The MLA Comics & Graphic Narrative Forum invites proposals for papers for 3 panels at the 2027 convention in LA. Abstract deadline is Monday, March 16.

February arctic vortices bring March crocuses; February is the cruelest month; and other idiom changes brought to you by Climate Change©️

Van Hollen: "They really think the American people are stupid. I mean, we can all see the video. We saw the video with Renee Good. We saw the video with Alex Pretti. The real domestic terrorists are in the White House right now."

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

For complex pedagogic reasons (but also in a spirit of FUN and FRIVOLITY), I give away Jane Austen stickers in my undergrad Jane Austen class. But, prepping today, I found that there is so much more dross for sale than there used to be. Examples:

Glad to see Wally’s taking a firm stand against Amtrak and the Penn Station raids

As BTS comeback season inches closer, I’m thinking again about one of my fave nonfiction pieces I’ve written over the last few years—“‘Don’t Let Me Fly’: on Intimacy and Fame in BTS’s Map of the Soul: 7,” for the @atpost45.bsky.social Hallyu Project issue, ed. by Yin Yuan post45.org/2023/02/dont...

Thanks to @aliciawright.bsky.social for all her hard work in getting this cluster together! What a joy to get to work with you! And thanks @franciscondine.bsky.social for all your editorial & technical work! The cluster looks beautiful! @atpost45.bsky.social post45.org/2025/11/c-d-...

I've got an article in this cluster on C.D. Wright—look at the gorgeous company it's in!

This is an incredible cluster for a truly wonderful poet! What a dream team of contributors, and what a balm on a wild, windy Midwestern November Wednesday. Great work @aliciawright.bsky.social & co!

✒️ 📔 Today's the day of our C.D. Wright cluster! Ed. @aliciawright.bsky.social ft. 11 contributors—the list is too long to fit into a single post! But you're in luck, bc the thread below tells the tale of this exceptional homage for an exceptionally talented poet! post45.org/contemporaries

The late, great CD Wright is going to be honored at Post45 Contemporaries with an incredible, moving, expansive cluster of essays edited by @aliciawright.bsky.social . We are SO excited for this cluster, and we’ll be debuting it this week. Stay tuned for these pieces!

Texas smells like muggy Arizona?

For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of language, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eaching

If only someone could have seen this coming! @wolvendamien.bsky.social

my pleasure to write this short piece about trauma plots, #metoo, mute compulsion of economic relations, what is love, et cetera (h/t @alyaimsorry.bsky.social @lalouverouge.bsky.social @anniemcc.bsky.social @publicbooks.bsky.social & @sorenmau.bsky.social whose title I shamelessly copied)

so sick of hearing about AI initiatives in academia. Instead, why don’t we invest in more TT jobs, student scholarships, research support, etc.

Overhearing a loud Zoom conversation where social scientists are casually talking about methods for massaging their data 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I’m v glad to be in the humanities

It’s true: Pod45 is back after a brief hiatus! Here we have an episode based on our Samuel Delany cluster, ed. @blakestricklin.bsky.social . The podcast ft. Stricklin in conversation w @franciscondine.bsky.social, Y Howard, Christopher Breu, Rebekah Sheldon, & @kirinwgrene.bsky.social !

Someone else said something very similar to this the other day, but. It really burns me that our (millennials') generation was legally terrorized for like, downloading Radiohead discographies But we're supposed to be ok with billionaires stealing human intellectual output in its entirety bc AI

i am so proud & honored to have gotten to write about My So-Called Life and the genre of the teen drama (& to put all of the hours of my life burned away watching teen TV to use) for the @atpost45.bsky.social cluster on MSCL, edited by the brilliant @dfmorgan.bsky.social! post45.org/2025/05/my-s...

Check this out! What a blast to read, write, edit, and think about My So-Called Life 30 years after it went off the air too soon.

Such a thrill to write about My So-Called Life and Winnie Holzman for @atpost45.bsky.social!

