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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Exploring Cambridge before the start of my Attingham course and was stopped in my tracks by this heartbreaking sight.

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

New neighbors moved in down the street

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

64-yr-old Horace Walpole in a letter to Lady Ossory on July 25, 1781: "I threw away my stick, and _me voilà dansant comme un charme!_" Then "...I shall reserve the rest of my letter for the second volume of my regeneration--however, I declare I will not _dance_: I will not make myself too cheap."

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Delightful transparency from Edward Orme’s Essay on Transparencies, with a light held up behind it. Seen in the Rare Book School course I took last week, Book Illustration Processes to 1900. The book owner seems to have painted their own cat on the other side.

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Not a situation that can be photographed, unfortunately: am cursing the person who doused with epic amounts of Glade the Interlibrary Loan copy of a book I borrowed. Reading and scholarship can be physically painful.

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Rereading that old, enigmatic friend, Bachelard’s Poetics of Space. What’s changed since I first read it nearly 20 years ago is my delight over this line: “And what is _underlining_ but _engraving_ while we write?”

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Finding Adam Smith on rhetoric to be unexpectedly delightful: "it is a great defect in the arrangement of a sentence when it has what they call a tail coming after it, that is when the sense appears to be concluded when it is not really so."

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

These strawberries are so fresh, delicious and beautiful I had to share. Bad growing season for fruit in the Mid-Atlantic—there will be no peaches, no cherries, few berries, alas—because of an unexpected frost that killed the tender blossoms that had come out this spring. Blessed strawberries.

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

For years I thought it was just an evergreen sprig until an audience member at the Caxton Club—where I was delivering a lecture—pointed out it was a yew. Thanks for sharing this, Matt!

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Always glad to be reminded of work by @shannonmattern.bsky.social in the middle of my day

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Great British Women Writers Conference experience in Alabama last weekend w/fellow keynoter, the formidable Victorianist Liz Miller; thanks to Nicole Reynolds for the invitation! Slides from my talk in last slide. Sharp-eyed c18 manuscript book researchers will know what’s on the conference poster…

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

In Alabama to deliver my keynote lecture for the British Women Writers Conference and startled to find that air conditioning is kind of a necessity at this time of year here. And to be “from the North” is a form of alterity.

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Excited and honored to be delivering the Annual Fales Lecture at a place dear to my heart, NYU Special Collections. Thank you to the NYU English department and Charlotte Priddle for inviting me back! Hope those of you in New York can come hear me on 4/22, 6-7:30 in North Reading Room, Bobst Library

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Happy for, inspired by and proud of @luisacale.bsky.social and her stunning inaugural lecture today. Watched a dear friend reach a career milestone and a truly intermedial scholar share her latest trailblazing work in book history and visual culture. Congratulations Professor Calè!

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Scenes and samples from today’s paper making and marbling workshop at Penn State’s wonderful Conservation Centre, led by senior conservator Bill Minter, for my graduate seminar on the materiality of 18th-century life writing. Today’s assigned texts: Adventures of a Quire of Paper &Tristram Shandy

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The Public Domain Review @publicdomainrev.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Top 10 of this year's most read pieces — no.5: Julie Park's essay on the early modern fascination with the camera obscura, and the magic, melancholy, and dream-like experiences it produced.: publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-ea... (Full Top 10 here publicdomainreview.org/blog/2025/12...)

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Christopher Nygren @cnygren.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

🚨🚨🚨 Major announcement!!! I am extremely pleased to announce that HAA is searching for a senior, endowed position in premodern art or architecture. The subfield is wide open. Please spread the word and encourage curious scholars to write to me with questions! 🚨🚨🚨 cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

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William S. Dietrich II Professor of Premodern Arts and/or Architecture

Click the link provided to see the complete job description.

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

Am fascinated by this thread and its answers. Helps me make sense of Horace Walpole’s urge to write and publish catalogs of his father’s art collection and the contents of his own home, while offering thoughtful critical truths regarding the purpose of libraries and librarianship

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Like my attempt at a historical costume neckpiece, w/2 pillowcases? For @adamwithbooks.bsky.social ‘s film project. He’s asking us to make short videos of ourselves saying lines from Rousseau’s Confessions while wearing a white Rousseauvian neckpiece. To join in email Adam: adam.smyth@ell.ox.ac.uk

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

“Johnson says library resources like these aim to level the playing field. ‘The hope is that people use our services to educate and inform themselves, and gain wisdom about any topic under the sun.’”

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

C17 commonplace book index belonging to Whitelock Bulstrode (MS 3244, container 1.1) @ransomcenter.bsky.social. Can’t help but think immediately of @djbduncan.bsky.social and his splendid work on the history of the book index

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Love that feeling of sudden freedom after meeting a big deadline for a collaborative project begun months ago. Time to make James Beard’s tomato pie recipe just in time before summer ends

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

I’m definitely going to be watching this space

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What's Past is Prologue @wpip.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Margaret Wise Brown, 1910–1952 photo: Philippe Halsman, 1946 Nat'l Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Btwn 1937 & her death in 1952, she authored over 100 books, incl "The Runaway Bunny" (1942), "The Little Island" (1946), and "Goodnight Moon" (1947). She preferred to write with a quill pen. #BookSky 💙📚

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Dealing with copyedits for an article and trying not to feel like a patronizing jerk for agreeing to the suggested use of “[sic]” next to a misspelled word in a quoted line

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

He Read (at Least) 3,599 Books in His Lifetime. Now Anyone Can See His List. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/26/b...

