Julie Park
@juliepark.bsky.social
Paterno Family Librarian for Literature & Professor of English at Penn State | Editor, Penn State Series in the History of the Book, PSU Press | My Dark Room 2023 @uchicagopress
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🚨🚨🚨 Major announcement!!!
I am extremely pleased to announce that HAA is searching for a senior, endowed position in premodern art or architecture. The subfield is wide open. Please spread the word and encourage curious scholars to write to me with questions! 🚨🚨🚨
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I am extremely pleased to announce that HAA is searching for a senior, endowed position in premodern art or architecture. The subfield is wide open. Please spread the word and encourage curious scholars to write to me with questions! 🚨🚨🚨
cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
William S. Dietrich II Professor of Premodern Arts and/or Architecture
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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October 30, 2025 at 9:30 PM
🚨🚨🚨 Major announcement!!!
I am extremely pleased to announce that HAA is searching for a senior, endowed position in premodern art or architecture. The subfield is wide open. Please spread the word and encourage curious scholars to write to me with questions! 🚨🚨🚨
cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
I am extremely pleased to announce that HAA is searching for a senior, endowed position in premodern art or architecture. The subfield is wide open. Please spread the word and encourage curious scholars to write to me with questions! 🚨🚨🚨
cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...
Am fascinated by this thread and its answers. Helps me make sense of Horace Walpole’s urge to write and publish catalogs of his father’s art collection and the contents of his own home, while offering thoughtful critical truths regarding the purpose of libraries and librarianship
Library (archives, research) folk, could you give me your best one liners about Why Cataloguing Matters, please?
Because sometimes 'Without cataloguing no-one can find or use the stuff' just isn't enough, although it clearly should be.
Thank you very. #GLAM #archives #rarebooks #metadata 📚
Because sometimes 'Without cataloguing no-one can find or use the stuff' just isn't enough, although it clearly should be.
Thank you very. #GLAM #archives #rarebooks #metadata 📚
October 31, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Am fascinated by this thread and its answers. Helps me make sense of Horace Walpole’s urge to write and publish catalogs of his father’s art collection and the contents of his own home, while offering thoughtful critical truths regarding the purpose of libraries and librarianship
Like my attempt at a historical costume neckpiece, w/2 pillowcases? For @adamwithbooks.bsky.social ‘s film project. He’s asking us to make short videos of ourselves saying lines from Rousseau’s Confessions while wearing a white Rousseauvian neckpiece. To join in email Adam: adam.smyth@ell.ox.ac.uk
October 17, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Like my attempt at a historical costume neckpiece, w/2 pillowcases? For @adamwithbooks.bsky.social ‘s film project. He’s asking us to make short videos of ourselves saying lines from Rousseau’s Confessions while wearing a white Rousseauvian neckpiece. To join in email Adam: adam.smyth@ell.ox.ac.uk
“Johnson says library resources like these aim to level the playing field. ‘The hope is that people use our services to educate and inform themselves, and gain wisdom about any topic under the sun.’”
October 17, 2025 at 1:31 AM
“Johnson says library resources like these aim to level the playing field. ‘The hope is that people use our services to educate and inform themselves, and gain wisdom about any topic under the sun.’”
C17 commonplace book index belonging to Whitelock Bulstrode (MS 3244, container 1.1) @ransomcenter.bsky.social. Can’t help but think immediately of @djbduncan.bsky.social and his splendid work on the history of the book index
October 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
C17 commonplace book index belonging to Whitelock Bulstrode (MS 3244, container 1.1) @ransomcenter.bsky.social. Can’t help but think immediately of @djbduncan.bsky.social and his splendid work on the history of the book index
Love that feeling of sudden freedom after meeting a big deadline for a collaborative project begun months ago. Time to make James Beard’s tomato pie recipe just in time before summer ends
September 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Love that feeling of sudden freedom after meeting a big deadline for a collaborative project begun months ago. Time to make James Beard’s tomato pie recipe just in time before summer ends
I’m definitely going to be watching this space
So I'm doing a commonplace book assignment with the students in my #earlymodern women's history course this semester. Big thank you to everyone who shared resources and ideas!
Watch this space for updates and reflections.
#teaching #pedagogy
Watch this space for updates and reflections.
#teaching #pedagogy
Reposting this because I got such great responses and others might be interested in doing a similar assignment.
