Stephanie O'Rourke
@sorourke25.bsky.social
Art Historian
'Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction 1780-1820' (Chicago 2025)
'Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism' (Cambridge 2021)
extraction and its visual cultures, dog videos, unions, knowledge systems, 19th-century literature
'Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction 1780-1820' (Chicago 2025)
'Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism' (Cambridge 2021)
extraction and its visual cultures, dog videos, unions, knowledge systems, 19th-century literature
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Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
Headed to Binghamton this week to talk through material from my new book! 🤓
October 27, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Headed to Binghamton this week to talk through material from my new book! 🤓
CFP for our panel at the Association for Art History's annual conference in Cambridge. We welcome a wide range of approaches to the topic! Proposals due 2nd November.
forarthistory.org.uk/landscapes-o...
forarthistory.org.uk/landscapes-o...
Landscapes of Extraction: Colonial and Industrial Histories of British Landscapes, 1700-1900 - For Art History
This panel will explore the complex interplay of colonial wealth and industrial development in British landscapes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As Britain’s imperial reach expanded, weal...
forarthistory.org.uk
October 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
CFP for our panel at the Association for Art History's annual conference in Cambridge. We welcome a wide range of approaches to the topic! Proposals due 2nd November.
forarthistory.org.uk/landscapes-o...
forarthistory.org.uk/landscapes-o...
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Gustave Lester and I are co-editing a special issue of Media+Environment on Critical Minerals and Media Technologies. Send us your abstracts by November 15! @mediaenviron.bsky.social
mediaenviron.org/post/3478-ca...
mediaenviron.org/post/3478-ca...
Call For Papers: Critical Minerals and Media Technologies | Published by Media+Environment
We invite contributions for a forthcoming stream of the UC Press open access journal Media+Environment entitled “Critical Minerals and Media Technologies,” edited by Siobhan Angus and Gustave Lester.
mediaenviron.org
October 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Gustave Lester and I are co-editing a special issue of Media+Environment on Critical Minerals and Media Technologies. Send us your abstracts by November 15! @mediaenviron.bsky.social
mediaenviron.org/post/3478-ca...
mediaenviron.org/post/3478-ca...
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For anyone working on decolonizing art history, please apply for the session I’m co-convening with Rina Ayra, Claire Moran, and Ceren Özpınar for @forarthistory.org.uk’s 2026 annual conference. CFP deadline is 2 Nov 2025: forarthistory.org.uk/decolonising...
Decolonising Art History - Continuing the Conversation - For Art History
The AAH’s dedicated resource portal on antiracism and decolonial approaches, established in 2020 during the global pandemic in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, represents a key milestone in...
forarthistory.org.uk
October 7, 2025 at 11:23 AM
For anyone working on decolonizing art history, please apply for the session I’m co-convening with Rina Ayra, Claire Moran, and Ceren Özpınar for @forarthistory.org.uk’s 2026 annual conference. CFP deadline is 2 Nov 2025: forarthistory.org.uk/decolonising...
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Newcastle University staff invited to a ‘Doodling for Wellbeing’ session (‘Let your pen dance across the page' in 'a perfect escape from the everyday hustle and bustle'. Invites sent on same day 153 academics were informed of their location in 'redundancy pools', with 38 redundancies planned. 1/2
May 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Newcastle University staff invited to a ‘Doodling for Wellbeing’ session (‘Let your pen dance across the page' in 'a perfect escape from the everyday hustle and bustle'. Invites sent on same day 153 academics were informed of their location in 'redundancy pools', with 38 redundancies planned. 1/2
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Exam board prep today, and as usual it's one part academic judgement to three parts "The oodlified scripts have been uploaded to a password-protected polycule on FlipWangle. If you haven't set up 5FA on your uniSnork account you can simply repuffer via Blarg. The helpdesk will reopen on Wednesday."
May 26, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Exam board prep today, and as usual it's one part academic judgement to three parts "The oodlified scripts have been uploaded to a password-protected polycule on FlipWangle. If you haven't set up 5FA on your uniSnork account you can simply repuffer via Blarg. The helpdesk will reopen on Wednesday."
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I'll be trying out new material for my keynote "Romantic Shock and Industrial Catastrophe" at the Sorbonne next week. The line up of papers looks great!
[COLL] 16-17.05.25 / Sorbonne
Romantic Shock and Surprise
org. London-Paris Romanticism Seminar avec le concours de @sorbonne-universite.fr, de l'université de Lille, de @qmul.ac.uk et de la @sera-romantic.bsky.social
keynote: Christopher Miller, @sorourke25.bsky.social & Marc Porée
Romantic Shock and Surprise
org. London-Paris Romanticism Seminar avec le concours de @sorbonne-universite.fr, de l'université de Lille, de @qmul.ac.uk et de la @sera-romantic.bsky.social
keynote: Christopher Miller, @sorourke25.bsky.social & Marc Porée
Symposium - London-Paris Romanticism Seminar
Call for papers: Exiles, Émigrés and Expatriates in Romantic-Era Paris and London, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris,12-13 April 2018
londonparisromantic.com
May 9, 2025 at 7:48 AM
I'll be trying out new material for my keynote "Romantic Shock and Industrial Catastrophe" at the Sorbonne next week. The line up of papers looks great!
