Mercedes Sheldon
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19th Century Studies Scholar. Literature Lover. Enthusiastic Educator. Persnickety Parent. {she/her}
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Just a friendly reminder to be sure that you have emergency contacts where first responders can find them.
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How to Add Emergency Info to Your Phone's Lock Screen
This simple tip could save your life: Make your emergency medical information and contact numbers visible on your locked phone.
https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-add-emergency-info-to-your-phones-lock-screen
about 1 year ago
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PequodPod
11 days ago
COMING SOON: PequodPod—a new podcast on Herman Melville and his works. We're actively recruiting a co-host, so feel free to hit the DMs.
#MobyDick
#Melville
#books
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Andrea Kaston Tange
11 days ago
If you don't have an individual MLA membership, or your English/languages dept isn't a member of MLA's academic program services arms (ADE/ALD), this is a damn good reason to reconsider. These individual & institutional memberships (+ tiny donations) made this lawsuit happen. (MAPS link for depts)
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Laprofmme 🦬⚔️🏒
10 days ago
Condolences to the faculty and students being asked to come up with individual solutions to the structural problem of admin having outsourced higher ed to for-profit, PE-owned third-party tech companies
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Joseph Rezek
12 days ago
I am laughing at myself because in my forthcoming essay about COMMON SENSE, a text that exists in millions of copies, all my quotations are from, and reproduce the exact orthography of, one existing copy of the 3rd edition (1776), namely “copy 5” at the
@jcblibrary.bsky.social
(call # D776 .P147c5)
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Deirdre Flynn
12 days ago
Permanent job in DKIT Assistant lecturer in Drama and English Literature Department of Humanities
www.dkit.ie/offices/hr/j...
Also jobs in dept Creative arts & Media
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Job Vacancies
https://www.dkit.ie/offices/hr/job-vacancies
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Dr Ian McCormick
12 days ago
Fifteenth Century Type ...
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Dr Ian McCormick
12 days ago
Printing Types: their History, Forms & Use. A Study in Survivals. Explore 360+ original illustrations and specimens spanning nearly 500 years.
www.c82.net/printing-typ...
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Printing Types: Their History, Forms & Use
Digital edition of Daniel Updike’s history on printing and typography
https://www.c82.net/printing-types/
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ProPublica
15 days ago
262 business days. That’s how long the Department of Education told us it would take for it to respond to our recent records request. That’s not how freedom of information is supposed to work. By
@charlesornstein.bsky.social
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Why We Are Suing the Department of Education
The Office for Civil Rights is keeping the public in the dark on which schools it’s investigating and why.
https://www.propublica.org/article/propublica-suing-department-of-education?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=propublica-bsky
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Nathan K. Hensley
15 days ago
Related: one of the surprises for people learning the history of abolitionism in the British Empire is that there was a gigantic payout of reparations upon emancipation, something like £16 billion in today’s money—and every cent of it went to the slaveowners
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Bring Me The News
15 days ago
Jayce Jamar Washington, 9, is missing after leaving his home in Minneapolis on Saturday. Anyone who sees him or knows where he is should call 911. More:
https://bringmethenews.com/minnesota-news/minneapolis-9-year-old-boy-missing-after-leaving-home-on-saturday
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Sarah J. Jackson
18 days ago
I do frequently wonder what the average citizen of the U.S. knows about Reconstruction. As Du Bois would later point out, the backlash of lost cause propaganda didn’t just create mass disinformation about the civil war itself, but about the opening for actual democracy that briefly came after it.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
18 days ago
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a 1798 poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge about being on Bluesky and then trying to share what you’ve learned there w people who are not chronically online
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌
18 days ago
I keep thinking about the ease with which they cancelled elections over the last 24 hours
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
18 days ago
Freedom -Langston Hughes
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Anjeanette Damon
19 days ago
🚨🚨 Journalism job! 🚨🚨 Come work with me on ProPublica's southwest team.
