This was so much fun. @vicsocny.bsky.social

I'm really looking forward to this lecture by Janice Nimura @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social on March 9. Free & open to the public. #lifewriting #womenshistorymonth #rachelcarson

Join us! Feb. 9.

We are delighted to announce the publication of our first quarterly newsletter LifeLines: News from the Dictionary of Irish Biography. You can read it here: mailchi.mp/ria.ie/grang... And sign up here: mailchi.mp/d44f57115e53...

Can't wait for this lecture at BCC on Feb. 4 by @madameclair08.bsky.social about her wonderful book Tell Her Story. @cuny.edu #bronxcommunitycollege www.bcc.cuny.edu/the-inaugura...

#new The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society is calling for papers for a panel titled “‘Give Me Health and a Day’: Emerson and Health, Illness, and Unity” at the 2026 Thoreau Society Annual Gathering (Concord, July 8-12). Abstracts due by 31 January 2026.

An exciting opportunity!

I'm excited to be in conversation with @geoffwisner.bsky.social for the @vicsocny.bsky.social about his new edited volume George Templeton Strong: Civil War Diaries. February 9 in NYC. Join us!

Coming back to a project after a #WritingBreak can be disorienting and overwhelming @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social . Rereading your work and using freewriting to distill your thinking is one way to get reacquainted with your work. Here's a Revision Strategy that might help:

Back to Concord! I will speaking about Ellen Emerson and her relationship to First Parish--at First Parish! Feb. 26. This will also serve as a birthday party for Ellen. #lifewriting #Concord #Emerson @umasspress.bsky.social

Thank you to @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social for including me in this roundup of books by GC profs. It is in an honor to be included among these scholars & to have the opportunity to work with the wonderful students @biographersintl.bsky.social this semester.

Love this!

You can support the Metropolitan Chapter of the Victorian Society in America by shopping through its @bookshop.org page. bookshop.org/shop/vicsocny

Sometime last year, a CUNY alum contacted me saying they’d found some photos they took at the 1995 protest against budget cuts and would I please take them so they could clear out their attic? They arrived today and they DID NOT DISAPPOINT

Thank you to the Thoreau Society for including Emerson's Daughters in its 2025 Gift Guide. Thoreau was close with all the Emerson children, so I am sure they would appreciate this shout out. mailchi.mp/thoreausocie... @umasspress.bsky.social

So excited for this event on Thursday. Megan Marshall AND Martha Hodes!! In-person and on Zoom. www.gc.cuny.edu/events/megan... #lifewriting

Congratulations to Prof. @amyadamczyk.bsky.social, who is a co-recipient of the 2025 Steven F. Messner Outstanding Book Award for “Fetal Positions: Understanding Cross-National Public Opinion about Abortion” www.gc.cuny.edu/news/profess... @oxfordacademic.bsky.social @johnjayrec.bsky.social

Found this very late in the game -> an early and great stab at describing @firesigntheatre.bsky.social via the Situationists. Fun to read and not pedantic; fans who listened to the records, read some theory and did their own thing.

Very happy for this shout out for Emerson's Daughters in Tufts Now. Especially as the book is dedicated in part to my nephew, a current student @tufts.edu now.tufts.edu/2025/12/01/w... #lifewriting #tuftsaunt @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

@jwomenshistory.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @signsjournal.org Call for papers on the poet/feminist.activist/teacher Genevieve Taggard for a special issue of Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal drive.google.com/file/d/1inm0...

Great opportunity. #lifewriting

📢 Tomorrow! Amanda Rubin-Lewis & Devorah Baum lead a powerful seminar on Beradt’s 'The Third Reich of Dreams' — a dream archive that reveals the psychological tremors of fascism. 🗓 25 Nov | 🕑 14:00 📍 Wolfson College + Zoom 🎟️ buff.ly/XdYgc3y @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @engfac.bsky.social

Tomorrow!! In-person and via Zoom. (Link for in person wasn't working for a few days, but it is back up). thoreaufarm.org/emersons-dau... @umasspress.bsky.social #lifewriting

Sandy Jimenez is one of our many brilliant graduates of @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFWh...

