ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts

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August 🔝 reads! Links👇

1/Lauren K. DiSalvo’s "Postures After the Antique in Eighteenth-Century Portraits of Women"

2/Jeremy Chow’s "Succubus Matters"

3/Mary Ann O’Donnell’s "Behn and the ‘Epitaph On the Tombstone of a Child’"

Thanks for reading #ABO!
#18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC

Naming and Classifying cfp final CFP: Naming and Classifying in the Long Eighteenth Century Whereas “the nineteenth century can be seen as the century of counting and measuring,” the eighteenth century can be seen as the century of ...

Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

O'Briain abstract

And for the penultimate article in our Phillis Wheatley Peters Pedagogy Special Issue: Katarina O’Briain’s “Reading Phillis Wheatley’s Catastrophic Poetics: Heroic Couplets and Environmental Justice,” ABO 15.1. Abstract 👇
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#philliswheatleypeters #pwp #pedagogy

“King and Pierce show how the Gothic romance, a well-established genre by the
time Radcliffe was writing, is still evolving in significant ways...” — Annette Hulbert, Willamette University

Read the full review in @abojournal.bsky.social's journal: buff.ly/sRSIIMe

Ozment abstract

Next up in our Phillis Wheatley Peters Pedagogy Special Issue:
@grubstreetwomen.bsky.social's "Reimagining the Single-Author Seminar: Teaching Wheatley Peters, Milton, and the Master’s Discourse,” ABO 15.1. Abstract 👇 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol15/is...
#philliswheatleypeters #pedagogy

Phillis Wheatley Peters Intro Abstract

Kicking off ABO 15.1’s Phillis Wheatley Peters Pedagogy Special Issue with a section intro from Mona Narain, our Scholarship Editor, and Sarah Ruffing Robbins. Abstract 👇
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Minerva Press scholarship alert!

Orndorff and Myers abstract

New article by Esmeralda Orndorff and Joanne E. Myers in ABO Summer 2025! Abstract 👇
“The Maternal Icon in Eleanor Sleath’s The Orphan of the Rhine,” ABO 15.1
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Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #gothic #gothicliterature #femalegothic

We're in good company! Thanks for including us, @signsjournal.org.

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May 🔝 reads! Links👇
1/J. Chow’s rev. of @manionjen.bsky.social's Female Husbands: A Trans History
2/K. Hansen’s “Dress as Deceptive Visual Rhetoric in Haywood’s Fantomina”
3/S. Buckner’s rev. of A History of African American Autobiography, ed. by Joycelyn Moody
#18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC

The History of the Nun is wild and I want everyone to read it. Excited to read this article!

Castro-Santana abstract

New article by Anaclara Castro-Santana in ABO Summer 2025! Abstract 👇
“The Untold Love Story of Aphra Behn's The History of the Nun,” ABO 15.1
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Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #aphrabehn #amatoryfiction #thehistoryofthenun #sapphiclove

ABO 15.1 Contents 1

ABO 15.1 Contents 2

Attention ABO readers! The Summer 2025 (15.1) issue dropped late last week. Content screenshots below with exciting article abstracts to follow. digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/
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#18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #scholarship #pedagogy #reviews #announcements #notesanddiscoveries

The cat's outta the bag! New issue is live!

Spencer abstract

Wrapping up our “Teaching Margaret Cavendish, Pt. 2” pedagogy collection: E Mariah Spencer’s “‘Strange and Unusual Things’: Teaching the Speculative Fiction of Margaret Cavendish,” ABO 14.2
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Thanks for reading! #cavendish #pedagogy #blazingworld #sciencefiction

Call for Applications: Stephen Copley Research Award
Deadline 1st June 2025

The BARS Executive Committee has established the bursaries in order to help fund research expenses up to a maximum of £500.

More information and how to apply:
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SHARP LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography Submit citations for the SHARP LGBTQIA+ Book History Bibliography! We are accepting citations for many different types of resources having to do with LGBTQIA+ book history. There are no restrictions o...

#BookHistory friends! Work has begun on the LGBTQIA+ Book History bibliography, and the team is looking for you to share your citations! If you know of or have published something on LGBTQIA+ book history, submit it to this Google form! forms.gle/c1pkNBPbbyCF...

Lower abstract

Next up in our “Teaching Margaret Cavendish, Pt. 2” pedagogy collection: Kevin Lower’s “Teaching Margaret Cavendish Through the Lens of Scientific Anti-Realism,” ABO 14.2
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#cavendish #margaretcavendish #pedagogy #poetry #philosophy

Shaheen Abstract

Next up in our “Teaching Margaret Cavendish, Pt. 2” pedagogy collection: Jonathan L. Shaheen’s “An Argumental Discourse Before All: An Approach to Teaching Cavendish,” ABO 14.2
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#margaretcavendish #cavendish #pedagogy #atomism #causation

Thell abstract

Did you check out our recent pedagogy collection, "Teaching Margaret Cavendish, Pt. 2"? The section begins with Anne Thell’s "Jumping Pens and Historical Vertigo: Teaching Cavendish in the Twenty-first Century," ABO 14.2
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Phillis Wheatley Peters event today! Join Mona Narain (ABO’s scholarship editor), Sarah Ruffing Robbins, and Barbara McCaskill for “Historically Speaking: ‘The Feast of Genius and the Play of Art’: The Legacies and Communities of PWP at the NMAAHC.” Register here: nmaahc.si.edu/events/histo...

I was on the editorial board of @abojournal.bsky.social for years. It's a scholar-led, open access journal on women in the longest 18th century. The board tirelessly works to keep the journal going. Particularly great are the pedagogy clusters on under-studied figures.

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SHARP Roundtable

And if you miss ABO managing editor @drkellyplante.bsky.social at #ASECS2025 today, you can catch her tomorrow at the @sharpweb.org roundtable where she'll examine the Gentleman's Magazine from a postcolonial and feminist perspective. See you at 2:00! Details👇
#18thCentury #18thC #C18th

Haywood Studies

ABO readers at #ASECS2025 won't want to miss today's Haywood Studies at a Quarter Century roundtable! Participants include ABO founding board member @kirstensaxton.bsky.social and managing editor @drkellyplante.bsky.social
See you at 3:30! Details👇
#elizahaywood #18thCentury #18thC #C18th

South-South Connections in the 18c

Attention #ASECS2025 attendees: Don't miss out on the roundtable Mona Narain, ABO Scholarship Editor, and Jeremy Chow put together and are serving as respondents for. Steven Thomas will speak on Ethiopia and Africa. Katarina O'Briain will speak on the Transpacific and Philippines. Details 👇
#C18th

Rhyme-lovers, a call for papers! David Caplan is hosting another symposium on poetic form at SMU—the first one was *fabulous*, generating real conversation among scholars & poets. Propose a paper to join us for the second iteration?! www.smu.edu/dedman/acade...

Cypess abstract

New article by Rebecca Cypess (Yeshiva University) in ABO Winter 2024! Abstract 👇
“Playing Proverbs with Madame de Genlis,” ABO 14.2
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#18thCentury #C18th #18thC #salons #proverbs #theater #Genlis #France