Rebekah Mitsein
@rebekahmitsein.bsky.social
Teacher and scholar of 18th-century literature and culture at Boston College. Britain, Africa, New England, Caribbean.
African Impressions: How African Worldviews Shaped the British Geographical Imagination across the Early Enlightenment (UVaP 2022).
African Impressions: How African Worldviews Shaped the British Geographical Imagination across the Early Enlightenment (UVaP 2022).
Realism and the Novel: A Global History, ed. Paul Stasi, is out with Cambridge. Includes top notch scholarship by top notch scholars on the realist novel and also a chapter on the #c18th by me. #c18 #18thc
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July 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Realism and the Novel: A Global History, ed. Paul Stasi, is out with Cambridge. Includes top notch scholarship by top notch scholars on the realist novel and also a chapter on the #c18th by me. #c18 #18thc
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Thanks to @drbibliomane.bsky.social we've got a skyfeed driven #c18th feed now since blueskyfeeds host is sadly shutting down. Please go and like the 2.0 version here and let me know if you run into any issues along the way! bsky.app/profile/did:... #18c #c18
June 30, 2025 at 9:27 AM
Thanks to @drbibliomane.bsky.social we've got a skyfeed driven #c18th feed now since blueskyfeeds host is sadly shutting down. Please go and like the 2.0 version here and let me know if you run into any issues along the way! bsky.app/profile/did:... #18c #c18
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It's charming, and it passes the #c18th test! What more could a reader want? @writerjane.bsky.social's Clara the Triumphant Rhinoceros has been birthed unto the world!
We live in science-suspicious times. Clara was born about 100 years before the word “scientist” but she helped people discover and change. Thanks to @rebekahmitsein.bsky.social my own 18th century expert for her help—and Happy Birthday to Clara book!
April 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
It's charming, and it passes the #c18th test! What more could a reader want? @writerjane.bsky.social's Clara the Triumphant Rhinoceros has been birthed unto the world!
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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
#C18th
April 1, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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
#C18th
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Attention #ASECS2025 attendees! Can't wait to see you all this Saturday at 2:00 for "Virtual Defoe," our Society-sponsored panel. Details 👇
#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
April 2, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Attention #ASECS2025 attendees! Can't wait to see you all this Saturday at 2:00 for "Virtual Defoe," our Society-sponsored panel. Details 👇
#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
#danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
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For anyone feeling uneasy about the virtual ASECS conference, please do check it out. I found the tech perfectly easy and attractive (layout is way better than Zoom or Teams), and have been to three kick-ass panels already with lots of good discussion. Two of them ran way over time. Come on in!
#18C
#18C
March 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
For anyone feeling uneasy about the virtual ASECS conference, please do check it out. I found the tech perfectly easy and attractive (layout is way better than Zoom or Teams), and have been to three kick-ass panels already with lots of good discussion. Two of them ran way over time. Come on in!
#18C
#18C
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boosting for the nighttime crew
CFPs for Restoration/Early 18th C forum are up for #mla2026: Up Close and Literary, and Political Imperatives. Propose your papers--and please share!
February 21, 2025 at 5:01 AM
boosting for the nighttime crew
#C18th friends and colleagues with kids, or who are kids at heart, my mom's adorable (and carefully researched) new picture book, Clara the Triumphant Rhinoceros, about the rhino who made her grand tour of Europe in the 1740s, is available for pre-order! @writerjane.bsky.social
I appreciate having my own 18th century scholar who helped a lot with this spring’s #nonfiction picture book! Thanks @rebekahkgm.bsky.social
February 10, 2025 at 12:25 AM
#C18th friends and colleagues with kids, or who are kids at heart, my mom's adorable (and carefully researched) new picture book, Clara the Triumphant Rhinoceros, about the rhino who made her grand tour of Europe in the 1740s, is available for pre-order! @writerjane.bsky.social
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On Sunday, 19 Jan, I’ll speak at Gore Place in Waltham about how Christopher Gore and his family experienced the American Revolution in Boston: boston1775.blogspot.com/2025/01/grow... Bloodshed! Bigamy! Effigy! Spinning bee! Dump that tea! Liberty and loyalty! And of course two stolen cannons. #c18
“Growing Up in the Gore Family” in Waltham, 19 Jan.
