Maria Damkjær
@mdamkjaer.bsky.social
Dr.Dr. (no, really!) Victorianist and knitter; Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines (OUP) out now
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Maria Damkjær
@mdamkjaer.bsky.social
· Jan 6
My book, Fiction on the Page in Nineteenth-Century Magazines, is out now with Oxford University Press!
academic.oup.com/book/58989
It’s a book about page fillers, product placement, and strange hybrid fiction. It asks how the page of the magazine became a spur for new, odd genres.
academic.oup.com/book/58989
It’s a book about page fillers, product placement, and strange hybrid fiction. It asks how the page of the magazine became a spur for new, odd genres.
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I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
Great work everyone.
February 6, 2026 at 3:00 PM
I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors.
Great work everyone.
Great work everyone.
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How I imagine the sophistication of my research.
How I present my research.
How I present my research.
February 7, 2026 at 3:09 PM
How I imagine the sophistication of my research.
How I present my research.
How I present my research.
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Syllabus suggestions for a "Theory of the Novel" course? Graduate level. I want to blow them away.
February 7, 2026 at 3:56 PM
Syllabus suggestions for a "Theory of the Novel" course? Graduate level. I want to blow them away.
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OH YEAH LET'S GET ITALIAN
February 6, 2026 at 7:03 PM
OH YEAH LET'S GET ITALIAN
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Have I just stumbled upon my new FAVOURITE PRINTER'S MARK? #chicken #singingchicken?
February 6, 2026 at 3:02 PM
Have I just stumbled upon my new FAVOURITE PRINTER'S MARK? #chicken #singingchicken?
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Queer bookstores died in 2010. We had a funeral and everything!
Except... a ton of people decided to roll up their sleeves and start *new* queer bookshops, all over the place. In cities. In tiny towns.
My latest newsletter is about the rebirth of the LGBTQ bookshop:
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
Except... a ton of people decided to roll up their sleeves and start *new* queer bookshops, all over the place. In cities. In tiny towns.
My latest newsletter is about the rebirth of the LGBTQ bookshop:
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
The Death and Rebirth of the Queer Bookstore
Hi! Before we get started… Right now, you can get a Humble Bundle including everything Annalee Newitz and I have published with Tor for just $18 (plus...
buttondown.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Queer bookstores died in 2010. We had a funeral and everything!
Except... a ton of people decided to roll up their sleeves and start *new* queer bookshops, all over the place. In cities. In tiny towns.
My latest newsletter is about the rebirth of the LGBTQ bookshop:
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
Except... a ton of people decided to roll up their sleeves and start *new* queer bookshops, all over the place. In cities. In tiny towns.
My latest newsletter is about the rebirth of the LGBTQ bookshop:
buttondown.com/charliejane/...
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welp, this destroyed me first thing upon waking up
February 6, 2026 at 3:13 PM
welp, this destroyed me first thing upon waking up
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I love that for millennia people have been making stuff look like cute animals just because they can. It’s a beautiful thing.
i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired
February 6, 2026 at 10:49 PM
I love that for millennia people have been making stuff look like cute animals just because they can. It’s a beautiful thing.
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one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it
Just because good news is worth celebrating:
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection.
HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.
February 7, 2026 at 1:37 AM
one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it
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sure you might have seen my name in the big pdf that got released titled “list of draculas currently operating in the united states.” here’s why that’s NOT a big deal:
February 6, 2026 at 1:40 AM
sure you might have seen my name in the big pdf that got released titled “list of draculas currently operating in the united states.” here’s why that’s NOT a big deal:
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Talk:
Deidre Shauna Lynch (English, Harvard)
"Papyromania: Women, Books, and Scraps in the Long Eighteenth Century"
Thursday, March 26, 7.50pm GMT
In-person: UConn Humanities Institute
More info and register to join online below
uconn-cmr.webex.com/webappng/sit...
Deidre Shauna Lynch (English, Harvard)
"Papyromania: Women, Books, and Scraps in the Long Eighteenth Century"
Thursday, March 26, 7.50pm GMT
In-person: UConn Humanities Institute
More info and register to join online below
uconn-cmr.webex.com/webappng/sit...
February 6, 2026 at 3:16 PM
Talk:
Deidre Shauna Lynch (English, Harvard)
"Papyromania: Women, Books, and Scraps in the Long Eighteenth Century"
Thursday, March 26, 7.50pm GMT
In-person: UConn Humanities Institute
More info and register to join online below
uconn-cmr.webex.com/webappng/sit...
Deidre Shauna Lynch (English, Harvard)
"Papyromania: Women, Books, and Scraps in the Long Eighteenth Century"
Thursday, March 26, 7.50pm GMT
In-person: UConn Humanities Institute
More info and register to join online below
uconn-cmr.webex.com/webappng/sit...
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Feueralarmregenwetterversammlung
There's gotta be a name for this many academics outside in the pouring rain during a fire alarm at the BL.
February 6, 2026 at 11:05 AM
Feueralarmregenwetterversammlung
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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📢 Ri Freer Prize Fellowship📢
- 12-month fellowship for research on the history of science & technology, including heritage science.
- Aimed at doctoral candidates in an unfunded writing-up year.
- Get an £18,000 stipend & support to promote your research.
Apply by 31st March 2026:
- 12-month fellowship for research on the history of science & technology, including heritage science.
- Aimed at doctoral candidates in an unfunded writing-up year.
