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Lindsey Eckert
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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!
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lindseckert.bsky.social
My dad is an award-winning journalist based in Minneapolis. I have a complicated relationship with him, but I'm very proud of and afraid for him right now.
Democracy needs a fair and free press. ICE is tear gassing, pepper-spraying, and brutalizing everyone, including journalists.
January 25, 2026 at 4:32 PM
lindseckert.bsky.social
How your email finds me (and George).

#cat #orangecat #amwriting
tired woman with an orange cat attacking her head from the back of her chair
January 22, 2026 at 2:03 PM
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oliverhouse.bsky.social
In February 2026 @senatehouselib.bsky.social is seeking to appoint a Printer in Residence.

This is to be an important part of the public engagement programme for the upcoming exhibition ‘The English Print Revolution: Caxton and Beyond’, and to provide a contemporary response to it in print.

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Senate House Library launches Printer in Residence Scheme
Senate House Library is seeking to appoint a Printer in Residence, to produce a contemporary response to the Caxton and Beyond exhibition.
www.london.ac.uk
January 21, 2026 at 10:35 AM
lindseckert.bsky.social
I really identify with this dismayed, newspaper reading dog featured on the Victorian card I just bought.

(Also my collection of Victorian fringe has grown to an embarrassing size. Ooops)

#ephemera #VictorianEphemera #fringe
Victorian Christmas card featuring a small brown dog sitting atop a newspaper in a windowsill. The dog has a worried expression. The caption on the card reads: "I wish you a joyful and Happy Christmas." The card has a red silk fridge border that is fraying.
January 20, 2026 at 9:54 PM
lindseckert.bsky.social
Anyone interested in proposing a joint session for NASSR/NAVSA? My paper will be on commercial bookbinding and didactic literature (i.e. schoolbooks and almanacs). I could see a panel on #bookhistory things in general or one on didactic literature. Please reach out!
#NASSR #Romanticism #CFP
January 16, 2026 at 5:52 PM
lindseckert.bsky.social
Tomorrow is the first of two research seminars this spring hosted by the The Belgian-Dutch Bookbindings Society. Registration is free.
#bookhistory #bookbinding #rarebooks #bindings
boekbandengenootschap.nl/activiteiten...
Bookbindings Academy 2026 | Belgisch-Nederlands Boekbandengenootschap
boekbandengenootschap.nl
January 16, 2026 at 3:03 PM
lindseckert.bsky.social
I grew up outside of Minneapolis. My dad and many dear friends are still there. I'm hearing directly from them about terrified children, feeling a need to carry one's passport, and teaching toddlers to use whistles if they're accosted by ICE. Whatever regular news is reporting, it's actually worse.
January 15, 2026 at 5:33 PM
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maryfairclough.bsky.social
🗣️🗣️🗣️ Brilliant CfP for Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850 Symposium at The University of Manchester, 25–26 June, 2026. Keynotes Jeremy Davies and Stephanie O’Rourke. Organised by two @cecs-york.bsky.social alumni! No conference fee!
[full CfP in image alt texts]
Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850 Symposium at The University of Manchester, 25–26 June, 2026 Keynote Speakers Dr Jeremy Davies (University of Leeds) Dr Stephanie O’Rourke (University of St Andrews) Earth and earthiness are ubiquitous in the period’s many modes of nature writing, but elements of the ground do not flow or yield their depths like water, nor mediate like air. Earth as physical entity obscures, obstructs, and sullies, proving a less tractable ground for what we might still think of as defining Romantic-era postures of idealism and spontaneity. What literary forms, what knowledge practices, does earthly matter press poetics into? Is the geological record hostile to the human and human expression in its radical alterity, as Heringman at times suggests? Or are there underground places of passage, sympathy, even love, as Mary Jacobus, Susan Wolfson, and Tristram Wolff have more recently proposed? Is there a whole spectrum of attachments to rocks and stones, amounting to (in Wolff’s phrase) a ‘gray romanticism’, in which writers can both resist and relish digging in the dirt? ‘Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850’ aims to explore these questions. We seek to go beyond the exhilarating stony subjects of mountains, deep time, and fossils, widening the remit of Romantic-era writing about the earth to include more particulate matter and more conceptual treatments. We want to add soil, dirt, dust, sand, and ashes to the Wordsworthian catalogue of Romantic elements; and we want to expand our theoretical and metaphoric range to excavate the implications of Barbauld’s and Shelley’s ‘unearthly forms’. We invite proposals for 20-minute papers on the theme of earth, unearthing, and the unearthly in Romantic-era poetry and prose (1750–1850). When engaging with the theme, prospective speakers may wish to explore topics such as the following: Earth, earthiness, and literary form/genre The subterranean/undercommons The components of earth: mud, soil, clods, dust, sand Earthy elements as sites of affect or criticality Poetic and/or epistemological obscurity Images or forms of burial and concealment Images or forms of unearthing, unveiling, or revelation Earth as generative, fertile, life-giving Earth as a site of labour and resource extraction Earth as gendered, queered/queering, racialized, classed Formalist, ecocritical, queer, and affective approaches to earth, earthiness, and unearthing Please send proposals for 20-minute papers in the form of a 250-word abstract and an author biography (150 words) to James Metcalf (james.metcalf@manchester.ac.uk) and Millie Schurch (millie.schurch@english.su.se) by Friday 30 January 2026. Please note: this will be an in-person meeting only. With thanks to support from the Swedish Research Council, there will be no conference fee for speakers, other than to attend the optional conference dinner at the end of the first day. Food and refreshments will be provided on both days (coffee and pastries; lunch; tea-break snack). We are particularly keen to encourage the participation of early career researchers and scholars on precarious employment contracts. We are pleased to be able to offer up to 10 bursaries to cover accommodation and travel within the UK for those without access to institutional support for research activities. Please indicate with your abstract submission if you do not have access to institutional financial support and would like to be considered for a bursary. We hope to hear from you! Millie and James
January 15, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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ksaacomm.bsky.social
Ready for #MLA26? We made a list of the Romanticism-related panels for you! See it on the #KSAABlog www.k-saa.org/blog/mla-pan...
Romanticism and Related Panels at MLA ‘26 — K-SAA
If you’re headed to Toronto January 8 to 11 for the annual MLA conference, we’ve done a round-up of panels that might be interesting to our readership. This list is compiled by the K-SAA Communicati...
www.k-saa.org
December 30, 2025 at 5:29 PM
lindseckert.bsky.social
As I'm editing my two #MLA papers on Lady Caroline Lamb and South America--yes, that's a thing!!--I'm reminded of the professor I had at Oxford who told me that Spanish was a "useless" language for Romanticism. Joke's on you, buddy!
January 1, 2026 at 4:19 PM
lindseckert.bsky.social
This event looks great--I'm so sad I have to teach then.

