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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts

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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. digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo

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Kate Ozment @grubstreetwomen.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Easy: @abojournal.bsky.social Fully OA. No fees. Best editors I've ever worked with.
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
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 👇.
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Dr. Nicole Infanta Keller @nicolekeller.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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!
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Francesca @fbls.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
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...
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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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Sophie Coulombeau @sophiecoulombeau.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
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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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
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
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
We're lucky to have such a brilliant and generous editorial board and team!
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Pictures for the win!
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
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
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Dr. Katie Sagal @aksagal.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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...
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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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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
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
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Broadview Press @broadviewpress.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
“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
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
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
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Hannah Doherty Hudson @hdhudson.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Minerva Press scholarship alert!
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
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
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
We're in good company! Thanks for including us, @signsjournal.org.
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
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
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Kristen Hanley Cardozo @khandozo.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
The History of the Nun is wild and I want everyone to read it. Excited to read this article!
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
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
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
The cat's outta the bag! New issue is live!
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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
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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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...
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Alex Wingate @bibliowingate.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
#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...
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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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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
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
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
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
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
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...
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
And if you miss ABO managing editor @drkellyplante.bsky.social at #ASECS2025 today, you can catch her tomorrow at the @sharpweb.org roundtable where she'll examine the Gentleman's Magazine from a postcolonial and feminist perspective. See you at 2:00! Details👇 #18thCentury #18thC #C18th
SHARP Roundtable
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
ABO readers at #ASECS2025 won't want to miss today's Haywood Studies at a Quarter Century roundtable! Participants include ABO founding board member @kirstensaxton.bsky.social and managing editor @drkellyplante.bsky.social See you at 3:30! Details👇 #elizahaywood #18thCentury #18thC #C18th
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Attention #ASECS2025 attendees: Don't miss out on the roundtable Mona Narain, ABO Scholarship Editor, and Jeremy Chow put together and are serving as respondents for. Steven Thomas will speak on Ethiopia and Africa. Katarina O'Briain will speak on the Transpacific and Philippines. Details 👇 #C18th
South-South Connections in the 18c
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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Rhyme-lovers, a call for papers! David Caplan is hosting another symposium on poetic form at SMU—the first one was *fabulous*, generating real conversation among scholars & poets. Propose a paper to join us for the second iteration?! www.smu.edu/dedman/acade...
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
New article by Rebecca Cypess (Yeshiva University) in ABO Winter 2024! Abstract 👇 “Playing Proverbs with Madame de Genlis,” ABO 14.2 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/is... Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC #salons #proverbs #theater #Genlis #France
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
New article by @melanieconroy.bsky.social in ABO Winter 2024! Abstract 👇 “The Sounds of Madame Geoffrin’s Salon,” by Melanie Conroy, ABO 14.2 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/is... Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC #salons #enlightenment #geoffrin
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Celebrate Women’s History Month w/access to Women Writer’s Online (WWO) and Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present! wwp.northeastern.edu/wwo/ orlando.cambridge.org Project descriptions and access info👇 Screenshot Cr.: TAMU Center of DH Research, Digest #38
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
ICYMI: “Queen Camilla Unveils New Aphra Behn Statue” www.bbc.com/news/article... Statue designer Christine Charlesworth said, "My Aphra is walking but glancing behind her because she is carrying interesting things such as a theatre masks and she has a secret message up her sleeve." #aphrabehn
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Excited to hear @theotherkim.bsky.social is continuing to work on Margaret Baker's recipe books! Here's the link to Connor's original research, "Seeking Margaret Baker: Identifying the Author of Three Manuscript Receipt Books," from ABO Vol. 12, Issue 1: digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol12/is...
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Seeking Margaret Baker: Identifying the Author of Three Manuscript Receipt Books
This paper uses recipe contributors named in three early modern manuscript receipt books (Sloane MS 2485, Sloane MS 2486 and Folger V.a 619) to identify the author as Margaret Baker, daughter of Richa...
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Interested in submitting work for consideration in ABO? Check out submission guidelines for Scholarship, Pedagogy, Digital Humanities, Book Reviews, Conversations, and Notes & Discoveries: digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/policies... Looking forward to reading your manuscripts! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
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Policies | ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 | Open Access Journals | University of South Florida
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Jan.🔝 reads! Links in reply👇 1/J. Chow rev. @manionjen.bsky.social Female Husbands: A Trans History 2/B. Hernandez-Knight’s Race and Racism in Austen Spaces: Jane Austen and Regency Romance's Racist Legacy 3/C. Beggs rev. L. Linker’s Dangerous Women, Libertine Epicures, and the Rise of Sensibility
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Event of interest to ABO readers working on Phillis Wheatley Peters and in the Boston area on Feb. 27: "BeeFound: Washington & Wheatley Write!" Poet Toni Bee and Prof. Nicole Aljoe to discuss the relationship between Washington and Peters. Details / registration: www.nps.gov/long/planyou... Flyer 👇
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
New article in ABO Winter 2024! Abstract 👇 "Enfilade and Variations: Interpreting Salon Music through Residential Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Paris," by Nicole Vilkner, ABO 14.2 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/is... Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC #salons #music #architecture
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Any ABO readers attending #SEASECS 2025 in Savannah? Don't miss out on ABO Editor @lauralrg.bsky.social's presentation, "Behn and Song." Hope to see you this Friday the 7th at 4:30 in the Chippewa Suite! #aphrabehn #theater #music #restoration
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
New article by @jemjones.bsky.social in ABO Winter 2024! Abstract 👇 “Simulating an Eighteenth-Century Enlightenment Salon: Embodied Experience and Scholarly Investigation,” by Jennifer M. Jones, ABO 14.2 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/is... Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC #salons
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Jennifer M. Jones @jemjones.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Rebecca Cypess (Yeshiva University) and I are pleased to announce a collection of articles on "The Salon and the Senses in 18th-century France" we edited for Aphra Behn Online. #Rutgers digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830 | Open Access Journals | University of South Florida
<em>ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts, 1640-1830</em> (ISSN 2157-7129) is an online journal that serves as a forum for interactive scholarly discussion on all aspects of women in arts bet...
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Calling all grad students working on Fanny Burney (or her family)! The deadline for the Burney Society’s Hemlow Prize is January 31. Details here: burney-society.org/the-hemlow-p... Good luck, applicants! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC #francesburney #fannyburney #burneysociety
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
New article by @erikawicky.bsky.social in ABO Winter 2024! Abstract 👇 “Toxic Varnishes: Perfumes, Stench, and Glow in Eighteenth-century French Salons,” by Érika Wicky, ABO 14.2 digitalcommons.usf.edu/abo/vol14/is... Thanks for reading! #18thCentury #C18th #18thC #salons
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