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Happy to be presenting my talk “Imperial Ecologies and Anticolonial Ways of Seeing in Caribbean Plantation Modernities” at the UCD School of Languages this Monday at 3 pm (Irish time) in Newman Building, D301. If you’d like to join via Zoom, feel free to contact me for the link!

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“The indirect nature of our knowledge about oceans means that imagination and media and aesthetics, things like that, loom large in shaping our understanding of the oceans’’ @oceanhistories.bsky.social www.une.edu/node/121269

My department is hiring in Brazilian Studies! I’m not involved in this search but happy to answer general questions about the department or connect potential candidates with my colleagues here. Please share widely! apply.interfolio.com/175217&sourc...

this marc jacobs suit looks like a spanish textbook

flipped classrooms & the unquestioned shift toward “student-led learning” were also part of the deprofessionalization->adjunctification->mechanization program whose ultimate goal was a fully administrative university

long island duck, long island, new york, [between 1972 and 2008]

New job: Assistant Professor in Medieval European Art and Architectural History in the World Brown University jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69288

Lisboa, domingo podem alterar o cenário de governação de um narcisista aldrabão que destrói a cidade a uma velocidade alucinante. Mantenham este pensamento até à mesa de voto.

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New job: Assistant Professor - Sound in Cinema and Media / Experiential Learning University of Toronto jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69073

In "Inhabitants of the Deep," Jonathan Howard theorizes blackness as an inhabitance of oceans, rivers, lakes, and other deep spaces where black ecological life can thrive. Read the intro for free now. #BlackStudies #ReadUP buff.ly/22ZokD8

In less than three weeks, I’ll be sharing material from my forthcoming monograph at @texastech.bsky.social. Many thanks to Prof. @pavelandrade.bsky.social for the kind invitation, and to all the sponsors at TTU! #academicsky

This is going to be fantastic — é escreverem!

New job: Bellamy Professorship - Arabic & Islamic Studies University of Michigan jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69048

DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 15 SEPTEMBER! Please consider submitting an abstract to Daniel Reeve and I's proposed session(s) "Beyond Touch: New Queer and Trans Temporalities" for @imc-leeds.bsky.social (6-9 July 2026). Full CFP below and accessibly HERE: tinyurl.com/BT-IMC.

Please submit applications to our email ([email protected]) for this ICMS roundtable by September 8th.

Lisboa, parem esta governação de pura incompetência e oportunismo do Carlos Moedas e votem na Frente de Esquerda, por favor. Votem também por mim e por Lisboa, essencialmente.

Check out the latest issue of MLN, which includes a dossier on "New Spatialities in Catalan Studies": scents, food, photography, ecocriticism, contemporary narrative, and early modern poetry. Avaliable OA: muse.jhu.edu/issue/55531/....

Tempted to finally commit and read Augustine!

I’m teaching a new online class on Augustine’s Confessions—the book that invents much of what’s “modern” about the modern novel. 6 weeks, starting Nov 1. All sessions recorded. Full & partial scholarships available. Full info here: www.garthgreenwell.com/classes-ig

Our department is hiring! Join us and be part of a wonderful community of faculty, students, and staff. Apply here and/or please share: www.indeed.com/viewjob?from...

Boston/Camberville people: I'll be giving a talk on the Ferrara bible at Lehrhaus in Somerville next Weds 9/3!

Had a lot of fun recording this conversation about translating Shem Tov a few months back! www.paraphrasispodcast.com/p/adam-mahle...

People of the Boston area! If you're around Tufts on September 24, I'd love to see you come out to this talk, which will be open to the public.

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

"An urban tree canopy of at least 40% results in the most cooling – as much as four to five degrees Celsius (seven to nine degrees Fahrenheit)."

We're Hiring! The Department of Classics and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto invite applications for a full-time, tenure-stream position in Late Antiquity. www.medieval.utoronto.ca/news/were-hi...

It's an honor to open issue 72.3 of @romancequarterly.bsky.social with Garcilaso in the mirror! 🪞📜

Newly say dickered my love air my own would marry me all - Catallus 70 translated by Louis Zukofsky

This came out a couple of months ago, but I'm very happy to see it featured by Romance Quarterly today! Publishing with RQ was a truly rewarding experience, rigorous and generous throughout.

New job: Assistant Professor of History (Early Modern European history) Pomona College jobs.h-net.org/jobs/68930

Job! 🚨 Assistant Professor, High Medieval European History (tenure track) Princeton University www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...

Bruno Carvalho, The Invention of the Future: A History of Cities in the Modern World - @princetonupress.bsky.social, January 2026 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

EEUU ha conseguido de los líderes de la UE q le paguen *una cierta reconstrucción* de la economía industrial estadounidense, se gasten buena parte del presupuesto comunitario en material militar USA y, lo que más quería USA, q comiencen a desmantelar su estado de bienestar. Es para quemar Bruselas.

Medieval History Job Alert! University of Tennessee, where I used to work. Unbelievably strong medieval studies. Unbelievable that they are hiring in this climate! Please share this post. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37862790...

Here’s the pre-order link for my poetry chapbook, Incident Names, out with @finishinglinepress.bsky.social in November. It’s discounted now but I know individual book budgets are tight, so I’d love it if folks suggested their local libraries order a copy! www.finishinglinepress.com/product/inci...

1. Coin 2-word and 3-word concepts fast and furious. 2. Write with referential density drawing from stuff that I would expect to be distant from each other in latent space (academic neo-surrealism?) 3. Pepper with multilingualism drawing from the vernacular.

CFP -- Consumption and Consumables in Medieval Iberia and the Mediterranean, organized by Christi Ivers and Isidro Rivera for ICMS #Kzoo2026, May 14-16 2026. Please consider submitting an abstract. For more information, contact Christi Ivers ([email protected]) and Isidro Rivera ([email protected])

New job: Assistant Professor of Latin American History, Middlebury College Middlebury College jobs.h-net.org/jobs/68873

Does your work intersect with gender, economics, and colonial Latin America? Workshop your article draft with us at the RSA in San Francisco! CLAR can help with travel expenses ⬇️

It's pub day for Between the Sheets! So excited for this book to be officially out in the world. Looking forward to getting the chance to talk about it over the coming months! www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

This might be the wildest ratio I’ve ever seen

8. Feeling Other: Emotions and Difference in Medieval Iberia (In-Person) Sponsors: Ibero-Medieval Association of North America (IMANA), Association for Spanish and Portuguese Historical Studies Organizer: Roberto Andrés Talavera-Pagán ([email protected])

4. Tapestries of Africa in Medieval Iberia (A Roundtable) (Hybrid) Sponsor: La corónica: A Journal of Medieval Hispanic Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Organizers: Michelle M. Hamilton ([email protected]), Isidro J. Rivera ([email protected])

96 billionaires flew their own private jets to Venice for the Bezos wedding. Air conditioning saves lives in ever increasing bouts of hot weather. We need to take our hair shirts off both to save lives and to actually understand why the planet is cooking!

My new article on "La lengua de Cervantes" is now out in Romance Studies!