Melissa Mowry
@melissammowry.bsky.social
Professor 17th and 18thc British Atlantic, author Collective Understanding (OUP), The Bawdy Politic (Routledge), Defoe’s Roxana (Broadview). Working on tyranny, slavery, and friendship. Opinions my own. https://www.melissammowry.com/
Ok. I’m done.These bulk follows are absurd. If you want to contact me, you can seek me out on FB. Deactivating my account now. Bye.
November 16, 2024 at 1:19 PM
Ok. I’m done.These bulk follows are absurd. If you want to contact me, you can seek me out on FB. Deactivating my account now. Bye.
I really am not enjoying these bulk follows.
November 15, 2024 at 10:29 PM
I really am not enjoying these bulk follows.
Literally just read the most brilliant paper on Robinson Crusoe ever. From an undergraduate!
November 14, 2024 at 9:52 PM
Literally just read the most brilliant paper on Robinson Crusoe ever. From an undergraduate!
Hi all, I haven’t posted on here in about a year, but judging from the crazy number of new followers i’m guessing there’s a large exodus of academics from X. If you’re real, please write that in a comment. I’ll be tossing off bots and fake accounts later today.
November 10, 2024 at 12:01 PM
Hi all, I haven’t posted on here in about a year, but judging from the crazy number of new followers i’m guessing there’s a large exodus of academics from X. If you’re real, please write that in a comment. I’ll be tossing off bots and fake accounts later today.
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#c18 Back home from a highly successful ASECS 2024. Next up: get ready to vote on the new bylaws. It's absolutely crucial that 20% of membership weigh in. More info is coming. Please please please please do your friendly parliamentarian this solid. Pleeeassseeeeeee pretty pleeeaassseeeeee
April 7, 2024 at 4:49 PM
#c18 Back home from a highly successful ASECS 2024. Next up: get ready to vote on the new bylaws. It's absolutely crucial that 20% of membership weigh in. More info is coming. Please please please please do your friendly parliamentarian this solid. Pleeeassseeeeeee pretty pleeeaassseeeeee
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Romanticism job alert! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DEF319/l... 1-year fixed-term lectureship at Cardiff University ✨️ Please share with ECRs ✨️ @bars.bsky.social
Lectureship in English Literature (Romantic Period) - Teaching and Scholarship at Cardiff University
Searching for an academic job? Explore this Lectureship in English Literature (Romantic Period) - Teaching and Scholarship opening on jobs.ac.uk! Click to view more details and browse other academic j...
www.jobs.ac.uk
November 18, 2023 at 9:45 AM
Romanticism job alert! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DEF319/l... 1-year fixed-term lectureship at Cardiff University ✨️ Please share with ECRs ✨️ @bars.bsky.social
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Reluctantly went over to X to see what's going on re. the BL cyber attack. This is on the Rhysida ransomware group's data leak site. Deadline is 27 November. They've included a sample with passports/other leaked docs as proof. Presumably all BL accounts now at risk of identity theft #academicsky 🗃️
November 20, 2023 at 10:47 AM
Reluctantly went over to X to see what's going on re. the BL cyber attack. This is on the Rhysida ransomware group's data leak site. Deadline is 27 November. They've included a sample with passports/other leaked docs as proof. Presumably all BL accounts now at risk of identity theft #academicsky 🗃️
Got 2 hours of decent writing done today. First bit in awhile.
November 11, 2023 at 3:15 AM
Got 2 hours of decent writing done today. First bit in awhile.
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Hello all - I finally put this together. An open Google Sheet where we can crowdsource data about cuts to humanities and social sciences. Please RS and share! (I have also shared on the former bird app.)
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
November 9, 2023 at 9:09 PM
Hello all - I finally put this together. An open Google Sheet where we can crowdsource data about cuts to humanities and social sciences. Please RS and share! (I have also shared on the former bird app.)
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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Finally escaped the other place & now trying to follow everyone again…
By way of intros, I’m a historian currently working at the intersection of legal & env hist within the context of colonialism & fisheries, esp in Ghana & Malawi. 🐟🪝
My previous work focused on suppression of Atlantic piracy 🏴☠️⛵️
By way of intros, I’m a historian currently working at the intersection of legal & env hist within the context of colonialism & fisheries, esp in Ghana & Malawi. 🐟🪝
My previous work focused on suppression of Atlantic piracy 🏴☠️⛵️
November 9, 2023 at 8:29 AM
Finally escaped the other place & now trying to follow everyone again…
By way of intros, I’m a historian currently working at the intersection of legal & env hist within the context of colonialism & fisheries, esp in Ghana & Malawi. 🐟🪝
My previous work focused on suppression of Atlantic piracy 🏴☠️⛵️
By way of intros, I’m a historian currently working at the intersection of legal & env hist within the context of colonialism & fisheries, esp in Ghana & Malawi. 🐟🪝
My previous work focused on suppression of Atlantic piracy 🏴☠️⛵️
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Speaking of the humanities… I went back to my college this past weekend and wound up in front of the building that houses the classics department. I took enough Greek and Latin courses to qualify for a major…and what I learned has been put to use every week of my working life – even at MTV News.
