Nikki Hessell
@nikkihessell.bsky.social
Prof in 18th Century & Romantic Literature at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington, she/her, Pākehā/settler scholar, #toitūtetiriti, 🏀
Books on Romanticism + settler colonialism + Indigenous studies
https://people.wgtn.ac.nz/nikki.hessell
Books on Romanticism + settler colonialism + Indigenous studies
https://people.wgtn.ac.nz/nikki.hessell
Pinned
I've woken up in Aotearoa NZ to a lot of new followers, so hi!👋
My new Marsden-funded project is "The Poetics of Treaties: Settler Treaty-Making and 18C Poetry," which looks at treaties as literature & the influence of poetic modes (elegy, georgic, prospect etc) on treaty writing in the colonies
My new Marsden-funded project is "The Poetics of Treaties: Settler Treaty-Making and 18C Poetry," which looks at treaties as literature & the influence of poetic modes (elegy, georgic, prospect etc) on treaty writing in the colonies
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If you're doing your holiday shopping and/or thinking about best to celebrate Jane Austen's 250th birthday, 1 month from today, I have some news: Harvard UP's annotated editions of Austen's fiction (my own edition of Mansfield Park included) are now 25% off.
www.hup.harvard.edu/features/hap...
www.hup.harvard.edu/features/hap...
Happy 250th Birthday, Jane Austen — Harvard University Press
Celebrate with six gorgeous annotated editions of Jane Austen’s classics. “A sumptuous reading experience…richly illustrated with paintings, museum-quality photographs, and colorful Regency prints. A ...
www.hup.harvard.edu
November 16, 2025 at 3:57 PM
If you're doing your holiday shopping and/or thinking about best to celebrate Jane Austen's 250th birthday, 1 month from today, I have some news: Harvard UP's annotated editions of Austen's fiction (my own edition of Mansfield Park included) are now 25% off.
www.hup.harvard.edu/features/hap...
www.hup.harvard.edu/features/hap...
I know that, at some point, the monetization process will switch to "pay extra $ to get this without useless AI cluttering it up."
But for the moment, I'm enjoying the fact that there are online services & products where the free version works well, & the premium paid version is "this but with AI"
But for the moment, I'm enjoying the fact that there are online services & products where the free version works well, & the premium paid version is "this but with AI"
a man in a suit and tie is talking to a woman in a room .
Alt: Michael Scott (Steve Carrell) in The Office saying "win win"
media.tenor.com
November 15, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I know that, at some point, the monetization process will switch to "pay extra $ to get this without useless AI cluttering it up."
But for the moment, I'm enjoying the fact that there are online services & products where the free version works well, & the premium paid version is "this but with AI"
But for the moment, I'm enjoying the fact that there are online services & products where the free version works well, & the premium paid version is "this but with AI"
Congratulations @drleith.bsky.social! This is such a richly deserved award. Toasting you from afar 🎉
Sincere congratulations to @drleith.bsky.social on her receipt of the Lifetime Achievement Award from the 18th-Century Scottish Studies Society. Leith is a committed and prolific scholar who continues to make major contributions to numerous fields within Scottish Studies.
www.sfu.ca/scottishstud...
www.sfu.ca/scottishstud...
Leith Davis receives Lifetime Achievement Award from Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society
Professor Leith Davis has been recognized with a prestigious award for her outstanding contributions to 18th-century Scottish Studies over the course of her career.
www.sfu.ca
November 15, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Congratulations @drleith.bsky.social! This is such a richly deserved award. Toasting you from afar 🎉
Excited to be at the “Dulles Airport is sending me flight updates” stage of conference organising!!
We’re looking forward to welcoming @profchander.bsky.social to the RSAA/DNS conference next week ❤️
We’re looking forward to welcoming @profchander.bsky.social to the RSAA/DNS conference next week ❤️
So pleased to announce our 1st keynote for the joint 18C & Romantic studies conference that we're hosting in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand, this November....Manu Samriti Chander (Georgetown)! @profchander.bsky.social
More details about the conference here: www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...
More details about the conference here: www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...
