Excited to share 'Elemental Melodrama,' special issue of Textual Practice I edited w/ @moniquerooney.bsky.social & @gearuss.bsky.social! Essays by Sarah Balkin, Millie Schurch, Meg Brayshaw, @devo3000.bsky.social, and Marcie Frank on revisiting melodrama's elemental roots thru theatre, lit and film

New album just dropped. Check it. www.publicbooks.org/b-sides-unde...

From Michael Roth, president of Wesleyan University: slate.com/life/2025/02...

Saw this at the MLA exhibit. Beautiful!

Before long, I hope, this will all be over. Before long, I will be back home. In the meantime, it is tearing me up not to be there. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/o...

Like many, can confirm! This year really has been about becoming part of communities. Start with sitting in the back, if you need, but if it's the right community for you, they'll be happy to have you!

Libraries are absolutely the first-stop for community building: you can find so many groups, learn about events, volunteer opportunities, it's all there. Free internet, sometimes a little shop. Bonus all around.

This is a must read! Excited, Manu!

I guess this question asked: can you tell what part of speech this is? A Better question: has it ever been effective (within or without a sentence)?

Don't tempt me with questions like this, @nytimes.com

Accidentally took a photo of my dog like she’s performed three miracles and is now a saint 😂😂😂

I’m excited to announce this new CFP for scholarly chapters to be included in “Contemporary Indigenous Horror” edited by myself and Krista Collier-Jarvis! The CFP is open to self-identifying Indigenous scholars and creatives, as well as allies. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/...

Hi y’all—been off Bluesky and twitter for a few months. Anything happen while I was gone?

Delighted to share the 2nd of 3 faculty openings in the Dept. of Media Studies, Univ. of Colorado Boulder. If you're focusing on ENVIRONMENTAL MEDIA, please consider applying. It's a tenured or tenure-track OPEN-RANK search. Deadline: Dec. 10 | jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Harris/Walz Kids Fundraiser, version 2.0!!! Four years ago, Grey started a poster fundraiser, and her hand-drawn posters, which ended up all over the US, raised $600 for the Biden-Harris campaign. This year, she and a group of friends created a web store instead ...

BOOKS ARE WEAPONS IN THE WAR OF IDEAS

Bet her opponent wishes he’d seen this.

I had such fun talking about The Necromantics on the History of Literature podcast 🧛🏻‍♀️❤️ www.historyofliterature.com/620-necroman...

What a pleasure it was to review the excellent new collection *After Darwin: Literature, Theory, and Criticism in the Twenty-First Century* edited by @devo3000.bsky.social and @doctorwaffle.substack.com! The review is below…but if you’re into Darwin, just buy it already!

I don't know if he's on here but in case he isn't, Nathan Goldwag wrote a blog essay on "The Moral Economy of the Shire" looking at how a society can function based on custom & clientalism rather than the state and you should read it, it's fantastic. nathangoldwag.wordpress.com/2024/05/31/t...

Here's a great summary of last night's ACLU NorCal event that I spoke at about police surveillance and resistance. www.santacruzsentinel.com/2024/05/21/s...

Very excited about Victorian Poetry’s new Early Career Essay Prize! Deadline for submissions is June 30. Details below! Please share widely — and encourage untenured scholars working on great projects to submit their work!

It's time to start talking about the new academic security complex. It is not simply administrators -- there is a revolving door of security experts and a growing industry of private contractors who have captured the minds and fueled the nightmares of uni leaders. I see it every day at USC.

Every time I teach my Luxury class, the potential final projects become more and more disturbing

When I was a grad student @rutgers, I was active in the AAUP & helped organized a week-long occupation, w/ tents. We camped. It was peaceful. Admin was annoyed but permissive. We got our contract. Healthcare incl. for the first time. Wtf is wrong with modern admins and their security fever dreams?.

Houston: 5

This is incredible. Asna (our Valedictorian) posted he address to USC. dailytrojan.com/2024/05/10/2...

