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Hannah Doherty Hudson

@hdhudson.bsky.social

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C18 & C19 Brit lit prof, Romanticist, periodicalist, historian of books & publishing, #MinervaPress scholar, Austenite. 250 yrs of genre fiction. M.C. Lang Fellow at RBS. Book: http://tinyurl.com/k4fb35ur (she/her).

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Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social · Nov 30

I've started reading my way through these adaptations this week. Starting a new 🧵 here for my thoughts as I go!
#austen #romancelandia

Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social · Nov 23

Okay #romancelandia, #austen fans, and #c18 #c19 folks: what are our FAVORITE Austen novel adaptations? trying to pick a fun new one to add to my spring course! current list in 🧵below.

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Dr Liam Sims @liamsims.bsky.social · 5d

GASP

Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 5d

GOOD NEWS !
"A team of musicologists has unearthed the printed score of a previously unknown Purcell song, as well as the original manuscript for various keyboard compositions."
#baroque #music
www.theguardian.com/music/2025/o...

‘Almost unheard of’: experts find more music by English composer Henry Purcell

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk

www.theguardian.com

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Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social · 8d

My birthday is coming up soon. I mention this for no particular reason!

neil guthrie @nguthrie.bsky.social · 9d

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice, 1st ed. (London, 1813), at Christie's, New York (est. US$120,000-180,000 - but will go for more). Long #c18th #c18 #18thc

First edition in a contemporary binding, with ownership inscriptions dated less than eight weeks after publication. In each volume is the ownership inscription, dated 20 March 1813, of Sir Maurice FitzGerald, 18th Knight of Kerry (1774-1849). FitzGerald was the husband of Maria La Touche, a cousin by marriage of Mary La Touche. Austen records in her letters that she visited and was visited by Mary and her daughter Miss East when Austen was in London in 1811, 1814 and 1815, straddling the publication of Pride and Prejudice. The three volumes, standing upright.

Volume 1, open at title page with ownership inscription.

Volume 1, open at page 1 ('It is a truth universally acknowledged, ...')

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Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social · 9d

Hmm.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 9d

“.. His conclusion is very stark: not just that an economy already at stall speed will fall into recession as both the data-center and wealth effects plateau, but that they’ll reverse, just as in the dot-com bubble did ..”

@marketwatch.com
www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...

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Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social · 10d

I am so excited for this!

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Georgina Wilson @georginaemw.bsky.social · 12d

Today is publication day for PAPER AND THE MAKING OF EARLY MODERN LITERATURE! Available in paper or digital form www.pennpress.org/978151282744... @pennpress.bsky.social

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 14d

Giving students thoughtful, personalized feedback and instruction is not a problem that originates from the difficulty for an instructor to generate feedback, it is a problem that originates from institutions pivoting to student:instructor ratios where that dynamic is not logistically feasible.

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Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social · 15d

Support local bookstores!

Porter Square Books in Cambridge & Boston @portersqbooks.bsky.social · 15d

And if you'd like to order it from an indie bookstore that tries to promote #closereading here's the link: portersquarebooks.com/book/9780691...

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 19d

It ys the seasoun of decoratif gourdes, O knaves

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Research Society for Victorian Periodicals @rs4vp.org · 27d

Peterson Fellowships open today! Named for Yale professor and our dear friend, Linda H. Peterson, the Peterson Fellowship is designed to support one scholar for four full-time months conducting research focused on the British periodical press of long #19thC. Applications due Nov. 15!

The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship – RSVP

The Linda H. Peterson Fellowship was named after the widely influential Yale professor and longtime RSVP Board member and Vice President, Linda Peterson. The purpose of the Peterson Fellowship is to…

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 26d

Big essay out by @sdileonardi.bsky.social in @publicbooks.bsky.social today, drawing on 100 years of translations and bestseller data to show that the US has seen three waves of translation: European; Latin American Boom; Nordic Noir. And what this means for us.
www.publicbooks.org/how-translat...

How Translations Sell: Three U.S. Eras of International Bestsellers - Public Books

A translation renaissance in US publishing just ended. And you probably missed it.

www.publicbooks.org

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Will Canoe-Sick, but in a spooky way @willcanoesick.bsky.social · Sep 12

Literature student: Hey, chat, will you please summarize ULYSSES for me and identify its themes?

Notebook LM: yes I said yes I will Yes.

Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · Sep 12

The imagined consumer on the landing page for Google's NotebookLM is a student in an upper-division literature course who has been assigned James Joyce's "Ulysses," and asks the software to summarize the novel and identify its themes.