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He Read (at Least) 3,599 Books in His Lifetime. Now Anyone Can See His List.

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

“Immortality, if considered at all, is less important than more easily achieved goals. Pleasure in the work itself. Usefulness. Kindness. An eagerness and readiness to be of help…” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/o...

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Opinion | My Friends Are Immortal to Me

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Finding out that My Dark Room won a Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2024 award, originally announced last December, is like discovering a gift under the Christmas tree that almost got lost 🎁 🎄📕🎉 @choicereviews.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social www.choice360.org/choice-pick/...

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Outstanding Academic Titles 2024: English Literature - Choice 360

Read the latest list snippets from the 2024 Outstanding Academic Titles from Choice 360 and Choice Magazine. This week Outstanding Academic Titles 2024: English Literature

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Couldn’t have asked for a more gratifying experience sharing my newest work, on Hester Piozzi’s scrapbook, w/@oxford18thc.bsky.social. Thank you @ballasterros.bsky.social for all you did & said. The napkin covered sandwiches waiting for me at end of talk were delicious. Photo @luisacale.bsky.social

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Grateful to the MLA for capturing this special moment of my receiving their 2024 James Russell Lowell Prize honorable mention award from MLA president Tina Lu for My Dark Room at the annual convention's award ceremony in New Orleans @modernlanguage.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Excited to deliver my paper--based on fresh work for next book Writing’s Maker—"Hester Thrale Piozzi's Minced Meat for Pyes: Scrapbook Composition as Life Writing"--to @oxford18thc.bsky.social next Tuesday. Many thanks to @ballasterros.bsky.social and @davidftaylor.bsky.social for the invitation

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Happy and proud to see My Dark Room, my 2023 book with the University of Chicago Press, with its honorable mention award labels at the MLA convention in New Orleans last week

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Thrilled that My Dark Room (University of Chicago Press) has been awarded an honorable mention for the MLA’s 2023 James Russell Lowell Prize! 💫✨💫 www.mla.org/content/down...

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Enjoyed being at the Getty on an unusually misty day

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Had lovely time discussing My Dark Room w/ Penn State Professor of Art History Nancy Locke as my insightful & deft interlocutor for the PSU Humanities Institute Reading New Books in the Humanities by Penn State Faculty program.

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 12/10/2024

A morning of wonder and calm exploring the Huntington’s cactus garden before the tourists arrived with an architectural historian friend who is delightfully sensitive to the play of light on the marvelous collection of succulents and cacti (that has woefully been stolen from).

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 06/10/2024

A pleasure to collaborate with the intellectually generous, vibrant & deeply talented @luisacale.bsky.social , as well as the curious, rigorous & tenacious up-and-coming scholar Carolin Gluchowski, who had defended her viva the week before. Both papers framed the conference with critical key terms

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 05/10/2024

Thanks to my elegant, brilliant & kind co-convener Adam Smyth, our speakers, & our audience at the Extra Extra! conference at the Huntington, for an exhilarating program of great papers on the history of the visually altered book last week. A🧵 in progress

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Insane the number of last minute requests come at you when you’re struggling to get out the door for a trip

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

“Fredric Jameson was arguably the most prominent Marxist literary critic in the English-speaking world. In other words, he was a fairly obscure figure: well-known — revered, it’s fair to say — within a specialized sector of an increasingly marginal discipline.” www.nytimes.com/2024/09/23/b...

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For Fredric Jameson, Marxist Criticism Was a Labor of Love

The literary critic, who died on Sunday at age 90, believed that reading was the path to revolution.

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Lauren Turek @laurenfturek.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

A digital tsunami is coming and the National Archives desperately needs help—in funding, personnel, and infrastructure—to continue to do the amazing and democracy-fortifying work it does in maintaining and making publicly accessible our nation's records. wapo.st/47AEERp

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Opinion | A digital tsunami is coming. The National Archives is in trouble.

The National Archives and Records Administration has been starved for resources for many years.

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 21/09/2024

Here to report for accountability that I wrote my response to the reader’s reports for my next book (thanks to the help of great & very smart friends) & finished my article! Won’t lie about not pulling any all-nighters. But I’m happy I got them done; it’s the kind of hard work I actually enjoy

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

Just opened my file drawer of folders from my library & information studies program. How lucky I was to have a chance to discover & enter this fascinating field at my stage as a scholar. It’s changed my perspective & I’ll never write again the kind of chapters and articles I used to

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

No day of mine would be complete without a portion of it spent on looking for my phone.

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

Grateful that the sign on my neighbor’s lawn is for Harris…and no one tore it down (yet).

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 14/09/2024

Too disturbing to visit bsky now. Don’t want to know actually these domestic pet killing stories whether they are true or alleged. Please stop.

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Julie Park @juliepark.bsky.social · 11/09/2024

I can’t get over the fact that she said as an aside nothing’s going to happen to people’s guns…She and Tim Walz own guns.

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