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We’re writing with a quick update. NCSA has decided to quit Twitter. Our account is still open for now, but we will permanently close it on 7 July, 2025.
You can help us by spreading the word to our C19 colleagues. We’ve already built quite a following over the past year!
You can help us by spreading the word to our C19 colleagues. We’ve already built quite a following over the past year!
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My friend Paulina Choh and I are running an elemental media studies panel at #CAA2026! we are asking how the insights of media studies can be applied to 19th-century visual culture.
Paper proposals due Aug 29!
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Paper proposals due Aug 29!
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July 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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#ArrestingBeauty at #TheMorganLibrary takes visitors into the mystical world of #19thcentury photographer #JuliaMargaretCameron.
If you are unfamiliar with her, I recommend that rabbit hole.
Pictured here:
1. “Vivien and Merlin,” 1874
2. “Rebecca at the Well,” 1869-70
3. “The Annunciation,” 1865-66
If you are unfamiliar with her, I recommend that rabbit hole.
Pictured here:
1. “Vivien and Merlin,” 1874
2. “Rebecca at the Well,” 1869-70
3. “The Annunciation,” 1865-66
June 27, 2025 at 3:51 PM
#ArrestingBeauty at #TheMorganLibrary takes visitors into the mystical world of #19thcentury photographer #JuliaMargaretCameron.
If you are unfamiliar with her, I recommend that rabbit hole.
Pictured here:
1. “Vivien and Merlin,” 1874
2. “Rebecca at the Well,” 1869-70
3. “The Annunciation,” 1865-66
If you are unfamiliar with her, I recommend that rabbit hole.
Pictured here:
1. “Vivien and Merlin,” 1874
2. “Rebecca at the Well,” 1869-70
3. “The Annunciation,” 1865-66
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Spent the afternoon exploring the #Sargent & #Paris exhibit at the @metmuseum.org. It’s an extraordinary collection of his work.
Pictured here:
1. “Lady with the Rose” 1882
2. “Le Verre de Porto” 1884
3. “Unfinished Replica of #MadameX” Ca. 1884
4. “Venetian Interior” Ca. 1880-82
#blueskyart #art
Pictured here:
1. “Lady with the Rose” 1882
2. “Le Verre de Porto” 1884
3. “Unfinished Replica of #MadameX” Ca. 1884
4. “Venetian Interior” Ca. 1880-82
#blueskyart #art
June 27, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Spent the afternoon exploring the #Sargent & #Paris exhibit at the @metmuseum.org. It’s an extraordinary collection of his work.
Pictured here:
1. “Lady with the Rose” 1882
2. “Le Verre de Porto” 1884
3. “Unfinished Replica of #MadameX” Ca. 1884
4. “Venetian Interior” Ca. 1880-82
#blueskyart #art
Pictured here:
1. “Lady with the Rose” 1882
2. “Le Verre de Porto” 1884
3. “Unfinished Replica of #MadameX” Ca. 1884
4. “Venetian Interior” Ca. 1880-82
#blueskyart #art
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Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."
June 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."
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It's publication day!!
Thank you to all of the folks at @urochester.bsky.social press and @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social who helped to make this book so beautiful. And thank you AGAIN to all of the folks in my (very earnest) acknowledgments.
Thank you to all of the folks at @urochester.bsky.social press and @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social who helped to make this book so beautiful. And thank you AGAIN to all of the folks in my (very earnest) acknowledgments.
June 24, 2025 at 3:07 PM
It's publication day!!
Thank you to all of the folks at @urochester.bsky.social press and @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social who helped to make this book so beautiful. And thank you AGAIN to all of the folks in my (very earnest) acknowledgments.
Thank you to all of the folks at @urochester.bsky.social press and @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social who helped to make this book so beautiful. And thank you AGAIN to all of the folks in my (very earnest) acknowledgments.
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The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum, remained shuttered Monday — not by war, not by terror, but by its own exhausted staff, who say the institution is crumbling from within.
Overwhelmed and understaffed, the Louvre shuts its doors — a warning sign for global overtourism
The Louvre Museum has failed to open on time Monday, leaving thousands of visitors stuck in long, unmoving lines.
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June 16, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum, remained shuttered Monday — not by war, not by terror, but by its own exhausted staff, who say the institution is crumbling from within.
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@ncsascholars.bsky.social opens submissions to the Emerging Scholars Award, the Article Prize, and the BIPOC Scholars Award. Winners will each receive $500 at the Annual NCSA Conference in 2026. Details below!
Award submission deadline: July 1, 2025
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Award submission deadline: July 1, 2025
tinyurl.com/yc3pnt4s
June 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
@ncsascholars.bsky.social opens submissions to the Emerging Scholars Award, the Article Prize, and the BIPOC Scholars Award. Winners will each receive $500 at the Annual NCSA Conference in 2026. Details below!
