The Midwest Victorian Studies Association seeks to encourage younger Victorian scholars with its triennial First-Book Prize, which will next be awarded in 2011 for a book published in 2008, 2009, or 2010.

Eligibility: 1) Receipt of a terminal degree no more than ten years prior to publication of the first book 2) Membership in MVSA 3) Current residence in one of these Midwestern states: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Wisconsin.

Book-length studies on Victorian/ imperial Britain in the fields of art history, dance, history, literature, music, philosophy, popular culture/cultural studies, religion, and rhetoric will be considered; interdisciplinary approaches are particularly welcome. The prize recipient will receive $500 and a plaque at the MVSA conference.

Ivan Kreilkamp, winner of the inaugural First-Book Prize, speaking at the 2009 MVSA conference in Richmond, IN.

Submissions (three copies of book): Anne Helmreich Dept. of Art & Art History Case Western Reserve Univ. 10900 Euclid Ave. Cleveland, OH 44106-7110 bookprize@midwestvictorian.org

Previous winners: 2009: William McKelvy (Washington University, St. Louis) for The English Cult of Literature: Devoted Readers, 1770-1880 2008: Ivan Kreilkamp (Indiana University) for Voice and the Victorian Storyteller