ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts
@abojournal.bsky.social
Open-access peer-reviewed journal dedicated to scholarship, pedagogy, #dh on all aspects of women, gender and the arts (esp. lit, visual, music, performance, film, criticism), 1640–1830. Editor Laura Runge, USF. https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo
Attention ABO readers! Issue 16.1 (2026) dropped last week. Content screenshots below with individual article abstracts to follow. Thanks for reading! digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/ #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #scholarship #pedagogy #bookreviews #digitalhumanities
Don’t miss out, ABO readers! Mona Narain, our scholarship editor, will speak on Charlotte Smith and Phillis Wheatley Peters' poetry at the next Columbia Seminar in #18C European Culture meeting this Thursday, 2/19, at 7:00pm (Eastern). Zoom link: yeshiva-university.zoom.us/j/95230908037 Abstract 👇.
I'm very happy @abojournal.bsky.social's #DH section is up and running again! Thanks to @allisonmuri.bsky.social for reflecting on The Grub Street Project's 20th anniversary and to @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social for reviewing @books-borrowing.bsky.social!
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts@abojournal.bsky.social · 6mo agoAttention ABO readers! Issue 15.2 (2025) dropped earlier this month. Content screenshots below with individual article abstracts to follow. Thanks for reading! digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/ #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #scholarship #pedagogy #bookreviews #digitalhumanities
My latest article is up! Published among briliant pieces within the special issue "Affective and Emotional Encounters in/with British Women's Writing, 1600–1800" eds. Anna-Rose Shack, Zoë Van Cauwenberg, and Fauve Vandenberghe by the @abojournal.bsky.social digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol15/is...
The Gendered Duality of Coldness in the Portrayals of Eliza Hayley
In the eighteenth century, coldness was defined, on the one hand, in relation to the body and the senses (a body that is lacking in heat) and on the other, to emotion (an individual lacking in passion...
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I’ve had the unenviable task of writing some reviews lately for which it was hard to find words both true and kind, so it was a DELIGHT to be invited to review @books-borrowing.bsky.social for @abojournal.bsky.social. Review free to read here: digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcont...
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Attention ABO readers! Issue 15.2 (2025) dropped earlier this month. Content screenshots below with individual article abstracts to follow. Thanks for reading! digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/ #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #scholarship #pedagogy #bookreviews #digitalhumanities
We're lucky to have such a brilliant and generous editorial board and team!
Jennie Batchelor@jenniebatchelor.bsky.social · 10mo agoToday has been a long one. Nonetheless, I feel energised and humbled by the last meeting of today in which I joined the wonderful editorial team (and fellow editorial board members) of @abojournal.bsky.social for our annual meeting. ABO’s work and the work it supports are vital and outstanding!
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
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...
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 ...
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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 👇 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol15/is... #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
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
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 👇 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol15/is... Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #philliswheatleypeters #pwp #poetry
Minerva Press scholarship alert!
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts@abojournal.bsky.social · last yr.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 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol15/is... Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #gothic #gothicliterature #femalegothic
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 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol15/is... Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #gothic #gothicliterature #femalegothic
We're in good company! Thanks for including us, @signsjournal.org.
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society@signsjournal.org · last yr.We've put together a starter pack of feminist publications on BlueSky! Check it out!
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!
ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts@abojournal.bsky.social · last yr.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 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol15/is... Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #aphrabehn #amatoryfiction #thehistoryofthenun #sapphiclove
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 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol15/is... Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #aphrabehn #amatoryfiction #thehistoryofthenun #sapphiclove
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/ Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18 #C18th #18thC #scholarship #pedagogy #reviews #announcements #notesanddiscoveries
The cat's outta the bag! New issue is live!
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 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/is... 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: www.bars.ac.uk/main/index.p...
#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...
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...
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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 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/is... Thanks for reading! #cavendish #margaretcavendish #pedagogy #poetry #philosophy
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 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/is... Thanks for reading! #margaretcavendish #cavendish #pedagogy #atomism #causation
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 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/is... Thanks for reading! #cavendish #pedagogy
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...
