Dr. Bethany Qualls
@bethanyqualls.bsky.social
PhD in #18thC gossip. Postdoc at l'Université de Caen. Writer. Editor. Re(un)Covered Podcast Creator. Lover of archives, book history, #c18 smut, snark, intersectional scholarship, and the Oxford comma. Feminist. Bethanyqualls.com she/her/elle
Okay #asecs2025, who is ready for some #18thC cat meme action? I'm talking about cats I found looking at a selection of Lewis Walpole Library imagetexts THIS SATURDAY during the last session slot. It's going to be mega serious. But you should still come.
March 28, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Okay #asecs2025, who is ready for some #18thC cat meme action? I'm talking about cats I found looking at a selection of Lewis Walpole Library imagetexts THIS SATURDAY during the last session slot. It's going to be mega serious. But you should still come.
Alors, postes-section-11.info dit le wiki sera sur le site de la @saesfrance.org, mais le site même (à saesfrance.org/carriere/act...) donne toujours l'adresse en haut. Odyssée à 51 offres de poste #section11 à ce moment. Le wiki n'existe plus ou ??? Quelqu'un peut m'expliquer svp ?
March 3, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Alors, postes-section-11.info dit le wiki sera sur le site de la @saesfrance.org, mais le site même (à saesfrance.org/carriere/act...) donne toujours l'adresse en haut. Odyssée à 51 offres de poste #section11 à ce moment. Le wiki n'existe plus ou ??? Quelqu'un peut m'expliquer svp ?
Reading Aphra Behn's The Fair Jilt (1688) and decided that it's worth a thread for your #restoration #c18th literary amusement. Let's do this
May 16, 2024 at 2:10 AM
Reading Aphra Behn's The Fair Jilt (1688) and decided that it's worth a thread for your #restoration #c18th literary amusement. Let's do this
Just found out I'm cited in RIGHT ON THE FIRST PAGE of recent article by Katherine Batchelor, Kelli Rushek, Julia Beaumont: "'Spilling tea': A critical feminist reclamation of gossip in literature and media," Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy doi.org/10.1002/jaal...
#gossip #praxis #AcademicSky
#gossip #praxis #AcademicSky
April 30, 2024 at 12:45 AM
Just found out I'm cited in RIGHT ON THE FIRST PAGE of recent article by Katherine Batchelor, Kelli Rushek, Julia Beaumont: "'Spilling tea': A critical feminist reclamation of gossip in literature and media," Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy doi.org/10.1002/jaal...
#gossip #praxis #AcademicSky
#gossip #praxis #AcademicSky
While reading _The Wager_ by David Grann ran into @emilybrand.bsky.social in the citations about the Byron family. I had no idea poet Lord Byron was the grandson of a guy who was shipwrecked and part of a mutiny off of Cape Horn in the 1740s. #c18th history is so fun and wild
April 10, 2024 at 2:47 AM
While reading _The Wager_ by David Grann ran into @emilybrand.bsky.social in the citations about the Byron family. I had no idea poet Lord Byron was the grandson of a guy who was shipwrecked and part of a mutiny off of Cape Horn in the 1740s. #c18th history is so fun and wild
Prepping to discuss Threadbare by @anneelizabethmoore.bsky.social and the Ladydrawers tomorrow with my #c18th sex work class. I love teaching graphic narratives, plus this one is just full of FACTS about women's labor, sex work, trafficking, and fast fashion. I cannot wait for students' reactions
March 6, 2024 at 10:32 PM
Prepping to discuss Threadbare by @anneelizabethmoore.bsky.social and the Ladydrawers tomorrow with my #c18th sex work class. I love teaching graphic narratives, plus this one is just full of FACTS about women's labor, sex work, trafficking, and fast fashion. I cannot wait for students' reactions
I knit this blanket with my own two hands (Purl Soho library blanket pattern). Finished it months ago but just recently blocked.
March 2, 2024 at 8:10 PM
I knit this blanket with my own two hands (Purl Soho library blanket pattern). Finished it months ago but just recently blocked.
Pulling together a project proposal about #18thc periodicals and so pleased to find this book by @jessmaddox.bsky.social. It is about cats on the internet, not periodicals, but read it immediately anyway. The discussion of "visual culture" as not just pictures is GREAT 😻
February 25, 2024 at 5:03 AM
Pulling together a project proposal about #18thc periodicals and so pleased to find this book by @jessmaddox.bsky.social. It is about cats on the internet, not periodicals, but read it immediately anyway. The discussion of "visual culture" as not just pictures is GREAT 😻
#18thc topics class #shelfie! Not pictured are our readings from 1990s to today, but they're on the syllabus.
Having such a good time teaching #sexwork #sexhist as way into 1700s print culture; my students are 🔥 so far. Thanks @broadviewpress.bsky.social for the great editions!
Having such a good time teaching #sexwork #sexhist as way into 1700s print culture; my students are 🔥 so far. Thanks @broadviewpress.bsky.social for the great editions!
