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19 Century Studies Association @ncsascholars.bsky.social · Jul 31

New from one of our members!

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Routledge Research in Art History - Book Series - Routledge & CRC Press

Routledge & CRC Press Series: Routledge Research in Art History is our home for the latest scholarship in the field of art history. The series publishes research monographs and edited collec

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19 Century Studies Association @ncsascholars.bsky.social · Jul 16

Of potential interest to our colleagues!

Alex Zivkovic @alexzivkovic.bsky.social · Jul 15

My friend Paulina Choh and I are running an elemental media studies panel at #CAA2026! we are asking how the insights of media studies can be applied to 19th-century visual culture.

Paper proposals due Aug 29!
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Poster for a panel on Elemental Media in the 19th century, featuring a diagram of aquarium infrastructures and a painting of an excavation.

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Laura Rocklyn @lauralostintime.bsky.social · Jun 27

#ArrestingBeauty at #TheMorganLibrary takes visitors into the mystical world of #19thcentury photographer #JuliaMargaretCameron.
If you are unfamiliar with her, I recommend that rabbit hole.
Pictured here:
1. “Vivien and Merlin,” 1874
2. “Rebecca at the Well,” 1869-70
3. “The Annunciation,” 1865-66

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Laura Rocklyn @lauralostintime.bsky.social · Jun 27

Spent the afternoon exploring the #Sargent & #Paris exhibit at the @metmuseum.org. It’s an extraordinary collection of his work.
Pictured here:
1. “Lady with the Rose” 1882
2. “Le Verre de Porto” 1884
3. “Unfinished Replica of #MadameX” Ca. 1884
4. “Venetian Interior” Ca. 1880-82
#blueskyart #art

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barbararogan.bsky.social @barbararogan.bsky.social · Jun 25

Beloit, WI revitalized its waterfront and chose this way to celebrate it: by bringing to life Georges Seurat's "A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte."

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Christine Slobogin @slobogin.bsky.social · Jun 24

It's publication day!!

Thank you to all of the folks at @urochester.bsky.social press and @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social who helped to make this book so beautiful. And thank you AGAIN to all of the folks in my (very earnest) acknowledgments.

Happy author (me) holding a bunch of hardcover copies of _Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper_. I am a white blonde woman with short hair wearing a white top and in an office with bookshelves visible in the background.

Holding the hardcover version of _Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper_ up in front of two framed posters. The cover of the book shows a face being surgically reconstructed, in six steps, drawn with pencil on beige paper. The title (in caps) is backed by a dark red (the full title is Putting Plastic Surgery on Paper: How Art and Archives Defined Second World War Reconstructive Surgery in Britain).

The dedication page of the book reads "For my dad"

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · Jun 16

The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum, remained shuttered Monday — not by war, not by terror, but by its own exhausted staff, who say the institution is crumbling from within.

Overwhelmed and understaffed, the Louvre shuts its doors — a warning sign for global overtourism

The Louvre Museum has failed to open on time Monday, leaving thousands of visitors stuck in long, unmoving lines.

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GETSEA @getsea.bsky.social · Jun 13

@ncsascholars.bsky.social opens submissions to the Emerging Scholars Award, the Article Prize, and the BIPOC Scholars Award. Winners will each receive $500 at the Annual NCSA Conference in 2026. Details below!

Award submission deadline: July 1, 2025
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Anne O’Neil-Henry @anneoneilhenry.bsky.social · Jun 12

Check out the special section of NCFS that Cary Hollingshead-Strick and I co-edited—“Fueling the Nineteenth Century"! It was so great working with all these wonderful authors!🔥🚂⛴️🌲

www.ncfs-journal.org/current-toc

Current Table of Contents | ncfs

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19 Century Studies Association @ncsascholars.bsky.social · Jun 11

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Early visions of Mars: Meet the 19th-century astronomer who used science fiction to imagine the red planet

In the 19th century, astronomers could see Mars through telescopes, but not clearly. Some used their imaginations to fill in what the blurry images couldn’t convey.

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Open Library of Humanities @openlibhums.org · Jun 6

🚨 Last call! 🚨
We're HIRING an Editorial Officer — deadline is this 📅 Sunday, 8 June 2025! If you're an academic passionate about open access publishing, we encourage you to apply.

Fully remote position!

Apply now: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/edit...

Editorial Officer (2137) - Birkbeck, University of London

Birkbeck

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Efram Sera-Shriar @dreframss.bsky.social · May 21

Hello fellow lovers of 19th-century studies!! The CFP for @incsa.bsky.social's 2026 annual conference is now open.

21-24 July 2026
National Union Building, Washington, DC
In-Person and Online
Proposal Deadline: 31 October 2025

Details 👇
in-csa.com/2026-call-fo...

