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Sarah Allison
@sarahdallison.bsky.social
English & DH in New Orleans--

new book out on celebrity authorship, 19C print culture, antislavery:

https://cup.columbia.edu/book/the-rise-of-celebrity-authorship/9780231209717/
let the record show that this production was one for the ages
And once you’re nicely beveraged, join the Theatre Caucus at 8 in the Hampton Ballroom for Lady Audley’s Secret!!! @navsa2025.bsky.social
If you’re at @navsa2025.bsky.social please join us for the 🍃VCOLOGIES HAPPY HOUR🍃from 7-8 this evening!!!

We’ll be in the Marquee Bar and Lounge: complimentary beer/wine for grad students, first come, first served!
November 17, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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And once you’re nicely beveraged, join the Theatre Caucus at 8 in the Hampton Ballroom for Lady Audley’s Secret!!! @navsa2025.bsky.social
If you’re at @navsa2025.bsky.social please join us for the 🍃VCOLOGIES HAPPY HOUR🍃from 7-8 this evening!!!

We’ll be in the Marquee Bar and Lounge: complimentary beer/wine for grad students, first come, first served!
November 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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My watch says today's temp range is 47 degrees to 74 degrees. This is three seasons for New Orleanians and "shorts weather" for midwesterners.
November 12, 2025 at 6:22 PM
reviewed great collection on writers & new media in the 19C print culture sublime! ed and intro by alexis easley w essays by @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social & more!

in Review 19 --
www.review19.org/view_doc.php... & looking forward to talking about it at @navsa2025.bsky.social !!
BRITISH WRITERS, POPULAR LITERATURE AND NEW MEDIA INNOVATION, 1820-45 by Alexis Easley, ed., Reviewed by Sarah Allison
Review 19: Assessing New Books on English and American Literature of the Nineteenth Century
www.review19.org
November 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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A timely roundtable at #NAVSA2025: "Victorianist Work After the University as We Knew It." A great conversation with Sarah Allison, Gordon Bigelow, Ruth McAdams, Rachel Sagner Buurma, & Kyoko Takanashi.
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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🦇 #BatAppreciationMonth
#BatsInArt #PreciousBats #Contemporary
mystacinidae (pseudonym)
AFRICAN YELLOW WINGED BAT, 2010)
Watercolour
October 28, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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Broad St underpass is the only reported road closure so far.

All you cities new to flash flooding - this is my pay attention to Louisiana pitch. New Orleans' community-sourced real-time flooding map.

Streetwise.nola.gov
October 26, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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The first look at a book cover is always so exciting (w/ @cookiegoth.bsky.social)
October 20, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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New review up on Review 19--Ruth McAdams on Lindsey N. Chappell's Temporal Forms and the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean: Writing British Heritage in Ancient Lands: www.review19.org/index.php
Review 19 Search Page
Review 19: Assessing New Books on English and American Literature of the Nineteenth Century
www.review19.org
October 15, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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I have for several years been obsessed with so-called PKM tools -- it's what I play with instead of Being Productive -- and I think I've finally found an actual long-term winner with the db version of logseq (which is still not formally released).
October 14, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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Are you the only human being who remains uncorrupted when given power? Consider moderating a panel!
October 10, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Ben Franklin:
I fucking love printing. That is all.
September 21, 2025 at 12:44 PM
as the poet has it: you're my soda pop
my little soda pop
ah ahhhh)
Preparing, with delight, to teach Christina Rossetti's Goblin Market later this term and seriously wondering why there is no soft drink called "Goblin Dew" (line 470).

Waiting now for the marketers to beat down my door.

(An advertising slogan is ready to go: "Eat me, drink me, love me." (l. 471).
September 6, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Did you publish a book in 2025/2024? Are you attending NAVSA this November? Do you want to celebrate your book? If so, fill out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/1tJH...
NAVSA Book Party!!
To celebrate books published in 2025/2024 at the 2025 NAVSA conference. If you are an author who published a book and want to celebrate it, fill out this form. Please share with other authors attendin...
docs.google.com
September 4, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Re-posting for no reason: New Orleans has recorded fewer murders through August this year than any year since 1970 (includes Jan 1).
September 3, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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The grey stone walls, the broken country, the meagre trees, seemed to be telling him afresh the story of that painful past which he knew so well by heart. But no story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather, we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.
September 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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does anybody need me to explain frankenstein
September 3, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Now available! A rich account of the competing and complementary forces that shape images of authors, THE RISE OF CELEBRITY AUTHORSHIP reveals the collaborative work of literary production and celebrity. buff.ly/GpP4bcV @sarahdallison.bsky.social
September 1, 2025 at 5:15 PM
for real and for true, the RISE OF CELEBRITY AUTHORSHIP is out!! The code CUP20 will get you 20% through the Columbia University Press website; let me know if you are dying to read it but need a presentation copy from the author, who is very excited about it------!!

cup.columbia.edu/book/the-ris...
The Rise of Celebrity Authorship | Columbia University Press
Literary celebrity in the nineteenth century emerged from a miscellaneous array of trending print forms, including antislavery writing, which was a popular, ... | CUP
cup.columbia.edu
August 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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August 27, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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Do I eat this cold meatball or do I walk it upstairs to the microwave in the history dept pls vote ⬇️⬇️⬇️
August 26, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Now available! THE RISE OF CELEBRITY AUTHORSHIP: 19th-CENTURY PRINT CULTURE & ANTI-SLAVERY, by Sarah Allison

Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%: bit.ly/3V9ygLk @sarahdallison.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social
August 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Excited to finally announce the release of my first ever book, and the first ever book from we here press. It is a pocket-size guide to my archival theories and experiences in the form of essays- some you may have heard in part as lectures, some which are unpublished until now.

www.weherepress.org
August 20, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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Someone asked me this week what's good about being a professor.

Today my answer is, I bought the bad edition of Spence's Anecdotes because it is printed from the corrupted copy of the master MS that Garrick read, which Johnson used in writing his Lives.

It gives me perverse satisfaction to cite.
August 7, 2025 at 1:58 PM