Shahira Hathout, Ph.D.
@shahirahathout.bsky.social
Interdisciplinary Research: Posthumanism / New Materialism / Cultural Studies / Aesthetics / 18th & 19th C. (World) Literature/ Anthropocene discourses. Visiting Scholar @ Centre for Feminist Research @York University, Toronto, Canada.
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Really glad and grateful to have my piece, "Toward a Posthumanist Sublime in Jane Austen's Persuasion: Lyme Regis in the Anthropocene," now published in Interconnections: Journal of Posthumanism and can be accessed here:
journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/po...
journals.library.brocku.ca/index.php/po...
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'Weird Mysticism' identifies and evaluates a new category of theoretical inquiry by showing the influence of speculative writing on three intersecting critical categories: horror fiction, apophatic mysticism, and philosophical pessimism. lupress.lehigh.edu/publication/...
December 14, 2025 at 1:47 PM
'Weird Mysticism' identifies and evaluates a new category of theoretical inquiry by showing the influence of speculative writing on three intersecting critical categories: horror fiction, apophatic mysticism, and philosophical pessimism. lupress.lehigh.edu/publication/...
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Defy the icy weather, Torontonians, and come to the Toronto Reference Library to celebrate Jane Austen's 250th with me and some very smart & funny Austenians: Alex Hernandez, Tom Keymer, Karen Vallihora. This coming Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in Beeton Hall at the Reference Library.
December 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Defy the icy weather, Torontonians, and come to the Toronto Reference Library to celebrate Jane Austen's 250th with me and some very smart & funny Austenians: Alex Hernandez, Tom Keymer, Karen Vallihora. This coming Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. in Beeton Hall at the Reference Library.
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Out now & #openaccess:
Grimm, Oliver (Ed.): Beast and Human: Case Studies for Northern Europe from Prehistoric to Early Modern Times, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2025 (LEIZA Publications, Volume 8).
doi.org/10.11588/pro...
#LEIZArchaeology #Archaeology #HumanAnimalStudies
Grimm, Oliver (Ed.): Beast and Human: Case Studies for Northern Europe from Prehistoric to Early Modern Times, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2025 (LEIZA Publications, Volume 8).
doi.org/10.11588/pro...
#LEIZArchaeology #Archaeology #HumanAnimalStudies
December 12, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Out now & #openaccess:
Grimm, Oliver (Ed.): Beast and Human: Case Studies for Northern Europe from Prehistoric to Early Modern Times, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2025 (LEIZA Publications, Volume 8).
doi.org/10.11588/pro...
#LEIZArchaeology #Archaeology #HumanAnimalStudies
Grimm, Oliver (Ed.): Beast and Human: Case Studies for Northern Europe from Prehistoric to Early Modern Times, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2025 (LEIZA Publications, Volume 8).
doi.org/10.11588/pro...
#LEIZArchaeology #Archaeology #HumanAnimalStudies
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M𝐎N𝐎C𝐇R𝐎M𝐄 𝐂I𝐍E𝐌A𝐓I𝐂
#Photography by 𝗝𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗻 @jasonbentsman.bsky.social in the Fall issue
bit.ly/AmsterdamReview
#Photography by 𝗝𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗻 @jasonbentsman.bsky.social in the Fall issue
bit.ly/AmsterdamReview
December 10, 2025 at 1:46 PM
M𝐎N𝐎C𝐇R𝐎M𝐄 𝐂I𝐍E𝐌A𝐓I𝐂
#Photography by 𝗝𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗻 @jasonbentsman.bsky.social in the Fall issue
bit.ly/AmsterdamReview
#Photography by 𝗝𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗻 @jasonbentsman.bsky.social in the Fall issue
bit.ly/AmsterdamReview
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New (short) blog post on why I think the distinction between a metaphysical and semantic component of scientific realism is kind of confused (and how to classify the varieties of non-realist positions).
pragmatictheories.blogspot.com/2025/12/how-...
#philsci #philsky #philosophyofscience
pragmatictheories.blogspot.com/2025/12/how-...
#philsci #philsky #philosophyofscience
How to distinguish the semantic and metaphysical components of scientific realism? Is there a distinction at all?
