Really exciting news this week: my book has officially been sent to press, which means it will be published a little earlier than I'd originally thought! ROMANTIC FICTION AND LITERARY EXCESS IN THE MINERVA PRESS ERA coming your way sometime in late April or early May, available for pre-order (or pre-request from your local library 😊 ) now! #histodons #bookhistory #ASECS2023 @ASECS https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/romantic-fiction-and-literary-excess-in-the-minerva-press-era/998D32CAC927BBAA332963C91A39CFB4
Romantic Fiction and Literary Excess in the Minerva Press Era

Cambridge Core - English Literature 1700-1830 - Romantic Fiction and Literary Excess in the Minerva Press Era

Cambridge Core

It was definitely tenuous for me to come on my slashed funding and I am in a better situation than many people @ASECS #ASECS2023 #ASECS23

From: @zionak
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Ziona Kocher (@[email protected])

As the hustle and bustle of conferencing dies down, I am struck by the same feeling I had last year: is this the last time I get to do this? Is this the last time I get to see these people I adore? The precarity of ECRs expands so much further than the uncertainty of employment.

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This might be a stupid way to ask you, but what does happen? @ASECS #ASECS2023

From: @drreznicek
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Matthew L. Reznicek (@[email protected])

One question I found myself asking over and over at #ASECS23 is what happens when we look at national identity—in representations of women’s anger; in conceptions of pregnancy and women’s communal knowledge; in disability as a site of exclusion; and in The Woman of Colour’s ending

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unexpected small pleasure of #ASECS2023 was seeing everybody's top-notch phone cases. Lots of very appealing book cover inspired cases!
At the airport for my flight back home. I’m sad not to be staying the last day this year, but I thoroughly enjoyed the work I got to witness and be party to. Thank you @ASECS for a great conference. #ASECS2023 #asecs23
So, the biggest takeaway I have from #ASECS2023 so far is that 1) planning meals with people doesn't work for me because I just don't have the energy to do it. That makes me sad, but it's true. 2) I think I need to plan smaller hangouts, or maybe breakfast, or else dedicate a day to it. I also need to get way more proactive in arranging such things instead of trying to happen upon them. That's lovely when it works, but lets be real here. I will eventually get the hang of this. :)
I usually don't cross-post from Twitter (am trying not to post there at all, but did this time because all the other ReMarkable users I know are on there) but, a PSA: I swear I do not get any money from this company but having my reMarkable at #ASECS2023 is the BEST. All my copious conference notes and thoughts, previously scrawled in random notebooks or free pads of paper from the book exhibit and then lost, are now in one single place! @ASECS
Spending a bit of time with one of The Mummy movies on in the background and playing with the Heurist open source online database for Humanities research. Many thanks to the Bibliographical Society of America panel today for this great direction! #ASECS2023
Thrilled to see African Impressions on the UVaP table at #ASECS2023 (#ASECS23) and in the company those making Virginia such an exciting press for eighteenth-century studies (including our intrepid admin @carrideen ).

So how was everyone's first day of #ASECS2023? I found out a lot that I will need to know next fall about recruiting English majors, learned some things about Haywood as a translator, and ate at this restaurant that supposedly was where Al Capone was arrested with @shandyist & friends.

@ASECS #ASECS23 (since no one can decide on the hashtag).