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March 2025

Historically Speaking: “The Feast of Genius and the Play of Art”: The Legacies and Communities of Phillis Wheatley Peters at the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Please join Sarah Ruffing Robbins, Mona Narain (TCU) and Barbara Mccaskill (UGA) on Tuesday, April 8, beginning at 3:00 Eastern, 2:00 Central, and noon Pacific. The series of presentations and discussion, sponsored by the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) of the Smithsonian, will spotlight the museum’s recently acquired collection of materials linked to poet Phillis Wheatley (Peters). McCaskill, Narain, and Robbins will be featured speakers for the April 8 online event, where they will be joined by archivists, curators, and program coordinators of NMAAHC. You will have a chance to see Wheatley Peters artifacts as part of… Read More »Historically Speaking: “The Feast of Genius and the Play of Art”: The Legacies and Communities of Phillis Wheatley Peters at the National Museum of African American History and Culture

Know Before you Go….Online!

This email was sent to registered attendees of the ASECS 55th Virutal Annual Meeting on March 25. We’re just days away from the 55th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies! You’ll find some important “Know Before you Go….Online!” information in this email. How to Login to the Virtual Platform 1. Click HERE to enter the Virtual Platform Lobby   2. Once you’re in the Virtual Lobby, you can browse the modules on the left side of the menu to see meeting highlights, read about our fantastic sponsors and exhibitors, and browse the program. 3. Select the date you… Read More »Know Before you Go….Online!

Clorinda Donato and Team win American Association of Italian Studies Translation Prize

Congratulations to Clorinda Donato and her team for winning the American Association for Italian Studies for an English Translation of an Italian Book-Length Scholarly Work! The Natural History of a Neapolitan Miracle: The Secret of San Gennaro’s Blood by Francesco Paolo de Ceglia. Transl. Clorinda Donato, Manuel Romero, Alessandra Balzani, Jaclyn Taylor. Routledge Studies in Cultural History, 2024. For their impressive work in translating Francesco Paolo de Ceglia’s The Natural History of a Neapolitan Miracle: The Secret of San Gennaro’s Blood, the AAIS awards the 2024 English Translation of an Italian Book-Length Scholarly Work to the team based at the Clorinda… Read More »Clorinda Donato and Team win American Association of Italian Studies Translation Prize

Paola Bertucci wins Paul Bunge Prize

ASECS President Paola Bertucci, Yale University, has won the prestigious Paul Bunge Prize for her 2023 book, In the Land of Marvels: Science, Fabricated Realities, and Industrial Espionage in the Age of the Grand Tour. Congratulations! You can read more here: “Paola Bertucci wins 2025 Paul Bunge Prize for Latest Book”

New Publication: “Even Now” by Patty Hamilton

Even Now – Poems by Patricia L. Hamilton Southern California native and SEASECS Immediate Past President Patricia L. Hamilton earned her Ph.D. at the University of Georgia. Newly retired as a professor of English, she served in higher education for forty years. She won the 2015 and 2017 Rash Award in Poetry and has received three Pushcart Prize nominations. Her poetry has been published in Broad River Review, Ibbetson Street, Innisfree Poetry Journal, and Plainsongs, among other journals. She resides in Jackson, Tennessee, with her husband and enjoys travel, jazz, mystery novels, and a good cappuccino.

CfA: Eighteenth-Century Studies Book Review Editor

Call for Applications: Eighteenth-Century Studies Book Review Editor

The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies seeks nominations and applications for a three-year (renewable) appointment as Book Review Editor for Eighteenth-Century Studies, beginning July 1, 2025. This is an exciting opportunity for a scholar interested in cutting-edge
scholarship in the field of the long eighteenth-century who understands reviews as a key component of launching and supporting research in the field.

La culture visuelle de la gastronomie, XVIe-XX3 siècles, CfP

Appel à communication / Call For Papers La culture visuelle de la gastronomie, XVIe-XXe siècles / Visual Culture of Gastronomy, 16th-20th century Paris, galerie Colbert, 18-19 décembre 2025Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne / OCAD University, Toronto) / Bibliothèque des Arts DécoratifsFrédérique Desbuissons (université de Reims) & Ryan Whyte (OCAD University, Toronto)