Great interview with BAM students Ausma Palmer and Meghan Racklin on their Eating Disorders in Life Writing Conference, to be held Friday 11/7, 9:30 to 5 pm at the CUNY Graduate Center: www.gc.cuny.edu/news/student...

NBC New York is just one of many news outlets featuring the Center for Urban Research’s fantastic election results map! www.nbcnewyork.com/news/politic...

Love it that @umasspress.bsky.social is suggesting Emerson's Daughters as the gift "for the feminist" in your life. 40% off with the code HOLIDAY until Jan. 3. #lifewriting www.umasspress.com/tis-the-seas...

Great line up of classes in the fall for @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

Nov 13, 3pm-4:30pm @gctlc.bsky.social x PS2 @humanitiescuny.bsky.social present Sip n Chat F25 edition. Celebrating our 2025 ERI/PS2 Summer Public Research Fellows & TLC Fellows Open to all students @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social — chat with your peers, snack away, & create community with us

This special issue focuses on testimonio as a genre that is inextricably connected to gender, class, and ethnicity and is used by women from the Américas to claim their agency while challenging multiple forms of oppression. For more information: centerforthehumanities.org/wsq-testimon...

Today!

Happy publication day to @thewaroncars.bsky.social (Co-authored by @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social & @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social alum extraordinaire @sgoodyear.bsky.social )

What an honor to have the brilliant biographer Megan Marshall agree to be in conversation with me at Thoreau Farm. Nov. 20--in person and streaming. thoreaufarm.org/emersons-dau... #lifewriting #thoreau #ralphwaldoemerson @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

The Ralph Waldo Emerson has scheduled two more tours of its exhibit on Ellen Tucker Emerson and Edith Emerson Forbes, after the first two sold out. Oct. 25 at 11 and 2. #ralphwaldoemerson #lifewriting

An amazing piece by Mollie Barnes and Susanna Ashton about a staircase central to Harriet Jacobs' narrative. #harrietjacobs #materialculture

Tuesday!

Reminder! I'm speaking at the Concord Free Public Library on Sept. 25. In person and also live streamed. This wonderful library was critical to my research for Emerson's Daughters. @umasspress.bsky.social #lifewriting

This conference is being organized by two wonderful students in the @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social program @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social Should be great. #lifewriting

Loved seeing this article honoring Richard Smith, a talented historian of Concord who is retiring from the role of Thoreau. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/s...

Thank you to Discover Concord for this thoughtful review of Emerson's Daughters. www.discoverconcordma.com/articles/707... @umasspress.bsky.social #lifewriting

Can't wait for this event @cuny.edu next Tuesday. #lifewriting

I'll be leading two tours at the Emerson's House on Sept. 28. Join me! rwema.ticketspice.com/emerson-hous... @umasspress.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

Academics! Tell me! What are your favorite AI guidelines, approaches, policies? We're crowd-sourcing favs! padlet.com/huntercolleg...

part two of my trip into Ginsberg, audiotape, war, rock, &c.

I'll be in conversation with Pat Valenti--biographer of Sophia Peabody Hawthorne and Rose Hawthorne Lathrop-on Sept 30. Sponsored by the Victorian Society of NY @umasspress.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social #lifewriting vicsocny.org/calendar/bey...

Great opportunity! Several @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social & @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social have won in the past. #lifewriting womenwritingwomenslives.org/kathy-chambe...

All invited: I'm giving a talk for the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum on Wednesday, September 3, 11:00 am EST. Free but you need to register. @bamcuny.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cuny.edu www.okeeffemuseum.org/events/morni...

I'm excited to speak about Emerson's Daughters at the Concord Free Public Library on Sept. 25. I'll be focusing how I used their amazing special collections. Not in Concord? You can attend by Zoom--registration link in comments. #lifewriting #biography #emerson @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

The Graduate Center is pleased to announce a new Advanced Certificate in Public Scholarship, which will prepare our students to conduct community-engaged and public-facing scholarship www.gc.cuny.edu/news/new-cer... @cunygcps2.bsky.social @humanitiescuny.bsky.social @prithik.bsky.social

I'm excited about to participate in this conversation with Patricia Valenti, hosted by the Victorian Society, NY, in honor of the publication of Emerson's Daughters. vicsocny.org/calendar/bey... @umasspress.bsky.social @bamcuny.bsky.social #lifewriting