November 7, 2023 at 12:59 AM
Speaking of the humanities… I went back to my college this past weekend and wound up in front of the building that houses the classics department. I took enough Greek and Latin courses to qualify for a major…and what I learned has been put to use every week of my working life – even at MTV News.
I just found out that our school district is using an ELA curriculum designed by someone who has exactly zero training or background in literature or composition. I am torn between fury and despair🤯
November 6, 2023 at 11:08 AM
I just found out that our school district is using an ELA curriculum designed by someone who has exactly zero training or background in literature or composition. I am torn between fury and despair🤯
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The House is gearing up with a new bill to completely eradicate the NEH budget for FY 2024. Dang it! The National Humanities Alliance has created a form to make it easy to email your congressional rep to stop this bill before it comes to the floor: p2a.co/yqrC42g
URGENT: Oppose an Amendment to Eliminate Funding for the NEH
I just took action to oppose the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join me and take action here.
p2a.co
November 2, 2023 at 3:58 PM
The House is gearing up with a new bill to completely eradicate the NEH budget for FY 2024. Dang it! The National Humanities Alliance has created a form to make it easy to email your congressional rep to stop this bill before it comes to the floor: p2a.co/yqrC42g
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🗃️The JWH has been migrating from that other site to this one. Could you please give us a boost here (and there) to move our followers to this more pleasant place? Thank you!
November 1, 2023 at 12:44 PM
🗃️The JWH has been migrating from that other site to this one. Could you please give us a boost here (and there) to move our followers to this more pleasant place? Thank you!
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Authors, publishers, and the friends of authors of long-18th-century-related literary studies books, please email me!
ECF: [email protected]
Let me know about a recent or upcoming book so that we may arrange a review for publication in the journal.
#Long18thCentury #AcWri #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
ECF: [email protected]
Let me know about a recent or upcoming book so that we may arrange a review for publication in the journal.
#Long18thCentury #AcWri #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
October 27, 2023 at 6:16 PM
Authors, publishers, and the friends of authors of long-18th-century-related literary studies books, please email me!
ECF: [email protected]
Let me know about a recent or upcoming book so that we may arrange a review for publication in the journal.
#Long18thCentury #AcWri #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
ECF: [email protected]
Let me know about a recent or upcoming book so that we may arrange a review for publication in the journal.
#Long18thCentury #AcWri #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
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If you couldn't be at our first seminar of the year, don't despair: the video of Ian Calvert talking about Alexander Pope's #18thC translation practices of Homer is now on YouTube. We've even got sneak peeks of Ian's forthcoming edition. #bookhistory
ODSECS 30 Ian Calvert
Intervening in Pope’s HomerIn this talk, Dr Calvert outlines Alexander Pope’s practice of incorporating lines and phrases from an extremely wide range of tex...
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October 23, 2023 at 8:37 PM
If you couldn't be at our first seminar of the year, don't despair: the video of Ian Calvert talking about Alexander Pope's #18thC translation practices of Homer is now on YouTube. We've even got sneak peeks of Ian's forthcoming edition. #bookhistory
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Hope to see some of you at Hannah Murphy's talk on 'Medicine, the Archive and the Making of Slavery in Early Modern Barbados', Thurs, 19th at the IHR.
One week to go! #EarlyModern details here:
www.history.ac.uk/events/medic...
One week to go! #EarlyModern details here:
www.history.ac.uk/events/medic...
October 12, 2023 at 8:55 AM
Hope to see some of you at Hannah Murphy's talk on 'Medicine, the Archive and the Making of Slavery in Early Modern Barbados', Thurs, 19th at the IHR.
One week to go! #EarlyModern details here:
www.history.ac.uk/events/medic...
One week to go! #EarlyModern details here:
www.history.ac.uk/events/medic...
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In THE BEST grant ever, the UC Merced Center for the Humanities turned my article on patriarchy into a comic. It's available open access. #EarlyModern #17thC escholarship.org/uc/item/76p7...
Unruly Women and Failed Patriarchs: Paradoxical Patriarchy in Early Modern England
Author(s): Amussen, Susan D; Collver, Jordan R. | Abstract: A comic based on Susan Amussen's article, "The Contradictions of Patriarchy in Early Modern England," published in Gender and History,...
