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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Page proofs are here for my edition of Lady Caroline Lamb's novel Graham Hamilton (1822) coming out later this year with @broadviewpress.bsky.social George is being unhelpfully "helpful." #pageproofs #thenovel #romanticism #nineteenthcentury

An orange cat sniffs the title page of page proofs of Graham Hamilton by Lady Caroline Lamb edited by Lindsey Eckert. A blue pen rests across the page.

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Nearing the bicentenary of Lady Caroline Lamb's death, I now realize that I am almost the same as she was when she died.

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Faculty of English, University of Oxford @engfac.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

The English Faculty & St Catherine’s College are seeking applications for the Thomas Warton Professorship. The Warton Professor will maintain & enhance the University’s global reputation in the study of literature in English during the ‘long’ eighteenth century. #18thcentury #academicjobs

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This is just a picture of me at my faculty office, which is currently infested with wasps.

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

This week I started a new role as Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies. This week I also discovered my faculty office has a wasp infestation.

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I donated a kidney this summer. It slowed down my research but also affirmed my faith in humanity. I've been ambivalent about sharing this publicly, but awareness can draw new donors. So: this is a thing that average people do! Happy to chat about my experience if anyone is considering it.

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

That point in copyediting when I'm having unhinged anxiety dreams. Last night's featured running into a secret "Reader 3" (whose extensive comments were never given to me) at an Airbnb that a host had double booked.

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Help! What are your favorite images of libraries, bookshops, and/or readers from the Romantic era? Thinking of things like Cruikshank's "The Circulating Library" (pictured here courtesy of the British Museum) but am looking for others. #romanticism #bookhistory #historyofreading

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Dr Adam James Smith @elementaladam.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

#CFP: RADICAL PRINT CULTURE IN THE LONG 18TH-CENTURY Join us for a day long discussion of the political power of print, featuring keynote lectures by Dr Helen Williams & Dr Esther Chadwick & a handling session inside the Borthwick Archives. More Info: www.york.ac.uk/eighteenth-c... #18c #18thC

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Look at the great poster the U of Connecticut made for me--incorporating the witty trade card of Elizabeth Griffin, mid #18thc London map & printseller. Immodest of me--but I believe my talk (3/26, 4pm) will be live-streamed, so pls let me know, farflung Bsky pals, if you'd like more info'.

Papyromania: Women, Books, and Scraps in the Long Eighteenth century./ Deidre Shauna Lynch (etc.) / March 26, 4 p.m., UConn Humanities Institute. The central image, the trade card from c. 1750, is a trompe l'oil image of an untidy pile of comic portrait prints and printed maps, with Griffin's trade card--identifying the location of her shop-- positioned in the centre.

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

Cautionary tale: I asked Gemini to transcribe a 1-page PDF from The Morning Post from the early 1800s. I was interested in testing its accuracy. It hallucinated a full transcription of book review that doesn't exist and then invented false citations when I asked where the review was from. #AI

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

I got page proofs--a pretty darn good Valentine's Day present if you ask me!

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

My dad is an award-winning journalist based in Minneapolis. I have a complicated relationship with him, but I'm very proud of and afraid for him right now. Democracy needs a fair and free press. ICE is tear gassing, pepper-spraying, and brutalizing everyone, including journalists.

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Oliver House @oliverhouse.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

In February 2026 @senatehouselib.bsky.social is seeking to appoint a Printer in Residence. This is to be an important part of the public engagement programme for the upcoming exhibition ‘The English Print Revolution: Caxton and Beyond’, and to provide a contemporary response to it in print. 1/3

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Senate House Library launches Printer in Residence Scheme

Senate House Library is seeking to appoint a Printer in Residence, to produce a contemporary response to the Caxton and Beyond exhibition.

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

I really identify with this dismayed, newspaper reading dog featured on the Victorian card I just bought. (Also my collection of Victorian fringe has grown to an embarrassing size. Ooops) #ephemera #VictorianEphemera #fringe

Victorian Christmas card featuring a small brown dog sitting atop a newspaper in a windowsill. The dog has a worried expression. The caption on the card reads: "I wish you a joyful and Happy Christmas." The card has a red silk fridge border that is fraying.

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Anyone interested in proposing a joint session for NASSR/NAVSA? My paper will be on commercial bookbinding and didactic literature (i.e. schoolbooks and almanacs). I could see a panel on #bookhistory things in general or one on didactic literature. Please reach out! #NASSR #Romanticism #CFP

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Tomorrow is the first of two research seminars this spring hosted by the The Belgian-Dutch Bookbindings Society. Registration is free. #bookhistory #bookbinding #rarebooks #bindings boekbandengenootschap.nl/activiteiten...

