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Essaka Joshua

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Professor of English | Disability Studies | Romanticism & 19th Century | Ess-AH-kuh. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 she/her. Please stop reversing my name. Not on X.

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Sarah Mead Leonard @smeadleonard.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Applications are now open for 2027-28 Short-Term Fellowships at the Newberry library! @newberrylibrary.bsky.social These fellowships support PhD-holding scholars and PhD candidates for 1-2 months of intensive research in the Newberry collection. Deadline: Dec 4 www.newberry.org/research/fel...
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Short-Term Fellowships
Short-Term Fellows investigate specific Newberry collection items that are essential to their scholarship.
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Talia Schaffer @taliaschaffer.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I share everyone's mistrust of a new Christmas Carol movie that aims to make Scrooge relatable, but rethinking Scrooge is actually the most interesting area of ACC scholarship these days, like the brilliant reading of Scrooge as neurodiverse by @essaka.bsky.social. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Disability and the Gothic
Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Disability and the Gothic
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Notre Dame Arts & Letters @artslettersnd.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Over the past two decades, English professor Essaka Joshua has focused her scholarship on disability studies. Now a fellow at the Newberry Library, she’s further exploring the topic, answering her research question: Where do we find disability in Romantic-era theatre? bit.ly/4qutS8A
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‘Come out of the shadows’: English professor wins fellowship at Newberry Library for research on disability in Romantic theatre
Essaka Joshua’s research has taken her from The New York Public Library to archives in Scotland, tracing the intersections of Romantic theatre and disability studies.
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Essaka Joshua @essaka.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Unboxed the hard copies today.
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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
So excited to see this chapter out in the world. Huge thanks to @essaka.bsky.social for letting me write it. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...
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Disability, Deformity, and Dependency in 19th-Century Scottish Fiction
Abstract. This chapter explores the representation of disability through a discourse of dependency in 19th-century Scottish fiction. This mode of reading w
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Essaka Joshua @essaka.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
A big thank you to Terry F Robinson and her wonderful colleagues for hosting me at the U of Toronto this week for the Vincent De Luca lecture. I had a blast! www.english.utoronto.ca/people/infor...
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Vincent A. De Luca Lecture Series | Department of English
Vincent A. De Luca received his B.A. from Hamilton College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Yale University. He taught for six years at Cornell University before joining the faculty at the University of To...
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Essaka Joshua @essaka.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Excellent!!! Can’t wait to see the physical copy.
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Darryl Jones @profdarryljones.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Come and join us!! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQS657/a...
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Assistant Professor in 18th Century Literature at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
Discover an exciting academic career path as a Assistant Professor in 18th Century Literature at jobs.ac.uk. Don't miss out on this job opportunity - apply today!
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Essaka Joshua @essaka.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Last day to download Disability and the Gothic FOR FREE.
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Essaka Joshua @essaka.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
1 more day to get your free download of Disability and the Gothic. The freebie ends 3 March.
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Essaka Joshua @essaka.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Happy St. David’s Day. 2 days left to download your free copy of Disability and the Gothic.
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Essaka Joshua @essaka.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
4 days left to get your free download of Disability & the Gothic.
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Essaka Joshua @essaka.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Why are library catalogues so hard to find on websites?
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Essaka Joshua @essaka.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
6 days left to get your free download of Disability & the Gothic.
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Essaka Joshua @essaka.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Download FOR FREE until 3 March.
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Essaka Joshua @essaka.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Disability and the Gothic has now been published and is available online FOR FREE for the next 2 weeks. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Disability and the Gothic
Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Disability and the Gothic
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Angela Wright @angelawright1794.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Essaka Joshua’s wonderful study Disability and the Gothic has just been published! Even better, it’s free online from today until the 3rd March 2026: www.cambridge.org/core/element... @dalegothic96.bsky.social @universitypress.cambridge.org @igagoths.bsky.social
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Disability and the Gothic
Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Disability and the Gothic
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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Heads up, Goths: Essaka Joshua’s splendid volume on Disability and the Gothic in the nineteenth century has just been published in my and @angelawright1794.bsky.social Elements in the Gothic series. Open access for the next 2 weeks! www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Disability and the Gothic
Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - Disability and the Gothic
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Essaka Joshua @essaka.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Disability and the Gothic has now been published and is available online FOR FREE for the next 2 weeks. www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Disability and the Gothic
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Essaka Joshua @essaka.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
Coming soon: Disability and the Gothic: The Nineteenth Century. Cambridge Gothic Elements series. Publication date is 24 March 2026 www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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Disability and the Gothic
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - Disability and the Gothic
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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Tomorrow in Intro to Medical Humanities we’re reading parts of @essaka.bsky.social’s Physical Disability in British Romantic Literature, including the chapter on Frankenstein. Can’t wait to hear what my students think about monstrosity and shifting boundaries of selfhood
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Noreen Masud @noreenmasud.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
pls RT, modernists - CFP now out for 'Weird Modernisms', the collaborative conference between @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social ! July 2026, Loughborough University. www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
Image of 'The Empress' by Pamela Coleman Smith - figure with long hair, crown of stars, holding sceptre-like object. Two trees (pines?) made up of dots on right-hand side. Text: Weird Modernisms, BAMS/MSA 26, 1-4 July 2026, Loughborough University, UK
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The Victorian Society @thevicsoc.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Network Rail and ACME's latest plans are on the planning portal at the City of London. The only way to combat this is to object by the 4th July on that planning portal. Our easy Guide to writing your own objection is here: bit.ly/3ZQRkk8 #heritage
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News from the Victorian Society | How to object to the harmful plans to partially demolish and inappropriately redevelop Liverpool Street Station
News about How to object to the harmful plans to partially demolish and inappropriately redevelop Liverpool Street Station from the The Victorian Society - news.
