Happy 223rd birthday to Ralph Waldo Emerson 🎉 Taking this opportunity to remind you all that The Dial’s latest issue (vol. 2, no. 2), edited by @chrishanlon.bsky.social, is available online!

Happy 216th birthday to Margaret Fuller! Today’s celebration is a special one—the unveiling of a bronze statue of Fuller by distinguished American sculptor Penelope Jencks, at the Concord Free Public Library ⭐️

Two amazing MFS initiatives ▶️ More info on our website: margaretfullersociety.org

The Magnolia of Lake Pontchartrain is LOA’s story of the week!! storyoftheweek.loa.org?m=1

BIG NEWS 📣 “A life-size bronze likeness of 19th century writer, book reviewer, and women’s rights advocate Margaret Fuller has been donated to Massachusetts’ Concord Free Public Library Corporation and will be unveiled next month.”

➡️ Tune in this Friday for a hybrid seminar devoted to Margaret Fuller, featuring papers by Sonia Di Loreto (Università di Torino) and Leslie Eckel (Suffolk University). The event, part of the A19 seminar series, will take place at Sorbonne Université in Paris & on Zoom (a19.hypotheses.org/3658)

➡️ Four awards by the Emerson Society, supporting undergraduate and graduate students, as well as scholarly and public‑facing initiatives. Deadline is May 1st.

Nice to see the Times turning its attention to this important matter! But it fails to note that even in French the accent is on the first syllable. And it doesn't make a distinction between THU-row and THO-row. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/28/b...

📣 The RWES is proud to announce four new awards. Information about eligibility & deadlines is available here: emersonsociety.org/awards/

New CFP for a Thoreau Society session at MLA 2027 (Los Angeles, 7-10 January)🌿

Highly recommend this landmark book:

Yay! Just registered 👏

A new CFP is out! The MFS invites submissions for a panel on “Feminist and Anti-Racist Citation” at #MLA2027 in Los Angeles.

Join us for Michael D. Hattem’s “The Memory of ‘76: The Revolution in American History”. The free virtual public program will be Thursday, January 29 at 7:00 p.m. ET. Register at americanantiquarian.org/programs-events/memory-76-revolution-american-history

Happening now at #MLA26 ➡️ “Margaret Fuller and Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers Observing Nature, Engaging Science,” a panel sponsored by the Margaret Fuller Society

Calling postgraduates - You have until 16th January to submit your entry for the Ellen Craft Essay Prize. SASA offers the prize to encourage the study of marginalised voices. First-place will receive a cash prize & invitation to the March conference. How to submit:

Is employability the key reason to study the humanities? No. But does the data hold up the much repeated assertion that UK humanities degrees are “low value” & don’t lead to good employment rates? Absolutely no. Do we need to shout this one from the rooftops these days? I’d say YES.

[Parution] 📚 Les Presses Universitaires de Paris Nanterre publient un ouvrage collectif, "Hawthorne Inside Out", co-dirigé par Thomas Constantinesco, @carolhildebr.bsky.social, Édouard Marsoin et Cécile Roudeau. ➡️ cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/agen... #SitesExperts #EnglishTeachers #Agrégation

Ended the semester with a paper on Feminist Reading Acts at Brook Farm, which I gave at the British Association of Nineteenth-Century Americanists symposium in Paris. Thank you @cecilea19.bsky.social, @virginiawouf.bsky.social, @l-m-chnl.bsky.social for organizing such a wonderful event.

Are you a grad student? Is any of your work on Emerson? Please consider submitting a proposal for the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society Graduate Student Works in Progress Online Symposium, to be held on April 3rd, 2026. The deadline for submission is March 2nd, 2026. More information below 🔽

Applications for the Emerson Society Fellowship at the Houghton Library are open! The deadline is 16 January 2026 and further information about how to apply is available here: library.harvard.edu/grants-fello...

We all need this l’il person in our lives. This world is this person’s; we just live in it.

The LATEST issue of Emerson Society Papers is out! Edited by Mark Gallagher and Kathleen Crosby, the Spring 2025 issue is available on our website: emersonsociety.org/emerson-soci...

💥CFP: The Margaret Fuller Society is calling for papers for a panel on “Trouble and Recovery: Health in Margaret Fuller’s Life and Society” at the 2026 #ThoreauGathering in Concord, MA (8-12 July). Abstracts due by 31 December 2025.

I tried a couple new things this term. It has been my best term since 2019. Among my trial runs was self-directed reading, following the advice of Mary Isbell on @c19podcast.bsky.social I highly recommend this & it should be part of your 2025 best of public humanities, @americanstudier.bsky.social

The Margaret Fuller Society Online Bibliography has just been updated and is now LIVE! 👏 Check it out! margaretfullersociety.org/wp-content/u...

Research funding opportunity! This is an excellent bursary for those working on any aspect of women's studies - it's designed for those who need it most (ECRs, indie scholars, PhDs). Do check out the details at @wsguk.bsky.social and apply!

