Dr Rita J. Dashwood
Literary Scholar and Historian of the 18th and 19th Centuries | FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at Ghent University, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics | Author of Women and Property Ownership in Jane Austen, and Reading the Romantic Ridiculous
- Reposted by Dr Rita J. DashwoodSo happy to see my monograph out! I’m so thankful to everyone at UWP for their amazing work and support through this process 🖤
- 'Theological Monsters: Religion and Irish Gothic' by @madelinepotter.bsky.social is out now! This book places monstrosity at the centre of the process of gathering knowledge of the divine and reassess the relationship between Gothic literature and Catholicism. 📚 www.uwp.co.uk/book/theolog...
- Happy 250th anniversary to the greatest author who has ever lived. It’s only two days before my viva anniversary and I can’t think of anyone else I would rather have spent four years with - and many others before and since. Here’s to many more years of having fun with Austen 🥳
- Does anyone have a cover letter for an academic job in creative writing that they wouldn't mind sharing? 🙂
- I had so much fun teaching a seminar on Pride and Prejudice and its adaptations for an MA Book History class at Ghent University this afternoon, concluding with an analysis of my favourite modern reimagining, @ihatejoelkim.bsky.social's Fire Island 😊 #janeausten #prideandprejudice #fireislandmovie
- Two new invitations to submit to this journal just this week. All because of the article I wrote with @drbeard79.bsky.social, ‘Sadist, Land Shark, and Reptile: Autumn de Wilde’s EMMA.' I'll be sure to mention this the next time I'm asked about my research impact at future interviews 😜
- So grateful to the wonderful people at Shibden Hall for showing me around and sharing their knowledge of Anne and the house during my visit 😊 (I highly recommend visiting it during Halloween 🎃 ) #shibdenhouse #annelister #halifax
- Loved visiting Halifax during my research trip to see Shibden Hall and Anne Lister’s letters at West Yorkshire Archive Services as part of my project, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics, 1780-1900, at Ghent University 😊 (And yes, I did get the fish soap 😁) #annelister #shibdenhall #halifax
- Day 2 of the #GlobalAusten250 Conference. The sea witch (aka hay fever) stole my voice, which means that @drbeard79.bsky.social delivered the drag show of a lifetime by reading my paper for me on my FWO-funded research. Had a great time listening to his own fabulous paper on Netflix’s Persuasion!
- It was also amazing to see @19thcenturyem.bsky.social, whose BA dissertation I supervised, present her incredible PhD research on Jane Austen and the ridiculous invalid at the seaside in Sanditon!
- Reposted by Dr Rita J. DashwoodDay 2 of #GlobalAusten250 and I mainly pretended to be @rjdashwood.bsky.social (in my drag persona of Regina Blitz), thinking about sexy memes and epistolary detective work
- A fabulous first day at the #GlobalAusten250 Conference in Southampton with some really great papers on Austen adaptations and tourism! The highlight for me was @devoney.bsky.social’s paper about the Pride and Prejudice adaptations that never were - can’t wait for her upcoming book, Wild for Austen!
- Reposted by Dr Rita J. DashwoodWelcoming everyone to #GlobalAusten250, Gillian Dow coins a GREAT collective noun: an intelligence of Austenians
- In Southampton and excited to see everyone at the #GlobalAusten250 Conference tomorrow!
