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Stephanie O'Rourke

@sorourke25.bsky.social
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Art Historian 'Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction 1780-1820' (Chicago 2025) 'Art, Science, and the Body in Early Romanticism' (Cambridge 2021) extraction and its visual cultures, dog videos, unions, knowledge systems, 19th-century literature

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Eleanor Courtemanche @ecourtem.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Stephanie O’Rourke flew all the way from St Andrews to Illinois to give a talk about shifting depictions of deep mine structure around 1800: gradually the pictures of miners working and conversing underground become simple diagrams of where the coal is. This is her new book! @sorourke25.bsky.social
PICTURING LANDSCAPE IN AN AGE OF EXTRACTION (U of Chicago P, 2025)
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Stephanie O'Rourke @sorourke25.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
wish I could have been there!!
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Stephanie O'Rourke @sorourke25.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Amanda it was wonderful to hear your paper and chat a bit about research -- I look forward to more!
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Dr Amanda Blake Davis 🌱 @abdavis.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Had a fantastic time at Romantic Circulations in Oslo speaking about Shelley's wingèd seeds & oozy woods 🍃 Brilliant to hear @sorourke25.bsky.social on Mineral Romanticism, papers on Black Romanticism, Black Metal, & Nordic forests, Swedish Romantic entanglements, & so much more - thanks NARS! 🌌
Photo of a concrete road block painted with Sycamore seeds in front of a street lined with Sycamore trees in OsloPhoto of large greenish hued human-tree sculptures with real trees in the background at Vigeland Park, Oslo.
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Stephanie O'Rourke @sorourke25.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I saw @devenparker.bsky.social give a brilliant talk related to this material -- cannot wait to read the book!
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Ramin Nasibov @nasibov.me · 12/08/2026
If you missed the solar eclipse, this is what it looked like:
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Stephanie O'Rourke @sorourke25.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Thank you, Claire! I heard that Cleo will be joining you at Cork soon-ish, which sounds fantastic. I'm quite envious!
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Stephanie O'Rourke @sorourke25.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Lovely to see you -- I hope BARS was great, I was sorry to miss it!
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Stephanie O'Rourke @sorourke25.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
thank you, Christine!
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Stephanie O'Rourke @sorourke25.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
cannot wait to read it @emmadavenport.bsky.social
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Stephanie O'Rourke @sorourke25.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This is an incredible honour. And BAVS was fantastic -- an inspiring few days talks and conversations that fill me with hope for the future of the field.
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Stephanie O'Rourke @sorourke25.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Thank you, Nathan! When I wrote the talk -- which goes into detail about how your thinking inspired my thinking -- I didn't even know that your absolutely brilliant book was a runner-up. (Wasn't exaggerating when I said that I go around quoting from and talking about how much I like your book!)
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Martin Hewitt @vicmanch.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
We were treated to a fantastic fly-through of the book from @sorourke25.bsky.social , including a generous name check for @nathankhensley.bsky.social, whose own book was one of the runners up for the prize. I like the RSVP Colby Lecture model, but this was a great send off for #BAVS2026.
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Marie Léger-St-Jean @marielsj.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The 2026 @bavs-uk.bsky.social-Rosemary Mitchell Prize for a second monograph goes to @sorourke25.bsky.social! 👏 The monograph started as a book about time so—don't worry—you can change topics midway through a project! Also, if the book you wanna cite doesn't exist, maybe 🫵 should ✍️ it! #BAVS2026
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Book Prize – BAVS
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Stephanie O'Rourke @sorourke25.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I am late to see this but grateful nonetheless for this interesting review of my book!
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H-Net Reviews @hnetreviews.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
New book review: Vandertop on O'Rourke, Stephanie: _Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction: Europe and Its Colonial Networks, 1780–1850_. University of Chicago Press, 2025. Published by H-Environment. Read here: networks.h-net.org/node/20154019
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O'Rourke, Stephanie. Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction: Europe and Its Colonial Networks, 1780–1850. : University of Chicago Press, 2025. Illustrations. 240 pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 9780226841557. Reviewed by Caitlin Vandertop (University of Warwick) Published on H-Environment (June, 2026) Commissioned by Daniella McCahey (Texas Tech University)
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Jeff Spencer @revjss.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Graphic offering advice on “How to survive the global heatwave.” It says:
Stay hydrated.
