Essaka Joshua
@essaka.bsky.social
Professor of English | Disability Studies | Romanticism & 19th Century | Ess-AH-kuh. 🏴 she/her. Please stop reversing my name. Not on X.
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Tomorrow in Intro to Medical Humanities we’re reading parts of @essaka.bsky.social’s Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature, including the chapter on Frankenstein. Can’t wait to hear what my students think about monstrosity and shifting boundaries of selfhood
October 27, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Tomorrow in Intro to Medical Humanities we’re reading parts of @essaka.bsky.social’s Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature, including the chapter on Frankenstein. Can’t wait to hear what my students think about monstrosity and shifting boundaries of selfhood
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pls RT, modernists - CFP now out for 'Weird Modernisms', the collaborative conference between @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social !
July 2026, Loughborough University.
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July 2026, Loughborough University.
www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
August 18, 2025 at 12:32 PM
pls RT, modernists - CFP now out for 'Weird Modernisms', the collaborative conference between @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social !
July 2026, Loughborough University.
www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
July 2026, Loughborough University.
www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
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Network Rail and ACME's latest plans are on the planning portal at the City of London. The only way to combat this is to object by the 4th July on that planning portal. Our easy Guide to writing your own objection is here: bit.ly/3ZQRkk8 #heritage
News from the Victorian Society | How to object to the harmful plans to partially demolish and inappropriately redevelop Liverpool Street Station
News about How to object to the harmful plans to partially demolish and inappropriately redevelop Liverpool Street Station from the The Victorian Society - news.
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June 29, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Network Rail and ACME's latest plans are on the planning portal at the City of London. The only way to combat this is to object by the 4th July on that planning portal. Our easy Guide to writing your own objection is here: bit.ly/3ZQRkk8 #heritage
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John Clare Society Journal 44 (2025) has gone to print - landing on doormats before JC's birthday on 13 July.
Features cover art by @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social, poem by Mark Fiddes, original critical work by Robert Heyes, Catherine McNally, Emlyn David, Sam Hickford & Em Challinor, & reviews galore
Features cover art by @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social, poem by Mark Fiddes, original critical work by Robert Heyes, Catherine McNally, Emlyn David, Sam Hickford & Em Challinor, & reviews galore
June 24, 2025 at 10:00 PM
John Clare Society Journal 44 (2025) has gone to print - landing on doormats before JC's birthday on 13 July.
Features cover art by @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social, poem by Mark Fiddes, original critical work by Robert Heyes, Catherine McNally, Emlyn David, Sam Hickford & Em Challinor, & reviews galore
Features cover art by @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social, poem by Mark Fiddes, original critical work by Robert Heyes, Catherine McNally, Emlyn David, Sam Hickford & Em Challinor, & reviews galore
The 1830s, ed. John Gardner and David Stewart is now out. I have an essay on madness in it. If you’re in Cambridge on 24 July you can catch the book launch. www.cambridge.org/core/books/n...
Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1830-1900 - Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s
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June 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The 1830s, ed. John Gardner and David Stewart is now out. I have an essay on madness in it. If you’re in Cambridge on 24 July you can catch the book launch. www.cambridge.org/core/books/n...
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ACTION ALERT: Save the NEH
On March 31, 2025, @humanitiesall.bsky.social learned that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is targeting @nehgov.bsky.social. Let your Members of Congress know that you support the NEH and its programs!
On March 31, 2025, @humanitiesall.bsky.social learned that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is targeting @nehgov.bsky.social. Let your Members of Congress know that you support the NEH and its programs!
URGENT: Save the NEH
I just took action to oppose the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join me and take action here.
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April 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
ACTION ALERT: Save the NEH
On March 31, 2025, @humanitiesall.bsky.social learned that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is targeting @nehgov.bsky.social. Let your Members of Congress know that you support the NEH and its programs!
On March 31, 2025, @humanitiesall.bsky.social learned that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is targeting @nehgov.bsky.social. Let your Members of Congress know that you support the NEH and its programs!
