Jennifer Phegley

I joined RSVP in 1997 when I attended what would be a career-changing conference in Chicago. Several of the warm and welcoming members I met became mentors who guided me from afar throughout my PhD and beyond. My involvement in the society has made possible my monographs Educating the Proper Woman Reader: Victorian Family Literary Magazines and the Cultural Health of the Nation and Courtship and Marriage in Victorian England. The organization has also supported my current project Magazine Mavericks: Marital Collaborations and the Invention of New Reading Audiences in Mid-Victorian England, for which I have been awarded a Curran Fellowship, a Harry Ransom Center Fellowship, and an NEH Summer Stipend. RSVP has always felt like my true academic home and I would be honored to serve as Vice-President for such a vibrant group of periodical scholars.