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August 🔝 reads! Links👇 1/Lauren K. DiSalvo’s "Postures After the Antique in Eighteenth-Century Portraits of Women" 2/Jeremy Chow’s "Succubus Matters" 3/Mary Ann O’Donnell’s "Behn and the ‘Epitaph On the Tombstone of a Child’" Thanks for reading #ABO! #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC

Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

And for the penultimate article in our Phillis Wheatley Peters Pedagogy Special Issue: Katarina O’Briain’s “Reading Phillis Wheatley’s Catastrophic Poetics: Heroic Couplets and Environmental Justice,” ABO 15.1. Abstract 👇 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol15/is... #philliswheatleypeters #pwp #pedagogy

“King and Pierce show how the Gothic romance, a well-established genre by the time Radcliffe was writing, is still evolving in significant ways...” — Annette Hulbert, Willamette University Read the full review in @abojournal.bsky.social's journal: buff.ly/sRSIIMe

Next up in our Phillis Wheatley Peters Pedagogy Special Issue: @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social's "Reimagining the Single-Author Seminar: Teaching Wheatley Peters, Milton, and the Master’s Discourse,” ABO 15.1. Abstract 👇 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol15/is... #philliswheatleypeters #pedagogy

Kicking off ABO 15.1’s Phillis Wheatley Peters Pedagogy Special Issue with a section intro from Mona Narain, our Scholarship Editor, and Sarah Ruffing Robbins. Abstract 👇 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol15/is... Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #philliswheatleypeters #pwp #poetry

Minerva Press scholarship alert!

New article by Esmeralda Orndorff and Joanne E. Myers in ABO Summer 2025! Abstract 👇 “The Maternal Icon in Eleanor Sleath’s The Orphan of the Rhine,” ABO 15.1 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol15/is... Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #gothic #gothicliterature #femalegothic

We're in good company! Thanks for including us, @signsjournal.org.

May 🔝 reads! Links👇 1/J. Chow’s rev. of @manionjen.bsky.social's Female Husbands: A Trans History 2/K. Hansen’s “Dress as Deceptive Visual Rhetoric in Haywood’s Fantomina” 3/S. Buckner’s rev. of A History of African American Autobiography, ed. by Joycelyn Moody #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC

The History of the Nun is wild and I want everyone to read it. Excited to read this article!

New article by Anaclara Castro-Santana in ABO Summer 2025! Abstract 👇 “The Untold Love Story of Aphra Behn's The History of the Nun,” ABO 15.1 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol15/is... Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #aphrabehn #amatoryfiction #thehistoryofthenun #sapphiclove

Attention ABO readers! The Summer 2025 (15.1) issue dropped late last week. Content screenshots below with exciting article abstracts to follow. digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/ Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #scholarship #pedagogy #reviews #announcements #notesanddiscoveries

The cat's outta the bag! New issue is live!

Wrapping up our “Teaching Margaret Cavendish, Pt. 2” pedagogy collection: E Mariah Spencer’s “‘Strange and Unusual Things’: Teaching the Speculative Fiction of Margaret Cavendish,” ABO 14.2 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/is... Thanks for reading! #cavendish #pedagogy #blazingworld #sciencefiction

Call for Applications: Stephen Copley Research Award Deadline 1st June 2025 The BARS Executive Committee has established the bursaries in order to help fund research expenses up to a maximum of £500. More information and how to apply: www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...

#BookHistory friends! Work has begun on the LGBTQIA+ Book History bibliography, and the team is looking for you to share your citations! If you know of or have published something on LGBTQIA+ book history, submit it to this Google form! forms.gle/c1pkNBPbbyCF...

Next up in our “Teaching Margaret Cavendish, Pt. 2” pedagogy collection: Kevin Lower’s “Teaching Margaret Cavendish Through the Lens of Scientific Anti-Realism,” ABO 14.2 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/is... Thanks for reading! #cavendish #margaretcavendish #pedagogy #poetry #philosophy

Next up in our “Teaching Margaret Cavendish, Pt. 2” pedagogy collection: Jonathan L. Shaheen’s “An Argumental Discourse Before All: An Approach to Teaching Cavendish,” ABO 14.2 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/is... Thanks for reading! #margaretcavendish #cavendish #pedagogy #atomism #causation

Did you check out our recent pedagogy collection, "Teaching Margaret Cavendish, Pt. 2"? The section begins with Anne Thell’s "Jumping Pens and Historical Vertigo: Teaching Cavendish in the Twenty-first Century," ABO 14.2 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/is... Thanks for reading! #cavendish #pedagogy

Phillis Wheatley Peters event today! Join Mona Narain (ABO’s scholarship editor), Sarah Ruffing Robbins, and Barbara McCaskill for “Historically Speaking: ‘The Feast of Genius and the Play of Art’: The Legacies and Communities of PWP at the NMAAHC.” Register here: nmaahc.si.edu/events/histo...

I was on the editorial board of @abojournal.bsky.social for years. It's a scholar-led, open access journal on women in the longest 18th century. The board tirelessly works to keep the journal going. Particularly great are the pedagogy clusters on under-studied figures. digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/

And if you miss ABO managing editor @drkellyplante.bsky.social at #ASECS2025 today, you can catch her tomorrow at the @sharpweb.org roundtable where she'll examine the Gentleman's Magazine from a postcolonial and feminist perspective. See you at 2:00! Details👇 #18thCentury #18thC #C18th

ABO readers at #ASECS2025 won't want to miss today's Haywood Studies at a Quarter Century roundtable! Participants include ABO founding board member @kirstensaxton.bsky.social and managing editor @drkellyplante.bsky.social See you at 3:30! Details👇 #elizahaywood #18thCentury #18thC #C18th

Attention #ASECS2025 attendees: Don't miss out on the roundtable Mona Narain, ABO Scholarship Editor, and Jeremy Chow put together and are serving as respondents for. Steven Thomas will speak on Ethiopia and Africa. Katarina O'Briain will speak on the Transpacific and Philippines. Details 👇 #C18th

Rhyme-lovers, a call for papers! David Caplan is hosting another symposium on poetic form at SMU—the first one was *fabulous*, generating real conversation among scholars & poets. Propose a paper to join us for the second iteration?! www.smu.edu/dedman/acade...

