ROMANTIC MEDIA AND WARTIME NETWORKS, my first monograph, is out today with @stanfordpress.bsky.social. It tells the story of how the state revolutionized its wartime communication networks in the Romantic period and how writers responded to - and resisted - this media revolution.

Had a fantasic time visiting my undergrad alma mater to give this talk last week. It's available to watch on youtube!

Penn Material Texts@pennmaterialtexts.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Coming up in the Material texts workshop series this Monday, April 20, at 5:15pm EST, we welcome Michael Gamer (UPenn) and Deven Parker (Univ. of Glasgow), who will present on "Slow History on Stage (and Page): The Other Burney Collection." Hope to see you there! 📍 pennmaterialtexts.org

I'm on a 38(!)-author paper just published in Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, "Computational hermeneutics: evaluating generative AI as a cultural technology". We splice Schleiermacher and hermeneutic theory into AI debates, arguing AI are "context machines". www.frontiersin.org/journals/art...

Frontiers | Computational hermeneutics: evaluating generative AI as a cultural technology

Generative AI (GenAI) systems are increasingly recognized as cultural technologies, yet current evaluation frameworks often treat culture as a variable to be...

frontiersin.org

A little write up about the Mitchell Library's 'Performing 19th-Century Glasgow' exhibition from this past autumn! Featuring an 1839 Ira Aldridge playbill. www.glasgowlife.org.uk/libraries/fa...

If you're in Glasgow this month, check out this exhibition on Scottish pantomime at the city chambers! I curated the sections on panto's handling of slavery and empire, and its subversive treatment of gender. hellorayo.co.uk/clyde/local/...

Pantomime exhibition opens at Glasgow City Chambers

The history of pantomimes in Glasgow is on display at the city chambers in...

hellorayo.co.uk

Applications for @uofglasgow.bsky.social Special Collections research fellowships are now open. Come work with our collections! Closes Jan 5th. www.gla.ac.uk/myglasgow/li...

Book cover! Coming 2026 from Stanford UP ✨

'His book tour brought him to Cambridgeshire, where he would marry and have two children with Susannah Cullen, an Englishwoman from Ely. They settled in Soham, supported by a local network including abolitionist friends, safe...when reactionary “church and king” mobs were targeting reformers.' 1/3

Lost grave of daughter of Black abolitionist Olaudah Equiano found by A-level student

Fitzwilliam Museum has uncovered student’s work from 1977 that revealed Cambridgeshire location of child’s burial place

theguardian.com

Giving at talk about race and performance in early Victorian Glasgow this Saturday at the Mitchell library! www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/talk...

Talk: Performing Race and Empire in Victorian Glasgow - Glasgow Life

Talk on 19th century Glasgow Theatres

glasgowlife.org.uk

My colleagues in computer science and I co-authored this article about using LLMs to extract and tag data from c18-19 playbills. Spoiler: ChatGPT is easily confused by genre designations of plays, less so by 'straightforward' info like cast lists. umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/article/view...

We will soon be announcing a new Fellowship through the British Association for Romantic Studies which supportsthe work of independent researchers. It's a tight deadline but if you fall into this category or know anyone who does, watch this space @bars.bsky.social

I polled my students during today's lecture on which Cockney 'To the Grasshopper and the Cricket' sonnet they prefer. Keats wins by a landslide! (Hunt on the left and K on the right)

Check out this year's program for 'Romanticism Across Borders' virtual speaker series. I'm on there along with some of my favorite people 👯✨

Glasgow pals, check out my new exhibition at the Mitchell Library on c19 theatre, empire, and celebrity! On display thru October. I'm also giving a talk at the Mitchell on race and c19 theatre on October 4 😊 www.glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/exhi...

Exhibition: Performing 19th Century Glasgow: Nation, Celebrity, Empire - Glasgow Life

Exhibition on Glasgow Theatres

glasgowlife.org.uk