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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts
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Open-access peer-reviewed journal dedicated to scholarship, pedagogy, #dh on all aspects of women, gender and the arts (esp. lit, visual, music, performance, film, criticism), 1640–1830. Editor Laura Runge, USF. https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo
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abojournal.bsky.social
We're lucky to have such a brilliant and generous editorial board and team!
jenniebatchelor.bsky.social Jennie Batchelor @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · Oct 6
Today has been a long one. Nonetheless, I feel energised and humbled by the last meeting of today in which I joined the wonderful editorial team (and fellow editorial board members) of @abojournal.bsky.social for our annual meeting. ABO’s work and the work it supports are vital and outstanding!
October 28, 2025 at 4:19 AM
abojournal.bsky.social
Pictures for the win!
drbeard79.bsky.social Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · Sep 25
‘Succubus Matters’ is one of the all time great article titles - and the article has pictures 🖤🖤🖤
abojournal.bsky.social ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · Sep 25
August 🔝 reads! Links👇

1/Lauren K. DiSalvo’s "Postures After the Antique in Eighteenth-Century Portraits of Women"

2/Jeremy Chow’s "Succubus Matters"

3/Mary Ann O’Donnell’s "Behn and the ‘Epitaph On the Tombstone of a Child’"

Thanks for reading #ABO!
#18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC
September 27, 2025 at 6:01 AM
abojournal.bsky.social
August 🔝 reads! Links👇

1/Lauren K. DiSalvo’s "Postures After the Antique in Eighteenth-Century Portraits of Women"

2/Jeremy Chow’s "Succubus Matters"

3/Mary Ann O’Donnell’s "Behn and the ‘Epitaph On the Tombstone of a Child’"

Thanks for reading #ABO!
#18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC
September 25, 2025 at 4:27 AM
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aksagal.bsky.social
Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Naming and Classifying cfp final
CFP: Naming and Classifying in the Long Eighteenth Century Whereas “the nineteenth century can be seen as the century of counting and measuring,” the eighteenth century can be seen as the century of ...
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September 16, 2025 at 11:00 AM
abojournal.bsky.social
And for the penultimate article in our Phillis Wheatley Peters Pedagogy Special Issue: Katarina O’Briain’s “Reading Phillis Wheatley’s Catastrophic Poetics: Heroic Couplets and Environmental Justice,” ABO 15.1. Abstract 👇
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#philliswheatleypeters #pwp #pedagogy
O'Briain abstract
August 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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broadviewpress.bsky.social
“King and Pierce show how the Gothic romance, a well-established genre by the
time Radcliffe was writing, is still evolving in significant ways...” — Annette Hulbert, Willamette University

Read the full review in @abojournal.bsky.social's journal: buff.ly/sRSIIMe
August 2, 2025 at 10:00 PM
abojournal.bsky.social
Next up in our Phillis Wheatley Peters Pedagogy Special Issue:
@grubstreetwomen.bsky.social's "Reimagining the Single-Author Seminar: Teaching Wheatley Peters, Milton, and the Master’s Discourse,” ABO 15.1. Abstract 👇 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol15/is...
#philliswheatleypeters #pedagogy
Ozment abstract
July 18, 2025 at 5:21 AM
abojournal.bsky.social
Kicking off ABO 15.1’s Phillis Wheatley Peters Pedagogy Special Issue with a section intro from Mona Narain, our Scholarship Editor, and Sarah Ruffing Robbins. Abstract 👇
digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol15/is...
Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #philliswheatleypeters #pwp #poetry
Phillis Wheatley Peters Intro Abstract
July 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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hdhudson.bsky.social
Minerva Press scholarship alert!
abojournal.bsky.social ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · Jun 26
New article by Esmeralda Orndorff and Joanne E. Myers in ABO Summer 2025! Abstract 👇
“The Maternal Icon in Eleanor Sleath’s The Orphan of the Rhine,” ABO 15.1
digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol15/is...
Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #gothic #gothicliterature #femalegothic
Orndorff and Myers abstract
June 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
abojournal.bsky.social
New article by Esmeralda Orndorff and Joanne E. Myers in ABO Summer 2025! Abstract 👇
“The Maternal Icon in Eleanor Sleath’s The Orphan of the Rhine,” ABO 15.1
digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol15/is...
Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #gothic #gothicliterature #femalegothic
Orndorff and Myers abstract
June 26, 2025 at 5:56 AM
abojournal.bsky.social
We're in good company! Thanks for including us, @signsjournal.org.
signsjournal.org Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org · Mar 12
We've put together a starter pack of feminist publications on BlueSky! Check it out!
June 26, 2025 at 4:41 AM
abojournal.bsky.social
May 🔝 reads! Links👇
1/J. Chow’s rev. of @manionjen.bsky.social's Female Husbands: A Trans History
2/K. Hansen’s “Dress as Deceptive Visual Rhetoric in Haywood’s Fantomina”
3/S. Buckner’s rev. of A History of African American Autobiography, ed. by Joycelyn Moody
#18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC
June 19, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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khandozo.bsky.social
The History of the Nun is wild and I want everyone to read it. Excited to read this article!
abojournal.bsky.social ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · Jun 12
New article by Anaclara Castro-Santana in ABO Summer 2025! Abstract 👇
“The Untold Love Story of Aphra Behn's The History of the Nun,” ABO 15.1
digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol15/is...
Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #aphrabehn #amatoryfiction #thehistoryofthenun #sapphiclove
Castro-Santana abstract
June 13, 2025 at 12:57 AM
abojournal.bsky.social
New article by Anaclara Castro-Santana in ABO Summer 2025! Abstract 👇
“The Untold Love Story of Aphra Behn's The History of the Nun,” ABO 15.1
digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol15/is...
Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #aphrabehn #amatoryfiction #thehistoryofthenun #sapphiclove
Castro-Santana abstract
June 12, 2025 at 8:51 AM
abojournal.bsky.social
Attention ABO readers! The Summer 2025 (15.1) issue dropped late last week. Content screenshots below with exciting article abstracts to follow. digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/
Thanks for reading!
#18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #scholarship #pedagogy #reviews #announcements #notesanddiscoveries
ABO 15.1 Contents 1 ABO 15.1 Contents 2
June 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
abojournal.bsky.social
The cat's outta the bag! New issue is live!
June 8, 2025 at 11:14 AM
abojournal.bsky.social
Wrapping up our “Teaching Margaret Cavendish, Pt. 2” pedagogy collection: E Mariah Spencer’s “‘Strange and Unusual Things’: Teaching the Speculative Fiction of Margaret Cavendish,” ABO 14.2
digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/is...
Thanks for reading! #cavendish #pedagogy #blazingworld #sciencefiction
Spencer abstract
May 29, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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bars.bsky.social
Call for Applications: Stephen Copley Research Award
Deadline 1st June 2025