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Bookbindings Academy 2026 | Belgisch-Nederlands Boekbandengenootschap

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

I grew up outside of Minneapolis. My dad and many dear friends are still there. I'm hearing directly from them about terrified children, feeling a need to carry one's passport, and teaching toddlers to use whistles if they're accosted by ICE. Whatever regular news is reporting, it's actually worse.

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Mary Fairclough @maryfairclough.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

🗣️🗣️🗣️ Brilliant CfP for Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850 Symposium at The University of Manchester, 25–26 June, 2026. Keynotes Jeremy Davies and Stephanie O’Rourke. Organised by two @cecs-york.bsky.social alumni! No conference fee! [full CfP in image alt texts]

Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850 Symposium at The University of Manchester, 25–26 June, 2026

Keynote Speakers Dr Jeremy Davies (University of Leeds) Dr Stephanie O’Rourke (University of St Andrews)

Earth and earthiness are ubiquitous in the period’s many modes of nature writing, but elements of the ground do not flow or yield their depths like water, nor mediate like air. Earth as physical entity obscures, obstructs, and sullies, proving a less tractable ground for what we might still think of as defining Romantic-era postures of idealism and spontaneity. What literary forms, what knowledge practices, does earthly matter press poetics into? Is the geological record hostile to the human and human expression in its radical alterity, as Heringman at times suggests? Or are there underground places of passage, sympathy, even love, as Mary Jacobus, Susan Wolfson, and Tristram Wolff have more recently proposed? Is there a whole spectrum of attachments to rocks and stones, amounting to (in Wolff’s phrase) a ‘gray romanticism’, in which writers can both resist and relish digging in the dirt?

‘Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850’ aims to explore these questions. We seek to go beyond the exhilarating stony subjects of mountains, deep time, and fossils, widening the remit of Romantic-era writing about the earth to include more particulate matter and more conceptual treatments. We want to add soil, dirt, dust, sand, and ashes to the Wordsworthian catalogue of Romantic elements; and we want to expand our theoretical and metaphoric range to excavate the implications of Barbauld’s and Shelley’s ‘unearthly forms’.

We invite proposals for 20-minute papers on the theme of earth, unearthing, and the unearthly in Romantic-era poetry and prose (1750–1850). When engaging with the theme, prospective speakers may wish to explore topics such as the following:

Earth, earthiness, and literary form/genre
The subterranean/undercommons
The components of earth: mud, soil, clods, dust, sand
Earthy elements as sites of affect or criticality
Poetic and/or epistemological obscurity
Images or forms of burial and concealment
Images or forms of unearthing, unveiling, or revelation
Earth as generative, fertile, life-giving
Earth as a site of labour and resource extraction
Earth as gendered, queered/queering, racialized, classed
Formalist, ecocritical, queer, and affective approaches to earth, earthiness, and unearthing

Please send proposals for 20-minute papers in the form of a 250-word abstract and an author biography (150 words) to James Metcalf (james.metcalf@manchester.ac.uk) and Millie Schurch (millie.schurch@english.su.se) by Friday 30 January 2026.

Please note: this will be an in-person meeting only. With thanks to support from the Swedish Research Council, there will be no conference fee for speakers, other than to attend the optional conference dinner at the end of the first day. Food and refreshments will be provided on both days (coffee and pastries; lunch; tea-break snack).

We are particularly keen to encourage the participation of early career researchers and scholars on precarious employment contracts. We are pleased to be able to offer up to 10 bursaries to cover accommodation and travel within the UK for those without access to institutional support for research activities. Please indicate with your abstract submission if you do not have access to institutional financial support and would like to be considered for a bursary.

We hope to hear from you! Millie and James

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

As I'm editing my two #MLA papers on Lady Caroline Lamb and South America--yes, that's a thing!!--I'm reminded of the professor I had at Oxford who told me that Spanish was a "useless" language for Romanticism. Joke's on you, buddy!

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

This event looks great--I'm so sad I have to teach then. #bookbinding #bookhistory

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Nothing like getting called to jury duty during the last week of the semester. 🤪

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Daniel Bellingradt @dbellingradt.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

CFP: the 38th Biennial Congress of the International Association of Paper Historians (IPH) will be held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from 24 to 29 August 2026, and the topic is the “Paper Trade”. Here is more: www.aanmelder.nl/iphcongress2... #paperhistory #bookhistory #skystorians

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IPH Congress 2026 - Home

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Love that today's Halloween-themed terror is my institution responding to the Canvas outage by telling all the students to individually email their instructors.