#teaching #pedagogy #skystorians
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#teaching #pedagogy #skystorians
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September 3, 2025 at 5:47 AM
I’m definitely going to be watching this space
Reposted by Julie Park
Margaret Wise Brown, 1910–1952
photo: Philippe Halsman, 1946
Nat'l Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian
Btwn 1937 & her death in 1952, she authored over 100 books, incl "The Runaway Bunny" (1942), "The Little Island" (1946), and "Goodnight Moon" (1947). She preferred to write with a quill pen. #BookSky 💙📚
photo: Philippe Halsman, 1946
Nat'l Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian
Btwn 1937 & her death in 1952, she authored over 100 books, incl "The Runaway Bunny" (1942), "The Little Island" (1946), and "Goodnight Moon" (1947). She preferred to write with a quill pen. #BookSky 💙📚
August 31, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Margaret Wise Brown, 1910–1952
photo: Philippe Halsman, 1946
Nat'l Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian
Btwn 1937 & her death in 1952, she authored over 100 books, incl "The Runaway Bunny" (1942), "The Little Island" (1946), and "Goodnight Moon" (1947). She preferred to write with a quill pen. #BookSky 💙📚
photo: Philippe Halsman, 1946
Nat'l Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian
Btwn 1937 & her death in 1952, she authored over 100 books, incl "The Runaway Bunny" (1942), "The Little Island" (1946), and "Goodnight Moon" (1947). She preferred to write with a quill pen. #BookSky 💙📚
Dealing with copyedits for an article and trying not to feel like a patronizing jerk for agreeing to the suggested use of “[sic]” next to a misspelled word in a quoted line
August 15, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Dealing with copyedits for an article and trying not to feel like a patronizing jerk for agreeing to the suggested use of “[sic]” next to a misspelled word in a quoted line
My essay on how the early modern camera obscura brought us more deeply into our interior lives is now live @publicdomainrev.bsky.social
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Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura
Centuries before photography froze the world into neat frames, scientists, poets, and artists streamed transient images into dark interior spaces with the help of a camera obscura. Julie Park explores...
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July 31, 2025 at 5:33 PM
My essay on how the early modern camera obscura brought us more deeply into our interior lives is now live @publicdomainrev.bsky.social
publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-ea...
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He Read (at Least) 3,599 Books in His Lifetime. Now Anyone Can See His List. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/b...
He Read (at Least) 3,599 Books in His Lifetime. Now Anyone Can See His List.
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July 26, 2025 at 3:43 PM
He Read (at Least) 3,599 Books in His Lifetime. Now Anyone Can See His List. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/b...
“Immortality, if considered at all, is less important than more easily achieved goals. Pleasure in the work itself. Usefulness. Kindness. An eagerness and readiness to be of help…”
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Opinion | My Friends Are Immortal to Me
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July 13, 2025 at 11:11 PM
“Immortality, if considered at all, is less important than more easily achieved goals. Pleasure in the work itself. Usefulness. Kindness. An eagerness and readiness to be of help…”
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Finding out that My Dark Room won a Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2024 award, originally announced last December, is like discovering a gift under the Christmas tree that almost got lost 🎁 🎄📕🎉 @choicereviews.bsky.social
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Outstanding Academic Titles 2024: English Literature - Choice 360
Read the latest list snippets from the 2024 Outstanding Academic Titles from Choice 360 and Choice Magazine. This week Outstanding Academic Titles 2024: English Literature
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May 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Finding out that My Dark Room won a Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2024 award, originally announced last December, is like discovering a gift under the Christmas tree that almost got lost 🎁 🎄📕🎉 @choicereviews.bsky.social
@uchicagopress.bsky.social
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@uchicagopress.bsky.social
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Couldn’t have asked for a more gratifying experience sharing my newest work, on Hester Piozzi’s scrapbook, w/@oxford18thc.bsky.social. Thank you @ballasterros.bsky.social for all you did & said. The napkin covered sandwiches waiting for me at end of talk were delicious. Photo @luisacale.bsky.social
March 13, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Couldn’t have asked for a more gratifying experience sharing my newest work, on Hester Piozzi’s scrapbook, w/@oxford18thc.bsky.social. Thank you @ballasterros.bsky.social for all you did & said. The napkin covered sandwiches waiting for me at end of talk were delicious. Photo @luisacale.bsky.social
Grateful to the MLA for capturing this special moment of my receiving their 2024 James Russell Lowell Prize honorable mention award from MLA president Tina Lu for My Dark Room at the annual convention's award ceremony in New Orleans
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March 2, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Grateful to the MLA for capturing this special moment of my receiving their 2024 James Russell Lowell Prize honorable mention award from MLA president Tina Lu for My Dark Room at the annual convention's award ceremony in New Orleans
@modernlanguage.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social
@modernlanguage.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social
Excited to deliver my paper--based on fresh work for next book Writing’s Maker—"Hester Thrale Piozzi's Minced Meat for Pyes: Scrapbook Composition as Life Writing"--to
@oxford18thc.bsky.social next Tuesday. Many thanks to @ballasterros.bsky.social and @davidftaylor.bsky.social for the invitation
@oxford18thc.bsky.social next Tuesday. Many thanks to @ballasterros.bsky.social and @davidftaylor.bsky.social for the invitation
March 2, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Excited to deliver my paper--based on fresh work for next book Writing’s Maker—"Hester Thrale Piozzi's Minced Meat for Pyes: Scrapbook Composition as Life Writing"--to
@oxford18thc.bsky.social next Tuesday. Many thanks to @ballasterros.bsky.social and @davidftaylor.bsky.social for the invitation
@oxford18thc.bsky.social next Tuesday. Many thanks to @ballasterros.bsky.social and @davidftaylor.bsky.social for the invitation
Happy and proud to see My Dark Room, my 2023 book with the University of Chicago Press, with its honorable mention award labels at the MLA convention in New Orleans last week
January 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Happy and proud to see My Dark Room, my 2023 book with the University of Chicago Press, with its honorable mention award labels at the MLA convention in New Orleans last week
This looks incredible
Taking a break from eating mince pies to get started on reviewing proofs for Selling Sexual Knowledge today.