Award submission deadline: July 1, 2025
tinyurl.com/yc3pnt4s
Award submission deadline: July 1, 2025
tinyurl.com/yc3pnt4s
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Check out the special section of NCFS that Cary Hollingshead-Strick and I co-edited—“Fueling the Nineteenth Century"! It was so great working with all these wonderful authors!🔥🚂⛴️🌲
www.ncfs-journal.org/current-toc
www.ncfs-journal.org/current-toc
Current Table of Contents | ncfs
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June 12, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Check out the special section of NCFS that Cary Hollingshead-Strick and I co-edited—“Fueling the Nineteenth Century"! It was so great working with all these wonderful authors!🔥🚂⛴️🌲
www.ncfs-journal.org/current-toc
www.ncfs-journal.org/current-toc
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🚨 Last call! 🚨
We're HIRING an Editorial Officer — deadline is this 📅 Sunday, 8 June 2025! If you're an academic passionate about open access publishing, we encourage you to apply.
Fully remote position!
Apply now: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/edit...
We're HIRING an Editorial Officer — deadline is this 📅 Sunday, 8 June 2025! If you're an academic passionate about open access publishing, we encourage you to apply.
Fully remote position!
Apply now: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/edit...
Editorial Officer (2137) - Birkbeck, University of London
Birkbeck
cis7.bbk.ac.uk
June 6, 2025 at 9:20 AM
🚨 Last call! 🚨
We're HIRING an Editorial Officer — deadline is this 📅 Sunday, 8 June 2025! If you're an academic passionate about open access publishing, we encourage you to apply.
Fully remote position!
Apply now: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/edit...
We're HIRING an Editorial Officer — deadline is this 📅 Sunday, 8 June 2025! If you're an academic passionate about open access publishing, we encourage you to apply.
Fully remote position!
Apply now: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/edit...
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Hello fellow lovers of 19th-century studies!! The CFP for @incsa.bsky.social's 2026 annual conference is now open.
21-24 July 2026
National Union Building, Washington, DC
In-Person and Online
Proposal Deadline: 31 October 2025
Details 👇
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21-24 July 2026
National Union Building, Washington, DC
In-Person and Online
Proposal Deadline: 31 October 2025
Details 👇
in-csa.com/2026-call-fo...
2026 Call for Papers in English – International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association
Call for Papers Revolution, Revelation, Reconciliation / Revolución, Revelación, Reconciliación español July 21-24, 2026National Union Building, Washington, DCEnglish and SpanishIn-Person and Online P...
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May 21, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Hello fellow lovers of 19th-century studies!! The CFP for @incsa.bsky.social's 2026 annual conference is now open.
21-24 July 2026
National Union Building, Washington, DC
In-Person and Online
Proposal Deadline: 31 October 2025
Details 👇
in-csa.com/2026-call-fo...
21-24 July 2026
National Union Building, Washington, DC
In-Person and Online
Proposal Deadline: 31 October 2025
Details 👇
in-csa.com/2026-call-fo...
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Our VAF exhibit is open. Come check out books from 14 publishers such as @uchicagopress.bsky.social @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social @gettymuseum.bsky.social @lsupress.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social @utpress.bsky.social @utexaspress.bsky.social and more! #vaf2025
May 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Our VAF exhibit is open. Come check out books from 14 publishers such as @uchicagopress.bsky.social @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social @gettymuseum.bsky.social @lsupress.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social @utpress.bsky.social @utexaspress.bsky.social and more! #vaf2025
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i learned from Emma Mason that Christina Rossetti asked to have herself buried in a wicker coffin for this reason, which turns this bleak nursery rhyme from *Sing-Song* (1872) into an autoreferential meditation on solidarity with those who have returned to the earth:
May 14, 2025 at 5:13 PM
i learned from Emma Mason that Christina Rossetti asked to have herself buried in a wicker coffin for this reason, which turns this bleak nursery rhyme from *Sing-Song* (1872) into an autoreferential meditation on solidarity with those who have returned to the earth:
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🎉 Congratulations to @asecsoffice.bsky.social member Crystal B. Lake for receiving a prestigious @acls1919.bsky.social Project Development Award for "Reading/Making: Handcrafting Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century"! www.acls.org/fellow-grant...
Crystal B. Lake
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May 7, 2025 at 4:14 PM
🎉 Congratulations to @asecsoffice.bsky.social member Crystal B. Lake for receiving a prestigious @acls1919.bsky.social Project Development Award for "Reading/Making: Handcrafting Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century"! www.acls.org/fellow-grant...
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if anybody wants to buy it, they gave me a 30% discount code: UCPNEW. But if you’d like to read it & don’t have the money, please send me a quick message?
Action without Hope
A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action. What does it feel like to live helplessly in a world that ...
