Check out my open-access article! I explore how two water-centric #clifi short stories by A.S. Byatt and Vajra Chandrasekera paradoxically use the narrative failure at the heart of the climate crisis as a catalyst for narrative imagination. #bluehumanities #ecocriticism dx.doi.org/10.1002/fhu2...

My hot take about the “students cannot read whole novels / watch whole films / etc.” is that they can learn to do it. None of us are born with attention spans suited for long media. It is a learned skill and can be developed with practice.

me: "I offer something even better than extra credit." [*students sit up in excitement*] me: "Regular credit." [*general booing, hissing, and throwing of rotten vegetables*]

Carla Arnell calling for the creation of dedicated, credit-bearing writing labs: "If colleges still wish to claim writing skill as an important learning outcome, they need to become more deliberate about what it means to educate student writers in the age of AI."

CALL FOR PAPERS: TRAFFIC Proposal Deadline: 15 February 2026 〰 NASSR/NAVSA Pasadena, California November 11-15, 2026 〰 For more information, visit: traffic2026.ucr.edu 〰 #19C #Traffic @navsa.bsky.social

The rate of global mean sea level rise has increased from ~2.1 mm/year in 1993 to ~4.5 mm/year in 2023. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

For anyone prepping a #syllabus for a Brit lit survey: Check out my recent open-access article in _Victorians_, which considers how to design an #inclusive survey for non-majors. By centering "amateur" undergrad knowledges, we can rethink Brit lit surveys from below. muse.jhu.edu/article/969209

The fat was here, the fat was there, / The fat was all around www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Tech wythout heart ys harmful. For a bettir future we need poetrye, creativitye, historical studye, love of languages, dreames, dialogues, new storyes, & intellectual curiositye. We must fund & expand higher educacioun yn HEART: H umanityes E thiques A rtes R hetorique & the crafte of T eaching

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

marks in my whale-books

when H-Net releases a torrent of notification emails

It's very exciting to say that Coastal Gothic, 1719–2020 has just been published in @universitypress.cambridge.org's Elements in the Gothic series – and it's currently open access and *free* to download until the end of December! doi.org/10.1017/9781...

The relative usages of "[adjective] reading" in Anglophone literary studies journals, 1920-2020. Made for my "Prac Crit" course next term, "[Adjective] Reading". Interactive version here: public.tableau.com/views/Adject...

Happy birthday to Jane Austen, and to this very on-brand Economist chart www.economist.com/christmas-sp...

"I've had it up to here with your pathetic fallacy, buddy."

the TLDR of mercantile maritime capitalism

you will be visited by three spirits

[1/3] For their final reflection of the semester, I had students pretend to be me and write a short letter of recommendation about their overall work in the course.

there are a rabble of uncertain, fugitive, half-fabulous whales, which, as an American whaleman, I know by reputation, but not personally

Beards don’t compromise military effectiveness, former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force Alex Wagner argues. Pete Hegseth’s policy proves he’s failed “to align military policy with evidence, fairness, and the diverse composition of the nation”:

The second sentence: a blue Christmas indeed -- Dickens's oceanic imagination at work.

snow on the dogwoods this morning

A BLUE HUMANITIES job: jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinna...

Another highlight of #NAVSA2025: “Ends of the Earth” with Mark Celeste, Briony Wickes, Gunja Nandi, & Aaron Rosenberg.

Test driving Bluesky -- just in time for #NAVSA2025! Come hear me talk about Victorian cryofiction -- human entanglements with Arctic ice in literary responses to the Franklin Expedition: panel 11G, "The Ends of the Earth," Nov. 15 @ 4:00PM.