The U of Virginia hosted a splendid 2005 conference. About 300 or so registrants braved the gorgeous Charlottesville weather to participate in approximately 50 panels, to hear plenary talks by Mary Poovey and George Levine, and to attend seminars by Laurel Brake, Jay Clayton, Helena Michie, and Anthony Wohl. UVA also introduced an innovation: Master-classes led by Isobel Armstrong, Neil Hertz, and U.C. Knoepflmacher. {More}

Victorian Studies has decided to run another special issue dedicated to the NAVSA conference. In addition to some of the best papers from the UVA conference, including essays and responses by Rosemary Bodenheimer, Lisa Brocklebank, Daniel Hack, Nicole Fluhr, Rachel Oberter, Jill Galvan, Mary Poovey, and Carolyn Williams, the issue will feature a special essay on NINES by Dino Franco Felluga. {More}

The new nominations deadline for the third annual Donald Gray Prize has been announced: April 7, 2006. At the 2005 conference banquet, NAVSA presented the second annual Donald Gray Prize for best essay published in the previous year. The award was shared by Lara Kriegel and John Kucich, and honorable mention went to Tamara Ketabgian. We are also delighted to announce that David Kurnick won the award for the best paper presented at the annual conference by a graduate student, with honorable mentions going to Lisa Brocklebank and Nathan Hensley. {More}

No corruption or pay-for-play here! Just an election for new members of the NAVSA advisory board. This year, we are running elections for Canadian and American representatives, as well as an art historian. Click on "More" to see candidate bios and instructions for voting. {More}

The 2006 conference at Purdue is the nineteenth-century studies conference to end all nineteenth-century studies conferences, as NASSR and NAVSA convene a joint meeting. Plus, announcements of conferences through 2010(!). {More}

NAVSA once again has featured panels at the ACCUTE conference. Click "More" to discover their makeup. {More}

NAVSA is pleased to promote events and publications related to Victorian studies. This issue of the newsletter features announcements about upcoming conferences sponsored by the Birkbeck Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, the Society for Textual Scholarship, and the Thomas Hardy Association, as well as a new series from Ashgate.{More}