November 14, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Excited to be at the “Dulles Airport is sending me flight updates” stage of conference organising!!
We’re looking forward to welcoming @profchander.bsky.social to the RSAA/DNS conference next week ❤️
We’re looking forward to welcoming @profchander.bsky.social to the RSAA/DNS conference next week ❤️
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CfP: Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850, Symposium at The University of Manchester, 25–26 June 2026. Deadline 30th January 2026. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6185
CfP: Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850 – BARS Blog
www.bars.ac.uk
October 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
CfP: Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850, Symposium at The University of Manchester, 25–26 June 2026. Deadline 30th January 2026. www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6185
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My book A FUNNY THING: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE UNDISCIPLINED is now available for pre-order in a paperback priced for humans! Go get it!
A Funny Thing | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
www.cambridge.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
My book A FUNNY THING: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE UNDISCIPLINED is now available for pre-order in a paperback priced for humans! Go get it!
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Thierry and Annemarie Jutel, then and now: we’ll miss these two bright sparks at Te Herenga Waka, but wish them well in their ‘retirement’ down south!
November 11, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Thierry and Annemarie Jutel, then and now: we’ll miss these two bright sparks at Te Herenga Waka, but wish them well in their ‘retirement’ down south!
Can’t wait!!!
We have a very big week of ELCC events coming up at the end of the month, starting with an exciting lecture by Patricia Akhimie, Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library!
Register here: www.wgtn.ac.nz/events/2025/...
Register here: www.wgtn.ac.nz/events/2025/...
“On the brow of the sea”—Race and setting in Shakespeare’s Othello | Events | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
Join Dr Patricia Akhimie, Director of Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington DC, as she discusses race and setting in Shakespeare’s Othello.
www.wgtn.ac.nz
November 11, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Can’t wait!!!
I find conference organising super stressful, but it is a chance to imagine the field in ways that interest you.
I'm very proud of the programme we have for our joint Romantic Studies Association of Australasia / David Nichol Smith seminar - you can see it here www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...
I'm very proud of the programme we have for our joint Romantic Studies Association of Australasia / David Nichol Smith seminar - you can see it here www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...
November 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
I find conference organising super stressful, but it is a chance to imagine the field in ways that interest you.
I'm very proud of the programme we have for our joint Romantic Studies Association of Australasia / David Nichol Smith seminar - you can see it here www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...
I'm very proud of the programme we have for our joint Romantic Studies Association of Australasia / David Nichol Smith seminar - you can see it here www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...
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Always wanted an “academic procedural” show where a prof is seen doing the most routine parts of the job, like grading or ms revisions, but they’re also suffering all the kinds of breakdowns detectives have in their shows
November 8, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Always wanted an “academic procedural” show where a prof is seen doing the most routine parts of the job, like grading or ms revisions, but they’re also suffering all the kinds of breakdowns detectives have in their shows
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Not a single university would remain standing for more than a week without administrative assistants who are women 99% of the time
I am trying to imagine any of the workplaces I have inhabited in my lifetime WITHOUT women and dying inside a bit
November 6, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Not a single university would remain standing for more than a week without administrative assistants who are women 99% of the time
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Reposted by Nikki Hessell
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Reminder: CfP closes for BARS 2026 'Romantic Retrospection' at the University of Birmingham, UK, and online on 30 November.
Details below:
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
Details below:
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
October 31, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Reminder: CfP closes for BARS 2026 'Romantic Retrospection' at the University of Birmingham, UK, and online on 30 November.
Details below:
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
Details below:
www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/arts-...
This essay began its life a long time ago, in conversation with an @elccprogramme.bsky.social Summer Scholar, Tuioleloto Laura Toailoa. It’s taken years to bring some of that early thinking to fruition.
Thank you so much to the Defoe Society for this award
Thank you so much to the Defoe Society for this award
Congratulations to Nikki Hessell, whose essay "Robinson Crusoe as a Transpacific Novel: Hospitality, Recognition, Translation," has been selected as the winner of this year's Maximillian E. Novak Essay Prize. Abstract below:
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
#defoe #danieldefoe #transpacific #novel
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...
