A little write up about the Mitchell Library's 'Performing 19th-Century Glasgow' exhibition from this past autumn! Featuring an 1839 Ira Aldridge playbill. www.glasgowlife.org.uk/libraries/fa...

If you're in Glasgow this month, check out this exhibition on Scottish pantomime at the city chambers! I curated the sections on panto's handling of slavery and empire, and its subversive treatment of gender. hellorayo.co.uk/clyde/local/...

Applications for @uofglasgow.bsky.social Special Collections research fellowships are now open. Come work with our collections! Closes Jan 5th. www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...

Book cover! Coming 2026 from Stanford UP ✨

'His book tour brought him to Cambridgeshire, where he would marry and have two children with Susannah Cullen, an Englishwoman from Ely. They settled in Soham, supported by a local network including abolitionist friends, safe...when reactionary “church and king” mobs were targeting reformers.' 1/3

Giving at talk about race and performance in early Victorian Glasgow this Saturday at the Mitchell library! www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/talk...

My colleagues in computer science and I co-authored this article about using LLMs to extract and tag data from c18-19 playbills. Spoiler: ChatGPT is easily confused by genre designations of plays, less so by 'straightforward' info like cast lists. umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/article/view...

We will soon be announcing a new Fellowship through the British Association for Romantic Studies which supportsthe work of independent researchers. It's a tight deadline but if you fall into this category or know anyone who does, watch this space @bars.bsky.social

I polled my students during today's lecture on which Cockney 'To the Grasshopper and the Cricket' sonnet they prefer. Keats wins by a landslide! (Hunt on the left and K on the right)

Check out this year's program for 'Romanticism Across Borders' virtual speaker series. I'm on there along with some of my favorite people 👯✨

Glasgow pals, check out my new exhibition at the Mitchell Library on c19 theatre, empire, and celebrity! On display thru October. I'm also giving a talk at the Mitchell on race and c19 theatre on October 4 😊 www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/exhi...