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Advocacy alert: @humanitiesall.bsky.social has learned that DOGE is targeting the NEH "with the aim of substantially reducing its staff, cutting the agency’s grant programs, and rescinding grants that have already been awarded." Tell your officials you support the NEH: p2a.co/DdtlGIT
URGENT: Save the NEH
I just took action to oppose the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join me and take action here.
p2a.co
April 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Advocacy alert: @humanitiesall.bsky.social has learned that DOGE is targeting the NEH "with the aim of substantially reducing its staff, cutting the agency’s grant programs, and rescinding grants that have already been awarded." Tell your officials you support the NEH: p2a.co/DdtlGIT
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Teaching and Research Fellow in Black British History- The University of Edinburgh - College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - School of History, Classics and Archaeology/History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU474/t...
Teaching and Research Fellow in Black British History at The University of Edinburgh
Recruiting now: Teaching and Research Fellow in Black British History on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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February 11, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Teaching and Research Fellow in Black British History- The University of Edinburgh - College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - School of History, Classics and Archaeology/History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU474/t...
Currently enjoying Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s Chapters from a Life (1897). As a family memoir from within a religious community, it’s definitely up there with Edmund Gosse’s Father and Son (1907). It’s so subtle, and so beautifully written.
January 16, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Currently enjoying Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s Chapters from a Life (1897). As a family memoir from within a religious community, it’s definitely up there with Edmund Gosse’s Father and Son (1907). It’s so subtle, and so beautifully written.
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The deadline for the Annual USC Comparative Lit conference focusing on Fin-de-Siècle Modernisms is January 3. Please circulate the CFP and consider submitting: sc.edu/study/colleg...
December 29, 2024 at 4:46 PM
The deadline for the Annual USC Comparative Lit conference focusing on Fin-de-Siècle Modernisms is January 3. Please circulate the CFP and consider submitting: sc.edu/study/colleg...
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Reminder! Jan 15 approaches …
Jonathyne Briggs & I are editing a special issue of French Politics, Culture, and Society focused on #disability in French society. Proposals for articles in English or French due on Jan 15. See the original call on H-France or here (in tiny print). Merci à partager l'appel dans vos réseaux.
December 28, 2024 at 9:28 PM
Reminder! Jan 15 approaches …
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Delighted that, together with Bangor University Archives, we’ve been awarded Welsh Government funding to digitise Jamaica papers within the Penrhyn estate archive:
www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/ba...
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Bangor University Archives awarded Welsh Government grant for Digitisation of Penrhyn Jamaica Papers | Bangor University
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December 19, 2024 at 12:42 PM
Delighted that, together with Bangor University Archives, we’ve been awarded Welsh Government funding to digitise Jamaica papers within the Penrhyn estate archive:
www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/ba...
www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/ba...
Yay, someone quoted me. Boo, they reversed my name. It’s right there on the cover. Shouldn’t be this hard.
December 19, 2024 at 11:02 PM
Yay, someone quoted me. Boo, they reversed my name. It’s right there on the cover. Shouldn’t be this hard.
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Newport Central Library now has some of its archives online: including Chartist trial records (issuu.com/lion7/docs/c...)
Chartist trial records examination of william davies of blackwood and morgan james of pillgwenlly
This document contains some of the papers relating to the trial of John Frost and others at Monmouthshire Assizes, 1839-40. specifically the evidence of two local Chartists, William Davies of Blackwoo...
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December 13, 2024 at 12:47 PM
Newport Central Library now has some of its archives online: including Chartist trial records (issuu.com/lion7/docs/c...)
Does anyone know what a “tall daughter” is? Is that a grown-up daughter, or one who is not short, or something else?
December 12, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Does anyone know what a “tall daughter” is? Is that a grown-up daughter, or one who is not short, or something else?
Wading through Hannah More’s Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799). Blimey, that woman needed an editor, and a sense of irony. Particularly love the rant about women who think they can write.
December 11, 2024 at 9:14 PM
Wading through Hannah More’s Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799). Blimey, that woman needed an editor, and a sense of irony. Particularly love the rant about women who think they can write.
A big thank you to @profchander.bsky.social for including my essay on “ Disability & Race” in a vol much needed in the ‘80s, when I was an undergrad. Thanks, too, to St Hugh’s Oxford, for letting me air my work as the Lady Ademola lecture. Lady Ademola is an inspiration.