New article by Rebecca Cypess (Yeshiva University) in ABO Winter 2024! Abstract 👇 “Playing Proverbs with Madame de Genlis,” ABO 14.2 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/is... Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC #salons #proverbs #theater #Genlis #France

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New article by @melanieconroy.bsky.social in ABO Winter 2024! Abstract 👇 “The Sounds of Madame Geoffrin’s Salon,” by Melanie Conroy, ABO 14.2 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/is... Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC #salons #enlightenment #geoffrin

Celebrate Women’s History Month w/access to Women Writer’s Online (WWO) and Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present! wwp.northeastern.edu/wwo/ orlando.cambridge.org Project descriptions and access info👇 Screenshot Cr.: TAMU Center of DH Research, Digest #38

ICYMI: “Queen Camilla Unveils New Aphra Behn Statue” www.bbc.com/news/article... Statue designer Christine Charlesworth said, "My Aphra is walking but glancing behind her because she is carrying interesting things such as a theatre masks and she has a secret message up her sleeve." #aphrabehn

Excited to hear @theotherkim.bsky.social is continuing to work on Margaret Baker's recipe books! Here's the link to Connor's original research, "Seeking Margaret Baker: Identifying the Author of Three Manuscript Receipt Books," from ABO Vol. 12, Issue 1: digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol12/is...

Interested in submitting work for consideration in ABO? Check out submission guidelines for Scholarship, Pedagogy, Digital Humanities, Book Reviews, Conversations, and Notes & Discoveries: digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/policies... Looking forward to reading your manuscripts! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

Jan.🔝 reads! Links in reply👇 1/J. Chow rev. @manionjen.bsky.social Female Husbands: A Trans History 2/B. Hernandez-Knight’s Race and Racism in Austen Spaces: Jane Austen and Regency Romance's Racist Legacy 3/C. Beggs rev. L. Linker’s Dangerous Women, Libertine Epicures, and the Rise of Sensibility

Event of interest to ABO readers working on Phillis Wheatley Peters and in the Boston area on Feb. 27: "BeeFound: Washington & Wheatley Write!" Poet Toni Bee and Prof. Nicole Aljoe to discuss the relationship between Washington and Peters. Details / registration: www.nps.gov/long/planyou... Flyer 👇

New article in ABO Winter 2024! Abstract 👇 "Enfilade and Variations: Interpreting Salon Music through Residential Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Paris," by Nicole Vilkner, ABO 14.2 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/is... Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC #salons #music #architecture

Any ABO readers attending #SEASECS 2025 in Savannah? Don't miss out on ABO Editor @lauralrg.bsky.social's presentation, "Behn and Song." Hope to see you this Friday the 7th at 4:30 in the Chippewa Suite! #aphrabehn #theater #music #restoration

New article by @jemjones.bsky.social in ABO Winter 2024! Abstract 👇 “Simulating an Eighteenth-Century Enlightenment Salon: Embodied Experience and Scholarly Investigation,” by Jennifer M. Jones, ABO 14.2 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/is... Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC #salons

Rebecca Cypess (Yeshiva University) and I are pleased to announce a collection of articles on "The Salon and the Senses in 18th-century France" we edited for Aphra Behn Online. #Rutgers digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/

Calling all grad students working on Fanny Burney (or her family)! The deadline for the Burney Society’s Hemlow Prize is January 31. Details here: burney-society.org/the-hemlow-p... Good luck, applicants! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC #francesburney #fannyburney #burneysociety

New article by @erikawicky.bsky.social in ABO Winter 2024! Abstract 👇 “Toxic Varnishes: Perfumes, Stench, and Glow in Eighteenth-century French Salons,” by Érika Wicky, ABO 14.2 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/is... Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC #salons

Get a sneak peak at our forthcoming Phillis Wheatley Peters special pedagogy cluster this Thursday at #MLA25! Mona Narain, ABO's scholarship editor, will be presenting as part of the “Making Public Humanities Visible...” session. See you at 3:30 in Churchill B2! Details 👇 #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

New article in ABO's Winter 2024 issue! Abstract screenshot👇 “Photo-Feminists: The Inter-textual Discussion of Eighteenth-Century Periodical Frontispieces,” by Karenza Sutton-Bennett, ABO 14.2 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/is... Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC

Delighted to read the latest (Winter24) issue of @abojournal.bsky.social and its brilliant reviews and articles on 18c literature, culture and pedagogy. Thrilled to be an Editorial Board Member of such an extraordinary publication/community. digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/is....

Happy New Year, ABO readers! The Winter 2024 (14.2) issue dropped earlier this week. Section screenshots below (Scholarship & Salons! Teaching Cavendish! Intergenerational Thinking! Reviews!) and exciting article abstracts to follow... digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/ #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC

November’s top reads! Links👇 1) K. Hansen’s “Dress as Deceptive Visual Rhetoric in Eliza Haywood's Fantomina” 2) B. Hernandez-Knight’s “Race and Racism in Austen Spaces: Jane Austen and Regency Romance's Racist Legacy” 3) J. Chow’s “Succubus Matters” Thanks for reading ABO! #18thCentury #C18

I heard all the cool academic journals are on BlueSky now? 👀 @ecfjournal.bsky.social