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Of potential interest to our colleagues!

#ArrestingBeauty at #TheMorganLibrary takes visitors into the mystical world of #19thcentury photographer #JuliaMargaretCameron. If you are unfamiliar with her, I recommend that rabbit hole. Pictured here: 1. “Vivien and Merlin,” 1874 2. “Rebecca at the Well,” 1869-70 3. “The Annunciation,” 1865-66

Spent the afternoon exploring the #Sargent & #Paris exhibit at the @metmuseum.org. It’s an extraordinary collection of his work. Pictured here: 1. “Lady with the Rose” 1882 2. “Le Verre de Porto” 1884 3. “Unfinished Replica of #MadameX” Ca. 1884 4. “Venetian Interior” Ca. 1880-82 #blueskyart #art

Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."

It's publication day!! Thank you to all of the folks at @urochester.bsky.social press and @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social who helped to make this book so beautiful. And thank you AGAIN to all of the folks in my (very earnest) acknowledgments.

The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum, remained shuttered Monday — not by war, not by terror, but by its own exhausted staff, who say the institution is crumbling from within.

@ncsascholars.bsky.social opens submissions to the Emerging Scholars Award, the Article Prize, and the BIPOC Scholars Award. Winners will each receive $500 at the Annual NCSA Conference in 2026. Details below! Award submission deadline: July 1, 2025 tinyurl.com/yc3pnt4s

Check out the special section of NCFS that Cary Hollingshead-Strick and I co-edited—“Fueling the Nineteenth Century"! It was so great working with all these wonderful authors!🔥🚂⛴️🌲 www.ncfs-journal.org/current-toc

🚨 Last call! 🚨 We're HIRING an Editorial Officer — deadline is this 📅 Sunday, 8 June 2025! If you're an academic passionate about open access publishing, we encourage you to apply. Fully remote position! Apply now: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/edit...

Hello fellow lovers of 19th-century studies!! The CFP for @incsa.bsky.social's 2026 annual conference is now open. 21-24 July 2026 National Union Building, Washington, DC In-Person and Online Proposal Deadline: 31 October 2025 Details 👇 in-csa.com/2026-call-fo...

Our VAF exhibit is open. Come check out books from 14 publishers such as @uchicagopress.bsky.social @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social @gettymuseum.bsky.social @lsupress.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social @utpress.bsky.social @utexaspress.bsky.social and more! #vaf2025

i learned from Emma Mason that Christina Rossetti asked to have herself buried in a wicker coffin for this reason, which turns this bleak nursery rhyme from *Sing-Song* (1872) into an autoreferential meditation on solidarity with those who have returned to the earth:

🎉 Congratulations to @asecsoffice.bsky.social member Crystal B. Lake for receiving a prestigious @acls1919.bsky.social Project Development Award for "Reading/Making: Handcrafting Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century"! www.acls.org/fellow-grant...

if anybody wants to buy it, they gave me a 30% discount code: UCPNEW. But if you’d like to read it & don’t have the money, please send me a quick message?

Deadline extended! Submit your proposals by 5/31.

CFP: "Listening to the Past: Digital Approaches to the History of Sound and Language," workshop at the GHI in March 2026, proposals due May 28: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

Opened my email just now to learn THE BARBARA JOHNSON COLLECTIVE received enthusiastic final board approval — it will officially be in the world soon(ish)!!!!!!! @nathankhensley.bsky.social is the best co-editor. Can’t wait for these brilliant, gorgeous, sometimes gutting essays to appear in print.

JOB: TT Assistant Professor, English, University of Regina World Literatures in English universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

🚨FT Permanent Job 🚨 My department is hiring a lecturer (B/B) in 18th-c. Irish history, with the desire for someone whose research and teaching pertains to the Irish 'long eighteenth century (1690-1830)...and broader international, political and intellectual context of the period.' 🗃️

Welcome to all our new followers! For those of you who would like to receive occasional updates by email, please subscribe to our mailing list at the link below: mailchi.mp/4b3379af336e...

Save the date for January's Inaugural Lecture (17 Jan, 6pm) On Literary Taste | SELCS - UCL – University College London www.ucl.ac.uk/european-lan... By Professor Patrick Bray

We’re writing with a quick update. NCSA has decided to quit Twitter. Our account is still open for now, but we will permanently close it on 7 July, 2025. You can help us by spreading the word to our C19 colleagues. We’ve already built quite a following over the past year!

I had a marvelous time at the 2025 NCSA Conference in New Orleans! So many interesting papers and kind scholars. I enjoyed sharing my work on Berthe Morisot, Julie Manet, and the Bois de Boulogne. I also visited NOMA and the historic home of Edgar Degas's family. 🎨 @ncsascholars.bsky.social

🔎 #MedHums101 From interviews and people's stories through to films and visual art, the medical humanities extends what counts as evidence in health research. Read some of our top articles on this theme 👉 thepolyphony.org/tag/evidence/

It's that time again! I'm happy to announce the CFP for this year's Dickens Day, to be held on Saturday 11 October in Senate House, London. This year's topic is "Dickens and art" - send us your proposals (or sketches) by 30 June! ies.sas.ac.uk/events/dicke...

