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Peer-reviewed journal published by Johns Hopkins UP. Cultural & material contexts that shaped the production & reception of Edgar Allan Poe's work. www.press.jhu.edu/journals/poe-stud…

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
In honor of the newly published Cats: A History, we surveyed our journals catalog for other appearances of our feline friends, discovering a large litter spanning art, science, literature, the immortal cats of Poe, Eliot and more! Read Meow Mix: www.press.jhu.edu/ne...
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Cats in Hopkins Press Journals 
A Reading List 
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(Cat photo from Wikimedia Commons, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license)
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Poe Studies @poestudies.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Out now in the Poe Studies, available Open Access on @projectmuse.bsky.social Alissa Burger reviews Jonathan Elmer's In Poe’s Wake: Travels in the Graphic and the AtmosphericRead for free at muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @hopkinspress.bsky.social @uchicagopress.bsky.social
Poe Studies Latest reviews: Jonathan Elmer, In Poe's Wake: Travels in the Graphic and the Atmospheric reviewed by Alissa Burger, Culver-Stockton College; background image of a bookshelfQuotation from review: By foregrounding the visual and auditory impact of Poe's writing and its afterlives, Elmer invites readers to move beyond the text to engage with the sensory experience of these echoes and adaptations.
See the full review in Vol 58 of Poe Studies - out now!
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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
At Hopkins Press, Fridays are LIT Today, read free: Two new #OpenAccess poems by Jennifer Handy From the latest Poe Studies: Quoth Lenore and Not the Raven tinyurl.com/2te8whwb From The Wallace Stevens Journal: A Note to Wallace Stevens tinyurl.com/yvs6ewbm
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Quoth Lenore and Not the Raven
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Vol. 58, 2025

A Note to Wallace Stevens
The Wallace Stevens Journal
Vol 49, No. 2, Fall 2025

Hopkins Press Journals
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Poe Studies @poestudies.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Out now in the new Poe Studies, available Open Access on @projectmuse.bsky.social, William Foster Carr and Irina Arévalo Valverde translate an excerpt from Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío's book The Strange Ones. Read for free at muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @hopkinspress.bsky.social
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Poe Studies @poestudies.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Out now in the new Poe Studies, available Open Access on @projectmuse.bsky.social, Susan Elizabeth Sweeney argues that Poe's knowledge of daguerreotypy led to his narrative innovations in “The Gold-Bug” and other stories: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @hopkinspress.bsky.social
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celj.bsky.social @celj.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Hey humanities scholars! Share your #peerreview experience as an editor, author, or reviewer for humanities (or HSS) journals to help us reimagine a more inclusive, less labor-intensive system. Get a $50 gift card for completing the survey: surveymonkey.com/r/celj-peer-...
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Re-Imagining Peer Review: A CELJ Survey
This survey examines various systems of peer review currently in use in humanities and humanistically oriented social sciences (HSS) journal publishing. The goal of the survey is to uncover current ch...
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Poe Studies @poestudies.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Out now in the new Poe Studies, available Open Access on @projectmuse.bsky.social, Eliza Richards responds to the essays in our special feature, "The Poe/tics of Reception." Read for free at muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @hopkinspress.bsky.social
Photo of book shelf; text: Article Spotlight "Literary History and Critical Reception" Eliza Richards University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Poe Studies @poestudies.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Out now in the new Poe Studies, available Open Access on @projectmuse.bsky.social, Alexandra Socarides analyzes the little-known correspondence between Poe and Lydia Sigourney. Read for free at muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @hopkinspress.bsky.social
Image of letters; text: "'That sin which in poetry is not to be forgiven':
The Poe-Sigourney Correspondence," Alexandra Socarides, Emerson College
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Poe Studies @poestudies.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
In the new Poe Studies, available now Open Access on @projectmuse.bsky.social, Nina Cook reviews the edited collection More Than Love: The Enduring Fascination with Edgar Allan Poe. Read for free at muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @hopkinspress.bsky.social
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Poe Studies @poestudies.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Poe Studies is the featured journal for the Council of Editors of Learned Journals! Check out an interview about the journal with editor Kelly Ross here: www.celj.org/featured-jou...
