I’m looking to put together a panel on “New Approaches to Early American Fiction” for SEA 2027. Open to all but I especially want to highlight work by graduate students/early career folks working on early American fiction. Consider submitting a proposal and please share widely!
I’m looking to put together a panel on “New Approaches to Early American Fiction” for SEA 2027. Open to all but I especially want to highlight work by graduate students/early career folks working on early American fiction. Consider submitting a proposal and please share widely!
Hey! Is the dream of the 90s (sustained ambitious attention to the fin de siècle American novel) alive?
Yes! In this AzQ special issue @rafaelwalker.bsky.social and I co-edited with intro by us & afterword by Jennifer Fleissner 😎
Open access! @hopkinspress.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/issue/56582
Can’t wait to read it. Congrats, Joe!
March is Women's History Month! Celebrate by reading the featured Early American Literature articles. You can find them in issues 59.3, 59.2, and 56.1.
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture Vol. 55, 2026 CONTRIBUTORS Marlis Schweitzer, Dwight Codr, Jesse Molesworth, Kelly Swartz, George Boulukos, Sandra Macpherson, Heather McPherson, Cecilia Feilla, Lillian Lu, Taylin Nelson, Victoria Barnett-Woods, Ziona Kocher, Huw Edwardes-Evans, Jesslyn Whittell, Sarah Carter, Natasha Shoory, Moinak Choudhury, Peter de Gabriele, Brett D. Wilson, Rebekah Mitsein, I. B. Hopkins, Anna M. Foy, Rachael King HOPKINS PRESS JOURNALS muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/journal/378
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
Vol. 55, 2026
tiny.one/2p92w9dy
CONTRIBUTORS
Marlis Schweitzer, Dwight Codr,
Jesse Molesworth, Kelly Swartz,
George Boulukos, Sandra Macpherson,
Heather McPherson, Cecilia Feilla,
Lillian Lu, Taylin Nelson,
Ziona Kocher, and more
Papyromania: Women, Books, and Scraps in the Long Eighteenth century./ Deidre Shauna Lynch (etc.) / March 26, 4 p.m., UConn Humanities Institute. The central image, the trade card from c. 1750, is a trompe l'oil image of an untidy pile of comic portrait prints and printed maps, with Griffin's trade card--identifying the location of her shop-- positioned in the centre.
Look at the great poster the U of Connecticut made for me--incorporating the witty trade card of Elizabeth Griffin, mid #18thc London map & printseller.
Immodest of me--but I believe my talk (3/26, 4pm) will be live-streamed, so pls let me know, farflung Bsky pals, if you'd like more info'.
Our special issue for @j19journal.bsky.social honoring Frances E.W. Harper's 200th birthday is now out! It features *8* terrific essays on intriguing facets of Harper's work and concludes with a stirring afterword by @profkori.bsky.social.
@dark-stars.bsky.social
@c19americanists.bsky.social
En route to Cincinnati to talk uncertainty with some really smart people.
Very excited to be part of this group!
Happy first day of Moby-Dick in “Intro to American Lit” to all who celebrate.
Nothing gets me out of bed in the morning like a fresh account of historically significant novels that have become completely neglected! Couldn’t be more excited to dive into @rafaelwalker.bsky.social’s new book.
Mesmerizing is a perfect description of so much of it.
A truly remarkable book. So glad it is back in print. Absolutely can’t miss for anyone interested in the history of the novel.
ALA 2026 Edith Wharton International Society
Seeks panels for a roundtable on “Wharton & Pedagogy.” (1/3)
Book History article title page
Book History article first page
I wrote a #bookhistory love letter to some smart folks: @ryancordell.org @rscar.bsky.social @jmadelman.bsky.social (& others!) - thx to @gbarnhisel.bsky.social and all who had their mitts on this thing, & to @amantiquarian.bsky.social for supporting the research back in 2009 - only took 16 yrs lol!
Time to fill an egregious gap in my reading.
Done!
I got to do a lightning round about my devotion to Clarissa with @sinsleyh.bsky.social, and she has honored me beyond measure by pairing it with one by Frances Ferguson. Swoon!
open.substack.com/pub/clarissa...
This!
People in my phone!! I will be giving a talk at Harvard’s Mahindra center on Oct 23, at 6pm:
“Aphra Behn’s White Female Pen”
It’s about Oroonoko (1688) and the nominal emergence of the racial category “white” in the late 17th C.
(from my book, which I’m still revising, still eager for feedback…)
I’ve never read Dorothy Richardson and I’m thinking about diving in. Best complete edition of Pilgrimage?
What a bizarre, beautiful, brutal novel. I suspect that it will stay with me for a long time.
New issue of Legacy is out, and open access! 🗞️
Click right here to access Volume 42, No 1:
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55448 !
On the menu:
- "Leaving Giants Unslain: Idle Activism in Catharine Sedgwick's The Linwoods and Other Writings" by Jordan L. Von Cannon
1/3
I hear the of sounds of simpering university admin everywhere…
“If the University of Chicago can cut grad programs in the humanities, so can we!”
James.
poster for an event where me and Joseph Rezek talk about Poe's PYM!
One month from today! On 7/28 come celebrate the gorgeous new @sandtclassics.bsky.social edition of Poe's PYM by hearing me & @rezekjoe.bsky.social talk about Poe's PYM! And why not buy a copy which includes a lively conversational afterword wherein me & @rezekjoe.bsky.social talk about Poe's PYM!