Julie Park
@juliepark.bsky.social
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
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo192110828.html
Like my attempt at a historical costume neckpiece, w/2 pillowcases? For @adamwithbooks.bsky.social ‘s film project. He’s asking us to make short videos of ourselves saying lines from Rousseau’s Confessions while wearing a white Rousseauvian neckpiece. To join in email Adam: [email protected]
October 17, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Like my attempt at a historical costume neckpiece, w/2 pillowcases? For @adamwithbooks.bsky.social ‘s film project. He’s asking us to make short videos of ourselves saying lines from Rousseau’s Confessions while wearing a white Rousseauvian neckpiece. To join in email Adam: [email protected]
C17 commonplace book index belonging to Whitelock Bulstrode (MS 3244, container 1.1) @ransomcenter.bsky.social. Can’t help but think immediately of @djbduncan.bsky.social and his splendid work on the history of the book index
October 14, 2025 at 6:45 PM
C17 commonplace book index belonging to Whitelock Bulstrode (MS 3244, container 1.1) @ransomcenter.bsky.social. Can’t help but think immediately of @djbduncan.bsky.social and his splendid work on the history of the book index
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
September 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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
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
September 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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
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
March 13, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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
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
@modernlanguage.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social
March 2, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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
@modernlanguage.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social
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
@oxford18thc.bsky.social next Tuesday. Many thanks to @ballasterros.bsky.social and @davidftaylor.bsky.social for the invitation
March 2, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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
@oxford18thc.bsky.social next Tuesday. Many thanks to @ballasterros.bsky.social and @davidftaylor.bsky.social for the invitation
Happy and proud to see My Dark Room, my 2023 book with the University of Chicago Press, with its honorable mention award labels at the MLA convention in New Orleans last week
January 16, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Happy and proud to see My Dark Room, my 2023 book with the University of Chicago Press, with its honorable mention award labels at the MLA convention in New Orleans last week
Enjoyed being at the Getty on an unusually misty day
November 30, 2024 at 4:18 AM
Enjoyed being at the Getty on an unusually misty day
Had lovely time discussing My Dark Room w/ Penn State Professor of Art History Nancy Locke as my insightful & deft interlocutor for the PSU Humanities Institute Reading New Books in the Humanities by Penn State Faculty program.
November 23, 2024 at 5:23 AM
Had lovely time discussing My Dark Room w/ Penn State Professor of Art History Nancy Locke as my insightful & deft interlocutor for the PSU Humanities Institute Reading New Books in the Humanities by Penn State Faculty program.
A morning of wonder and calm exploring the Huntington’s cactus garden before the tourists arrived with an architectural historian friend who is delightfully sensitive to the play of light on the marvelous collection of succulents and cacti (that has woefully been stolen from).
October 12, 2024 at 3:45 AM
A morning of wonder and calm exploring the Huntington’s cactus garden before the tourists arrived with an architectural historian friend who is delightfully sensitive to the play of light on the marvelous collection of succulents and cacti (that has woefully been stolen from).
Panel 5 Business/Leisure:
Travis McDade “Humorous Phases of the Law: Irving Browne’s Extra-Illustrated Life in 19th-Century America” and
Whitney Trettien “The Calculated Risk of Book Destruction: Book Collecting and Calculating Technologies in 19th-Century America”
Travis McDade “Humorous Phases of the Law: Irving Browne’s Extra-Illustrated Life in 19th-Century America” and
Whitney Trettien “The Calculated Risk of Book Destruction: Book Collecting and Calculating Technologies in 19th-Century America”
October 10, 2024 at 3:24 AM
Panel 5 Business/Leisure:
Travis McDade “Humorous Phases of the Law: Irving Browne’s Extra-Illustrated Life in 19th-Century America” and
Whitney Trettien “The Calculated Risk of Book Destruction: Book Collecting and Calculating Technologies in 19th-Century America”
Travis McDade “Humorous Phases of the Law: Irving Browne’s Extra-Illustrated Life in 19th-Century America” and
Whitney Trettien “The Calculated Risk of Book Destruction: Book Collecting and Calculating Technologies in 19th-Century America”
Tony White
“Frisson and Serendipity: Loose Leaves on the Loose in International Artists’ Books”
October 7, 2024 at 7:39 AM
Tony White
“Frisson and Serendipity: Loose Leaves on the Loose in International Artists’ Books”
Panel 4 Gather/Scatter: Molly Duggins “Cut-and-Paste Cabinet: Major James Wallis’ 1840s Album of Colonial New South Wales,” Anna Svensson “A Thistle or a Rose? Probing the Thorny Question of Pressed Plants in Printed Books from the 16th to the 20th Centuries” and…
October 7, 2024 at 7:37 AM
Panel 4 Gather/Scatter: Molly Duggins “Cut-and-Paste Cabinet: Major James Wallis’ 1840s Album of Colonial New South Wales,” Anna Svensson “A Thistle or a Rose? Probing the Thorny Question of Pressed Plants in Printed Books from the 16th to the 20th Centuries” and…
Panel 3 Dialogue/Discord: @digitalpiranesi.bsky.social “The Letter as Image: Illustrating the 18th-Century Correspondence of Ignatius Sancho w/Laurence Sterne” & Nicole Reynolds, “‘This Bomb Under My Monument’: Extra-Illustration & the War Books Controversy – Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves”
October 6, 2024 at 7:17 PM
