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Daniel Williams
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Asst. Prof. of Literature at Bard College • fmr Harvard Society of Fellows • Victorian & South African Literature, Env. Humanities • THE ART OF UNCERTAINTY (Cambridge, 2024) • doi.org/10.1017/9781009436120 • www.danielbenjaminwilliams.com
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Daniel Williams @dbenjw.bsky.social · Mar 6
✨The Art of Uncertainty: Probable Realism and the Victorian Novel✨ is out with Cambridge UP!

Available in US/UK (cambridge.org/9781009436113), 20% off w/ TAU2024

Huge thanks to all who shepherded it into print and to Kate Flint & Clare Pettitt for including it in their series!
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Daniel Williams @dbenjw.bsky.social · 8d
I’m afraid not!
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Daniel Williams @dbenjw.bsky.social · 8d
Join the ranks of fabulous recent essays on the #Victorian Pacific + #Romantic lyric; on museums, collections, archives; on ecology, hydrography, atmosphere; on immunology, race and portraiture; and more!

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Daniel Williams @dbenjw.bsky.social · 8d
My periodic call for pitches to the 19th-Century Networks section of ✨Literature Compass✨:

Do you have a state-of-the-field essay to propose on #Romantic or #Victorian topics? a little-known or understudied author to spotlight?

Please get in touch!

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Daniel Williams @dbenjw.bsky.social · Jun 30
🌊 Please read Lindsay Wilhelm's marvelous state-of-the-field essay on the ✨ VICTORIAN PACIFIC ✨, out now in Literature Compass!!!

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ABSTRACT: Despite (or perhaps because of) its distance from Britain, the Pacific islands occupied complicated symbolic and material terrain in Victorian culture. Home to major settler populations in New Zealand and Australia, the Pacific was also an exotic tourist destination, the setting for popular adventure novels and travelogues, a field laboratory for the burgeoning disciplines of ethnography, biology, and race science, and one of the last battlegrounds in the global scrabble for resources. This essay surveys the small but rich body of scholarship that has emerged over the past 30 years to elucidate Victorians' engagements with the Pacific. In particular, this essay highlights the unique challenges and opportunities posed by its study: attending to the Pacific requires us to rethink our terminology, expand our archives, refine our methods, and interrogate our approach to Indigeneity. As such, a survey of scholarship on this still somewhat marginal subject offers insights into the state of Victorian studies more broadly, at a juncture in which the field is reorienting itself toward the global.
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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · Feb 4
What this long and detailed NYT piece calmly calls an “extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual” is in fact a blatantly unconstitutional usurpation of Congress’s Article I powers and delegation of the President’s Article II duties.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...
Elon Musk’s Blitz Shakes U.S. Government as He Sweeps Through Agencies
The billionaire is creating major upheaval as his team sweeps through agencies, in what has been an extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual.
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · Feb 4
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Daniel Williams @dbenjw.bsky.social · Jan 30
Deadline is tomorrow!
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Daniel Williams @dbenjw.bsky.social · Jan 8
6th annual 💥Vcologies Early Career Paper Prize💥! Please share/RT!

If you have a paper that fits the bill, “ecological thinking in the Anglophone world from 1750-1945,” do consider submitting!

Deadline: Jan. 31, 2025
Award: $250
The Vcologies Working Group announces the 2025 Early Career Paper Prize. The prize recognizes work by rising scholars that exemplifies the Vcologies effort to consider ecological thinking in the Anglophone world from 1750-1945. Early career scholars working in any field are eligible. Graduate students and contingently employed colleagues are especially encouraged to submit. "Early career" is defined as a scholar of any rank or affiliation who is working toward a PhD, or who has received the PhD in the past three calendar years (2021 or later). PhDs from 2020 are also eligible to apply in cases where parental duties or medical leave have affected research. The winning paper will be selected according to three criteria: (1) Potential significance for Victorian studies and its relation to the study of ecology, broadly construed; (2) Quality and depth of scholarly research and interpretation; (3) Clarity and effectiveness of presentation. Papers will be anonymized before being forwarded to three judges. The prize award is $250 Submission Guidelines The prize is open to papers of no more than 3,500 words (not including notes, image captions, or references) written by early career scholars. Please submit papers in MS Word or PDF (with no identifying information on the document itself), along with (as a separate document) a cover sheet stating (1) your name, (2) year of Ph.D. (or year expected), (3) name of your degree-granting institution, (4) title of your essay, and (5) contact information, to Kathleen Frederickson at kfrederickson@ucdavis.edu. Submission deadline is January 31, 2025.
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Daniel Williams @dbenjw.bsky.social · Jan 8
6th annual 💥Vcologies Early Career Paper Prize💥! Please share/RT!