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October 11, 2023 at 8:21 PM
In THE BEST grant ever, the UC Merced Center for the Humanities turned my article on patriarchy into a comic. It's available open access. #EarlyModern #17thC escholarship.org/uc/item/76p7...
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Why to read this article past headlines: I can't promise it's short. I spent two months reporting on it.
But it is inspiring. You meet grassroots activists, mostly parents and educators, fighting book bans and right wing propaganda in classrooms.
www.salon.com/2023/10/10/m...
But it is inspiring. You meet grassroots activists, mostly parents and educators, fighting book bans and right wing propaganda in classrooms.
www.salon.com/2023/10/10/m...
Moms for Liberty meets its match: Parents in this swing suburban district are fighting back
Republicans hope to use education wars to turn purple suburbia red. In one Pennsylvania district, that backfired
www.salon.com
October 10, 2023 at 10:30 AM
Why to read this article past headlines: I can't promise it's short. I spent two months reporting on it.
But it is inspiring. You meet grassroots activists, mostly parents and educators, fighting book bans and right wing propaganda in classrooms.
www.salon.com/2023/10/10/m...
But it is inspiring. You meet grassroots activists, mostly parents and educators, fighting book bans and right wing propaganda in classrooms.
www.salon.com/2023/10/10/m...
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This is amazing.
Five million documents from the Dutch East India Company will be searchable starting on Wednesday, with an improved version of the database expected next year #archives
nltimes.nl/2023/10/08/m...
nltimes.nl/2023/10/08/m...
Millions of archived VOC documents now searchable online, including slavery records
From Wednesday, five million scanned documents from the archives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) will be digitally searchable at the click of a button thanks to a text recognition project by the...
nltimes.nl
October 8, 2023 at 12:00 PM
This is amazing.
Bluesky academics, if I wanted to learn about early modern England’s contact with cultures on the Indian subcontinent, where would I go?
October 6, 2023 at 1:53 PM
Bluesky academics, if I wanted to learn about early modern England’s contact with cultures on the Indian subcontinent, where would I go?
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In case you missed it—the CFP for BSECS (British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) is out & open. The theme is ‘work & play’. More deets here: www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/... #18thc
BSECS - Submit a Proposal
Submit a Proposal. BSECS welcomes proposals for the Annual Conference. The deadline for submission of papers and panel proposals is usually November.
www.bsecs.org.uk
October 5, 2023 at 3:37 PM
In case you missed it—the CFP for BSECS (British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) is out & open. The theme is ‘work & play’. More deets here: www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/... #18thc
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More folks who do nifty things with eighteenth-century content are joining here, so make sure we can see your bleets!
Adding to the 18th centuryist feed is easy. Just use at least one of these hashtags in your posts: #c18, #18c, #c18th, #18thc
Like & add to your feeds, spread the word. 🗃️
Adding to the 18th centuryist feed is easy. Just use at least one of these hashtags in your posts: #c18, #18c, #c18th, #18thc
Like & add to your feeds, spread the word. 🗃️
October 5, 2023 at 2:00 PM
More folks who do nifty things with eighteenth-century content are joining here, so make sure we can see your bleets!
Adding to the 18th centuryist feed is easy. Just use at least one of these hashtags in your posts: #c18, #18c, #c18th, #18thc
Like & add to your feeds, spread the word. 🗃️
Adding to the 18th centuryist feed is easy. Just use at least one of these hashtags in your posts: #c18, #18c, #c18th, #18thc
Like & add to your feeds, spread the word. 🗃️
Was at a baseball game with friends a week or so ago who opined that like MLB players, professors should also have walk-up songs😁. I am here for it!
October 3, 2023 at 12:31 PM
Was at a baseball game with friends a week or so ago who opined that like MLB players, professors should also have walk-up songs😁. I am here for it!
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Truly an amazing embroidered object!
"This Petition was presented by the Unhappy Woman to the Great Man" (c.1780s)
Love finding the #PowerOfPetitioning in unlikely mediums.
"This Petition was presented by the Unhappy Woman to the Great Man" (c.1780s)
Love finding the #PowerOfPetitioning in unlikely mediums.
My article for Piecework Magazine about an unusual sampler is now online: pieceworkmagazine.com/lawful-mater...! Hannah Powell stitched this intriguing, poignant sampler in 1813. The text of the sampler (now at
LACMA) is from Almasa Ali Cawn's petition against her husband's execution in India
LACMA) is from Almasa Ali Cawn's petition against her husband's execution in India
October 3, 2023 at 9:13 AM
Truly an amazing embroidered object!
"This Petition was presented by the Unhappy Woman to the Great Man" (c.1780s)
Love finding the #PowerOfPetitioning in unlikely mediums.
"This Petition was presented by the Unhappy Woman to the Great Man" (c.1780s)
Love finding the #PowerOfPetitioning in unlikely mediums.