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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Pass Medicare for All. Cradle to grave, it's there for you.

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

But in the nicest way possible

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

Just keeping you on your toes

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

Cover reveal! The keywords I sent the press were “historical,” “natural,” and “multimedia” and I’d say they nailed it. Featuring my (book’s) main man Humphry Repton on the left there. Coming from Yale University Press this fall.

Image of a book cover with the title The Book of Improvement, subtitle Media Landscapes in the Global Enlightenment, and author Rachael King. The cover features a tree in the center with two men with surveying equipment to the left of the trunk and two men reclining under an umbrella to the right of the trunk. There are a river and rolling hills in the background.

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

I have slides of Terry Castle's Masquerade and Civilization in my undergrad lecture on Fantomina

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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

Interesting! In the book I talk a bit about how the British compared their concept of improvement to others.

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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 · 01/09/2026

“Rachael King’s immersive, nuanced, multi-media survey refuses to take an 18th-century buzzword—improvement—at face value. Her methodologically daring study weighs improvement's sometimes regressive politics against the innovative means of its production.”—Jayne Lewis, UC Irvine

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

“An elegant and persuasive meditation on improvement’s relationship with the rich variety of eighteenth-century print, The Book of Improvement will quickly become essential reading for anyone interested in Enlightenment’s trickiest term.”—Jon Mee, University of York

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Some very smart people have said some very nice things about it. “The book is a tour-de-force work of cultural criticism that explains how and why we seek the history of ideas, and a landmark contribution to the humanities.”—David Alff, SUNY-Buffalo

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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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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Ok but did you know about Frank and Jane

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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 · 10/08/2026

I'm sure that can be arranged!

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I always assign it in my History of Writing Technologies class and it goes over well

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

@glavey.bsky.social not responsible for how wrinkled my and Johanna’s shirts are

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Yes I do get a lot of questions when wearing this shirt

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

We read long novels and then get t-shirts

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Rachael King @rscar.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Joe you should probably join my book club

Light blue t shirt with a cartoon image of a ghost nun and the phrase “happiness is not a potato”

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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 · 31/07/2026

We had to say goodbye to 16-year-old Frankie 6 weeks after another major loss. Got these two on the right (Taylor and Jimmy) as kittens a few months later and they have brought so much joy to our lives. Very much like Frankie and her brother Dante reincarnated, but now brown.

Two gray and white tuxedo cats lying on a bed

Two brown striped tabby cats cuddling in a cat bed together

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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 · 14/07/2026

Thank you! It’s out in November :)

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