- So excited for this tomorrow!! 😊
- Heading to the #GlobalAusten250 Conference at Southampton bright and early to meet these brilliant people and many more! (If you are too and want to be added to the starter pack let me know!)at://did:plc:shapy7mhnclleohdoeridwum/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lsnqg52ngj2n
- Reposted by Dr Rita J. DashwoodGot £50 from Routledge today which *might* be profit on Reading the Romantic Ridiculous? Fancy finding out what £50-worth of fuss is about (including low Coleridge, silly Austen, and my own and Charlotte Smith’s vulnerabilities)? You can buy / request it for your library here:
- You co-write one article with @drbeard79.bsky.social about Autumn de Wilde’s EMMA. with the word ‘shark’ in the title and this is what happens 😂
- 2 years ago I was in Brussels for my FWO interview 😊 Cut to right now and I’m halfway through my project at Ghent University, The Heiress: Women, Property and Economics, 1780-1900 (Yes, they were advertising the new Queen Charlotte Bridgerton show and no, sadly she doesn’t feature in my project 😄)
- Reading the diaries of a nineteenth-century female estate owner where she writes that she lectured a female servant for getting married and “not being proclaimed.” Why would her mistress lecture her for not proclaiming her banns? Because something could have been found out about the groom? Curious🧐
- Reposted by Dr Rita J. DashwoodSaw this and thought my oomfs' feeds could use this
- I had such a great time today watching @ihatejoelkim.bsky.social’s Fire Island with my MA students as part of my Jane Austen in Popular Culture module 😊🏳️🌈 (Though it was a little disconcerting to realise, during one of my favourite scenes, that they had never listened to Britney Spears’s Sometimes!)
- I was wondering if there are any academics here who have experience in producing both outputs for the general public and academic outputs out of a single research project, such as an academic monograph and a trade book. If so, please DM me, I would love to hear about how it can be done 🙂
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Howdy, y'all! 🤠 I have a new article just out in @jofvictculture.bsky.social - If you want to read about Doc Holliday, L.T Meade, & Victorian discourses of Tuberculosis & Murder then check it out here: academic.oup.com/jvc/advance-... You're a daisy of you do! (Sorry, I couldn't resist.) - Now that the birthday of the person this was a gift for has passed, I can share the gorgeous commission that my incredibly talented friend @fierengraw.bsky.social made for me 🤩
- I missed @BSECS last year, so I'm even more excited to be making my way to Oxford today for this year's conference. I will be presenting on Wednesday on Mary Verney’s inheritance of Claydon House, as part of my research for my Heiress project at Ghent. Looking forward to seeing everyone! #BSECS2025
- Reposted by Dr Rita J. DashwoodFinally, the only academic book of the list: ‘Reading the Romantic Ridiculous’ by @drbeard79.bsky.social and @rjdashwood.bsky.social! It was so lovely to read the culmination of a project that was quite instrumental in getting me really into Romanticism 🥰
- Reposted by Dr Rita J. DashwoodMy 2024 reading wrap-up/top 10! A thread!
- Reposted by Dr Rita J. DashwoodI wrote a book! With the wonderful @rjdashwood.bsky.social! Even after this came out, I found myself defaulting to ‘what have I achieved this year? Nothing and again nothing’. Ridiculous!
- Reposted by Dr Rita J. DashwoodFire Island titbit (only slightly making me want to rewrite our article on Noah and Howie as Lizzy and Jane to incorporate fresh info)!!!
- @ihatejoelkim.bsky.social’s Fire Island has been my favourite reimagining of a Jane Austen novel since @drbeard79.bsky.social first introduced me to it, and we were filled with love for this movie when we wrote this, now out on Austen’s own birthday! 🎁 www.jasna.org/publications...
- Reposted by Dr Rita J. DashwoodWe wrote ‘Adapting Jane Austen’s “Hetero Nonsense”…’ with love in our hearts for @ihatejoelkim.bsky.social and his Fire Island and hope he loves the resulting article!
- It’s Jane Austen’s birthday today, and it would make my day - month, year! - if you ordered my books (the first on her, the second featuring her, and co-written with the fab @drbeard79.bsky.social) for yourself or your library 😊 www.peterlang.com/document/125... www.routledge.com/Reading-the-...
- Waking up on the birthday of the GOAT, Jane Austen, to see that my article with @drbeard79.bsky.social, has been published in Persuasions today to mark the date 🥳 www.jasna.org/publications...
- Reposted by Dr Rita J. DashwoodIt’s Austen’s birthday! Treat yourself by having a read of the new issue of Persuasions Online - published to coincide! And featuring our own @drbeard79.bsky.social & @rjdashwood.bsky.social 🥳
- It’s Jane Austen’s birthday 🥳 and Persuasions Online is published to celebrate (cute!) - check it out! @triciamatthew.bsky.social is in it! And so are @rjdashwood.bsky.social and me (scroll *right* to the bottom 😂!) www.jasna.org/publications...
