19 Century Studies Association

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#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

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

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."

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 back of the book, held in front of the same two framed posters. The text isn't super visible, but it includes the blurb of the book from the publisher's website, and the bio of the author, Christine Slobogin, as well as the press's logo and the barcode. The beige text box is outlined in dark red.

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

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.

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.

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.

@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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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!🔥🚂⛴️🌲

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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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🚨 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...

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 👇
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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

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:

Crystal B. Lake

🎉 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...

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 ...

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?

Deadline extended!

Submit your proposals by 5/31.

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...

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.

JOB: TT Assistant Professor, English, University of Regina

World Literatures in English

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🚨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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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?

Save the date for January's Inaugural Lecture (17 Jan, 6pm)
On Literary Taste | SELCS - UCL – University College London
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By Professor Patrick Bray

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!

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

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

evidence – the polyphony

🔎 #MedHums101 From interviews and people's stories through to films and visual art, the medical humanities extends what counts as evidence in health research. Read some of our top articles on this theme 👉 thepolyphony.org/tag/evidence/

Dickens Day 2025 - ‘Dickens and Art’

It's that time again! I'm happy to announce the CFP for this year's Dickens Day, to be held on Saturday 11 October in Senate House, London. This year's topic is "Dickens and art" - send us your proposals (or sketches) by 30 June!
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Before Trans: Three Incredible Lives with Dr. Rachel Mesch Dr. Rachel Mesch discusses three 19th century Parisian writers who transgressed against gender norms.

Happy Transgender Day of Visibility! To celebrate, why not listen to our episode with Dr. Rachel Mesch on her book Before Trans, which talks about three famous 19th-century Parisian female writers who identified as men: www.thefrenchhistorypodcast.com/before-trans...

Visitors will see works from the Royal Collection by many of the period’s most celebrated names, including Carl Fabergé, Frederic, Lord Leighton, Edward Burne-Jones, Laurits Tuxen, John Singer Sargent, Olive Edis, Philip de László, William Morris, Oscar Wilde and Edward Elgar.

The Edwardians: Age of Elegance
The King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace

11 April – 23 November 2025

This spring, a major exhibition at The King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace will immerse visitors in the glamour and opulence of the Edwardian era. 1/2

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