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Simon Kővesi @kovesi.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
John Clare Society Journal 44 (2025) has gone to print - landing on doormats before JC's birthday on 13 July. Features cover art by @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social, poem by Mark Fiddes, original critical work by Robert Heyes, Catherine McNally, Emlyn David, Sam Hickford & Em Challinor, & reviews galore
Cover of the 2025 John Clare Society Journal, featuring painting of a bee flying through blue flowers by Charlotte Strawbridge.
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Essaka Joshua @essaka.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
The 1830s, ed. John Gardner and David Stewart is now out. I have an essay on madness in it. If you’re in Cambridge on 24 July you can catch the book launch. www.cambridge.org/core/books/n...
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Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1830-1900 - Nineteenth-Century Literature in Transition: The 1830s
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American Philosophical Association @apaphilosophy.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
ACTION ALERT: Save the NEH On March 31, 2025, @humanitiesall.bsky.social learned that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is targeting @nehgov.bsky.social. Let your Members of Congress know that you support the NEH and its programs!
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URGENT: Save the NEH
I just took action to oppose the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join me and take action here.
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Modern Language Association @modernlanguage.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Advocacy alert: @humanitiesall.bsky.social has learned that DOGE is targeting the NEH "with the aim of substantially reducing its staff, cutting the agency’s grant programs, and rescinding grants that have already been awarded." Tell your officials you support the NEH: p2a.co/DdtlGIT
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URGENT: Save the NEH
I just took action to oppose the elimination of the National Endowment for the Humanities! Join me and take action here.
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Essaka Joshua @essaka.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
www.chicagoshakes.com/productions/...
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Frankenstein
—Artists Breaking Limits & Expectations—returns to Chicago Shakespeare Theater with a punk-inspired re-telling of Frankenstein.
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Prof. Elaine Chalus @profelainechalus.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Teaching and Research Fellow in Black British History- The University of Edinburgh - College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - School of History, Classics and Archaeology/History #skystorians 🗃️www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU474/t...
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Teaching and Research Fellow in Black British History at The University of Edinburgh
Recruiting now: Teaching and Research Fellow in Black British History on jobs.ac.uk. Click for details and explore more academic job opportunities on the top job board
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Essaka Joshua @essaka.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Currently enjoying Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’s Chapters from a Life (1897). As a family memoir from within a religious community, it’s definitely up there with Edmund Gosse’s Father and Son (1907). It’s so subtle, and so beautifully written.
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kristinmahoney.bsky.social @kristinmahoney.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
The deadline for the Annual USC Comparative Lit conference focusing on Fin-de-Siècle Modernisms is January 3. Please circulate the CFP and consider submitting: sc.edu/study/colleg...
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Rebecca Scales @rebeccapscales.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
Reminder! Jan 15 approaches …
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ISWE @ystadaucymru.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Delighted that, together with Bangor University Archives, we’ve been awarded Welsh Government funding to digitise Jamaica papers within the Penrhyn estate archive: www.bangor.ac.uk/iswe/news/ba...
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Bangor University Archives awarded Welsh Government grant for Digitisation of Penrhyn Jamaica Papers | Bangor University
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Essaka Joshua @essaka.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Yay, someone quoted me. Boo, they reversed my name. It’s right there on the cover. Shouldn’t be this hard.
Essaka, J. (2020). physical Disability in British Romantic Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Gawain's Mum @gawainsmum.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Newport Central Library now has some of its archives online: including Chartist trial records (issuu.com/lion7/docs/c...)
