In Swedish, a word for what you eat to bridge the gap between meals (or while waiting for the main course to cook) is stödmacka. It means "support sandwich." A similar word in Norwegian is ventepølse, or "waiting sausage."

Next week! Come along if you're in Durham 📚♥️ www.durham.ac.uk/departments/...

Calling teachers of all levels! Email [email protected] to share short essays about how you have incorporated (or plan to incorporate!) birdsong into your teaching this year. Materials will be compiled and published on the K-SAA website. #KSAAComm www.k-saa.org/birdsong

My immediate reaction to seeing these tiny volumes: 💞Oh, they are cute! … Evidently so cute they broke Hazlitt’s theory of repeat reading when, in this form, Rousseau’s ‘Eloisa’, which he had long loved, suddenly revolted him 😅 (small, gilt edges, rosy perfume)—at the Palace Green Library, Durham

Staying in a flat attached to Rydal Mount. In the day, the house and garden is open to tourists; at night the garden is all ours! 🌸🌹

Sunday morning news: I have figured out an edition of Rousseau 'Eloisa' that is plausibly the one that revolted Hazlitt when he encountered it years after first reading (and loving) the novel in a different edition. Very small, with gilt edges. Perfumed with rose leaves? TBC. Ordered it for £30...

The hottest ticket in Durham this September? Probably not this, but I'm still excited to be giving a talk on Keats's copy of Shakespeare at the Palace Green Library, inspired by the current exhibit of Durham's First Folio📖 @ksaacomm.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/twilight-t...

✨️Job Alert✨️ Research Associate, 21st Century Oxford Authors Edition of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Fixed-term, University of Sheffield, closing date 18 August. Please share with ECRs! jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Research...

And meanwhile... www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cv...

Closing date today!

In exciting news: at long last I took my UK driver test. This means now being able to reach the beautiful and stunningly undeveloped beaches of the North East, where Jolene can chase all the birds. Best days ever.

Applications are invited for the position of Post-Doctoral Researcher with expertise in digital and spatial humanities (11 months, whole-time) - to work with me and @insightcentre.bsky.social on a project called 'Data Travels: Analysing the Ladies of Llangollen'. ore.ucc.ie (Job ID: 088233)

Splashing in the River Wear on a warm day ☀️🐾💕🌊

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My Literacy Trust North East group is collaborating this afternoon with Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library to launch their work in Newcastle and I am deeply excited to tell them my dog’s name is Jolene 🎶

In Godwin’s Herald of Literature, Godwin ‘reviewed’, among other hallucinated literary works, Fanny Burney’s forthcoming novel Louisa, even ‘quoting’ from it. Ahead of his time, evidently 😂 . Herald indeed.

The roses have gone rogue, but I have no will to tame them. My version of ‘no-mow May’ 🌹

My aspirational energy, in any case!

Here's the offending speech

Applications are now open for the BSECS-Northumbria Fellowship - up to £4000 to research the culture, history, and identity of the North East of England and the Scottish Borders in the long eighteenth century. Find out more at www.bsecs.org.uk/prizes-and-a...

Thrilled to announce the 2025 Katharine F. Pantzer Junior Fellow, @ceyingst.bsky.social !🏆 Their research, "Transitions by the Book," delves into how print shaped and reflected non-normative gender in the long 18th century. This award is generously supported by Katharine F. Pantzer's legacy.

I've extended the deadline & adjusted the wording on this scholarship after queries from prospective students. Please encourage students interested in a funded PhD on poetry in either 18c/Romantic and/or settler colonialism & Indigenous sovereignty to get in touch! www.wgtn.ac.nz/scholarships...

In view of Thursday's visit of the king and queen to Durham: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GANe...

Delighted to see in print my review of Arden Hegele's bold first book, Romantic Autopsy: Literary Form & Medical Reading. This 'incisive' book will appeal to those interested in medical humanities,theories of affect & reading,history of criticism,Romanticism.🔪📚✨ www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3...

Happy ALCS payment day. Still stunned that this is a thing.

