Luisa Calè
@luisacale.bsky.social
Reader in Romantic & 19C literature & visual culture @BirkbeckUoL. Unbound Forms; Cultures of reading, collecting, altered books; exhibitions editor @BlakeQuarterly, associate editor at Word&Image.
follow serpentine paths: will Eternity swallow 'the vast / Leviathan, the Bubbles vain, that ride / High on the foaming Billow'? This #Blake watercolour @britishmuseum.bsky.social sees a scaly green man riding his glorious green serpent up from the bottom of the sea around Edward Young's words...
July 17, 2025 at 1:10 PM
follow serpentine paths: will Eternity swallow 'the vast / Leviathan, the Bubbles vain, that ride / High on the foaming Billow'? This #Blake watercolour @britishmuseum.bsky.social sees a scaly green man riding his glorious green serpent up from the bottom of the sea around Edward Young's words...
My aunt's gooseberry fool: a recipe from English childhood holidays.
July 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
My aunt's gooseberry fool: a recipe from English childhood holidays.
what I am working on today, thinking about serpentine formations in #Blake's trees for bsky.app/profile/abda... and bsky.app/profile/dran... #LiteraryArboretum
July 9, 2025 at 10:15 AM
what I am working on today, thinking about serpentine formations in #Blake's trees for bsky.app/profile/abda... and bsky.app/profile/dran... #LiteraryArboretum
Sorting my papers, looking back and looking forward, still thinking about the metaphors and material forms that shape the #sibyl's prophetic leaves #TheBookUnbound
July 8, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Sorting my papers, looking back and looking forward, still thinking about the metaphors and material forms that shape the #sibyl's prophetic leaves #TheBookUnbound
Looking forward to hearing Elizabeth Denlinger from @nypl.bsky.social discuss books, chapbooks, games, fiction, periodicals, and autobiographical accounts of trades and career choices for children in the Romantic Period at the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar @ies-sas.bsky.social on Friday 2 May.
April 23, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Looking forward to hearing Elizabeth Denlinger from @nypl.bsky.social discuss books, chapbooks, games, fiction, periodicals, and autobiographical accounts of trades and career choices for children in the Romantic Period at the London-Paris Romanticism Seminar @ies-sas.bsky.social on Friday 2 May.
Looking forward to hearing Sanja Perovic speak about 'Radical Translations: The Transfer of Revolutionary Culture in France, Britain, Italy (1789-1815)'
6 March, 6 pm, Birkbeck School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, 43 Gordon Sq
Book your place here:
my.bbk.ac.uk/ords/f?p=832...
6 March, 6 pm, Birkbeck School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, 43 Gordon Sq
Book your place here:
my.bbk.ac.uk/ords/f?p=832...
February 25, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Looking forward to hearing Sanja Perovic speak about 'Radical Translations: The Transfer of Revolutionary Culture in France, Britain, Italy (1789-1815)'
6 March, 6 pm, Birkbeck School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, 43 Gordon Sq
Book your place here:
my.bbk.ac.uk/ords/f?p=832...
6 March, 6 pm, Birkbeck School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, 43 Gordon Sq
Book your place here:
my.bbk.ac.uk/ords/f?p=832...