Treat yourself to an ice cream.
Dismantle the fossil fuel industry which is literally burning the planet for the short term profit of a vanishingly small capitalist class.
Loose fitting clothing.
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Stephanie O'Rourke @sorourke25.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Very sad to see you go, but Maastricht is lucky to have you and this looks like an exciting move. You will be greatly missed!!!!!
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Stephanie O'Rourke @sorourke25.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
For all your agitable lighting needs 🥰
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LRB Bookshop @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk · 03/06/2026
eavesdropping on a couple of english lit academics in st. john, i overheard confirmation of what is surely going to be the biggest literary news story of the year
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Litteraria Pragensia: Studies in Literature & Culture @litterariaprag.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
From our latest issue on 'Romantic Shock and Surprise': 'Romantic Shock and Industrial Catastrophe' by Stephanie O'Rourke (@arthistorysta.bsky.social @uniofstandrews.bsky.social). 🔓 Read in open access: litterariapragensia.ff.cuni.cz/2025-69-5/
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Leila Walker @lwalker.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Ok, side-thread: What have you read recently that's beautifully written? For me: @nathankhensley.bsky.social's Action Without Hope, @sorourke25.bsky.social's Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction, Mathelinda Nabugodi's The Trembling Hand.
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Stephanie O'Rourke @sorourke25.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
wow Leila that is so kind -- @nathankhensley.bsky.social's book was an inspiration for me, so I'm in good company!
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Stephanie O'Rourke @sorourke25.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
CFP on art history and the question of 'genre'! Oxford, 6 Aug 2026. Proposals due 31st May. www.seh.ox.ac.uk/events/paint...
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Painting and Genre Conference | St Edmund Hall
Painting and Genre Conference
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Stephanie O'Rourke @sorourke25.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
my kingdom for the ability to comment on footnotes!
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 11/03/2026
PUT A CORGI ON THE MONEY YOU COWARDS
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Stephanie O'Rourke @sorourke25.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
BOOK LAUNCH AND PANEL DISCUSSION Stephanie O'Rourke, Susan Siegfried, John Tresch 19 March 2026, Courtauld courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/pic...
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Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction
Join author Stephanie O'Rourke for a panel discussion with professors John Tresch and Susan Siegfried to mark the launch of O'Rourke's major new book, Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction: Euro...
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Stephanie O'Rourke @sorourke25.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
tomorrow!
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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
CFP: Race, Law and Empire
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Stephanie O'Rourke @sorourke25.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I will message you!
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Stephanie O'Rourke @sorourke25.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Happy to sidebar about this Devin if it's proving tricky! Many of the big US museums have permissive CC policies. Failing that, I'm not above sourcing things from Wikimedia. I avoid for-profit licensing agents like Scala etc. Just be sure you know the DPI and dimensions your press wants!
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Kevin Lala @kevinlala.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Race is not a biological category: challenging this misconception will help tackle racism in healthcare. A nice little article by my excellent colleague Jasmeen Kanwal. doi: doi.org/10.1136/bmj....
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Race is not a biological category: challenging this misconception will help tackle racism in healthcare
Healthcare professionals must reject flawed racial generalisations, writes Jasmeen Kanwal Institutional racism in healthcare has received increased coverage in recent years, including in The BMJ ’s ...
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Keynotes by Jeremy Davies and Stephanie O’Rourke! 🤩🌿
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Stephanie O'Rourke @sorourke25.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
CFP - Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750-1850 (University of Manchester) This is such a great topic and will make for a fascinating conference--please spread the word! www.bsls.ac.uk/2025/11/cfp-...
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CfP: Romantic Elements: Rocks, and Stones, and Soil, 1750–1850 – The British Society for Literature and Science
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Stephanie O'Rourke @sorourke25.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
oh, thank you Claire!! I'd love to know what you think...