I'll be trying out new material for my keynote "Romantic Shock and Industrial Catastrophe" at the Sorbonne next week. The line up of papers looks great!
[COLL] 16-17.05.25 / Sorbonne
Romantic Shock and Surprise
org. London-Paris Romanticism Seminar avec le concours de @sorbonne-universite.fr, de l'université de Lille, de @qmul.ac.uk et de la @sera-romantic.bsky.social
keynote: Christopher Miller, @sorourke25.bsky.social & Marc Porée
Romantic Shock and Surprise
org. London-Paris Romanticism Seminar avec le concours de @sorbonne-universite.fr, de l'université de Lille, de @qmul.ac.uk et de la @sera-romantic.bsky.social
keynote: Christopher Miller, @sorourke25.bsky.social & Marc Porée
Symposium - London-Paris Romanticism Seminar
Call for papers: Exiles, Émigrés and Expatriates in Romantic-Era Paris and London, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris,12-13 April 2018
londonparisromantic.com
May 9, 2025 at 7:48 AM
I'll be trying out new material for my keynote "Romantic Shock and Industrial Catastrophe" at the Sorbonne next week. The line up of papers looks great!
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[COLL] 16-17.05.25 / Sorbonne
Romantic Shock and Surprise
org. London-Paris Romanticism Seminar avec le concours de @sorbonne-universite.fr, de l'université de Lille, de @qmul.ac.uk et de la @sera-romantic.bsky.social
keynote: Christopher Miller, @sorourke25.bsky.social & Marc Porée
Romantic Shock and Surprise
org. London-Paris Romanticism Seminar avec le concours de @sorbonne-universite.fr, de l'université de Lille, de @qmul.ac.uk et de la @sera-romantic.bsky.social
keynote: Christopher Miller, @sorourke25.bsky.social & Marc Porée
Symposium - London-Paris Romanticism Seminar
Call for papers: Exiles, Émigrés and Expatriates in Romantic-Era Paris and London, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris,12-13 April 2018
londonparisromantic.com
May 9, 2025 at 6:00 AM
[COLL] 16-17.05.25 / Sorbonne
Romantic Shock and Surprise
org. London-Paris Romanticism Seminar avec le concours de @sorbonne-universite.fr, de l'université de Lille, de @qmul.ac.uk et de la @sera-romantic.bsky.social
keynote: Christopher Miller, @sorourke25.bsky.social & Marc Porée
Romantic Shock and Surprise
org. London-Paris Romanticism Seminar avec le concours de @sorbonne-universite.fr, de l'université de Lille, de @qmul.ac.uk et de la @sera-romantic.bsky.social
keynote: Christopher Miller, @sorourke25.bsky.social & Marc Porée
This is a gorgeous and urgent book!!!!!!!!!
met this thing for the very first time yesterday at @peoplesbooktakoma.com— a weird feeling, truthfully, to see eight years of your life condensed into a 1-pound stack of paper. But it is very pretty & I hope some of you guys like it 🌿
April 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
This is a gorgeous and urgent book!!!!!!!!!
Really looking forward to hearing the amazing papers at our conference 'The Geological Imagination in the Long Nineteenth Century' (Huntington, LA)
The Geological Imagination in the Long Nineteenth Century | The Huntington
Exploring the historical origins of extraction and the growing field of Geoaesthetics, this conference queries how artists mined the geological imagination during this period. Presentations will respo...
huntington.org
March 31, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Really looking forward to hearing the amazing papers at our conference 'The Geological Imagination in the Long Nineteenth Century' (Huntington, LA)
the series finale of America is....wild
March 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
the series finale of America is....wild
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All this doom ain’t gonna scroll itself
March 20, 2025 at 12:13 AM
All this doom ain’t gonna scroll itself
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I said this at 12 PM and by the evening I learned that my colleague had been kidnapped
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March 20, 2025 at 3:34 AM
I said this at 12 PM and by the evening I learned that my colleague had been kidnapped
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Have just learned that a new name for “rough draft” is “sloppy copy”, and I, once again, stand in appreciative aw at the ever-evolving beauty of Language 😍
March 13, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Have just learned that a new name for “rough draft” is “sloppy copy”, and I, once again, stand in appreciative aw at the ever-evolving beauty of Language 😍
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I'll know I've assimilated into UK culture when I can put down 2-3 pints at the airport at 5 am. I'm not there yet.
