Rachael King
@rscar.bsky.social
18th-centuryist, book historian, media scholar. I read old letters. Professor, UCSB English rachaelsking.com
Happy publication day to Reading Jane Austen: An Introduction! So grateful for my brilliant collaborators, Kat Alves, @katalves18c.bsky.social, Nina Moon, Susan Greenfield, Tim Black, Adela Ramos, Colleen Tripp, and Jodi Wyett! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...
Reading Jane Austen | An Introduction | Danielle Spratt | Taylor & Fra
Reading Jane Austen: An Introduction captures the dynamic range of scholarly, popular, and pedagogical conversations that characterize contemporary Austen
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I had a great time talking about archives and meeting fellow scholars of Quaker women at #BARS2026
Roots, Rights, Reform had a brilliant contribution from @rscar.bsky.social - loved learning more about Romantic era Quakers #bars2026
Back in York for a quick visit and enjoying this view from our flat
Excited to talk about Quakers and visit Birmingham next week!
BARS Conference 2026 - Final Registration: Next week, the University of Birmingham hosts the British Association for Romantic Studies international conference. The conference theme, Romantic Retrospection, has led to a diverse range of papers, sessions, and roundtables (1/6)
So my review of Colin Jennings' new book has come out in Textual Cultures. It represents a great synthesis of #18c studies and DH computational analysis. Please take a look: scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/ind...
Jennings, Collin. Enlightenment Links: Theories of Mind and Media in Eighteenth-Century Britain. | Textual Cultures
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Looking for something to do this summer? We have a new batch of documents up at our Zooniverse site, Corresponding with Quakers. We've added materials from the Huntington's Shackleton Correspondence to UCSB's Ballitore Collection and we need help transcribing! www.zooniverse.org/projects/rac...
Corresponding with Quakers | Zooniverse - People-powered research
Investigating race, gender, class, and religion in 18th- and 19th-Century Irish Quaker Documents
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Thank you to the people of NY-10. To everyone who knocked a door, made a call, or donated a dollar: this win is only possible because of your belief in a people’s movement. (1/3)
So excited for the wonderful @bradlander.bsky.social, who always has time for his adoring fans Carl and Willow even when it’s three days before an election.
In honor of his apparent victory: @bradlander.bsky.social eats a hot dog on the Cyclone
“Everyone is wrong about free indirect discourse, except me”: every article about FID
Today my son turned 10 and I turned Full Professor. It's been quite a decade!
Literally my job to translate specialized knowledge for a general audience
What I find so weird about the whole discourse is that I, a college professor, spend most of my time explaining complex ideas to 18-year-old novices. There’s a lot to mock academics for, but most of us couldn’t do our jobs at all if we didn’t know how to communicate with non-experts
I’m getting too old for this shit (going down a twisty slide at the kids indoor play gym)
My long-book book club is on the verge of breaking down over our inability to finish Tristram Shandy
Excited to welcome Rhae Lynn Barnes @popcultureamerica.bsky.social to UCSB this Tuesday, the first talk in the Early Modern Center Spring Speaker Series
No. I don’t want to tell you about my stay, my meal, my visit, my purchase. The way I told you about it was by exchanging money for the thing. That was the end of our relationship!
Maybe I was just in the right places at the right times, but I heard four references to Reinhart Koselleck at #asecs26. Is Koselleck having a moment?
Cover drop! Extremely excited to have this incredible sculpture, Marisol’s Love (1962), on the cover of Relatability, out later this year press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Relatability
An engaging account of how the New York School poets used art to imagine their queerness as something that might be shared with other people.How did Frank O’Hara and other New York School poets—a smal...
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Cecillia Wang, who argued the birthright citizenship case for the ACLU at the Supreme Court today, has a BA in English from Berkeley.
Absolutely thrilled to report that the Board of Governors at @uncpress.bsky.social have approved my book THE RACIALIZATION OF PRINT for publication by @oieahc.bsky.social. Forthcoming, early 2027.
My boyfriend whose actual government name is Scott Hunter just ran into Scott Hunter (captain of the New York Admirals) at a coffee shop in LA. Sadly they were both getting coffee not smoothies.
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture Vol. 55, 2026 tiny.one/2p92w9dy CONTRIBUTORS Marlis Schweitzer, Dwight Codr, Jesse Molesworth, Kelly Swartz, George Boulukos, Sandra Macpherson, Heather McPherson, Cecilia Feilla, Lillian Lu, Taylin Nelson, Ziona Kocher, and more
Excited to have a short essay in a cluster in SECC on Graeber and Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything and 18th-century studies (also my first time publishing as Rachael King instead of Rachael Scarborough King) doi-org.proxy.library.ucsb.edu/10.1353/sec....