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Jordan Alexander Stein

@jordanstein.bsky.social
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Literature professor and book historian, except for one time I wrote a book about Nina Simone

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SHARP @sharpweb.org · 28/09/2026
Mark your calendars! SHARP 2027 conference on “Opening (up) the Book” will be held at the University of Pretoria. Abstracts: 30 January 2027 Conference: 7–9 July 2027 #CFP: sharpweb.org/conferences/
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Conferences – SHARPweb
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
"Will dictionaries exist in 2075?" -- a sober and useful discussion muse.jhu.edu/article/997314
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Project MUSE -- Verification required!
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Happy 10 year anniversary to the best and likely only piece of literary criticism about Henry James I will ever write! avidly.org/the-top-10-f...
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The Top 10 Fag Hags of Henry James: A Definitive Ranking - Avidly
Henry James numbers among the nineteenth-century’s leading dinner party guests and, not coincidentally, its worst playwrights.  Had he been born in the late
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The time has come to learn more about eighteenth-century (pre-industrial) book binding — especially as a vocation (book binders, training, workshops, income, overlapping trades, etc). Any leads welcome! #bookhistory
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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Shane M. Bailey @shanembailey.com · 19/06/2026
There absolutely should be reparations.
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Barbados prime minister announces manifesto for slavery reparations
Updated document, which emphasises harm done to African women, is being considered by other Caribbean countries
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
I am at work on a bibliography of books and other materials printed in French colonial Saint Domingue and postcolonial Haiti 1764-1825, with a census of actually existing copies. Very rough at present, but
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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
My new @hastac.bsky.social Intelligent Artifice post: "AI Ate My Homework"--for any level, any field. Inc Bonus Syllabus and Final by brilliant @fordham.edu Prof @jordanstein.bsky.social technology-networks-sciences.hastac.hcommons.org/2026/05/03/a... @hastac.bsky.social @futuresed.bsky.social
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
#bookhistory
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Tattoo it on my face, because it's already on my heart www.thedp.com/article/2026...
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@AuthorMsBev @authormsbev.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Hopefully her full story will be uncovered. www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/03/24/a...
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Researchers at Art Gallery of Ontario identify painter and subject of 18th-century portrait of Black woman
Curators at the gallery are now piecing together the transatlantic journeys of Eleonora Susette, an enslaved woman who travelled from present-day Guyana to Amsterdam and back
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
William Wells Brown, on Henry Christophe of Haiti (from St. Domingo: Its Revolutions and Its Patriots (1855])
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Honorary nineteenth-century content! Amazing company! @c19americanists.bsky.social
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Forthcoming 2026!
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The John Hope Franklin Research Center is pleased to share that the archive of philosopher, scholar, and author Sylvia Wynter will be opened to the public beginning March 3 blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2...
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Franklin Research Center Announces the Opening of the Sylvia Wynter Papers, Exhibition, and Symposium - The Devil's Tale
Post contributed by John B. Gartrell, director John Hope Franklin Research Center  The John Hope Franklin Research Center is pleased to share that the archive of philosopher, scholar, and author Sylvi...
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
Will you be at MLA and/or can you get to Toronto a week from Saturday? Come launch, come party! Bring a friend.
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
The rumor is true! I used the publishing history of Grove Press’s 1960s French translations to think about the history of midcentury gay male sexuality and the idioms it created, and how those shaped queer theory in the 1990s
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
The special issue I co-edited on "Melville's Queer Afterlives" is here and it's queer. This issue has EVERYTHING: gay pirates, dirty pictures, racist internet fanfic, Gilbert Gottfried, original poetry, and just so many French people. Available at your library, but LMK if you're paywalled...
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Project MUSE - Leviathan-Volume 27, Number 3, October 2025
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
"A miniature book published by St. Onge was the only book taken on the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, and was thus the first book on the moon"
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
For many of the years that Raymond Weaver taught at Columbia University, he lived at 200 W 108th Street, and maybe, just maybe, this now defunct mailbox in the building’s lobby was the one at which he posted his first letters to Elizabeth Melville Metcalf
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Take your watermark questions to The Grolier Club, they said. (They were totally right!)
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
Dictionnaire de bibliographie Haitienne (1951) by Max Bissainthe is the first modern and still most comprehensive bibliography of Haiti printing. His typescript drafts at NYPL reveal his process, with note cards, paperclips, and typewriter errors corrected with scissors and now very yellowed tape
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
Honestly thought I was just doing some due diligence at the American Antiquarian Society, but found truly amazing unique and under-cataloged Haiti items, plus some surprising interactions between print and manuscript
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
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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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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
There comes a time in every man’s life where he must face up to how little he knows about the stamps on French Revolutionary documents. (No, but seriously, please recommend some readings.)
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
It becomes clear that this item’s excellent catalog record must have been a bit hard won.
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
I’m an English professor in the US in 1967. I bought a house in town my first year on the job and earned tenure with two articles. My wife cooks my meals and my secretary does my typing. I have to read all the books published this year about the one author I study. There were two of them.
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
"i asked grok" "i asked chagpt" yeah well I asked a rare books librarian and they found things I didn’t even know I was looking for, while answering questions about provenance
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Hello from the archives!
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Another good book day!
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Good book day
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Little known fact: Mary, the character played by Parker Posey in the 1995 indie film "Party Girl," was actually based on me in college
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
If astrology isn’t real, why does Sarah Michelle Gellar share a birthday with Frederic Jameson?
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Dr ShinyGoth @ghostingdani.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Big ups to @jordanstein.bsky.social for stopping by my class to talk about Nina Simone! He's got a whole ass book about her: www.dukeupress.edu/fantasies-of...
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
The British Library’s incredibly rare and totally pristine copy of the complete 1875 French translation of Marx’s Capital in quarto was personally donated by the author, and while I am not 100% sure what I mean by it, I feel compelled to say: it could always be like this
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Happy 82nd birthday, Nina Simone!
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Nina Simone: To Love Somebody (Live in Antibes, 1969)
YouTube video by Nina Simone
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Short essay adapted from "Fantasies of Nina Simone" is up at The American Psychoanalyst tapmagazine.org/all-articles...
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Nina Simone — Tap Magazine
A biographer’s fantasy
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Contrary to popular supposition, Deleuze and Guattari were not a couple. It was more of a schizuationship
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Happy birthday, Harriet Jacobs! Wow did you call it or what
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
When we were in grad school, I recall that he in all sincerity wrote a seminar paper whose argument turned the "fact" that gay men cannot look at each other's faces when they have sex
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Please keep the “How could we have known!” crowd in your thoughts today
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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
This June at the American Antiquarian Society: “Sex, Gender, and Print”: The 2025 Summer Seminar in the History of the Book, taught by Greta LaFleur and Jordan Alexander Stein. Apply by April 4, 2025. Scholarships available for grad students and other early career scholars. Link in comments.
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (1878)
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
“How did your first day back go?”
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Do you even lift up the downtrodden masses, bro?
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
E.M. Forster, new year resolutions, 31 December 1904
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
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Leslie Molson @ladymolson.com · 23/12/2024
It's a Wreathra
A Christmas wreath with a picture of Aretha in the center, at Jewel of the South
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
College bestie (lesbian) had crush on hot professor (lesbian) & cajoled me (not lesbian) to take professor’s class with her, effectively as a kind of aspirational wingman. Class completely changed the direction of my intellectual life & 20 years later I published a book on things I first read there
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