And once you’re nicely beveraged, join the Theatre Caucus at 8 in the Hampton Ballroom for Lady Audley’s Secret!!! @navsa2025.bsky.social

If you’re at @navsa2025.bsky.social please join us for the 🍃VCOLOGIES HAPPY HOUR🍃from 7-8 this evening!!! We’ll be in the Marquee Bar and Lounge: complimentary beer/wine for grad students, first come, first served!

Reposting now the images load correctly—dm me if you need a free link! ❄️ Thx to Vcologies friends, esp. @kateflint.bsky.social, @devo3000.bsky.social, Liz Miller, @mortizrobles.bsky.social, @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social—& @pfyfe.bsky.social, one of two v. helpful readers! ❄️ doi.org/10.1093/jvcu...

Reposting now the images load correctly—dm me if you need a free link! ❄️ Thx to Vcologies friends, esp. @kateflint.bsky.social, @devo3000.bsky.social, Liz Miller, @mortizrobles.bsky.social, @benjaminmorgan.bsky.social—& @pfyfe.bsky.social, one of two v. helpful readers! ❄️ doi.org/10.1093/jvcu...

“Crystal Forms: A Victorian Aesthetics of Accident” is out in JVC! I read James/Cecilia Glaisher’s snow-crystal images as a case study in accidental aesthetics—unsettling familiar stories about representation, mechanical objectivity, and lookalike forms in science + art ❄️❄️❄️ doi.org/10.1093/jvcu...

“Crystal Forms: A Victorian Aesthetics of Accident” is out in JVC! I read James/Cecilia Glaisher’s snow-crystal images as a case study in accidental aesthetics—unsettling familiar stories about representation, mechanical objectivity, and lookalike forms in science + art ❄️❄️❄️ doi.org/10.1093/jvcu...

Join the ranks of fabulous recent essays on the #Victorian Pacific + #Romantic lyric; on museums, collections, archives; on ecology, hydrography, atmosphere; on immunology, race and portraiture; and more! compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1741...

My periodic call for pitches to the 19th-Century Networks section of ✨Literature Compass✨: Do you have a state-of-the-field essay to propose on #Romantic or #Victorian topics? a little-known or understudied author to spotlight? Please get in touch! compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1741...

My periodic call for pitches to the 19th-Century Networks section of ✨Literature Compass✨: Do you have a state-of-the-field essay to propose on #Romantic or #Victorian topics? a little-known or understudied author to spotlight? Please get in touch! compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1741...

🌊 Please read Lindsay Wilhelm's marvelous state-of-the-field essay on the ✨ VICTORIAN PACIFIC ✨, out now in Literature Compass!!! compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What this long and detailed NYT piece calmly calls an “extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual” is in fact a blatantly unconstitutional usurpation of Congress’s Article I powers and delegation of the President’s Article II duties. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Deadline is tomorrow!

6th annual 💥Vcologies Early Career Paper Prize💥! Please share/RT! If you have a paper that fits the bill, “ecological thinking in the Anglophone world from 1750-1945,” do consider submitting! Deadline: Jan. 31, 2025 Award: $250

“Uncopyrightable” is the longest word in English to use each of its letters no more than once. —Christian Bök

how, specifically, does freezing research dollars hurt your state's economy? link for deets by state. keep in mind this is separate from all the other programs that support public schools, provide food for kids, supplies for hospitals, equipment for infrastructure. www.faseb.org/science-poli...

✨“the realist novel’s embrace of doubtful futurity is fundamental to its efforts at verisimilitude.”✨ Gratified by this alert, generous, sympathetic review of my book by Alicia Rix in @thetls.bsky.social! buff.ly/4asoJpL

'...the habit of speculation is rife in Victorian fiction, and particularly incurable among Thomas Hardy’s fortune-tellers and gamblers.' Alicia Rix on indecision in the Victorian novel

✨“the realist novel’s embrace of doubtful futurity is fundamental to its efforts at verisimilitude.”✨ Gratified by this alert, generous, sympathetic review of my book by Alicia Rix in @thetls.bsky.social! buff.ly/4asoJpL

6th annual 💥Vcologies Early Career Paper Prize💥! Please share/RT! If you have a paper that fits the bill, “ecological thinking in the Anglophone world from 1750-1945,” do consider submitting! Deadline: Jan. 31, 2025 Award: $250

@emmadavenport.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social @clareclarke.bsky.social @aliped.bsky.social @nathankhensley.bsky.social @taliaschaffer.bsky.social @christopherpittard.bsky.social @dbenjw.bsky.social @susannegruss.bsky.social @c19qmul.bsky.social @19birkbeck.bsky.social

