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Paterno Family Librarian for Literature & Professor of English at Penn State | Editor, Penn State Series in the History of the Book, PSU Press | My Dark Room 2023 @uchicagopress https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo192110828.html

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 27d

“I get it”: the favorite 3 words of know-it-alls with putative soft skills. Or, code for: I see where you’re coming from but I’m too smart to see/do things that way.

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 28d

“I hope this message finds you well” guarantees it’s a message you have no interest in receiving

Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · Sep 3

From one of my favorite cookbooks, Beard’s American Cookery. Procured for $3 at a library sale from long ago and full of wonders, like—in addition to his cheese and tomato pie and various biscuit recipes—8 different recipes for fried chicken

Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · Sep 3

Love that feeling of sudden freedom after meeting a big deadline for a collaborative project begun months ago. Time to make James Beard’s tomato pie recipe just in time before summer ends

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · Sep 3

I’m definitely going to be watching this space

Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · Aug 26

So I'm doing a commonplace book assignment with the students in my #earlymodern women's history course this semester. Big thank you to everyone who shared resources and ideas!

Watch this space for updates and reflections.

#teaching #pedagogy

Elizabeth (Liz) Lehfeldt (she/her/hers) @lizlehfeldt.bsky.social · Aug 3

Reposting this because I got such great responses and others might be interested in doing a similar assignment.

#teaching #pedagogy #skystorians

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Reposted by Julie Park

What's Past is Prologue @wpip.bsky.social · Aug 31

Margaret Wise Brown, 1910–1952
photo: Philippe Halsman, 1946
Nat'l Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian
Btwn 1937 & her death in 1952, she authored over 100 books, incl "The Runaway Bunny" (1942), "The Little Island" (1946), and "Goodnight Moon" (1947). She preferred to write with a quill pen. #BookSky 💙📚

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · Aug 28

Is there no shame anymore?

Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · Aug 16

Those are the best!

Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · Aug 16

Reimagining the charcuterie board

Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · Aug 15

Dealing with copyedits for an article and trying not to feel like a patronizing jerk for agreeing to the suggested use of “[sic]” next to a misspelled word in a quoted line

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · Aug 7

Love him. All I listen to now in all his incarnations.

Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · Aug 6

Thank you!

Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · Jul 31

My essay on how the early modern camera obscura brought us more deeply into our interior lives is now live @publicdomainrev.bsky.social

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Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura

Centuries before photography froze the world into neat frames, scientists, poets, and artists streamed transient images into dark interior spaces with the help of a camera obscura. Julie Park explores...

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · Jul 28

The word after your name, “jee uhm,” means “wrote” or “written by.” Had to ask my Mom about that.

Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · Jul 26

Congratulations!! Your kimchi tho—made by “Vadasz”?? Love how your name was spelled out in Korean characters & syllables on the spine—“Eh dum Suh Mee Suh”

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · Jul 26

Loved reading this, every single day of it.

Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · Jul 26

He Read (at Least) 3,599 Books in His Lifetime. Now Anyone Can See His List. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/b...

He Read (at Least) 3,599 Books in His Lifetime. Now Anyone Can See His List.

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · Jul 13

“There is a simple word for this feeling, which we sometimes use too casually yet…is immortal in itself. ‘What will survive of us is love,’ the poet Philip Larkin wrote. Not the quick and fleeting kind of love, but rather love as an overwhelming embrace, a memorial of the heart.”

Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · Jul 13

“Immortality, if considered at all, is less important than more easily achieved goals. Pleasure in the work itself. Usefulness. Kindness. An eagerness and readiness to be of help…”
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Opinion | My Friends Are Immortal to Me

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · May 1

Finding out that My Dark Room won a Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2024 award, originally announced last December, is like discovering a gift under the Christmas tree that almost got lost 🎁 🎄📕🎉 @choicereviews.bsky.social
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Outstanding Academic Titles 2024: English Literature - Choice 360

Read the latest list snippets from the 2024 Outstanding Academic Titles from Choice 360 and Choice Magazine. This week Outstanding Academic Titles 2024: English Literature

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · Mar 17

Thank you, Ros!

Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · Mar 13

Couldn’t have asked for a more gratifying experience sharing my newest work, on Hester Piozzi’s scrapbook, w/@oxford18thc.bsky.social. Thank you @ballasterros.bsky.social for all you did & said. The napkin covered sandwiches waiting for me at end of talk were delicious. Photo @luisacale.bsky.social

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · Mar 12

Yes, I know! I can’t find a lot of things that used to be easy to access.

Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · Mar 2

Grateful to the MLA for capturing this special moment of my receiving their 2024 James Russell Lowell Prize honorable mention award from MLA president Tina Lu for My Dark Room at the annual convention's award ceremony in New Orleans
@modernlanguage.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · Mar 2

Excited to deliver my paper--based on fresh work for next book Writing’s Maker—"Hester Thrale Piozzi's Minced Meat for Pyes: Scrapbook Composition as Life Writing"--to
@oxford18thc.bsky.social next Tuesday. Many thanks to @ballasterros.bsky.social and @davidftaylor.bsky.social for the invitation

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