Carolyn Dever
@carolyndever.bsky.social
Mama. Partner. Writer. Professor of Victorian literature at Dartmouth. Former dean and provost, enjoying another run at faculty life. Co-founder of Dever Justice LLC.
Amazing! @guggfellows.bsky.social
Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · last yr.Sixteen PUP authors, translators, and volume editors—including five authors with books under contract with the Press—have been named 2025 Guggenheim Fellows. Congratulations to all those whose work has been recognized this year! bit.ly/3YDfdLx #GuggFellows2025 @guggfellows.bsky.social
We’re celebrating 250 years of Jane Austen in 2025! The “For Love or Money? Jane Austen at 250” exhibit at Baker-Berry Library was created by students in professor @carolyndever.bsky.social’s Reading Jane Austen first-year seminar, showcasing their deep engagements with four of the author’s novels.
New Exhibit Marks 250th Anniversary of Jane Austen's Birth | Dartmouth
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The honour of a lifetime! www.gf.org/stories/anno...
Announcing the 2025 Guggenheim Fellows — Guggenheim Fellowships: Supporting Artists, Scholars, & Scientists
Since 1925, the Guggenheim Foundation has given Fellowships to exceptional artists, writers, scholars, and scientists, empowering them to pursue meaningful work under the freest possible conditions.
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I admire and appreciate the work of my first-year undergraduates so much--as well as their bright, intrepid spirits. Happy birthday, Jane Austen! @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social home.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/04...
New Exhibit Marks 250th Anniversary of Jane Austen's Birth | Dartmouth
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Thanks, Exeter friends! I can’t wait to visit.
University of Exeter Centre for Victorian Studies@uniofexetercvs.bsky.social · last yr.🗓️ Join us on Wednesday 26 March as we welcome @carolyndever.bsky.social to speak on "Speculative Biography: What Edith Knew" - a paper that explores the ethical challenges of reading the poet couple Michael Field not as one, but as two. Open to all! Please message if you would like a teams link.
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
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*blushing* My thanks to @hopkinspress.bsky.social , Rice University, Kate Flint, and @carolyndever.bsky.social for this generous welcome in the PMLA program for MLA 2025 as the Exec. Editor of @sel1500to1900.bsky.social ! If you'll be in NOLA for MLA, do join us for our cash bar at Jolie on Friday 🍷
#thankfulthursday SEL is grateful for our contributors! Anyone who has found a home for their work at SEL, we thank you! & to future contributors: SEL invites anyone at any stage of their careers to submit, and we welcome work from historically excluded perspectives 👉 https://buff.ly/48g5P46
Incredible resource for researchers here!
Sharon Howard@sharonhoward.bsky.social · 2y agoOoooooooooh the Foundling Hospital archive has now gone online. (I think I did a few page transcriptions for this one.) coramstory.org.uk/the-foundlin... If you want to go straight into petitions... archives.coram.org.uk/records/CFH/...
The British Library has been crushed by a brutal cyberattack. I went to find out more: www.publicbooks.org/how-to-lose-...
How to Lose a Library
Six weeks ago—on October 31, 2023—the British Library suffered a massive cyberattack. What has been lost?
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It’s such a joy to receive a first copy of a book 25 years in the making! @princetonupress.bsky.social @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social
Such a generous, joyous review of Chains of Love and Beauty by Evangeline Riddiford Graham. Thank you! lareviewofbooks.org/article/prot...
Michael Field Blsky--greetings! Can you help us identify the person with whom KB was speaking about boundless, unconditional love in 1914? Esther O'[???]? Thank you!
@carolyndever.bsky.social My honey is magic—https://mag.uchicago.edu/education-social-service/tricks-trade @dartmouth
Friends, may I ask you pls to help me publicize a t-t job at my institution? Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard is seeking a scholar of French/Francophone lit who specializes in a period before the 19th century. Applications due 9/22. Thank you! academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12490
Tenure-Track Professor of Pre-1800 French and Francophone Studies
The Department of Romance Languages and Literatures seeks to hire a tenure-track professor of French and Francophone literatures and cultures specializing in any of the periods prior to the nineteenth...
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I wrote this piece in The Nation about the cuts at WVU and how small states will crush their R1 unis to cash grab for big tech. WVU is the only R1 in WV and these cuts will shred higher ed in the state. Please read and share.
The Evisceration of a Public University
West Virginia University is being gutted, and it’s a preview for what’s in store for higher education.
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