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Rebekah Mitsein

@rebekahmitsein.bsky.social
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Teacher and scholar of 18th-century literature and culture at Boston College. Britain, Africa, New England, Caribbean. African Impressions: How African Worldviews Shaped the British Geographical Imagination across the Early Enlightenment (UVaP 2022).

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Rebekah Mitsein @rebekahmitsein.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Realism and the Novel: A Global History, ed. Paul Stasi, is out with Cambridge. Includes top notch scholarship by top notch scholars on the realist novel and also a chapter on the #c18th by me. #c18 #18thc www.cambridge.org/in/universit...
Cover image of Realism and the Novel: A Global History, edited by Paul Stasi
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Dr. Bethany Qualls @bethanyqualls.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Thanks to @drbibliomane.bsky.social we've got a skyfeed driven #c18th feed now since blueskyfeeds host is sadly shutting down. Please go and like the 2.0 version here and let me know if you run into any issues along the way! bsky.app/profile/did:... #18c #c18
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Rest in peace Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, giant of African literature, dies aged 87
Kenyan writer’s death announced by his daughter, who wrote: ‘He lived a full life, fought a good fight’
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Rebekah Mitsein @rebekahmitsein.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
It's charming, and it passes the #c18th test! What more could a reader want? @writerjane.bsky.social's Clara the Triumphant Rhinoceros has been birthed unto the world!
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ABO: Interactive Journal for Women in the Arts @abojournal.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Attention #ASECS2025 attendees: Don't miss out on the roundtable Mona Narain, ABO Scholarship Editor, and Jeremy Chow put together and are serving as respondents for. Steven Thomas will speak on Ethiopia and Africa. Katarina O'Briain will speak on the Transpacific and Philippines. Details 👇 #C18th
South-South Connections in the 18c
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The Defoe Society @defoesociety.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Attention #ASECS2025 attendees! Can't wait to see you all this Saturday at 2:00 for "Virtual Defoe," our Society-sponsored panel. Details 👇 #danieldefoe #defoe #18thCentury #C18th #18thC
Virtual Defoe panel info
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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
For anyone feeling uneasy about the virtual ASECS conference, please do check it out. I found the tech perfectly easy and attractive (layout is way better than Zoom or Teams), and have been to three kick-ass panels already with lots of good discussion. Two of them ran way over time. Come on in! #18C
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Kathleen Lubey @kathylubey.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
boosting for the nighttime crew
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Rebekah Mitsein @rebekahmitsein.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
#C18th friends and colleagues with kids, or who are kids at heart, my mom's adorable (and carefully researched) new picture book, Clara the Triumphant Rhinoceros, about the rhino who made her grand tour of Europe in the 1740s, is available for pre-order! @writerjane.bsky.social
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J. L. Bell @boston1775.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
On Sunday, 19 Jan, I’ll speak at Gore Place in Waltham about how Christopher Gore and his family experienced the American Revolution in Boston: boston1775.blogspot.com/2025/01/grow... Bloodshed! Bigamy! Effigy! Spinning bee! Dump that tea! Liberty and loyalty! And of course two stolen cannons. #c18
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“Growing Up in the Gore Family” in Waltham, 19 Jan.
On Sunday, 19 January, I’ll speak at Gore Place in Waltham on “Growing Up in the Gore Family: Class and Conflict in Revolutionary Boston.”...
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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
The LONG eighteenth century will not be contained! Second Starter Pack here -- let me know if you want on. go.bsky.app/75maeyB
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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
What the heck: Long Eighteenth Starter Pack right here: go.bsky.app/6aF4mek -- I'm sure I missed lots of people; respond if you want to be added.
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Rebekah Mitsein @rebekahmitsein.bsky.social · 18/09/2024
Boston area folks, I'll be giving a talk at the Mahindra Center at Harvard Next Tuesday (9/24, 6:30pm) on the African explorer James Bruce. "The True Story of the Abyssinian Liar" is a wild one. Hope to see some of you there! mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/event/true-s...
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The True Story of the Abyssinian Liar: How James Bruce Found the Source of the Nile and Lost His Reputation
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY STUDIES SPEAKER: Rebekah Mitsein, Boston College
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Rebekah Mitsein @rebekahmitsein.bsky.social · 25/04/2024
Eighteenth-Century Irish Studies friends, my wonderful colleague Colleen Taylor's book, Irish Materialisms: The Nonhuman and the Making of Colonial Ireland, 1690-1830, is now out at Oxford UP! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
The cover of the book Irish Materialisms by Colleen Taylor, Oxford University Press
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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 07/04/2024
#c18 Back home from a highly successful ASECS 2024. Next up: get ready to vote on the new bylaws. It's absolutely crucial that 20% of membership weigh in. More info is coming. Please please please please do your friendly parliamentarian this solid. Pleeeassseeeeeee pretty pleeeaassseeeeee
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Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social · 02/04/2024
