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deven parker @devenparker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Use code DEVENPARKER20 for 20% at www.sup.org/books/litera... 😊

deven parker @devenparker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

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.

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deven parker @devenparker.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

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

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Ryan Heuser @ryanheuser.com · 26/02/2026

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...

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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...

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deven parker @devenparker.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

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...

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Performing Nineteenth-Century Glasgow - Glasgow Life

Glasgow Theatre Mitchell Library collections

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deven parker @devenparker.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

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/...

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Pantomime exhibition opens at Glasgow City Chambers

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

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deven parker @devenparker.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

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...

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University of Glasgow - MyGlasgow - Library - Research Fellows

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deven parker @devenparker.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Book cover! Coming 2026 from Stanford UP ✨

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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

'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

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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

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deven parker @devenparker.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

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

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

Talk on 19th century Glasgow Theatres

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deven parker @devenparker.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

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...

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View of Unlocking 18th- and 19th-century Playbills with AI: An Experiment in Qualitative Data Categorization

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Dr Jennie Orr @drjenniferorr.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

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

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deven parker @devenparker.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

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)

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deven parker @devenparker.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

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

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deven parker @devenparker.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Helen, I'm potentially interested! Send me a dm!

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deven parker @devenparker.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

And if you were wondering if the exhibition includes a children's puppet theatre and c19 toy theatre sheets for coloring, it does indeed.

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deven parker @devenparker.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

There's also a joint display of illustrated Glasgow playbills, 'Imagining Empire on Glasgow's Stages,' at @uofglasgow.bsky.social Special Collections!

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deven parker @devenparker.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

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...

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

Exhibition on Glasgow Theatres

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