I love everything about this! The conviction that a major figure was not struck by a bolt of lightning but worked to understand the system he would ultimately critique and help dismantle. The scholarly sleuthing rare books — all of it. 😎🤓
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We're hiring! Now seeking a Production Coordinator. https://www.myworkday.com/psu/d/inst/15$158872/9925$200234.htmld
Oil and charcoal on canvas, abstract cubist bodies piled together. Description from MOMA site: "With its varying degrees of finish—you can see traces of charcoal and sections of blank canvas—and vast network of undulating lines and geometric shapes, Picasso seems to have obscured legibility in favor of generating a rhythmic abstraction. As if questioning the ability of painting to represent war, he created a shifting, spectral vision."
Picasso's depiction of a fascist massacre, a murdered family unceremoniously tangled together under a dining table.
[Pablo Picasso, The Charnel House, 1944-45]
My article in the renewed Huntington Library Quarterly, with focus expanded to the global early modern, edited by @brettrushforth.bsky.social . An honor to be included in this wonderful issue! #earlymodern
"The essence of editing is ethics; it’s the act of caring for the expression of the thoughts of another as if they were your own."
Must-read for academic authors (see replies!).
A bit of hopeful news...
Washington State University’s Murrow College of Communication and Report for America have launched a partnership to cover all of Washington’s 39 counties by 2029, aiming to fill reporting gaps as newsrooms shrink. The first cohort of up to 13 journalists begins in 2027.
Our release date is still seven months away, but my book is now up on the Yale website. Grateful to so many people who helped make this possible.
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
Publishing job, ICYMI:
We are looking for an acquisitions coordinator at @oupress.bsky.social to support our authors and acquisitions editors!
It is a good entry point for a career in book publishing.
Job is on-site in Norman.
Questions? andrewb@ou.edu
Apply here:
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I am an editor here to tell you that I am sick of book proposals about AI. Pro tip: it is not always beneficial with publishers to jump in on a scholarly trend!
JOB!
Come and be my colleague!
Tutorial Fellow and Professor (or Associate Professor) of English Literature, ca. 1780–1914, at Balliol College, Oxford.
Details: www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/balliol-peop...
In commemoration of the International Day of Women and Girls in Science, we're featuring MS O.2.48 in which we see: 🧵👇
also do you guys know about this? You should probably know about this (which exists thanks to my erudite and witty colleague @mxmcadam.bsky.social) www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...
Newest Western Historical Quarterly is up! Looks like it’s accidentally a special issue on land, with articles on forced fee patents, boundary making, and real estate speculation
academic.oup.com/whq/issue/57/1
Friends, can I ask you to spread the word that we have a THREE-YEAR postdoc in American history at Cambridge up for grabs - ANY field, but applications are due March 1 so don't delay - apply, apply, apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69790/u...
![A series of worn inscriptions carved into the facade of a house on New Street, Scalloway. The inscription reads:
'This diagram illustrates the cause of the so called Earth Tides. Also each alternate Ocean Flood, the cause of which has never yet been understood. [Text below ridge mostly illegible]
[Lower stone:] The water flows back when att[ractio]n over & forms a heap on opposite side of E[arth] to balance att[ractio]n flood. There is no [... illegible].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4tvxd4eblq5sgvwr7t6iohtt/bafkreiad6biamkodzexevzbgm275fjllf26wwymunk4k6qgho6n7wv7c34)
A series of worn inscriptions carved into the facade of a house on New Street, Scalloway. The inscription reads: 'This diagram illustrates the cause of the so called Earth Tides. Also each alternate Ocean Flood, the cause of which has never yet been understood. [Text below ridge mostly illegible] [Lower stone:] The water flows back when att[ractio]n over & forms a heap on opposite side of E[arth] to balance att[ractio]n flood. There is no [... illegible].
White stone inset in a facade of a house in Scalloway, reading 'Section at Equator of Earth. German theories controverted. Germans Are Not The Favoured of Heaven.'
Trouble with Reviewer 2? Why not carve your alternative theory into the side of your house instead?
(seen on a facade on New Street, Scalloway, Shetland)
My contribution to the super bowls is this silver bowl from around 4th century BCE in Esik, Kazakhstan.
We don't know who made it, but the area was at this time inhabited by Sakas. It's curious for the writing on it, which is likely an Iranic language, but beyond that? No clue.
oooh we are posting super bowls?
As a specialist in Islamic ceramics *cracks knuckles* I present this fabulous 11th c. lustre painted bowl from Fatimid Cairo depicting a Coptic priest. Its white glaze imitates Chinese porcelain and the lustre technique was invented in Iraq a century earlier.
Incantation bowl with an Aramaic inscription around a demon. From Nippur, Mesopotamia 6th–7th ce
My contribution to Super Bowl Sunday is this Jewish Aramaic incantation bowl with a demon on it. From Nippur, Mesopotamia, circa 6th-7th century CE.
Truly a super bowl.
Friends! We are looking for a visiting assistant professor with expertise in 17th century literature. Help me spread the word? It’s limited term, but I can promise wonderful students and lovely colleagues for a very nice bit of teaching experience… wesleyan.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days:
saintheron.com
I am incredibly honored that the Death and Life of Gentrification is reviewed in the February 9 issue of the New Yorker. My great thanks to them for their engagement with the book.
📣 We’re hiring!
Cornell University Press is seeking a Director of Editorial, Design, and Production. A key role at the heart of scholarly publishing.
🔗 Details + application: cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree...
A 17th-century fresco of an angel in the church of San Lorenzo in Lucina in Rome changed to look like PM Giorgia Meloni. Pope Leo XIV echoes the Council of Trent: images “cannot be misused or exploited, as they are intended exclusively to support liturgical life and personal and communal prayer."
Genuinely one of the coolest things I've ive ever seen
#Discworld
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Fun Fact: Medieval and Renaissance history are now in my acquisition areas! #HistoryUP
Intrigued to see what we've published, what's fresh off the presses, and what's to come? No worries, the @cornellupress.bsky.social subject page has got you covered: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/subjects/med...
What people call their “scraps” document, a crowdsourced poem:
dumps
leftovers
basurillas
discards
heads and tails
sleeping kittens
detritus
scratchpad
junk
The Boneyard
snippets
smarties
orphans
Purgatory (for the possibility, rarely realized, that a very good idea, doing everything right, could earn its way back into the main document).
Some academic publishing contract advice: make sure your contract specifies 1. a qualified human copyeditor will copyedit on the MS; 2. a qualified human proofreader will proofread the MS; 3. that production must have a proper system for version control (!).