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

This morning George took his supervision of my reading very, very seriously. #cat #kitten #coworker

orange tabby cat sleeping belly up next to a book.

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

British literary annuals were the dominant medium of poetic circulation in the late Romantic period; any consideration of Romantic poetry that doesn't acknowledge or engage this fact simply gets literary history wrong. #Romanticism #literaryannuals #bookhistory

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

BARS 2026 First Book Prize: Calls for Nominations Awarded biennially for the best first monograph in Romantic Studies, this prize is open to first monographs published between 1 January 2023 and 31 December 2025. Deadline: 12th January 2026. More info: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6174

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

2025, the year in which I earnestly email colleagues the phrase, "Well this seems terrible; I'd rather not be assessed by robots." We're living in the future, and I hate it here.

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

I'm consistently intrigued by the ways students misspell my name. I have a whole cast of alter egos now. I hope that Dr. Eckhardt is having a less stressful semester than the real Dr. Eckert is.

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

This looks like such a useful book. Just submitted a request for our library to purchase it. #bookhistory #medievalstudies #DH

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

As someone teaching a course on the literary marketplace in the spring, I'd be very interested to know about this question too! #bookhistory #publishing

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Doubling down on the fact that Lady Caroline Lamb was the secret center of Romanticism: she also apparently hosted William Blake and his with Catherine Blake at dinner--multiple times. #Romanticism #19thC #literaryhistory #womenswriting

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

New rankings just came out, and FSU's English Department is #8 in the country among public universities. Current ranking systems are imperfect, of course. But it's also nice to take a moment to recognize the amazing, bold teaching & research getting done here--right on the frontline of doomsday.

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I'm reading Lady Caroline Lamb's letters about planning a dinner for Sir Walter Scott. There's literally no one this woman didn't know. Her reach in the Romantic-era literary sphere both before and after Byron is staggering. #Romanticism #WalterScott #CarolineLamb

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SHARP News @sharpnews.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

REMINDER: Deadline to apply to be the next SHARP News Bibliographer(s) coming up soon! Apply by October 01 2025. See the link for details: sharpweb.org/sharpnews/20... #BookHistory #Bibliography #Bibliographer #Research #Zotero #Publishing #Books

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Call for Applicants: SHARP News Bibliographers – SHARP NEWS

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 18/09/2025

I am here for this dog/Sir Walter Scott crossover content. #Romanticism #dogs #literarydogs

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

I cannot wait to discuss Virginia Jackson's _Dickinson's Misery_ with my grad students today. One of them emailed me over the weekend to say that their "brain melted, but in a good way." Welcome. To. The. Party. 🎉🤓 #lyric #bookhistory #pedagogy

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Dr. Katie Sagal @aksagal.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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Naming and Classifying cfp final

CFP: Naming and Classifying in the Long Eighteenth Century Whereas “the nineteenth century can be seen as the century of counting and measuring,” the eighteenth century can be seen as the century of ...

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

This week I've received invites to faculty active shooter training and a recharge social for "faculty wellbeing." Come for tips on how to secure a door with a belt and then barricade it with desks, stay for the light hors d’oeuvres and chit chat? I don't even know what I'm supposed to feel right now

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Slightly diminish a poem: We Are Six

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

Timeline cleanse and menagerie news: meet George. Like his Byronic namesake, he is handsome, curious, and kind of a hot mess. Experienced cat people, I'd welcome any advice, especially about how to remain productive in the presence of so much cuteness.

Orange tabby kitten sleeping on a windowsill.

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John Garcia @jgarc.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Please spread the word—The Scholars’ Workshop in Early African American Print at AAS Jan. 12-15, 2026. A writing workshop and intro to archives for junior scholars working on the dissertation or first book. Fully funded. Apply by Oct. 15 2025. PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

The world is on fire, but I am so excited to get to discuss Beowulf this week with enthusiastic undergrads. I'm leaning into this joy amidst the chaos. #teaching #pedagogy #LitSurvey

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Lindsey Eckert @lindseckert.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I'm generally a dog person, but honestly this close to adopting a cat named "Uh-Oh" from a local rescue. Let me tell you, the name is apt.

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