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Southwest Reporter
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/jobs/4674915006
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Riya Das
19 days ago
I am very excited to join Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature as Reviews Editor (huge thanks to editors Dr. Kristen Pond and Dr. Doreen Thierauf for welcoming me to the team) and share our call for collaborative book reviews. See the full CFP here:
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Victorians Collaborative Book Reviews CFP
Call for Collaborative Book Reviews: Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature In its new book reviews section, Victorians: A Journal of Culture and Literature aims to both facilitate collaborat...
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XNVDto4DZ9SWyz3Q9naPIYGeRA0Thpj5qnDenVSegxw/edit?usp=sharing
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Victorian Popular Fiction Association
21 days ago
In a time of fixed-term or zero-hour contracts and uncertainty in HE, come join us as we discuss alternative careers. We'll hear from 3 members working outside academia, and there will be Q&A after! This event is free for VPFA members, so don't forget to check that your membership is up to date.
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Tobias Wilson-Bates
25 days ago
It is becoming clearer to me that books, like dissertations, possess the unfortunate characteristic that you only understand how to write them after they’ve been written
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
26 days ago
For those who may have had to miss it Friday, the recording of our wonderful talk by Graham Law on "Commissioned Letters to The Times" is now live on our YouTube channel!
youtu.be/4KKgILJqiE0
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"Commissioned Letters to The Times," A Lecture by Graham Law
YouTube video by Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
https://youtu.be/4KKgILJqiE0
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TheNACBS
25 days ago
📢Online book event! Join us next week to hear more about Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in 19th Century England and Wales.
@drjenniferaston.bsky.social
in conversation with
@afroide.bsky.social
📅April 30 ⏰12pm noon ET Free and open to the public Info and RSVP:
www.nacbs.org/event-detail...
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Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in 19th-Century England and Wales with Jennifer Aston | NACBS
Join NACBS for a discussion of Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in 19-century England and Wales. Amy Froide will join author Jennifer Aston in conversation.
https://www.nacbs.org/event-details/deserted-wives-and-economic-divorce-in-c19-england-and-wales-with-jennifer-aston
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Sarah Wise
25 days ago
I’ll be leading a guided 2-hour walk of Soho on Weds 20 May for @citylit.bluesky.social at 11am We'll explore the area as a site of radical politics, the policing of vice and the working lives of those who made the gorgeous clobber in the department store windows More info:
tinyurl.com/5x4zaarw
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Tried out a new way to invite students into scholarly conversation: I sent them to VPFJ over at
@vpfa.bsky.social
, had them explore, then read 3 abstracts, then select 1 article to read. They then reflected on HOW the scholar crafted their argument. Finally, they traced 3 biblio sources.
25 days ago
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Victorian Popular Fiction Association
about 1 month ago
VPFJ is seeking to expand its pool of expert reviewers. Send an email to
[email protected]
with subject "VPFJ Reviewer Database" including: - A short CV (or link to institutional profile) and ORCID. - Preferred email address for contact. - Up to 10 research keywords - Any recent publications
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I'll be teaching during this block of time, but sounds like a fabulous way to make some forward progress!
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25 days ago
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SHARP
about 1 month ago
Are you looking for an online global book history festival that features work on ancient through contemporary textual cultures? Look no further! Registration is open now!
events.zoom.us/ev/Ap9iEZwmC...
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Someone recommended a book about burnout. I requested it from the library, who promptly sent it to the hold shelf nearest me. {Thanks,
@hclib.bsky.social
!} And... I am too busy to read it... Am I burnt out? Not quite. Would reading the book on burnout push me past my capacity? Maybe‽ IDK
29 days ago
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Chris Louttit
about 1 month ago
Some exciting news: I'm organising an online event on the topic of Dickens on Screen for
@dickenssociety.bsky.social
! More info on the Society's website 👇. Abstracts of 100-200 words & short bio due by May 11th. The event itself will be on June 6th in the afternoon (East-coast US time).
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Dickens on Screen: Dickens Society Online Event — The Dickens Society
Call for Papers
https://www.dickenssociety.org/the-cricket/dickens-on-screen-dickens-society-online-event
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Patrick Leary
about 1 month ago
Many thanks to Paul Lewis for making available the unannotated texts of all of the letters included in the magisterial Pilgrim edition of Dickens's correspondence. As that edition is paywalled, this will be very handy for scholars everywhere:
victorianresearch.org/Dickens%20le...