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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
"(Poe) is a node that allows us to access so many...conversations. (W)hat does Poe allow us to access?" Catch a great new interview with @PoeStudies editor Kelly Ross and Debra Rae Cohen and Eugenia Zuroski of the @CELJ
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Featured Journal: Poe Studies — Council of Editors of Learned Journals
The editor of Poe Studies was interviewed by CELJ Board members, Debra Rae Cohen and Eugenia Zuroski as CELJ’s newest featured journal!
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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
Here's an informative interview about academic publishing with @kellyross910.bsky.social conducted by @debraraecohen.bsky.social and @zugenia.bsky.social. The latest issue of @poestudies.bsky.social is Open Access and full of meaty stuff for any midnight dreary or midday not-so-dreary.
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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
I'm grateful to @poestudies.bsky.social for making the new issue Open Access, since our school's budget cuts mean we don't have access to Project MUSE anymore. I can read it upon a midday undreary thanks to OA.
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Poe Studies @poestudies.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
In the new Poe Studies, available now Open Access on @projectmuse.bsky.social Alissa Burger reviews Jonathan Elmer's In Poe’s Wake: Travels in the Graphic and the Atmospheric, published by @uchicagopress.bsky.social . Read for free at muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @hopkinspress.bsky.social
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Poe Studies @poestudies.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Poe Studies vol. 58 is now available Open Access on @projectmuse.bsky.social, featuring Rebecka Rutledge Fisher’s groundbreaking essay “Spectres of Toussaint: Rereading Poe and Hugo through the Poethics of W. E. B. Du Bois”! Read for free at muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @hopkinspress.bsky.social
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Michael Weisenburg @weisenburg.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
@poestudies.bsky.social If I recall correctly, this is the first typesetting but second appearance because the New York Mirror scooped The American Review (Feb. 1845)
Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" in The American Review (1845)
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American Antiquarian Society @amantiquarian.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Join us online or in person this Thursday, October 30th at 7:00 pm ET for "Poe" and "After Lives": Richard Kopley and Megan Marshall in conversation. Register at americanantiquarian.org/programs-events/poe-and-after-lives-richard-kopley-and-megan-marshall-conversation
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Poe Studies @poestudies.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Poe Studies vol. 58 is now available Open Access on @projectmuse.bsky.social , featuring a newly translated essay by Japanese scholar Shoko Itoh. J. Scott Miller and Austin Koslow translated this important essay into English. Read for free at muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @hopkinspress.bsky.social
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Poe Studies @poestudies.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Poe Studies vol. 58 is now available Open Access on @projectmuse.bsky.social, featuring a newly translated essay by Japanese scholar Shoko Itoh. J. Scott Miller and Austin Koslow translated this important essay into English. Read for free at muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @hopkinspress.bsky.social
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Poe Studies @poestudies.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Poe Studies vol. 58 is available now Open Access on @projectmuse.bsky.social, featuring an original poem by Jennifer Handy, “Quoth Lenore and Not the Raven”! Read for free at muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @hopkinspress.bsky.social
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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
We talked with Eliza Richards, Elissa Zellinger & @kellyross910.bsky.social about @poestudies.bsky.social new issue celebrating 20 years of Richard's influential work Revisit our podcast on The Poe/tics of Reception: tinyurl.com/mryjhz4s The issue is out now and #OpenAccess! tinyurl.com/2b8fsr3v
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Hopkins Press Podcast 3.8: Poe Studies on The Poe/tics of Reception
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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Poe Studies Volume 58, 2025 Special Feature: Twenty Years of the Poe/tics of Reception Project MUSE #S2O #OpenAccess tinyurl.com/2b8fsr3v Contributors: Elissa Zellinger, Eliza Richards, Zachary Turpin, Alexandra Socarides, Christa Holm Vogelius, Rebecka Rutledge Fisher & more!
NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
Poe Studies
Volume 58, 2025

Special Feature: Twenty Years of the Poe/tics of Reception
Project MUSE #S2O #OpenAccess 

Contributors:
Elissa Zellinger, Eliza Richards, Zachary Turpin, Alexandra Socarides, Christa Holm Vogelius, Rebecka Rutledge Fisher, Jonathan A. Cook,  Susan Elizabeth Sweeney, Jennifer Handy, Emron Esplin, Takayuki Tatsumi, Shoko Itoh 伊藤詔子, Austin Koslow, J. Scott Miller, Rubén Darío, W. F. Carr, Irina Arévalo Valverde, Alissa Burger, and Nina Elisabeth Cook
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Poe Studies @poestudies.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
We are thrilled to announce that Poe Studies vol. 58 is now available Open Access on @projectmuse.bsky.social ! Read for free at muse.jhu.edu/issue/55733 @hopkinspress.bsky.social Special feature: The Poe/tics of Reception guest ed. by Elissa Zellinger
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Poe Studies @poestudies.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
The new volume of Poe Studies will be out very soon! We are thrilled to spotlight some of the amazing authors in vol. 58, including Christa Holm Vogelius! @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Poe Studies @poestudies.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
The new volume of Poe Studies will be out very soon! We are thrilled to spotlight some of the amazing authors in vol. 58, including Zack Turpin! @hopkinspress.bsky.social @projectmuse.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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Poe Studies @poestudies.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Poe Studies editorial board member Karen Grumberg is giving a free online talk, "Edgar Allan Poe in Hebrew Culture." October 30, 2025, 3:00pm-4:30pm MDT Register here: events.ucalgary.ca/arts/history...
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Edgar Allan Poe in Hebrew Culture
The first Hebrew translation of Edgar Allan Poe appeared in 1914; and in the years that followed, Poe sparked unabating interest among Hebrew cultu...
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Poe Studies @poestudies.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
The new volume of Poe Studies will be out very soon! We are thrilled to preview vol. 58 with author spotlights beginning with the special feature, The Poe/tics of Reception, guest edited by the amazing Elissa Zellinger. muse.jhu.edu/journal/613 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Hear Edgar Allan Poe’s Horror Stories Read by Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, James Earl Jones, William S. Burroughs & Others
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Hear Edgar Allan Poe’s Horror Stories Read by Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, James Earl Jones, William S. Burroughs & Others
Here on Halloween of 2024, we have a greater variety of scary stories — and arguably, a much scarier variety of scarier stories — to choose from than ever before.
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Christopher Lee Reads Four Classic Horror Stories by Edgar Allan Poe (1979)
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Christopher Lee Reads Four Classic Horror Stories by Edgar Allan Poe (1979)
Christopher Lee, whose nearly 70-year acting career spanned most of the 20th century and nearly all of the 21st century so far, saw numerous technological, cinematic, and cultural trends come and go b...
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University Press of Mississippi @upmississippi.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
🖤 We’re just a little excited about the new paperback release of POE by James M. Hutchisson... can you tell? It’s not all ravens and gloom—this bio reclaims Poe’s Southern roots and literary legacy. 🖋️ Pre-order now: buff.ly/PPzk0qt #EdgarAllanPoe #PoeLives #BookDrop #UPMississippi #Bookstagram
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Poe Studies @poestudies.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Huge congratulations to Ashley Kniss, winner of the 2024 James W. Gargano Award from the Poe Studies Association for her essay, "Gothic Mycology and Posthuman Ethics in Poe’s 'The Fall of the House of Usher'"!! @hopkinspress.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Illustration of fungusAbstract of Ashley's Kniss's essay
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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
And for your further reading pleasure, we’ve assembled a list of articles about Poe, his shenanigans, and his contemporaries spanning our journals roster, including Poe Studies, J19, Victorian Poetry, Arizona Quarterly and more! All free thru 1 August: tinyurl.com/ykuz3nee
Hopkins Press Podcast Rewind
Poe Studies on The Poe/tics of Reception
Read free thru 1 August
The Poe/tics of Reception: A Reading LIst
Poe Studies
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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Love him or hate him, Poe's impact on C19 women's poetics is undeniable In this podcast, we talk with Elissa Zellinger, Kelly Ross & Eliza Richards about the forthcoming issue of Poe Studies, celebrating the impact of Richards’ 2004 book on Poe Listen: tinyurl.com/4nuxyyff
Hopkins Press Podcast Rewind
Poe Studies on The Poe/tics of Reception
Read free thru 1 August
The Poe/tics of Reception: A Reading LIst
Poe Studies
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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
It's your boys @rezekjoe.bsky.social and me in The Boston Globe! In print on Sunday! (We are in a big fight about how to interpret the ending of Poe's novel and the illustration poignantly captures the strain in our friendship.) www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/24/a...