Here are some short reflections that are only indirectly related to the main theme of this blog: about the traditional way of framing the t...
pragmatictheories.blogspot.com
December 2, 2025 at 1:29 PM
New (short) blog post on why I think the distinction between a metaphysical and semantic component of scientific realism is kind of confused (and how to classify the varieties of non-realist positions).
pragmatictheories.blogspot.com/2025/12/how-...
#philsci #philsky #philosophyofscience
pragmatictheories.blogspot.com/2025/12/how-...
#philsci #philsky #philosophyofscience
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#Newbook: Body Language: Medicine and the Eighteenth-Century Comic Novel by @katalves18c.bsky.social examines the intersections of British 18C comic fiction and medical discourse, adding "a vital chapter to the study of medicine, literature, and gender in the period."
To order: tinyurl.com/3vpz7crk
To order: tinyurl.com/3vpz7crk
November 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
#Newbook: Body Language: Medicine and the Eighteenth-Century Comic Novel by @katalves18c.bsky.social examines the intersections of British 18C comic fiction and medical discourse, adding "a vital chapter to the study of medicine, literature, and gender in the period."
To order: tinyurl.com/3vpz7crk
To order: tinyurl.com/3vpz7crk
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A propos of nothing, highly recommended!
Please join us in Berlin for this workshop on Anti-Palestinianism in four weeks:
November 19, 2025 at 1:07 PM
A propos of nothing, highly recommended!
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Melissa Ganz, Exploring Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century, cambridgeblog.org/2025/11/expl...
Exploring Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century
The law underwent significant developments in eighteenth-century Britain as jurists and legislators adapted older doctrines to fit the needs of an increasingly commercial, industrial, and imperial soc...
cambridgeblog.org
November 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Melissa Ganz, Exploring Law and Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century, cambridgeblog.org/2025/11/expl...
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📣BREAKING NEWS! We've extended our CFP deadline for #RSVP2026 "Movements and Migrations"! Proposals now due 21 November 2025. Full CFP and more details about all things conference on our website: rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...
October 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
📣BREAKING NEWS! We've extended our CFP deadline for #RSVP2026 "Movements and Migrations"! Proposals now due 21 November 2025. Full CFP and more details about all things conference on our website: rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...
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🚨 New Publication alert! 🚨
Our team member @emunozgonzalez.bsky.social explores T.J. Klune’s In the Lives of Puppets (2023) through posthumanism, affect theory & Gothic fiction.
🔗 Check it out here: doi.org/10.5209/cjes...
Our team member @emunozgonzalez.bsky.social explores T.J. Klune’s In the Lives of Puppets (2023) through posthumanism, affect theory & Gothic fiction.
🔗 Check it out here: doi.org/10.5209/cjes...
When the Puppet Becomes Human: The Gothic Posthumanism of In the Lives of Puppets (2023) | Complutense Journal of English Studies
Ahmed, Sara. “Happy Objects.” The Affect Theory Reader, edited by Gregory J. Seigworth and Melissa Gregg, Duke University Press, 2010, pp. 29–51.
doi.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:07 PM
🚨 New Publication alert! 🚨
Our team member @emunozgonzalez.bsky.social explores T.J. Klune’s In the Lives of Puppets (2023) through posthumanism, affect theory & Gothic fiction.
🔗 Check it out here: doi.org/10.5209/cjes...
Our team member @emunozgonzalez.bsky.social explores T.J. Klune’s In the Lives of Puppets (2023) through posthumanism, affect theory & Gothic fiction.
🔗 Check it out here: doi.org/10.5209/cjes...
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I travelled to NYC to help launch (last night) Joanna Stalnaker's astonishing new book _The Rest is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death_. The book is a treasure, humane and moving: a vindication both of the #18thc philosophes and of what literary studies scholarship can do with them.
November 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
I travelled to NYC to help launch (last night) Joanna Stalnaker's astonishing new book _The Rest is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death_. The book is a treasure, humane and moving: a vindication both of the #18thc philosophes and of what literary studies scholarship can do with them.
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Publication day! Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination, shepherded by the inimitable @lpennywark.bsky.social, is officially out in the world with @uminnpress.bsky.social! Also, the press has a $10 deal on paperbacks using CODE MN93820 you don't want to miss! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791918...
