Julia Boss
@juliaboss.bsky.social
Developmental editor working with scholars in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. Lapsed historian. Ex-Algonquin Books.
More at https://www.juliabossediting.com/.
More at https://www.juliabossediting.com/.
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“Adversarial poetry.”
Love this. Obvs.
Love this. Obvs.
November 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
“Adversarial poetry.”
Love this. Obvs.
Love this. Obvs.
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Absolutely agreed.
And an excellent analog to so many things and so much expertise that people don't see as part of a process and thus think happen without that process.
And an excellent analog to so many things and so much expertise that people don't see as part of a process and thus think happen without that process.
Editors have a really hard job, and the good ones can make something unreadable readable, and the great ones can make something unreadable into something good. But they're basically invisible, until someone tries to write without one.
November 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Absolutely agreed.
And an excellent analog to so many things and so much expertise that people don't see as part of a process and thus think happen without that process.
And an excellent analog to so many things and so much expertise that people don't see as part of a process and thus think happen without that process.
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Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books
Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.
peopleofcolorintech.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
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My department is hiring a tenure track assistant professor in in the visual arts, architecture, and/or material culture of the Islamic world. Please circulate!
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
Details - Assistant Professor - History of Art & Architecture | Human Resources | UMass Amherst
careers.umass.edu
November 19, 2025 at 1:19 AM
My department is hiring a tenure track assistant professor in in the visual arts, architecture, and/or material culture of the Islamic world. Please circulate!
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u...
What a wonderful project! The Inferno has such a fascinating literary afterlife (pun noticed if not entirely intended).
Anyone interested in this coming graphic novel should also check out the “citings and sightings” at Dante Today: www.dantetoday.org
Anyone interested in this coming graphic novel should also check out the “citings and sightings” at Dante Today: www.dantetoday.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
What a wonderful project! The Inferno has such a fascinating literary afterlife (pun noticed if not entirely intended).
Anyone interested in this coming graphic novel should also check out the “citings and sightings” at Dante Today: www.dantetoday.org
Anyone interested in this coming graphic novel should also check out the “citings and sightings” at Dante Today: www.dantetoday.org
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Reminder: the INTERNATIONAL BOCCACCIO EDITION, launch event, Berlin, 21 nov 2025, 14:30-16:30 CET
To participate online, write to italzen@zedat.fu-berlin.de
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
@fidromanistik.bsky.social
www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/italienzentr...
To participate online, write to italzen@zedat.fu-berlin.de
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
@fidromanistik.bsky.social
www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/italienzentr...
The International Boccaccio Edition
www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de
November 15, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Reminder: the INTERNATIONAL BOCCACCIO EDITION, launch event, Berlin, 21 nov 2025, 14:30-16:30 CET
To participate online, write to italzen@zedat.fu-berlin.de
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
@fidromanistik.bsky.social
www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/italienzentr...
To participate online, write to italzen@zedat.fu-berlin.de
@freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
@fidromanistik.bsky.social
www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/italienzentr...
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When I edit an academic book manuscript, one of the key things I do is ask: "What does this [book, chapter, section] promise to do? And what does it ACTUALLY do?"
These questions may seem simple, but they take a lot of time to answer, and they generate incredibly helpful insights!
#AmEditing
These questions may seem simple, but they take a lot of time to answer, and they generate incredibly helpful insights!
#AmEditing
November 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
When I edit an academic book manuscript, one of the key things I do is ask: "What does this [book, chapter, section] promise to do? And what does it ACTUALLY do?"
These questions may seem simple, but they take a lot of time to answer, and they generate incredibly helpful insights!
#AmEditing
These questions may seem simple, but they take a lot of time to answer, and they generate incredibly helpful insights!
#AmEditing
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Why does Clarissa, the largest Penguin, not simply eat the other Penguins?
November 12, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Why does Clarissa, the largest Penguin, not simply eat the other Penguins?
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Amazon Kindle currently has my new book availalbe for FREE as an e-book online right now! Buy it now for $0.00 before they change it back!
Link: shorturl.at/uPZC3
Link: shorturl.at/uPZC3
November 10, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Amazon Kindle currently has my new book availalbe for FREE as an e-book online right now! Buy it now for $0.00 before they change it back!
Link: shorturl.at/uPZC3
Link: shorturl.at/uPZC3
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I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...
When We Devalue Art (Books!) We Devalue the Future
When you’ve spent your whole adult life working in and around book publishing you get used to hearing that people don’t read anymore and that the industry is on its last legs. There is always a cri…
lithub.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...
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Thanks for doing this! My book is about the institutions that circulate world literature in the US in the long 20th century.
www.umasspress.com/978162534840...
www.umasspress.com/978162534840...
Making World Literature
From universities to governments, the Big Five publishers to Amazon, the influence of institutions abounds in US publishing. A diverse array of books from a...
www.umasspress.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Thanks for doing this! My book is about the institutions that circulate world literature in the US in the long 20th century.
www.umasspress.com/978162534840...
www.umasspress.com/978162534840...
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My book Fascination: Trance, Enchantment, and American Modernity--which argues that, for many late 19c/early 20c American thinkers & writers, modernity was just as much about states of compulsive, irrational attention as it was about distraction--came out in 2022!
lsupress.org/978080717851...
lsupress.org/978080717851...
Fascination
Most cultural critics theorize modernity as a state of disenchanted distraction, one linked to both the rationalizing impulses of scientific and technologica...
lsupress.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:33 PM
My book Fascination: Trance, Enchantment, and American Modernity--which argues that, for many late 19c/early 20c American thinkers & writers, modernity was just as much about states of compulsive, irrational attention as it was about distraction--came out in 2022!
lsupress.org/978080717851...
lsupress.org/978080717851...
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Jacob Lawrence, "The 1920s: The Migrants Arrive & Cast Their Ballots," screenprint, 1974 noma.org/election-day...
November 4, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Jacob Lawrence, "The 1920s: The Migrants Arrive & Cast Their Ballots," screenprint, 1974 noma.org/election-day...
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"A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum" by Françoise Vergès explores the Louvre as a product of colonialism and Europe’s self-appointed claim to be the guardian of global heritage.
Foreword: Paul Gilroy
Transl.: Melissa Thackway
@plutopress.bsky.social 40% off until Oct 28th
Foreword: Paul Gilroy
Transl.: Melissa Thackway
@plutopress.bsky.social 40% off until Oct 28th
A Programme of Absolute Disorder - Pluto Press
A call to end the Western museum
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October 14, 2025 at 2:08 PM
"A Programme of Absolute Disorder: Decolonizing the Museum" by Françoise Vergès explores the Louvre as a product of colonialism and Europe’s self-appointed claim to be the guardian of global heritage.
Foreword: Paul Gilroy
Transl.: Melissa Thackway
@plutopress.bsky.social 40% off until Oct 28th
Foreword: Paul Gilroy
Transl.: Melissa Thackway
@plutopress.bsky.social 40% off until Oct 28th
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Was excited yesterday to go to the launch event for my former architecture professor Madeline Schwartzman’s new book, Alive: Synthetic Cells, Feral Robots, Rebellious AI, and the Design of Radical Life. It shares some provocative projects and ideas!
www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/alive-...
www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/alive-...
October 31, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Was excited yesterday to go to the launch event for my former architecture professor Madeline Schwartzman’s new book, Alive: Synthetic Cells, Feral Robots, Rebellious AI, and the Design of Radical Life. It shares some provocative projects and ideas!
www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/alive-...
www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/alive-...
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Share the news... OSU Libraries & Press is seeking a Director for the Oregon State University Press! See the detailed job description at jobs.oregonstate.edu/posting....
Please reach out to us if you have any questions about the position, OSU, or life in Oregon! ☔❤️☔
#OregonStateUniversity #ApplyNow
Please reach out to us if you have any questions about the position, OSU, or life in Oregon! ☔❤️☔
#OregonStateUniversity #ApplyNow
October 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Share the news... OSU Libraries & Press is seeking a Director for the Oregon State University Press! See the detailed job description at jobs.oregonstate.edu/posting....
Please reach out to us if you have any questions about the position, OSU, or life in Oregon! ☔❤️☔
#OregonStateUniversity #ApplyNow
Please reach out to us if you have any questions about the position, OSU, or life in Oregon! ☔❤️☔
#OregonStateUniversity #ApplyNow
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We are looking for a new book review editor at H-Early-America if anyone is interested.
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H-Early-America Seeks Book Review Editor | H-Net
H-Early-America is seeking a book review co-editor for H-Early-America to work alongside one of the current editors, Patrick Luck. This is a volunteer position. If accepted, you will complete an onl...
networks.h-net.org
October 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
We are looking for a new book review editor at H-Early-America if anyone is interested.
