I have nearly twenty of Tales of the Weird books on my shelves, and I'm running out of room, but I am definitely adding this one to the collection! I love Tales of the Weird @blpublishing.bsky.social and I love Yorkshire.

Elizabeth Dearnley@elizadearnley.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Happy Publication Day to HAUNTED YORKSHIRE 👻🌿🐺🦊 My new @blpublishing.bsky.social anthology explores all things ghoulish in God’s own county, with work by Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Emily Brontë, Arthur Machen, Andrew Michael Hurley & more! Also included: barghests, boggarts & malevolent squirrels 🐿️

I just saw a meme that said “get in losers, we’re reclaiming the emdash”. People. PEOPLE. Where are your STANDARDS? It CLEARLY should be “get in, losers — we’re reclaiming the em dash.”

everyone wants to wax nostalgic about their ancient ancestors’ supposed war and hunting conquests and we should really be enthusing over how every one of us across hundreds of millennia wanted to poke through pebbles and find the shiny one and find a way to make our garments the color of flowers

Currently reading the diary of a French 11 year old in 1793 & loving it Summary: Hate having my portrait done, so boring Went to the palace and saw a really mangy rabbit, YUCK My tutor tells me I've got to stop picking my nose Also Marat has been murdered

The only useful mnemonic device for "continually" vs. "continuously" is to remember to look them up every single time, and you still won't know which one is which.

In 1638, Artemisia Gentileschi paints herself as the allegorical figure of Pictura. Bold! But justified. Today is her day.

Fund schools, universities, public infrastructure. Pay/fund experts: writers, artists, editors, educators. Don't let Silicon Valley diminish the category of the human: what most people can learn; what experts can do; what people enjoy. Don't enable the worst futures. My latest on this: 2/

The 'I only use AI for...' fallacy

Hallo friends, and welcome, new readers! I hope you’re managing to navigate safely whatever weather challenges may have come your way this year. In today’s...

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Congrats to @docsthilaire.bsky.social, whose book "The Art of Pity," new from KSUP, is reviewed in "Renaissance Quarterly"! "This book will matter to Renaissance scholars, affect theorists, moral philosophers, aesthetic theorists, and literary critics": www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

This is not surprising in the least: I used to attend Quaker meetings regularly and it's still very important to me though I am no longer practicing!

KidzBoptotenlieder@theodramatist.com · 2mo ago

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Read "The Gentildonne of Fabriano: Forging Women’s Voices in Sixteenth-Century Italy" @lauraingalli.bsky.social (ISPLAS / CMS) in 'Renaissance Quarterly' Volume 79, Number 2. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

Question for #academicsky: What is the best way to donate/recycle old hard copy academic journals? I really, truly do not have space for them and cannot justify keeping more than a few sentimental issues. I'm in New England, for context, so I doubt any nearby universities need them.

📣 We are delighted to announce that the Summer 2026 issue (79.2) of Renaissance Quarterly has been published online and is now available to view. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/rq/current #earlymodern #rentwitter @uchicagopress.bsky.social

Tulips, carnations, lilies, roses -- all sorts of flowers gathered to be painted by Rachel Ruysch, who was born on this day in 1664.

Hahahahahah salon is back and we're marking 5 years of LittlePuss what the fucking fuck every person in the NYC region should come to this obvs

LittlePuss Press@littlepuss.net · 2mo ago

BIG NEWS for enjoyers of FUN Our readers for this years LITTLEPUSS SUMMER SALON will be: @astoehr.bsky.social author of the hit book AGAIN, HARDER Gwen Aube, poetess of MISSED CONNECTIONS WITH TALL GIRLS AND the queen of mind-bending romantasy PLASTIC, PRISM, VOID @blipstress.bsky.social !!!

🚨The summer issue of RQ is now live! Articles on: Eve's gluttony, Petrarchan chapel paintings, Roger Ascham & Elizabeth I, forgeries of Italian women poets, the magical-monastic-theatrical Andreini family, & remixed maxims after La Rochefoucauld. www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/rq/current

Important essay by @danvitkus.bsky.social “The Weight of this Sad Time”: Presentism, Eco-Politics, and Early Modern Studies | Renaissance Quarterly: Vol 79, No 1 share.google/BXlDZ1n3JmmJ...

“The Weight of this Sad Time”: Presentism, Eco-Politics, and Early Modern Studies | Renaissance Quarterly: Vol 79, No 1

How should scholars writing about early modern culture respond to our present and future eco-crisis? Given the current impasse in the struggle against ecocidal forces, new materialist anti-anthropocen...

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Call for Papers: SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900. Deadline for submissions: 28 February 2027 call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/...

Submissions for @medievalgender.bsky.social postgraduate essay prize now open! medievalgender.co.uk/prizes-bursa... #MedievalSky 🗃️

Roses are redde Violettes are blue Narratyves of inevitable acceptance of technologye Are an ideological tool

I'm blasting this #CFP again for #bookhistory authors, #jewishhistory people, #middleeasthistory people, and more! Hannah and I would love to get a wide variety on how people in the past used letters in their book collections/books, so the more we get, the better! #earlymodern #emhist

Dr. Barry Torch@barrytorch.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hey #earlymodern peeps and #skystorians! @hannah-historian.bsky.social and I are putting together an edited collection on "Letters as Paratexts in the Early Modern World," and we'd love to see wonderful and brilliant article ideas! Check out the CFP here, and let me know if you have any questions!

Grateful to Anne Bobis for giving Shakespeare's Tragic Art an extremely generous write-up in the new issue of Renaissance Quarterly.

my article on George Herbert and trans studies is out in Renaissance Quarterly. It's really only about one poem, but it is THE poem you're thinking of, so you should check it out -- www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/epdf/10....

2/2 Mary has extensive library of romances & adventure novels hidden in her cupboard. When guests come, she ostentatiously reads Serious Literature.

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

The Manuscript of the Week is RIA MS D ii 1, Book of Uí Mhaine or the Book of Hy Many. The contents of this late 14th century manuscript are described in a marginal note as ‘bolg an tsolathair’ (bag of mixed content/miscellany).

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I am also quite partial to George Herbert, and there is an excellent article on Love III in here! Happy reading 😊

Ellis Light@ellislight.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Spring 2026 issue of RQ is now live!! This is a great issue, y'all. Go check it out: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/rq/current Fantastic scholarship including the keynote by Daniel Vitkus from last year's @rsaorg.bsky.social conference, and so much more.

Spring 2026 issue of RQ is now live!! This is a great issue, y'all. Go check it out: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/rq/current Fantastic scholarship including the keynote by Daniel Vitkus from last year's @rsaorg.bsky.social conference, and so much more.

"Reading how others thought through these questions can help us answer them for ourselves." — @ndiscenza1.bsky.social , co-editor of Journal of English and Germanic Philology #TalkAboutHumanities #TalkAboutSocialSciences @acls1919.bsky.social www.press.uillinois.edu/journals/?id...

This sequel to the award winning anthology of Palestinian fantasy, science fiction and horror is now 57% funded! #projectwelove www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...