This essay was a blast to write! Thanks to @wendyallisonlee.bsky.social for recommending me as a contributor, to @dfmorgan.bsky.social for being a fabulous editor, and to @carlospescador.bsky.social for his expert feedback.

My So-Called Life at 30! Edited by the amazing @dfmorgan.bsky.social and with an essay by one of my favorite practitioners of the art of overanalysis @cmceleney.bsky.social

That’s right! Come thru at post45.org/contemporaries to see this magnificent cluster, edited by @dfmorgan.bsky.social !

MY SO CALLED LIFE at 30! new on Post45! post45.org/sections/con...

New cluster!! post45.org/contemporari... ❣️ 📺 ⌨️ 🥰 Edited by @dfmorgan.bsky.social ! "My So-Called Life at 30" features essays on intimacy, literacy, fan studies, mobility, migration, dance, beauty culture, teen dramas, Winnie Holzman, diaspora and fandom, narratology, over-analysis, & more!

🗣️ *My So-Called Life* turned 30 (1994-1995) this year! We've got a cluster for you, stay tuned— Ed. by @dfmorgan.bsky.social, & ft. @uncannydazzler.bsky.social, Steven T. Gravatt, @cmceleney.bsky.social, @elishacohn.bsky.social, @mythrijega.bsky.social, @ehl.bsky.social, @oliviastowell.bsky.social

“Media analyst & Bluesky user” 😏

IN THEORY, DARLING is out in the world today! my book-length ode to queer theory & to the life & legacy of theorist, José Esteban Muñoz.

In America, you have a right to due process. Without it, the government could arrest or deport you for any reason. That’s what is happening in America right now. That is what dictators do. And that is what we are fighting against.

🚌🚉♨️ stop by Post45.org/contemporaries for our latest cluster! “Mobilizing Literature: A Response”

"This administration has created nothing but a climate of fear of on campus...we have to protect our students, faculties, and communities in this moment. We must fight back." – Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

I read the Lawrence essay in ms for ELH, so it’s even more exciting to see it elicit such a stellar set of commentaries.

V excited for this to be out! Glad @jefflawcdm.bsky.social has provided such a great opportunity to think deeply and collectively about social movements, institutional turns in lit crit, and how we can reframe and reconsider our work

✍️ 🗣️ 🛎️ Check out our newest cluster! post45.org/sections/con... We take the occasion to think through @jefflawcdm.bsky.social's essay, "Mobilizing Literature," & consider what it means for Post45 to be a literary critical institution. How do social movements offer a different literary history?

What role do social movements play in recent literary history? @franciscondine.bsky.social and I gathered some brilliant scholars to debate Jeffrey Lawrence's essay, "Mobilizing Literature," published last fall for @atpost45.bsky.social post45.org/2025/03/intr...

We have a super secret surprise cluster for you all tomorrow! It’s going to be a fun one, with responses to @jefflawcdm.bsky.social’s ELH article, “Movilizing Literature.” Ft. @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social, @franciscondine.bsky.social, @isanchezprado.bsky.social, Cheryl Higashida, Irvin Hunt III ++++

Arendt writes in ORIGINS that authoritarian regimes replace legitimate intellectuals and creatives with “crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” This has clear implications for AI, which is helping to engineer that replacement.

Concerned about my theology colleagues: trinitsrianism is definitely DEI. Diversity (there are three!), Equity (the three are all equally God, but different aspects), and Inclusion (again, three in one!). Rough stuff for them out there

Happy publication day to this beauty! Congratulations, @franciscondine.bsky.social! 🩷📕🩷

In Coalition Literature, @franciscondine.bsky.social provides a literary history of midcentury US multiethnic literature, tracing the shift from coalitional aesthetics to multiculturalism by focusing on how migrancy and labor politics shape literary innovation. #ReadUP www.sup.org/books/coalit...

My book is out! In the world!

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

TODAY! Free and open to all. I’m excited for this keynote. And how appropriate that the conversation afterwards will be with life giving planetary agent of Black queer and quare divinity E. Patrick Johnson!!!! See you soon! northwestern.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Today’s arrival—looking forward to digging into this!

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