deven parker
@devenparker.bsky.social
Leverhulme ECR fellow researching c18-19 lit & theatre & media history @ uni of glasgow. ROMANTIC MEDIA AND WARTIME NETWORKS coming soon from Stanford UP.
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'His book tour brought him to Cambridgeshire, where he would marry and have two children with Susannah Cullen, an Englishwoman from Ely. They settled in Soham, supported by a local network including abolitionist friends, safe...when reactionary “church and king” mobs were targeting reformers.' 1/3
Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student
Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place
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November 1, 2025 at 8:24 AM
'His book tour brought him to Cambridgeshire, where he would marry and have two children with Susannah Cullen, an Englishwoman from Ely. They settled in Soham, supported by a local network including abolitionist friends, safe...when reactionary “church and king” mobs were targeting reformers.' 1/3
Giving at talk about race and performance in early Victorian Glasgow this Saturday at the Mitchell library! www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/talk...
Talk: Performing Race and Empire in Victorian Glasgow - Glasgow Life
Talk on 19th century Glasgow Theatres
www.glasgowlife.org.uk
October 23, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Giving at talk about race and performance in early Victorian Glasgow this Saturday at the Mitchell library! www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/talk...
My colleagues in computer science and I co-authored this article about using LLMs to extract and tag data from c18-19 playbills. Spoiler: ChatGPT is easily confused by genre designations of plays, less so by 'straightforward' info like cast lists. umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/article/view...
View of Unlocking 18th- and 19th-century Playbills with AI: An Experiment in Qualitative Data Categorization
umanisticadigitale.unibo.it
October 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
My colleagues in computer science and I co-authored this article about using LLMs to extract and tag data from c18-19 playbills. Spoiler: ChatGPT is easily confused by genre designations of plays, less so by 'straightforward' info like cast lists. umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/article/view...
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We will soon be announcing a new Fellowship through the British Association for Romantic Studies which supportsthe work of independent researchers. It's a tight deadline but if you fall into this category or know anyone who does, watch this space @bars.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 10:44 AM
We will soon be announcing a new Fellowship through the British Association for Romantic Studies which supportsthe work of independent researchers. It's a tight deadline but if you fall into this category or know anyone who does, watch this space @bars.bsky.social
I polled my students during today's lecture on which Cockney 'To the Grasshopper and the Cricket' sonnet they prefer. Keats wins by a landslide! (Hunt on the left and K on the right)
October 13, 2025 at 12:14 PM
I polled my students during today's lecture on which Cockney 'To the Grasshopper and the Cricket' sonnet they prefer. Keats wins by a landslide! (Hunt on the left and K on the right)
Check out this year's program for 'Romanticism Across Borders' virtual speaker series. I'm on there along with some of my favorite people 👯✨
October 7, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Check out this year's program for 'Romanticism Across Borders' virtual speaker series. I'm on there along with some of my favorite people 👯✨
Glasgow pals, check out my new exhibition at the Mitchell Library on c19 theatre, empire, and celebrity! On display thru October. I'm also giving a talk at the Mitchell on race and c19 theatre on October 4 😊 www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/exhi...
Exhibition: Performing 19th Century Glasgow: Nation, Celebrity, Empire - Glasgow Life
Exhibition on Glasgow Theatres
www.glasgowlife.org.uk
August 29, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Glasgow pals, check out my new exhibition at the Mitchell Library on c19 theatre, empire, and celebrity! On display thru October. I'm also giving a talk at the Mitchell on race and c19 theatre on October 4 😊 www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/exhi...