Who is this advertising for?

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Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social · 29d

Sure, I would be happy to!

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Megan Peiser @meganpeiser.bsky.social · Sep 11

Good morning fellow #18thCentury #Romanticism and #DigitalHumanities friends! My monograph, British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical will be out in March 2026! I hope you'll request that your library purchases a copy, & snag one for yourself!
www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

British Women Novelists and the Review Periodical

How did book reviews shape the fate of novels and their authors during the height of women's literary influence?At the turn of the nineteenth century, British women novelists were publishing more fict...

www.press.jhu.edu

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Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social · Sep 11

Congratulations! That's fantastic news; can't wait to read!

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · Sep 9

Started/Going in Louisiana

368 cases of whooping cough
63 hospitalized, of whom
75% vaccines not up to date, and
41 were infants

Screenshot that says Louisiana's health department cancels promotion of mass vaccinations
State's surgeon general presents illness-preventing jabs as personal choice in move that experts call 'infuriating'
US politics - live updates
Marina Dunbar and Ramon Antonio Vargas in
New Orleans
Fri 14 Feb 2025 12.56 EST

Screenshot that says Louisiana's deadly whooping cough outbreak is now its worst in 35 years
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Published September 3, 2025

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Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social · Sep 6

Happy to hear of this ruling, but also frustrated that my book, published with @universitypress.cambridge.org and used by Anthropic, does not appear to have been registered for US copyright, and is thus not eligible. Live and learn -- I think I always assumed registration was automatic!

Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · Sep 6

"The settlement is the largest payout in the history of U.S. copyright cases. Anthropic will pay $3,000 per work to 500,000 authors."

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/t...

Anthropic Agrees to Pay $1.5 Billion to Settle Lawsuit With Book Authors

www.nytimes.com

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Megan Ranney MD MPH @meganranney.bsky.social · Aug 19

Also important this week: A trustworthy guide to childhood vaccine schedules, from actual pediatricians (many of whom saw these diseases before they could be vaccinated against).

* pin it & share it *

Ps: no, pediatricians are not pharma shills, don’t @ me
www.healthychildren.org/English/safe...

All About the AAP Recommended Immunization Schedule

Here's what to know about the recommended immunization schedule for children and teens. The schedule is approved by the American Academy of Pediatrics and based on ongoing review of the most recent sc...

www.healthychildren.org

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Jeffrey Makala @jeffmakala.bsky.social · Aug 25

Going into the fall semester like….

1803 engraving of a balloon aflame with people falling out and onlookers pointing.

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Celeste Headlee @celesteheadlee.bsky.social · Aug 23

Who could have seen this coming? MIT researchers find that only ~5% of businesses using AI are seeing growth, adding to earlier research showing AI only completed 30% of the tasks it was assigned. Is that a bubble pop I hear?

mlq.ai/media/quarte...

mlq.ai

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Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social · Aug 21

This looks great - just ordered!

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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · Aug 21

things were better when the computer lived in its own specific room and you only went in there sometimes

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Jeffrey J Cohen @jeffreyjcohen.bsky.social · Aug 19

We need to offer counter-narratives to the reductions to humanities that many institutions are undertaking, and equip our colleagues across institutions with evidence that the myths being deployed to reduce our fields are not based in fact.
futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com/p/the-myth-o...

"The Myth of the Useless Humanist" vs "Humanities myths, busted"

a letter to colleagues

futurelostarchive.beehiiv.com

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Alli DeJong @allidejong.bsky.social · Aug 18

i think about this tweet every single day

Me watching some high fantasy shit: I would simply not be corrupted by the magical object. If it is actively harming you why don't you just put it down. Idiot
Me receiving psychic damage 23 hours a day from my phone: Ouuughhhh
OOUUuuwwwwaaaaaa
ooaaaaghuuuuuhhhowwgahhhhh guuuuuwah

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Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social · Aug 18

Oh no!!! Awful!

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Claude Willan @claudewillan.bsky.social · Aug 18

This is really, really sad. A superb press with a great list run by a fantastic editor. With the loss of this lively, reliable, rigorous avenue, our field gets smaller and quieter.

dead manu walking @profchander.bsky.social · Aug 17

very much saddened to learn that bucknell university press will be closing. they took a chance on my first book when other presses said it was too short or too narrowly focused on minor authors.

www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...

Letter | Bucknell University Press to Close

This should alarm university presses nationwide, writes Aníbal González-Pérez.

www.chronicle.com

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