2026 Call for Papers in English – International Nineteenth-Century Studies Association

Call for Papers Revolution, Revelation, Reconciliation / Revolución, Revelación, Reconciliación español July 21-24, 2026National Union Building, Washington, DCEnglish and SpanishIn-Person and Online P...

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scholarschoice.bsky.social @scholarschoice.bsky.social · May 17

Our VAF exhibit is open. Come check out books from 14 publishers such as @uchicagopress.bsky.social @dumbartonoaks.bsky.social @gettymuseum.bsky.social @lsupress.bsky.social @uminnpress.bsky.social @princetonupress.bsky.social @utpress.bsky.social @utexaspress.bsky.social and more! #vaf2025

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · May 14

i learned from Emma Mason that Christina Rossetti asked to have herself buried in a wicker coffin for this reason, which turns this bleak nursery rhyme from *Sing-Song* (1872) into an autoreferential meditation on solidarity with those who have returned to the earth:

Page from Christina Rossetti's SING SONG, with an illustration of a dead bird and a basket and a poem:

Dead in the cold, a song-singing thrush,
Dead at the foot of a snowberry bush, -
Weave him a coffin of rush,
Dig him a grave where the soft mosses grow,
Raise him a tombstone of snow.

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ASECS @asecsoffice.bsky.social · May 7

🎉 Congratulations to @asecsoffice.bsky.social member Crystal B. Lake for receiving a prestigious @acls1919.bsky.social Project Development Award for "Reading/Making: Handcrafting Literature in the Long Eighteenth Century"! www.acls.org/fellow-grant...

Crystal B. Lake

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · May 2

if anybody wants to buy it, they gave me a 30% discount code: UCPNEW. But if you’d like to read it & don’t have the money, please send me a quick message?

Action without Hope

A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action. What does it feel like to live helplessly in a world that ...

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19 Century Studies Association @ncsascholars.bsky.social · Apr 29

Deadline extended!

Submit your proposals by 5/31.

19 Century Studies Association @ncsascholars.bsky.social · Feb 10

A new CFP from the Victorian Institute:
vi2025.wordpress.com

Victorian Studies: Who Cares?

The 2025 conference of the Victorians Institute

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German Historical Institute Washington @ghiwashington.bsky.social · Apr 29

CFP: "Listening to the Past: Digital Approaches to the History of Sound and Language," workshop at the GHI in March 2026, proposals due May 28: www.ghi-dc.org/events/event...

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Devin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social · Apr 24

Opened my email just now to learn THE BARBARA JOHNSON COLLECTIVE received enthusiastic final board approval — it will officially be in the world soon(ish)!!!!!!! @nathankhensley.bsky.social is the best co-editor. Can’t wait for these brilliant, gorgeous, sometimes gutting essays to appear in print.

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Ian S. Pumpkins @icpetrie.bsky.social · Apr 17

JOB: TT Assistant Professor, English, University of Regina

World Literatures in English

universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

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Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · Apr 11

🚨FT Permanent Job 🚨
My department is hiring a lecturer (B/B) in 18th-c. Irish history, with the desire for someone whose research and teaching pertains to the Irish 'long eighteenth century (1690-1830)...and broader international, political and intellectual context of the period.' 🗃️

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19 Century Studies Association @ncsascholars.bsky.social · Apr 10

Welcome to all our new followers! For those of you who would like to receive occasional updates by email, please subscribe to our mailing list at the link below:
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UCLSELCS @uclselcs.bsky.social · Nov 18

Save the date for January's Inaugural Lecture (17 Jan, 6pm)
On Literary Taste | SELCS - UCL – University College London
www.ucl.ac.uk/european-lan...

By Professor Patrick Bray

On Literary Taste

What pleasure do we get from reading literature? Should we study literary taste? Does our taste in literature provide us with useful knowledge?

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19 Century Studies Association @ncsascholars.bsky.social · Apr 8

We’re writing with a quick update. NCSA has decided to quit Twitter. Our account is still open for now, but we will permanently close it on 7 July, 2025.

You can help us by spreading the word to our C19 colleagues. We’ve already built quite a following over the past year!

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Mattea Gernentz @thewhimsicalowl.bsky.social · Apr 1

I had a marvelous time at the 2025 NCSA Conference in New Orleans! So many interesting papers and kind scholars. I enjoyed sharing my work on Berthe Morisot, Julie Manet, and the Bois de Boulogne. I also visited NOMA and the historic home of Edgar Degas's family. 🎨 @ncsascholars.bsky.social

Mattea stands behind a podium, giving a presentation on the women Impressionists.

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