June 24, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Publication day! Postpolitics and the Aesthetic Imagination, shepherded by the inimitable @lpennywark.bsky.social, is officially out in the world with @uminnpress.bsky.social! Also, the press has a $10 deal on paperbacks using CODE MN93820 you don't want to miss! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791918...
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Congratulations to Linda Zionkowski, Mimi Hart, and all contributors to "Women and Music in the Age of Austen," winner of the American Musicological Society's Ruth A. Solie Award for an outstanding essay collection of exceptional scholarly merit.
For more: lnkd.in/dNa_gmK9
#ReadUP #TeamUP #UPWeek
For more: lnkd.in/dNa_gmK9
#ReadUP #TeamUP #UPWeek
November 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Congratulations to Linda Zionkowski, Mimi Hart, and all contributors to "Women and Music in the Age of Austen," winner of the American Musicological Society's Ruth A. Solie Award for an outstanding essay collection of exceptional scholarly merit.
For more: lnkd.in/dNa_gmK9
#ReadUP #TeamUP #UPWeek
For more: lnkd.in/dNa_gmK9
#ReadUP #TeamUP #UPWeek
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Join us for More-than-Human Sensory Worlds, the first in our hybrid 'More-than-Human/ities' seminar series, a new collaboration between UoB's CEH & EUC at York University, Toronto.
Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃
Wed 19th Nov
17:45–19:00
Online & in-person
Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃
Wed 19th Nov
17:45–19:00
Online & in-person
November 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Join us for More-than-Human Sensory Worlds, the first in our hybrid 'More-than-Human/ities' seminar series, a new collaboration between UoB's CEH & EUC at York University, Toronto.
Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃
Wed 19th Nov
17:45–19:00
Online & in-person
Come explore the shared sensory worlds of human and nonhuman animals! 🦅🐇🌃
Wed 19th Nov
17:45–19:00
Online & in-person
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CFP: “Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World”
Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?
#earlymodern #C18L
1/6
Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?
#earlymodern #C18L
1/6
October 31, 2025 at 3:11 PM
CFP: “Embodied Knowledge Practices in the Early Modern World”
Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?
#earlymodern #C18L
1/6
Conference at the University of Amsterdam
Monday, 15 June 2026
How do material conditions shape how & what we know about the natural world?
#earlymodern #C18L
1/6
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📚BLAR’S (44:4) BOOK REVIEWS📚
1⃣ Alex Latta (Wilfrid Laurier University) reviews Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State (University of Arizona Press 2004) by Andrew Canessa and Manuela L. Picq.
READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
1⃣ Alex Latta (Wilfrid Laurier University) reviews Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State (University of Arizona Press 2004) by Andrew Canessa and Manuela L. Picq.
READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
October 28, 2025 at 4:09 PM
📚BLAR’S (44:4) BOOK REVIEWS📚
1⃣ Alex Latta (Wilfrid Laurier University) reviews Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State (University of Arizona Press 2004) by Andrew Canessa and Manuela L. Picq.
READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
1⃣ Alex Latta (Wilfrid Laurier University) reviews Savages and Citizens: How Indigeneity Shapes the State (University of Arizona Press 2004) by Andrew Canessa and Manuela L. Picq.
READ HERE: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Tomorrow night 6-8 pm EST.
Register to join us. In person and on line. Free. Masks provided.
www.yorku.ca/laps/the-alc...
Register to join us. In person and on line. Free. Masks provided.
www.yorku.ca/laps/the-alc...
October 29, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Tomorrow night 6-8 pm EST.
Register to join us. In person and on line. Free. Masks provided.
www.yorku.ca/laps/the-alc...
Register to join us. In person and on line. Free. Masks provided.
www.yorku.ca/laps/the-alc...
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Fascinating - Unesco has launched a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects, presented in a futuristic, dreamlike virtual exhibition. Worth exploring (although they don't tell much about how/where things were stolen, and its a very curious juxtaposition of items): museum.unesco.org
UNESCO launches the World’s First Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural
Three years after its announcement at MONDIACULT 2022, UNESCO is launching an innovative initiative: the Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects. This global platform harnesses cutting-edge digital
www.unesco.org
October 28, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Fascinating - Unesco has launched a Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects, presented in a futuristic, dreamlike virtual exhibition. Worth exploring (although they don't tell much about how/where things were stolen, and its a very curious juxtaposition of items): museum.unesco.org
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CfP📢Conference of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies : "Reframing the Enlightenment. Intellectual and political disputes today"
📆10-12 June 2026 |🌍Paris
⏰Application deadline: 26 October 2025
🔗 sissd.it/wp-content/u...
