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Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org · 24/09/2026

The program for our Critical AI Studies? conference, happening Oct. 9&10 at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social, is now online: huml.ucsb.edu/conference. Hope to see you there!

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Sarah @duckrabbit.bsky.social gave hands down the funniest keynote talk I have ever seen, at CSECS in 2017(maybe?). Somehow this devastating and gorgeous essay is also laugh-out-loud funny.

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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

My book, Relatability: Sharing and Oversharing with the New York School Poets, will be out later this year--just in time to stuff it in your stockings--but you can preorder now with the code UCPNEW for 30% off. @uchicagopress.bsky.social press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Relatability

An engaging account of how the New York School poets used art to imagine their queerness as something that might be shared with other people.How did Frank O’Hara and other New York School poets—a smal...

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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Still my favorite line from one of the reader reports: “This is the book about improvement feminist scholars didn’t know they were waiting for.”

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I hate Gen Z's sunglasses. There, I said it.

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Spider-Man: The Body Keeps the Score

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Danielle Spratt @dlspratt.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Happy publication day to Reading Jane Austen: An Introduction! So grateful for my brilliant collaborators, Kat Alves, @katalves18c.bsky.social, Nina Moon, Susan Greenfield, Tim Black, Adela Ramos, Colleen Tripp, and Jodi Wyett! www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1...

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Reading Jane Austen | An Introduction | Danielle Spratt | Taylor & Fra

Reading Jane Austen: An Introduction captures the dynamic range of scholarly, popular, and pedagogical conversations that characterize contemporary Austen

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I had a great time talking about archives and meeting fellow scholars of Quaker women at #BARS2026

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Back in York for a quick visit and enjoying this view from our flat

Rooftops and brick buildings with a distant view of York Minster

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Excited to talk about Quakers and visit Birmingham next week!

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Dave Mazella @davemazella.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

So my review of Colin Jennings' new book has come out in Textual Cultures. It represents a great synthesis of #18c studies and DH computational analysis. Please take a look: scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/ind...

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Jennings, Collin. Enlightenment Links: Theories of Mind and Media in Eighteenth-Century Britain. | Textual Cultures

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Excuse me sir I need to correct those proofs

A brown tabby cat with green eyes looking at the camera, lying on top of a stack of printed papers

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Looking for something to do this summer? We have a new batch of documents up at our Zooniverse site, Corresponding with Quakers. We've added materials from the Huntington's Shackleton Correspondence to UCSB's Ballitore Collection and we need help transcribing! www.zooniverse.org/projects/rac...

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Corresponding with Quakers | Zooniverse - People-powered research

Investigating race, gender, class, and religion in 18th- and 19th-Century Irish Quaker Documents

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Thank you to the people of NY-10. To everyone who knocked a door, made a call, or donated a dollar: this win is only possible because of your belief in a people’s movement. (1/3)

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

So excited for the wonderful @bradlander.bsky.social, who always has time for his adoring fans Carl and Willow even when it’s three days before an election.

A man, a boy, and a girl riding a carousel in front of the Brooklyn bridge

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 24/06/2026

In honor of his apparent victory: @bradlander.bsky.social eats a hot dog on the Cyclone

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

“Everyone is wrong about free indirect discourse, except me”: every article about FID

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Today my son turned 10 and I turned Full Professor. It's been quite a decade!

portion of a letter that reads: "Dear Dr. King: It is with great pleasure that I write to congratulate you on your promotion to Professor at UC Santa Barbara. Promotion to full professor signifies a record of sustained scholarly contributions with significant impact. Please accept my warmest wishes on achieving this milestone in your distinguished professional career. This determination is the result of a thorough and rigorous review by our colleagues and campus agencies."

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Literally my job to translate specialized knowledge for a general audience

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

What, and I cannot stress this enough, the fuck.

Photo of a university building with a google Gemini pop up in front of it including the phrase “the study boost you need”

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Love being this little bunny’s mom

Photo of me in a white t shirt with a little girl in a turquoise rabbit bunny robe snuggling on me

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I’m getting too old for this shit (going down a twisty slide at the kids indoor play gym)

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

My long-book book club is on the verge of breaking down over our inability to finish Tristram Shandy

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Excited to welcome Rhae Lynn Barnes @popcultureamerica.bsky.social to UCSB this Tuesday, the first talk in the Early Modern Center Spring Speaker Series

Flyer for a talk on April 21 at 3:30 p.m. at UCSB by Rhae Lynn Barnes titled "The Peace Pipe and the Sun King: A 17th-Century Culture Clash on the Mississippi"

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

No. I don’t want to tell you about my stay, my meal, my visit, my purchase. The way I told you about it was by exchanging money for the thing. That was the end of our relationship!

