I’ll be presenting my new “Diasporic Divas” research on the 18th-century Afro Italian singer Vittoria Tesi on 31 March at the 2nd European Researchers in the UK Event at Corpus Christi College Cambridge and online if anyone is interested! See poster below or DM me for more details.

The only other thing that’s occurred to me is how many cartes de visite are on eBay!

So cool! I think you’ve covered them all but if anything else comes to mind I’ll let you know. Lucky students!

Louise Abingdon as Eve in La Lanterne magique (Châtelet) in 1865. White woman with long brown hair parted in center stands wearing a costume made up of a few large leaves over a leotard and tights, with white high laced boots

I'm having my students research mid-late #19thc French actresses and #theaterhistory in the Spring. Any great online resources I should be sure to point them to (beyond Gallica, Retronews, & Les Archives du Spectacle)? Thanks!

#academicsky #France #skystorians

Book Cover: Patrick O'Malley's The Irish and the Imagination of Race

so excited about this book!!

Fashionable Friends Laura Engel’s adaptation of Mary Berry’s play Fashionable Friends (originally staged 1801, published 1802) at the Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington, Connecticut, recalls Netflix’s Bridgerton b...

My theatre review of Fashionable Friends at the Lewis Walpole Library, feat. Queen Charlotte/Bridgerton is here! scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/rectr/a...

And it’s a wrap at the AMS. Such a wonderful time meeting colleagues old and new!

Lovely to connect with the lovely @emmanuelawroth.bsky.social! Cheers to hopefully many more drinks and conversations!

Calling all Atlanticists working pre-1900! There’s an awesome conference happening at NYU in the spring! Be a part of it! Proposals due next week! Repost! Reblue! Resky!

Yo, if ANYONE comes to your door in costume they get candy. If they DON’T have a costume, they get candy. As a kid who grew up poor and often had a ”lazy costume”, fuck you. Don’t be a classist shit bag. Give everyone candy who wants to participate in Halloween regardless. Keep the magic alive. 🦴🦴🦴

What an incredible exhibition ‘Seeing Race Before Race’ at Newberry Library on pre-modern racialization. Thank you to Dr Noémie Ndiaye and Dr Lia Markey for giving me so much to think about. Now to read the catalogue from front to back.

The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture by Courtney Thorsson Thorsson (Women’s Work), an English professor at the University of Oregon, presents a vivid group portrait of “The Sisterhood,” ...

Publishers Weekly calls Courtney Thorsson's (@courtneythorsson.bsky.social) THE SISTERHOOD a "vivid group portrait" that provides "scintillating snapshot of a significant moment in American literature." Very excited for this book to be coming out soon! bit.ly/3Qch3iA

Haiti for the Haitians is out with LUP! A leading 19th-c. Haitian intellectual, Janvier provides a searing critique of European and U.S. imperialism, predatory finance capitalism, and domestic politics. On behalf of all of the contributors, we hope you enjoy!
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James Gillray, "Destruction of the French collossus" (J. Humphrey, 1798), [BNF/Gallica]. Detail showing orange lightning striking a large statue, skull w snakes and Phrygian cap falling off; bloody hand on guillotine labelled Fraternité, with ominous cloud in background.

🗃️ Putting on my #FrHistory chapeau to announce 1st talk of FrenchHistTO's 2023-24 program: Dr. Samantha Wesner (UofT) will present "Citizens Electric! Galvanized Bodies and Popular Sovereignty in the Revolutionary Francophone Atlantic." Fri. Oct. 27, in person, Munk 108N, 4:30-6:30 pm. Join us!

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