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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts
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Open-access peer-reviewed journal dedicated to scholarship, pedagogy, #dh on all aspects of women, gender and the arts (esp. lit, visual, music, performance, film, criticism), 1640–1830. Editor Laura Runge, USF. https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo
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And for the penultimate article in our Phillis Wheatley Peters Pedagogy Special Issue: Katarina O’Briain’s “Reading Phillis Wheatley’s Catastrophic Poetics: Heroic Couplets and Environmental Justice,” ABO 15.1. Abstract 👇
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#philliswheatleypeters #pwp #pedagogy
O'Briain abstract
August 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Next up in our Phillis Wheatley Peters Pedagogy Special Issue:
@grubstreetwomen.bsky.social's "Reimagining the Single-Author Seminar: Teaching Wheatley Peters, Milton, and the Master’s Discourse,” ABO 15.1. Abstract 👇 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol15/is...
#philliswheatleypeters #pedagogy
Ozment abstract
July 18, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Kicking off ABO 15.1’s Phillis Wheatley Peters Pedagogy Special Issue with a section intro from Mona Narain, our Scholarship Editor, and Sarah Ruffing Robbins. Abstract 👇
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Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #philliswheatleypeters #pwp #poetry
Phillis Wheatley Peters Intro Abstract
July 10, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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New article by Esmeralda Orndorff and Joanne E. Myers in ABO Summer 2025! Abstract 👇
“The Maternal Icon in Eleanor Sleath’s The Orphan of the Rhine,” ABO 15.1
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Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #gothic #gothicliterature #femalegothic
Orndorff and Myers abstract
June 26, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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New article by Anaclara Castro-Santana in ABO Summer 2025! Abstract 👇
“The Untold Love Story of Aphra Behn's The History of the Nun,” ABO 15.1
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Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #aphrabehn #amatoryfiction #thehistoryofthenun #sapphiclove
Castro-Santana abstract
June 12, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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Attention ABO readers! The Summer 2025 (15.1) issue dropped late last week. Content screenshots below with exciting article abstracts to follow. digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/
Thanks for reading!
#18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #scholarship #pedagogy #reviews #announcements #notesanddiscoveries
ABO 15.1 Contents 1 ABO 15.1 Contents 2
June 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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Wrapping up our “Teaching Margaret Cavendish, Pt. 2” pedagogy collection: E Mariah Spencer’s “‘Strange and Unusual Things’: Teaching the Speculative Fiction of Margaret Cavendish,” ABO 14.2
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Thanks for reading! #cavendish #pedagogy #blazingworld #sciencefiction
Spencer abstract
May 29, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Next up in our “Teaching Margaret Cavendish, Pt. 2” pedagogy collection: Kevin Lower’s “Teaching Margaret Cavendish Through the Lens of Scientific Anti-Realism,” ABO 14.2
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#cavendish #margaretcavendish #pedagogy #poetry #philosophy
Lower abstract
May 10, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Next up in our “Teaching Margaret Cavendish, Pt. 2” pedagogy collection: Jonathan L. Shaheen’s “An Argumental Discourse Before All: An Approach to Teaching Cavendish,” ABO 14.2
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#margaretcavendish #cavendish #pedagogy #atomism #causation
Shaheen Abstract
May 7, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Did you check out our recent pedagogy collection, "Teaching Margaret Cavendish, Pt. 2"? The section begins with Anne Thell’s "Jumping Pens and Historical Vertigo: Teaching Cavendish in the Twenty-first Century," ABO 14.2
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Thanks for reading! #cavendish #pedagogy
Thell abstract
May 3, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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Phillis Wheatley Peters event today! Join Mona Narain (ABO’s scholarship editor), Sarah Ruffing Robbins, and Barbara McCaskill for “Historically Speaking: ‘The Feast of Genius and the Play of Art’: The Legacies and Communities of PWP at the NMAAHC.” Register here: nmaahc.si.edu/events/histo...
April 8, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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And if you miss ABO managing editor @drkellyplante.bsky.social at #ASECS2025 today, you can catch her tomorrow at the @sharpweb.org roundtable where she'll examine the Gentleman's Magazine from a postcolonial and feminist perspective. See you at 2:00! Details👇
#18thCentury #18thC #C18th
SHARP Roundtable
