@afquaireau.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in British literature and translation. Travel writing / women’s writing / 18th and 19th centuries / environmental literature / history of motherhood and childhood @univAngers
Cover of the issue 48:3 of the journal Itinerario, showing a black-and-white photo of a European tourist being pushed/pulled up the side of a pyramid by a group of Egyptian guides.
The intro to our Itinerario special issue on the entwined histories of tourism and imperialism has just passed 1,000 views! 🥳 Many thanks to all readers, keep spreading the word and remember to check out the great contributions that make up the issue, too. doi.org/10.1017/S016...
20.10.2025 08:32 — 👍 13 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Coming up this Monday 6 Oct at 1pm (Sydney time) I'll be talking with Peter McPhee about my book which explores the history of children, youth, welfare, criminality, punishment, incarceration etc in France at the turn of the 19th/20th century. All welcome. Register at the link in the original post.
03.10.2025 01:08 — 👍 25 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 1
Vous pouvez soutenir ma proposition à la Cour des Comptes d'examiner les marchés publics de voyagistes, notamment dans l'enseignement supérieur et la recherche :
participationcitoyenne.ccomptes.fr/processes/co...
#esr #TeamESR #HelpESR
I'm so excited for the conference "Children on the Move" which will take place at the University of Angers on March 26-27 ! If you haven't already sent us your proposal, there is still time (deadline: September 12).
Full call for papers available here: www.crlv.org/actualites/a...
CFP - Children on the Move: Histories, Experiences and Representations of Child Travellers (26-27 March 2026,
University of Angers) - Organised by Anne-Florence Quaireau and Tom Williams - Keynote speaker: Gabor Gelléri (@gaborgelleri.bsky.social)
Please help us circulate this CFP far and wide! :-)
Please help me share the CFP for this Literature Compass Special Issue dedicated to the work of Simon J James and covering key Victorian and Edwardian writers like H. G. Wells, George Gissing, Dickens, Wilde, George Du Maurier, and Conan-Doyle on behalf of Hadas Elber-Aviram.
06.08.2025 08:49 — 👍 53 🔁 61 💬 1 📌 6
Describe something you learned from lecture this week that you didn’t know just from doing the readings. Connect something you learned in 209 this week to something you are learning in another of your classes this semester. If Monday and Wednesday assigned readings were from two different texts, make connections between the two. Do they share themes? Forms? Tone? Historical context? Do you find them equally interesting? Look at the very first paragraph of one of our texts and discuss how the opening lays the groundwork for the rest of the work. Quote specific lines, phrases, or images. Using quotes from a text, persuade someone (friend or foe, your grandma or your senator) to change their mind about something important. Compose a 5 song playlist to accompany an assigned reading from this week, and write a few sentences for each song, explaining your choices. Describe an idea you had in response to the readings/lecture/discussions for our class this week- any idea, about literature, or the world, or yourself. How might you pursue this idea, in your studies or elsewhere? Choose a passage (no more than 10 lines) from the readings this week and rewrite it, changing at least one of the literary aspects such as: person (change from first to third-person or vice versa), tense (change from past to present etc), focalizing character (i.e. write it from a different character's perspective), style (adjectives, diction, description, tone). Then write 2-3 sentences about the effect of your changes. Compose a yelp review to strangers, or a letter to a specific person, or a booktok style video, recommending a novel/poem/play from this week’s reading. Write a letter to someone who has questioned your choice of majoring or minoring in English, explaining why you value what you’re learning. Include quotes / ideas from this week’s readings.
syllabus time, teaming up for the herculean efforts of reinventing writing assignments. here, some prompts for required weekly low stakes 250-500 word reflections/ process pieces that have proven relatively conducive to real writing in lit class. please share any similar suggestions in thread.
21.07.2025 12:14 — 👍 518 🔁 122 💬 47 📌 18
Call for papers:
(Un)natural Stevenson: Wild transgressions across literature, ecology, science & gender
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, 11–12 May 2026
This conference aims to explore the concept of nature/natural in Robert Louis Stevenson’s work
#C19th #litstudies
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
***CALL FOR PROPOSALS***
Routledge Studies in #18thC Cultures & Societies (eds. @profelainechalus.bsky.social & Deborah Simonton) seeks proposals for book-length studies on aspects of British, European, or transnational culture and society c.1680-1850. Full details: www.bsecs.org.uk/news-and-eve...
