Research Fellow in English, University of Geneva. Old words and old books: medieval, early modern, digital. she/her
Geneva, Switzerland
Joined December 2011
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Go, litel boke! My new book about old books, Chaucer's Early Modern Readers, is now out with @CUP_LitPerform and thanks to @snsf_ch is free to read online! In it, I follow the trace of Chaucer's 15th c manuscripts into the early modern period doi.org/10.1017/978100923112…
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Friends, I’m currently looking to take on more typesetting work over the summer – anything from pamphlets to full books – so if you or anyone you know/work for would like some of that, please do email my fancy new address: [email protected]
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A group of archives are requesting feedback via survey about their efforts to develop a portal for Black British archives and material. Please take a moment to fill out the survey.
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An overdue update: I finished my database of dedications in Britain from 1641 until 1700! I've now viewed 98,263 books.
These are the totals: amount of dedications overall, average of books with dedications, women dedicatees and couple dedicatees, and their average representation
Thrilled to find my book, Chaucer’s Early Modern Readers, at @SAAupdates! Thanks @CambShakespeare
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👀 I’ve read the OA PDF, but today I got to see and hold @BattellSE’s brilliant book in its bookish form! #RenSA24
ALT “On the Threshold: Hospitality in Shakespeare’s Drama” by Sophie E. Battell book cover featuring two women at a window, one leaning on the sill, resting her head on the clenched palm of her hand, the other holding onto the window shutter with one hand while her other holds her white headscarf over her nose and mouth. Both women are looking forwards, as if viewing a spectacle below. They are wearing slightly off the shoulder tops with long white sleeves and green trimming around the V-neckline and a small red bow at the nape of the V. The rest of their clothing is hidden but there are hints of them wearing brown bodies.
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We invite early career members to submit their first single-authored book, written in English and published between March 2020 and December 2023, for the SAMEMES Book Prize by 16th March. All relevant details and information can be found in the CfP: unil.ch/files/live/sites/sam…
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The hugest of thanks to the National Printing Heritage Committee for a very generous £1000 donation to our crowdfunding campaign. We're 85% funded with just three days to go!
Can you help us get over the line? Every donation massively welcome!
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Summer ‘24 UNIQ+ research internships open to UK undergrads from under-represented / disadvantaged backgrounds: ox.ac.uk/admissions/graduate…. 7 wks, free accom, £3K stipend.
One of these involves editing Middle English lyrics from MS, with me.
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Just published by UCL Press: Gabriel Harvey and the History of Reading, with pieces from @scaliger, @BillSherman_, the late Lisa Jardine, and many excellent others. Wonderfully, the online version is open-access.
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Our article is out! Open-access at RES. Co-written by Misha Teramura, @dnmcinnis, and me in shifts around the clock. It was a lot of fun to do. academic.oup.com/res/advance… (1/4)
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Thanks so much to everyone who has given to our Thin Ice Press: the York Centre for Print Crowdunder.
As soon as we hit £10,000 an anonymous donor will contribute a further £5000, getting us halfway to our goal. Please donate, and spread the word!
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We're hugely proud of @callanjd - his What is a Playhouse? was chosen as one of the Books of the Year 2023 in History Today magazine.
It's a 'refreshing' re-examination of 'the economy of fun'.
Best seats in the house are here:
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Bibliographers and book historians affected by the BL cyber-attack: @NikolaiVogler has built a stopgap English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC), fully searchable and comprising a hefty 150,000 pre-1700 records, many with links to EEBO. Spread ye good news! estc.printprobability.org
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A provisional cover!
The image is part of Manchester, John Rylands, MS Eng. 1 (Lydgate's Troy Book), f. 31v, and it depicts the rebuilding of Troy.
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The Guardian view on the British Library’s digital archive: a new life for #Chaucer | Editorial theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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My book, Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry, is available now from @CambridgeUP !
ALT Cover of book, "Forms of Devotion in Early English Poetry" by Jennifer A. Lorden, featuring white & cream text on a dark red background. In the center of the cover there is an image of a medieval line drawing of a supplicant raising hands in prayer to the hand of God descending from heaven (from the Alfredian Paris Psalter)
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We are pleased to share that @DevaniSingh's new book, Chaucer's Early Modern Readers: Reception in Print and Manuscript (Cambridge University Press, 2023), is out and available in open access! More details:
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Counting down to publication of my next Christine de Pizan book starts today! Stay tuned for tidbits over the coming days…
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Just discovered this really great and open access primer on Race and the Renaissance by @DennisBritton3. It's intersectional approach highlights the extent to which race permeated early modern social construction. #ShakeRace oxfordre.com/literature/disp…