#defoe #danieldefoe #transpacific #novel
October 30, 2025 at 1:42 AM
This essay began its life a long time ago, in conversation with an @elccprogramme.bsky.social Summer Scholar, Tuioleloto Laura Toailoa. It’s taken years to bring some of that early thinking to fruition.
Thank you so much to the Defoe Society for this award
Thank you so much to the Defoe Society for this award
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Australian artists, journalists, authors and researchers create the stories and knowledge that shapes who we are as a nation.
If AI companies want access to their work, they should have to negotiate with copyright holders like anyone else.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
If AI companies want access to their work, they should have to negotiate with copyright holders like anyone else.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Artists rejoice as Labor rules out copyright carve-out for AI
Labor has ruled out changing copyright laws to give tech giants free rein to train artificial intelligence models on creative works, after the proposition was met with widespread backlash from artists...
www.abc.net.au
October 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Australian artists, journalists, authors and researchers create the stories and knowledge that shapes who we are as a nation.
If AI companies want access to their work, they should have to negotiate with copyright holders like anyone else.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
If AI companies want access to their work, they should have to negotiate with copyright holders like anyone else.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...
Just absolute lies. For this to be 30 years old, I would have to be ... wait a minute ... 🧐
The Smashing Pumpkins’ ‘Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness’ hit US record stores 30 years ago today. 💿💿
What’s your favorite track?
What’s your favorite track?
October 24, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Just absolute lies. For this to be 30 years old, I would have to be ... wait a minute ... 🧐
Reading this now!!!
I loved writing this for The Spinoff about Jane Austen’s terrible parents thespinoff.co.nz/books/25-10-...
Jane Austen’s terrible parents
'Would you want General Tilney to be your daddy?'
thespinoff.co.nz
October 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Reading this now!!!
Looking good at Unity @dougalmcneill.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Looking good at Unity @dougalmcneill.bsky.social
Woohoo!
October 21, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Woohoo!
This is my union, and it's been really disappointing to see them buy into the AI hype generally, but the image @dollyeldritch.bsky.social highlights really is the icing on the cake 🙄
this is fucking wild. a notice for a TEU conference (partly) for discussing "how AI can be shaped in ways that are consistent with TEU values and mātāpono; aligned with Te Tiriti of Waitangi" using an AI generated picture with a gibberish corruption of te reo Māori. 🙃🙃 teu.ac.nz/news/the-imp...
![The conference will provide a platform to collectively consider how AI can be shaped in ways that are consistent with TEU values and mātāpono; aligned with Te Tiriti of Waitangi; enhance tertiary teaching, learning and research in Aotearoa New Zealand; and foster (not displace) decent work in our sector.
[I have scribbled purple lines under the phrase "aligned with Te Tiriti of Waitangi"]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:e2akymsrfoyk5on4h3umlkcu/bafkreiajopsujfmveovr7zr34dkqdlfsxxajg4dwdzaxldcr4za4a7zihm@jpeg)
October 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
This is my union, and it's been really disappointing to see them buy into the AI hype generally, but the image @dollyeldritch.bsky.social highlights really is the icing on the cake 🙄
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This is what Marsden Grants in Humanities (now scrapped!) and a decade of research can achieve — "a compelling and significant contribution to understanding the reordering of power that shaped Aotearoa in the nineteenth century". www.bwb.co.nz/books/garris... @bwbnz.bsky.social 👏 #NZHistory #history
October 17, 2025 at 3:57 AM
This is what Marsden Grants in Humanities (now scrapped!) and a decade of research can achieve — "a compelling and significant contribution to understanding the reordering of power that shaped Aotearoa in the nineteenth century". www.bwb.co.nz/books/garris... @bwbnz.bsky.social 👏 #NZHistory #history
We need one of these for the 9th floor of VZ @adamgrener.bsky.social @sarahceross.bsky.social @dougalmcneill.bsky.social
October 16, 2025 at 11:45 PM
We need one of these for the 9th floor of VZ @adamgrener.bsky.social @sarahceross.bsky.social @dougalmcneill.bsky.social