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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 19h

*guy who forgot to read Paradise Lost for his censorship job, frantically looking at the first page* yeah it’s all good stuff, no problem. He like, justifies the ways of God to man, so

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Sarah Pyke @sarahpyke.bsky.social · 22h

Extremely excited to share the CFP for the ✨fifth✨ annual #QueerBibliography conference! bit.ly/QB2027CfP When? 2-4 September 2027 Where? Manchester, UK & online Theme: TAKING STOCK Deadline for abstracts: 29 January 2027 Decisions: by 12 March 2027 Submit here: forms.gle/WGjXKA1d6gWm...

Queer Bibliography
Taking Stock
Manchester, UK and online
2-4 September 2027

Call for Proposals

Since the inaugural 2023 conference, queer bibliography has grown from an interesting concept to a burgeoning field. Our 2027 theme, Taking Stock, marks the fifth annual conference and is a chance to pause and reflect on genealogies of the field, the present state of queer bibliographical enquiry, and our senses of the future. How might we trace queer histories of queer bibliography? How can we imagine critical futures for bibliographical enquiry within and beyond its traditional academic locations? Where do we find ourselves and our work?

Stock also has meaning in bibliography. While “stock” originally referred to a tree trunk or plant stem, and figuratively to the source of a line of descent or even a human torso, it later began to connote an aggregate of goods—in the context of bookmaking, one might own a stock of paper or pasteboard. Towards the mid-nineteenth century, “paper stock” began to connote the raw material of paper itself. “Stock” might refer to the inventories of booksellers, the process of beginning and curating an institutional or personal collection, and the supply and material characteristics of paper. From the raw materials of books to the origins and shapes of personal, commercial, and institutional collections, how does "stock" participate in the production, articulation, and study of queer textuality and textual communities? What is queer about materiality, the ecology of books, and the processes of making and engaging with (collections of) physical textual objects?

We invite participants to engage in stock-taking or reflect on
bibliographical stock, broadly defined. We welcome meta, theoretical, and historiographical work that takes stock of queer bibliography, and we
welcome proposals that relate to “stock” in bibliography, book history, and reception studies.

This three-day hybrid conference will be hosted at the John Rylands
Library, part of the University of Manchester, and online on 2–4 September 2027. The conference will feature two days of panels, conversation, and discussion on 2 and 3 September and will be followed by an optional workshop on 4 September. Conference programming may also include evening receptions, tours of Manchester libraries (including Chetham’s Library, the oldest public library in England), and collection viewings at the Rylands.

The conference welcomes participants from a diverse range of fields and
career stages, including: book arts practitioners, activists, postgraduates,
early career researchers, independent scholars, librarians, archivists, and
booksellers, both in person and via video conference. As in past years, the goal of the broadly articulated theme of “taking stock” is to bring people in and to shape conversation, not to exclude or limit. All submissions that engage with the intertwined relationship between queerness and bibliography are encouraged.

Participants will be invited to submit a 2000-word pre-circulated paper,
before presenting in panels of 10-minute papers. We also welcome
alternative contributions, such as workshops, roundtables, or self-organised seminars and creative presentations, with a pre-circulated submission that provides a grounding for the conference contribution.

Contributors should submit an abstract of 200–300 words, along with a
short bio, by 29 January 2027:

https:/ /forms.gle/WGjXKA1d6gWmtfjZ8

Prospective speakers will be informed of the outcome by 12th March. Pre-circulated papers will be collected and shared in mid-July.

Any questions should be directed to: queerbibliography@gmail.com

http://queerbibliography.org

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 20h

Listening to a guy explain (to his friends and also the entire train) his new discovery of an amazing loophole. It is charging a holiday to his business as a research expense

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Alistair Coleman @alistaircoleman.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

No she’s not.

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

me, a literary critic: picking up on some subtle hints about the theme of this album

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Dr Jo Edge 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @hagenilda.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This was published yesterday (no OA yet though, SIGH). So glad and proud to see it out after so much time and hard work, and a particular thanks to @laurenkassell.bsky.social for her exceptionally helpful comments on an early draft of my chapter. #EarlyModern www.routledge.com/Alice-Thornt...

