Snapshots of a day off spent hiking in the mountains and reading this lovely new edition of Thoreau's 'Winter Walk' prefaced and translated by @tconstantinesco.bsky.social! Thoreau's 'arctic summer,' but make it Alpine?

Some unexpected treats to top off the absolute treat that teaching this class on women's writings in the 19th-century United States was! Feeling immensely lucky to have had such engaged students and thought-provoking discussions in this course! 🌟

If you're in Paris, don't hesitate to drop by tomorrow for the 2025 BrANCA symposium on Borders, Ethno-Nationalism and the State of/in Americanist Studies in the Long Nineteenth-Century! All relevant details on our website: branca-2025.weebly.com.

And here are the superb posters made by Laurène Sinnappu for the occasion. Of course, I *had* to suggest Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1848 portrait by Scottish painter David Scott to illustrate my talk. 👀

Courtesy Concord Free Public Library
More on the portrait here: concordlibrary.org/special-coll....

Excited to be taking part in a panel on the year 1848 at the SERD doctoral seminar tomorrow! I'll be talking (in French) about Emerson's 25-day stay in Paris in May 1848 using the metaphor of Ulysses amongst the Lotus-eaters as a leading thread. Check out the program here: doct19serd.hypotheses.org