Sarah made an incredible index for University Keywords and highly highly recommend her work. What a gift to work with her!

New The Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America Vol. 119, No. 4 (2025) www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/pbsa/202... @chicagojournals.bsky.social @bibsocamer.bsky.social @jsench.bsky.social @wynkenhimself.bsky.social @laheffernan.bsky.social @rbuurma.bsky.social @amndw2.bsky.social

Job alert! @ischoolui.bsky.social is hiring in 4 areas this year Early literacies: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Information behavior/HCI/UX: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Information, Culture & Society: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree... Open IS: illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

“That this debate is happening in terms of skills versus content is itself unsettling, subsuming Shakespeare into that category of internet clickbait produced to keep hits coming, rapidly being overtaken now by A.I. slop” let’s gooooo

hey if you’re seeing this please DONATE to Western Alaska Disaster Relief: alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c... Oh yeah cover reveal. And preorder link. And blurb the first and perhaps only. DID YOU DONATE TO WESTERN ALASKA DISASTER RELIEF YET? 🫶🏽🖤🦭🙏🏽🦅🙏🏽🖤 upittpress.org/books/978082...

The full announcement is now up at this link. Deadline still 31 Oct.

UC faculty are fighting through the courts to save the UC system. Our funding has been swept by central admin. We can’t pay to travel or research. Every time we lecture we’re at risk of attacks by right-wing mobs. Fortunately the UC Regents are on the ball: they’re…finding new ways to discipline us.

I want this to be true so badly that I can’t trust myself: I have to refuse to believe it until I see a dotted line physically connecting the smoking gun to the body. If it were true the consequences would be huge.

It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.

If you're in or near Atlanta, or *super juiced* 😜 about close reading and love to travel, come to Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century: A Symposium at Emory University on Friday, November 7. And hear from these superstars...

Extremely enthused to have Matt joining us to launch Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century with a star-studded symposium and Vandal Live! episode in November ✨

Me listening to the first 20 mins of this episode: wow they're scrutinizing something I co-wrote on a podcast hey they're scrutinizing something I co-wrote and not giving me any credit I am not a Spreadsheet Man!!!

This one’s for the hardcore. But they’re gonna love it. @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social & I bicker! @rbuurma.bsky.social shocks @laheffernan.bsky.social with confession! @jdconnor.bsky.social outs the Hopkins Mafia! @manshel.bsky.social, Fred J in ‘77, & more! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Suppose I say summer -Raymond Carver, “Hummingbird” (For Tess) From “A New Path to the Waterfall," completed in the last weeks of Carver's life and published posthumously #everynightapoem #summersolstice

We made it to Friday! I'm going to share three tips on using Signal from someone who has been using it for both work and personal communications for...a long time.

I have discovered that lots of people who are not professional humanists are eager to help fund a lawsuit against the administration by professional humanists. Join us. Every $10 makes a difference. Tell your friends who want to do something.

independent reading Fridays through the end of the year with juniors, starting tomorrow assignment: bring in a book made of paper, no test prep, no “how to make money real fast,” otherwise your call, 100 on a hw grade for having one, 0 for not, no make ups

“An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters for ever afterward.” In this, he was wildly successful. High-school English didn’t make “Gatsby” great, but it has certainly kept it so.

Who will staff and who will review? Preservation & Access like all program areas lost (almost all of their) staff? That’s in addition to wondering why grants already doing exactly this work were terminated.

Harvard faculty pledge 10% of their salary to support students and staff as the university weathers Trump's assault. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

So relieved to see that Mellon will be providing emergency relief funding the US’s state and jurisdictional humanities councils. If I learned one thing during my years at NEH, it was how crucial these organizations are to our public humanities infrastructure. www.mellon.org/news/america...

It is so exciting that Tom's new 📘 will appear this summer. (Full disclosure: I am lucky enough to have the galleys!) For what other writer working today is in a position to tell us that they have "sprinkled" texts "throughout the book for their snuff box descriptions" & "references to Catherines"?😉

We've aggregated relevant @modernlanguage.bsky.social resources, including tips for NEH awardees, links to webinar recordings on threats to higher ed, MLA statements, & links to other resources. Share resources w/ us through the google form, and sign up for the first Strategy Session (April 22).

Today's the day! I invite close readers to see if they can find the places where I channeled the most rage into this project. It is supposed to make you uncomfortable. You are supposed to try to dismiss it as "praxis" vs. "theory" and then you are supposed to be convinced otherwise.

