Reminder: Keats-Shelley Association Grants (Nov. 1 deadline)

Re-posting from Doucet Fisher via the NASSR list:

Just a reminder that a few weeks remain before the November 1 application deadline for the Pforzheimer Research Grants. As in previous years, The Keats-Shelley Association of America will award two Carl H. Pforzheimer Jr. Research Grants of $2,500 each to advanced graduate students, independent scholars, or untenured faculty pursuing research on British Romanticism and literary culture between 1789 and 1832, with preference given to projects involving authors and subjects featured in the Keats-Shelley Journal Bibliography. No “country of origin” restrictions apply-proposals from everywhere are welcome.

Further information and application forms may be obtained at the KSAA Website:
http://www.rc.umd.edu/ksaa/grants.html

or applicants may write to Grants Committee, Keats-Shelley Association of America, Inc., New York Public Library, Room 226, 476 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10018-2788.

RSVP Colby Prize: Nominations Sought

Call for Nominations
Robert Colby Scholarly Book Prize

The Research Society for Victorian Periodicals is very pleased to award the annual Robert Colby Scholarly Book Prize for a scholarly book that most advances the understanding of the nineteenth-century British newspaper and/or periodical press.  All books exploring periodicals of the period are eligible (including single-author monographs, edited collections, and editions) as long as they have a publication date of 2009.  The winner will receive a plaque and a monetary award of up to $3,000, and will be invited to speak at the RSVP conference at Yale University in New Haven (September 10-11, 2010). The prize was made possible by a generous gift by Vineta Colby in honor of Robert Colby, a long and devoted member of RSVP and a major scholar in the field of Victorian periodicals.

Previous winners of the Colby Prize are:

• 2009:  Catherine Waters, Commodity Culture in Dickens’s Household Words: The Social Life of Goods (Ashgate)
• 2008:  Kathryn Ledbetter, Tennyson and Victorian Periodicals: Commodities in Context (Ashgate).
• 2007: David Finkelstein, Ed., Print Culture and the Blackwood Tradition (University of Toronto Press).
• 2005-2006: Linda Hughes, Graham R.: Rosamund Marriott Watson, Woman of Letters (Ohio University Press) and Peter Morton, The Busiest Man in London: Grant Allen and the Writing Trade, 1875-1900 (Palgrave).

To nominate a book please email Kathryn Ledbetter (KLedbetter@txstate.edu) by December 1, 2009.  Self-nominations are welcome.