#Newbook: Body Language: Medicine and the Eighteenth-Century Comic Novel by @katalves18c.bsky.social examines the intersections of British 18C comic fiction and medical discourse, adding "a vital chapter to the study of medicine, literature, and gender in the period." To order: tinyurl.com/3vpz7crk

The latest @ecfjournal.bsky.social is out today, with a special section edited by Mona Narain on “Asian/Asia.” Articles in this cluster by @shruti-jain.bsky.social and @kaushiktekur.bsky.social, a Reflections essay by @travisclau.bsky.social, and a response by me! utppublishing.com/toc/ecf/37/2

When Uncle Travis’s brand new poetry collection, WHAT’S LEFT IS TENDER, arrives, his kitty nephews celebrate. As for me, I’ll be teaching from this in my health humanities class this fall! @travisclau.bsky.social

this is a disgrace and a national shame

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception." www.mellon.org/voices/human...

Wild to me that this is out of print! Just got my hands on a copy off of eBay. It contains an introductory essay by Joe LeSueur.

Out today, the Academic Council of the University of California issues the following statement: “Higher education is under direct and sustained attack. 1/ senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/repor...

Is it really a protest in Wisconsin if there isn’t at least one sign that says “fuck Ron Johnson”?

Milwaukee showing up to protest Trump and Musk fascism.

Pour one out tonight not only for the thousands of fantastic scholars whose NEH grants were wrongly terminated, but also for all of the junior scholars who have never—and now may never in their lifetimes—receive federal support for their research

Another favorite more recently is @jasonfarrjokes.bsky.social's Novel Bodies: Disability and Sexuality in Eighteenth-Century British Literature. I was so inspired by this book's care and thoughtfulness, and it was a delight to read. www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/nov...

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

Cory Booker is doing something incredible on the Senate floor. If you're not watching, you need to watch: www.youtube.com/live/Ej6locU...

Proudly casting my vote for #SusanCrawford and against Musk-Trump here in Wisconsin.

Here’s an essay I wrote about accessibility as an improvisational mindset that we can cultivate in our classrooms & communities, & as a principle that aligns uncannily with some strains of Romantic thought. #disability #disabilitystudies

From an idea in 2008 to a book in 2025, ECHOES OF CARE: DEAFNESS IN MODERN BRITAIN has been published by @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ! It explores how changing perceptions of deafness intersected with healthcare, disability, and eugenics in 19th-century Britain. www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...

Very disturbing anti-disability rhetoric here, where Trump blames the recent American Airlines crash on DEI efforts, specifically hiring disabled folks, into the FAA. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Oh shit, it’s Robert Wringhim from Private Memoirs & Confessions of a Justified Sinner, appearing in a Brocken spectre. 🫣😱

We don’t have to be stars exploding in the night / or electric eels under the covers / we don’t have to be anything quite so unreal / let’s just be lovers

cambridgeblog.org/2024/12/the-... Manu is just very good at all of :waves hands:

Dear colleagues, In abject humility, I write to recommend ______, whose achievements are so monumental, so profound, as to leave me debased, worthless, by their measure. Do I “warmly” recommend them? Hell would seem an arctic tundra next the respectful inferno of my professional esteem

They are submitted. The grades. 🥳

Any advice for a ten minute conference presentation? #BSECS25

Hi #RunningPunks, I completed a 10-miler along icy Lake Michigan today. Heard a punk band called Memo PST on KEXP that really got me excited. 😆🤘🏻

It just seems like the perfect night—frigid and dark here in Milwaukee—for a rye manhattan + some early Silver Jews.

Much gratitude to @profchander.bsky.social for inviting me to be part of this collection I wish I had had as an undergrad. This is a love letter to the folks working at the intersections of race and disability who we need now more than ever.

The finale Somebody Somewhere may be on tonight but I will never stop telling people to watch this amazing show. But you don’t have to just listen to me. Here’s @lyz.bsky.social to tell you about it www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Let’s talk Jack Sheppard, a (bad) thief and a legend. Plenty of people have pointed out that making violent criminals the subject of – well, let’s call it economically inflected fantisizing – is hardly new. What really helps someone cross from news to legend, though, is Not Getting Caught.

My new MO is crying on the plane as I watch downloaded eps of Somebody, Somewhere. 😭🤦🏼

TAPS THE SIGN

This year’s Haggerty Prize will award a peer-reviewed article published between 1/1/22 and 12/31/24. $500 cash prize! Please submit your work or nominate others. Deadline is 1/1/25. And please repost to spread the word. Info at link. #c18 #ASECS #LGBTQ

Hearing the president of KU say that the way the humanities can protect itself - a question asked by a humanities professor of Spanish - is that her field should direct its public voice to how the Spanish language can impact AI versus the third study of an obscure play…. Just sigh.

The audacity of the university asking employees for donations. Every institution! Every year!

A t-shirt for mid-career academics that says, “As I have argued elsewhere.”

We're already nearly halfway to our goal!

Just ran my fastest 10k of the year thanks to Brian Foss’s Sonic Reducer show on KEXP. Fave songs on the set by Dead Pioneers & Body Farm w/ a track called “Trans Day of Vengeance.” #RunningPunks

My daughter Francesca Mirabella has a short in this Museum of Modern Art screening on December 12 at 7:30 pm. Please come and support these filmmakers.

Started the new Hollinghurst novel last night as a little treat.

Great review by Sam Catlin of Adrian Daub’s (very timely) new book The Cancel Culture Panic. newrepublic.com/article/1883...

Béla and Liam wish all of you a wonderful short week. Take time for naps is their counsel.

I think about this a lot as I'm panicking in my shower.

Happy Kim Deal solo album release day to all those who celebrate.

I'd like to thank that one student in the corner who nodded along with me all semester. You make it all possible.

My dude is on here now! Alan is an epidemiologist who researches HPV & anal cancer and is developing self-screening strategies for queer and trans men. He’s also a helluva cook w/ excellent taste in music. Give him a follow @nyitray.bsky.social

Did you know that by substituting your morning coffee with green tea, you can eliminate up to 93% of what little joy you have left?

Today is the anniversary of the final show of the band’s epic 1995 Monster Tour which culminated in Atlanta at the Omni. Here’s “The One I Love” from Road Movie, the documentary style film directed by Peter Care and based on the band’s 3-night stand in Atlanta. youtu.be/RRWjOTgPgX8?...

Marquette University faculty consider no-confidence vote in administration amid budget cuts: www.jsonline.com/story/news/e...

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