CFP for Sex in the #19thC (deets in alt)
Abstracts (300 words), biographies (100 words), and should be submitted on Monday 22d September 2025 to rrr @ soton.ac.uk. Please
indicate if you would like to be considered for a travel bursary, and include your full name, discipline & institution.
One week to go until the BAVS 2025 Annual Conference @engfac.bsky.social
If you're interested in hosting BAVS 26, 27, or 28 at your institution then we'd love to hear from you! bavs.ac.uk/host-the-bav...
On the Intimate Connections between Romanticism and Slavery www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/b...
21.07.2025 15:28 — 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 1
🚨Poste d'Ater
Le Département d'études anglophones de l'Université de Poitiers recrute un ATER en littérature. Prise des fonctions le 1.10. Dépôt des dossiers jusqu'au 23 juillet informations administratives et la fiche du poste en ligne : www.univ-poitiers.fr/documents/re...
![Reading Scenario Experiments. This series of prompts is designed to get you thinking about how the setting for reading affects concentration, comprehension, and even the existential experience of reading. Every week, one of the following prompts will appear on the syllabus. I encourage you to try all of them that you are able. How does a different reading setting affect your mood? Your receptiveness to the prose? Your pleasure or difficulty reading? What are the particular impacts of changing your lighting or surroundings? What do you notice about yourself and about the work you are reading during this experiment?
1. read by candlelight (use a small lamp in dorms where no candles are allowed!)
2. read for one hour without checking any devices, answering texts, etc.
3. walk out into nature (climb a tree, sit on a rock, grab a spot in a hammock) and read
4. host a reading night with friends & food (sit in companionable silence, reading without chatting)
5. read aloud a chapter to someone else
6. climb into bed at night and read by flashlight under the covers for at least 30 minutes, as if you’ve already been told “lights out” as a kid
7. reread a chapter and see what new things you notice the second time through
8. change your ambient-noise level: add music if you normally read in the quiet; or read without music if you are normally a music-listener
9. read with a sketchpad at hand and sketch scenes, characters, or other elements from the story
10. practice focused listening: have someone read to you
11. make yourself a special, fancy snack on a real plate to nibble while eating: pay attention to the cooking or arranging or choosing of ingredients to make it especially appetizing first
12. make tea (even if you’re not usually a tea drinker), and read and sip
13. invent a new reading scenario for yourself, or repeat the one you liked the best from this term
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Reading Scenario Experiments. This series of prompts is designed to get you thinking about how the setting for reading affects concentration, comprehension, and even the existential experience of reading. Every week, one of the following prompts will appear on the syllabus. I encourage you to try all of them that you are able. How does a different reading setting affect your mood? Your receptiveness to the prose? Your pleasure or difficulty reading? What are the particular impacts of changing your lighting or surroundings? What do you notice about yourself and about the work you are reading during this experiment? 1. read by candlelight (use a small lamp in dorms where no candles are allowed!) 2. read for one hour without checking any devices, answering texts, etc. 3. walk out into nature (climb a tree, sit on a rock, grab a spot in a hammock) and read 4. host a reading night with friends & food (sit in companionable silence, reading without chatting) 5. read aloud a chapter to someone else 6. climb into bed at night and read by flashlight under the covers for at least 30 minutes, as if you’ve already been told “lights out” as a kid 7. reread a chapter and see what new things you notice the second time through 8. change your ambient-noise level: add music if you normally read in the quiet; or read without music if you are normally a music-listener 9. read with a sketchpad at hand and sketch scenes, characters, or other elements from the story 10. practice focused listening: have someone read to you 11. make yourself a special, fancy snack on a real plate to nibble while eating: pay attention to the cooking or arranging or choosing of ingredients to make it especially appetizing first 12. make tea (even if you’re not usually a tea drinker), and read and sip 13. invent a new reading scenario for yourself, or repeat the one you liked the best from this term [writing assignment using these prompts follows; text character limit prevents inclusion of it in full]
Here you go! I'll write some new ones for this semester too. They loved them. The "read without your phone or screens in the room" was a revelation, and many of them decided to keep doing it. They had NO IDEA (& were horrified) how often they interrupt themselves to look at a phone for no reason.