March 13, 2025 at 5:18 AM
I'll know I've assimilated into UK culture when I can put down 2-3 pints at the airport at 5 am. I'm not there yet.
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QMCECS BSECS Early Career Visiting Fellowship 2025. An award to conduct C18 research in London (£500 for travel and living, and accommodation at QMUL's Mile End campus (£400). More info, small print, and application form here: tinyurl.com/pxxwxt3w. Deadline for applications: 31 March 2025.
March 13, 2025 at 11:24 AM
QMCECS BSECS Early Career Visiting Fellowship 2025. An award to conduct C18 research in London (£500 for travel and living, and accommodation at QMUL's Mile End campus (£400). More info, small print, and application form here: tinyurl.com/pxxwxt3w. Deadline for applications: 31 March 2025.
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*On Wonder*!
Free to download, free to read for a few more days until 27 Feb 2025!
Thank you for sharing a&nd thank you for welcoming my little wonder book!
#C18L
#18thcentury
@cambridgeup.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Free to download, free to read for a few more days until 27 Feb 2025!
Thank you for sharing a&nd thank you for welcoming my little wonder book!
#C18L
#18thcentury
@cambridgeup.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
February 25, 2025 at 3:35 AM
*On Wonder*!
Free to download, free to read for a few more days until 27 Feb 2025!
Thank you for sharing a&nd thank you for welcoming my little wonder book!
#C18L
#18thcentury
@cambridgeup.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
Free to download, free to read for a few more days until 27 Feb 2025!
Thank you for sharing a&nd thank you for welcoming my little wonder book!
#C18L
#18thcentury
@cambridgeup.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1017/9781...
This week my students are reading @pocoeco.bsky.social 's great piece on museums and colonial science alongside Park and Daston's book on 'wonder'
www.noemamag.com/the-long-sha...
www.noemamag.com/the-long-sha...
The Long Shadow Of Colonial Science | NOEMA
Museums and gardens must become spaces that help us learn not only about biological life and human history, but also the colonialist and capitalist logic that still governs our everyday lives.
www.noemamag.com
February 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
This week my students are reading @pocoeco.bsky.social 's great piece on museums and colonial science alongside Park and Daston's book on 'wonder'
www.noemamag.com/the-long-sha...
www.noemamag.com/the-long-sha...
Looking forward to speaking about all things John Martin, sewage systems, and coal mine ventilation at the PMC in London on January 22nd!
www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/for...
www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/for...
John Martin and Romantic Extraction
The early nineteenth-century artist John Martin bore witness to a rapidly carbonising Britain. Although he is most famous for his dramatic portrayals of epic, historical…
www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk
January 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Looking forward to speaking about all things John Martin, sewage systems, and coal mine ventilation at the PMC in London on January 22nd!
www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/for...
www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk/whats-on/for...
Remarkable Guillaume Lethière show at the Louvre right now. Son of a white plantation owner and an enslaved woman of mixed race, Lethière was one of the most successful artists in early 19th-c France. Through the show a larger community of Caribbean artists in Paris comes into view as well.
December 12, 2024 at 3:33 PM
Remarkable Guillaume Lethière show at the Louvre right now. Son of a white plantation owner and an enslaved woman of mixed race, Lethière was one of the most successful artists in early 19th-c France. Through the show a larger community of Caribbean artists in Paris comes into view as well.
CFP: Romantic Shock and Surprise
Sorbonne Université, Paris, Friday 16 – Saturday 17 May 2025
full call here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5530
Sorbonne Université, Paris, Friday 16 – Saturday 17 May 2025
full call here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5530
November 29, 2024 at 1:50 PM
CFP: Romantic Shock and Surprise
Sorbonne Université, Paris, Friday 16 – Saturday 17 May 2025
full call here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5530
Sorbonne Université, Paris, Friday 16 – Saturday 17 May 2025
full call here: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5530
Cambridge UP has just asked authors to consent to the content of our books being included in upcoming generative AI licensing deals in exchange for a 20% royalty
a white cat is sitting on a box and says someone tell me what is happening
Alt: a white cat is sitting on a box and says someone tell me what is happening
media.tenor.com
November 28, 2024 at 10:09 AM
Cambridge UP has just asked authors to consent to the content of our books being included in upcoming generative AI licensing deals in exchange for a 20% royalty
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I'm just a girl, standing in front of the media, saying I just came to Bluesky to shitpost about medieval penis trees without being solicited by Nazi bots for sex.
November 26, 2024 at 10:51 PM
I'm just a girl, standing in front of the media, saying I just came to Bluesky to shitpost about medieval penis trees without being solicited by Nazi bots for sex.