Erica Robert Pallo
@ericarobertpallo.bsky.social
Work: @HarvardLibrary.bsky.social. Study: @Harvard.edu. Curator of stories: early modern women’s writing, Restoration theatre, cinema/tv, myth/vampires. Upcoming podcast: @CineStoryteller.bsky.social. Website: EricaRobertPallo.com.
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I am a library assistant at Baker Library at Harvard University as well as a graduate student there in English. My studies focus on Aphra Behn & other 17th-century English women playwrights within Restoration Theatre, and using digital methods to present them. I also research vampire lore in cinema.
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Happy 423 years of us! 🎉 📚
The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602...
This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅
The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602...
This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Happy 423 years of us! 🎉 📚
The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602...
This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅
The Bodleian Libraries opened for the first time on 8 November 1602...
This means, we're older than the refracting telescope (1608), the publication of Shakespeare's Hamlet (1623) and Sir Isaac Newton's apple (1666)! 😅
Fashion Police exhibit at the Houghton Library. Wonderful work Christine Jacobson and John Overholt!
@harvardlibrary.bsky.social
@harvardlibrary.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Fashion Police exhibit at the Houghton Library. Wonderful work Christine Jacobson and John Overholt!
@harvardlibrary.bsky.social
@harvardlibrary.bsky.social
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It’s PUBLICATION DAY!! 🌟⭐️💫 I’m very happy to see Voices of Thunder going out into the world 📚
October 13, 2025 at 6:19 AM
It’s PUBLICATION DAY!! 🌟⭐️💫 I’m very happy to see Voices of Thunder going out into the world 📚
Banned Books Week!
Perceived “crimes” against religion, institutional leaders, and public safety have also caused books to be banned. Harvard’s Houghton Library was thorough in considering just who were the “deviants,” and who were the real dangers to society.
@harvardlibrary.bsky.social
Perceived “crimes” against religion, institutional leaders, and public safety have also caused books to be banned. Harvard’s Houghton Library was thorough in considering just who were the “deviants,” and who were the real dangers to society.
@harvardlibrary.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Banned Books Week!
Perceived “crimes” against religion, institutional leaders, and public safety have also caused books to be banned. Harvard’s Houghton Library was thorough in considering just who were the “deviants,” and who were the real dangers to society.
@harvardlibrary.bsky.social
Perceived “crimes” against religion, institutional leaders, and public safety have also caused books to be banned. Harvard’s Houghton Library was thorough in considering just who were the “deviants,” and who were the real dangers to society.
@harvardlibrary.bsky.social
Banned Books Week!
Sex is often controversial in books: sex in science & art, homosexual expression, true-to-life depictions of passionate sex. The curators at Harvard’s Houghton Library recently found creative ways to put so many of those lovely naughties on display.
@harvardlibrary.bsky.social
Sex is often controversial in books: sex in science & art, homosexual expression, true-to-life depictions of passionate sex. The curators at Harvard’s Houghton Library recently found creative ways to put so many of those lovely naughties on display.
@harvardlibrary.bsky.social
October 13, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Banned Books Week!
Sex is often controversial in books: sex in science & art, homosexual expression, true-to-life depictions of passionate sex. The curators at Harvard’s Houghton Library recently found creative ways to put so many of those lovely naughties on display.
@harvardlibrary.bsky.social
Sex is often controversial in books: sex in science & art, homosexual expression, true-to-life depictions of passionate sex. The curators at Harvard’s Houghton Library recently found creative ways to put so many of those lovely naughties on display.
@harvardlibrary.bsky.social
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“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England]
phys.org/news/2025-10...
phys.org/news/2025-10...
A woman's place was not in the home: Challenging the assumptions about women's work in early modern history
New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England's national economy before 1700.
phys.org
October 12, 2025 at 9:05 AM
“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England]
phys.org/news/2025-10...
phys.org/news/2025-10...
