Models and Methods for Collaboration in Periodical Studies, 1990–2020

Abstract

This essay explores the recent history of collaborative work in the field of Victorian periodicals through a series of interviews with researchers, identifying approaches used by scholarly teams and situating them within larger models for collaboration. The projects discussed include two co-written books, The Victorian Serial and The Plot Thickens: Illustrated Victorian Serial Fiction from Dickens to Du Maurier; two co-edited volumes, the Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century Journalism and Women, Periodicals and Print Culture in Britain, 1830s–1900s; and three digital humanities projects, the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition, Anglophone Chile, and the Periodical Poetry Index.