Nicole Wright

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Nicole Wright

Nicole Wright

@WriteNWright

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

Katılım Mart 2012
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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: insidehighered.com/advice/2021/06…
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Nicole Wright@WriteNWright·
@raulpacheco Hang in there! No wonder you're exhausted--you're doing a lot of work and it makes a difference.
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Dr Raul Pacheco-Vega@raulpacheco·
I am so exhausted. I was telling a colleague today that I am impressed I’m still alive with the kind of schedule I have.
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@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.
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Cogita Tuti 🐊@CogitaTuti·
@thetradingbro @MorePerfectUS Yes, it has improved, we know more about childhood and youth, growing and this law intends to regress what we have advanced. And yes, it is fiction, and like many, inspired and based on real life conditions at the time. I guess I should have suggested Jonathan Swift to you :-)
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More Perfect Union
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS·
BREAKING: The Iowa Senate passed a child labor law before dawn today. The bill lets 14-year-olds work 6-hour night shifts, 15-year-olds work on assembly lines, and 16- and 17-year-olds serve alcohol. The Senate went through the night, and voted on child labor at 4:52 a.m.
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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.
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Dr. Emily Friedman
Dr. Emily Friedman@friede·
I won an internal grant, and so I was asked if I wanted to use my headshot or a different photo for the awards ceremony. So I go to see what the most recent headshot/official photograph looks like... Oh right. 2018 was a while ago.
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Dr. Emily Friedman@friede·
Nicole Wright begins with thanks for @IAmDylanLewis for his labor organizing & addresses “(In)voluntary Ignorance: Literary Heritage, Knowledge Merchants, and Possible Futures” #asecs23
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Dr. Emily Friedman
Dr. Emily Friedman@friede·
While my heart is with @emnk at the Ace 18th century panel, I’m putting my body in @asecsgrad’s “Public Humanities in Eighteenth-century Studies” (an increasingly packed small room) #asecs23
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Nicole Wright@WriteNWright·
@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.
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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" slate.com/technology/202…
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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: ow.ly/iHio50LTAkT
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DJtheUnsavory 🗑️ 🧲🪩@DUnsavory·
@elainaplott @TheAtlantic @StephenMarche Simple. Oral exams, just like in high school when we had to do our book reports sitting face to face with the teacher and discuss what we’ve read (or make it up, for what we didn’t read 😬). Saves the teacher tons of time grading papers, too.
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Nicole Wright
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.

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Nicole Wright
Nicole Wright@WriteNWright·
A week from today... virtual and registration is free:
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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: mahindrahumanities.fas.harvard.edu/eighteenth-cen…
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