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Alice Thornton’s Books: Reassessing the Life Writings of a Seventeenth-Century Woman

This book is the first dedicated study of Alice Thornton (1626–1707) and her life writings, offering unprecedented insights into how one early modern woman revised and reshaped her life story over 40 ...

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Pleased to see that the new issue of Shakespeare Survey is available online, including my article on the queer time(s) of The Winter’s Tale — its structural nostalgia for characters and audience, why it’s an emotional sequel to 2 Gentlemen, and why Camillo is gay. www.cambridge.org/core/books/s...

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Shakespeare Survey 79

Cambridge Core - Renaissance and Early Modern Literature - Shakespeare Survey 79

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Universities are particularly ill-suited to dealing with sexual assault cases for a number of reasons.

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Charlotte Lydia Riley @lottelydia.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Having real #MeToo flashbacks today, what with various news stories going around, and thinking a lot about how women were encouraged to rip themselves open and show off our trauma, in all its Technicolor glory, so that men might begin to believe us

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

today in 'every day a discovery', I look up ‘seahorse’ and find ‘walrus’.

1.a. The walrus. [Compare horse-whale, horse n. Compounds C.2b]
?a 1500-
?@1500 [MS Nomina piscium marinorum] Hoc rosina, a sehors.
Nominale (MS Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P.
Wülcker, Anglo-Saxon & Old English Vocabulary (1884) vol. I. 765/2 ..•
1584 Daulphins, Seahorse, Selchs with oxin ee, And Merswynis, Pertrikis als of fishes race.
King James VI & I, The Essayes of a Prentise, in the Divine Art of Poesie sig. Biij ...
1613 Some call the Morse a Sea horse.
S. Purchas, Pilgrimage 748 (note) ...
a1682 The stomachs of sea horses or
morses.
Sir T. Browne, Of Greenland in Works (1835) vol. IV.
375 .••
1876 A ring made of a sea-horse's tooth.
W. Jones, Finger-ring Lore 148 ...

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Sam Antics @dsoart.com · 28/09/2026

Garffeld Pt 15

3 panel Garffeld comic: panels 1 and 2, Nergal is sitting next to Garffeld who thinks, "Nergal thinks himself a comely cat; a picture of vanity. I hate vanity."; panel 3, Nergal thinks, "Envy is no less a sin deserving of hate in the eyes of God."

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Alliance for Choice @all4choice.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

International Safe Abortion Day is the global day of action to demand safe, legal abortion care for everyone, everywhere. buff.ly/Uxlgw5F

28 September International safe abortion Day 2026 Abortion Rights Are Human Rights

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

just read that @qntm.org book, have no one to make this joke to,

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

my friends have had a BABY. it never gets less wild! a real tiny person with fingers and toes and everything.

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Emily Rowe @emilyrowe1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

PROOFS! EXCITING!

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

do you think all the other appliances are jealous of the rice cooker, the one true essential

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Tim Byrne @tbyrne75.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I remember a kid at my school was trying (in an exam) to quote Lady Macbeth's famous 'Out, damned spot!' line, but instead wrote 'Go, Spot, go.'

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Megan L. Cook @meganlcook.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ali and I have been working on this essay cluster on antiquarianism and literary history-- with wonderful contributions from @bkadams.bsky.social, David Landreth, @crystal-b-lake.bsky.social, and Jane Raisch-- for a really REALLY long time, and it is finally out! read.dukeupress.edu/modern-langu...

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Criticism, Antiquarianism, and Literary History

If a literary historian knows one piece of antiquarian writing from early modern England, it is likely Hydriotaphia, Urne-Buriall, Thomas Browne’s fascinating and fascinated 1658 catalog of ancient fu...

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John Gallagher @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I will always remember fondly the student who finished an essay with the line "In conclusion, the early modern period marked a massive shit in European history."