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A strange Poe novel might be just the right book for today’s weird times - The Boston Globe
Two local academics who contributed to a new edition of “The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket” say the book’s 19th century ideas around race, exploration, and capitalism speak to our own er...
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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
And for your further reading pleasure, we’ve assembled a list of articles about Poe, his shenanigans, and his contemporaries spanning our journals roster, including Poe Studies, J19, Victorian Poetry, Arizona Quarterly and more! All free thru 1 August: tinyurl.com/ykuz3nee
Hopkins Press Podcast Rewind
Poe Studies on The Poe/tics of Reception
Read free thru 1 August
The Poe/tics of Reception: A Reading LIst
Poe Studies
Listen/Subscribe: press.jhu.edu/multimedia
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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Love him or hate him, Poe's impact on C19 women's poetics is undeniable In this podcast, we talk with Elissa Zellinger, Kelly Ross & Eliza Richards about the forthcoming issue of Poe Studies, celebrating the impact of Richards’ 2004 book on Poe Listen: tinyurl.com/4nuxyyff
Hopkins Press Podcast Rewind
Poe Studies on The Poe/tics of Reception
Read free thru 1 August
The Poe/tics of Reception: A Reading LIst
Poe Studies
Listen/Subscribe: press.jhu.edu/multimedia
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The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
UChicago Press has your summer reading right here! IN POE'S WAKE, by Jonathan Elmer, explores how Edgar Allan Poe has become a household name, as much a brand as an author. Available now on our website! Build your summer reading list at pressblog.uchicago.edu. #summerreading
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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
To accompany our lively discussion, we've assembled a reading list of works from past issues of @PoeStudies & other Hopkins Press journals, including work by Eliza Richards, Elissa Zellinger, Ben Bascom, Christa Holm Vogelius & more! All free thru 30 May: tinyurl.com/rvu9kkzs
The Poe/tics of Reception
Poe Studies on 20 Years of Eliza Richards' Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle 
The Hopkins Press Podcast 
Illustrated with the Hopkins Press Podcast logo, the cover art from Poe Studies, and photographs of Eliza Richards, Elissa Zellinger, and Kelly Ross
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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
New on the Hopkins Press Podcast: We discuss The Poe/tics of Reception, the forthcoming @PoeStudies issue with Elissa Zellinger, Kelly Ross and Eliza Richards, whose infuential book on Poe & 19th century women poets celebrates its 20th year Listen: tinyurl.com/2h5w3r7m
The Poe/tics of Reception
Poe Studies on 20 Years of Eliza Richards' Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle 
The Hopkins Press Podcast 
Illustrated with the Hopkins Press Podcast logo, the cover art from Poe Studies, and photographs of Eliza Richards, Elissa Zellinger, and Kelly Ross
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Poe Studies @poestudies.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Vol. 56 of Poe Studies, including the incredible special feature "African American Writers Respond to Poe," is currently free to read on @projectmuse.bsky.social Read amazing work by @nytebird45.bsky.social @mauricenow.bsky.social and many more! muse.jhu.edu/issue/48691
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Poe Studies @poestudies.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Perhaps RFK Jr. should read Chiyo Yoshi's essay on how Poe anticipated the evidence-based scientific consensus on germ theory as the mechanism for disease transmission: "Toward the Germ Theory: Edgar Allan Poe and Disease," vol. 57, 2024 arstechnica.com/health/2025/... muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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RFK Jr. rejects cornerstone of health science: Germ theory
In his 2021 book vilifying Anthony Fauci, RFK Jr. lays out support for an alternate theory.
