in Children’s Periodicals
- Preeshita Biswas for Circulating Inter-Imperial News: Mapping Imperial Affinities and Resistance in British Periodicals in Meiji Japan, 1860 to 1900
- Sarah Ghasedi for Sophia Jex-Blake’s Anonymous Journalism
and the Battle for Female Doctors in Nineteenth-Century Britain - Wanda Ieremia-Allan for O le Lamepa o le Pasefika – The Pacific Lantern
Ongoing Support for Periodicals Research
The Curran Fellowships are a set of travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying 19th-century British magazines and newspapers in making use of primary print and archival sources. Made possible through the generosity of the late Eileen Curran, Professor Emerita of English, Colby College, and inspired by her pioneering research on Victorian periodicals, the Fellowships are awarded annually.