- Reposted by Dr Rita J. DashwoodIt’s Jane Austen’s birthday 🥳 and Persuasions Online is published to celebrate (cute!) - check it out! @triciamatthew.bsky.social is in it! And so are @rjdashwood.bsky.social and me (scroll *right* to the bottom 😂!) www.jasna.org/publications...
- So proud of both of these 😁
- The LAST SENTENCE of the last article I published is: It is the perfect happy ending. The LAST SENTENCE of the last *book* I published is: Throw them in the fucking sea. Both with my brilliant co-author @rjdashwood.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dr Rita J. DashwoodDELIGHTED to see @rjdashwood.bsky.social and my book Reading the Romantic Ridiculous under the (egotistically) sublime eye of Wordsworth at the Jerwood Centre in Grasmere - Jeff Costin and all were lovely to work with for our ‘Ridiculous Romantic Portraits’ exhibition
- This was the most fun I’ve ever had writing anything, and it’s almost at 1000 views!! 😃🥳
- The Journal of Popular Culture has let me know that @rjdashwood.bsky.social and my EMMA. article has reached over 500 full text views* (actually 920!) - check it out (we had the most fun writing it!) and take us over 1000!! * whatever that means? I like to imagine a tab open waiting to be read…
- Could anyone recommend any criticism on Margaret Oliphant, as well as biographies and editions of her autobiography and letters? Thank you in advance! 🙂
- My gorgeous birthday present, made by my incredibly talented friend @fierengraw.bsky.social 😍💛🦆
- Can anyone recommend sources on women and political economy in the nineteenth century? I’m thinking about the perception of old money vs new money, as well as the prejudice that women would be inactive in money and property management due to their gender. Please and thank you 🙂
- Such a great article by Ted Chiang on AI: www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
- Reposted by Dr Rita J. DashwoodCheck out our Oscars style acknowledgements for Reading the Romantic Ridiculous - we try and thank EVERYONE!
- Reposted by Dr Rita J. DashwoodAlso a reminder to go & order this fun & fantastic-looking new book for your institutional library, authored by the amazing @drbeard79.bsky.social & @rjdashwood.bsky.social (I knew them before they were famous 😉)
- Reposted by Dr Rita J. DashwoodFinally our last chapter provides a narrative of our experience working on two exhibitions in the Lake District inspired by our ridiculous project, muses on its impact, and thinks about future work it might inspire!
- Reposted by Dr Rita J. DashwoodThen @rjdashwood.bsky.social takes over for a chapter on vulnerability in young adult fiction starting with Fire Island before reading various Austen-inspired teen fictions before looping back to Charlotte Smith’s #18thC YA fictions
- Reposted by Dr Rita J. DashwoodMy FAVOURITE chapter borrows a conceit from Richter of staging a series of lectures on a theme starting with silliness in Pride and Prejudice, moving on to comedy in The Woman of Colour, and finishing with more silliness in BBC’s Ghosts
- Reposted by Dr Rita J. DashwoodChapter 1 begins with the High Romanticism of Wordsworth and Coleridge and joins them falling down various mountains before jumping ahead to the wonderful film The Trouble with Nature which ties together themes of ridiculousness, failure, and finitude
- Reposted by Dr Rita J. DashwoodOur introduction looks at definitions of the ridiculous from Longinus to Kant alongside theories of the silly, low, and vulnerable today adopting Jean Paul Richter - a novelist, satirist, and philosopher who enjoyed playing with paratexts - as a ridiculous guide
- Reposted by Dr Rita J. DashwoodA little thread on Reading the Romantic Ridiculous (available for pre-order now) 🧵 👇
- Reposted by Dr Rita J. DashwoodCheck out our own @drbeard79.bsky.social & @rjdashwood.bsky.social’s new book Reading the Romantic Ridiculous:
- So happy to say that Reading the Romantic Ridiculous, the book @drbeard79 and I wrote together, is now out with Routledge! 😃 www.routledge.com/Reading-the-...
