Melissa Reynolds
@melkatrey
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Author of READING PRACTICE @UChicagoPress | Asst Prof @TCU History | PhD @RutgersU | Formerly @WolfHumanities @Penn & @Princeton SoF | Co-editor @historecipes
Fort Worth, TX
Joined April 2009
Though books may not ship out for a couple of weeks yet, the data behind Reading Practice is *always* available! Instead of printing my Appendices, I built https://t.co/mwuK9wdPoa as a *Digital Companion to Reading Practice*, with all my data available to download open access
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I’m now over on the 🦋, where it feels like all my friends are showing up to a dinner party after months in the wilderness. Join us, won’t you? Find me there:
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New posts will go live every Thursday through November 7, so check back weekly for more on IMAGES AS/AND RECIPES.
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And @ChengHe1737 looks at a sixteeenth-century Chinese guide to the good life, to examine how images—of inkstones, of fancy new hampers for outdoor dining, and other objects—communicated that it was “crucial to nourish one’s soul through entertainment.” https://t.co/rQIfyznRjh
recipes.hypotheses.org
By Cheng He Late-sixteenth-century China witnessed the increasing publication of illustrated books of various kinds. This includes books on health preservation, which deals with treating illness and...
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This week, Haritha Govind takes a closer look at the video game Venba, which invites players to learn traditional South Asian dishes from Venba, a recent immigrant to Canada’s, family cookbook. https://t.co/aiuK95xNX0
recipes.hypotheses.org
By Haritha Govind You pick up your game controller and settle down in front of the screen to learn about South Indian family recipes. What you don’t realize is that you are about to be pulled into...
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The fall issue of The Recipes Project dropped this week! IMAGES AS/AND RECIPES, guest-edited by Alexandra Macdonald (@AliMicMac), features brilliant work examining the visual side of recipes. https://t.co/sob7ALLdcz
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We’re hiring an Assistant Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History! The C in TCU might lead you to believe this isn’t a search for you, but I promise it is. It’s a great dept in a great university with resources & and commitment to research. Apply!
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After receiving first round reader reports
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SSHM's Roy Porter Essay Competition 2024/5 £500 first prize plus opportunities for publication in SHM, mentoring and to deliver a plenary at the biennial conference! Deadline for entries 1 February 2025 #histmed #histSTM #humanities
https://t.co/dMJpNdDjW7
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2025/6 ROY PORTER STUDENT ESSAY PRIZE COMPETITION Deadline for entries is 1 February 2026. Rules and Entry Form The Society for the Social History of Medicine invites submissions to its 2025/6 Roy …
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Wrote a piece on a 1970s recipe book created by a group of teachers (my grandmother amongst them), and the stories of community, class, competition, and care which the recipes tell. A huge thank you to @amandaeherbert and Kelli Kimura for their help and expertise!
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This cover is incredible @richardcalis! Can’t wait to read it.
Announcing THE DISCOVERY OF OTTOMAN GREECE by @richardcalis! I couldn't put this book down when I first read it, and I'm thrilled to say that it will be published in January 2025 @Harvard_Press #coverreveal
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Cooking Up Community: Our Summer edition of the RP is now online! In this quarter, our authors explore community cookbooks in all their forms, from spiral-bound PTA fundraisers to tools for grappling with the legacies of colonialism. #foodhistory
https://t.co/kz57Di6zmJ
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JOB Alert - tenured position in the history of the British Empire. Please feel free to be in touch if you have any questions.
UT Austin is looking to hire a tenured associate or full professor in British Empire. Spread the word. Here's the ad:
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Today also happens to be my first day teaching as an Assistant Professor in a TT job—a role I wasn’t sure I’d ever have, & that I feel extremely grateful for. All in all, it was a good day, and one that I wish 2022 Melissa had known was in her future. https://t.co/LyjIdPLkK5
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It’s release day for READING PRACTICE! I’m so proud of this book & so grateful to all who helped along the way to its publication. FWIW, the paperback price is very reasonable—just one of many reasons I’m so glad to have published with @UChicagoPress. https://t.co/P53F2IGkQx
press.uchicago.edu
Through portraits of readers and their responses to texts, Reading Practice reconstructs the contours of the knowledge economy that shaped medicine and science in early modern England. Reading...
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If we follow the Ancient Romans, Walz’s nomination was confirmed days before through divine augury.
For the past few years I’ve not seen a turkey while hunting. Today they mock me.
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Nearly 70% of US faculty members hold contingent (nontenured/non-TT) appointments compared to about 47% in 1987. This trend is not sustainable if #academicfreedom is to survive in our society. https://t.co/ISZJISHeKH
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A study of around a decade of legislative proposals to ban tenure finds some common characteristics of states where these bills appeared. But while outright bans have so far failed, other laws—and...
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Is a picture really worth a thousand words? What if that picture is accompanying a recipe? The Recipes Project is soliciting pitches for our Autumn 2024 issue: RECIPES AS/AND IMAGES, co-edited by @AliMicMac and yours truly. Read more 👇👇 https://t.co/I1Ii7uzFRm
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Congratulations to all the editors and contributors of Culinary Texts in Context, 1500–1800: Manuscript Recipe Books in Early Modern Europe Edited by Sarah Kernan and Helga Müllneritsch https://t.co/u1uNot1U76 See the table of contents: https://t.co/pgOJ9BJBV9
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For #NationalPicnicMonth we challenged food historian @amandaeherbert with just thirty seconds to give us all the sauce on a household favourite - Chile Sauce. Want to know more? https://t.co/bxB0lVLWTn
@IMEMSDurham @durham_history
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