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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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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 6h
The settlement ends a 15-year battle between Lanier and the university to release the 19th-century daguerreotypes . . . . Lanier’s attorney Joshua Koskoff told The Associated Press that the resolution is an “unprecedented” victory for descendants of those enslaved in the U.S.
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Harvard agrees to relinquish early photos of enslaved people, ending a legal battle
Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people.
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...
Stuart Hall notebook: NOTES ON THE REPRODUCTION OF IDEOLOGIES AND THE MEDIA (Orange notebook, "Summit Students Pad")Stuart Hall notebook page with headline: "Problems for a Marxist Theory of the Media" and a series of bulletpoints. Lined notebook paper with black handwriting.
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SI: National Museum of African Art (Bot) @siafricanart.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Bible belonging to Nat Turner nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaahc_2011.28
Bible belonging to Nat Turner
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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 · 18/08/2026
Oh, have you been to Poland? Never have I felt so in touch with my heritage as when the good people there performed fish, cucumber, dill, onion, cabbage alchemy
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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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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I’m so sorry - I deeply understand the pain and the quiet you describe. Dog person, but here’s a picture of my favorite shirt
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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 · 19/07/2026
A+
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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 · 10/07/2026
They both say hi!
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
On top is Zeke, my dog. And floofed out below is Coco, who’s visiting for the week
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
💜
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Don’t I get five?
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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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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Excited to be in conversation
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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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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
You are, literally, today’s Tom Sawyer!
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Yogita Goyal asked me to write a more forceful conclusion, and you know what
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
We are live! muse.jhu.edu/pub/8/articl...
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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 · 30/04/2026
This is so real.
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
^ This.
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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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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
🥳🥳🥳
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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 · 21/03/2026
I too have to be in Paris to bloom. Oh wait
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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
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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 · 23/12/2025
I mean, the bibliography of the introduction here is pretty up-to-date, if I do say so. Plus, Chip Badley’s essay is about queer MD fan fiction. Plus, the whole issue: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56015
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Project MUSE - Leviathan-Volume 27, Number 3, October 2025
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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 · 16/11/2025
Woolmer, J. Howard, A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917–1938 (1976) is what I remember looking at years ago, though it may not answer the query at a technical level. The Hogarth Press Wikipedia page has a detailed bibliography of secondary sources?
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Jordan Alexander Stein @jordanstein.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Working on eighteenth-century Haiti, but this was a fun side street
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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 · 03/11/2025
#metaphor
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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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