Panel 3 Dialogue/Discord: @digitalpiranesi.bsky.social “The Letter as Image: Illustrating the 18th-Century Correspondence of Ignatius Sancho w/Laurence Sterne” & Nicole Reynolds, “‘This Bomb Under My Monument’: Extra-Illustration & the War Books Controversy – Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves”
Panel 2 Place/Moment: Adam Smyth,
“Extra-Illustration in England: 1650, 1777, 2013” and @juliepark.bsky.social “The Extra-Illustrated Manuscript as Memory Palace: Archiving the House of the Walpoles”
“Extra-Illustration in England: 1650, 1777, 2013” and @juliepark.bsky.social “The Extra-Illustrated Manuscript as Memory Palace: Archiving the House of the Walpoles”
October 6, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Panel 2 Place/Moment: Adam Smyth,
“Extra-Illustration in England: 1650, 1777, 2013” and @juliepark.bsky.social “The Extra-Illustrated Manuscript as Memory Palace: Archiving the House of the Walpoles”
“Extra-Illustration in England: 1650, 1777, 2013” and @juliepark.bsky.social “The Extra-Illustrated Manuscript as Memory Palace: Archiving the House of the Walpoles”
Panel 1 Reframe/Remake: @luisacale.bsky.social
on the movements of a Blake watercolor in and out of the gargantuan Kitto Bible and Carolin Gluchowski on the recycling and repurposing of materials in prayer books at a medieval German convent
on the movements of a Blake watercolor in and out of the gargantuan Kitto Bible and Carolin Gluchowski on the recycling and repurposing of materials in prayer books at a medieval German convent
October 5, 2024 at 9:38 PM
Panel 1 Reframe/Remake: @luisacale.bsky.social
on the movements of a Blake watercolor in and out of the gargantuan Kitto Bible and Carolin Gluchowski on the recycling and repurposing of materials in prayer books at a medieval German convent
on the movements of a Blake watercolor in and out of the gargantuan Kitto Bible and Carolin Gluchowski on the recycling and repurposing of materials in prayer books at a medieval German convent
Thanks to my elegant, brilliant & kind co-convener Adam Smyth, our speakers, & our audience at the Extra Extra! conference at the Huntington, for an exhilarating program of great papers on the history of the visually altered book last week. A🧵 in progress
October 5, 2024 at 5:05 AM
Thanks to my elegant, brilliant & kind co-convener Adam Smyth, our speakers, & our audience at the Extra Extra! conference at the Huntington, for an exhilarating program of great papers on the history of the visually altered book last week. A🧵 in progress
Can’t believe I’ve finally finished my part in a project that’s dragged on for several months.
Looking forward to going home finally and having a glass of wine.
Will share what this thing is soon. For now, an image. One of you will no doubt know what this is.
Looking forward to going home finally and having a glass of wine.
Will share what this thing is soon. For now, an image. One of you will no doubt know what this is.
August 28, 2024 at 2:11 AM
Can’t believe I’ve finally finished my part in a project that’s dragged on for several months.
Looking forward to going home finally and having a glass of wine.
Will share what this thing is soon. For now, an image. One of you will no doubt know what this is.
Looking forward to going home finally and having a glass of wine.
Will share what this thing is soon. For now, an image. One of you will no doubt know what this is.
I made self-enclosed greenhouses for them out of plastic bags and tucked them away under the Clethra/summersweet shrub and weeds, hoping for the best while they’re left alone to develop strong root systems
August 25, 2024 at 8:08 PM
I made self-enclosed greenhouses for them out of plastic bags and tucked them away under the Clethra/summersweet shrub and weeds, hoping for the best while they’re left alone to develop strong root systems
As the GOP knows there’s always time for reproduction and starting families even when school’s about to begin & deadlines are looming so I propagated my Annabelle hydrangea today, a plant in my garden originally made out of a cutting off my mother’s Annabelle
August 25, 2024 at 8:05 PM
As the GOP knows there’s always time for reproduction and starting families even when school’s about to begin & deadlines are looming so I propagated my Annabelle hydrangea today, a plant in my garden originally made out of a cutting off my mother’s Annabelle
Check out my “bookish” moment at Trader Joe’s
August 21, 2024 at 12:01 AM
Check out my “bookish” moment at Trader Joe’s
Tickets now available for Extra Extra!: The Material History of the Visually Altered Book -- a conference at the Huntington
huntington.org/extra-extra
Excited for this event that valiant champion of the book, & my wonderful colleague,
Adam Smyth & I are co-convening.
huntington.org/extra-extra
Excited for this event that valiant champion of the book, & my wonderful colleague,
Adam Smyth & I are co-convening.
August 9, 2024 at 4:14 AM
Tickets now available for Extra Extra!: The Material History of the Visually Altered Book -- a conference at the Huntington
huntington.org/extra-extra
Excited for this event that valiant champion of the book, & my wonderful colleague,
Adam Smyth & I are co-convening.
huntington.org/extra-extra
Excited for this event that valiant champion of the book, & my wonderful colleague,
Adam Smyth & I are co-convening.
Pictures from my walks this week, with the moon about to turn full. Canceled a social engagement to catch up on time with writing and myself, and overcome some missed deadlines. Following my instincts on this.
July 20, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Pictures from my walks this week, with the moon about to turn full. Canceled a social engagement to catch up on time with writing and myself, and overcome some missed deadlines. Following my instincts on this.
Beautiful sunset last week in the park I go to. Inverting my schedule so I go out in the morning for daily walks and runs to beat the heat and people; curious to see how sunrise beauty compares with sunset
July 20, 2024 at 11:31 AM
Beautiful sunset last week in the park I go to. Inverting my schedule so I go out in the morning for daily walks and runs to beat the heat and people; curious to see how sunrise beauty compares with sunset