Scholarly Books and Academic Journals

North American Conference On British Studies: Funding and Research
An exhaustive listing of research grants, postdocs, and dissertation fellowship programs. Also includes advice on writing effective grant proposals.

New Books in Nineteenth-Century British Studies
"New Books in Nineteenth-Century Studies is an interdisciplinary guide to scholarship on nineteenth-century Britain. The site's searchable database gives you access to publication information for scholarly works on the British Romantic and Victorian periods."

NBOL: Online Review of Books on English and American Literature of the Nineteenth Century
"This site aims to revolutionize academic reviewing.  While academic studies of literature must normally wait at least two years to be reviewed in printed journals , this site will strive to assess new books within ninety days of their publication, will invite authors to respond to each review within thirty days of its submission,  and will also welcome comments from visitors to the site."

Victorian Research Web Journal Guide
Links to the major Victorian studies journals.

Literature Compass: Victorian
"Literature Compass features a new kind of core content: survey articles foreground important trends while viewpoint articles challenge the received wisdom. Generating a strong sense of dialogue and engagement, Literature Compass gives desktop access to the driving ideas, current issues and controversies that enliven the discipline and fuel literary research, providing an ideal entry point for the non-specialist."

Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies
"Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies is a peer-reviewed, online journal committed to publishing insightful and innovative scholarship on gender studies and nineteenth-century British literature, art and culture."

Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance
"A new, peer- reviewed journal designed to engage with specific issues relating to performance on stage, film, television, radio and other media. Embracing comfortably these disciplines under the umbrella of adaptation theories and practices, it attempts to challenge widespread views of national cultural histories and global constructions of performance culture by analysing methods, histories and occurrences of adaptation across a range of media."

Neo-Victorian Studies
"Neo-Victorian Studies is a peer-reviewed, inter-disciplinary eJournal dedicated to the exploration of the contemporary fascination with re-imagining the nineteenth century and its varied literary, artistic, socio-political and historical contexts in both British and international frameworks."

Adaptation
"An international, peer-reviewed journal, offering academic articles, film and book reviews, including both book to screen adaptation, screen to book adaptation, popular and ‘classic’ adaptations, theatre and novel screen adaptations, television, animation, soundtracks, production issues and genres in literature on screen. Adaptation provides an international forum to theorise and interrogate the phenomenon of literature on screen from both a literary and film studies perspective. "

Calendar of Victorian Conferences

Looking for a conference to present your work? Check here for a list of cscholarly meetings inthe coming year.