📣 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!

Let’s celebrate Margaret Fuller’s 215th birthday (May 23) together! Please click on the link below ⬇️ for more information about our annual Fundraiser. Donations will be used to fulfill the mission of the Society and 25% of the fundraiser will also be donated to the Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House

@alicedegalzain.bsky.social turns to Transcendentalists (esp Margaret Fuller!) to understand the philosophy behind Caroline Healy Dall's innovative statistical storytelling: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

The New England Quarterly will be accepting submissions for the Margaret Fuller Prize until June 15, 2025!

Now in possession of the historic 1st LoA volume of Fuller’s writings (& other amazing books). This is why I love the @edinburghbookshop.bsky.social 🙌

Grad students, check this out ‼️ Submission deadline: 10 March 2025 Send to Nicholas Guardiano, Vice President of the @emersonsociety.bsky.social

A feminist state of being, akin to queer existence, is not to become less bothered w/ time. ‘A feminist life is not so linear’. You don’t unbecome being a feminist killjoy. Inspiring writing by the queer feminist philosopher, Sara Ahmed, *Living a Feminist Life* (2017, p.173). #LGBTHistoryMonth (UK)

May I share some good news? My article on “Margaret Fuller and Bettine Brentano-von Arnim” is out (OA)👏🏻 Very grateful to Prof. Katie Kornacki and Prof. Amanda Smith, who co-edited this special issue of LIT: Literature Interpretation Theory

Paris calling: Submit your abstracts by Feb. 10 #C19 #healthhumanities

📢 The Thoreau Society at the 2026 Modern Language Association Meeting in Toronto: Call for Papers ➡️ Thoreau’s Revolutions 🗓️ Submission deadline: 15 March 2025

Join in for a full day on Hawthorne's Tales! 🗓️February 7, 2025 📍Université Paris Cité, Bâtiment Sophie Germain, Amphi Turing, Place Aurélie de Nemours 👉Information and abstracts: tinyurl.com/4en6y6w8 See you there! 👋

🔈CFP “Critical Health: Feminist Perspectives on Health and Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century United States” 🗓️ 17-18 October 2025 📍Sorbonne Université, Paris 🔗www.criticalhealthconference.wordpress.com ⏳Abstract submission: 10 February 2025

Ending a day at the archive with Mary Ann Dwight’s beautiful Brook Farm watercolors (1845) is just priceless. Thank you MHS.

1st post on this platform & it's about Midwest MLA 2024 conference on "Health in/of the Humanities." Tomorrow is an early start (hi jetlag) but a panel on "Women of Nineteenth-Century American Literature: Disability, Hysteria, and Self-Education" is so worth it ‼️