The deadline for submissions to the next Northeast Victorian Studies Association conference is just two weeks away! Just because the theme is “Silences”doesn’t mean you should let this CFP pass by you in silence—go ahead and submit!

Michael Field in Context (Cambridge University Press) is out today! I'm so excited that this volume is finally out in the world. It features 35 chapters on so many different aspects of Michael Field's lives and work. Find out more/order for your library here: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Cusp. 3.2 is now up on Project Muse muse.jhu.edu/issue/55539 with a fantastic cluster on cosmopolitanism edited by @shinjinichatto.bsky.social and articles by Bassam Sidiki (on racialized quarantine) and Caylee Weintraub (on deep-sea ecology) as well as an interview with Tom Crewe

"Cosmopolitanism on the Cusp" is now out! This is a special cluster I had the honor of editing for @cusplate.bsky.social. I would like to warmly thank Cusp editors @kristinmahoney.bsky.social, Kate Hext, and Alex Murray for their enthusiasm for the cluster.

NVSA cfp is out--Silences. Mark your calendar for April 10-12 at Cornell, and submit an abstract: northeastvictorianstudies.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

*Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse* is out today! The official release got pushed back due to an issue w the art, & despite being mostly about literature it's very visual. So to celebrate its full entry into the world, a thread of some of my favorite images from it:

So happy to see the Cusp article "Hauntings in the Nursery" by @dremilyvincent.bsky.social among the top 20 most-read articles in JHUP journals for February. This article will be free to read through March 15: muse.jhu.edu/article/920145

Friends, do come along if you are in the Boston area for my talk on Michael Field and Women Artists @harvard.edu libcal.library.harvard.edu/event/14158949

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW CUSP: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Cultures Volume 3, Number 1, Winter 2025 tinyurl.com/mryj2ht2

Issue 3.1 of Cusp, with articles on decadence in Korea, Sarah Grand, Arthur Symons, H. G. Wells, and The Story of an African Farm is now up on Project Muse. Please take a look and consider submitting to the nicest-looking of all journals: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54315

Please consider submitting an abstract for our upcoming conference, VISAWUS 2025: GATEWAYS (www.visawus.org/conferences/). October 3-5, 2025 in St. Louis, with the amazing @kristinmahoney.bsky.social as keynote speaker! Papers about Judy Garland are also welcome.

CHAINS OF LOVE AND BEAUTY, now out in paper! @princetonupress.bsky.social

MLA goers! The Victorian and early 20thC Forum is taking advantage of drinks arranged by Priti Joshi (thank you, Priti!) and meeting tonight at 7pm at LONGITUDE 90, the bar at Le Meridien Hotel, on Poydras St., just up from the conference hotel. Please join us!

If you will be at MLA, come by the Archives and Possibility panel on Friday at 8:30 to hear scholars working in Black studies, Caribbean studies, Native and Indigenous studies, and Victorian studies consider archival methodologies that position the archive as a site of re-creation or possibility.

Don't miss Chat with an Editor this Friday and Saturday at #MLA2025 #MLA25. Sign up to meet with a journal editor either at the convention or virtually next Wednesday (1/15), and find out how to get your article published! @mlanews.bsky.social bit.ly/3Ppc0KB

There's still time to submit a proposal for our upcoming conference, Fin-de-Siècle Modernisms: we've had several requests, so we've extended the deadline to January 12. Come join us in Columbia this spring!

Going to #MLA2025? Dig plants? Don't miss our Victorian Plants Roundtable, co-organized with @aktange.bsky.social, also featuring Sarah Bilston, Amy M. King, and Lindsay Wells. Subtitle: Imperial Networks and Affordances of Care. 1/9, 5:15 pm. Hope to see you there!

If you will be at MLA, come by the Archives and Possibility panel on Friday at 8:30 to hear scholars working in Black studies, Caribbean studies, Native and Indigenous studies, and Victorian studies consider archival methodologies that position the archive as a site of re-creation or possibility.

The deadline for the Annual USC Comparative Lit conference focusing on Fin-de-Siècle Modernisms is January 3. Please circulate the CFP and consider submitting: sc.edu/study/colleg...

PLEASE APPLY to Midwest Victorian Studies conference seminars. Three options: Lit History/Genealogies; Plant Humanities; Work-in-Progress, led respectively by Alison Booth, Lindsay Wells, and me. Apps due Jan 5; conference April 3-6 @ Purdue U Ft Wayne. Full CFP & app details (easy process!) below.

Celebrating 5 years of #Visualities @MModernity: 30+ essays, 50+ authors, almost a 5th of whom are/were grad students! Here @pdabashi.bsky.social & I share our vision for modernist studies as visual studies, alongside reflections by Jess Masters & Stephen Ross: modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

Cusp is a wonderful new journal that will definitely be of interest to modernists and others working in early 20th- century studies. Check out their special issue on disability, edited by Robert Volpicelli. It has a great collection of essays.

Fantastic 19c studies conference. You don't have to live in the Midwest to join us! This year's theme is Genealogies. Plus thematic seminars led by Alison Booth and Lindsay Wells, and a works-in-progress one led by me. Please consider applying. (And pass it on!)

Cusp: Late 19th-/Early 20th-Century Cultures, a newer journal from Johns Hopkins UP, has migrated over to Bluesky. Please take a look at our submission guidelines. We welcome work across the turn of the century, across disciplines, and across national boundaries. www.press.jhu.edu/journals/cusp

Call for conference contributions to ‘Queer Pasts: What’s Queer in Queer History?’ taking place in Copenhagen in May 2025. CFP deadline is 10 January 25.

I made a starter pack for people interested in scholarship on Vernon Lee go.bsky.app/DJGbDZf I included lots of wonderful academics who have shaped my thoughts and directed my own work. Please let me know if I’ve missed anyone (and sorry if I have!).

Member Publication: Zarena Aslami and Tim Watson, editors, Victorian Literature & Culture Special Issue bit.ly/3Ct3wyL