The BARS Executive Committee has established the bursaries in order to help fund research expenses up to a maximum of £500.

More information and how to apply:
www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...
May 29, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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bibliowingate.bsky.social
#BookHistory friends! Work has begun on the LGBTQIA+ Book History bibliography, and the team is looking for you to share your citations! If you know of or have published something on LGBTQIA+ book history, submit it to this Google form! forms.gle/c1pkNBPbbyCF...
SHARP LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography
Submit citations for the SHARP LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography! We are accepting citations for many different types of resources having to do with LGBTQIA+ book history. There are no restrictions o...
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May 7, 2025 at 7:40 PM
abojournal.bsky.social
Next up in our “Teaching Margaret Cavendish, Pt. 2” pedagogy collection: Kevin Lower’s “Teaching Margaret Cavendish Through the Lens of Scientific Anti-Realism,” ABO 14.2
digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/is...
Thanks for reading!
#cavendish #margaretcavendish #pedagogy #poetry #philosophy
Lower abstract
May 10, 2025 at 6:06 AM
abojournal.bsky.social
Next up in our “Teaching Margaret Cavendish, Pt. 2” pedagogy collection: Jonathan L. Shaheen’s “An Argumental Discourse Before All: An Approach to Teaching Cavendish,” ABO 14.2
digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/is...
Thanks for reading!
#margaretcavendish #cavendish #pedagogy #atomism #causation
Shaheen Abstract
May 7, 2025 at 6:35 AM
abojournal.bsky.social
Did you check out our recent pedagogy collection, "Teaching Margaret Cavendish, Pt. 2"? The section begins with Anne Thell’s "Jumping Pens and Historical Vertigo: Teaching Cavendish in the Twenty-first Century," ABO 14.2
digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/is...
Thanks for reading! #cavendish #pedagogy
Thell abstract
May 3, 2025 at 8:02 AM
abojournal.bsky.social
Phillis Wheatley Peters event today! Join Mona Narain (ABO’s scholarship editor), Sarah Ruffing Robbins, and Barbara McCaskill for “Historically Speaking: ‘The Feast of Genius and the Play of Art’: The Legacies and Communities of PWP at the NMAAHC.” Register here: nmaahc.si.edu/events/histo...
April 8, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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grubstreetwomen.bsky.social
I was on the editorial board of @abojournal.bsky.social for years. It's a scholar-led, open access journal on women in the longest 18th century. The board tirelessly works to keep the journal going. Particularly great are the pedagogy clusters on under-studied figures.

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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 | Open Access Journals | University of South Florida
<em>ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830</em> (ISSN 2157-7129) is an online journal that serves as a forum for interactive scholarly discussion on all aspects of women in arts bet...
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April 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
abojournal.bsky.social
And if you miss ABO managing editor @drkellyplante.bsky.social at #ASECS2025 today, you can catch her tomorrow at the @sharpweb.org roundtable where she'll examine the Gentleman's Magazine from a postcolonial and feminist perspective. See you at 2:00! Details👇
#18thCentury #18thC #C18th
SHARP Roundtable
April 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM