The New Cambridge Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson came out a few weeks ago! 17 brilliant new essays on Emerson and a magnificent introduction by editor Michael Jonik (U of Sussex) @universitypress.cambridge.org

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” @c19americanists.bsky.social @aaup.org

Please circulate! The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society is pleased to announce its 2026 award competitions: the Research Award, Outreach Award, Undergraduate Student Essay Prize, and Graduate Student Essay Award. For more details see: emersonsociety.org/2026-rwes-aw...

Good morning! And welcome to Day 1 in Cincinnati, C19! @c19americanists.bsky.social

Airplane reading for C19, courtesy of the Emerson Society—our third issue is live! With content by Christina Zwarg, Rachel Banner, Rachel DeWitt, Max Chapnick, Kristin Lacey, Rachael DeWitt, Susan Dunston, Sonia Di Loreto, & Mollie Barnes. thedialjournal.org @c19americanists.bsky.social

The Dial has stickers. See you in Cincinnati. @c19americanists.bsky.social

From “The Times” forum on higher ed now in the current issue of The Dial, @jennifergreiman.bsky.social ‘s statement on the criminalization of student activism: muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...

Issue 2.1 is out! Essays by @alicedegalzain.bsky.social & Peter Balaam; don’t miss our forum on higher ed now featuring Stephanie Foote, @jennifergreiman.bsky.social, @cnewf.bsky.social, & @samcohen.bsky.social Read/circulate/submit: thedialjournal.org

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society invites participants in a panel on "Emerson and Power" at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy from March 12-14, 2026 at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. More info: american-philosophy.org/saap2026/

Two new very C19-oriented journals, _The Dial_ and _American Gothic Studies_, covering all things between the sunlight and the darkness.

Another great #mla25 panel including Michael Jonik on Thoreau and Merleau-Ponte; and @weisenburg.bsky.social on Thoreau and trash. Dude littered!

Today’s #mla25 session on editing Margaret Fuller for the new LOA edition included @noelleabaker.bsky.social ‘s account of the “havoc” wreaked by Emerson, James Freeman Clarke, and William Henry Channing on Fuller’s manuscripts, & the extraordinary measures Baker took to reconstruct them.

Major thanks to the Council of Editors of Learned Journals @celj.bsky.social for inviting editors to an extremely productive workshop at at @mla2025.bsky.social

📣 We're excited to announce CELJ has been awarded a grant of $555,000 from the @mellonfoundation.bsky.social to advance equitable and inclusive practices in peer review and scholarly journal publishing within the humanities. Read more about the grant and subscribe to updates about the project ⬇️

Many thanks to @americanstudier.bsky.social for listing The Dial in the irreplaceable #ScholarSunday substack! americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

This summer’s annual Thoreau gathering focuses on Margaret Fuller and Revolution. Submit! We’ll be there and we hope you will be too. margaretfullersociety.org/call-for-pap...

Happy birthday to @jlb.bsky.social whose essay in the current issue of The Dial takes Thoreau’s writings on the railroad as a chance to draw out the meanings of infrastructures of speed and mobility during a time of climate crisis. muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...

Jamie Jones, in the inaugural issue of The Dial, discusses containerization, Thoreau’s Cape Cod, and her own habits of ship-watching at the Strait of Gibraltar. muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...

Richard Primack and Abe Miller-Rushing in the current issue of The Dial explaining how Thoreau’s Kalendar has offered a key dataset for their work as climate scientists: muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...

@jeffreyinsko.bsky.social in the first issue of The Dial writing about energy, life, and Emerson’s solar dreams: “Why should we grope among the dead bones of the past? The sun shines to-day also.” muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...

“What exactly is this kind of remembering made of? […] And are these fit foundations for new attempts to remember figures like Dugan and the project of freedom in which he was engaged as a free African American?” Kristen Treen on public memory & Black Civil War vets in The Dial: thedialjournal.org

“Butler, like Thoreau, had little reason for techno-optimism and, in fact, saw more clearly than most that climate crisis would soon become the dystopian norm.” Russ Castronovo on Octavia Butler & Henry Thoreau’s paratextual convergences in the current issue of The Dial. thedialjournal.org

Introducing The Dial. Many thanks to our roster of contributors to Issue 1: @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social, @jamieljones.bsky.social, @jlb.bsky.social, Kristen Treen, Russ Castronovo, Elise Lemire, Richard B. Primack, Maria Madison, and Abraham J. Miller-Rushing. thedialjournal.org