Morning walk

📣John Locke’s Forgotten Manuscript We are thrilled to announce that @davidrarmitage.bsky.social's article on his discovery of a new John Locke manuscript is out now👇 It sheds new light on Locke's practical involvement in political economy & his engagement with Ireland 📜🗃️

True. But Wollstonecraft had loads of wit and irony in her version of 18th-c rights-based liberal democracy.

Who said BlueSky was useless? Frankenstein wines discovered on here, can be bought at $10 a piece at most US retailers.

I wish I could get pregnant again so that I could take Tylenol.

This Frankenstein wine has a mixed-up body, fruity and earthy notes, an astringent base, and a finish of existential despair…

Wednesday Season 2 has some innovative 19th-c. monster mash-ups.

Some cuteness to brighten your day. My mom’s poodle looked after a puppy at the pet resort.

I can’t believe I just hit the buy button for Taylor’s orange cardigan box set — I must be living the life of a showgirl!

Adventures of philosophy mom (a return to the beginning): 10yo son: Mom, don’t you teach women’s rights at Notre Dame? Mom: yes, why do you ask? 10yo son: (with pride) my new swim coach—she swam at Notre Dame. File in Title IX generation moms and their kids will save democracy in America!

Women have been speaking out about abuse for centuries! I wrote about Anne Wentworth, a 17th-century survivor of domestic abuse, for @theconversation.com #earlymodern

New Wollstoneblog post on Martha Washington, reader of #Wollstonecraft! sites.google.com/nd.edu/eilee...

The Last Man @ Frankenfest. 🌿⚡️

Getting lots of positive feedback on the Frankenbogg. An elementary school student stopped me today, saying, ‘Nice bag’! Who said we can’t unite around something positive in this country?

It is never a bad time to bring out my favourite illustration of Frankenstein's creature Very come hither.

Had my new Frankenbogg bag blessed at church today (as part of the beginning of the school year) and I feel Mary Shelley would approve. I thank the Episcopal church for being a model of open mindedness in this country when it desperately needs such models.

Looking foward to this documentary! share.google/5UC456adpxPX...

Intruding. @eileenmhunt.bsky.social

Happiness as a professor is hearing from one of your former doctoral students that he placed his first book with a major university press!!!!

Presently obsessed with these lyrics from Alexander Hamilton: Will they know what you overcame? Will they know you rewrote the game? The world will never be the same, oh The ship is in the harbor now,

Still don't think any poet has ever gone harder than Emily Brontë.

Can’t get the refrain out of my head now that I’ve returned to listening to the Hamilton soundtrack on repeat—my son when he was 3 would sing, “Salamander Hamilton”!

My research into the history of sexual assault law has never been so relevant. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/u...

I’m so inspired by your work to do the WORK!!!!

Breathtaking! Thanks to Oxford World’s Classics for making this dual edition of Mary Shelley’s ‘The Last Man’ & ‘The Journal of Sorrow’ possible & beautiful! Out in Feb in UK, May in US—in the bicentennial year of these literary masterpieces.

New postdoctoral fellowship in political theory at Notre Dame! apply.interfolio.com/171503

Super excited to see this advert for a talk by Karie Cross Riddle, ND PhD ‘17 and now tenured at Pepperdine, on her new book from OUP on Critical Feminist Justpeace!

Incredible story, especially of the female paramedic. For Americans in Ukraine, Opportunity and the Lure of Combat www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/w...

An oldie but goodie from the bicentennial year of Frankenstein when I co-taught a course on the novel, Frankenstein in Contexts: Politics, Science, Literature, and Film, with Greg Kucich. The class took place in a room overlooking the football stadium! (A glimpse of it is below in background)

boggbag.com/products/bit... seriously considering…

Finished major writing project last night. Condensed a 30000 word conference paper from last year (which in addition had two 10000 word appendices) into a single 10000 word journal article. There’s still a 10000 word Appendix, and a 9 page list of works cited, but they are allowed. Phew!

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... Victory for academia!

In my Frankenstein green and post-apocalyptic orange era, Mary Shelley style.

So long, London! I’ll be back. (Eileen’s Version)

Latest Wollstoneblog post on a wonderful book workshop on ‘Political Theory and Speculative Fiction’ hosted by @duncanbell.bsky.social at Jesus College, Cambridge! sites.google.com/nd.edu/eilee...

Enjoying writing again. That is all.

I have realized how sane I am compared to most TS fans by following their color theories on Threads.

Is the (big) shiny bug version of TS12 an homage to Kafka?

I clearly had premonitions of TS12 when I redesigned my back porch decor last spring. Also it has occurred to me that orange and green are the colors of the Postapocalyptic aesthetic born of Mary Shelley. TS may be reading my work too.

It’s alive! I’ve seen the proofs and the book is beautiful (as befits a tribute to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley). global.oup.com/ushe/product...

Reposting this for Shelley’s funeral-cremation day, which happened exactly #OTD 203 years ago.

So proud of finishing a 14k word paper in 5 days on ‘After London after Wollstonecraft’ (and Shelley) for a book workshop on speculative literature and political theory at Cambridge Aug 29—complete with a Samuel Butler ‘last man’ joke about rowing the stroke position in the John’s men’s eight…

New Locke ms discovered by @davidarmitage.bsky.social!!! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Shed cathartic tears as I pre-ordered the vinyl. All is well in the world when TS churns out a new album—with sparkling orange cover no less. Taylor Swift Announces New Album, ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/a...

Check out the latest Wollstoneblog post on some of Wollstonecraft’s homes I visted this summer: sites.google.com/nd.edu/eilee...

Apparently this c.1330 hare with a satchel, in the gorgeous St Mary’s Church, Beverley, was an inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s white rabbit. Just one of the exceptional mediaeval sculptures and carvings in Beverley’s two great churches.

#OnThisDay, 5 Aug 1984, Joan Benoit won the Olympic marathon, the first year a women's marathon was included at the Games. #OlympicWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️

The Anglican churchyard where the 22 year old Wollstonecraft buried her mother, and where they (and later the young Keats) worshipped.

As spotted on London Fields, Hackney, a short walk from Wollstonecraft’s first flat with her friend Fanny and sister Bess, a poster with a Wollstonecraftian-Shelleyan thought experiment, « What should our parks and green spaces look like in 2031 »?