paperback coming early 2026! ✨

HEROES chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Working on ecology in premodernity? Come share your stuff with us! Proposals for 2025-2026 Premodern Studies Seminar at the Newberry Library are due July 7! newberry.slideroom.com?utm_source=C...

crash writing a new syllabus for intro to poetry (starting monday!): any fav poems for thinking about communities, social groups, collectives?

good day to break my wordle streak www.nycclc.org/news/2024-11...

today's teaching is /convent of pleasure/--thanks, past megan

u of c is moving towards NTT faculty strike and seeking solidarity, especially from alums. please consider signing and sharing! act.seiu.org/a/facultyfor...

Administrators at Harvard are developing “unprecedented” modes for disciplining faculty.

who's going to MLA in january? should i go?? not giving a paper, but it's in new orleans & the warmth would be nice . . .

Happy pub day to *Disrupted City* www.chapatimystery.com/archives/slo...

Hi friends, I have received an actual, real-life copy of my first book, Glorious Bodies, and it is the thing I am most proud of in this world. If you're interested in trans history and theology, I hope you'll take a look!

Emily Drabinski reporting that this includes every librarian. www.tspr.org/tspr-local-n...

if you had a to order books for a Margaret Cavendish and Hester Pulter course, how would you do it? Asking for myself obvs! Plenty of excellent digital resources . . . So maybe I could get away with just the Broadview Paper Bodies Cavendish reader?

It’s PUBLICATION DAY!!! 🥳 I’ll post a little teaser every day on each ch. In our introduction, Chloe Preedy & I…er…introduce vol. & explain what on earth possessed us to publish a book on a writer mostly associated ŵ prose in a PLAYS companion series. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526149466

RSA 2025 RENAISSANCE LIBRARIES: THEN AND NOW How do libraries mediate the materials of Renaissance Studies? How should we understand the spaces that connect the past to the present? Send abstracts to @tarallyons.bsky.social & to me. Due July 22. See you in Boston! www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

UGH. Ten years and 4 months later, I re-located this footnote to an antislavery pamphlet pointing out that it was printed on linen and not cotton paper so as to avoid the material economy of slavery.... that REALLY should have made it into my book but didn't bc I forgot. Oh well. Here it is anyway.

Today a wonderful post by @elizaaudacis.bsky.social on two devotional books with early modern female signatures as Beth considers dirt, tears, and detritus as evidence of book use buff.ly/3Rx5mDF #HerBook #EarlyModern #C17

RSA 2025 CFP RENAISSANCE LIBRARIES: THEN AND NOW Got a paper that explores how Renaissance Studies has been mediated by libraries? I'm organizing a set of panels with @tarallyons.bsky.social & BSA sponsorship. Send us your abstracts! Proposals due July 22. www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

new author line for me

my employer pulled this

Created this for an in-service day to explain the much-overlooked role private equity plays in higher education.

i am unfortunately away for the great cicada descent. but i applaud this local ingenuity. chicago terroir in the SW burbs: chicago.suntimes.com/environment/...

"We do not believe that one should know what one is looking for before arriving here. Instead, we embrace the theory of the spectacles, where readers are given time determine what is of interest to them." — @bkadams.bsky.social exploratory book history FTW! 👓📖 medium.com/the-sundial-...

glimmer of good news! depaul's president insisted that students vacate their encampment by sunday but they remain in place and safe from the cops blockclubchicago.org/2024/05/12/d...

"Notes from Rob" offices.depaul.edu/president/no...

"The ordinary members of the university community are related to the Chicago Principles in something like the way that the employees of Procter & Gamble are related to the “values” described on its corporate website."

Donkey Song? Usually I'd show you the unicorn volvelle in this fortune-telling book full of loud animals, but today's #WorldDonkeyDay. Here's a musical ass playing kettledrums! @NewberryLibrary (Case PT1795.W7 K87 1671) i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...

in which I try to parse the meaning of “principled neutrality”, long-standing forms of student repression, and why we should figure out what’s happening at Vanderbilt, the first and only university to expel anti-genocide protestors this spring proteanmag.com/2024/04/29/d...

Hind’s Hall (in memory of Hind Rajab)—- apr 30, 2024

well done

An ad in the May 12, 1854 “Oregon Spectator”…

Big Con in Higher Ed: Thur, 3/28, 7pm ET Join in a conversation to learn how private consulting firms are transforming the university and how to fight back.   Register at bit.ly/bigcon <<<<<< Co-sponsored by HELU, @lawcha.bsky.social, UCW-GA, and #LaborSpring @georgetownkilwp.bsky.social

For part of spring break I went down a research rabbit hole involving trompe l'oeil paintings & prints in the #c19. So I want to share with you this amazing specimen by Louis Leopold Boilly, featuring a cat (who resembles my Mr Bean!) as the chaos agent who has turned surface into depth. #catpics

yesssssss

“The ‘enrollment cliff’ is a racist dog whistle.” Here's how it works (I know, threads suck here) 1. It is much more accurate to call this a 'shift' than a 'cliff.' The number of college-eligible graduates is not going to change. The only sharp decline is among white-identified prospective students

Renaissance Side-Eye Recently seen in the wild at #NewberryLibrary

Apparently ChatGPT had a breakdown last night. We're living in a pretty weird science fiction novel lately, but I cannot lie — I love this subgenre. Delaney-esque metafictional shit.

chop from the top www.chronicle.com/article/pres...

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Race is here! There are so many brilliant chapters for you to read including one I wrote entitled Editing Shakespeare and Race. academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

UPDATE: estc.printprobability.org now includes the full set of ESTC titles, not just pre-1700

"Conservation is never static, each book is unique, and there is not a prescribed 'right way' to treat a book." Rachel Bissonnette on fascinating repairs to a 1622 book at the Folger www.folger.edu/blogs/collat...

student journalists tracking the bad bad doings mcquad.org/2024/01/24/t...

University budgets, by design, suck the lifeblood out of the humanities. There's a history to this too, but it doesn't have to be this way. A new newsletter from @profgabriele.com and me. PLEASE READ. SUBSCRIBE. SHARE!

A river of repair in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Hatton 38, the Early English Gospels, c.1210

We talk a lot about ghosts in printing, but not as much about ghosts in manuscript; here it seems this receipt for work done was rested against a sheet with wet ink, and some trace of the writing remains in reverse on the back.