Hi! We're getting ready for The Doctor is In mentoring at #asecs24 and are happy to have lots of great mentors. Please tell everyone at the conference! #18thc @asecsoffice.bsky.social @dlspratt.bsky.social
Schedule for The Doctor is In mentoring program at #asecs24Schedule for The Doctor is In mentoring program at #asecs24
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Chloe Wigston Smith @chloewigstonsmith.bsky.social · 03/04/2024
I’m very happy to share that my book is now out in the US and available in the UK on 14 May. You can find out more about Novels, Needleworks, and Empire: Material Entanglements in the Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World at Yale’s site: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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Novels, Needleworks, and Empire
The first sustained study of the vibrant links between domestic craft and British colonialism   In the eighteenth century, women’s contributions to empire...
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Rebekah Mitsein @rebekahmitsein.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
Excited to see a generous and thorough review by Steven Thomas of African Impressions in this issue of ECF.
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Rebekah Mitsein @rebekahmitsein.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
Please spread the word on a visionary interdisciplinary project! In 1666, Anne Bradstreet’s house burned, inspiring one of her most read poems. My colleague Christy Pottroff teamed up with an archaeologist to excavate the site. They share findings tonight at 6pm EST. Livestreamed and recorded:
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Events
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Rebecca Shapiro @rebeccashapiro.bsky.social · 29/02/2024
Hello hello, please help with our mentoring program at the American Society for #18thc Studies in Toronto this spring!
The Doctor is In returns to ASECS this year. We have many fab mentors and are finalizing the schedule. Please let us know if you can donate 2 hours to help answer all manner of questions and be a mensch. Vivian Papp and Rebecca Shapiro are in person and Danielle Spratt is virtual.
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Dr. Misty Krueger @mistykrueger.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
Hello. I’m the ASECS Women’s Caucus co-chair and I’m wondering how many of you would like to see the Caucus create an account here. We are ready to exit Twitter aka X. Also curious if you think societies like ours would get a lot of response on Instagram.
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Eric Parisot @eparisot.bsky.social · 23/02/2024
University of Hong Kong is advertising for a Prof/Assoc. Prof on Tenure Terms or Tenure-track Assistant Prof in English Literary Studies (the Long Nineteenth Century). Applications close March 29. @19birkbeck.bsky.social @ehunineteen.bsky.social @bars.bsky.social
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HKU Careers
The University of Hong Kong (HKU) offers an intellectually-stimulating and culturally-rich academic environment, with attractive remuneration packages.
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Sara Damiano @sdamiano.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
Reminder: Applications for "Recording Women in the Early Modern Atlantic World" workshop are due this Friday, March 1. @juliehardwick.bsky.social, @caycarbs.bsky.social and I hope you'll join the conversation! www.txst.edu/history/news...
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Susanne Ferwerda @susanneferwerda.bsky.social · 27/02/2024
(Likely permanent) job opening at UvA in Black, Indigenous and Critical Race Studies! Also looks good for those working in #envhum along these axes. vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Assi...
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Assistant Professor in Black, Indigenous and Critical Race Studies in Arts and Culture
Assistant Professor in Black, Indigenous and Critical Race Studies in Arts and Culture
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Karin Wulf @kawulf.bsky.social · 27/02/2024
We're up to serious business at Brown for 2026. In addition to the 3 yr postdoc coordinator for #Brown2026 listed below: 1 year research postdocs in the period of the American Rev broadly (vastly?) construed. Opens 2.29 apply.interfolio.com/139959 Expecting to appt 2 per year for 3 years.🗃️
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Mikko Tolonen @tolonen.bsky.social · 27/02/2024
So, in total we have now 3 PhD positions open.   18c Political Vocabulary: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...   Computational Methods for History: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...   Presence of Classics: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...   Apply or let interested people know!
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Matthew L Reznicek @drreznicek.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
Excited to be working with @miriamlw.bsky.social on this new collection. Please share and submit. #healthhums #c18 #histmed
From debates between Brunonian, Hunterian, and Boerhavian conceptions of the body to indigenous and non-western practices, we invite scholarly essays that contest and complicate our understanding of the meanings, representations, and practices of health and/or medicine in the period.

This collection seeks proposals for 5,000-6,000 word essays that explore alternative conceptions, practices, and approaches to health in the long-eighteenth century. We expect that these essays will be accessible to a wide range of scholars from different disciplines and hope that they will be written in a way that makes them available to advanced undergraduate readers. 

We particularly invite essays that explore:
Indigenous and non-western traditions of health and healing
Home remedies and homeopathy
Prosthetics and other technological developments for atypical bodies
Intersections of race, imperial networks, and health
Literary renegotiations of health, illness, and care

Please submit 300-400 word abs
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Courtney Weiss Smith @cweiss-smith.bsky.social · 25/02/2024
It’s heeeeeeeere! We’ve worked so hard and are so proud of the newest edition of Norton Anthology of English Literature. There are some genuinely big changes across the 11th edition—you can glimpse them here: seagull.wwnorton.com/nael11toc
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