If you have a paper that fits the bill, “ecological thinking in the Anglophone world from 1750-1945,” do consider submitting!

Deadline: Jan. 31, 2025
Award: $250
The Vcologies Working Group announces the 2025 Early Career Paper Prize. The prize recognizes work by rising scholars that exemplifies the Vcologies effort to consider ecological thinking in the Anglophone world from 1750-1945. Early career scholars working in any field are eligible. Graduate students and contingently employed colleagues are especially encouraged to submit. "Early career" is defined as a scholar of any rank or affiliation who is working toward a PhD, or who has received the PhD in the past three calendar years (2021 or later). PhDs from 2020 are also eligible to apply in cases where parental duties or medical leave have affected research. The winning paper will be selected according to three criteria: (1) Potential significance for Victorian studies and its relation to the study of ecology, broadly construed; (2) Quality and depth of scholarly research and interpretation; (3) Clarity and effectiveness of presentation. Papers will be anonymized before being forwarded to three judges. The prize award is $250 Submission Guidelines The prize is open to papers of no more than 3,500 words (not including notes, image captions, or references) written by early career scholars. Please submit papers in MS Word or PDF (with no identifying information on the document itself), along with (as a separate document) a cover sheet stating (1) your name, (2) year of Ph.D. (or year expected), (3) name of your degree-granting institution, (4) title of your essay, and (5) contact information, to Kathleen Frederickson at kfrederickson@ucdavis.edu. Submission deadline is January 31, 2025.
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Daniel Williams @dbenjw.bsky.social · Jan 29
“Uncopyrightable” is the longest word in English to use each of its letters no more than once. —Christian Bök
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · Jan 29
OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor

https://www.ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-5255-4fa9-8ccc-1fe01de87ea6
OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor
White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · Jan 28
how, specifically, does freezing research dollars hurt your state's economy?

link for deets by state. keep in mind this is separate from all the other programs that support public schools, provide food for kids, supplies for hospitals, equipment for infrastructure.

www.faseb.org/science-poli...
Federal Research Funding Data
We advance health and well-being by promoting research and education in biological and biomedical sciences through collaborative advocacy and service to our societies and their members.
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Daniel Williams @dbenjw.bsky.social · Jan 15
✨“the realist novel’s embrace of doubtful futurity is fundamental to its efforts at verisimilitude.”✨

Gratified by this alert, generous, sympathetic review of my book by Alicia Rix in @thetls.bsky.social!

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The TLS @thetls.bsky.social · Jan 14
'...the habit of speculation is rife in Victorian fiction, and particularly incurable among Thomas Hardy’s fortune-tellers and gamblers.'

Alicia Rix on indecision in the Victorian novel
Indecision in the Victorian novel
“You can never be sure of weather till ’tis past”, gloomily avers Michael Henchard, the hero of The Mayor of Casterbridge. A familiar and profitless
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Daniel Williams @dbenjw.bsky.social · Jan 15
✨“the realist novel’s embrace of doubtful futurity is fundamental to its efforts at verisimilitude.”✨

Gratified by this alert, generous, sympathetic review of my book by Alicia Rix in @thetls.bsky.social!

buff.ly/4asoJpL
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Daniel Williams @dbenjw.bsky.social · Jan 8
6th annual 💥Vcologies Early Career Paper Prize💥! Please share/RT!

If you have a paper that fits the bill, “ecological thinking in the Anglophone world from 1750-1945,” do consider submitting!

