I'm constantly revising my list of reasons why we don't use AI in my class. This one is specific to a first-year writing intensive. Free to borrow/adapt! 🙂

Do any #18thC literary (specifically Pope) scholars out there, have an opinion about JW Croker's edition of Pope's correspondence, particularly with regard to dating? Trying to unpick an unhelpful March letter and work out whether Croker had located it in the correct year. Suspect not (by context).

“Scholars and students across fields will find in Choudhury’s work new insights into the sensibilities and preoccupations of texts we thought we knew…” Many thanks to Madeleine Seys for her kind review of "Textile Orientalisms" in the Journal of British Studies @jbritishstudies.bsky.social

📢 Call for Contributions 📢 The Journal of British Studies seeks submissions for a special series of short essays to be published over the course of 2026 on the topic of “1776: Views from the British World.”

Delighted to see this new special issue of the Journal of Scottish Philosophy on ‘The Philosophical Writings of Scottish Women’ in print. I had a lot of fun writing this short piece on Susan Ferrier earlier this year - now free to read @edinburghup.bsky.social: www.euppublishing.com/doi/10.3366/....

One of my grad school professors here at SUNY New Paltz was Arthur Cash, biographer of Laurence Sterne. Classes met in his kitchen. Wine was served. We read Tristram Shandy, and he laughed at each joke and funny scene like a happy, new discovery. What made grad school worthwhile? Moments like this.

A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas. Be a love, and pay it today.

How do you celebrate Burns Night? 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 UofG's @glasgowburns.bsky.social has launched The Burns Supper at 225 Years: Scottish Tradition, Global Reinvention. Help us build a crowdsourced archive of Burns Suppers worldwide for the 225th anniversary next July. Learn more: gla.ac/44Veysf

Coming up Buchanan Street, quickly, on a sharp winter evening a young man and two girls, under the Christmas lights… —Edwin Morgan, “Trio” published in CENTENARY SELECTED POEMS, @carcanet.bsky.social 2020 #poem #poetry #Christmas #Glasgow www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/inde...

Another Mathematical Objects podcast episode is out! Find out about the interesting maths behind a slice of pizza: aperiodical.com/2025/12/math...

New Special Issue of Victorian Popular Fictions Journal, edited by @helenaesser.bsky.social and @drclaireocall.bsky.social alert ‼️ The issue explores Victorian popular fiction and culture as key sites for negotiating gender and sexual non-conformity, with a focus on the concept of the ‘third sex’.

The Eighteenth-Century Ireland Society has a new website that is well-worth checking out for details of the annual conference, journal, and news of the inaugural ECR bursary, which was awarded to @mzukovs.bsky.social. The next bursary will be announced shortly. www.ecis.ie/news-events/

Angus at midwinter or near as makes no odds – faint shadows raxed over fields of dour earth, every fairmer’s fenceposts splashed with gold. —Kathleen Jamie, “Solstice II” in SELECTED POEMS (Picador 2018 #poem #poetry #midwinter www.panmacmillan.com/authors/kath...

Margaret Macdonald, The Three Perfumes, 1912, Glasgow School artist who was believed to have influenced Klimt #womensart

At midday on the year’s midnight into my mind came I saw the new moon late yestreen wi the auld moon in her airms… —Liz Lochhead, “In the Mid-Midwinter” published in FUGITIVE COLOURS (Polygon 2016) #poem #poetry #StLucysDay birlinn.co.uk/product/fugi...

Early Bird Registration for #BSECS2026 closes on the ***15 NOVEMBER 2025*** www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/... #skystorians #18thC 🗃️

If you or anyone you know would be interested in a GREAT Victorian studies conference in the spring, here's the CFP. Proposals due Dec 6. Especially let anyone within driving distance of Cincinnati know! The lovely @nathankhensley.bsky.social will be keynote speaker. midwestvictorian.org/conference/

RB & Gabriela Cunninghame Graham: International Travel, Domestic Reality 28 Nov @uofglasgow.bsky.social – free Exploring the cultural & political significance of RBCG’s travels & travel-writing, & the question of Gabriela’s identity and RBCG’s collusion in the deception wegottickets.com/event/677550

TODAY! We’re very excited at CECS to hear from Dr Rachael King, our British Academy International Visiting Fellow this autumn.

We’re launching our new catalogue on Monday 8 December. To keep our collections safe while we do this, access and ordering will be suspended for a week before launch and all requests for 8 December onwards must be made on the new system when it launches. Find out more: bit.ly/CollectionSu...

Call for Papers for 5th World Congress of Scottish Literatures is out:pleased to be giving keynote,'Burns along the New Silk Road' @iassl.bsky.social @asls.org.uk @scroll-scotlit.bsky.social @sahavoice.bsky.social @glasgowburns.bsky.social @paulinemackay.bsky.social scotlit-iassl.org/2025/11/11/c...

