JEPS 6.1 (2021): Women editors in Europe
Special issue of the Journal of European Periodical Studies Vol 6 No 1 (2021): Women editors in Europe
Table of Contents
SPECIAL ISSUE
Marianne Van Remoortel, Julie M. Birkholz, Maria Alesina, Christina Bezari, Charlotte D'Eer, Eloise Forestier, Women Editors in Europe
Fionnuala Dillane, What is a Periodical Editor? Types, Models, Characters, and Women
Andrea Penso, Elisabetta Caminer Turra’s Editorial Strategies for Introducing English Novels in Italy through her Periodicals
Joanne Shattock, Mary Howitt and Howitt's Journal (1847–48)
Aisha Bazlamit, Aline Valette’s L’Harmonie sociale (1892–93): From Social Theory to Editorial Practice
Judit Acsády, Hungarian Feminist Periodicals as Alternative Public Spaces, 1907–18: Values, Networks, and Dissemination Strategies
Amelia Sanz-Cabrerizo, Lola Alvarez-Morales, Editorial Identities, Business Models, and Social Strategies: Spanish Women Editors in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Marie Nedregotten Sørbø, Fourfold Female: Birgithe Kühle’s Pioneer Norwegian Journal Provincial-Lecture (1794) and Her European Book Collection
Zsuzsa Török, Mother of Three and Widow of the Nation: The Hungarian Mrs Vachott (1828–96) as Protégé-Editor
Petra Bozsoki, Editorial Strategies of Hungarian Women Editors in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century
Zsolt Mészáros, The Magyar Bazár (1866–1904) and the Literary Salon Hosted by the Wohl Sisters in Budapest
Alicja Walczyna, Paulina Kuczalska-Reinschmit and Ster (1895–97, 1907–14): Editing at the Service of Polish Women’s Rights
ARTICLES
Johanne Slettvoll Kristiansen, Newspaper Debates in Late Eighteenth-Century England: ‘Letters to the Editor’ versus the Political Pamphlet
Liam Young, ‘A Fact in the History of the World’: The Vegetarian Advocate (1848‒50) and the Serialization of Life
REVIEWS
Leanne Rae Darnbrough, Review of Andrea Chiurato, ed., The Last Avant- Garde: Alternative and Anti-Establishment Reviews (1970–1979) (2019)
Bartholomew Brinkman, Review of Victoria Bazin, Modernism Edited: Marianne Moore and the Dial Magazine (2019)
Anna Gielas, Review of Hester Blum, The News at the Ends of the Earth: The Print Culture of Polar Exploration (2019)
Peter W. Sinnema, Review of Thomas Smits, The European Illustrated Press and the Emergence of a Transnational Visual Culture of the News, 1842–1870 (2020)
Periodical Formats in the Market: Economies of Space and Time, Competition and Transfer / Periodische Formate auf dem Markt: Ökonomien von Raum und Zeit, Konkurrenz und Transfer
1–17 June 2021
organised by the DFG Research Unit 2288 Journal Literature
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the 9th conference of the European Society for Periodical Research at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, will be held online. The virtual event aims to bring scholars together, to present and discuss recent work on periodicals, to meet in virtual coffee breaks, to get in touch, and to keep in touch. We welcome proposals from researchers at all stages of their careers from various disciplines.
1-13 June 2021:
Watch and comment pre-recorded presentations at the conference website
11 June 2021:
Postgraduate Workshop
14–17 June 2021:
Online conference with live sesssins: Keynotes, Plenary Panels, Roundtable
ESPRit Annual Business Meeting (for paying members of ESPRit - to register, click here)
We look forward to welcoming you to this virtual ESPRit conference! Watch the conference trailer here:
For more information, please go to the conference website: esprit2021.blogs.ru
For more information, please go to the conference website: esprit2021.blogs.ruhr-uni-bochum.de, or consult the Conference Programme:
ESPRit2021_Conference_Programme.pdf
Contact:
(plus preceding Workshop on Academic Poster Presentations)
11 June 2021
(15 & 22 April 2021)
Deadline for 500-word abstracts: 28 February 2021
In conjunction with the virtual 9th ESPRit Conference “Periodical Formats in the Market”, a virtual postgraduate workshop will be held on 11 June 2021. The workshop is open to postgraduate students working on any topic with regard to periodicals from any historical period, geographical origin, and cultural context. Personalised feedback will be offered by a committee comprising ESPRit members and members of the DFG Research Unit 2288 Journal Literature.
In addition to the virtual workshop an 11 June 2021, there will be an online workshop on 15 & 22 April 2021 where all workshop participants will get a professional training on the concept and design of academic posters (15 April) and their effective presentations (22 April).
This workshop will be held in English by a communication designer and trainer via ZOOM.
To apply, please send a 500-word abstract of the thesis to be presented in a poster presentation and a short CV (150 words) including name, institutional affiliation, and email address to the organisers no later than 28 February 2021 (
We look forward to welcoming you to the virtual workshop!
Conferences and seminars
Seminar: Taking the Magazine out of the Metropolis
Online, 12 January 2024
Séminaire Pélias: Les périodiques comme médiateurs culturels
Paris, 7 February 2024
Periodicals and the Law: seminar 3
Online, 24 April 2024
Periodicals and the Law: seminar 4
Online, 28 May 2024
12th International ESPRit Conference: Periodicals: S.T.E.A.M. Ahead!
Urbino, 11-13 September 2024