Michelle Smith

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Michelle Smith
Candidate Statement

Michelle Smith
Monash University (Australia)

I have a long-standing interest in British and Australian girls’ and women’s periodicals, which is evident in all three of my monographs, including my most recent, Consuming Female Beauty: British Literature and Periodicals, 1840-1915 (2022, Edinburgh UP). I have published several articles in Victorian Periodicals Review (both co-authored with Kristine Moruzi) and will publish the first essay on the Australian women’s magazine New Idea in The Edinburgh Companion to British Colonial Periodicals (forthcoming). With Kristine Moruzi and Beth Rodgers, I am also currently co-editing The Edinburgh History of Children’s Periodicals, working with dozens of scholars in the field.

I am interested in serving on the RSVP Board to support the continued activities of RSVP in fostering periodicals scholarship through its annual conference, VPR, and grants. I would particularly welcome the opportunity to represent scholars in the southern hemisphere and to develop links and collaborations with emerging and established researchers in the Australasian region.