Jesse Erickson

Although I am new to the RSVP, I have previously served on the Board of Trustees for the American Printing History Association as the Vice President of Programs. Moreover, I currently serve on the editorial board for the journal Publishing History as well as for the University of Delaware Press—a position I have held for three years. As a bibliographic scholar, one of my primary research interests focuses on the print and publishing history of Victorian period author Ouida (b. Maria Louise Ramé, 1839-1908). Over the past two years, I have published and lectured extensively on this author including the article “Ouida Illustrated: Commerce, Politics, and Representation in the Illustrated Editions of Ouida’s Works,” published in the Spring 2019 issue of The Book Club of California Quarterly, and such lectures as “A Different Kind of Reading: Victorian Popular Afterlives,” a Charles W. Mann Jr. Lecture in the Book Arts delivered in March of 2019, my George Parker Winship Lecture, “Ouida Beyond Borders: Ethnicity in Publishers’ Design,” presented for the Houghton in April of 2019, “Re-imaginings: Bibliographical Futures for Victorian Pasts,” given at Temple University in October of 2019, and most recently, my paper “Across the Pond and Over the Color Line: Ouida in America’s Black Press,” which I presented virtually at the Victorian Popular Fiction Association’s 12th Annual Conference, Victorian Encounters and Environment.