And our Introduction to ✨Collecting, Collections, and Collectors in the Long Nineteenth Century✨ is free to read! compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

"Collecting, Collections, and Collectors in the Long Nineteenth Century" includes work by Margaret Gray * Alice Little * Lindsay Wells * Sophia Franchi * Lindsey Chappell * Sezen Ünlüönen * Tim Sommer * Brandon & Lindsay Katzir compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

✨the Special Issue of Literature Compass✨ I edited with Jake Risinger is out! 🗃️ Collecting, Collections, and Collectors in the Long Nineteenth Century 🗃️ features a wide range of essays on the period's collecting practices in art, music, & science: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

✨the Special Issue of Literature Compass✨ I edited with Jake Risinger is out! 🗃️ Collecting, Collections, and Collectors in the Long Nineteenth Century 🗃️ features a wide range of essays on the period's collecting practices in art, music, & science: compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...

Join us tomorrow to learn about 🧐philosophy, the 💥apocalypse, and the 🌎environment! Ted Toadvine "The Memory of the World: Unraveling the Allure of Eco-Apocalypse" CETAPS+ Cultures of the Future Talks Wed, May 29, 2024 Online Register here: videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

🌞A good day to contemplate Larkin’s quirky but moving poem, “Solar”: “Single stalkless flower / You pour unrecompensed”🌞

🌞Gerard Manley Hopkins on a solar eclipse shortly before his conversion: “I saw it all up the City Road, to such a pass have natural phenomena come.”🌞

🌞A good day to contemplate Larkin’s quirky but moving poem, “Solar”: “Single stalkless flower / You pour unrecompensed”🌞

🌞Gerard Manley Hopkins on a solar eclipse shortly before his conversion: “I saw it all up the City Road, to such a pass have natural phenomena come.”🌞

publication day! with ginormous thanks to all the inspirers and conspirers, and pre-orderers! let the wild rumpus start! www.versobooks.com/products/303...

And I argue that reading for uncertainty in this way yields a rich account of the dynamics of thinking and acting in the Victorian novel, a fresh understanding of realism as a genre of the probable, + a vision of literary-critical judgment as provisional and open-ended. cambridge.org/9781009436113

In imaginative explorations of unsure reasoning, hesitant judgment, and makeshift action, Victorian novelists cultivated distinctive responses to uncertainty as intellectual concern and cultural disposition + participated in the knowledge work of an era shaped by numbers cambridge.org/9781009436113

🌞The Art of Uncertainty🌞 shows how Victorian novelists—Eliot, Collins, Thackeray, Hardy, and later Conrad—drew on science, math, philosophy, and the law to develop unique forms of thinking, judging, and acting in the face of uncertainty. cambridge.org/9781009436113: 20% off w/ TAU2024

✨The Art of Uncertainty: Probable Realism and the Victorian Novel✨ is out with Cambridge UP! Available in US/UK (cambridge.org/9781009436113), 20% off w/ TAU2024 Huge thanks to all who shepherded it into print and to Kate Flint & Clare Pettitt for including it in their series!

✨The Art of Uncertainty: Probable Realism and the Victorian Novel✨ is out with Cambridge UP! Available in US/UK (cambridge.org/9781009436113), 20% off w/ TAU2024 Huge thanks to all who shepherded it into print and to Kate Flint & Clare Pettitt for including it in their series!

5th annual 💥Vcologies Early Career Paper Prize💥 is open! Please share/RT! Wider remit than before, “ecological thinking in the Anglophone world from 1750-1945”… Consider submitting a paper by Jan. 31, 2024, for $250!

Please read our open letter to the WVU Board of Governors published in the Boston Review today. @jessiew.bsky.social , @rosecasey.bsky.social and I wrote it together and we mean every word.

Ruskin slashes Renaissance painters, unwittingly slays X: “There is little harm in their works being purchased at high prices: their real influence is very slight, and they may be left without grave indignation to their poor mission of furnishing drawing-rooms and assisting stranded conversation.”

How to make a decorous entrance to Bluesky, according to Thomas Carlyle: “If John Mill were to get up to heaven, he would hardly be content till he had made out how it all was. For my part, I don’t trouble myself about the machinery of the place...”

How to make a decorous entrance to Bluesky, according to Thomas Carlyle: “If John Mill were to get up to heaven, he would hardly be content till he had made out how it all was. For my part, I don’t trouble myself about the machinery of the place...”