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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 14m

Hello, I work at the @fitzmuseum.bsky.social now 😊

@ Any Cambridge folks/18th century visual culture people on here - hit me up!

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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 5d

Autumn is always twin peaks rewatch season

I think I just found the title for my next article on puzzling cartographies, Blakean and otherwise. 'It's not a puzzle at all... it's a map'! Must remember to acknowledge deputy Andy

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deven parker @devenparker.bsky.social · 5d

Check out this year's program for 'Romanticism Across Borders' virtual speaker series. I'm on there along with some of my favorite people 👯✨

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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 9d

All that is solid... found these immortal words inscribed in a weird little nook round the back of SOAS a few years ago and just rediscovered it yesterday, just a little more melted.
Photo 1: 21 May 2021.
Photo 2: 2 October 2025.

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Adam Neikirk @adamneikirk.bsky.social · 10d

Update: it's being posted

It's a session on "Creative-Critical Writing and Romantic Studies" so... if you are interested in this and want to collaborate on a session for BARS 2026, please get in touch!

Adam Neikirk @adamneikirk.bsky.social · 11d

Sent a session call to BARS 2026 a tiny bit over the deadline today but really hoping they'll post it -- keep your eyes peeled 👀

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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · 24d

📣 Announcing the publication of BARS review Issue 61, my first issue as editor!

www.bars.ac.uk/review/index...

Vol. 61 (2025) | The BARS Review

www.bars.ac.uk

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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · Sep 1

Happy Monday ✨ I am pleased to announce the publication of my article 'London Blakeans' in vol. 89 of 'Publishing History'! Thank you to all who contributed ❤️❤️
www.proquest.com/scholarly-jo...

www.proquest.com

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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · Aug 13

Living on the fringes of globe town couldn't feel more appropriate as I start my research on global imagining...

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Dr. Nicole Infanta Keller @nicolekeller.bsky.social · Jul 9

Excited to see my Margaret Bryan article in "19C Women Writers, Astronomy, & Gender," the latest issue of NCGS. Thanks to editors Noah Comet and Gillian Daw for their generosity and patience (and to those of you who’ve endured these ramblings for nearly a decade).
ncgsjournal.com/issue211/ind...

Issue 21.1 • Special Issue: Nineteenth-Century Women Writers, Astronomy and Gender • Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies

ncgsjournal.com

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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · Jul 8

Read about the conference I recently organised at @engfac.bsky.social here: english.web.ox.ac.uk/article/befo...

Before Earthrise: Global Imagining in Literature and Visual Culture, 1550-1968

english.web.ox.ac.uk

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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · Jun 25

Feeling inspired (& a little dazed) after a sublime day of global imagining at Oxford's English faculty yesterday, bringing together talks from historians of art, literature, and ideas 🌐 Thank you to all involved!

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Caroline Koegler @carolinekoegler.bsky.social · Jun 24

When in #Oxford, attend an amazing conference on "Earthrise" & #Global Imagining @ox.ac.uk 's English Department - ‪@engfac.bsky.social‬ - and give a paper on global #oceans.
sites.google.com/view/before-...
organiser: #CarolineAnjaliRitchie
#GlobalLiterature #AcademicChatter #TeamEnglish

Before Earthrise

A one-day symposium at the University of Oxford, 24 June 2025 Location: English Faculty, Oxford

sites.google.com

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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · Jun 23

Looking forward to seeing u and hearing ur talk Kate!

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Kate Nankervis (she/her) @womanofclouds.bsky.social · Jun 23

I’m very excited to be in Oxford for the Before Earthrise Symposium, organised by @carolineanjali.bsky.social, & can’t wait to present my paper tomorrow! Today, I indulged in a nostalgic wander around all my old undergrad haunts & discovered some new spots too…Oxford is a special place ✨

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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · May 26

Remember to sign up before the end of Saturday!

Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · Apr 11

Registration now open for 'Before Earthrise: Global Imagining in Literature and Visual Culture 1550-1968,' happening in Oxford on 24 June! Sign up via the link on the conference homepage: sites.google.com/view/before-...

Before Earthrise

A one-day symposium at the University of Oxford, 24 June 2025 Location: English Faculty, Oxford

sites.google.com

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Justin Colson @justincolson.bsky.social · May 22

I'm speaking about @layersoflondon.bsky.social, partnership working, and supporting research with historical mapping at this event "Unlocking Your Archives with GIS" organized by @rgsibg.bsky.social and ESRI UK on 12th June - for anyone interested in historical GIS, maps, and public engagement!

Unlocking your archives with GIS workshop

Join us on 12 June and find out how location can help unlock your archives and build powerful interactive experiences for the public to explore.

www.rgs.org

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Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · May 22

Still thinking about Brenda Hillman’s ‘Styrofoam Cup’

I kinda want it on a cup

STYROFOAM CUP
thou still unravished thou
thou, thou bride
thou unstill,
thou unravished unbride
unthou unbride

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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · May 22

New article out today! Focusing on the Dutt family album and its early reception in London - a brave new world for this Blakean. Would love to hear people's thoughts

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/...

‘An album, a miscellany, a sort of patchwork’: ‘Curiosity’, Genre, and Literary Quality in Early British Reviews of The Dutt Family Album (1870) | Global Nineteenth-Century Studies

This article focuses on the little-explored British reviews of the nineteenth-century Indo-Anglian poetry collection The Dutt Family Album (1870). I argue that these reviews take their cue in important ways from the Album’s paratextual and generic ...

www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk

Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · May 14

Just a couple more weeks left to register for 'before earthrise'! Join us for an exciting programme of talks at Oxford's English faculty. Pls share widely 🌍 🌏 🌎

Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · Apr 11

Registration now open for 'Before Earthrise: Global Imagining in Literature and Visual Culture 1550-1968,' happening in Oxford on 24 June! Sign up via the link on the conference homepage: sites.google.com/view/before-...

Before Earthrise

A one-day symposium at the University of Oxford, 24 June 2025 Location: English Faculty, Oxford

sites.google.com

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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · Apr 11

Registration now open for 'Before Earthrise: Global Imagining in Literature and Visual Culture 1550-1968,' happening in Oxford on 24 June! Sign up via the link on the conference homepage: sites.google.com/view/before-...

Before Earthrise

A one-day symposium at the University of Oxford, 24 June 2025 Location: English Faculty, Oxford

sites.google.com

Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · Mar 31

Conference programme now up here! Stay tuned for registration details sites.google.com/view/before-...

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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · Mar 7

Friday afternoon delivery!

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Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social · Mar 5

Warmest congratulations to our PhD graduate Caroline Ritchie on the publication of her brilliant monograph "William Blake and the Cartographic Imagination", published by Palgrave Macmillan.

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Caroline Anjali Ritchie @carolineanjali.bsky.social · Mar 5

Thank you so much for your support, Mary!

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Mary Fairclough @maryfairclough.bsky.social · Mar 5

Congratulations @carolineanjali.bsky.social ! ✨

Dept of English and Related Literature at Uni of York @uoyenglishrl.bsky.social · Mar 5

Warmest congratulations to our PhD graduate Caroline Ritchie on the publication of her brilliant monograph "William Blake and the Cartographic Imagination", published by Palgrave Macmillan.

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