Nicole Wright

Associate Prof. of English, Univ. of Colorado, Boulder. Author, Defending Privilege: Rights, Status, and Legal Peril in the British Novel.

[Nicole Wright @WriteNWright]

Are you writing your first academic book--or advising doctoral students or other would-be authors? I'm sharing tips I wish I'd known at the beginning: what we don't learn in grad school. Click here for my advice on 4 major hurdles to publishing your book:
https://t.co/tMjPRKOc1A

[Nicole Wright @WriteNWright]

@raulpacheco Hang in there! No wonder you're exhausted--you're doing a lot of work and it makes a difference.

[Nicole Wright @WriteNWright]

@CogitaTuti @thetradingbro @MorePerfectUS No need to apologize--you were right. Dickens had to give up school to become a child laborer to help support his family, and scholars have determined that Oliver Twist was based on a real boy. Dickens detested child labor. We would do well to heed his wisdom.

[Nicole Wright @WriteNWright]

@thetradingbro @CogitaTuti @MorePerfectUS Oliver Twist was based on real life. Check out Ruth Richardson's Dickens and the Workhouse: Oliver Twist and the London Poor (Oxford University Press, 2012), p. 56. Dickens was a child laborer himself and lamented child labor. Let's not return to 19th-century child labor.

[Nicole Wright @WriteNWright]

@friede Congratulations on the good news!

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@n_j_dames Congratulations! Will pre-order.

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@zugenia Congratulations!

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@mistykrueger @ASECSWomen Thanks, and congrats! Looking forward to reading it.

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@friede @IAmDylanLewis Thanks for live-tweeting the session!

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@andyheisel @dril This topic made for a surprisingly poignant article. I wish the Smithsonian had continued to archive tweets. It's important to maintain the record for the future historians you mention--and for the public today.

[Nicole Wright @WriteNWright]

Read Andy Heisel on "ghost" accounts w/only one Tweet: "I first started trawling for these misfits in 2016... It was like playing a slot machine, where the prize was an encounter with words—and maybe the side of a person—that nobody had ever seen before"
https://t.co/ELqSqivYHF

[British Museum @britishmuseum]

Jane Austen was born #OnThisDay in 1775.

What’s your favourite Jane Austen novel?

This portrait of Austen was made after a drawing by her sister Cassandra: https://t.co/KFj6SzF6Ai

[Nicole Wright @WriteNWright]

@DUnsavory @elainaplott @TheAtlantic @StephenMarche Your suggestion reminds me of this recent article by Molly Worthen, who recommends oral exams: https://t.co/gfSLHDs1rt

[Nicole Wright @WriteNWright]

@eilatg I agree. I can't rec that list. Rather than eschewing adjectives, e.g., "caring," recommenders should laud students & colleagues for these qualities, no matter their gender. "Helpful" & "hard-working" are positives. Some of the best colleagues are caring *and* brilliant.

[Eilat Glikman @eilatg]

@SciBry @vrooje I kind of wish some of those “feminine” qualities counted more because it turns out ‘caring’, being ‘warm’ and ‘helpful’ are crucial qualities for what we do day to day. And sometimes ‘ambitious’ can mean ‘bulldozer’. But we play by the rules of the day, I suppose.

[Nicole Wright @WriteNWright]

@ThatEricAlper G. K. Chesterton

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See @devoneylooser present on her new book today--registration is free!

[Nicole Wright @WriteNWright]

A week from today... virtual and registration is free:

[Nicole Wright @WriteNWright]

Graduate students, postdocs, & contingent + nontenured faculty: Today (10/31) is final day to send 200 to 300-word proposals for Harvard symposium “Liberating the Eighteenth Century,” Dec. 6th. Travel expenses covered. Email Dr. Lanser: contact info here: https://t.co/YWrMjy7X6p

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@travisclau @SteveBellinOka Congratulations!

[Nicole Wright @WriteNWright]

Good to hear that the Stainforth Project--focusing on an unusual 19th-c. collection of women's writing--is going strong, given the efforts of @KLeuner and Deborah Hollis.

[Kirstyn Leuner, PhD @KLeuner]

Thank you @KSAAcomm @DrMariamWassif @kateasinger and @LEVYMICHELLEN for hosting a Stainforth Project conversation today with me and Deborah Hollis! Posting slides here in case you missed it. Key idea: project communities. https://t.co/a0CEeeXIjr.