Alison Chapman

Professor Alison Chapman (University of Victoria, Canada)

Alison Chapman is Professor of English at the University of Victoria and serves as general editor of the SSHRC-funded Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry (DVPP) (https://dvpp.uvic.ca/). She was thrilled to give the Wolff lecture at the 2023 RSVP conference in Caen, as well as to serve on the 2023 Colby Book Prize committee. Her interest in nineteenth-century periodicals properly began when she co-organized the Places of Exchange: Magazines, Journals and Newspapers in British and Irish Culture, 1688-1945 conference at the University of Glasgow 21 years ago. If lucky enough to be elected to the RSVP Board, she is eager to enthusiastically support the society’s vibrant, generous, and inclusive culture of mentorship and collaboration. (For full profile, see here)