On Sunday, 19 January, I’ll speak at Gore Place in Waltham on “Growing Up in the Gore Family: Class and Conflict in Revolutionary Boston.”...
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January 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
On Sunday, 19 Jan, I’ll speak at Gore Place in Waltham about how Christopher Gore and his family experienced the American Revolution in Boston: boston1775.blogspot.com/2025/01/grow... Bloodshed! Bigamy! Effigy! Spinning bee! Dump that tea! Liberty and loyalty! And of course two stolen cannons. #c18
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The LONG eighteenth century will not be contained! Second Starter Pack here -- let me know if you want on. go.bsky.app/75maeyB
November 10, 2024 at 4:55 PM
The LONG eighteenth century will not be contained! Second Starter Pack here -- let me know if you want on. go.bsky.app/75maeyB
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What the heck: Long Eighteenth Starter Pack right here:
go.bsky.app/6aF4mek -- I'm sure I missed lots of people; respond if you want to be added.
go.bsky.app/6aF4mek -- I'm sure I missed lots of people; respond if you want to be added.
November 8, 2024 at 4:54 PM
What the heck: Long Eighteenth Starter Pack right here:
go.bsky.app/6aF4mek -- I'm sure I missed lots of people; respond if you want to be added.
go.bsky.app/6aF4mek -- I'm sure I missed lots of people; respond if you want to be added.
Boston area folks, I'll be giving a talk at the Mahindra Center at Harvard Next Tuesday (9/24, 6:30pm) on the African explorer James Bruce. "The True Story of the Abyssinian Liar" is a wild one. Hope to see some of you there!
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The True Story of the Abyssinian Liar: How James Bruce Found the Source of the Nile and Lost His Reputation
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES SPEAKER: Rebekah Mitsein, Boston College
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September 18, 2024 at 3:13 PM
Boston area folks, I'll be giving a talk at the Mahindra Center at Harvard Next Tuesday (9/24, 6:30pm) on the African explorer James Bruce. "The True Story of the Abyssinian Liar" is a wild one. Hope to see some of you there!
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/true-s...
mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/true-s...
Eighteenth-Century Irish Studies friends, my wonderful colleague Colleen Taylor's book, Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830, is now out at Oxford UP! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
April 25, 2024 at 6:14 PM
Eighteenth-Century Irish Studies friends, my wonderful colleague Colleen Taylor's book, Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830, is now out at Oxford UP! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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#c18 Back home from a highly successful ASECS 2024. Next up: get ready to vote on the new bylaws. It's absolutely crucial that 20% of membership weigh in. More info is coming. Please please please please do your friendly parliamentarian this solid. Pleeeassseeeeeee pretty pleeeaassseeeeee
April 7, 2024 at 4:49 PM
#c18 Back home from a highly successful ASECS 2024. Next up: get ready to vote on the new bylaws. It's absolutely crucial that 20% of membership weigh in. More info is coming. Please please please please do your friendly parliamentarian this solid. Pleeeassseeeeeee pretty pleeeaassseeeeee
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Hi! We're getting ready for The Doctor is In mentoring at #asecs24 and are happy to have lots of great mentors. Please tell everyone at the conference! #18thc
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April 2, 2024 at 3:16 PM
Hi! We're getting ready for The Doctor is In mentoring at #asecs24 and are happy to have lots of great mentors. Please tell everyone at the conference! #18thc
@asecsoffice.bsky.social @dlspratt.bsky.social
@asecsoffice.bsky.social @dlspratt.bsky.social
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I’m very happy to share that my book is now out in the US and available in the UK on 14 May. You can find out more about Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World at Yale’s site: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Novels, Needleworks, and Empire
The first sustained study of the vibrant links between domestic craft and British colonialism In the eighteenth century, women’s contributions to empire...
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April 3, 2024 at 11:54 AM
I’m very happy to share that my book is now out in the US and available in the UK on 14 May. You can find out more about Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World at Yale’s site: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Excited to see a generous and thorough review by Steven Thomas of African Impressions in this issue of ECF.
Get your read on!
Yesterday, I sent April-issue production files to the University of Toronto Press, so you know what that means: a sneak peek at the reviews section -- ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/bookreviews/ #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Free-to-read book reviews on the journal website!