I have an essay on atmosphere in Virginia Woolf in the new issue of Modern Fiction Studies. Currently unpaywalled, if you even care muse.jhu.edu/issue/54710

On Monday 12 May, 2.30 pm. All welcome! Also available via TEAMS (DM for link). poeticinnovation.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk

Delighted to be speaking on 22 May at the SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES (SSH) IN HORIZON EUROPE: BRIDGING RESEARCH AND INDUSTRY FOR IMPACTFUL INNOVATION event, beginning 10am CET. Registration below. @ahallardyce.bsky.social @uofgied.bsky.social forms.office.com/pages/respon...

BARS is delighted to announce that the 2026 International Biennial Conference will be held at the University of Birmingham. The theme is Romantic Retrospection. Weds 29th- Fri 31st July 2026 (with additional online elements held around the in-person conference) www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=5908

Lovely piece on Cashmere shawls, and cites Textile Orientalisms too - in Washington Post - www.washingtonpost.com/style/fashio...

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CFP: Alexander Trocchi at 100: a Symposium 12–13 June, Glasgow A two-day symposium to mark the centenary of ‘the Scottish Beat’, Alexander Trocchi. The organisers welcome proposals for talks of 15–20 minutes on any aspect of Trocchi’s life & works. baas.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

🦠 Contagion and Contamination in the Nineteenth Century, a free and online one-day interdisciplinary workshop. Thursday 1 May, 9.00am – 5.00pm (Central European Time). For the full program and to register for the workshop, visit: cn-csi.com/event/contag...

Warmest congratulations to our PhD graduate Caroline Ritchie on the publication of her brilliant monograph "William Blake and the Cartographic Imagination", published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Just four days to go!

Delighted to be talking about Paisley shawls next week in London! @uofgnews.bsky.social www.bankofengland.co.uk/museum/whats...

The Bank of England Museum is often overlooked, but worth popping in if you're nearby.

LP 68: 'Oaths, Odes and Orations', edited by David Duff & Marc Porée. Essays by Francesco Buscemi, Rémy Duthille, Judith Thompson, Pierre Lurbe, Robert W. Jones, Dafydd Moore, Catherine Bois, David Duff, and Paul Hamilton. 🔓 Available in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/magazin/2024...

Hail, haggis, full of grace / champion of the pudding race / what immortal hand or eye can frame thy fearful symmetry

“Erskine (1869–1960) may come across as one of the eccentric, larger-than-life personalities involved in the whirlwind of political initiatives & small magazines […] However, his magazines played a vital role in the development of modern Gaelic fiction, drama, & journalism” saha.scot/six-reasons-...

Take a look at this beauty! The latest issue of Scottish Literary Review, co-edited by me and @scottlyall.bsky.social is available now on @projectmuse.bsky.social. As usual, our authors cover a beautifully wide range of writers, topics, periods, approaches and contexts for Scottish literature 📚

The Defoe Society's conference is happening at Keele University (UK) on July 3-5, 2025. Check out the CFP: www.defoesociety.org/conference/ Proposals re: “Discoveries and Improvements, 1660-1740” are due January 31, 2025. Get your abstracts in! #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

Gaelic & Scots in the 20th & 21st Centuries 19 Feb, Scottish Parliament Free (booking essential) Dr @poncarova.bsky.social discusses literary & historical connections, inspirations, & the role of new users, in the preservation & revitalisation of Gaelic & Scots www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gaelic-and...

AAS’s Summer Seminar in the History of the Book was so important for my development as a scholar, & I can think of few better leaders than my dear friend & undergrad classmate in “18th century ass” @gretalafleur.bsky.social

CFP for the 2025 Congress of the Canadian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies. Join us in Regina! www.csecs.ca/en/news/call...

"Choudhury has taught me to pay close attention to any mention of a shawl in literature ... and perhaps that is one of the highest types of praise a scholar can offer a colleague—to say that she has changed how one approaches and interprets texts.” muse.jhu.edu/article/949344

the glorious empire somewhat shaming, trade and tobacco lording over golden and red sandstone where the tree never grew, the bird never flew, the fish never swam, the bell never rang… —poem by IEE Lees on the @uofglasgow.bsky.social library wall 5/5 glasgowuniversity.wordpress.com/2009/08/02/t...

Centre for Robert Burns Studies Conference 18 Jan @uofglasgow.bsky.social in-person: £25 The 2025 @glasgowburns.bsky.social conference spans Burns & the environment; manuscript forgery; & Burns’s connections with the transatlantic slave trade & abolition www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for...

Spread the word! Postdoctoral Fellowship in Palestinian Studies at Stanford islamicstudies.stanford.edu/opportunitie...

Delighted, thank you BARS!

Happy anniversary to my favorite copy editor comment of all time. "You use 'long eighteenth century' a lot in this book, but each century is exactly as long as another."

REGISTRATION FOR #BSECS2025 CLOSES AT MIDNIGHT ON SATURDAY 30 NOVEMBER!!!! We can't wait to see you all in January. #18thC #skystorians 🗃️ www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/...

📢 @jbhist.bsky.social & I are very pleased to announce that we are seeking a f/t 2-year Research Associate in Victorian Cultural and Material History to join our major @ahrcpress funded research project on the Victorian Hand. Closes 6 December. Spread the word!!! hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...