Adding herewith to my (very) intermittent series, A JANE AUSTEN GUIDE TO FACULTY MEETINGS: "Female economy will do a great deal my Lord, but it cannot turn a small income into a large one."--The Watsons (Apposite at a time of catastrophic threats to funding for the humanities, here & everywhere ...)

Working through these documents sent to grantees who had NEH grants terminated. So bizarre. They're like the Nigerian Prince version of grant terminations. They're not even sent from a government email but rather a onmicrosoft dot com address. So the Microsoft equivalent of a gmail account.

A Nigerian Prince Canceled Your NEH Grant. No Really … talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-nig...

Apologies for cross-posting, but here’s some advice for people with NEH grants

JOB! The Aydelotte Foundation at Swarthmore College is hiring a technology and social justice postdoctoral fellow to begin fall 2025. More details in the linked posting on interfolio. Please share widely and I'm happy to answer questions if you have them. apply.interfolio.com/165877

🔥 📝 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

It's hard to really wrap your head around the scale of it, but Trump has now cancelled almost all NEH funding programs. Such terrible times. Thinking of the many dedicated staff members at the NEH who are losing their jobs and seeing programs they've worked so hard to build and maintain being cut.

policy people! apropos the minuscule budget for NEH, whose theft is nonetheless devastating: looking for sources (academic, perhaps journalistic) that array data for internationally comparing state funding for media, arts, and culture grateful for links, citations, names, graphs!

A clearinghouse for gathering info on NEH (see second post) and a toolkit for advocacy. ⬇️

DOGE has now turned its sights on a small agency that provides support for community programs in every state. The National Endowment for the Humanities, which funds museums, historic sites, libraries, educators and media outlets across the country, has been told to slash staff by 70-80 percent.🧵

PSA: NEH awardees should always feel free to email [email protected] with questions, feedback, or concerns. You can also message staff and access (NEH-generated) files in eGMS Reach reach.neh.gov. Any of this correspondence is subject to FOIA.

CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY now has a website at @princetonupress.bsky.social, complete with very generous blurbs from David James, @rbuurma.bsky.social & @laheffernan.bsky.social , and Andrew DuBois. @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social

A Programming Note. “I have pivoted to posting almost exclusively about the coup happening in the United States right now. My focus will be on this crisis for the foreseeable future.” [kottke.org]

Several people have already expressed their intention to teach this arc of episodes. That’s so gratifying. And I’ve created this landing page to assist, with links to all the episodes, plus potential supplementary readings (for undergrads), & a list of featured books (with links to publishers).

We're suing DOGE. "DOGE must be ordered to come out of the shadows & comply with the law before the sweeping, self-serving plans of billionaires upend the federal government and cause irreparable damage in the lives of working people,” said @rweingarten.bsky.social labortribune.com/afge-aft-gov...

I, however, Have such meagre power, Clutching at a Moment, While you control An hour. But your hour is A stone. My moment is A flower. -Langston Hughes, "Poet to Bigot" #everynightapoem Resharing for all the wins and losses of this hour

The Trump administration erased the letters T, Q, and I from any mention of LGBTQI+ on any government website, so I created a Chrome extension that erases those same letters from *every* .gov website. github.com/samplerealit...

I'll be speaking at the CUNY Victorian Seminar on Friday, February 7, 2025 at 12:00-1:15 pm, Graduate Center. Topic from my book POOR THINGS: "Biocultural Myths About Poverty: The Racialization of the Poor in Victorian London" Bring an ID to enter the CUNY Grad Center building. Room number TK.

A real pleasure to chat some about my new research on the history of high school English with @mattseybold.bsky.social on the American Vandal podcast! Add to that the many insights of @laheffernan.bsky.social, @rbuurma.bsky.social, and @annieabrams.bsky.social, and you have a great weekend listen!

With help from @astra.bsky.social @rbuurma.bsky.social @laheffernan.bsky.social @manshel.bsky.social @annieabrams.bsky.social & Crystal Sanders

As the Trump administration & many state governments appear poised to accelerate attacks on higher education as a public good, the AAUP urges colleges & universities to resist the coming onslaught of political interference & defend the core values of higher education. 🧵 www.aaup.org/news/against...

Did you read THE GREAT GATSBY in High School? Or have you taught it in HS? I’m writing a piece for the book’s 100th birthday and I need your help! What do you remember about how the book was taught? Specific assignments, discussions, exercises, essay prompts? The further back the better!

Author copies are here! What a weird wonderful feeling to get your 1st book in print! Binding Media. Hybrid Print Digital Literature from across the Americas can be preordered now and will be officially out in March from @stanfordpress.bsky.social www.sup.org/books/bindin...