#bookbinding #bookhistory
joliebraun.bsky.social Jolie Braun @joliebraun.bsky.social · Nov 3
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...
Two rows of books with covers designed by artist Margaret Armstrong. Covers are ornate designs that include gold elements.
November 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
lindseckert.bsky.social
Nothing like getting called to jury duty during the last week of the semester. 🤪
November 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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dbellingradt.bsky.social
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
IPH Congress 2026 - Home
www.aanmelder.nl
October 21, 2025 at 9:24 AM
lindseckert.bsky.social
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
lindseckert.bsky.social
This morning George took his supervision of my reading very, very seriously.

#cat #kitten #coworker
orange tabby cat sleeping belly up next to a book.
October 14, 2025 at 6:31 PM
lindseckert.bsky.social
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
rachelfeder.bsky.social Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · Oct 13
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
October 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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bars.bsky.social
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
October 10, 2025 at 3:59 PM
lindseckert.bsky.social
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.
October 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
lindseckert.bsky.social
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
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bars.bsky.social
Reminder: BARS 2026 CFP can be found here:
Deadline Sunday 30 November.
www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6101
BARS Biennial Conference 2026: Romantic Retrospection – Updates and Call for Papers Announced – BARS Blog
www.bars.ac.uk
October 6, 2025 at 9:41 AM
lindseckert.bsky.social
This looks like such a useful book. Just submitted a request for our library to purchase it.

#bookhistory #medievalstudies #DH
digitalmedievalist.bsky.social Digital Medievalist @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social · Oct 1
📣📚New publication: S. van Haaren, The Digital Medieval Manuscript - Material Approaches to Digital Codicology, Brill (2025)

▶️ tinyurl.com/45vj7z23

#medievalsky #digitalhumanities
The Digital Medieval Manuscript
"The Digital Medieval Manuscript" published on 04 Sep 2025 by Brill.
tinyurl.com
October 3, 2025 at 2:55 PM
lindseckert.bsky.social
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
johnraimo.bsky.social John Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · Oct 2
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
lindseckert.bsky.social
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
September 25, 2025 at 1:42 PM
lindseckert.bsky.social
#bookhistory
elementaladam.bsky.social Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · Sep 23
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.
The People of Print
Cambridge Core - Printing and Publishing History - The People of Print
www.cambridge.org
September 23, 2025 at 8:20 PM
lindseckert.bsky.social
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.
September 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM