Lindsey Eckert
@lindseckert.bsky.social
Associate Prof of English | Romanticism, book history, and everything to do with bookbinding | The Limits of Familiarity: Authorship and Romantic Readers is out now with Bucknell UP!
In my lyric seminar we'll be discussing Barbara Johnson's "Apostrophe, Animation, and Abortion" today. The sections on Roe v. Wade--and the entire idea of who speaks to (and for) whom--read much differently now than when I last taught it. Also, I must say, it seems risky even to teach it in FL now 😞
November 12, 2025 at 5:15 PM
In my lyric seminar we'll be discussing Barbara Johnson's "Apostrophe, Animation, and Abortion" today. The sections on Roe v. Wade--and the entire idea of who speaks to (and for) whom--read much differently now than when I last taught it. Also, I must say, it seems risky even to teach it in FL now 😞
My colleague Madison Good will be giving a virtual talk about artist Margaret Armstrong & the books we have designed by her on Wednesday. Details & registration: library.osu.edu/events/the-b...
November 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Nothing like getting called to jury duty during the last week of the semester. 🤪
November 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Nothing like getting called to jury duty during the last week of the semester. 🤪
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CFP: the 38th Biennial Congress of the International Association of Paper Historians (IPH) will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from 24 to 29 August 2026, and the topic is the “Paper Trade”.
Here is more: www.aanmelder.nl/iphcongress2...
#paperhistory #bookhistory #skystorians
Here is more: www.aanmelder.nl/iphcongress2...
#paperhistory #bookhistory #skystorians
IPH Congress 2026 - Home
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October 21, 2025 at 9:24 AM
CFP: the 38th Biennial Congress of the International Association of Paper Historians (IPH) will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from 24 to 29 August 2026, and the topic is the “Paper Trade”.
Here is more: www.aanmelder.nl/iphcongress2...
#paperhistory #bookhistory #skystorians
Here is more: www.aanmelder.nl/iphcongress2...
#paperhistory #bookhistory #skystorians
Love that today's Halloween-themed terror is my institution responding to the Canvas outage by telling all the students to individually email their instructors.
October 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Love that today's Halloween-themed terror is my institution responding to the Canvas outage by telling all the students to individually email their instructors.
October 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
British literary annuals were the dominant medium of poetic circulation in the late Romantic period; any consideration of Romantic poetry that doesn't acknowledge or engage this fact simply gets literary history wrong.
#Romanticism #literaryannuals #bookhistory
#Romanticism #literaryannuals #bookhistory
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
British literary annuals were the dominant medium of poetic circulation in the late Romantic period; any consideration of Romantic poetry that doesn't acknowledge or engage this fact simply gets literary history wrong.
#Romanticism #literaryannuals #bookhistory
#Romanticism #literaryannuals #bookhistory
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BARS 2026 First Book Prize: Calls for Nominations
Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025.
Deadline: 12th January 2026.
More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174
Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025.
Deadline: 12th January 2026.
More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174
October 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
BARS 2026 First Book Prize: Calls for Nominations
Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025.
Deadline: 12th January 2026.
More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174
Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025.
Deadline: 12th January 2026.
More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174
2025, the year in which I earnestly email colleagues the phrase, "Well this seems terrible; I'd rather not be assessed by robots."
We're living in the future, and I hate it here.
We're living in the future, and I hate it here.
October 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
2025, the year in which I earnestly email colleagues the phrase, "Well this seems terrible; I'd rather not be assessed by robots."
We're living in the future, and I hate it here.
We're living in the future, and I hate it here.
I'm consistently intrigued by the ways students misspell my name. I have a whole cast of alter egos now. I hope that Dr. Eckhardt is having a less stressful semester than the real Dr. Eckert is.
October 7, 2025 at 2:09 PM
I'm consistently intrigued by the ways students misspell my name. I have a whole cast of alter egos now. I hope that Dr. Eckhardt is having a less stressful semester than the real Dr. Eckert is.
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This looks like such a useful book. Just submitted a request for our library to purchase it.
#bookhistory #medievalstudies #DH
#bookhistory #medievalstudies #DH
📣📚New publication: S. van Haaren, The Digital Medieval Manuscript - Material Approaches to Digital Codicology, Brill (2025)
▶️ tinyurl.com/45vj7z23
#medievalsky #digitalhumanities
▶️ tinyurl.com/45vj7z23
#medievalsky #digitalhumanities
The Digital Medieval Manuscript
"The Digital Medieval Manuscript" published on 04 Sep 2025 by Brill.
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October 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
This looks like such a useful book. Just submitted a request for our library to purchase it.
#bookhistory #medievalstudies #DH
#bookhistory #medievalstudies #DH
As someone teaching a course on the literary marketplace in the spring, I'd be very interested to know about this question too! #bookhistory #publishing
Question for #bookhistory scholars out there working on contemporary publishing: what are the economics of bundling physical & ebook copies of a title? I know Verso does it now but I'm curious why it's so rare. I suggested as much c. 2007 during a (VERY) brief stint at FSG and was shouted down then.
October 3, 2025 at 2:51 PM
As someone teaching a course on the literary marketplace in the spring, I'd be very interested to know about this question too! #bookhistory #publishing
Doubling down on the fact that Lady Caroline Lamb was the secret center of Romanticism: she also apparently hosted William Blake and his with Catherine Blake at dinner--multiple times.
#Romanticism #19thC #literaryhistory #womenswriting
#Romanticism #19thC #literaryhistory #womenswriting
September 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Doubling down on the fact that Lady Caroline Lamb was the secret center of Romanticism: she also apparently hosted William Blake and his with Catherine Blake at dinner--multiple times.
#Romanticism #19thC #literaryhistory #womenswriting
#Romanticism #19thC #literaryhistory #womenswriting
People of Print: Eighteenth-Century England is out today and free to download until 7 Oct:
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Edited by Rachel Stenner, Kaley Kramer & I, this volume collects 10 new biographical essays about lesser known, diverse figures involved in the #18C print trade.
www.cambridge.org/core/element...
Edited by Rachel Stenner, Kaley Kramer & I, this volume collects 10 new biographical essays about lesser known, diverse figures involved in the #18C print trade.
The People of Print
Cambridge Core - Printing and Publishing History - The People of Print
www.cambridge.org
September 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
New rankings just came out, and FSU's English Department is #8 in the country among public universities.
Current ranking systems are imperfect, of course. But it's also nice to take a moment to recognize the amazing, bold teaching & research getting done here--right on the frontline of doomsday.
Current ranking systems are imperfect, of course. But it's also nice to take a moment to recognize the amazing, bold teaching & research getting done here--right on the frontline of doomsday.
September 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
New rankings just came out, and FSU's English Department is #8 in the country among public universities.
Current ranking systems are imperfect, of course. But it's also nice to take a moment to recognize the amazing, bold teaching & research getting done here--right on the frontline of doomsday.
Current ranking systems are imperfect, of course. But it's also nice to take a moment to recognize the amazing, bold teaching & research getting done here--right on the frontline of doomsday.
I'm reading Lady Caroline Lamb's letters about planning a dinner for Sir Walter Scott. There's literally no one this woman didn't know. Her reach in the Romantic-era literary sphere both before and after Byron is staggering.
#Romanticism #WalterScott #CarolineLamb
#Romanticism #WalterScott #CarolineLamb
September 18, 2025 at 3:19 PM
I'm reading Lady Caroline Lamb's letters about planning a dinner for Sir Walter Scott. There's literally no one this woman didn't know. Her reach in the Romantic-era literary sphere both before and after Byron is staggering.
#Romanticism #WalterScott #CarolineLamb
#Romanticism #WalterScott #CarolineLamb
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REMINDER: Deadline to apply to be the next SHARP News Bibliographer(s) coming up soon!
Apply by October 01 2025.
See the link for details:
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
#BookHistory #Bibliography #Bibliographer #Research #Zotero #Publishing #Books
Apply by October 01 2025.