Looking forward to @katherineharloe.bsky.social talking about Goethe's Winckelmann at the London Paris Romanticism Seminar at Senate House, University of London on Friday @ies-sas.bsky.social @ics.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social
February 18, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Looking forward to @katherineharloe.bsky.social talking about Goethe's Winckelmann at the London Paris Romanticism Seminar at Senate House, University of London on Friday @ies-sas.bsky.social @ics.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social
Creator of Nightmares has just been delivered to my door. I am looking forward to reading and reviewing it for @blakequarterly.bsky.social
February 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Creator of Nightmares has just been delivered to my door. I am looking forward to reading and reviewing it for @blakequarterly.bsky.social
So looking forward to reading about Transnational Women Writers. I enjoyed following the metamorphoses of @dralexiswolf.bsky.social's fascinating project tracing the #Wilmot sisters' travels between Ireland and Russia during the Revolutionary period @19birkbeck.bsky.social
December 12, 2024 at 3:46 PM
So looking forward to reading about Transnational Women Writers. I enjoyed following the metamorphoses of @dralexiswolf.bsky.social's fascinating project tracing the #Wilmot sisters' travels between Ireland and Russia during the Revolutionary period @19birkbeck.bsky.social
Looking forward to welcoming Katharina Boehm to speak about #Antiquarian #Conjectures, #Romantic #Material Culture, & the Novel at the Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London, on 13 December. Please spread the news, @bars.bsky.social, @antiquaries.bsky.social, @bsecs.bsky.social
December 7, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Looking forward to welcoming Katharina Boehm to speak about #Antiquarian #Conjectures, #Romantic #Material Culture, & the Novel at the Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London, on 13 December. Please spread the news, @bars.bsky.social, @antiquaries.bsky.social, @bsecs.bsky.social
Ready to discuss #Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities tonight in #MA Victorian Studies, thinking about serial fiction, writing in past & historic present tense, & the world of #Victorian #commodities: this first advert in the monthly issue features #Heal's, still a landmark nearby on Tottenham Court Road
December 4, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Ready to discuss #Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities tonight in #MA Victorian Studies, thinking about serial fiction, writing in past & historic present tense, & the world of #Victorian #commodities: this first advert in the monthly issue features #Heal's, still a landmark nearby on Tottenham Court Road
2.12.1824, on laying the first stone of the new lecture theatre at the London Mechanics Institution, George Birkbeck issued an invitation to 'the Feast of Reason', where 'the charms of Literature' join 'the powers of Science'. What was the place of #literature then? what is it now? 19.bbk.ac.uk
December 2, 2024 at 9:40 AM
2.12.1824, on laying the first stone of the new lecture theatre at the London Mechanics Institution, George Birkbeck issued an invitation to 'the Feast of Reason', where 'the charms of Literature' join 'the powers of Science'. What was the place of #literature then? what is it now? 19.bbk.ac.uk
... and then the launch of the new issue of Vala #Blake's Birthday. Cannot wait to leaf it through...
Thank you, @blakesociety.bsky.social
Thank you, @blakesociety.bsky.social
November 28, 2024 at 8:30 PM
... and then the launch of the new issue of Vala #Blake's Birthday. Cannot wait to leaf it through...
Thank you, @blakesociety.bsky.social
Thank you, @blakesociety.bsky.social
Enjoying Susanne Sklar's inspiring and powerful discussion of the I:Thou vs I:It in Blake and Buber at #Blake's Birthday @blakesociety.bsky.social, reflecting on Blake's Jerusalem through Palestine today, ending with the Vision of the Daughters of Albion: 'Everything that lives is holy'.
November 28, 2024 at 8:21 PM
Enjoying Susanne Sklar's inspiring and powerful discussion of the I:Thou vs I:It in Blake and Buber at #Blake's Birthday @blakesociety.bsky.social, reflecting on Blake's Jerusalem through Palestine today, ending with the Vision of the Daughters of Albion: 'Everything that lives is holy'.
#Blake's birthday: lingering on this plate, a single-leaf design originally produced for TheBookOfThel, reprinted without the text, given a new leaf of life with a new emblematic caption, 'Does God take care of these', an existential line that prompts Songs of Experience. @blakesociety.bsky.social
November 28, 2024 at 6:11 PM
#Blake's birthday: lingering on this plate, a single-leaf design originally produced for TheBookOfThel, reprinted without the text, given a new leaf of life with a new emblematic caption, 'Does God take care of these', an existential line that prompts Songs of Experience. @blakesociety.bsky.social
Issue 36 includes essays about John Thelwall; Francis Place; optical experiments and pedagogy at the London Mechanics Institute, The Westminster Review, and the poetics, politics, disciplinary, and expat communities coming together in Anna Birkbeck's #Album.