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https://victorianresearch.org/Dickens%20letters%20Pilgrim%201820-1870.pdf
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The Bibliographical Society of America
about 1 month ago
The Bibliographical Society of America is participating in a social media campaign with ACLS this week, and we invite you to join in! The message is simple and proactive: we need more humanities and social sciences scholars and research.
#TalkAboutHumanities
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Properly teaching Miss Caylye's Adventures (1898) for the first time. The
@macalestercollege.bsky.social
students are 🔥! They read images so well & are so intellectually curious. Great discussion about the illustrations of Cayley as a mountaineer and photographs of real women climbing mountains.
about 1 month ago
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Matthew Sangster
about 1 month ago
Just a few days left to apply for our Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century scholarship (full PhD funding for three years), working at Sydney with
@nicolaparsons.bsky.social
and at Glasgow with me. Full details here:
www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...
. Deadline 21st April - questions welcome.
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University of Glasgow - Scholarships & funding - USYD UofG Joint PhD Scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century
https://www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships/usyduofgjointphdscholarshiplivingwithprintintheeighteenthcentury/
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Rob Boddice, PhD, FRHistS
about 1 month ago
Post doc opportunity to work at the excellence centre on history of everyday nationalism in Tampere, Finland
tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_...
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Postdoctoral Researcher (History of Everyday Nationalism, CoE NARS) / Tutkijatohtori
https://tuni.rekrytointi.com/paikat/?o=A_RJ&jgid=1&jid=3045&fbclid=IwY2xjawRMU3FleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBicmlkETBPaGtiV0RsTWtBY3BhSENrc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHhpTrLFeIAozYByVDT0RLGEqOhOUZqiYOzq1_zAsbdNiZOSYqhZIstPORN8U_aem_4HsVJVWqzm1fDJPssRsasQ
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MPR News
about 1 month ago
Author and MPR host and newscaster Emily Bright’s newest collection of poems, out Tuesday, took 20 years to make. It paints pictures of spring and asks the question: What seeds are we planting for the future? Bright joined Morning Edition's Cathy Wurzer to talk about the book's inspirations.
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A new poetry book, 20 years in the making
A new poetry book explores poems of spring and connection through 20 years of poetry.
https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/04/14/a-new-poetry-book-20-years-in-the-making
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UMN English
about 2 months ago
Congrats to Associate Faculty Melissa Licht, who won the Morse-UMN Alumni Association Award, the top University honor for undergrad teaching! The citation reads: “Licht’s teaching builds thoughtful, active relationships between the University and the ‘real world'" Cheers!
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UMN English
about 1 month ago
Celebrating a new issue of the longest-running literary magazine in Minnesota, Great River Review, with a reading by prize winners Beaudelaine Pierre and Ìfẹ́olúwa Àyàndélé! Online April 22:
cla.umn.edu/english/news...
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Patrick Leary
about 2 months ago
Jane Eyre reimagined in Classics Illustrated #39 (1947), cover by Harley Griffiths. There's just something about these 1940s-50s pulp and comic-book remediations of 19th-c. texts...
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The University of Chicago Press
about 1 month ago
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Press's publication of Norman Maclean's *A River Runs Through It.* On Lit Hub, James Chandler reflects on the lasting influence of Maclean's autobiographical fiction:
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Of Nature, Art and Grace: On Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It
Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It turns fifty this year. Its author was a retired English professor from the University of Chicago who, at the point late in life when he began work on the bo…
https://buff.ly/vrUB26I
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Dr Sherri Hayden 🇨🇦
about 1 month ago
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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French woman, 86, held by ICE after moving to US to reunite with long-lost love
The son of pensioner Marie-Thérèse told French media he is worried for his mother's frail health as she is detained in a Louisiana ICE centre.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd0rre4d9k0o
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Paula Krebs
about 1 month ago
If you are a grad student interested I learning about teaching at access-oriented institutions or a faculty member at one
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UMN English
2 months ago
PhD candidate
@mercedessheldon.bsky.social
is finishing up a dissertation on 19th-century periodicals writer Grant Allen, looking at "how popular entertainment participates in the process of cultural change, illuminating a critical relationship between class, gender, and media"
#UMNProud
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Grad Studies: Bringing to Light Popular Writing of the 19th Century
PhD candidate Mercedes Sheldon won a CLA fellowship for her dissertation project on gender, class, and periodical author Grant Allen.