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Stephanie O'Rourke @sorourke25.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
oh thank you, Nathan! that's so kind of you to say
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
PSA if you use the code HOLIDAY25, you can get 30% off of @sorourke25.bsky.social’s incredibly smart, gorgeously illustrated new book—do it! 🌿🎉💥
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Picturing Landscape in an Age of Extraction
O’Rourke argues that artistic representations played a pivotal role in shaping how people thought about the natural world during the Industrial Revolution.   In the late eighteenth and early nineteent...
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Stephanie O'Rourke @sorourke25.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
Heading to Copenhagen this week to ask the question "What is a forest?" with colleagues from the project Norwegian Wood: Extraction landscapes, art and visual culture in Denmark and Norway 1730 to 1860 🌲✂️ artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/calendar/202...
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What is a forest? Visual and artistic engagement with woodland
Public two-day kick off seminar for research project Norwegian Wood: Extraction landscapes, art and visual culture in Denmark and Norway 1730 to 1860.
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Kashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 11/11/2025
Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
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Stephanie O'Rourke @sorourke25.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Headed to Binghamton this week to talk through material from my new book! 🤓
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Stephanie O'Rourke @sorourke25.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
CFP for our panel at the Association for Art History's annual conference in Cambridge. We welcome a wide range of approaches to the topic! Proposals due 2nd November. forarthistory.org.uk/landscapes-o...
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Landscapes of Extraction: Colonial and Industrial Histories of British Landscapes, 1700-1900 - For Art History
This panel will explore the complex interplay of colonial wealth and industrial development in British landscapes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. As Britain’s imperial reach expanded, weal...
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Stephanie O'Rourke @sorourke25.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Oh -- I can't wait to read this, Daniel!
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Dr Amanda Sciampacone @asciampacone.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
For anyone working on decolonizing art history, please apply for the session I’m co-convening with Rina Ayra, Claire Moran, and Ceren Özpınar for @forarthistory.org.uk’s 2026 annual conference. CFP deadline is 2 Nov 2025: forarthistory.org.uk/decolonising...
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Decolonising Art History - Continuing the Conversation - For Art History
The AAH’s dedicated resource portal on antiracism and decolonial approaches, established in 2020 during the global pandemic in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, represents a key milestone in...
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Stephanie O'Rourke @sorourke25.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Just wait until he finds out you don't need page numbers for book chapters any more!!
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Newcastle University staff invited to a ‘Doodling for Wellbeing’ session (‘Let your pen dance across the page' in 'a perfect escape from the everyday hustle and bustle'. Invites sent on same day 153 academics were informed of their location in 'redundancy pools', with 38 redundancies planned. 1/2
Exterior view of Armstrong Building, Newcastle University, red brick, neo-Gothic-ish architecture with many windows.
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New-Cleckit Dominie @ncdominie.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Exam board prep today, and as usual it's one part academic judgement to three parts "The oodlified scripts have been uploaded to a password-protected polycule on FlipWangle. If you haven't set up 5FA on your uniSnork account you can simply repuffer via Blarg. The helpdesk will reopen on Wednesday."
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Stephanie O'Rourke @sorourke25.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I'll be trying out new material for my keynote "Romantic Shock and Industrial Catastrophe" at the Sorbonne next week. The line up of papers looks great!
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Stephanie O'Rourke @sorourke25.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
I'll be trying out new material for my keynote "Romantic Shock and Industrial Catastrophe" at the Sorbonne next week. The line up of papers looks great!
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CECILLE @cecille-ulille.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
[COLL] 16-17.05.25 / Sorbonne Romantic Shock and Surprise org. London-Paris Romanticism Seminar avec le concours de @sorbonne-universite.fr, de l'université de Lille, de @qmul.ac.uk et de la @sera-romantic.bsky.social keynote: Christopher Miller, @sorourke25.bsky.social & Marc Porée
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Symposium - London-Paris Romanticism Seminar
Call for papers: Exiles, Émigrés and Expatriates in Romantic-Era Paris and London, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris,12-13 April 2018
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