Julia Boss
@juliaboss.bsky.social
Developmental editor working with scholars in the humanities and interpretive social sciences. Lapsed historian. Ex-Algonquin Books.
More at https://www.juliabossediting.com/.
More at https://www.juliabossediting.com/.
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Friends! We are looking for a visiting assistant professor with expertise in 17th century literature. Help me spread the word? It’s limited term, but I can promise wonderful students and lovely colleagues for a very nice bit of teaching experience… wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
Visiting Assistant Professor of English
Visiting Assistant Professor of English: Seventeenth-Century Literature The Department of English at Wesleyan University seeks applicants for a full-time Visiting Professor with expertise in seventeen...
wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Friends! We are looking for a visiting assistant professor with expertise in 17th century literature. Help me spread the word? It’s limited term, but I can promise wonderful students and lovely colleagues for a very nice bit of teaching experience… wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
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Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days:
saintheron.com
saintheron.com
Saint Heron
Saint Heron Community Library; a growing media center dedicated to students, practicing artists and designers, musicians and general literature enthusiasts.
saintheron.com
February 4, 2026 at 2:31 AM
Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days:
saintheron.com
saintheron.com
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I am incredibly honored that the Death and Life of Gentrification is reviewed in the February 9 issue of the New Yorker. My great thanks to them for their engagement with the book.
Check out this @newyorker.com Briefly Noted column for a review of @jbrownsaracino.bsky.social’s The Death and Life of Gentrification:
Briefly Noted Book Reviews
Short reviews of recent releases.
buff.ly
February 5, 2026 at 5:29 PM
I am incredibly honored that the Death and Life of Gentrification is reviewed in the February 9 issue of the New Yorker. My great thanks to them for their engagement with the book.
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📣 We’re hiring!
Cornell University Press is seeking a Director of Editorial, Design, and Production. A key role at the heart of scholarly publishing.
🔗 Details + application: cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree...
Cornell University Press is seeking a Director of Editorial, Design, and Production. A key role at the heart of scholarly publishing.
🔗 Details + application: cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree...
Director of Editorial, Design, and Production (REMOTE)
Established in 1869 as the first American university press, shortly after the founding of Cornell, the press embodies and advances the university’s core values by disseminating fundamental and practic...
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February 5, 2026 at 2:29 PM
📣 We’re hiring!
Cornell University Press is seeking a Director of Editorial, Design, and Production. A key role at the heart of scholarly publishing.
🔗 Details + application: cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree...
Cornell University Press is seeking a Director of Editorial, Design, and Production. A key role at the heart of scholarly publishing.
🔗 Details + application: cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree...
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A 17th-century fresco of an angel in the church of San Lorenzo in Lucina in Rome changed to look like PM Giorgia Meloni. Pope Leo XIV echoes the Council of Trent: images “cannot be misused or exploited, as they are intended exclusively to support liturgical life and personal and communal prayer."
Does This Angel Look Familiar? A Modern Face Appears in a Rome Fresco.
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2026 at 9:24 PM
A 17th-century fresco of an angel in the church of San Lorenzo in Lucina in Rome changed to look like PM Giorgia Meloni. Pope Leo XIV echoes the Council of Trent: images “cannot be misused or exploited, as they are intended exclusively to support liturgical life and personal and communal prayer."
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Fun Fact: Medieval and Renaissance history are now in my acquisition areas! #HistoryUP
Intrigued to see what we've published, what's fresh off the presses, and what's to come? No worries, the @cornellupress.bsky.social subject page has got you covered: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/subjects/med...
Intrigued to see what we've published, what's fresh off the presses, and what's to come? No worries, the @cornellupress.bsky.social subject page has got you covered: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/subjects/med...
Medieval and Renaissance Studies – Cornell University Press
Cornell University Press fosters a culture of broad and sustained inquiry through the publication of scholarship that is engaged, influential, and of lasting significance.
www.cornellpress.cornell.edu
February 2, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Fun Fact: Medieval and Renaissance history are now in my acquisition areas! #HistoryUP
Intrigued to see what we've published, what's fresh off the presses, and what's to come? No worries, the @cornellupress.bsky.social subject page has got you covered: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/subjects/med...
Intrigued to see what we've published, what's fresh off the presses, and what's to come? No worries, the @cornellupress.bsky.social subject page has got you covered: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/subjects/med...
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What people call their “scraps” document, a crowdsourced poem:
dumps
leftovers
basurillas
discards
heads and tails
sleeping kittens
detritus
scratchpad
junk
The Boneyard
snippets
smarties
orphans
dumps
leftovers
basurillas
discards
heads and tails
sleeping kittens
detritus
scratchpad
junk
The Boneyard
snippets
smarties
orphans
I’m curious: what do you call your “scraps” document?
My sister calls it a “dumps” doc 😆
My sister calls it a “dumps” doc 😆
Ah, the psychic relief of writing with a little “scraps” document on the side.
Don’t worry, scraps: you’re safe here. Maybe you’ll even get called up to the Big Leagues. I love all my scraps equally, and I’d never delete you.
