The art is pouring in to our DMs! Huge thanks to @ishmaelcallme.bsky.social for bringing Angela Smyth’s amazing whale to our attention! We definitely consider ourselves a whale appreciation society.

Popped back in here to plug @christinegrillo.bsky.social’s new and, like, astonishingly good single-millennial civil-war novel the same week @mattseybold.bsky.social’s bonus coda ep drops. Your assigned weekend reading and listening!

Posting a selfie to catch your attention and to boost @thedial2024.bsky.social’s new issue, which is…really good?! The essays on the state of the uni by @jennifergreiman.bsky.social and @samcohen.bsky.social and @cnewf.bsky.social, among others, are so well written and incisive.

Bye, weird floral chupa chups of Chicago! 👋

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OK but who else is on their way to South Bend rn? @ them in the comments 👇👇👇for a chance to win a free drink ticket at the McKenna center bar 🍹 🎟️

Today I'm sharing my own contributions to the Society of Early Americanists joint fundraiser - my prints focus respectively on Indigenous history and activism, attacks on people and institutions that care about books, and the works of Anne Bradstreet and Emily Dickinson #letterpress #earlyAmerica

one thought in closing. no matter what other lessons we take from the last few weeks and the next, we should all agree on this one: things can always get goofier

I mean, I always think the most recent episode is the best episode. But this one goes so hard.

"And the brush of grass against the lowering / Roof of the evening. The eye can eat the vanishing light" From "Late February," a new original poem by Roger Reeves for National Poetry Month. ➡️ buff.ly/LIgOgG4

Whew, to have written this book decades ago!

Rhyme-lovers, a call for papers! David Caplan is hosting another symposium on poetic form at SMU—the first one was *fabulous*, generating real conversation among scholars & poets. Propose a paper to join us for the second iteration?! www.smu.edu/dedman/acade...

Tailors?!

My first book is out on Tuesday, and Axel got his paws on a copy of it in Nashville. 😍🐾

Guys, @mattseybold.bsky.social’s podcast is the best thing streaming right now. The older seasons get better with age. The latest season’s eps can’t be more timely. Start literally anywhere in the back catalogue and you will be hooked.

This is an amazing episode and feels like required listening right now. The great @mattseybold.bsky.social is doing very, very important work.

Out today is Fernando Pérez Montesinos's new book LANDSCAPING INDIGENOUS MEXICO, which tells the history of the landscape of the Purépecha amid centuries of political and environmental changes.

ok but who are the compas making these things! I need answers!

Next week is pub week for 12 STORIES BY AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS @penguinclassicsusa.bsky.social and I'm doing a GIVEAWAY for Blueskyers! The first 20 people to create an original post about the book, tag me, and DM an address will get a FREE copy sent their way. Please read & share these stories!

The Third Amendment, groggy and utterly confused by modern technology, awakens from its 230-year slumber

my favorite film genres: 5. Space Leninism 4. A woman of a certain age faces a difficult decision 3. A shiftless adult stands up for a child in danger. 2. The monster was inside me all along 1. We were very tired, we were very merry—we had gone back and forth all night upon the ferry.

I’m about to give a talk in a room with this view out the window

I got tenure and the new personality I’m trying out is like a little bit Charlie Brown, a little bit Eeyore, a little bit Lucifer:

The Custom Oregon Plate BOTANY was previously assigned, but is now available for reservation. https://dmv2u.oregon.gov/eServices/?link=custom #Oregon #LicensePlate #VanityPlate #OregonPlates #CustomPlate #BOTANY

$18 for 18 eggs

USC folks: mark your calendars for a talk I will be giving from my almost-done (I promise) book on March 20 at 4:30 in Gambrell 429.

march 18th at georgetown

JuJu Watkins | Lady while you are young, and beautiful (flipped), by Sarah Mapps Douglass, 1836-37

Um cc’ing @natewolff.bsky.social and the rest of Dental Humanities dot sky

Join us on Thursday, February 13 to hear Rachel Cusk deliver the 2025 Finzi-Contini Lecture at Yale! Presented by @yalewhc.bsky.social and cosponsored by The Yale Review, a version of Cusk's talk will appear in our Summer 2025 issue. More details: whc.yale.edu/light-woman-...

A vitally important corollary, which is that it takes a lot of people--imperfectly, bc people!--working together to make things better. Again, imperfectly--bc people. But this is why the endless emphasis on individuals (mostly men) in history is so bad for us. We overlook how much collectives do.

Do it. It helps others and it’s kind of a fun writing exercise.

Someone call this guy up plz 📞 🙏 and ask him to pitch this idea to the state university employees here in Yeehaw-Land who already *did* this and then were fired anyway for “redundancy.”

Thinking of @moiradonegan.bsky.social writing in Book Forum last year on the desire latent in tradwife discourse less for a husband than for a parent

I’ll have a new post tomorrow, but Chris Newfield kindly asked to cross-post “What The MLA Is…” at Remaking The University, where you can find the most extensive coverage of this episode, curated by a former MLA president who really wants the organization to be an advocate for humanities workers.

Die Workwear pivoting to dance criticism is one of 2025’s most exciting prospects

Here see Fred Astaire and Eleanor Powell in Broadway Melody of 1940. The suit appears to be one, unified piece of apparel, as there's no break between the coat and trousers. Since the collar hugs his neck, it looks like a natural part of his body. The focus is then on him as a dancer.

Wishing you all an abundant 2025

I drew this a decade ago, but failed to finish the phenomenology 😔 #archives #hegel #spirit

peaches, painted by james marion shull, 1933

haden mangoes, painted by ellen isham schutt, 1914

10 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 3: The author is a solitary creator. To find out what's NOT true, read @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , @sdileonardi.bsky.social + @beccacohen.bsky.social in a special issue of Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034

This is extremely relatable

It’s been a long time coming… so thrilled to share the cover (and Oxford UP website last in 🧵) for my book, _Lineage: Genealogy and the Power of Connection in Early America_, pub date 7.2.25 (but will ship, so they say very enticingly, mid-June. 1/ #VastEarlyAmerica 🗃️

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i also wrote this Top 5 recent works of critical history for the Duke UP Blog: dukeupress.wordpress.com/tag/top-five/

in addition to passive-aggressive emails, i did write/edit a few things this year: first, Situation Critical, coedited and co-written into with @maxcavitch.bsky.social www.dukeupress.edu/situation-cr...