Dr Naomi Walker
drnaomiwalker.bsky.social
Dr Naomi Walker
@drnaomiwalker.bsky.social
Lecturer in English Literature. Interests - women writers walking in rural spaces. Currently co-editing The Edinburgh Companion to the Regional Magazine - co-organiser @placeperiodical.bsky.social
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After an excellent first day of conference we're really looking forward to our guest authors on Friday: Karen McCarthy Woolf at 18:00 and Sigrid Nunez at 20:00. Tickets here: tinyurl.com/5793w2ch

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November 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Really enjoyed presenting my paper on letters to and from Jane Austen at the @ouliterature.bsky.social online conference today. Thank you to the organisers for such a wonderful event.
November 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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Just 2 days until the conference: Letters and Literature 1500-2025. With researchers and writers, heritage industry experts and guest authors @karenmccarthywoolf.bsky.social and Sigrid Nunez.
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November 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I am giving a paper this Thursday (6th November) about letters to and from Jane Austen at this online conference. Please see details and register to attend. There are a wide range of fascinating talks all about letters and literature. digital-humanities.open.ac.uk/letters2025/...
Letters and Literature 1500-2025 at The Open University
Digital Humanities allows scholars to approach old problems with new means, or to ask new questions that could not have been asked with the traditional means of humanistic enquiry. Whatever the approa...
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November 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Jane Austen Used Pins to Edit Her Manuscripts: Before the Word Processor & White-Out
Jane Austen Used Pins to Edit Her Manuscripts: Before the Word Processor & White-Out
Before the word processor, before White-Out, before Post-It Notes, there were straight pins. Or, at least that's what Jane Austen used to make edits in one of her rare manuscripts. In 2011, Oxford's B...
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September 11, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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We're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live!

1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social

More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/
August 26, 2025 at 10:52 AM
A well organised exhibition on Working Women in Austen’s novels at The Arc. Well worth a visit if you are near Winchester.
August 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Enjoyed visiting 8 College Street, Winchester this weekend - the house where Jane Austen died. A great exhibition and moving literary pilgrimage.
August 4, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Interesting article by Anahita Ahluwalia about the decline of Urdu-language magazines in India, including some great covers.

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More Than Nostalgia: The Subversive Cultural Legacy Of Urdu Magazines Must Be Protected
More Than Nostalgia: The Subversive Cultural Legacy Of Urdu Magazines Must Be Protected Once central to India’s literary and cultural life, Urdu magazines have disappeared, leaving behind not just a...
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July 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Enjoyed attending the Creating Worlds Place Writing conference yesterday in London. Lots to think about! #OUCreatingWorlds
May 29, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Come see @alixbeeston.bsky.social talk at Edinburgh Napier on ‘Creativity in Motion: Unfinishing Feminist Film and Literary History’? Wed 30 April, 3.30-5pm (plus drinks after). All welcome; online attendance possible (message me).
April 3, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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RSVP’s annual Colby Prize lecture is going digital! Join us for a special #RSVPDigiEvent on May 9 to hear from W. Hamish Fraser on "Nineteenth-Century Scottish Newspapers: The Importance of the Local." As always, this event is free and open to all! #VoicesandVisions
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Colby Prize Lecture Goes Digital – RSVP
Join us May 9 for a special digital event: our annual Colby Prize lecture by W. Hamish Fraser, who will discuss his award-winning book.
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April 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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The submission website for the International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association's new peer-review journal *Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research* is now online. We welcome submissions of all kinds. Get in touch if you have an idea for a special issue!
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Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research
Explore the latest peer-reviewed articles and learn how to publish your work in Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research.
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April 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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CFP: Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom (Submission Deadline: 5/30/25) bit.ly/4jOSaWt
CFP: Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom (Submission Deadline: 5/30/25) | NAVSA
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April 22, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Don't forget to join us this Friday, April 11 to celebrate @pfyfe.bsky.social's new book, Digital Victorians! Registration is still open, and, as always, absolutely free and open to everyone! See you there! #RSVPDigiEvents
Launching Digital Victorians with Paul Fyfe – RSVP
Join us April 11 to celebrate Paul Fyfe's new monograph, Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities (2024)!
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April 8, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Having a great time at the Walking Women conference in Hamburg. Enjoyed giving my paper today and listening to all the other interesting papers
March 28, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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🚀 Join the #RSVPDigiEvent team April 11 celebrate the publication of /Digital Victorians/ with @pfyfe.bsky.social! We'll convene at our usual time (as we will have all caught up to spring by then) at 8am PT/ 11am ET /4pm UK / 5pm. rs4vp.org/launching-di...
Launching Digital Victorians with Paul Fyfe – RSVP
Join us April 11 to celebrate Paul Fyfe's new monograph, Digital Victorians: From Nineteenth-Century Media to Digital Humanities (2024)!
rs4vp.org
March 23, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Getting ready for a nightwalk in Hamburg next week with the wonderful @deeheddon.bsky.social for the 'walking women new perspectives' conference with @sandradinter.bsky.social. Just working on draft layouts for our guide 🌇🚶‍♀️🌌
March 23, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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This is on this week if you’re about in the northwest of England…
March 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Deadline extended: 25th March 2025. Submit your abstract for the Nineteenth-Century Legacies colloquium being held at Royal Holloway, University of London on June 3rd. See below for more details. Event generously supported by BARS and BAVS.
March 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Really enjoyed attending this OU Teaching and Learning conference in Milton Keynes this week and meeting up with lots of lovely colleagues.
March 14, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Don't forget to submit your abstract for the Nineteenth-Century Legacies colloquium being held at Royal Holloway, University of London on June 3rd. Applications are due this Saturday (15th March)! See below for more details. Event generously supported by BARS and BAVS.
March 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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I'm co-organising a conference on the modernist long poem, partly for the centenary of Richard Aldington's A Fool i' the Forest. Please consider submitting! nclsn.wordpress.com/2025/02/04/c...

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CfP: The Modernist Long Poem, London, 25 Oct 2025 (cfp d/l 25 Apr 2025)
The Modernist Long Poem: Looking Back from the 21st Century Saturday 25 October 2025 Northeastern University, London Just over a century after the publication of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land (1922),…
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February 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Thanks for all the chapter proposals. We are wading through them at the moment and will get back to you soon.
February 4, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Looking forward to speaking at this conference in March and hearing all the other fantastic papers.
Looking forward to hosting this event on walking women in Hamburg from 27-29 March 2025! #walkingwomen
January 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM