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Kathleen Alves
@katalves18c.bsky.social
english associate prof, 2YC stan, 18c lit and med, unapologetic Filipinx, optimistic misanthrope, petty moralist. Opinions my own. She/her
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If you are inclined to read about funny novels in the 18th century, periods, labor and birth, hysteria etc you can pre-order the book! www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/delaware/bod...
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Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale is now available for preorder from @livunipress.bsky.social. It revises our understanding of this political genre through medical humanities
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
Tales of Health: Illness, Disability, and Citizenship in the Romantic National Tale | Home
Matthew L. Reznicek is Associate Professor of Medical Humanities at the University of Minnesota Medical School. He has published widely on British and Irish romantic literature, and particularly on the intersection of health and illness in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writing.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature is now available for preorder from @livunipress.bsky.social. This collection ranges from graveyard poetry and the gothic through Ní Ghríofa’s Ghost in the Throat, with incisive and new readings of the dead body
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature | Home
Christopher Cusack (Radboud University) has published widely on Irish and Irish-diasporic literature. His monograph The Great Famine in Irish and North American Fiction, 1892-1921 is forthcoming from Liverpool University Press.
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Love this so much. 18th C hive is the absolute best 💕
Really happy to blurb this book! A terrific read! And that cover! 😍 @katalves18c.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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My copy has shipped and I can’t wait to read @katalves18c.bsky.social’s amazing Body Language
#Newbook: Body Language: Medicine and the Eighteenth-Century Comic Novel by @katalves18c.bsky.social examines the intersections of British 18C comic fiction and medical discourse, adding "a vital chapter to the study of medicine, literature, and gender in the period."

To order: tinyurl.com/3vpz7crk
November 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Unboxing day! Literally squealed to see her 💕 Many, many thanks to @bucknellupress.bsky.social for the love and care that went into this project!
November 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
We all know who wrote this piece
November 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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@lydiacooper.bsky.social’s and my special issue of @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social is out now. Such a joy to work with one of my best friends on this amazing set of articles muse.jhu.edu/issue/55993
Project MUSE - Studies in the Novel-Volume 57, Number 4, Winter 2025
muse.jhu.edu
November 25, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Me, during our ecocriticism unit: "There will be no otter slander in this classroom!"
November 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
So AMC advertised a special screening of the 1995 Sense and Sensibility (which i got excited about), coming soon "Decemember 14"

What are we DOING
November 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
While I was out running with Comet, we passed by a black lab sitting so obediently with its trainer. As an Asian mom, I immediately turned to Comet and said, "That's why homeschooling didn't work for you. You need to go to school and get your degree."
November 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
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#Newbook: Body Language: Medicine and the Eighteenth-Century Comic Novel by @katalves18c.bsky.social examines the intersections of British 18C comic fiction and medical discourse, adding "a vital chapter to the study of medicine, literature, and gender in the period."

To order: tinyurl.com/3vpz7crk
November 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I'm going to my sister's powerlifting competition tomorrow and I can't wait to see strong ass women lifting heavy ass things
November 16, 2025 at 12:20 AM
I was walking Comet when I came across my 12 yo and his boys. James yells, "Mommy, show my friends your cool book cover!" The opinion: "That's a cool painting of a dead person!"

I love them sm
November 12, 2025 at 11:48 PM
My students have NO IDEA how much an office visit can revive my love for teaching again. It's been a bleak term and this was the shot of sun I needed so, so badly.
November 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Not sorry to this man
November 4, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I regret/am pleased to inform you that pineapple and ham on pizza is actually pretty good

MY INFORMED OPINION
November 3, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Comet, who was NOT happy to be a banana for Halloween, delighted all the neighborhood kids

For his public service, he got extra treats
November 1, 2025 at 4:24 AM
A little Poe for class today

This girl loves a THEME
November 1, 2025 at 12:23 AM
If your institution has a food pantry, consider sending that info to your students. Here is the link for NYC folks to find their local food bank: www.foodbanknyc.org/find-food/

I have no words for how evil it is to withhold food for the poorest and most vulnerable people.
Find Food - Food Bank For NYC
Find free groceries, hot meals, and SNAP support near you at 800 NYC pantries, soup kitchens, and mobile pantries across all five boroughs.
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October 31, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Currently in a faculty meeting and everyone else is brainstorming through ChatGPT. Again, we are COOKED
October 28, 2025 at 7:37 PM
If I'm cold, he's cold
October 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Incredibly demoralized that my students are just not doing the readings. Is this happening in your courses? What are you doing about it EXCEPT having them read in classes?
October 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Really appreciate @jamellebouie.net standing on business on the last episode of On the Media

P.S. That fan-made "miserable little pigman" remix almost made me lose control of my car from laughing
October 7, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I was at a gathering and a guest fact-checked a Shakespearean fact I shared using Chat GPT even though they knew I was a literary scholar

Man, we are COOKED
October 4, 2025 at 3:15 AM