Nicholas Seager's Avatar

Nicholas Seager

@nick-seager.bsky.social

Professor of English and Head of Humanities, Keele University

282 Followers  |  329 Following  |  3 Posts  |  Joined: 23.01.2025  |  1.4678

Latest posts by nick-seager.bsky.social on Bluesky

Digital Defoe vol. 16 Features

Digital Defoe vol. 16 Features

Digital Defoe vol. 16 Book Reviews

Digital Defoe vol. 16 Book Reviews

Attention Digital Defoe readers! The 2025 (Vol. 16) issue just dropped! Content screenshots below with exciting article abstracts to follow. Thanks for reading and sharing!
cedar.wwu.edu/digitaldefoe/
#18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #danieldefoe #defoe

24.06.2025 04:56 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
Preview
Eighteenth-Century Knowledge Work in the Harleian Collection

"18th-Century Knowledge Work in the Harleian Collection" - Applications for this 4-year funded PhD studentship, supervised between Keele Univ. and the British Library, closes tomorrow!
www.keele.ac.uk/study/postgr...

06.05.2025 09:59 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Supervised by myself and Prof Seager!

Deadline 7 May 2025

03.04.2025 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
Eighteenth-Century Knowledge Work in the Harleian Collection

Fully funded (4 year) PhD studentship supervised across Keele Univ. and the British Library: "Eighteenth-Century Knowledge Work in the Harleian Collection". You'll generate your own project focused on how this unique collection was created and used: www.keele.ac.uk/study/postgr...

03.04.2025 09:34 β€” πŸ‘ 49    πŸ” 42    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
Conference, The Defoe Society The Eighth Biennial Conference of the Defoe Society Discoveries and Improvements, 1660–1740 Thursday, July 3–Saturday, July 5, 2025 (Lichfield...

There is still time to submit a proposal for the 8th biennial @defoesociety.bsky.social Defoe Society Conference, which is happening in beautiful Lichfield, U.K., 3-5 July 2025. All details here:
www.defoesociety.org/conference/

09.03.2025 11:21 β€” πŸ‘ 12    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Preview
THREE AHRC NWCDTP Collaborative Doctoral Awards on the project β€œVisual Cultures of Fascism” Applications are invited for three fully-funded AHRC NWCDTP Collaborative Doctoral Award (+3) beginning in September 2025. Β  The rising popularity of the 35mm Leica camera and the Parvo video camera i...

THREE AHRC NWCDTP Collaborative Doctoral Awards on the fascinating project β€œVisual Cultures of Fascism” - deadline for applications 5pm, Friday, 28 Feb. 2025. Please send applications to my colleague, Roland Clark (clarkr@liverpool.ac.uk)
#skystorians πŸ—ƒοΈwww.liverpool.ac.uk/study/postgr...

06.02.2025 10:08 β€” πŸ‘ 21    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Conference, The Defoe Society The Eighth Biennial Conference of the Defoe Society Discoveries and Improvements, 1660-1740 Thursday, July 3 - Saturday, July 5, 2025 (Keele University,...

CFP: Discoveries and Improvements, 1660-1740
The Eighth Biennial Conference of the Defoe Society
Thursday, July 3 – Saturday, July 5, 2025 (Keele University, Staffordshire, U.K.)
Deadline: January 31, 2025

www.defoesociety.org/conference/

#18C 18thC

22.01.2025 17:27 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Conference, The Defoe Society The Eighth Biennial Conference of the Defoe Society Discoveries and Improvements, 1660-1740 Thursday, July 3 - Saturday, July 5, 2025 (Keele University,...

In case you missed it Cfp for the Defoe conference - as usual also accepting papers on topics related to Defoe and his times. #18thC www.defoesociety.org/conference/

04.01.2025 18:12 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

@nick-seager is following 20 prominent accounts