November 12, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Issue 36 includes essays about John Thelwall; Francis Place; optical experiments and pedagogy at the London Mechanics Institute, The Westminster Review, and the poetics, politics, disciplinary, and expat communities coming together in Anna Birkbeck's #Album.
Knowledge is Power - 1823-2023: Literature, Invention, Radical Thinking at the London Mechanics' Institution, new issue of @19birkbeck.bsky.social, celebrating two hundred years of #literature among the disciplines
Read us: 19.bbk.ac.uk
Read us: 19.bbk.ac.uk
November 12, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Knowledge is Power - 1823-2023: Literature, Invention, Radical Thinking at the London Mechanics' Institution, new issue of @19birkbeck.bsky.social, celebrating two hundred years of #literature among the disciplines
Read us: 19.bbk.ac.uk
Read us: 19.bbk.ac.uk
Enjoyed reading Kate Retford's brilliant essay on the print room at Woodhall Park, reflecting on the overlaps between practices of collecting, cutting, and pasting: www.britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue...
November 1, 2024 at 7:40 PM
Enjoyed reading Kate Retford's brilliant essay on the print room at Woodhall Park, reflecting on the overlaps between practices of collecting, cutting, and pasting: www.britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue...
#ParisOlympics: I loved #Sororité, a gallery of visionary Olympians, from Christine de Pizan to Simone Weil, and many more. @drbibliomane.bsky.social, who would you champion?
August 2, 2024 at 4:25 PM
#ParisOlympics: I loved #Sororité, a gallery of visionary Olympians, from Christine de Pizan to Simone Weil, and many more. @drbibliomane.bsky.social, who would you champion?
'Writing as Lightning': Refugee from the Raven: Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads rewritten by Homeless Britain. Great to hear about this amazing project in the final plenary #BARS2024 by Jeff Cowton from the Wordsworth Trust #BARS2024 @bars.bsky.social
August 2, 2024 at 12:49 PM
'Writing as Lightning': Refugee from the Raven: Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads rewritten by Homeless Britain. Great to hear about this amazing project in the final plenary #BARS2024 by Jeff Cowton from the Wordsworth Trust #BARS2024 @bars.bsky.social
📣#PhD Studentship on #books of #prints in the British Library collections
AHRC collaborative doctoral partnership
co-supervised @britishlibrary.bsky.social & @bbkhistorical.bsky.social
🗓️Deadline: 29 April 2024
AHRC collaborative doctoral partnership
co-supervised @britishlibrary.bsky.social & @bbkhistorical.bsky.social
🗓️Deadline: 29 April 2024
March 29, 2024 at 8:26 AM
📣#PhD Studentship on #books of #prints in the British Library collections
AHRC collaborative doctoral partnership
co-supervised @britishlibrary.bsky.social & @bbkhistorical.bsky.social
🗓️Deadline: 29 April 2024
AHRC collaborative doctoral partnership
co-supervised @britishlibrary.bsky.social & @bbkhistorical.bsky.social
🗓️Deadline: 29 April 2024
Looking forward to 'Blake's Universe', a collaboration between the Fitzwilliam Museum & the Hamburger Kunsthalle, which roots Blake's millenarian visions within a European horizon, opening at the Fitzwilliam soon.
Read my interview with the curators: blakequarterly.org/index.php/bl...
Read my interview with the curators: blakequarterly.org/index.php/bl...
January 28, 2024 at 6:11 PM
Looking forward to 'Blake's Universe', a collaboration between the Fitzwilliam Museum & the Hamburger Kunsthalle, which roots Blake's millenarian visions within a European horizon, opening at the Fitzwilliam soon.
Read my interview with the curators: blakequarterly.org/index.php/bl...
Read my interview with the curators: blakequarterly.org/index.php/bl...
Friday afternoon: time to stop fighting corners, switch off email, climb on a writing cloud, as if an angel had dropped from the sky
November 17, 2023 at 3:18 PM
Friday afternoon: time to stop fighting corners, switch off email, climb on a writing cloud, as if an angel had dropped from the sky