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Chartist trial records examination of william davies of blackwood and morgan james of pillgwenlly
This document contains some of the papers relating to the trial of John Frost and others at Monmouthshire Assizes, 1839-40. specifically the evidence of two local Chartists, William Davies of Blackwoo...
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Essaka Joshua @essaka.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Does anyone know what a “tall daughter” is? Is that a grown-up daughter, or one who is not short, or something else?
The moral nurture of a tall daughter can no more be administered by a mother whose time is absorbed by crowds abroad…
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Essaka Joshua @essaka.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Wading through Hannah More’s Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education (1799). Blimey, that woman needed an editor, and a sense of irony. Particularly love the rant about women who think they can write.
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Essaka Joshua @essaka.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
A big thank you to @profchander.bsky.social for including my essay on “ Disability & Race” in a vol much needed in the ‘80s, when I was an undergrad. Thanks, too, to St Hugh’s Oxford, for letting me air my work as the Lady Ademola lecture. Lady Ademola is an inspiration.
The front cover of The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism & Race, edited by Manu Chander. The cover picture is of Kehinde Wiley’s Prelude. In the art work a Black youth in a long overcoat is viewed from behind, and replaces the central figure in Caspar David Friedrich’s famous painting of a solitary figure looking out across misty mountain tops.The first page of chapter 6, Disability & Race by Essaka Joshua
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Travis Chi Wing Lau (劉志頴) @travisclau.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Much gratitude to @profchander.bsky.social for inviting me to be part of this collection I wish I had had as an undergrad. This is a love letter to the folks working at the intersections of race and disability who we need now more than ever.
The first page of my essay, "The Crip Foundations of Romantic Medicine"The cover page to The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race
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Patrick McKelvey @pmckelveyphd.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Submissions for our special section of Theatre History Studies, "Disability Performance Histories," due January 1! Submit! Circulate! Tell Your Friends! Email us if you have any questions! www.academia.edu/115737170/Ca...
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Call for Papers: Disability Performance Histories A Special Section of Theatre History Studies Volume 46 (2026) Co-Editors
Call for Papers: Disability Performance Histories A Special Section of Theatre History Studies Volume 46 (2026) Co-Editors
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Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
This year’s Haggerty Prize will award a peer-reviewed article published between 1/1/22 and 12/31/24. $500 cash prize! Please submit your work or nominate others. Deadline is 1/1/25. And please repost to spread the word. Info at link. #c18 #ASECS #LGBTQ
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George E. Haggerty Prize in LGBTQ+ Studies in Eighteenth-Century Scholarship – ASECS
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Essaka Joshua @essaka.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
19th C classics as “I survived…” books…. Oliver Twist: I Survived Victorian England with No Parents and No Money. Dracula: I Survived being a Transylvanian Count’s Real Estate Solicitor….
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Godwin_lives @pamelaclemit.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
2. It will join Volume 1 and Volume 2 of Godwin’s letters, both edited by moi-même, and published in 2011 and 2014 respectively. (Volume 3 is still in progress.)
Colour photo of the first two volumes of The Letters of William Godwin, hardback books in pale blue dust jackets, displayed on the OUP stand at a conference.
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Essaka Joshua @essaka.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I’m at the proof stage for “Disability and Mutable Spectatorship” in Shakespeare’s Afterlife in the Royal Collection. Edited by: Sally Barnden, Gordon McMullan, Kate Retford, and Kirsten Tambling, Oxford University Press.
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cass hartblay (she/they) @chartblay.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Tried to roundup a list of folks in critical disability studies & disability justice work that I know of who are already on here, please lmk if there's someone else i should add! go.bsky.app/NJWgurk
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Essaka Joshua @essaka.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Arrived today. Seriously looking forward to jumping in!
Matthew Gregory Lewis: The Gothic and Romantic Literary Culture by Dale Townshend. University of Wales Press, 2024.
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Angela Wright @angelawright1794.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Congratulations to Xavier Aldana Reyes on the publication of ‘Contemporary Body Horror’ from our series Cambridge Elements in the Gothic.
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profchander @profchander.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
you could ask your library to order if you want
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The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race
Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race
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Dale Townshend @dalegothic96.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
New book Series from Manchester University Press, ‘Reading the Gothic’. Send us your ideas for short-form volumes on single Gothic fictions, films, etc manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2024/11...
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Series spotlight - Reading the gothic - Manchester University Press
Introducing a brand new series from Manchester University Press, Reading the Gothic. The series includes reader-friendly guidebooks, dedicated to specific ‘masterworks’ in Gothic fiction and film, aim...
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Rhys Kaminski-Jones @rhyskamjones.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Ok, this is a start at least! Starter pack for the long eighteenth century and Romantic period - reply if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/JMDQj4n
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