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Maybe I was just in the right places at the right times, but I heard four references to Reinhart Koselleck at #asecs26. Is Koselleck having a moment?

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

LYRIC LOGIC is out in the world now!

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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Cover drop! Extremely excited to have this incredible sculpture, Marisol’s Love (1962), on the cover of Relatability, out later this year press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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Relatability

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Cecillia Wang, who argued the birthright citizenship case for the ACLU at the Supreme Court today, has a BA in English from Berkeley.

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Absolutely thrilled to report that the Board of Governors at @uncpress.bsky.social have approved my book THE RACIALIZATION OF PRINT for publication by @oieahc.bsky.social. Forthcoming, early 2027.

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

My boyfriend whose actual government name is Scott Hunter just ran into Scott Hunter (captain of the New York Admirals) at a coffee shop in LA. Sadly they were both getting coffee not smoothies.

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Hopkins Press @hopkinspress.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture Vol. 55, 2026 tiny.one/2p92w9dy CONTRIBUTORS Marlis Schweitzer, Dwight Codr, Jesse Molesworth, Kelly Swartz, George Boulukos, Sandra Macpherson, Heather McPherson, Cecilia Feilla, Lillian Lu, Taylin Nelson, Ziona Kocher, and more

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture
Vol. 55, 2026

CONTRIBUTORS
Marlis Schweitzer, Dwight Codr,
Jesse Molesworth, Kelly Swartz,
George Boulukos, Sandra Macpherson,
Heather McPherson, Cecilia Feilla,
Lillian Lu, Taylin Nelson,
Victoria Barnett-Woods, Ziona Kocher,
Huw Edwardes-Evans, Jesslyn Whittell,
Sarah Carter, Natasha Shoory,
Moinak Choudhury, Peter de Gabriele,
Brett D. Wilson, Rebekah Mitsein,
I. B. Hopkins, Anna M. Foy,
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HOPKINS PRESS JOURNALS
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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Excited to have a short essay in a cluster in SECC on Graeber and Wengrow's The Dawn of Everything and 18th-century studies (also my first time publishing as Rachael King instead of Rachael Scarborough King) doi-org.proxy.library.ucsb.edu/10.1353/sec....

The Line of Development:
Conjectural History and the Indigenous Critique
Rachael King (bio)
This essay explores the significance of Graeber and Wengrow's discussion of the "Indigenous critique" in The Dawn of Everything to Enlightenment historical accounts of stadial theory. Stadial theory emphasized land management as the basis for social progress in order to demote Indigenous societies in the civilizational scale. I demonstrate how stadial history worked to impose a uniform, linear model of development onto human history, thus casting Indigenous societies into the past as stuck in an "earlier" stage. Understanding stadial theory as a response to Graeber and Wengrow's "Indigenous critique" clarifies the long-lasting significance of this model of history to Western understandings of social development.

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

“Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war” 🤍🤍🤍🤍🤍

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Nothing makes me feel like a worse feminist than the number of women I have saved in my phone as "[NAME], [KID'S NAME]'s Mom"

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Had so much fun talking about Wuthering Heights (mostly the book, a little bit the movie) with Claire and Ashley for a live Good Noticings podcast last night

Photo of three women sitting onstage. I am on the right dressed in a red top and black pants.

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Today is National Caregivers Day and I’m thinking of all the paid and unpaid caregivers who make our society function. Being a family caregiver for my sick and disabled loved one was the hardest and most human thing I’ve ever done.

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Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at York @cecs-york.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Roses are red Violets are blue To the longest eighteenth century Our hearts remain true ❤️ #18thcentury #18thC

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Obsessed with these plans for a Greek mythology theme park

Child’s drawing of a funhouse-style park attraction with the theme of “Hades’ Palace”

Child’s drawing of a Cerberus rollercoaster

Child’s drawing of “the lazy river Styx”

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Printing press day in my Ethics of Care and the Novel grad seminar

Hand printed text reading: I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots and seeing how they were woven and interwoven that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe. —George Eliot, Middlemarch

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Douglass Day @douglassday.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Get Ready for Douglass Day 2026! Fresh newsletter out today. - Preview event on Feb 6 - New teaching resources - Swag (trading cards are back!) open.substack.com/pub/douglass... And there's still plenty of time to register for Douglass Day 2026. All Rights for All!

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