well helloooooo brill.com/view/journal...

I can't really believe the HFA let me partner with them on a film series about women and the typewriter, but here it is. Catch MEET JOHN DOE (1941) , HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940), and THE HUDSUCKER PROXY (1994) this women's history month! harvardfilmarchive.org/programs/the...

submiiiiiiit #aarsbl26 #sblaar26 #affectivespaces #ancientreligion

Looking forward to sharing some research from my Marie Curie postdoc at TCD tomorrow in the convivial surroundings of UCD’s Mícheál Ó Cléirigh seminar series: www.ucd.ie/history/rese... Do come along if you’d like to learn more about James Ussher & the Samaritan Pentateuch! #earlymodern

It is not too late to apply for the SBL Unit "Ancient Education" It will host three sessions: Letter-Writing and Education; Magical Texts and Education; Education and Emotion. Send us an abstract!

We love a late-breaking deadline reprieve! Got a project cooking dealing with provenance of MSS? Hot takes on digital editions? Literally anything remotely close to the SBL ballpark that touches on history of books, authorship, or textuality? Now you have until March 9 to get that abstract in.

What does it feel like to be able to focus on work, I wonder

We love a late-breaking deadline reprieve! Got a project cooking dealing with provenance of MSS? Hot takes on digital editions? Literally anything remotely close to the SBL ballpark that touches on history of books, authorship, or textuality? Now you have until March 9 to get that abstract in.

the CFP for #SBL closes tonight. please check out (and share) inventing christianity’s wide-ranging call. and please come hang out with us in denver!

broke: proofreading until it's all perfect woke: just adding this note to the errata slip

My musings on the extent to which the idea that Perpetua & co were executed at Carthage stems from Christian/colonial fantasies are finally out in JECS. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

A LATE-BREAKING TT JOB..... Assistant Professor, Near Eastern Archaeology, University of Toronto Archaeology of the Levant (from south-central Türkiye to northwestern Saudi Arabia) during the Bronze and Iron Ages (3,000 to 500 BCE), universityaffairs.ca/search-jobs/...

The Epistle of Christ from Heaven in an 7th/8th or 9th cent. inscription once embedded in wall in the Church of S. Maria Assunta in Piazzo (Italy). Now in the Museo diocesano of Brugnato.

The model of unpaid academic labor required good jobs with ample unstructured time.

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Study of Religion, University of Bergen, Norway. Specialization in Rabbinic literature 2nd – 7th century CE. NB Short deadline: 6 March. nt4ox.link/BergenPDF26

A day to reread the remarkable Reckless Rites: Purim and the Legacy of Jewish Violence @princetonupress.bsky.social, by Elliott Horowitz ז״ל, my late deeply-missed friend. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Good thing some US colleges are closing their Religious Studies departments—definitively not “useful” at all or an area of expertise that might be relevant for understanding our present…

Deadline Wednesday!

🗣️ New color family in the JECS cover rotation!! 🗣️

Here's the recording for the book launch of our second 4T book. Hear Fabien Muller and Aaron Johnson discuss Porphyry, theology, theurgy, and more!

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS (ABD and early-career) Racing the Classics, a Mellon-funded initiative, invites applications for its second cohort. It involves a two-week in-person Summer Institute, and an academic-year practicum over Zoom (Sept ‘26-May ‘27) See here: www.racingtheclassics.com

"From the very moment [a venerable man turned author] took pen in hand--all the devils in hell broke out of their holes to cajole him....So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy ..., was not so much a state of composition, as a state of warfare" #18thc

This obviously very stupid but is it also smart? We’ll talk to some liars after this break.

I can’t with this shit

Put it right in my veins

Aware that we're all awash in these posts... Please consider proposing a paper for Book History and Biblical Literature's panels for Denver SBL! We're welcoming proposals for 3 panels: Provenance (w/ Papyrology section), Digital Editions (w/ Digital Hum section), and an open call. Deadline March 4

Also Cornel West 👀

"WHADdup guys, it's ya boy Mr Beast here with the craziest challenge yet. We've got the book written by him that sits upon the throne, sealed with seven seals. Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?"

Aware that we're all awash in these posts... Please consider proposing a paper for Book History and Biblical Literature's panels for Denver SBL! We're welcoming proposals for 3 panels: Provenance (w/ Papyrology section), Digital Editions (w/ Digital Hum section), and an open call. Deadline March 4

Or, if you're NTT, it can be a both/and!

Shut up and take my mon--oh, it's open access! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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I have the privilege of joining my friend Mac Loftin for this event tomorrow! If you're in the area and interested in the best theology book of the year and/or how to effectively challenge Christofascism, please join us.

NAPS members whose membership is current should have received an email today about registration for the 2026 conference. If you didn't receive the email, make sure your membership hasn't lapsed. The program can be found here: custom.cvent.com/DADF18846EBF...

Friends, I am hiring two scholar-advisors this year! Come join the best advising team in the country (for real). Please help me spread the news about this great opportunity! This is a permanent, non-time limited instructional staff position, and I will be happy to answer questions!

Soon I'm giving two public lectures at Scripps College in CA as part of the O'Brien Distinguished Visiting Professorship. LA-area friends, would love to see you there! March 31, 4:30pm: Lyricism as Historiography of the Long Past April 1, 4:15pm: Feminist Histories and the Problem of the Real

Love being required by my employer to receive and return all graded student work via Canvas.

with alt text!

Available now in Open Access — free to browse and download. I’m thrilled that this book is finally seeing the light of day. It’s been quite the journey. Many thanks to all the friends and colleagues who helped me along the way!

Amtrak ad on 1550 AM Boston: “There’s a new way to travel! And it’s one of the oldest forms of transportation.” God, I love terrestrial radio.

This article was truly hilarious/disturbing & also, ratified one strong approach to tech journalism, which is, "go talk to the craziest, most quotable lunatics you can find" harpers.org/archive/2026...

“Maybe the leaders of our nation’s wealthiest universities can’t think a generation ahead anymore, beholden as they are to board members who think in terms of the next quarter….” - François Furstenberg @publicbooks.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...

Everyone, go read @historianca.bsky.social’s newest article in Eighteenth-Century Studies! 🎉 Sisters But Not Women: Queer Kinship and Salvific Androgyny in Ephrata’s Celibate Sisterhood muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Job posting for a lecturer position at Harvard Hist & Lit--please share! histlit.fas.harvard.edu/lecturer-pos...

applies to university administration too!

A book about PGM IV/GEMF 57 that I contributed to is coming out soon! www.degruyterbrill.com/document/isb...

john mccain sang it to the tune of "barbara ann"

“you can’t make chicken salad out of chicken shit” is 💯

Just $20 to pre-order for March 17 release!