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New exhibition explores history of decorative borders: from medieval manuscripts to William Morris
theconversation.com/new-exhibiti...
theconversation.com/new-exhibiti...
New exhibition explores history of decorative borders: from medieval manuscripts to William Morris
The new show at Blackburn Museum and Art Gallery covers the late medieval age to the Arts and Crafts Movement.
theconversation.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:30 AM
New exhibition explores history of decorative borders: from medieval manuscripts to William Morris
theconversation.com/new-exhibiti...
theconversation.com/new-exhibiti...
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Look how pretty she is! I received my author copies of /Practices & Narratives of Early Modern Piracy/ today (officially published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social on Monday). Will post more about individual chapters (including my own) next week - in the meantime, do ask your library to order a copy!
September 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Look how pretty she is! I received my author copies of /Practices & Narratives of Early Modern Piracy/ today (officially published by @amsterdamupress.bsky.social on Monday). Will post more about individual chapters (including my own) next week - in the meantime, do ask your library to order a copy!
Fresh feta cheese twist, perfect drip coffee, and graduate research homework in a cafe that makes me feel like I’m in Los Angeles, California while actually being in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ❤️
September 26, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Fresh feta cheese twist, perfect drip coffee, and graduate research homework in a cafe that makes me feel like I’m in Los Angeles, California while actually being in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ❤️
The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingeneous Mrs. Aphra Behn with Life and Memoirs. Complete in Six Volumes. (1871)
Boston Athenaeum Library.
Boston Athenaeum Library.
September 26, 2025 at 1:17 AM
The Plays, Histories, and Novels of the Ingeneous Mrs. Aphra Behn with Life and Memoirs. Complete in Six Volumes. (1871)
Boston Athenaeum Library.
Boston Athenaeum Library.
The 2nd edition of The Hammer of Witches: From Both Old and New Authors (1582), a witch hunter’s guide (written by sadistic, power-hungry, pathetic men who preyed on the vulnerable). And a 21st-century artist’s piece to honor those murdered for witchcraft.
Boston Athenaeum Library.
Boston Athenaeum Library.
September 26, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The 2nd edition of The Hammer of Witches: From Both Old and New Authors (1582), a witch hunter’s guide (written by sadistic, power-hungry, pathetic men who preyed on the vulnerable). And a 21st-century artist’s piece to honor those murdered for witchcraft.
Boston Athenaeum Library.
Boston Athenaeum Library.
Artworks.
Boston Athenaeum Library.
Boston Athenaeum Library.
September 26, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Artworks.
Boston Athenaeum Library.
Boston Athenaeum Library.
Dumbwaiter etiquette.
Boston Athenaeum Library.
Boston Athenaeum Library.
September 26, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Dumbwaiter etiquette.
Boston Athenaeum Library.
Boston Athenaeum Library.
“Analog” card catalogs (for any in the audience who’ve never seen them before).
Boston Athenaeum Library.
Boston Athenaeum Library.
September 26, 2025 at 12:37 AM
“Analog” card catalogs (for any in the audience who’ve never seen them before).
Boston Athenaeum Library.
Boston Athenaeum Library.
Ceilings & roofs.
Boston Athenaeum Library.
Boston Athenaeum Library.
September 26, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Ceilings & roofs.
Boston Athenaeum Library.
Boston Athenaeum Library.
E is for Edward (Gorey) who was gloomy and glorious.
H is for Harvard (University) and Houghton (Library) where Edward’s malaise and macabre pen did and does good work.
S is spectacular because that is what Edward was.
H is for Harvard (University) and Houghton (Library) where Edward’s malaise and macabre pen did and does good work.
S is spectacular because that is what Edward was.
September 26, 2025 at 12:18 AM
E is for Edward (Gorey) who was gloomy and glorious.
H is for Harvard (University) and Houghton (Library) where Edward’s malaise and macabre pen did and does good work.
S is spectacular because that is what Edward was.