Happy Transgender Day of Visibility! To celebrate, why not listen to our episode with Dr. Rachel Mesch on her book Before Trans, which talks about three famous 19th-century Parisian female writers who identified as men: www.thefrenchhistorypodcast.com/before-trans...

Visitors will see works from the Royal Collection by many of the period’s most celebrated names, including Carl Fabergé, Frederic, Lord Leighton, Edward Burne-Jones, Laurits Tuxen, John Singer Sargent, Olive Edis, Philip de László, William Morris, Oscar Wilde and Edward Elgar.

The Edwardians: Age of Elegance The King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace 11 April – 23 November 2025 This spring, a major exhibition at The King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace will immerse visitors in the glamour and opulence of the Edwardian era. 1/2 www.rct.uk

Our 2025 Conference, #NCSAfusions, wrapped up yesterday afternoon, but we’re already looking forward to our 2026 conference. Keep your eyes out for our #CFP, and for ways to get involved over the coming months!

Finally, our President’s Award goes to Emily Burns of the University of Oklahoma. Congratulations again to all our winners! #ncsafusions

BIPOC Travel Award Winner: Chandrica Barua, University of Michigan Paper Title: "Plantation B/blackness"

Student Travel Grant Winner: Karina Sembe, PhD Student (ABD). Boston University, Boston, MA. Paper title: "Across National Borders, Across Color Lines: How a Brazilian Soldier Became a Poster Child for U.S. Abolitionism."

Scheuerle-Zatlin International Travel Award Winner: Daen Palma Huse, University College London, London, UK. Paper title: “Late Nineteenth-Century Print Ephemera in Lima: Motifs and Materialities.”

Followed by: Faculty Development Travel Award Winner: Martina Saric, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK. Paper title: “Imaginary Fusions: Text, Skin and Sculpted Body in Victorian Pygmalion Fantasies.”

…with Honorable Mentions to: Honorable Mention 1: Katie Brandt Sartain ([email protected]) University of Illinois at Chicago Honorable Mention 2: Sophie van Os ([email protected]) PhD Candidate, Radboud University

EMERGING SCHOLARS AWARD Winner: Ty Vanover, Dickinson College, “Sex, Sign, Subversion: Symbolist Art and Male Homosexuality in 19th-Century Europe.” Arts 13.103 (2024): 1-20.

Up next: The Emerging Scholars Award goes to…

“Hugo, Translated: The Measures of Modernity in Muhạmmad Rūhị̄ al-Khālidī’s Poetics of Comparative Literature” PMLA (2023): 616-638.

Honorable mention goes to: Shaden M. Tageldin ([email protected]) Professor of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature and Distinguished University Teaching Professor in the Department of Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature, University of Minnesota for…

“The Translatability of Love: The Romance Genre and the Prismatic Reception of Jane Eyre in Twentieth-Century Iran.” In Prismatic Jane Eyre: Close Reading a World Novel Across Languages, edited by Matthew Reynolds. Open Book Publishers, 2023.

Winners: Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould Kayvan Tahmasebian, Postdoctoral Researcher at SOAS University of London Rebecca Ruth Gould, Distinguished Professor, Comparative Poetics & Global Politics at SOAS University of London for their article…

Up next, the winners of our Article Prize:

BIPOC Scholars Prize Winner: Nana Osei Quarshie, Assistant Professor in the Program in the History of Science and Medicine, Yale University, "Spiritual Pawning: ‘Mad Slaves’ and Mental Healing in Atlantic-Era West Africa." Comparative Studies in Society and History 65.3 (2023): 475–499.

We’ve just reached 1’400 followers on bsky and It’s awards season again! Here are the latest updates. First up, our BIPOC Scholars Prize:

Welcome to Day 2 of #ncsafusions! Join us for our morning sessions, and then our annual business luncheon and keynote lecture by Prof. Michelle Foa of Tulane University on Degas in New Orleans. liberalarts.tulane.edu/art/people/f...

Reminder to #NCSAfusions attendees, admission to the New Orleans Museum of Art is free when you show your conference badge. noma.org

And we’re off! #NCSAfusions is now underway. After lunch, Sessions IV and V will begin, and make sure to stop by our reception in the Waterbury Room at the Sheraton this evening at 6. If you’re posting, don’t forget to tag us with #NCSAfusions!

Hey Nineteenth Century Studies Association attendees, we'll see you bright and early tomorrow morning for breakfast and of course book browsing. We're in the Bayside Foyer on the 4th floor and we have plenty of discounted books and journals from 22 publishers! #NCSA2025