Kathryn Ledbetter

My first RSVP conference was in 1993 in Ann Arbor. RSVP has been a consistent source of scholarly inspiration ever since meeting Sally Mitchell and Linda Hughes in the hallways of that conference. I served as treasurer and editor of VPR for 7 years (2004-2011). During my term as editor, I helped to negotiate and coordinate production of digital publication of VPR with JSTOR and MUSE, and I assisted Patrick Leary in initiating and facilitating a change in publishers from University of Toronto Press to Johns Hopkins University Press. I have served the board in various committees, including conference program chair (2011, Canterbury) and the Robert L. Colby Book Prize Committee. I organized the RSVP conference in Austin, TX in 2012. I am also a recipient of RSVP’s Robert L. Colby Scholarly Book Prize and a Curran Fellowship. I am Professor of English at Texas State University in San Marcos, TX. My publications include British Victorian Women’s Periodicals: Civilization, Beauty, and Poetry, Tennyson and Victorian Periodicals: Commodities in Context, and articles or chapters on women and women’s periodicals.