Nerve wracking but ultimately lovely evening presenting my new project at Columbia’s Women & Society seminar. Thanks to @okeeffefeminism.bsky.social , my @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social colleague, for her generous response.

As the granddaughter (and great granddaughter) of a foundry owner, I'm excited to attend @vicsocny.bsky.social Margo Gayle Benefit Tour of the historic National Fine Art Foundry Building. April 17 at 6:30. vicsocny.org/calendar/mar...

As the daughter of an academic librarian, I am particularly thrilled with this review. Thanks for sharing @umasspress.bsky.social @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social #lifewriting

This is amazing @jbraddock.bsky.social

Join me & @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social alum Jenny Skoog tonight at 7 PM to decide Emerson's Daughters. Login to Substack & go to Jenny's page (Things I Meant to Tell You) to get the link. substack.com/@thingsimean... @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social

I'm shocked and honored to find myself on this list. Thank you @biographersintl.bsky.social @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social #lifewriting biographersinternational.org/news/2026-pl...

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

I'm thrilled to be one of the biographers featured on the @biographersintl.bsky.social new podcast season. @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social alum Jenny Skoog is the host and producer! biographersinternational.org/podcasts/ #lifewriting @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @cunyalumni.bsky.social

Congratulations to all the Chamberlain award winners. Great to see so many @cuny.edu names on there, including two @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social students. @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social womenwritingwomenslives.org/2026-2027-aw...

I love that @biographersintl.bsky.social honors archivists every year. biographersinternational.org/news/carla-h... #lifewriting

Emerson's Daughters is the March online book club pick for the Things I Meant to Tell You Substack. Join us March 23 at 7 PM. "Things I Meant to Tell You" is for "for leavers, late bloomers, and anyone loving difficult people." @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social #lifewriting

I was thrilled to be included in this roundup of work on women's history @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social #lifewriting #womenalsoknowhistory

Coming up Tuesday @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social

CUNY Academy has a great roster of talks this spring (including mine on March 18 👩‍🎓). Some in person, some on Zoom. @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social www1.cuny.edu/sites/cunyuf...

I helped organize this event for two of my wonderful "seminar sisters" in Women's Writing Women's Lives and moderated a talented student in @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social Can't wait! @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social #lifewriting

If you missed my talk with historian Brenda Wineapple, the video is now up on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0tE...

Organized by some of the wonderful @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social students @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social #lifewriting

Ready to set some writing goals for the semester @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social? Join us for a workshop that will help you learn how to successfully set SMART goals and meet them. Scan the QR code below or use this link to learn more and register: buff.ly/UMQ5LtG

Looking forward to giving a book talk on Emerson's Daughters for @cunyacademygc.bsky.social at the @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social on March 18. Registration link in comments. @bam-bio-mem.bsky.social @umasspress.bsky.social #lifewriting

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...

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