January 17, 2024 at 8:26 PM
#18thc topics class #shelfie! Not pictured are our readings from 1990s to today, but they're on the syllabus.
Having such a good time teaching #sexwork #sexhist as way into 1700s print culture; my students are 🔥 so far. Thanks @broadviewpress.bsky.social for the great editions!
Having such a good time teaching #sexwork #sexhist as way into 1700s print culture; my students are 🔥 so far. Thanks @broadviewpress.bsky.social for the great editions!
Getting to hang out with a bunch of type nerds and designers, mostly thinking about non-Latin scripts, at #faceinterface2023 this weekend was a real blast. I learned cool stuff like the design process for Mayan hieroglyphs and how wood type breakage in the past impacts Hebrew typography today 📜🗃️
December 3, 2023 at 11:24 PM
Getting to hang out with a bunch of type nerds and designers, mostly thinking about non-Latin scripts, at #faceinterface2023 this weekend was a real blast. I learned cool stuff like the design process for Mayan hieroglyphs and how wood type breakage in the past impacts Hebrew typography today 📜🗃️
OFFICIAL SEASON 1 TRAILER HAS DROPPED. GET INTO IT.
Find Re(un)Covered wherever you get your podcasts. Perfect for all fans of archives and the rad things they contain, history, women in design, #bookhistory ... the list goes on 🗃️ 📜 #GLAM
More info here: bio.link/reuncoveredp...
Find Re(un)Covered wherever you get your podcasts. Perfect for all fans of archives and the rad things they contain, history, women in design, #bookhistory ... the list goes on 🗃️ 📜 #GLAM
More info here: bio.link/reuncoveredp...
November 30, 2023 at 6:12 PM
OFFICIAL SEASON 1 TRAILER HAS DROPPED. GET INTO IT.
Find Re(un)Covered wherever you get your podcasts. Perfect for all fans of archives and the rad things they contain, history, women in design, #bookhistory ... the list goes on 🗃️ 📜 #GLAM
More info here: bio.link/reuncoveredp...
Find Re(un)Covered wherever you get your podcasts. Perfect for all fans of archives and the rad things they contain, history, women in design, #bookhistory ... the list goes on 🗃️ 📜 #GLAM
More info here: bio.link/reuncoveredp...
Everything you wanted to know about #18thc sex worker Sally Salisbury but were afraid to ask happening THIS WEDNESDAY, Nov 15, at 9 am PST/12 pm EST/5 pm GMT on Zoom.
Perfect for fans of non-fatal stabbing, coffin robbery, #19thc proto reddit, & #bookhistory 🗃️
www.eventbrite.com/e/odsecs-31-...
Perfect for fans of non-fatal stabbing, coffin robbery, #19thc proto reddit, & #bookhistory 🗃️
www.eventbrite.com/e/odsecs-31-...
November 12, 2023 at 7:48 PM
Everything you wanted to know about #18thc sex worker Sally Salisbury but were afraid to ask happening THIS WEDNESDAY, Nov 15, at 9 am PST/12 pm EST/5 pm GMT on Zoom.
Perfect for fans of non-fatal stabbing, coffin robbery, #19thc proto reddit, & #bookhistory 🗃️
www.eventbrite.com/e/odsecs-31-...
Perfect for fans of non-fatal stabbing, coffin robbery, #19thc proto reddit, & #bookhistory 🗃️
www.eventbrite.com/e/odsecs-31-...
Y'all the podcast project is coming along and I'm so excited! 7/8 conversations recorded and setting up #8 before mid Nov. I promise awesome archives and recovery projects, but for your listening pleasure. Should have the trailer cleaned up to share with you sooooooon. BE READY
October 25, 2023 at 2:59 AM
Y'all the podcast project is coming along and I'm so excited! 7/8 conversations recorded and setting up #8 before mid Nov. I promise awesome archives and recovery projects, but for your listening pleasure. Should have the trailer cleaned up to share with you sooooooon. BE READY
Ah, the feeling of waking up to a new job posting only to realize you couldn't move there because your family wouldn't have equal protection under the law. Yet you and that job are both in the same country, the self-proclaimed "land of the free."
Map via www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps
Map via www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps
October 20, 2023 at 4:08 PM
Ah, the feeling of waking up to a new job posting only to realize you couldn't move there because your family wouldn't have equal protection under the law. Yet you and that job are both in the same country, the self-proclaimed "land of the free."
Map via www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps
Map via www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps
Curious about The Lady's Magazine (1770-1832)? So was @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social and the OA book she wrote about it is a true pleasure. Read my review in @ecfjournal.bsky.social all you #18c #19c #romanticism periodical #bookhistory fans, then go get her book!
www.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10....
www.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10....
October 17, 2023 at 12:57 AM
Curious about The Lady's Magazine (1770-1832)? So was @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social and the OA book she wrote about it is a true pleasure. Read my review in @ecfjournal.bsky.social all you #18c #19c #romanticism periodical #bookhistory fans, then go get her book!
www.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10....
www.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10....