I don't think I've mentioned what this book is actually about on social media (and I need to psych myself up to get started on this), so here's a little 🧵 about it if you're curious:
I don't think I've mentioned what this book is actually about on social media (and I need to psych myself up to get started on this), so here's a little 🧵 about it if you're curious:
December 28, 2024 at 4:18 PM
This looks incredible
Thrilled that My Dark Room (University of Chicago Press) has been awarded an honorable mention for the MLA’s 2023 James Russell Lowell Prize! 💫✨💫 www.mla.org/content/down...
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December 10, 2024 at 11:15 PM
Thrilled that My Dark Room (University of Chicago Press) has been awarded an honorable mention for the MLA’s 2023 James Russell Lowell Prize! 💫✨💫 www.mla.org/content/down...
Enjoyed being at the Getty on an unusually misty day
November 30, 2024 at 4:18 AM
Enjoyed being at the Getty on an unusually misty day
Had lovely time discussing My Dark Room w/ Penn State Professor of Art History Nancy Locke as my insightful & deft interlocutor for the PSU Humanities Institute Reading New Books in the Humanities by Penn State Faculty program.
November 23, 2024 at 5:23 AM
Had lovely time discussing My Dark Room w/ Penn State Professor of Art History Nancy Locke as my insightful & deft interlocutor for the PSU Humanities Institute Reading New Books in the Humanities by Penn State Faculty program.
A morning of wonder and calm exploring the Huntington’s cactus garden before the tourists arrived with an architectural historian friend who is delightfully sensitive to the play of light on the marvelous collection of succulents and cacti (that has woefully been stolen from).
October 12, 2024 at 3:45 AM
A morning of wonder and calm exploring the Huntington’s cactus garden before the tourists arrived with an architectural historian friend who is delightfully sensitive to the play of light on the marvelous collection of succulents and cacti (that has woefully been stolen from).
A pleasure to collaborate with the intellectually generous, vibrant & deeply talented @luisacale.bsky.social , as well as the curious, rigorous & tenacious up-and-coming scholar Carolin Gluchowski, who had defended her viva the week before. Both papers framed the conference with critical key terms
Panel 1 Reframe/Remake: @luisacale.bsky.social
on the movements of a Blake watercolor in and out of the gargantuan Kitto Bible and Carolin Gluchowski on the recycling and repurposing of materials in prayer books at a medieval German convent
on the movements of a Blake watercolor in and out of the gargantuan Kitto Bible and Carolin Gluchowski on the recycling and repurposing of materials in prayer books at a medieval German convent
October 6, 2024 at 7:03 PM
A pleasure to collaborate with the intellectually generous, vibrant & deeply talented @luisacale.bsky.social , as well as the curious, rigorous & tenacious up-and-coming scholar Carolin Gluchowski, who had defended her viva the week before. Both papers framed the conference with critical key terms
Thanks to my elegant, brilliant & kind co-convener Adam Smyth, our speakers, & our audience at the Extra Extra! conference at the Huntington, for an exhilarating program of great papers on the history of the visually altered book last week. A🧵 in progress
October 5, 2024 at 5:05 AM
Thanks to my elegant, brilliant & kind co-convener Adam Smyth, our speakers, & our audience at the Extra Extra! conference at the Huntington, for an exhilarating program of great papers on the history of the visually altered book last week. A🧵 in progress
Insane the number of last minute requests come at you when you’re struggling to get out the door for a trip
September 24, 2024 at 8:13 PM
Insane the number of last minute requests come at you when you’re struggling to get out the door for a trip