BrANCA has extended our deadline to 30th Sept for our symposium in Paris (12-13 December). Please share! We invite individual paper or group proposals on long 19th-c US literary culture. Abstracts up to 200 words and 100-word bios to [email protected]. branca-2025.weebly.com/cfp.html

Huge congratulations to Dr Erin Forbes @eeforbes.bsky.social, whose monograph, Criminal Genius in African American and US Literature (Johns Hopkins, 2024), has been awarded 'Honourable Mention' for the British Association for American Studies' Arthur Miller Prize! baas.ac.uk/awards/previ...

Delighted that my book has received an "Honourable Mention" from the British Association of American Studies' Arthur Miller Prize! @officialbaas.bsky.social thank you!

No fewer than three members of Bristol’s English Department have found their monographs shortlisted for the University English Book Prize for Outstanding First Manuscript, across the 2023 and 2024 competitions! universityenglish.ac.uk/book-prize/

TODAY the final part of Sean O'Brien's series 'Marx and the Climate Crisis' comes out on your Youtube channel along with a transcript on theHythe ✨ This lecture focuses on Marx and and Environmentalism 🌿 Watch the first three parts of the lecture series🔗 link in bio #letscreate #lecture #marx

Am I the only one (still) using Text Edit?

Thrilled to have my essay on Charles Chesnutt and early Black environmentalism included in this new collection, edited by the superb Bob Levine and Russ Castronovo www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

I will never stop being aghast that the United States built a higher education system that was literally the envy of the entire world—our bitterest political enemies nonetheless sent their children to us to be educated, it was so good—& then just decided to systematically, ruthlessly dismantle it

Fara Dabhoiwala acts as historical detective, sifting literature, art, astronomy, libel to uncover this fascinating exemplar of the recrudescence of Anglo-American racism AND the extraordinary lives nevertheless lived in its wake. A true story of pre-1900 anti-racism. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...