- Get an £18,000 stipend & support to promote your research.
Apply by 31st March 2026:
Ri Freer Fellowship
Applications for the Freer Fellowship are now open!
buff.ly
February 6, 2026 at 11:15 AM
📢 Ri Freer Prize Fellowship📢
- 12-month fellowship for research on the history of science & technology, including heritage science.
- Aimed at doctoral candidates in an unfunded writing-up year.
- Get an £18,000 stipend & support to promote your research.
Apply by 31st March 2026:
- 12-month fellowship for research on the history of science & technology, including heritage science.
- Aimed at doctoral candidates in an unfunded writing-up year.
- Get an £18,000 stipend & support to promote your research.
Apply by 31st March 2026:
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Getting jump scared when the narrator says "dear reader"
February 4, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Getting jump scared when the narrator says "dear reader"
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Today we remember Alice Ball, an African American chemist who developed the 1st effective treatment for leprosy prior to antibiotics. After Ball died at 24, a male colleague stole her research. Ball was not recognized until a historian found her original thesis. Feb 28 is Alice Augusta Ball Day
February 6, 2026 at 2:15 AM
Today we remember Alice Ball, an African American chemist who developed the 1st effective treatment for leprosy prior to antibiotics. After Ball died at 24, a male colleague stole her research. Ball was not recognized until a historian found her original thesis. Feb 28 is Alice Augusta Ball Day
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Good news for authors from the @britishmuseum.bsky.social security guards this morning. Nodding approval at the content of my bag, I was told ‘books are trending’.
February 5, 2026 at 1:38 PM
Good news for authors from the @britishmuseum.bsky.social security guards this morning. Nodding approval at the content of my bag, I was told ‘books are trending’.
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PhD students in the UK with a Victorianist bent will want to take particular note of the placement titled "Illustrated Newspapers: Beyond the Illustrated London News": cdn.sanity.io/files/v5dwki...
@rs4vp.org #Victorian
@rs4vp.org #Victorian
February 5, 2026 at 8:43 AM
PhD students in the UK with a Victorianist bent will want to take particular note of the placement titled "Illustrated Newspapers: Beyond the Illustrated London News": cdn.sanity.io/files/v5dwki...
@rs4vp.org #Victorian
@rs4vp.org #Victorian
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Congratulations are in order to our 2026 Peterson Fellowship winner, Clare Clark! The committee notes that her project "promises a new angle on a familiar figure by applying a lens of periodical literature" to it. Read more here: rs4vp.org/awards/peter... We can't wait to read the finished product!
February 4, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Congratulations are in order to our 2026 Peterson Fellowship winner, Clare Clark! The committee notes that her project "promises a new angle on a familiar figure by applying a lens of periodical literature" to it. Read more here: rs4vp.org/awards/peter... We can't wait to read the finished product!
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I must not discourse. Discourse is the mind-killer. Discourse is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face discourse. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. Where the discourse has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
February 4, 2026 at 12:19 AM
I must not discourse. Discourse is the mind-killer. Discourse is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face discourse. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. Where the discourse has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
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“Gramsci used to say 'Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will'. What he meant is: understand how the bloody system works.” - Stuart Hall, born Feb. 3, 1932
February 3, 2026 at 2:05 PM
“Gramsci used to say 'Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will'. What he meant is: understand how the bloody system works.” - Stuart Hall, born Feb. 3, 1932
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My brain is mush. I need to secure permissions for two famous C19 paintings to appear in my book. My recollection is there’s a database (or two, or…?) where you can get images of many C19 paintings for free or a small fee. Any tips? With thx from a person who deals mostly in words.
February 3, 2026 at 2:50 PM
My brain is mush. I need to secure permissions for two famous C19 paintings to appear in my book. My recollection is there’s a database (or two, or…?) where you can get images of many C19 paintings for free or a small fee. Any tips? With thx from a person who deals mostly in words.
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The final final proofs have headed off for 'Hilary Mantel', part of @livunipress.bsky.social 'Writers and their Work Series'. Can't wait to see this one in the flesh liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
January 28, 2026 at 2:45 PM
The final final proofs have headed off for 'Hilary Mantel', part of @livunipress.bsky.social 'Writers and their Work Series'. Can't wait to see this one in the flesh liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
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Groundhog Day | noun | a situation in which the same usually negative or monotonous experiences occur repeatedly or are felt to occur repeatedly with no change or correction.
Groundhog Day | noun | a situation in which the same usually negative or monotonous experiences occur repeatedly or are felt to occur repeatedly with no change or correction
Groundhog Day | noun | a situation in which the same usually negative or monotonous experiences occur repeatedly or are felt to occur repeatedly with no change or correction
February 2, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Groundhog Day | noun | a situation in which the same usually negative or monotonous experiences occur repeatedly or are felt to occur repeatedly with no change or correction.
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Groundhog Day | noun | a situation in which the same usually negative or monotonous experiences occur repeatedly or are felt to occur repeatedly with no change or correction
Groundhog Day | noun | a situation in which the same usually negative or monotonous experiences occur repeatedly or are felt to occur repeatedly with no change or correction
Groundhog Day | noun | a situation in which the same usually negative or monotonous experiences occur repeatedly or are felt to occur repeatedly with no change or correction
February 2, 2026 at 1:43 PM
Groundhog Day | noun | a situation in which the same usually negative or monotonous experiences occur repeatedly or are felt to occur repeatedly with no change or correction