Resharing, for the Friday crowd, the news of this crucial special issue, in which I'm honored to appear alongside scholars and humans I deeply admire and to share the article I wrote when I thought it might be my last. Solidarity with all who have wondered the same. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

@ryancarroll.bsky.social kicks off VP’s new keyword series with a brilliant essay on INFORMATICS. muse.jhu.edu/article/987315

@lerikscline.bsky.social writes abt cuts at St. Norbert College & broader patterns of agentless budget shortfalls, “transformations,” admin hostility to protesters, & crackdowns on higher ed—these expose the tactical limits of a category like “Victorian studies.” muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

A new special issue of VP on material conditions is out & it’s a banger. It considers what it looks like to interrogate the protocols whereby intellectual production’s insides are quarantined from their constitutive outsides in conversation with Victorian poetry. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56685

Registration is now open for Crafting Your Scholarly Book, my annual summer book workshop! tiliaeditorial.com/crafting-your-scholarly-book A participant comment: "Ellen knows how to work with diverse kinds of projects and help everyone articulate their own ideas better. Dream editor to work with!"

Steven Mintz's substack post may have gone unnoticed since he published it as the holiday season kicked in. If you missed, it, it's very useful for anyone currently doing course planning for the spring who wants students to learn things in the dystopian era of AI substack.com/inbox/post/1...

The Emory Writing Program Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship application is now open! 3/3 teaching in first-year writing with opportunities to design/instruct upper-level classes in rhet/comp. Renewable up to three years. All PhDs with experience/interest in writing are welcome to apply—share widely!

It would perhaps surprise no one that I was raised with public radio as the background noise to my daily existence, so it was a singular delight getting to go on NPR to talk about Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol omny.fm/shows/in-the...

Sharing again for the Friday crowd and for all your Knives-Out-season needs.

"It is a drag, and it is drag doing the gender work expected of 007. This year Amazon acquired full creative rights to the James Bond franchise. And as the quest for the next 007 drags on, Lauren Eriks Cline reflects on Daniel Craig's legacy in making palpable the character’s coerced masculinity.

In my mailbox today, a book well worth reading.

Auckland university is hiring a Lecturer (that’s Assistant Prof for all you Americans) in English, specialising in the long nineteenth century, to a permanent position commencing before Semester 1, 2026 (or by negotiation). Focus is nineteenth century fiction - details below!

Last week I learned that the University system is paying for a subscription to Gemini, Google's AI, for all students, and that my purchase of two packages of blue books and a box of pencils has exhausted my office supply budget. Every budget is a moral document.

A tool that signals how far they diverge from an aspirational norm is not that useful for the task of learning that student’s unique entrance into critical thought, and any process that separates me from the difficult work of learning the student’s language is an obstacle to helping them.

New game: Read, Research, Recycle (One you read for fun, one you research for years, one you put out with the old paper) Bleak House, David Copperfield, Our Mutual Friend

Look, there are many reasons to admire Joe Buttigieg, but this approach to citation is top 3 at least

Look, there are many reasons to admire Joe Buttigieg, but this approach to citation is top 3 at least

New podcast! Tobias Wilson-Bates interviews Nathan K. Hensley, author of "Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse," a study of “how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action.”

The most fun I’ve had talking about ideas in a long time. I’m so grateful to Tobias for leading this wide ranging & (for me) really energizing conversation. He is such a badass— listen for his edited-in list of the 10,000 books on Amazon abt “climate” and “hope,” one by Michael Bloomberg 🤣🙏🌿

Y'all, listen to @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social's interview of @nathankhensley.bsky.social in this Studies in the Novel podcast! It's fantastic! www.studiesinthenovel.org/interact/pod...

Sabrina Carpenter, alias Foucault 😍

*Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse* is out today! The official release got pushed back due to an issue w the art, & despite being mostly about literature it's very visual. So to celebrate its full entry into the world, a thread of some of my favorite images from it:

thank you so much, @uchicagopress.bsky.social! 😭🙏🌿

atlanta! rolling through friday for Good Enough Art english.emory.edu/news-events/...