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May 2, 2025 at 8:28 PM
if anybody wants to buy it, they gave me a 30% discount code: UCPNEW. But if you’d like to read it & don’t have the money, please send me a quick message?
Deadline extended!
Submit your proposals by 5/31.
Submit your proposals by 5/31.
A new CFP from the Victorian Institute:
vi2025.wordpress.com
vi2025.wordpress.com
Victorian Studies: Who Cares?
The 2025 conference of the Victorians Institute
vi2025.wordpress.com
April 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Deadline extended!
Submit your proposals by 5/31.
Submit your proposals by 5/31.
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CFP: "Listening to the Past: Digital Approaches to the History of Sound and Language," workshop at the GHI in March 2026, proposals due May 28: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...
April 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
CFP: "Listening to the Past: Digital Approaches to the History of Sound and Language," workshop at the GHI in March 2026, proposals due May 28: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...
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Opened my email just now to learn THE BARBARA JOHNSON COLLECTIVE received enthusiastic final board approval — it will officially be in the world soon(ish)!!!!!!! @nathankhensley.bsky.social is the best co-editor. Can’t wait for these brilliant, gorgeous, sometimes gutting essays to appear in print.
April 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Opened my email just now to learn THE BARBARA JOHNSON COLLECTIVE received enthusiastic final board approval — it will officially be in the world soon(ish)!!!!!!! @nathankhensley.bsky.social is the best co-editor. Can’t wait for these brilliant, gorgeous, sometimes gutting essays to appear in print.
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JOB: TT Assistant Professor, English, University of Regina
World Literatures in English
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World Literatures in English
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April 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
JOB: TT Assistant Professor, English, University of Regina
World Literatures in English
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World Literatures in English
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🚨FT Permanent Job 🚨
My department is hiring a lecturer (B/B) in 18th-c. Irish history, with the desire for someone whose research and teaching pertains to the Irish 'long eighteenth century (1690-1830)...and broader international, political and intellectual context of the period.' 🗃️
My department is hiring a lecturer (B/B) in 18th-c. Irish history, with the desire for someone whose research and teaching pertains to the Irish 'long eighteenth century (1690-1830)...and broader international, political and intellectual context of the period.' 🗃️
April 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
🚨FT Permanent Job 🚨
My department is hiring a lecturer (B/B) in 18th-c. Irish history, with the desire for someone whose research and teaching pertains to the Irish 'long eighteenth century (1690-1830)...and broader international, political and intellectual context of the period.' 🗃️
My department is hiring a lecturer (B/B) in 18th-c. Irish history, with the desire for someone whose research and teaching pertains to the Irish 'long eighteenth century (1690-1830)...and broader international, political and intellectual context of the period.' 🗃️
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Save the date for January's Inaugural Lecture (17 Jan, 6pm)
On Literary Taste | SELCS - UCL – University College London
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By Professor Patrick Bray
On Literary Taste | SELCS - UCL – University College London
www.ucl.ac.uk/european-lan...
By Professor Patrick Bray
On Literary Taste
What pleasure do we get from reading literature? Should we study literary taste? Does our taste in literature provide us with useful knowledge?
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November 18, 2023 at 2:37 PM
Save the date for January's Inaugural Lecture (17 Jan, 6pm)
On Literary Taste | SELCS - UCL – University College London
www.ucl.ac.uk/european-lan...
By Professor Patrick Bray
On Literary Taste | SELCS - UCL – University College London
www.ucl.ac.uk/european-lan...
By Professor Patrick Bray
We’re writing with a quick update. NCSA has decided to quit Twitter. Our account is still open for now, but we will permanently close it on 7 July, 2025.
You can help us by spreading the word to our C19 colleagues. We’ve already built quite a following over the past year!
You can help us by spreading the word to our C19 colleagues. We’ve already built quite a following over the past year!
April 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
We’re writing with a quick update. NCSA has decided to quit Twitter. Our account is still open for now, but we will permanently close it on 7 July, 2025.
You can help us by spreading the word to our C19 colleagues. We’ve already built quite a following over the past year!
You can help us by spreading the word to our C19 colleagues. We’ve already built quite a following over the past year!
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I had a marvelous time at the 2025 NCSA Conference in New Orleans! So many interesting papers and kind scholars. I enjoyed sharing my work on Berthe Morisot, Julie Manet, and the Bois de Boulogne. I also visited NOMA and the historic home of Edgar Degas's family. 🎨 @ncsascholars.bsky.social
April 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I had a marvelous time at the 2025 NCSA Conference in New Orleans! So many interesting papers and kind scholars. I enjoyed sharing my work on Berthe Morisot, Julie Manet, and the Bois de Boulogne. I also visited NOMA and the historic home of Edgar Degas's family. 🎨 @ncsascholars.bsky.social