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

my favourite typo is, & will always be, ‘the literary cannon’

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

wild how much difference a single helpful admin person can make

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It's Pipes, Mum! Pipes is here! @scriblit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

These days you can't even livestream yourself doing massive knife crimes without them eventually arresting you days later and throwing you in gaol. These days.

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Dr Ben Wilkinson-Turnbull (He/They) 🏳️‍🌈 @benwt.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Call for papers! “Reading Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Religion and Politics: Marginalia and Manuscripts” @rorymaclellan.bsky.social and I are putting together a panel for next year’s SRS conference in London. Deadline for 200 word abstracts is tomorrow Please get in touch and repost!

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Virginia Werewoolf @woolfianjosh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hwæt! We Capūlets in gærdagum þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon, hu ða Montagūen ellen fremedon

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Rooting for End of Everything & Black Bag (and for my library reservation of the Marlon James to come through…)

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Seth Rudy @sethrudy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Career achievement unlocked: my article, “Encyclopedic Divisions: Lexicon Technicum (1704) and the Gendering of ‘Universal’ Knowledge,” is now out in the Summer 2026 issue of ECS! Thanks to all who helped included those who helped by not helping. #18thcentury

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

having a gifted massage: relaxing, lovely, 10/10 being told afterwards that you have an ‘extra rib’: horrifying, instantly re-stressing, high dose of body horror. 0/10

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It was such a pleasure to be in a room full of experts from libraries, archives, and academia yesterday for a genuinely collaborative and stimulating conversation on the colonial legacies of libraries.

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Sam Antics @dsoart.com · 21/09/2026

Garffeld Pt 14

3 panel comic of Garffeld: panel 1, Garffeld is crouched on a cushion while Jon is saying, "A poor, benighted creature was left at the door. I will tend to it till it is well."; panel 2, Jon holds up a small grey kitten and says, "This is Nergal."; panel 3, Garffeld flops his head down on the cushion, while thinking, "Wake me on judgement day."

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it's Halloween name charloh! (it/its) @charloh.online · 21/09/2026

seems irresponsible to launch a new mouse right after new cat was released but we're no biologist

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Have to have so many professional conversations tomorrow, it’s probably fine that the only thing I’m capable of talking about is how I’m having the weirdest experience rewatching Torchwood

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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

About 2.7 million hours of work for no return.

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I will watch the Greta Gerwig Magician’s Nephew as long as it retains the most terrifying moment in all of children’s literature for me, which is when the children almost jump into another pond/portal without having marked the one they came from

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

reading something that repeatedly refers to Shakespeare as ‘the Bard’

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I’m just so sad about the closures at Edinburgh, & thinking of the students I was lucky to teach there who had taken courses across all sorts of disciplines and who consequentially had fascinating pockets of knowledge to draw upon.

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Anna Girling @annagirling.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

These cuts disproportionately target the arts & humanities: the Business School loses only three courses; the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures loses 48 – many of these are joint degrees, removing the optional breadth of study which has always been one of the appeals of a Scottish degree

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Brandi K. Adams @bkadams.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Hi Friends! Please think about the Stuart Drama Conference in Liverpool. CFP due in October!

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I’d also be annoyed if I’d been going about my daily life and was suddenly discovered

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Alice Wickenden @awickenden.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

mother bears licking their children into shape // me throwing this horrible article at a wall again and again until it looks like something normal

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Andrew D Wilson @adw.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Okay I get it everything I knew about dinosaurs is wrong you don’t have to keep on about it

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Annie Berke @sayanniething.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

College professors, this is what you put in your syllabus as “Policy on AI Usage.” From John Steinbeck’s EAST OF EDEN (1952)—

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."

bu.edu

New Learning Outcomes Announced | English

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Dr Phoenix CS Andrews @thatdocphoenix.com · 16/09/2026

Ed Sheeran’s new band are all actors from the Harry Potter TV show

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Dr Jo Kershaw @mthrjo.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Ironically there are “legitimate concerns” you could have about warehousing the unfortunate asylum seekers on a rural military base - it’s not suitable accommodation and will do nothing for their wellbeing or integration or the local community- but acting as if they’re a danger is gutter racism.

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