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Poe Studies @poestudies.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
New POEcast episode with Amy Branam Armiento and Travis Montgomery about their co-edited collection Poe and Women, the latest winner of the Dameron Award. Hosted by the wonderful Caleb Doan! open.spotify.com/episode/61J5...
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Episode 8 (with Amy Branam Armiento and Travis Montgomery)
POEcast: The Poe Studies Association Podcast · Episode
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Poe Studies @poestudies.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
We had a wonderful conversation about Gender and the Poetics of Reception in Poe's Circle at #MLA2025 #MLA25 Look for the special feature in Poe Studies vol. 58 featuring essays by Elissa Zellinger, Christa Holm Vogelius, Alexandra Socarides, Rebecka Rutledge Fisher, Zack Turpin, and Eliza Richards!
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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
For any scholar working on the 19th-c. press, a Curran Fellowship can be a big help. Everybody is eligible, and the application is blessedly straightforward. This year's deadline is next week: Wednesday, January 15. Recommendation letters due Jan 22. rs4vp.org/awards/curra... #19th-c
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The Curran Fellowships – RSVP
The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century in making use of primary print and archival so...
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celj.bsky.social @celj.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Don't miss Chat with an Editor this Friday and Saturday at #MLA2025 #MLA25. Sign up to meet with a journal editor either at the convention or virtually next Wednesday (1/15), and find out how to get your article published! @mlanews.bsky.social bit.ly/3Ppc0KB
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Poe Studies @poestudies.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
And a preview of the special feature in the 2026 vol. of Poe Studies: Session 388: Poe Lives on Netflix, Fri., 1/10, 5:15-6:30 PM Hilton New Orleans Riverside - Steering (Riverside Complex) #MLA2025
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Poe Studies @poestudies.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
And check out the other #MLA2025 Poe panels: Session 153 on Poe and the Archives, Thurs. 1/9 7:00-8:15 PM Hilton New Orleans Riverside - Steering (Riverside Complex)
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Poe Studies @poestudies.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Heading to #MLA2025? Come to our panel on Twenty Years of the Poe(tics) of Reception for a preview of the special feature in the next Poe Studies: Session 758: Sun. 1/12, 12-1:15pm Hilton New Orleans Riverside, Salon 16 with Elissa Zellinger, Christa Vogelius, & Eliza Richards
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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
If you were thinking "wow I wish the Moby-Dick Joke Guy would team up with Bluesky Starter Pack Sensation and 'America's Favorite Gay Dad'™️ @rezekjoe.bsky.social to do a fun conversational intro for Edgar Allan Poe's deeply weird and underappreciated novel" then boy do we have great news for you!!
The Unnamed Press | 6040 N Figueroa Street | Los Angeles, CA 90042 | unnamedpress.com

December 02, 2024
Los Angeles, CA

To: Nathan Wolff, contributor
Re: Conversation Intro for The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by
Edgar Allan Poe
The Contributor and Unnamed Press (the “Publisher”) agree to collaborate on a
conversational introduction (the “Conversation”) for the forthcoming book, The Narrative
of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, as volume 7 of the Publisher’s imprint, Smith &
Taylor Classics.
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National Edgar Allan Poe Theatre @poetheatre.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Poe Christmas Carol reading opens next Saturday for TWO DAYS ONLY. Find out how to get free tickets by supporting the theatre. Read all about it! poetheatre.org/so/57PF1fi35...
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Donate Today for FREE Poe Christmas Carol Reading Tickets!
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