See the link for details:
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
#BookHistory #Bibliography #Bibliographer #Research #Zotero #Publishing #Books
September 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
REMINDER: Deadline to apply to be the next SHARP News Bibliographer(s) coming up soon!
Apply by October 01 2025.
See the link for details:
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
#BookHistory #Bibliography #Bibliographer #Research #Zotero #Publishing #Books
Apply by October 01 2025.
See the link for details:
sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20...
#BookHistory #Bibliography #Bibliographer #Research #Zotero #Publishing #Books
Dandie Dinmont terriers are named after a character in Walter Scott’s GUY MANNERING. Scott was a committed dog-lover: his favourite, a Pyrenean Wolfdog/Highland Deerhound cross named Maida, has his own memorial at the entrance to Abbotsford
#BookologyThursday
www.countrylife.co.uk/out-and-abou...
#BookologyThursday
www.countrylife.co.uk/out-and-abou...
How Sir Walter Scott made the Dandie Dinmont terrier a legend
This week marked Sir Walter Scott’s birthday — and so it seemed the right moment to celebrate the terrier that owes its fame, and its name, to his pen.
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September 18, 2025 at 2:15 PM
I cannot wait to discuss Virginia Jackson's _Dickinson's Misery_ with my grad students today. One of them emailed me over the weekend to say that their "brain melted, but in a good way."
Welcome. To. The. Party. 🎉🤓
#lyric #bookhistory #pedagogy
Welcome. To. The. Party. 🎉🤓
#lyric #bookhistory #pedagogy
September 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I cannot wait to discuss Virginia Jackson's _Dickinson's Misery_ with my grad students today. One of them emailed me over the weekend to say that their "brain melted, but in a good way."
Welcome. To. The. Party. 🎉🤓
#lyric #bookhistory #pedagogy
Welcome. To. The. Party. 🎉🤓
#lyric #bookhistory #pedagogy
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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
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...
This week I've received invites to faculty active shooter training and a recharge social for "faculty wellbeing." Come for tips on how to secure a door with a belt and then barricade it with desks, stay for the light hors d’oeuvres and chit chat? I don't even know what I'm supposed to feel right now
September 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This week I've received invites to faculty active shooter training and a recharge social for "faculty wellbeing." Come for tips on how to secure a door with a belt and then barricade it with desks, stay for the light hors d’oeuvres and chit chat? I don't even know what I'm supposed to feel right now
Slightly diminish a poem:
We Are Six
We Are Six
Slightly diminish a book:
The Manslaughterbot Diaries
The Manslaughterbot Diaries
Slightly diminish a book:
The Sheep Love UP
The Sheep Love UP
September 9, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Slightly diminish a poem:
We Are Six
We Are Six
Timeline cleanse and menagerie news: meet George.
Like his Byronic namesake, he is handsome, curious, and kind of a hot mess.
Experienced cat people, I'd welcome any advice, especially about how to remain productive in the presence of so much cuteness.
Like his Byronic namesake, he is handsome, curious, and kind of a hot mess.
Experienced cat people, I'd welcome any advice, especially about how to remain productive in the presence of so much cuteness.
September 9, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Timeline cleanse and menagerie news: meet George.
Like his Byronic namesake, he is handsome, curious, and kind of a hot mess.
Experienced cat people, I'd welcome any advice, especially about how to remain productive in the presence of so much cuteness.
Like his Byronic namesake, he is handsome, curious, and kind of a hot mess.
Experienced cat people, I'd welcome any advice, especially about how to remain productive in the presence of so much cuteness.
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Please spread the word—The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print at AAS Jan. 12-15, 2026. A writing workshop and intro to archives for junior scholars working on the dissertation or first book. Fully funded. Apply by Oct. 15 2025. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD
September 8, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Please spread the word—The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print at AAS Jan. 12-15, 2026. A writing workshop and intro to archives for junior scholars working on the dissertation or first book. Fully funded. Apply by Oct. 15 2025. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD