I sincerely hope Democrats pay attention to tonight’s results across the country. They won’t learn anything but still. Maybe. People are excited by change and original campaigns and bold ideas and candidates under the age of 50!

Things I feel good about: 1). revisions are going(!) I may actually hit a self-imposed deadline 2). this US election day has me feeling optimistic.

Join us tomorrow for a discussion on teaching and researching in American Studies in challenging times (so, now!) asanor.org/events/onlin...

My review of "Speculative Whiteness: Science Fiction and the Alt-Right" by @jordanscarroll.bsky.social is out in the November edition of Science Fiction Studies! (Hilariously, out before an article that will appear in a September edition of a different journal...) doi.org/10.1525/sfs....

every time I have to use Amazon customer service I feel like I am being punished for some past life crime.

today I wrote TWO different proposals and I am annoyed by how much easier they came than the revisions I OUGHT to be working on...

American Studies folks! Please join us for an online discussion on teaching and researching American Studies now, hosted by the American Studies Association of Norway. You can join myself and an illustrious group at the end of the month to chat. Details at the link: asanor.org/events/onlin...

my chapter on queer and "older" casual sex and swinging is finally out! This book has been in process for ages, very satisfying to see it complete. policy.bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resexualisin...

he was a champion of free speech and if you disagree youre under arrest

I tell my students ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game. Toni Morrison

this is awesome!

The CFP for the American Studies Association of Norway 2026 Conference is ready to go! Come give a talk and experience one of my favourite conferences. asanor.org/2026-confere...

I hope I did not nerd out too much in my reply, but my author's agreement with an SF journal came from *a scholarly icon* 😱

We read books by LGBTQ+ authors before. We will read books by LGBTQ+ authors now. We will read books by LGBTQ+ authors tomorrow. Literature is for and by everyone.

Every time I say “no worries” what I really mean is “I am choosing to bear this burden like a medieval monk and you will never hear of it again.”

Reviewing a journal submission that HAS to be at least partially AI generated. Perhaps I am naive, but this is my first time encountering this. I wonder how journals are handling this?

SO CLOSE to wrapping things up and starting summer break...

New book review is up on International Research in Children's Literature! www.euppublishing.com/toc/ircl/18/2

❣️

cute article on new gallery in Trondheim, with a focus on my neighbourhood! I live in one of the red houses on the Nidelva River in the cover photo.

Book chapter PROOFS DAY! Hooray!

heinous

I have three different writing projects that I am shifting between. I would love to hear recs for writing retreats (both in-person and virtual) that folks have tried and liked. I keep telling myself that "some writing is better than zero writing," but this does not appease my interior critic monster

this is huge ngl

My statement on the charges filed against me:

political suppression

This is disgusting.

this is yee haw energy I need for writing at the end of the semester.

“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Man, I am trying to finalise changes for a journal I've worked with before that has changed hands, and this has simply been the worst experience ever. I would take ten nasty reader #2s over having to do all of this again.

🔥 📝 FOLKS — I'm working on a piece for Slate about the NEH cuts. If you've been affected in ANY way and would be willing to talk with me, please message me! I would love to learn more and include your story. katina [at] katinarogers [dot] com #humanities #neh #education #highered

The absolute callousness of announcing a 44% trade tariff against Myanmar this week, of all weeks.

Your tariff rate is your star sign divided by the number of boys you've kissed, multiplied by one

You should have to pay a fee to use "reply all." The longer the list of recipients, the higher the cost.

Ms. MTC is going to Houston✨ this is truly an open call! none of the editorial board will present on the seminar…we’re sick of each other and want to hear from YOU. please submit and share!

This is my favourite thing

French University offers 3-year positions for US scientists in the worst hit disciplines www.univ-amu.fr/en/public/ac...

…

reformatting from MLA to APA is a kind of torture. Who really cares about publication year in the in-text citation?!

current disaster: I have to cut this draft by 1/3 of the total word count. Sheer torture and carnage.

As a weird 9 year old, I loved Gene Hackman so so much.

AI isn't ALL bad.

once again, I wonder how people are able to focus on writing/research with the deluge of terrible daily news updates.

Today, I found out that the Department of Defense banned the Well-Read Black Girl anthology by Glory Edim. I was one of its contributors. I'm really hurt right now. So if you have it in you, please buy books by Black women from independent bookstores.

super psyched to attend my first American Studies Association conference this fall as part of the Educators Alliance Caucus professional development workshop on Teaching Against Empire! #ASA #PR