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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 11d

Pictures for the win!

Dr McInnes’s Monster @drbeard79.bsky.social · 13d

‘Succubus Matters’ is one of the all time great article titles - and the article has pictures 🖤🖤🖤

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 13d

August 🔝 reads! Links👇

1/Lauren K. DiSalvo’s "Postures After the Antique in Eighteenth-Century Portraits of Women"

2/Jeremy Chow’s "Succubus Matters"

3/Mary Ann O’Donnell’s "Behn and the ‘Epitaph On the Tombstone of a Child’"

Thanks for reading #ABO!
#18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC

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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 13d

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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 13d

August 🔝 reads! Links👇

1/Lauren K. DiSalvo’s "Postures After the Antique in Eighteenth-Century Portraits of Women"

2/Jeremy Chow’s "Succubus Matters"

3/Mary Ann O’Donnell’s "Behn and the ‘Epitaph On the Tombstone of a Child’"

Thanks for reading #ABO!
#18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC

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Dr. Katie Sagal @aksagal.bsky.social · 22d

Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Naming and Classifying cfp final

CFP: Naming and Classifying in the Long Eighteenth Century Whereas “the nineteenth century can be seen as the century of counting and measuring,” the eighteenth century can be seen as the century of ...

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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · Aug 15

And for the penultimate article in our Phillis Wheatley Peters Pedagogy Special Issue: Katarina O’Briain’s “Reading Phillis Wheatley’s Catastrophic Poetics: Heroic Couplets and Environmental Justice,” ABO 15.1. Abstract 👇
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#philliswheatleypeters #pwp #pedagogy

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Broadview Press @broadviewpress.bsky.social · Aug 2

“King and Pierce show how the Gothic romance, a well-established genre by the
time Radcliffe was writing, is still evolving in significant ways...” — Annette Hulbert, Willamette University

Read the full review in @abojournal.bsky.social's journal: buff.ly/sRSIIMe

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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · Jul 18

Next up in our Phillis Wheatley Peters Pedagogy Special Issue:
@grubstreetwomen.bsky.social's "Reimagining the Single-Author Seminar: Teaching Wheatley Peters, Milton, and the Master’s Discourse,” ABO 15.1. Abstract 👇 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol15/is...
#philliswheatleypeters #pedagogy

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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · Jul 10

Kicking off ABO 15.1’s Phillis Wheatley Peters Pedagogy Special Issue with a section intro from Mona Narain, our Scholarship Editor, and Sarah Ruffing Robbins. Abstract 👇
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Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #philliswheatleypeters #pwp #poetry

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Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social · Jun 26

Minerva Press scholarship alert!

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · Jun 26

New article by Esmeralda Orndorff and Joanne E. Myers in ABO Summer 2025! Abstract 👇
“The Maternal Icon in Eleanor Sleath’s The Orphan of the Rhine,” ABO 15.1
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Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #gothic #gothicliterature #femalegothic

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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · Jun 26

New article by Esmeralda Orndorff and Joanne E. Myers in ABO Summer 2025! Abstract 👇
“The Maternal Icon in Eleanor Sleath’s The Orphan of the Rhine,” ABO 15.1
digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol15/is...
Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #gothic #gothicliterature #femalegothic

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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · Jun 26

We're in good company! Thanks for including us, @signsjournal.org.

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society @signsjournal.org · Mar 12

We've put together a starter pack of feminist publications on BlueSky! Check it out!

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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · Jun 19

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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · Jun 19

May 🔝 reads! Links👇
1/J. Chow’s rev. of @manionjen.bsky.social's Female Husbands: A Trans History
2/K. Hansen’s “Dress as Deceptive Visual Rhetoric in Haywood’s Fantomina”
3/S. Buckner’s rev. of A History of African American Autobiography, ed. by Joycelyn Moody
#18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC

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Kristen Hauntley CarDEATHzo @khandozo.bsky.social · Jun 13

The History of the Nun is wild and I want everyone to read it. Excited to read this article!

ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · Jun 12

New article by Anaclara Castro-Santana in ABO Summer 2025! Abstract 👇
“The Untold Love Story of Aphra Behn's The History of the Nun,” ABO 15.1
digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol15/is...
Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #aphrabehn #amatoryfiction #thehistoryofthenun #sapphiclove

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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · Jun 12

New article by Anaclara Castro-Santana in ABO Summer 2025! Abstract 👇
“The Untold Love Story of Aphra Behn's The History of the Nun,” ABO 15.1
digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol15/is...
Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #aphrabehn #amatoryfiction #thehistoryofthenun #sapphiclove

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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · Jun 8

Attention ABO readers! The Summer 2025 (15.1) issue dropped late last week. Content screenshots below with exciting article abstracts to follow. digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/
Thanks for reading!
#18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #scholarship #pedagogy #reviews #announcements #notesanddiscoveries

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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · Jun 8

The cat's outta the bag! New issue is live!

Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social · Jun 6

New @abojournal.bsky.social issue is out, and they were kind enough to let me write about one of my all-time fav literature seminars: a comparative reading of Milton and Wheatley Peters. If you teach either author, think about teaching them together!

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Reimagining the Single-Author Seminar: Teaching Wheatley Peters, Milton, and the Master’s Discourse

This article discusses a senior-level literature course that puts into dialogue Phillis Wheatley Peters and John Milton. Wheatley Peters’ poetry on tyranny and freedom during the American Revolution, ...

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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · May 29

Wrapping up our “Teaching Margaret Cavendish, Pt. 2” pedagogy collection: E Mariah Spencer’s “‘Strange and Unusual Things’: Teaching the Speculative Fiction of Margaret Cavendish,” ABO 14.2
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Thanks for reading! #cavendish #pedagogy #blazingworld #sciencefiction

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · May 29

Call for Applications: Stephen Copley Research Award
Deadline 1st June 2025

The BARS Executive Committee has established the bursaries in order to help fund research expenses up to a maximum of £500.

More information and how to apply:
www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...

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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · May 7

#BookHistory friends! Work has begun on the LGBTQIA+ Book History bibliography, and the team is looking for you to share your citations! If you know of or have published something on LGBTQIA+ book history, submit it to this Google form! forms.gle/c1pkNBPbbyCF...

SHARP LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography

Submit citations for the SHARP LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography! We are accepting citations for many different types of resources having to do with LGBTQIA+ book history. There are no restrictions o...

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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · May 10

Next up in our “Teaching Margaret Cavendish, Pt. 2” pedagogy collection: Kevin Lower’s “Teaching Margaret Cavendish Through the Lens of Scientific Anti-Realism,” ABO 14.2
digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/is...
Thanks for reading!
#cavendish #margaretcavendish #pedagogy #poetry #philosophy

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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · May 7

Next up in our “Teaching Margaret Cavendish, Pt. 2” pedagogy collection: Jonathan L. Shaheen’s “An Argumental Discourse Before All: An Approach to Teaching Cavendish,” ABO 14.2
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Thanks for reading!
#margaretcavendish #cavendish #pedagogy #atomism #causation

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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · May 3

Did you check out our recent pedagogy collection, "Teaching Margaret Cavendish, Pt. 2"? The section begins with Anne Thell’s "Jumping Pens and Historical Vertigo: Teaching Cavendish in the Twenty-first Century," ABO 14.2
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Thanks for reading! #cavendish #pedagogy

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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · Apr 8

Phillis Wheatley Peters event today! Join Mona Narain (ABO’s scholarship editor), Sarah Ruffing Robbins, and Barbara McCaskill for “Historically Speaking: ‘The Feast of Genius and the Play of Art’: The Legacies and Communities of PWP at the NMAAHC.” Register here: nmaahc.si.edu/events/histo...

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Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social · Apr 4

I was on the editorial board of @abojournal.bsky.social for years. It's a scholar-led, open access journal on women in the longest 18th century. The board tirelessly works to keep the journal going. Particularly great are the pedagogy clusters on under-studied figures.

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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 | Open Access Journals | University of South Florida

<em>ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830</em> (ISSN 2157-7129) is an online journal that serves as a forum for interactive scholarly discussion on all aspects of women in arts bet...

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