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

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."

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

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 series finale of America is....wild

All this doom ain’t gonna scroll itself

I said this at 12 PM and by the evening I learned that my colleague had been kidnapped docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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 😍

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.

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.

*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...

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...

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...

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

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

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.

Look, I'm not NOT going to buy a bunch of 19th-century copper mining prints. What am I, a crazy person? Who is uninterested in early 19th-century copper mines??? Be serious.

Next month I'm speaking at the INHA in Paris about 'Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction' !

you could ask your library to order if you want

For those many, many of you newly here (very exciting, a little overwhelming!), I'd love to offer my project's blog on medicine, race-making, and slavery as teaching resource, research inspiration, and testament to an exciting community of new and established scholars #EarlyModern

A problem I currently have is I started using the word 'asymmetrical' in my teaching and now I can't stop, it's in every sentence. Very worried the students will think this is a normal way to talk.

Roundtable II in our 24/25 series will be on Thurs 21 November at 3pm (GMT): 'Extraction and Racial Capitalism' featuring: Dr Danielle Kinsey, Carleton University Dr Rebecca Macklin, University of Aberdeen Dr Nick McGee, Durham University Please register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/minerals-r...

Really grateful for this review of my book & especially to be discussed alongside Noah Heringman (whose work is so important to me) Surely there is no greater compliment than for someone to say your text prompted 'bouts of fierce underlining'! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This Friday Katie Hornstein, Kelly Presutti, C.C. McKee, Maura Coughlin and I are talking about 'Keywords for Ecocriticism in Francophone Visual Culture of the Long Nineteenth Century' for H-France! (link below)

Not all heroes wear capes. Some of them are editors who catch and correct small errors in hundreds of your citations

Cannot wait for this

Deeply honoured to be awarded the BARS First Book Prize for 'Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism' (CUP, 2021)!!! @bars.bsky.social www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5352

I have a piece out in this month's Apollo about Friedrich and romanticism's landscapes of extraction t.co/7NviB2Alfs

My article 'John Martin and the Art of Infrastructure' is out now on nonsite! In it, I explore the importance of infrastructure for John Martin and for nineteenth-century British art more broadly. t.co/KRzTRn1umB

CFP: The Geological Imagination in the Art of the Long Nineteenth Century Huntington Library, California 4-5 April 2025 Details here: tinyurl.com/5byd6he6

Painting in Steam Please note this event begins at 2pm UK time, not 3pm as previously advertised. My apologies for the error.

Got to spend a dreamy afternoon with @titachico.bsky.social and St A colleagues talking about khipu and Chladini plates and thermometers and mining diagrams and mica, just a few of the early modern instruments through which we understood ourselves and our world

My new book 'Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction, 1780-1850' will be published next year by the University of Chicago Press! It asks: how did various forms of picturing make the natural world assimilable to the protocols of extraction in Europe and its colonial networks?

amazing essay by stephanie on the displacement of an early "lateral framework" of mineral mapping in favor of an emergent "vertical logic" of stratigraphy & extraction, which "came to dominate the visual culture of mining and geology."

My little piece on mining, mapping, and verticality in 18th-century France is out now in Journal18! www.journal18.org/nq/jean-loui...

Ha ha I think of this as my role for undergrads, actually

The world is currently experiencing one of history’s longest droughts between filmed adaptations of Jane Eyre.

Speaking next Friday about John Martin and infrastructure for 'Rethinking Victorian Mediascapes' organized by my colleague Luke Gartlan -- looking forward to it!

this stage of capitalism continues to disappoint!

"Knowledge gives empire its heft": @kaneeshaparsard.bsky.social on empire's "verificationist style." 💥

Although it's a "romantic" landscape, someone viewing this painting circa 1820 would have instantly recognized it as a modern, artificially planted, and highly managed woodland. In it, Friedrich portrays the beauty of the technocratic values of resource management. Friedrich, Evening, c 1820

Is it just me or does this 'scary' 'dragon' by Albrecht Aldorfer look like a goofy lil rooster

just taught a week on the colonial and commercial history of pigments and suddenly this painting - with its Prussian blue and Indian Yellow - looks unfamiliar and interesting

“Academic publisher Elsevier, which owns a majority of the prestigious academic journals, has higher operating profits than Apple”

what is the best century and why is it the nineteenth century