@isecs-sieds.bsky.social
📆10-12 June 2026 |🌍Paris
⏰Application deadline: 26 October 2025
🔗 sissd.it/wp-content/u...
@isecs-sieds.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 7:54 AM
CfP📢Conference of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies : "Reframing the Enlightenment. Intellectual and political disputes today"
📆10-12 June 2026 |🌍Paris
⏰Application deadline: 26 October 2025
🔗 sissd.it/wp-content/u...
@isecs-sieds.bsky.social
📆10-12 June 2026 |🌍Paris
⏰Application deadline: 26 October 2025
🔗 sissd.it/wp-content/u...
@isecs-sieds.bsky.social
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If you're near Limerick, Dr. Harald E. Braun (University of Liverpool) will speak in the Hunt Museum on 5 November, 6-8pm, on:
‘War Crimes: Seventeenth-Century Perspectives from the Bolton Library.’ Organised by @cemslimerick.bsky.social
‘War Crimes: Seventeenth-Century Perspectives from the Bolton Library.’ Organised by @cemslimerick.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 9:42 AM
If you're near Limerick, Dr. Harald E. Braun (University of Liverpool) will speak in the Hunt Museum on 5 November, 6-8pm, on:
‘War Crimes: Seventeenth-Century Perspectives from the Bolton Library.’ Organised by @cemslimerick.bsky.social
‘War Crimes: Seventeenth-Century Perspectives from the Bolton Library.’ Organised by @cemslimerick.bsky.social
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A date for your diary: Please join the ASLE-UKI Online Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Environment, 29 Jan 2026, 3-7 pm GMT. Convened by Brycchan Carey (Northumbria) and Tess Somervell (Oxford). Further details and registration information at: asle.org.uk/events/semin...
October 27, 2025 at 1:18 PM
A date for your diary: Please join the ASLE-UKI Online Seminar on Eighteenth-Century Literature and Environment, 29 Jan 2026, 3-7 pm GMT. Convened by Brycchan Carey (Northumbria) and Tess Somervell (Oxford). Further details and registration information at: asle.org.uk/events/semin...
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Join us on 12 November for a @bars.bsky.social Digital Event to celebrate the publication of Volume IV of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley (gen. eds. @fraistat.bsky.social & Nora Crook, pub. by @hopkinspress.bsky.social) 🍂 Free tickets available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shelleys-a...
Shelley’s Anni Mirabiles: The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley
This roundtable will celebrate the publication of the latest volume, Volume IV, of Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poetry.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 17, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Join us on 12 November for a @bars.bsky.social Digital Event to celebrate the publication of Volume IV of The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley (gen. eds. @fraistat.bsky.social & Nora Crook, pub. by @hopkinspress.bsky.social) 🍂 Free tickets available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/shelleys-a...
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We are excited to announce the publication of our Summer 2025 issue, which includes essays by Hilary Havens, Greta Colombani, and David Mullins. The issue is available Open Access on Project Muse
@projectmuse.bsky.social
: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55681. Details in the thread.
@projectmuse.bsky.social
: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55681. Details in the thread.
October 11, 2025 at 5:12 PM
We are excited to announce the publication of our Summer 2025 issue, which includes essays by Hilary Havens, Greta Colombani, and David Mullins. The issue is available Open Access on Project Muse
@projectmuse.bsky.social
: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55681. Details in the thread.
@projectmuse.bsky.social
: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55681. Details in the thread.
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literaryreview.co.uk/darkness-lig...
My 'Goethe: A Life in Ideas' reviewed by Ritchie Robertson in the Literary Review
My 'Goethe: A Life in Ideas' reviewed by Ritchie Robertson in the Literary Review
Ritchie Robertson - Darkness & Light
Ritchie Robertson: Darkness & Light - Goethe: A Life in Ideas by Matthew Bell
literaryreview.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
literaryreview.co.uk/darkness-lig...
My 'Goethe: A Life in Ideas' reviewed by Ritchie Robertson in the Literary Review
My 'Goethe: A Life in Ideas' reviewed by Ritchie Robertson in the Literary Review