I'm thrilled to say that to celebrate the launch of my new book, I'll be doing two events in the DC area later this month: Thurs, 4/24, 6 pm @ People's Book, Takoma Park / @peoplesbooktakoma.com Sun, 4/27, 3 pm (w/ novelist Rabih Alameddine). Politics & Prose, DC / @politicsprose.bsky.social 🌿

The Penguin edition of Lydia Davis's (excellent) translation of Madame Bovary:

🚀 Join the #RSVPDigiEvent team April 11 celebrate the publication of /Digital Victorians/ with @pfyfe.bsky.social! We'll convene at our usual time (as we will have all caught up to spring by then) at 8am PT/ 11am ET /4pm UK / 5pm. rs4vp.org/launching-di...

Teaching Robert Browning tomorrow, which means it's time to introduce my students to this all-time banger tweet @ncecire.bsky.social

5 things I did last week: 1. I pluck'd 2. I eat 3. I naught else Regarded 4. I ingorged without restraint 5. I to myself thus pleasingly began

History: “Eventually the incompetent fascists invariably lose power and then society recovers in a new and stronger way” Me: “Oh, cool, so what has to happen for the spell to be broken??” History: “mmmm…well, that part is less encouraging.”

Shop update.

Andrea gives the three canonical options: A: CAUSE-a-bon B: ca-SOW-bahn C: ca-SAW-bun This platform doesn't do polls, but please vote below so we can get this settled definitively ASAP. I have a whole chapter on *Middlemarch* that I've already written, so I need to learn soon?? 😂😱

Sublimate your existential terror by crafting an incisive political manifesto enmeshed in a 19th c niche project [AKA The submission portal for NAVSA2025 is now open] navsa.georgetown.edu/submit-propo...

One of the smartest, most delightful people I know, writing about another of the smartest, most delightful people I know! What could be better?!

To be clear, when Hegel argued that History is teleological he was specifically describing the inevitability of Muppet Middlemarch

Lauren Eriks Cline: "Classrooms can be limited, local experiments in alternative arrangements: assessment structure as preparedness training, reading list as go-bag, class community as model for mutual aid." 🔥

If you will be at MLA, come by the Archives and Possibility panel on Friday at 8:30 to hear scholars working in Black studies, Caribbean studies, Native and Indigenous studies, and Victorian studies consider archival methodologies that position the archive as a site of re-creation or possibility.

Wanna come to my party? Having a convo with @ryancordell.bsky.social about *Digital Victorians* in a series about new books in critical bibliography. Thurs 12/12 12:00p EST. Details and register here: rarebookschool.org/all-programs...

Delighted to announce that @emmadavenport.bsky.social is the inaugural winner of Victorian Poetry’s early career prize! Watch for her brilliant essay, “Crediting Women’s Poetic Labor: _Paradise Lost_ and Toru Dutt’s ‘Our Casuarina Tree’.” Read more abt it below or in the alt-text. Congrats, Emma! ✨

On Friday afternoon, Kathy Psomiades brought home the hardware for *Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology, the Novel, and Sexual Modernity,* awarded best second book by NAVSA. One judge, @mmvty.bsky.social, said (paraphrased): "Literally, though, how did you do this?" 🏆🔥💜

Perhaps no period better clarifies our current crisis of digital information than the 19th century. In Digital Victorians, @pfyfe.bsky.social argues that writing about Victorian new media continues to shape reactions to digital change. www.sup.org/books/litera...

Um. This NYT Cooking blurb is giving Moby Dick in a big way.

if you've read verso books, please help any way you can to support the publisher in straits after a partner's bankruptcy left books change lives! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ver...

The ratio quoted here is from 2023, which I assume means it indexes a time period before every untenured faculty member in the humanities was laid off. Joyner has been at the college for a year, and by next year St. Norbert will have no remaining junior faculty in the humanities.

For the newsletter, I wrote about first days as a first practice in what we hope learning will look like.

This is gonna be great, y'all!

A little while ago I wrote about the redirection of college resources to RIZE and to consulting groups at St. Norbert College, where the former president of Wittenberg eliminated 26 faculty positions this year. If it hasn't happened at your institution yet, get ready. buttondown.com/lerikscline/...

And while I'm here, a job at Emory! Our humanities center is hiring a senior program coordinator. I bet this position is pretty fun: staff-emory.icims.com/jobs/132624/...