Deadline: Jan. 31, 2025
Award: $250
The Vcologies Working Group announces the 2025 Early Career Paper Prize. The prize recognizes work by rising scholars that exemplifies the Vcologies effort to consider ecological thinking in the Anglophone world from 1750-1945. Early career scholars working in any field are eligible. Graduate students and contingently employed colleagues are especially encouraged to submit. "Early career" is defined as a scholar of any rank or affiliation who is working toward a PhD, or who has received the PhD in the past three calendar years (2021 or later). PhDs from 2020 are also eligible to apply in cases where parental duties or medical leave have affected research. The winning paper will be selected according to three criteria: (1) Potential significance for Victorian studies and its relation to the study of ecology, broadly construed; (2) Quality and depth of scholarly research and interpretation; (3) Clarity and effectiveness of presentation. Papers will be anonymized before being forwarded to three judges. The prize award is $250 Submission Guidelines The prize is open to papers of no more than 3,500 words (not including notes, image captions, or references) written by early career scholars. Please submit papers in MS Word or PDF (with no identifying information on the document itself), along with (as a separate document) a cover sheet stating (1) your name, (2) year of Ph.D. (or year expected), (3) name of your degree-granting institution, (4) title of your essay, and (5) contact information, to Kathleen Frederickson at kfrederickson@ucdavis.edu. Submission deadline is January 31, 2025.
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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Dec 26
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Simon Stern @simon8.bsky.social · Dec 26
Routledge Handbook of Victorian Rebels www.routledge.com/The-Routledg... - pub this Feb but if your library has a T&F subscription you can access the chapters here: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1... / @victoriancommons.bsky.social @victstudies.bsky.social @sarahebull.bsky.social
The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Rebels
Although history records that the British nineteenth century was obsessed with order,conventionality, and conformity, there were many Victorians from all walks of life, across lines of class, race, an...
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Daniel Williams @dbenjw.bsky.social · Oct 14
And our Introduction to ✨Collecting, Collections, and Collectors in the Long Nineteenth Century✨ is free to read!

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Daniel Williams @dbenjw.bsky.social · Oct 14
"Collecting, Collections, and Collectors in the Long Nineteenth Century" includes work by

Margaret Gray * Alice Little * Lindsay Wells * Sophia Franchi * Lindsey Chappell * Sezen Ünlüönen * Tim Sommer * Brandon & Lindsay Katzir

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Collecting, Collections, and Collectors in the Long Nineteenth Century: Literature Compass
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Daniel Williams @dbenjw.bsky.social · Oct 14
✨the Special Issue of Literature Compass✨ I edited with Jake Risinger is out!

🗃️ Collecting, Collections, and Collectors in the Long Nineteenth Century 🗃️ features a wide range of essays on the period's collecting practices in art, music, & science:

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Collecting, Collections, and Collectors in the Long Nineteenth Century: Literature Compass
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Daniel Williams @dbenjw.bsky.social · Oct 14
And our Introduction to ✨Collecting, Collections, and Collectors in the Long Nineteenth Century✨ is free to read!

compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Introduction: Collecting, Collections, and Collectors in the Long Nineteenth Century
You have to enable JavaScript in your browser's settings in order to use the eReader.
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Daniel Williams @dbenjw.bsky.social · Oct 14
"Collecting, Collections, and Collectors in the Long Nineteenth Century" includes work by

Margaret Gray * Alice Little * Lindsay Wells * Sophia Franchi * Lindsey Chappell * Sezen Ünlüönen * Tim Sommer * Brandon & Lindsay Katzir

compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
Collecting, Collections, and Collectors in the Long Nineteenth Century: Literature Compass
Click on the title to browse this issue
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Daniel Williams @dbenjw.bsky.social · Oct 14
✨the Special Issue of Literature Compass✨ I edited with Jake Risinger is out!

🗃️ Collecting, Collections, and Collectors in the Long Nineteenth Century 🗃️ features a wide range of essays on the period's collecting practices in art, music, & science:

compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
Collecting, Collections, and Collectors in the Long Nineteenth Century: Literature Compass
Click on the title to browse this issue
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Manuel Sousa Oliveira @msousaoliveira.bsky.social · May 28
Join us tomorrow to learn about 🧐philosophy, the 💥apocalypse, and the 🌎environment!

Ted Toadvine
"The Memory of the World: Unraveling the Allure of Eco-Apocalypse"
CETAPS+ Cultures of the Future Talks
Wed, May 29, 2024
Online

Register here:
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Daniel Williams @dbenjw.bsky.social · Apr 8
🌞A good day to contemplate Larkin’s quirky but moving poem, “Solar”:

“Single stalkless flower / You pour unrecompensed”🌞
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