More folks who do nifty things with eighteenth-century content are joining here, so make sure we can see your bleets!
Adding to the 18th centuryist feed is easy. Just use at least one of these hashtags in your posts: #c18, #18c, #c18th, #18thc
Like & add to your feeds, spread the word. 🗃️
Adding to the 18th centuryist feed is easy. Just use at least one of these hashtags in your posts: #c18, #18c, #c18th, #18thc
Like & add to your feeds, spread the word. 🗃️
October 5, 2023 at 2:00 PM
More folks who do nifty things with eighteenth-century content are joining here, so make sure we can see your bleets!
Adding to the 18th centuryist feed is easy. Just use at least one of these hashtags in your posts: #c18, #18c, #c18th, #18thc
Like & add to your feeds, spread the word. 🗃️
Adding to the 18th centuryist feed is easy. Just use at least one of these hashtags in your posts: #c18, #18c, #c18th, #18thc
Like & add to your feeds, spread the word. 🗃️
Me: Prepping to teach 3 classes at once on the quarter system while applying to a major fellowship and one of the few jobs in your field and everything is basically due in the same 48 hour period? Exhausting.
Cats: Oh, don't even start with us about exhaustion. Have you seen what WE do all day?
Cats: Oh, don't even start with us about exhaustion. Have you seen what WE do all day?
October 1, 2023 at 5:05 PM
Me: Prepping to teach 3 classes at once on the quarter system while applying to a major fellowship and one of the few jobs in your field and everything is basically due in the same 48 hour period? Exhausting.
Cats: Oh, don't even start with us about exhaustion. Have you seen what WE do all day?
Cats: Oh, don't even start with us about exhaustion. Have you seen what WE do all day?
Or maybe turn the discourse into shitpost fodder, cough cough
September 25, 2023 at 12:52 AM
Or maybe turn the discourse into shitpost fodder, cough cough
I carry the library of my dreams with me always.
Decided to take the plunge if I got accepted into PhD school... and the inking began that 1st year. The tattoo was finished long before my dissertation, but I'm still not 100% sure which was harder.
Decided to take the plunge if I got accepted into PhD school... and the inking began that 1st year. The tattoo was finished long before my dissertation, but I'm still not 100% sure which was harder.
September 20, 2023 at 4:39 PM
I carry the library of my dreams with me always.
Decided to take the plunge if I got accepted into PhD school... and the inking began that 1st year. The tattoo was finished long before my dissertation, but I'm still not 100% sure which was harder.
Decided to take the plunge if I got accepted into PhD school... and the inking began that 1st year. The tattoo was finished long before my dissertation, but I'm still not 100% sure which was harder.
Hey @janmachielsen.bsky.social you can pin a post on feed you've made like Gardening feed has done for new users. It's an option via the blueskyfeeds.com interface, just fyi
September 20, 2023 at 4:00 PM
Hey @janmachielsen.bsky.social you can pin a post on feed you've made like Gardening feed has done for new users. It's an option via the blueskyfeeds.com interface, just fyi
I think it was how AP put out the story, though now on their own website the headline "Rubiales resigns as Spain’s soccer president 3 weeks after kissing player at Women’s World Cup final"
But a quick Google shows the same "kiss scandal" language across media sources rerunning the story ugh.
But a quick Google shows the same "kiss scandal" language across media sources rerunning the story ugh.
September 11, 2023 at 2:48 PM
I think it was how AP put out the story, though now on their own website the headline "Rubiales resigns as Spain’s soccer president 3 weeks after kissing player at Women’s World Cup final"
But a quick Google shows the same "kiss scandal" language across media sources rerunning the story ugh.
But a quick Google shows the same "kiss scandal" language across media sources rerunning the story ugh.
Only if you carried rubber ducks, a saxophone, and/or hung out with this guy all the time. Go for it!
September 7, 2023 at 3:11 PM
Only if you carried rubber ducks, a saxophone, and/or hung out with this guy all the time. Go for it!
I was going to look up in OED for you, but my access is stymied... but greensdictofslang.com/search/advan... does have a meaning search function, which might bring you more joy? There are some possibilities here at least to explore.
September 6, 2023 at 3:34 AM
I was going to look up in OED for you, but my access is stymied... but greensdictofslang.com/search/advan... does have a meaning search function, which might bring you more joy? There are some possibilities here at least to explore.
Oh hey look who I found in the 1742 edition of _A general and true history of the lives and actions of the most famous highwaymen, murderers, street-robbers, &c._ @lizwfab.bsky.social! This one is for all the fans of Our Flag Means Death, #18thc, and guys named Stede
archive.org/details/gene...
archive.org/details/gene...
September 6, 2023 at 3:13 AM
Oh hey look who I found in the 1742 edition of _A general and true history of the lives and actions of the most famous highwaymen, murderers, street-robbers, &c._ @lizwfab.bsky.social! This one is for all the fans of Our Flag Means Death, #18thc, and guys named Stede
archive.org/details/gene...
archive.org/details/gene...