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
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It's official: An American Problem (our book on the Voting Rights Act, preclearance, and the effects of Shelby County) will be coming out next year with Princeton University Press. As the VRA faces continued threats, we're hopeful it will offer insight into why the it's is so vitally important
October 28, 2025 at 3:16 PM
It's official: An American Problem (our book on the Voting Rights Act, preclearance, and the effects of Shelby County) will be coming out next year with Princeton University Press. As the VRA faces continued threats, we're hopeful it will offer insight into why the it's is so vitally important
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*Plantation Goods* has had an incredible run, beyond anything I could have imagined. I am absolutely thrilled that the book is being honored with the Horowitz Prize from the Bard Graduate Center for scholarship on decorative arts, design history, or material culture. @uchicagopress.bsky.social
2024 Horowitz Book Prize Winner
Bard Graduate Center is pleased to announce that the Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Book Prize for the best book on the decorative arts, design history, or material culture of the Americas published...
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October 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM
*Plantation Goods* has had an incredible run, beyond anything I could have imagined. I am absolutely thrilled that the book is being honored with the Horowitz Prize from the Bard Graduate Center for scholarship on decorative arts, design history, or material culture. @uchicagopress.bsky.social
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I’m sure you’ve read @alondra.bsky.social’s book on this but in case not, it’s fantastic
Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination
The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination
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October 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I’m sure you’ve read @alondra.bsky.social’s book on this but in case not, it’s fantastic
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Great opportunity for someone working in #envhist #envhum #landscapes #nationalparks
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smokieslife.org/the-steve-ke...
The Steve Kemp Writer's Residency
The Kemp Residency provides an annual opportunity for one writer to spend six weeks in the Smokies in a retreat-like setting.
smokieslife.org
October 26, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Great opportunity for someone working in #envhist #envhum #landscapes #nationalparks
smokieslife.org/the-steve-ke...
smokieslife.org/the-steve-ke...
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With the Arctic Refuge back in the news (yes, Trump is trying once again to turn it into an oil field), maybe it’s a good time to check out Defending the Arctic Refuge. @uncpress.bsky.social #envhist 📗❄️🦌
Defending the Arctic Refuge
Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Alaska is one of the most contested landscapes in all of North America: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Consid...
uncpress.org
October 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
With the Arctic Refuge back in the news (yes, Trump is trying once again to turn it into an oil field), maybe it’s a good time to check out Defending the Arctic Refuge. @uncpress.bsky.social #envhist 📗❄️🦌
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Pleased to say that for the next year I'll be a Publisher for our Religion list at Routledge books, covering all areas of religious studies and theology. I'd welcome anyone researching or teaching in this space to get in touch if you'd like to discuss a book idea 📖
October 23, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Pleased to say that for the next year I'll be a Publisher for our Religion list at Routledge books, covering all areas of religious studies and theology. I'd welcome anyone researching or teaching in this space to get in touch if you'd like to discuss a book idea 📖
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Thinking bout this right now for no real reason—
“When Donald Trump Razed the Bonwit Teller Building, He Promised the Met Its Art Deco Friezes. A New Book Details How He Pulverized Them Instead”
“When Donald Trump Razed the Bonwit Teller Building, He Promised the Met Its Art Deco Friezes. A New Book Details How He Pulverized Them Instead”
When Donald Trump Razed the Bonwit Teller Building, He Promised the Met Its Art Deco Friezes. A New Book Details How He Pulverized Them Instead | Artnet News
Read an excerpt from the book 'Art and Crime: The Fight Against Looters, Forgers, and Fraudsters in the High-Stakes Art World.'
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October 21, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Thinking bout this right now for no real reason—
“When Donald Trump Razed the Bonwit Teller Building, He Promised the Met Its Art Deco Friezes. A New Book Details How He Pulverized Them Instead”
“When Donald Trump Razed the Bonwit Teller Building, He Promised the Met Its Art Deco Friezes. A New Book Details How He Pulverized Them Instead”
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It's been a while, but I have exciting news! Our department is hiring a Digital Historian with a specialization in Early America. Help us spread the word by sharing this opportunity within your networks. #DigitalHistory #DH #HigherEdJobs
jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinna...
jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinna...
Assistant Professor in Digital and Early American History, Department of History, College of A&S
Assistant Professor in Digital and Early American History, Department of History, College of A&S
jobs.uc.edu
October 19, 2025 at 1:37 PM
It's been a while, but I have exciting news! Our department is hiring a Digital Historian with a specialization in Early America. Help us spread the word by sharing this opportunity within your networks. #DigitalHistory #DH #HigherEdJobs
jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinna...
jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinna...