Daniel Williams
Asst. Prof. of Literature at Bard College • fmr Harvard Society of Fellows • Victorian & South African Literature, Env. Humanities • THE ART OF UNCERTAINTY (Cambridge, 2024) • doi.org/10.1017/9781009436120 • www.danielbenjaminwilliams.com
- It was a true pleasure to review Natalie Prizel's phenomenal _Victorian Ethical Optics: Innocent Eyes and Aberrant Bodies_ for Genre! All interested in #Victorian literature and art, + in histories of #disability and queerness, read this book! #OpenAccess here: read.dukeupress.edu/genre/articl...
- If you need to read about snow-crystals for some reason today, I have something for you… ❄️ ❄️ ❄️
- “Crystal Forms: A Victorian Aesthetics of Accident” is out in JVC! I read James/Cecilia Glaisher’s snow-crystal images as a case study in accidental aesthetics—unsettling familiar stories about representation, mechanical objectivity, and lookalike forms in science + art ❄️❄️❄️ doi.org/10.1093/jvcu...
- Reposted by Daniel WilliamsAnd once you’re nicely beveraged, join the Theatre Caucus at 8 in the Hampton Ballroom for Lady Audley’s Secret!!! @navsa2025.bsky.social
- If you’re at @navsa2025.bsky.social please join us for the 🍃VCOLOGIES HAPPY HOUR🍃from 7-8 this evening!!! We’ll be in the Marquee Bar and Lounge: complimentary beer/wine for grad students, first come, first served!
- If you’re at @navsa2025.bsky.social please join us for the 🍃VCOLOGIES HAPPY HOUR🍃from 7-8 this evening!!! We’ll be in the Marquee Bar and Lounge: complimentary beer/wine for grad students, first come, first served!
- Reposting now the images load correctly—dm me if you need a free link! ❄️ Thx to Vcologies friends, esp. @kateflint.bsky.social, @devo3000.bsky.social, Liz Miller, @mortizrobles.bsky.social, @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social—& @pfyfe.bsky.social, one of two v. helpful readers! ❄️ doi.org/10.1093/jvcu...
- “Crystal Forms: A Victorian Aesthetics of Accident” is out in JVC! I read James/Cecilia Glaisher’s snow-crystal images as a case study in accidental aesthetics—unsettling familiar stories about representation, mechanical objectivity, and lookalike forms in science + art ❄️❄️❄️ doi.org/10.1093/jvcu...
- “Crystal Forms: A Victorian Aesthetics of Accident” is out in JVC! I read James/Cecilia Glaisher’s snow-crystal images as a case study in accidental aesthetics—unsettling familiar stories about representation, mechanical objectivity, and lookalike forms in science + art ❄️❄️❄️ doi.org/10.1093/jvcu...
- My periodic call for pitches to the 19th-Century Networks section of ✨Literature Compass✨: Do you have a state-of-the-field essay to propose on #Romantic or #Victorian topics? a little-known or understudied author to spotlight? Please get in touch! compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1741...
- 🌊 Please read Lindsay Wilhelm's marvelous state-of-the-field essay on the ✨ VICTORIAN PACIFIC ✨, out now in Literature Compass!!! compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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- Reposted by Daniel Williams🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
- Deadline is tomorrow!
- “Uncopyrightable” is the longest word in English to use each of its letters no more than once. —Christian Bök
- OpenAI says it has evidence China’s DeepSeek used its model to train competitor ft.com/content/a0dfedd1-52…
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[Not loaded yet] - ✨“the realist novel’s embrace of doubtful futurity is fundamental to its efforts at verisimilitude.”✨ Gratified by this alert, generous, sympathetic review of my book by Alicia Rix in @thetls.bsky.social! buff.ly/4asoJpL
- 6th annual 💥Vcologies Early Career Paper Prize💥! Please share/RT! If you have a paper that fits the bill, “ecological thinking in the Anglophone world from 1750-1945,” do consider submitting! Deadline: Jan. 31, 2025 Award: $250
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- ✨the Special Issue of Literature Compass✨ I edited with Jake Risinger is out! 🗃️ Collecting, Collections, and Collectors in the Long Nineteenth Century 🗃️ features a wide range of essays on the period's collecting practices in art, music, & science: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
- Reposted by Daniel WilliamsJoin us tomorrow to learn about 🧐philosophy, the 💥apocalypse, and the 🌎environment! Ted Toadvine "The Memory of the World: Unraveling the Allure of Eco-Apocalypse" CETAPS+ Cultures of the Future Talks Wed, May 29, 2024 Online Register here: videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
- 🌞A good day to contemplate Larkin’s quirky but moving poem, “Solar”: “Single stalkless flower / You pour unrecompensed”🌞
- 🌞Gerard Manley Hopkins on a solar eclipse shortly before his conversion: “I saw it all up the City Road, to such a pass have natural phenomena come.”🌞
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- ✨The Art of Uncertainty: Probable Realism and the Victorian Novel✨ is out with Cambridge UP! Available in US/UK (cambridge.org/9781009436113), 20% off w/ TAU2024 Huge thanks to all who shepherded it into print and to Kate Flint & Clare Pettitt for including it in their series!
- 5th annual 💥Vcologies Early Career Paper Prize💥 is open! Please share/RT! Wider remit than before, “ecological thinking in the Anglophone world from 1750-1945”… Consider submitting a paper by Jan. 31, 2024, for $250!
- Reposted by Daniel WilliamsPlease read our open letter to the WVU Board of Governors published in the Boston Review today. @jessiew.bsky.social , @rosecasey.bsky.social and I wrote it together and we mean every word.
- Ruskin slashes Renaissance painters, unwittingly slays X: “There is little harm in their works being purchased at high prices: their real influence is very slight, and they may be left without grave indignation to their poor mission of furnishing drawing-rooms and assisting stranded conversation.”
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