Associate Director for Student Programming and Experiential Learning at the Starr Center @washcoll Also tweets @ASECSWomen
Chestertown, MD
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Victoria Barnett-Woods retweeted
Hello, Twitter/X! This is the account for the Burney Journal, an annual peer-reviewed open-access journal dedicated to the study of the Burney family, especially Frances Burney d’Arblay, her writing, life, & circles. We’ve had a bit of a re-launch & refresh recently…👇🏽
Victoria Barnett-Woods retweeted
The speaker at this event is the wonderful Karen Lipsedge: leading 18th-century scholar (see below!), Access & Inclusion co-lead for @BSECS & Director of Access, Participation & Inclusion at @KingstonUni.
It's a huge deal that Karen is coming to YSJ to deliver this session! 🙌
Join us for the next event in our six-part Discussing Decolonisation series.
Gain the confidence to have courageous conversations about topics we tend to shy away from, such as racial identity, gender and social class.
📅 10 April, 1.00pm to 2.30pm.
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ALT Protesters holding a Decolonise Education banner at a march.
Victoria Barnett-Woods retweeted
Congratulations to our new Executive Board members! Second Vice President: Elena Deanda-Camacho (2024-2025); At Large Seat 1: Olivia Sabee (2024-2027); At Large Seat 2: Brian Cowan (2024-2027). Details: asecs.org/about/governance/e…
Victoria Barnett-Woods retweeted
Preparing to teach 'The Woman of Colour, A Tale', a novel published anonymously in 1808.
It you haven't read this extraordinary & extremely surprising novel before you WILL NOT BELIEVE IT!
Spoiler-free plot tease in the 🧵below...
ALT "West Indian Creole Woman with her Black Servant", c. 1780, by Agostino Brunais.
Victoria Barnett-Woods retweeted
As we prepare for the next year with the Women's Caucus, we are soliciting nominations for our next co-chair! The co-chair is a two-year position, which begins in June 2024 and extends through June 2026.
Nominate here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
@ASECSOffice
Victoria Barnett-Woods retweeted
The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies announces the search for the Editorin-Chief of its journal for emerging research: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. Deadline for applications: April 30, 2024. asecs.org/publications/studi…
Victoria Barnett-Woods retweeted
Durham English is hiring an Associate Professor in the Long Eighteenth Century! Details here: durham.taleo.net/careersecti…
@BSECS @ECFjournal @BARS_official @READEnglish @ASECSOffice
Victoria Barnett-Woods retweeted
What better time than #InternationalWomensDay to announce the new publication "Female Printmakers, Printsellers & Print Publishers in the 18th Century: The Imprint of Women, c. 1700–1830" edited by the LWL's Cynthia Roman & @cristina_artlaw (LWL F'16)?
@yalelibrary @CambridgeUP
ALT Publisher's flyer from Cambridge University Press announcing publication of "Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Publishers in the Eighteenth-Century: The Imprint of Women 1700-1830, including cover image
Victoria Barnett-Woods retweeted
The deadlines for the Women’s Caucus – Émilie Du Châtelet Award and the Women’s Caucus Intersectional Prize have been extended to Feb. 26, 2024! asecs.org/2024/02/06/extende… @ASECSWomen @18disability @18ScienceCaucus @asecsgrad @asecstaps
Victoria Barnett-Woods retweeted
🏆📢 Prize announcement 📢🏆
We are thrilled to announce our #CfP for the Olivette Otele Prize 2023/24! The prize is open to Black PhD students that are UK-based and the winner will receive £500 🎉
First deadline for an abstract (400 words max): 20th Nov.
More details below...
Victoria Barnett-Woods retweeted
We are looking for one more paper for the WSG panel at BSECs (3-5 January 2024, in person, St Hugh’s College, Oxford), on the theme of Work and Play. If you are interested could you please let us know ASAP.
We look forward to hearing from you!
womensstudiesgroup.org/conta…
Victoria Barnett-Woods retweeted
Millions of archived VOC documents now searchable online, including slavery records ... From Wednesday, five million scanned documents from the archives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) will be digitally searchable nltimes.nl/2023/10/08/millio…
Victoria Barnett-Woods retweeted
🚨NEW EPISODE: GAMING THE 18TH CENTURY🚨
Coffee House Perspectives, the official @BSECS Podcast, returns with an all new episode exploring the popularity of the 18th century within the contemporary video game industry:
podcasters.spotify.com/pod/s…
Victoria Barnett-Woods retweeted
Many congratulations to @hakimadi1!
'African and Caribbean People in Britain: A History' by Hakim Adi is shortlisted for the 2023 #WolfsonHistoryPrize.
Congratulations @hakimadi1 and @AllenLaneBooks!
wolfsonhistoryprize.org.uk/p…
Victoria Barnett-Woods retweeted
Very impressive. A great resource for humanities and social sciences courses which focus on the importance of eighteenth-century studies.
#Humanities
#HigherEducation
@ASECSWomen @asecsgrad
Excited to share syllabus on sex work and literature in #c18th vs today I made for Syllabus Project.
It covers memoirs, lists, novels, dialogues, poems, even comics to show how much (and how little) has changed about society’s conceptions of the trade. syllabusproject.org/selling-…
Victoria Barnett-Woods retweeted
I'm organizing a panel on "Transformations in Natural History" for the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies conference in Toronto, April 2024. Let me know if interested, but please submit proposals via the ASECS website by 15 September 2023. asecs.org/meetings/asecs-202…
Victoria Barnett-Woods retweeted
On my way for a site visit to our #ASECS2024 Annual Meeting at the Sheraton Centre in downtown Toronto. It’s going to be a great venue for a great group of 18th Centuryists! asecs.org/meetings/asecs-202…
Victoria Barnett-Woods retweeted
NEASECS meeting in the fall:
2023 NEASECS conference will be held *virtually* on November 17-19, 2023.
Paper proposals are due by August 10. Presenters will need to be members of NEASECS.
Email proposals or questions to:
<[email protected]>
18thCentury neasecs2023.wordpress.com
Victoria Barnett-Woods retweeted
Come and work with us! Two-year lectureship in 18th century literature and culture. Lovely department and brilliant students.
kcl.ac.uk/jobs/071785-lectur…