https://cla.umn.edu/english/news-events/profile/grad-studies-bringing-light-popular-writing-19th-century
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Modern Language Association
2 months ago
The MLA,
@acls1919.bsky.social
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@historians.org
have filed a motion for summary judgment in our lawsuit to restore the NEH. Discovery documents reveal that DOGE rather than the acting chair led grant terminations and targeted grants using ChatGPT. More at
mla.org/NEH-Lawsuit
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Andrea Kaston Tange
3 months ago
My dog may confuse close-reading a paper with close-eating it, but I bet you don't. Please consider applying to this guaranteed MLA27 session, and help us spread the word! (Official, 35-word CFP on MLA page linked below; more detailed CFP in alt-text with side-eye dog.)
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Nathan K. Hensley
2 months ago
“The water would be supplied by Carvins Cove Reservoir, the primary drinking water source for Botetourt County and much of the Roanoke Valley” 👍
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Deidre Lynch
2 months ago
#BookHistory
mutuals, pls do your magic. A student in my seminar is looking for sources on fingerprints in books. Other than Darnton's reference to inky fingerprints left on the plates of the Encyclopedie, & Folger blog posts by
@wynkenhimself.bsky.social
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Benjamin Dreyer
3 months ago
In the meantime—and it's quite possible, I'm advised, that these slimebuckets have closed all their legal loops—I wrote a pretty good book that you can acquire for not a lot of money or take out of the library, and I've been known to answer questions here when people ask me questions.
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Dr Vanessa
3 months ago
Today's
#Housgawp
- I know what you're going to say, you're going to point at the mould and the damp and the weird two kitchen situation. But keep going. Keep going. Get to what they're using as a "storeroom". yeah.
www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...
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Check out this 6 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove
6 bedroom detached house for sale in Rhu Na Bidh, Sheildaig, Strathcarron, IV54 for £365,000. Marketed by Macleod and MacCallum, Inverness
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/164671490#
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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
3 months ago
Enjoyed today's
#RSVPDigiEvent
? Can't wait for more
#19thC
periodicals' chat? Our March event is just around the corner next Friday, March 6!
@triproftri.bsky.social
will talk to us about the "Racial Anxieties of Polite Culture in the Forget Me Not for 1825 + 1833." Register now!
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Pick-a-Periodical with Katherine D. Harris – RSVP
Join us March 6 for our "Pick a Periodical" event with Kathy Harris, who will introduce us to the racial anxieties within the Forget Me Not.
https://buff.ly/4BJaB1P
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Victorian Periodicals Review
3 months ago
We’re delighted to announce that
@laurenottaviani.bsky.social
(KU Leuven) has joined VPR's staff as Associate Editor. Lauren will oversee book reviews, and she welcomes suggestions for special features. Visit
rs4vp.org/vpr/
to message the editors or volunteer to review a book.
#VictorianStudies
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Just hit that moment in the term when students see bigger connections & analyze the texts on a deeper level. Their intellectual curiosity is wonderful & promises some lovely midterm essays! Particular excited about the student who is shaping his as a C19 review.
3 months ago
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Minnesota Star Tribune
3 months ago
A federal judge said the IRS broke the law by disclosing confidential taxpayer information ''approximately 42,695 times" to ICE.
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The IRS broke the law by disclosing confidential information to ICE 42,695 times, judge says
A federal judge said Thursday that the IRS broke the law by disclosing confidential taxpayer information ''approximately 42,695 times" to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
https://bit.ly/3OAx1F3
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