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Carolyn Dever @carolyndever.bsky.social · May 1

Thank you, ACLS. The fellowship made my first book possible!

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Carolyn Dever @carolyndever.bsky.social · Apr 22

Amazing! @guggfellows.bsky.social

Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · Apr 21

Sixteen PUP authors, translators, and volume editors—including five authors with books under contract with the Press—have been named 2025 Guggenheim Fellows. Congratulations to all those whose work has been recognized this year! bit.ly/3YDfdLx

#GuggFellows2025 @guggfellows.bsky.social

Celebrating the PUP authors named 2025 Guggenheim Fellows

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Dartmouth Arts and Sciences @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social · Apr 14

We’re celebrating 250 years of Jane Austen in 2025! The “For Love or Money? Jane Austen at 250” exhibit at Baker-Berry Library was created by students in professor @carolyndever.bsky.social’s Reading Jane Austen first-year seminar, showcasing their deep engagements with four of the author’s novels.

New Exhibit Marks 250th Anniversary of Jane Austen's Birth | Dartmouth

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Carolyn Dever @carolyndever.bsky.social · Apr 15

The honour of a lifetime!

www.gf.org/stories/anno...

Announcing the 2025 Guggenheim Fellows — Guggenheim Fellowships: Supporting Artists, Scholars, & Scientists

Since 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has given Fellowships to exceptional artists, writers, scholars, and scientists, empowering them to pursue meaningful work under the freest possible conditions.

www.gf.org

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Carolyn Dever @carolyndever.bsky.social · Apr 3

I admire and appreciate the work of my first-year undergraduates so much--as well as their bright, intrepid spirits. Happy birthday, Jane Austen! @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social
home.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/04...

New Exhibit Marks 250th Anniversary of Jane Austen's Birth | Dartmouth

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Carolyn Dever @carolyndever.bsky.social · Mar 21

Me too! It’s in the Bod.

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Carolyn Dever @carolyndever.bsky.social · Mar 20

Michael Field’s other dog. Be drioll like Musico.

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Carolyn Dever @carolyndever.bsky.social · Mar 19

Thanks, Exeter friends! I can’t wait to visit.

University of Exeter Centre for Victorian Studies @uniofexetercvs.bsky.social · Mar 18

🗓️ Join us on Wednesday 26 March as we welcome @carolyndever.bsky.social to speak on "Speculative Biography: What Edith Knew" - a paper that explores the ethical challenges of reading the poet couple Michael Field not as one, but as two.

Open to all!
Please message if you would like a teams link.

A poster advertising an upcoming talk at the Centre for Victorian Studies, featuring the front cover of the verse drama 'World at Auction' by Michael Field.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · Mar 1

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

We're not done yet | 18F

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Carolyn Dever @carolyndever.bsky.social · Jan 18

CHAINS OF LOVE AND BEAUTY, now out in paper! @princetonupress.bsky.social

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Carolyn Dever @carolyndever.bsky.social · Jan 11

Wow!

Hil Malatino @hilmalatino.bsky.social · Jan 11

Deadline is tomorrow! Get those applications in! Remind your friends!

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Carolyn Dever @carolyndever.bsky.social · Dec 10

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The Chronicle’s Strategic-Leadership Program for Department Chairs

Join us on January 21-31, 2025, for a professional-development program to help new and experienced department chairs overcome the challenges of the role and create a strategic vision for personal and ...

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Amy Kahrmann Huseby @akhuseby.bsky.social · Nov 18

*blushing* My thanks to @hopkinspress.bsky.social , Rice University, Kate Flint, and @carolyndever.bsky.social for this generous welcome in the PMLA program for MLA 2025 as the Exec. Editor of @sel1500to1900.bsky.social ! If you'll be in NOLA for MLA, do join us for our cash bar at Jolie on Friday 🍷

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SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900 @sel1500to1900.bsky.social · Nov 14

#thankfulthursday SEL is grateful for our contributors! Anyone who has found a home for their work at SEL, we thank you! & to future contributors: SEL invites anyone at any stage of their careers to submit, and we welcome work from historically excluded perspectives 👉 https://buff.ly/48g5P46

Thank You graphic with the link to SEL submission info: sel.rice.edu/submission-guidelines

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Carolyn Dever @carolyndever.bsky.social · Nov 9

Please add me if there’s room. Thanks, Aarthi!

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Carolyn Dever @carolyndever.bsky.social · Nov 9

Sarah, please add me if there is room. Thank you!

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Andrea Kaston Tange @aktange.bsky.social · Nov 9

Incredible resource for researchers here!

Sharon Howard @sharonhoward.bsky.social · Oct 19

Ooooooooooh the Foundling Hospital archive has now gone online. (I think I did a few page transcriptions for this one.) coramstory.org.uk/the-foundlin...

If you want to go straight into petitions... archives.coram.org.uk/records/CFH/...

Foundling Hospital Archive - Coram Story

The Foundling Hospital archive contains some half a million documents dating from the 1730s and reveals the lives of the children in its care.

coramstory.org.uk

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Carolyn Dever @carolyndever.bsky.social · Dec 14

The British Library has been crushed by a brutal cyberattack. I went to find out more: www.publicbooks.org/how-to-lose-...

How to Lose a Library

Six weeks ago—on October 31, 2023—the British Library suffered a massive cyberattack. What has been lost?

www.publicbooks.org

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Carolyn Dever @carolyndever.bsky.social · Nov 16

It’s such a joy to receive a first copy of a book 25 years in the making! @princetonupress.bsky.social @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social

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Carolyn Dever @carolyndever.bsky.social · Oct 17

Such a generous, joyous review of Chains of Love and Beauty by Evangeline Riddiford Graham. Thank you!

lareviewofbooks.org/article/prot...

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Carolyn Dever @carolyndever.bsky.social · Aug 30

Michael Field Blsky--greetings! Can you help us identify the person with whom KB was speaking about boundless, unconditional love in 1914? Esther O'[???]? Thank you!

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Carolyn Dever @carolyndever.bsky.social · Aug 29

@carolyndever.bsky.social
My honey is magic—https://mag.uchicago.edu/education-social-service/tricks-trade
@dartmouth

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · Aug 22

Friends, may I ask you pls to help me publicize a t-t job at my institution? Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard is seeking a scholar of French/Francophone lit who specializes in a period before the 19th century. Applications due 9/22. Thank you!
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12490

Tenure-Track Professor of Pre-1800 French and Francophone Studies

The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures seeks to hire a tenure-track professor of French and Francophone literatures and cultures specializing in any of the periods prior to the nineteenth...

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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · Aug 16

I wrote this piece in The Nation about the cuts at WVU and how small states will crush their R1 unis to cash grab for big tech. WVU is the only R1 in WV and these cuts will shred higher ed in the state. Please read and share.

The Evisceration of a Public University

West Virginia University is being gutted, and it’s a preview for what’s in store for higher education.

www.thenation.com

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