December 11, 2024 at 2:17 AM
A big thank you to @profchander.bsky.social for including my essay on “ Disability & Race” in a vol much needed in the ‘80s, when I was an undergrad. Thanks, too, to St Hugh’s Oxford, for letting me air my work as the Lady Ademola lecture. Lady Ademola is an inspiration.
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Much gratitude to @profchander.bsky.social for inviting me to be part of this collection I wish I had had as an undergrad. This is a love letter to the folks working at the intersections of race and disability who we need now more than ever.
December 11, 2024 at 1:25 AM
Much gratitude to @profchander.bsky.social for inviting me to be part of this collection I wish I had had as an undergrad. This is a love letter to the folks working at the intersections of race and disability who we need now more than ever.
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Submissions for our special section of Theatre History Studies, "Disability Performance Histories," due January 1!
Submit! Circulate! Tell Your Friends! Email us if you have any questions!
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Submit! Circulate! Tell Your Friends! Email us if you have any questions!
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Call for Papers: Disability Performance Histories A Special Section of Theatre History Studies Volume 46 (2026) Co-Editors
Call for Papers: Disability Performance Histories A Special Section of Theatre History Studies Volume 46 (2026) Co-Editors
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December 5, 2024 at 3:04 PM
Submissions for our special section of Theatre History Studies, "Disability Performance Histories," due January 1!
Submit! Circulate! Tell Your Friends! Email us if you have any questions!
www.academia.edu/115737170/Ca...
Submit! Circulate! Tell Your Friends! Email us if you have any questions!
www.academia.edu/115737170/Ca...
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This year’s Haggerty Prize will award a peer-reviewed article published between 1/1/22 and 12/31/24. $500 cash prize! Please submit your work or nominate others. Deadline is 1/1/25. And please repost to spread the word. Info at link. #c18 #ASECS #LGBTQ
George E. Haggerty Prize in LGBTQ+ Studies in Eighteenth-Century Scholarship – ASECS
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December 6, 2024 at 2:01 PM
19th C classics as “I survived…” books….
Oliver Twist: I Survived Victorian England with No Parents and No Money.
Dracula: I Survived being a Transylvanian Count’s Real Estate Solicitor….
Oliver Twist: I Survived Victorian England with No Parents and No Money.
Dracula: I Survived being a Transylvanian Count’s Real Estate Solicitor….
December 7, 2024 at 3:09 PM
19th C classics as “I survived…” books….
Oliver Twist: I Survived Victorian England with No Parents and No Money.
Dracula: I Survived being a Transylvanian Count’s Real Estate Solicitor….
Oliver Twist: I Survived Victorian England with No Parents and No Money.
Dracula: I Survived being a Transylvanian Count’s Real Estate Solicitor….
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2. It will join Volume 1 and Volume 2 of Godwin’s letters, both edited by moi-même, and published in 2011 and 2014 respectively. (Volume 3 is still in progress.)
November 25, 2024 at 12:22 PM
2. It will join Volume 1 and Volume 2 of Godwin’s letters, both edited by moi-même, and published in 2011 and 2014 respectively. (Volume 3 is still in progress.)
I’m at the proof stage for “Disability and Mutable Spectatorship” in Shakespeare’s Afterlife in the Royal Collection. Edited by: Sally Barnden, Gordon McMullan, Kate Retford, and Kirsten Tambling, Oxford University Press.
November 23, 2024 at 1:30 AM
I’m at the proof stage for “Disability and Mutable Spectatorship” in Shakespeare’s Afterlife in the Royal Collection. Edited by: Sally Barnden, Gordon McMullan, Kate Retford, and Kirsten Tambling, Oxford University Press.
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Tried to roundup a list of folks in critical disability studies & disability justice work that I know of who are already on here, please lmk if there's someone else i should add!
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go.bsky.app/NJWgurk
November 15, 2024 at 7:01 PM
Tried to roundup a list of folks in critical disability studies & disability justice work that I know of who are already on here, please lmk if there's someone else i should add!
go.bsky.app/NJWgurk
go.bsky.app/NJWgurk