Yesterday, I sent April-issue production files to the University of Toronto Press, so you know what that means: a sneak peek at the reviews section -- ecf.humanities.mcmaster.ca/bookreviews/ #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Free-to-read book reviews on the journal website!
![Woman reading a letter (Fumi yomu onna), by Kitagawa Utamaro (1754-1806); Edo period, Japan, late 18th century. Woodblock print. A women casts her gaze on a letter that she holds close to her face. She is dressed in a kimono decorated overall in a dotted matsukawa-bishi motif, accented by her yellow obi [sash] with black arabesques. Her shaved eyebrows and her frontally tied sash suggests that she is the wife of a restaurant or shop owner. Yet, her intense posture and the firm way she holds the letter hints that it may have been written by a clandestine lover.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oazuqg55zfzfwueuoplgl7j2/bafkreidw2d47gzt33jf6wco5azfadt2vftccegelxafxebu7sj72orbjzy@jpeg)
March 7, 2024 at 6:07 PM
Excited to see a generous and thorough review by Steven Thomas of African Impressions in this issue of ECF.
Please spread the word on a visionary interdisciplinary project! In 1666, Anne Bradstreet’s house burned, inspiring one of her most read poems. My colleague Christy Pottroff teamed up with an archaeologist to excavate the site. They share findings tonight at 6pm EST. Livestreamed and recorded:
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March 7, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Please spread the word on a visionary interdisciplinary project! In 1666, Anne Bradstreet’s house burned, inspiring one of her most read poems. My colleague Christy Pottroff teamed up with an archaeologist to excavate the site. They share findings tonight at 6pm EST. Livestreamed and recorded:
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Hello hello, please help with our mentoring program at the American Society for #18thc Studies in Toronto this spring!
February 29, 2024 at 6:44 PM
Hello hello, please help with our mentoring program at the American Society for #18thc Studies in Toronto this spring!
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Hello. I’m the ASECS Women’s Caucus co-chair and I’m wondering how many of you would like to see the Caucus create an account here. We are ready to exit Twitter aka X.
Also curious if you think societies like ours would get a lot of response on Instagram.
Also curious if you think societies like ours would get a lot of response on Instagram.
March 1, 2024 at 1:47 AM
Hello. I’m the ASECS Women’s Caucus co-chair and I’m wondering how many of you would like to see the Caucus create an account here. We are ready to exit Twitter aka X.
Also curious if you think societies like ours would get a lot of response on Instagram.
Also curious if you think societies like ours would get a lot of response on Instagram.
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University of Hong Kong is advertising for a Prof/Assoc. Prof on Tenure Terms or Tenure-track Assistant Prof in English Literary Studies (the Long Nineteenth Century). Applications close March 29. @19birkbeck.bsky.social @ehunineteen.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social
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February 23, 2024 at 6:10 AM
University of Hong Kong is advertising for a Prof/Assoc. Prof on Tenure Terms or Tenure-track Assistant Prof in English Literary Studies (the Long Nineteenth Century). Applications close March 29. @19birkbeck.bsky.social @ehunineteen.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social
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Reminder: Applications for "Recording Women in the Early Modern Atlantic World" workshop are due this Friday, March 1. @juliehardwick.bsky.social, @caycarbs.bsky.social and I hope you'll join the conversation!
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Delighted to announce the CFP for “Recording Women in the Early Modern Atlantic World” at UT-Austin and Texas State University, Sept. 26-28, 2024, hosted by me, @caycarbs.bsky.social , & @juliehardwick.bsky.social. March 1 application deadline. Please circulate & apply!
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February 26, 2024 at 2:58 PM
Reminder: Applications for "Recording Women in the Early Modern Atlantic World" workshop are due this Friday, March 1. @juliehardwick.bsky.social, @caycarbs.bsky.social and I hope you'll join the conversation!
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(Likely permanent) job opening at UvA in Black, Indigenous and Critical Race Studies! Also looks good for those working in #envhum along these axes. vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Assi...
Assistant Professor in Black, Indigenous and Critical Race Studies in Arts and Culture
Assistant Professor in Black, Indigenous and Critical Race Studies in Arts and Culture
vacatures.uva.nl
February 27, 2024 at 10:42 AM
(Likely permanent) job opening at UvA in Black, Indigenous and Critical Race Studies! Also looks good for those working in #envhum along these axes. vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Assi...