H is for Harvard (University) and Houghton (Library) where Edward’s malaise and macabre pen did and does good work.
S is spectacular because that is what Edward was.
Just casually being a Henry Louis Gates Jr. fangirl tonight as he promotes his new book, The New Negro, co-authored with Martha H. Patterson.
@harvardbookstore.bsky.social
@harvardbookstore.bsky.social
September 26, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Just casually being a Henry Louis Gates Jr. fangirl tonight as he promotes his new book, The New Negro, co-authored with Martha H. Patterson.
@harvardbookstore.bsky.social
@harvardbookstore.bsky.social
When I was an undergrad at University of California at Berkeley, Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social was still teaching there. I have never taken a university Economics course in my life, but I had friends at the time who were in his classes. He changed their lives and by extension, my own.
September 26, 2025 at 12:02 AM
When I was an undergrad at University of California at Berkeley, Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social was still teaching there. I have never taken a university Economics course in my life, but I had friends at the time who were in his classes. He changed their lives and by extension, my own.
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The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
Pure bloodlines? Ancestral homelands? DNA science says no. — Harvard Gazette
Geneticist explains recent analyses made possible by tech advances show human history to be one of mixing, movement, displacement.
news.harvard.edu
September 25, 2025 at 10:13 AM
The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...
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CFP: Cavendish and Politics.
www.unb.ca/fredericton/...
www.unb.ca/fredericton/...
Biennial International Margaret Cavendish Society Conference | Faculty of Arts | UNB
www.unb.ca
September 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
CFP: Cavendish and Politics.
www.unb.ca/fredericton/...
www.unb.ca/fredericton/...
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This quote:
“writing requires an unending effort at something resembling authenticity. Most mistakes come from not being yourself, not saying what you think, or being afraid to figure out what you really think.”
“writing requires an unending effort at something resembling authenticity. Most mistakes come from not being yourself, not saying what you think, or being afraid to figure out what you really think.”
Chiming in on Lynn Hunt. A gorgeous prose writer - and she works at it, which is why I also love assigning this by her! www.historians.org/perspectives...
How Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around) – AHA
Writing is stressful. Sitting in my computer chair my neck and shoulder muscles almost immediately tense up as I dig around in my brain for the best phrase or even any coherent string of words.
www.historians.org
September 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
This quote:
“writing requires an unending effort at something resembling authenticity. Most mistakes come from not being yourself, not saying what you think, or being afraid to figure out what you really think.”
“writing requires an unending effort at something resembling authenticity. Most mistakes come from not being yourself, not saying what you think, or being afraid to figure out what you really think.”
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Just finished a live chat for Talking Tudors @onthetudortrail.bsky.social on Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy. There were some great questions!
#talkingtudors #womenwhoruledtheworld
#talkingtudors #womenwhoruledtheworld
September 25, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Just finished a live chat for Talking Tudors @onthetudortrail.bsky.social on Women Who Ruled the World: 5000 Years of Female Monarchy. There were some great questions!
#talkingtudors #womenwhoruledtheworld
#talkingtudors #womenwhoruledtheworld
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I've been looking for moments like this ever since I read Gerda Lerner: moments when Renaissance women find other women writers and claim them.
To that end, let me show you the best thing I've ever seen in an archive: a little note, in Mary Wroth's copy of Eusebius.
To that end, let me show you the best thing I've ever seen in an archive: a little note, in Mary Wroth's copy of Eusebius.
September 23, 2025 at 2:42 AM
I've been looking for moments like this ever since I read Gerda Lerner: moments when Renaissance women find other women writers and claim them.
To that end, let me show you the best thing I've ever seen in an archive: a little note, in Mary Wroth's copy of Eusebius.
To that end, let me show you the best thing I've ever seen in an archive: a little note, in Mary Wroth's copy of Eusebius.
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This book is out today!!
Looking forward to reading this new tome from Elizabeth Norton - it looks like a great global history of women in power
September 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This book is out today!!