Don’t worry, scraps: you’re safe here. Maybe you’ll even get called up to the Big Leagues. I love all my scraps equally, and I’d never delete you.
January 31, 2026 at 3:29 AM
What people call their “scraps” document, a crowdsourced poem:
dumps
leftovers
basurillas
discards
heads and tails
sleeping kittens
detritus
scratchpad
junk
The Boneyard
snippets
smarties
orphans
dumps
leftovers
basurillas
discards
heads and tails
sleeping kittens
detritus
scratchpad
junk
The Boneyard
snippets
smarties
orphans
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Some academic publishing contract advice: make sure your contract specifies 1. a qualified human copyeditor will copyedit on the MS; 2. a qualified human proofreader will proofread the MS; 3. that production must have a proper system for version control (!).
January 28, 2026 at 3:27 PM
Some academic publishing contract advice: make sure your contract specifies 1. a qualified human copyeditor will copyedit on the MS; 2. a qualified human proofreader will proofread the MS; 3. that production must have a proper system for version control (!).
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“What does it mean for someone like me to claim allegiance to a region that historically speaking is not mine? When a settler says, ‘I’m home,’ what cultural and political work does such a statement do?”
Read an essay by Coll Thrush (WRECKED) in NW Book Lovers:
nwbooklovers.org/2026/01/13/e...
Read an essay by Coll Thrush (WRECKED) in NW Book Lovers:
nwbooklovers.org/2026/01/13/e...
An Original Essay by 2026 PNBA Book Award Winner Coll Thrush
I am an unrepentant regional chauvinist. I believe in my heart that those of us lucky enough to call the Pacific Northwest home live in one of the best places on the planet. Perhaps because I was rais...
nwbooklovers.org
January 27, 2026 at 11:44 PM
“What does it mean for someone like me to claim allegiance to a region that historically speaking is not mine? When a settler says, ‘I’m home,’ what cultural and political work does such a statement do?”
Read an essay by Coll Thrush (WRECKED) in NW Book Lovers:
nwbooklovers.org/2026/01/13/e...
Read an essay by Coll Thrush (WRECKED) in NW Book Lovers:
nwbooklovers.org/2026/01/13/e...
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Mosaics of Hisham's Palace/Qaṣr Hishām/Khirbat al-Mafjar near Jericho.
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
January 26, 2026 at 4:30 PM
Mosaics of Hisham's Palace/Qaṣr Hishām/Khirbat al-Mafjar near Jericho.
#MosaicMonday
#MosaicMonday
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I love when an interview feels more like a conversation. That's why I was so delighted to talk with Barbara Bernstein for Locus Focus on @KBOO about how the dam-removal movement fits into larger efforts to restore ecosystems and equity. @princetonupress.bsky.social kboo.fm/media/131440...
Undammed
Last year four of the dams on Klamath River were removed. The largest dam removal project in United States history, this is a remarkable test case to show how nature and people can thrive on free-flo...
kboo.fm
January 21, 2026 at 9:38 PM
I love when an interview feels more like a conversation. That's why I was so delighted to talk with Barbara Bernstein for Locus Focus on @KBOO about how the dam-removal movement fits into larger efforts to restore ecosystems and equity. @princetonupress.bsky.social kboo.fm/media/131440...
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does anyone have any suggestions for books on follies, grottoes, ornamental hermits, things of that nature? coffee table or monograph.
January 22, 2026 at 1:25 AM
does anyone have any suggestions for books on follies, grottoes, ornamental hermits, things of that nature? coffee table or monograph.
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Fun bluesky fact is that no matter what else is going on, someone is always reading Moby Dick
January 22, 2026 at 12:57 AM
Fun bluesky fact is that no matter what else is going on, someone is always reading Moby Dick
Reposting this as I complete a developmental edit on an otherwise brilliant book that loses momentum at the close of each chapter when the author announces its “Conclusion.” I think using the label can also constrain how an author imagines the work that might be accomplished in that final section.
I am once again asking you not to make the final subhead of a chapter the word "Conclusion"
January 21, 2026 at 8:05 PM
Reposting this as I complete a developmental edit on an otherwise brilliant book that loses momentum at the close of each chapter when the author announces its “Conclusion.” I think using the label can also constrain how an author imagines the work that might be accomplished in that final section.
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AHA members: The AHA is accepting applications for the 2026-27 research grants until February 15, 2026. Preference will be given to advanced doctoral students, nontenured faculty, and unaffiliated scholars and to those with specific research needs. 🗃️
Grants & Fellowships - AHA
AHA Research Grants Grants may be used for travel to a library or archive; microfilming, photography, or photocopying; hiring a researcher; borrowing or access fees; and similar research expenses-a li...
www.historians.org
January 20, 2026 at 6:07 PM
AHA members: The AHA is accepting applications for the 2026-27 research grants until February 15, 2026. Preference will be given to advanced doctoral students, nontenured faculty, and unaffiliated scholars and to those with specific research needs. 🗃️
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Rereading @allyfield.bsky.social's piece again. It's just so wonderful! Thinking of screening Laughing Gas (1907) this time around as well. Alongside Something Good--Negro Kiss, it's a film that shows how racial images were *contested* in early cinema, rather than being monolithic.