I sent this message to the UMass administration yesterday: "I was looking forward to speaking next week at UMass Amherst. I visited two years ago and everyone was awesome. My nephew graduated from there and got a great education. But calling the cops on peaceful protesters is a shameful act...” 1/2

Lost in the shuffle, was the difficulty President Folt apparently has in actually expressing an apology to Asna (our valedictorian). The beginning of her remarks at the Senate meeting at USC yesterday felt like a way to address that call. But they carefully avoided the word "apologize."

I am proud and inspired of our faculty at USC and the action they took today. There is a lot of difference but they’re united in their criticism of our administration and l anger at how our students have been treated. Censure of the provost and president, and call for investigation, a the beginning.

Currently swimming in the cognitive dissonance of full disgust with our institution and deep admiration for the community members who stand with each other in the face of it. As always the community voices, leaders, and reporters are the ones to look to.

A scholar of social movements & activism explains how the campus protesters are doing everything right and repressive university administrations are doing everything wrong www.scientificamerican.com/article/repr...

Pulitzer Prize Board acknowledges the "extraordinary real-time reporting" of student journalists covering campus protests. www.pulitzer.org/news/stateme...

@USC FACULTY: Please join us for a 𝐌𝐀𝐑𝐂𝐇 to protect our students on UPC in front of Bovard at 𝟓𝐏𝐌 𝐓𝐎𝐃𝐀𝐘. RT/Share widely!

Exactly. Let me recommend Glenda Gilmore’s chapter in MYTH AMERICA on the myth of the “good protest” — if anything, protests in the 1960s were more disruptive and unpopular than ones today

On another note: I find the casual way our students are dismissed by national media/pundits outrageous. They are deeply committed and have a huge variety of thoughtful views. And they are willing to stand for what they believe in, risking their futures and lives for it. ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

To share from CAIR-LA, which is providing legal support for protesting students:

Yesterday, almost ninety people, mostly students and faculty, were arrested on @USC's campus and potentially face felony charges for criminal trespassing. At least one student was seriously injured. Please consider supporting their legal and medical defense: gofund.me/683bae3a

Horrified that LAPD have been called on to campus to disperse a peaceful protest. If you are a member of our community and would like to call the president and ask for them to back down, they have a hotline. 213-740-2111

Student radicals have occupied my cellar and are swilling the precious casks of Amontillado!

MASSIVE WIN FOR WORKERS IN THE SOUTH After two failed attempts, the UAW succeeds in unionizing the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, a historic first for autoworkers below the Mason-Dixon Line. Dig into democracy at www.erlywrm.com

Here is a petition some faculty have just sent to USC's President, Provost, and Board of Trustees, asking them to reinstate the Valedictorian's address. We also insist security should not be a pretext for choosing who gets to speak on campus. shorturl.at/emyJP

If the NY Times actually cared about higher ed, this is what they’d be covering. Besides, from an economic perspective, this is newsworthy.

New Beacon Press volume just arrived -- and I have a chapter in here, with my PEN America colleagues Jonathan Friedman and James Tager, on "The Rise of Educational Gag Orders." Many other great pieces in here as well. Buy The Right to Learn here: www.amazon.com/Right-Learn-...

Note the common thread b/w the arrests @Columbia and the suspension of the Valedictorian's speech @USC is the language of "security." Universities should be spaces secure enough to have frank and open debate. And above all, where students should be safe expressing their views.

Columbia student newspaper to university prez: "It is you and your administration who pull us apart as a community instead of drawing us together.... You must confront your failure to fulfill your duty of protecting and representing your students and their concerns."

"bureaucracy of suspicion" is a great way to describe the ridiculous way we manage benefit programs in the US

This makes me sick. It's not an issue of free speech, but whether universities support the central role of inclusive, morally-committed, & open dialogue on campus. This sort of behind-the-scenes maneuvering is the direct opposite. The provost should relent. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2024/04/15/p...