April 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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ABO readers at #ASECS2025 won't want to miss today's Haywood Studies at a Quarter Century roundtable! Participants include ABO founding board member @kirstensaxton.bsky.social and managing editor @drkellyplante.bsky.social
See you at 3:30! Details👇
#elizahaywood #18thCentury #18thC #C18th
Haywood Studies
April 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Attention #ASECS2025 attendees: Don't miss out on the roundtable Mona Narain, ABO Scholarship Editor, and Jeremy Chow put together and are serving as respondents for. Steven Thomas will speak on Ethiopia and Africa. Katarina O'Briain will speak on the Transpacific and Philippines. Details 👇
#C18th
South-South Connections in the 18c
April 1, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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New article by Rebecca Cypess (Yeshiva University) in ABO Winter 2024! Abstract 👇
“Playing Proverbs with Madame de Genlis,” ABO 14.2
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Thanks for reading!
#18thCentury #C18th #18thC #salons #proverbs #theater #Genlis #France
Cypess abstract
March 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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New article by @melanieconroy.bsky.social in ABO Winter 2024! Abstract 👇
“The Sounds of Madame Geoffrin’s Salon,” by Melanie Conroy, ABO 14.2
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Thanks for reading!
#18thCentury #C18th #18thC #salons #enlightenment #geoffrin
Conroy abstract
March 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Celebrate Women’s History Month w/access to Women Writer’s Online (WWO) and Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present!
wwp.northeastern.edu/wwo/
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Project descriptions and access info👇
Screenshot Cr.: TAMU Center of DH Research, Digest #38
Women Writer's Online and Orlando
March 4, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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ICYMI: “Queen Camilla Unveils New Aphra Behn Statue”
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Statue designer Christine Charlesworth said, "My Aphra is walking but glancing behind her because she is carrying interesting things such as a theatre masks and she has a secret message up her sleeve." #aphrabehn
New Aphra Behn Statue
March 4, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Event of interest to ABO readers working on Phillis Wheatley Peters and in the Boston area on Feb. 27: "BeeFound: Washington & Wheatley Write!" Poet Toni Bee and Prof. Nicole Aljoe to discuss the relationship between Washington and Peters. Details / registration:
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Flyer 👇
"Washington & Wheatley Write!" Flyer
February 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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New article in ABO Winter 2024! Abstract 👇
"Enfilade and Variations: Interpreting Salon Music through Residential Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Paris," by Nicole Vilkner, ABO 14.2 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/is...
Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC #salons #music #architecture
Vilkner Abstract
February 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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New article by @jemjones.bsky.social in ABO Winter 2024! Abstract 👇
“Simulating an Eighteenth-Century Enlightenment Salon: Embodied Experience and Scholarly Investigation,” by Jennifer M. Jones, ABO 14.2
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Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC #salons
Jones abstract
January 31, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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Calling all grad students working on Fanny Burney (or her family)! The deadline for the Burney Society’s Hemlow Prize is January 31. Details here: burney-society.org/the-hemlow-p...
Good luck, applicants!
#18thCentury #C18th #18thC #francesburney #fannyburney #burneysociety
Burney Society Hemlow Prize
January 28, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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New article by @erikawicky.bsky.social in ABO Winter 2024! Abstract 👇
“Toxic Varnishes: Perfumes, Stench, and Glow in Eighteenth-century French Salons,” by Érika Wicky, ABO 14.2
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Thanks for reading!
#18thCentury #C18th #18thC #salons
January 22, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Get a sneak peak at our forthcoming Phillis Wheatley Peters special pedagogy cluster this Thursday at #MLA25! Mona Narain, ABO's scholarship editor, will be presenting as part of the “Making Public Humanities Visible...” session. See you at 3:30 in Churchill B2! Details 👇
#18thCentury #C18th #18thC
PWP Session Details PWP Session Presentations
January 8, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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New article in ABO's Winter 2024 issue! Abstract screenshot👇

“Photo-Feminists: The Inter-textual Discussion of Eighteenth-Century Periodical Frontispieces,” by Karenza Sutton-Bennett, ABO 14.2

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Thanks for reading!

#18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Sutton-Bennett Abstract
January 7, 2025 at 6:17 AM