January 19, 2026 at 5:52 PM
Rereading @allyfield.bsky.social's piece again. It's just so wonderful! Thinking of screening Laughing Gas (1907) this time around as well. Alongside Something Good--Negro Kiss, it's a film that shows how racial images were *contested* in early cinema, rather than being monolithic.
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“Administrative language salvages truths from oblivion, but it also resembles a theater of the absurd when, invariably, it ends with an official formulation.”
Anouche Kunth on the ways raw sources can become historical narrative.
Anouche Kunth on the ways raw sources can become historical narrative.
At the Edge of Erasure: An Interview with Anouche Kunth, Historian of Exile - Public Books
In the basement of a French administration office there was a mass of 12,000 documents related to the refugees of the Armenian genocide, telling a terse story of loss.
www.publicbooks.org
January 19, 2026 at 7:18 PM
“Administrative language salvages truths from oblivion, but it also resembles a theater of the absurd when, invariably, it ends with an official formulation.”
Anouche Kunth on the ways raw sources can become historical narrative.
Anouche Kunth on the ways raw sources can become historical narrative.
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Romare Bearden, Martin Luther King, Jr.-Mountain Top, 1968
January 19, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Romare Bearden, Martin Luther King, Jr.-Mountain Top, 1968
"How do we take our place again in a world where nothing remains of what was? Where even the 'ordinary' is no more?"
Laure Astourian interviews historian Anouche Kunth.
Laure Astourian interviews historian Anouche Kunth.
In the basement of a French administration office there was a mass of 12,000 documents related to the refugees of the Armenian genocide, telling a terse story of loss.
At the Edge of Erasure: An Interview with Anouche Kunth, Historian of Exile - Public Books
In the basement of a French administration office there was a mass of 12,000 documents related to the refugees of the Armenian genocide, telling a terse story of loss.
www.publicbooks.org
January 15, 2026 at 5:47 PM
"How do we take our place again in a world where nothing remains of what was? Where even the 'ordinary' is no more?"
Laure Astourian interviews historian Anouche Kunth.
Laure Astourian interviews historian Anouche Kunth.
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Deadline today but please if you're interested drop us a line! Conference on Religions and Freedoms c 1776 (really, VERY broadly circa), joint @jcblibrary.bsky.social and the Danforth Center for Religion and Politics at Wash U.
TIMELY STUFF. More info and link here: jcblibrary.org/events/confe...
TIMELY STUFF. More info and link here: jcblibrary.org/events/confe...
January 15, 2026 at 11:25 AM
Deadline today but please if you're interested drop us a line! Conference on Religions and Freedoms c 1776 (really, VERY broadly circa), joint @jcblibrary.bsky.social and the Danforth Center for Religion and Politics at Wash U.
TIMELY STUFF. More info and link here: jcblibrary.org/events/confe...
TIMELY STUFF. More info and link here: jcblibrary.org/events/confe...
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Submit your recently defended (last 2 years) dissertation on New Netherland and/or the Dutch in North America to be considered for the Hendricks Prize. More info here: www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/awa... (self nominations welcome)
Annual Hendricks Award :: New Netherland Institute
www.newnetherlandinstitute.org
January 13, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Submit your recently defended (last 2 years) dissertation on New Netherland and/or the Dutch in North America to be considered for the Hendricks Prize. More info here: www.newnetherlandinstitute.org/programs/awa... (self nominations welcome)
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Embroidered cotton apron. Czech, 19th century.
Ref T.282-1987, V & A Museum.
Ref T.282-1987, V & A Museum.
January 13, 2026 at 4:40 AM
Embroidered cotton apron. Czech, 19th century.
Ref T.282-1987, V & A Museum.
Ref T.282-1987, V & A Museum.
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I couldn't be happier, or more honored, that the first issue of the redesigned and reimagined HLQ will feature the work of the Somali American artist Ebony Iman Dallas. Like much of her work, 𝘉𝘓𝘈𝘊𝘒𝘰𝘶𝘵: 𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 puts past and present in vital conversation. #earlymodern #skystorians
January 8, 2026 at 5:55 PM
I couldn't be happier, or more honored, that the first issue of the redesigned and reimagined HLQ will feature the work of the Somali American artist Ebony Iman Dallas. Like much of her work, 𝘉𝘓𝘈𝘊𝘒𝘰𝘶𝘵: 𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 puts past and present in vital conversation. #earlymodern #skystorians
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Friends, I hope you’ll share this widely. The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hiring 2 3-yr research associates for collaborative work on religions and freedoms in the early Americas. Info is here and I’m happy to take questions offline: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...
January 7, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Friends, I hope you’ll share this widely. The @jcblibrary.bsky.social is hiring 2 3-yr research associates for collaborative work on religions and freedoms in the early Americas. Info is here and I’m happy to take questions offline: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...