Eighteenth-Century Studies is looking for a new Reviews Editor. I'm finishing up my term and happy to answer questions about it! asecs.org/publications...

It is world book day, and I am ready for it, with the National Literacy Trust North East, today at RVI hospital, Newcastle. 📚🐰💕🥳 @literacy-trust.bsky.social

niche question for book history people, early Black Atlantic literature people (mostly maybe for @rezekjoe.bsky.social ). The copy of Wheatley's Poems that Sancho received from Jabez Fisher--does anyone know if it had PW's signature?

Preparing to introduce Susan Valladares at today's NE Forum event, I've been reading her new book, Stock Pieces (publ. Dec.2024), and--let me tell you--get it while it's hot! Interested in the radical political potential of Romantic repetitions of various kinds, I'm especially intrigued...

A reminder for those of you in London this week - I'll be reading from and discussing my new book The Unnatural Trade at the @linneansociety.bsky.social on Thursday 20 Feb, 6pm. Book at: eventbrite.co.uk/e/1111773116...

It’s important to know that a lot of productive activity is happening in person and offline, too. Not all of it can be broadcast online, but we’ve had hundreds of people showing up to our trainings, mobilizations, and more. Keep going. Tyranny is eroded by a sea of small acts. Everything matters.

We are hiring several postdoctoral associates at Boston University's interdisciplinary Kilachand Honors College! It is a 3 year teaching position. I am on the committee and happy to answer any questions. The position is unionized. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29595. Please share widely.

👋Societe d'Études du Romantisme Anglais wishes you a Happy New Year! 🎉🎊 We are currently moving from X to Bluesky, so please follow us here if you are interested in the Romantic period (poetry, prose & drama, 1775-1837, all inclusive) 😊 More to come soon! Please tell your MA students about us 😉

What to do when you return to your house after a long time, during which a food historian has been staying there, to find a mystery (meat?) in the freezer. I know what to do with the bottles of wine and beautiful glassware...

If you aren't in this starter pack but should be, let me know📚😀 go.bsky.app/fkgPH6

Fig got a new bed for Christmas (early). And could her little tail and feet markings be any cuter (no they could not) 💕

Bit late but NEW JOB ALERT AT BLOOMSBURY! Come work a mat. cover on our brilliant Classical Studies list. Only a couple of days left so get those applications in...! bloomsbury.current-vacancies.com/Jobs/Advert/...

To imagine continuous reading as the norm in reading a book is radically reactionary: it is to read a codex as if it was a scroll, from beginning to end. Stallybrass

The vibe in NYC this week seems very "Dietland"--tv series cancelled after one season, alas.

477 manatees at Blue Springs (Florida🌴) today. Not sure who counted, but I believe them!

Cannot figure out what to think about this book, though I can say it has been absorbing in the extreme; that may be an indication of how good it is. My bedtime reading for the last few nights, which made me want to get into bed even more than usual. 😅

grumpy caturday🐈‍⬛💕

Exactly one year till we host a joint Australasian 18C and Romantic Studies conference here in Wellington, NZ - I'm hosting and very much hoping you will join us www.wgtn.ac.nz/fhss/about/e...

Can’t believe I had to grow up with the canned stuff

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

Sending this around one more time since it happens next Tuesday! Spending a year in North East England getting an MA in English is an idea I can totally get behind. If your students (outside the UK) might be interested, please share with them the link below! 📚🌳🌊

Sending this around one more time since it happens next Tuesday! Spending a year in North East England getting an MA in English is an idea I can totally get behind. If your students (outside the UK) might be interested, please share with them the link below! 📚🌳🌊

Where are my Victorianists working on writing about/inspired by their own families, especially public-facing writing? Who is writing memoirs, family history, or doing scholarly/public crossover work that centers the personal and family? Please tell me about your projects & if you'd be up for a chat!

Nothing to do but pose for photos while we wait for mom at the doctor’s office 🌴🐾🌴

I think I made a starter pack? go.bsky.app/fkgPH6