apuddleofmuddle.bsky.social
Early modernist and Research Fellow in French at KCL Writes on salons, exiles, libertinism, queer women, Huguenots ~ she/her https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/annalisa-nicholson
👤 Joined on 18 September 2023
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@apuddleofmuddle.bsky.socialAs a kids' non fic publisher, I took it as my duty to check facts using subject experts, where the author wasn't an expert. (You can take the publisher out of Usborne, you can't take the Usborne out of the publisher.) But whoever's job it truly is, don't throw your editor under a bus, lads!
Show PostComment Fénelon pense-t-il un anéantissement qui ne soit pas simple destruction ? À lire dans la section Varia de XVIIe siècle, n°311 : « Métaphysique et spiritualité. Fénelon et les usages du néant », par Jean-Christophe Bardout. shs.cairn.info/revue-dix-se...
Show PostIt’s ‘Trans History Now’ week in my grad class! Many ways to provide a snapshot of current field debates, but this is what I went with (with apologies to the premodernists):
Show PostI'm so proud & grateful to have been awarded the 2026 Rose Mary Crawshay prize for Textile Shakespeare, joining a roll-call of amazing women scholars and critics. At the ceremony last night I spoke about some of my foremothers as a NZer & a Cambridge Shakespearean, as well as my family.
Show PostI love it when institutions step up & face the challenges. And this is @ihr.bsky.social stepping up. Sure, will be directly helping only a few people, but what a solace to know clever people are trying to come up with support in the face of the overwhelming crisis. www.history.ac.uk/fellowships-...
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