Fionnuala Dillane

Dear RSVP Colleagues,
I am delighted to have been nominated for consideration this role because I love this scholarly community and respect greatly the work that it does. My first conference as a graduate student was the RSVP Victorian Encounters meeting in London 20 years ago. I knew nobody. The field of periodical studies was entirely new to me. The experience was transformative and so positive: friendly, intellectual, interested, supportive, hospitable, generative. Those keynotes have never changed. I have tried to give back through my work on various committees, judging panels (Curran; VanArsdal; Colby) and as a member of the Board of Directors (2015-17). I would now appreciate the opportunity to do more, to support Jennifer for the next two years, to continue the work from the assured place the organisation has arrived at in this currently chaotic world, to address the new challenges ahead, sounding those keynotes to ensure colleagues from around the world find their welcome and keep our conversations moving with their work.
For any details on my administrative experience, teaching and research, they can be found here: https://people.ucd.ie/fionnuala.dillane
With thanks,
Fionnuala
Dr Fionnuala Dillane
Associate Prof Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture
School of English, Drama, Film
University College Dublin
Belfield, Dublin 4.
Email: Fionnuala.Dillane@ucd.ie