American and Canadian Studies at Notts have been so important for so long. Our colleagues there have a plan to save jobs and teaching provision and management are not considering it. Please sign and share.

The 2025 SSAWW Conference (6-9 November, Philadelphia) is just around the corner! Please join us on Friday 7 November for two roundtables about the roles of women author societies, co-organized by the Emily Dickinson Int. Society, the Margaret Fuller Society and the Elizabeth Madox Roberts Society

Want to give a talk at the greatest annual gathering of Thoreau nerds in the world? Submit your proposal by December 15! us10.campaign-archive.com?u=0963c82477...

🌿 The theme of the next Thoreau Society Annual Gathering (July 8-12, 2026, Concord, MA), is “Living Well: Thoreau, Health, and Flourishing” Check out the following CfP 🔽 for a panel titled “‘Worth the Postage’: Thoreau’s Correspondence” Proposals due by 10 December 2025, to Kathleen Kelly

It's happening now! Join us at @sorbonne-universite.fr (17, rue de la Sorbonne), salle Louis Liard today📍. All welcome! 👋 👉 criticalhealthconference.wordpress.com/program/

I’m not gonna lie: this was a sheer delight to work on & I’m excited to see it now has a cover. That I got to include Emma Goldman & Dawn Powell alongside W.D. Howells, Audre Lorde, Dorothy Parker, Paule Marshall, Djuna Barnes, Helen Keller & Margaret Fuller (among others) was a great bonus.

📣 Registration is now open for the “Critical Health” conference (17-18 October 2025). Register for in-person or online attendance by clicking on the link below: 🔗 criticalhealthconference.wordpress.com/registration/

Paris-based artist Auriane Kolodziej will showcase her work during the “Critical Health” conference I’m coorganizing. Find out more about her sculptures and beautiful poetry here: criticalhealthconference.wordpress.com/art-exhibit/ (desktop version recommended)

Issue 2.1 is out! Essays by @alicedegalzain.bsky.social & Peter Balaam; don’t miss our forum on higher ed now featuring Stephanie Foote, @jennifergreiman.bsky.social, @cnewf.bsky.social, & @samcohen.bsky.social Read/circulate/submit: thedialjournal.org

“Precarity, Then and Now” is out! Writing an article for the new @thedial2024.bsky.social about Margaret Fuller’s editorship of the Dial (and Caroline Healey Dall’s work for The Una) felt very special. muse.jhu.edu/issue/55494?...

💥An updated version of the program for the “Critical Health” conference I am co-organizing with @jpitettiheil.bsky.social is now online! Please visit our website (desktop version is recommended) at criticalhealthconference.wordpress.com

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society is calling for proposals for a panel on “Emerson and Power”— CfP below!

Ten days left to apply to this great mentorship program!

The Women’s History Network is offering one £250 prize for an undergraduate dissertation on any aspect of women’s or gender history (though with a strong focus on women) written during the 2024-2025 academic year. Find out more! womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-undergra... #GenderHist #WomensHistory

The BAAS Teaching American Studies Network is seeking new lead/co-leads. The role entails attending subcommittee meetings, liaising with members, & the organisation of networking events. Expressions of interest should be sent before 15th September 2025. More info: baas.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

Had the honor of meeting Camille Dungy at the Thoreau Society Annual Gathering, and now that I am back home I get to enjoy reading her beautiful book🌿

Calling for papers for #C192026 in Cincinnati! Send us your proposal by August 10th, 2025 🗓️ @c19americanists.bsky.social

The Society for the Study of American Women Writers Graduate Student Caucus is calling for participants for their Mentorship Match Program. It pairs dissertating grad students with a faculty mentor for the 2025-2026 academic year. Learn more and sign up: bit.ly/SSAWW-mentor... #academicsky

The Poe/Hawthorne conference is coming up soon and the program includes papers on Margaret Fuller: Yoshiko Ito’s “The Fusion of Physicality and Spritituality in Margaret Fuller’s Journalistic Writings” and Alice de Galzain’s “The Gendered Politics of Hearsay: Poe, Hawthorne, and Fuller”.

Poste de contractuel·le à Sorbonne Université, 2025-2026 https://saesfrance.org/poste-de-contractuel%c2%b7le-a-sorbonne-universite-2025-2026/

Beyond excited (and honored!!) to announce that Prof. Emerita Phyllis Cole (PennState Brandywine) will be delivering the keynote address at the conference on “Critical Health” (taking place at @sorbonne-universite.fr on October 17-18, 2025) that I am co-organizing with @jpitettiheil.bsky.social

Happy 215th birthday Margaret Fuller! Some Fullerenes took an excursion to Mt Auburn to pay homage (thank you Tammy Rose @concordwriters.bsky.social for organizing this and Megan Marshall for being our guide)

Happy birthday Margaret Fuller! Celebrating her 215th birthday with a walk to Mt Auburn to see her cenotaph, later today! Thank you @concordwriters.bsky.social for organizing this!