"I bet now you’d kill for a senior thesis based on my free, multilingual, publicly cited, text-based articles, motherfucker."

My book A FUNNY THING: EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE UNDISCIPLINED is now available for pre-order in a paperback priced for humans! Go get it!

This is out today in open access, and while it's very much a methodology piece, I think it's really important to building the foundation for how we move forward with understanding the role of gender in politics.

Guys and Dolls is the show that is most likely to be wildly entertaining regardless of which company is staging it, up to and including 7th graders.

In the midst of closure news, "Faculty and academic press advocates are pushing back against Bucknell University’s unilateral decision to close" @bucknellupress.bsky.social. @aupresses.bsky.social truly is a #TeamUP effort, and each press supports scholars and scholarship in important ways.

Oh hey I'm quoted in the History Channel talking about Stephen King! www.history.com/articles/ste...

I’m actually of the mindset that I wish Hollywood et al would find some new muses.

Great piece on the FDA and menopause hormone therapy in @motherjones.com it is the most medically accurate coverage I have read from the press! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I mean, Austen. But the more interesting question is whether we even get to Austen without Shelley. We might? But not without Mama Wollstonecraft, I don't think.

YouTube TV making me log in on a browser like I’m 100 years old to activate their little $20 “yup, we’re in a programming fight again” rebate is pretty galling. Just take it off the next bill you turds

I know that with the SNAP interruptions and the general fuckery in the economy that people might be worried about affording a holiday meal. This article is from 2021, but I think it carries over! food52.com/story/26717-...

oh thank god it’s been partially restored

Ulster (museum) dragons for @nushpowell.bsky.social

Remembering the lazy football Sundays I used to partake of, instead of frantically grading as my kid uses our big screen to watch Aphmau, the Screaming YouTuber.

Our School of Information Sciences is running four searches, and we can hire more than four candidates. Here’s the first link, for a job that might appeal to people working in history of information, history of science, or digital humanities. +

re-upping the 2021 @teenvogue.com piece, which has proved true in ways that were, for some, unimaginable: "Campus Cancel Culture Freakouts Obscure the Power of University Boards" @teenvogue.com, you inspired www.teenvogue.com/story/campus...

sometimes an Oxford comma can make all the difference

is a sandwich a speech act

Do you enjoy k-dramas? Do you enjoy the Gothic? Do you enjoy powerful supernatural women? Do we have the talk for you! This Saturday at 10am and 4pm British time. Online and free to access! 10 - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman... 4 - www.tickettailor.com/events/roman...

We say men are less emotional because we coincidentally don't define anger or reacting because of ego as emotions.

In my almost 20 years as a lawyer, as a leader, as a department head, as an executive...the people I have worked with who are the biggest gossips, who are the most emotional, and who are the most conflict-averse are men. And the women are the ones who end up cleaning up that mess as a result.

Court holds that if DOJ brings six more cases, will get seventh free www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

I'm giving what might be the "biggest" talk of my life tomorrow, at Cambridge, and I seem to have written my most certifiably bonkers talk yet for it, about Jacobite poetics and Sean Bonney via Charles Le Brun, called "Non-Literary Beauty?". If you're in Cambridge, come see me in the Eng Dept @ 5pm!

Panicky 2017 stories about VA Dems maybe blowing it --> panicky 2025 stories about NJ Dems maybe blowing it

I had this piece in the pipeline at Teen Vogue when the news dropped; I'm publishing it to my Substack because I think it's important and I don't want an interview with Adam Hochschild to go to waste. sufficienttotheday.substack.com/p/the-federa...

All the reviewers out there saying "we saw WAKE UP DEAD MAN and it's so great but we can't tell you a thing about it" are rude and should shut it, in my opinion.

Deadline extended to Dec. 1!

Branch Manager coming through

The master of all he surveys

My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my works and let me know if you have any questions! 🤗

Dont' miss our fantastic 18th-c colleagues in the newest PMLA! Donna Landry, James Mulholland, Charlotte Sussman, Katarina O'Briain, Robbie Richardson, Lisa Lynne Moore, Lilth Todd #C18L @modernlanguage.bsky.social

Always fascinating to me what people think is appropriate to watch on airplanes. Like, maybe not the new season of Monsters, for example?

Informative thread.

Join us on Tuesday 28th at the IHR/online for "Risk Management and Maritime Business: Comparative Views from Early Modern Europe" by the excellent Maria Fusaro (exeter) www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #econhist

Read this work on Restoration Comedy 1671-1682 Character types www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Also if you work with an Arizonan, where we don’t do DST.

We are deeply saddened by the loss of Greg Newby, who led Project Gutenberg ( @gutenberg.org ) with passion and purpose. Greg’s belief in free and open access to knowledge continues to inspire us and so many others working to preserve our shared culture online. gutenberg.org/about/newby....

I am very excited to share my @publicbooks.bsky.social essay on Hope Pearl Strickland's extraordinary "I'll Be Back!" which I viewed at the @arnolfiniarts.bsky.social in Bristol. My many thanks to Marlene Daut for commissioning my piece. www.publicbooks.org/radical-powe... Pls. share & rt!

which English or literature/ language departments around the country have the strongest insta accounts?

Gender & Women’s Studies at UW-Madison is currently hiring for a tenure-track position focused on gender/sexuality & AGING! We are an interdisciplinary department & welcome scholars across fields (humanities but also PSYCH, POP HEALTH, SOCIOLOGY, etc.) Deadline: Nov 11! jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

I snagged a Trader Joe's Halloween mini-tote and I love it very much and it brings me happiness.

Has Canvas started working for anyone yet?

Every time an episode of Slow Horses ends, I'm like nooooooooooooooooo

Sliwa on transportation: “I like to avoid yellow cabs. As you know I was shot in the back of a yellow cab in 1992 by the Gambinos.” You can’t beat at NYC mayoral debate.

Looking to publish a salty monograph or edited collection? 'Maritime Humanities, 1400-1800' - now published by @routledgehistory.bsky.social - welcomes proposals on globalization, post-colonialism, eco-criticism, environmentalism & histories of science & technology routledge.com/Maritime-Hum... ⚓️

You'll never guess what happened...

BIG BOAT STUCK

Reskeeting because this deserves more love.

Probably best to chase it indefinitely

This is so cool.