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Really pleased and proud to announce a new @ihr.bsky.social seminar - Migration and Mobility History. We want to cover migration across time and space and speak with colleagues across disciplines. If you're interested in attending/presenting, get in touch: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
11.07.2025 10:00 — 👍 122 🔁 66 💬 6 📌 5
The Eighteenth-Century Studies Collection offers over 700 volumes from two perpetual access digital collections and includes a complete archive of all content published in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series between 1955–2021.
Find out more > bit.ly/digital-enli...
Affiche de promotion du Prix Mnémosyne 2025.
Campagne du #PrixMnémosyne2025...
C'est parti ! 🥳
Retrouvez toutes les informations sur notre site ⤵️
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Calling #Skystorians :
I will be teaching an intensive seminar on academic writing in English for MA history students in France. Do you have any recommendations for particularly well written articles that you have read recently?
📢Call for co-editor of Nineteenth-Century Contexts📢 a great opportunity to work alongside Prof Alexandra K. Wettlaufer & a wonderful & active editorial team on this interdisciplinary journal. Apply by 18 July or get in touch with questions 👇 think.taylorandfrancis.com/editor_recru...
23.05.2025 13:37 — 👍 6 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Jacket image of William Hayley: A Biographer’s Influence on Life Writing & Romantic Networks in the Long 18th Century + a QR code & link (also in post) to the book page on the Palgrave Macmillan website.
Anyone with an interest in #18thC literature, politics, life-writing, women’s lives, networks up for reviewing this? bit.ly/HayleyGeeCrosby Lemme know if so!
And I’m grateful for all RPs. Thank you!
#18thcentury #18thCenturyStudies #C18th #lifewriting #WomenInHistory #WomensHistory #biography
🌍 Are you an early-career researcher with a passion for environmental humanities — and ready to build something collaborative and interdisciplinary? We have an open call that might interest you.
13.06.2025 09:32 — 👍 17 🔁 8 💬 4 📌 0
If you have published your first book in women's or gender history in 2023 or 2024, please do consider putting it forward for the Women's History Network Book Prize. It's open to all who live in the UK or are affiliated to a UK university.
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
C’est parti pour l’atelier SELVA du congrès #SAES2025 à Toulouse ! Ravie de retrouver les collègues pour échanger sur les récits de voyages anglophones, de Mary Wollstonecraft à l’épistémologie du champ, en passant par la romance impériale et Dawn d’Octavia E. Butler !
@saes-2025.bsky.social
100% human-authored! (and boy, can you tell)
03.06.2025 08:09 — 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
La revue Viatica (journals.openedition.org/viatica/ ) dédiée à la littérature des voyages est à présent sur Bluesky. Elle comporte des dossiers thématiques, des varia, des arts de voyager, des compte rendus, des créations viatiques et pense aussi aux frontières des écrits de voyage. Rejoignez-nous!
23.05.2025 09:38 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Academia in 2025: For weeks I’ve been working through botched copy-edits of my monograph, outsourced by the publisher to a company I’d never heard of, until it finally dawned on me the terrible job might be AI. A quick search confirmed the company recently launched new AI software, which now means..
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Come and hear me talk about the Cook voyages, natural history and Indigenous knowledge on 30th May!
24.05.2025 00:03 — 👍 18 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 2
In the Land of the Lacandón: A Graphic History of Adventure and Imperialism tells the story of French explorer's search for the “lost” Maya, deep in the Mexican jungle.
With 50 pages of graphic illustration, as well as photos, drawings, and a map, it's an impressive work.
buff.ly/RW8njIT
Book cover for *Crossings*
A couple of events coming up related to *Crossings: Migrant Knowledges, Migrant Forms* (punctum books, 2025), edited by Subha Mukherji, Rowan Williams, and me (punctumbooks.com/titles/cross...):
15.05.2025 21:09 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
