Something I love about working at a college with a strong teacher education program is realizing my students are using teacher language on me. I recently received a compliment sandwich from a student who did not like a reading, and a "thanks for participating" for going to another student's event

teaching Whitman tomorrow, thinking about

It's a unicorn job for this printer-scholar and I am beyond excited to be continuing the work I did at @skeuomorphpress.org with @ryancordell.org! I'd love it if folks helped me celebrate by making a donation to support KLP's programing: give.uky.edu/campaigns/47... 2/2

www.dukeupress.edu/reparations-... @dukepress.bsky.social is currently offering a 30% discount on David Eng's "Reparations and the Human" Use this code: E25DLENG

I was very pleased to review @riislover667.bsky.social's gorgeous volume _Feminism Against Cisness_ for @legacy1984.bsky.social . A great step toward trans studies as method and highly accessible for C19 practitioners!

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)

In a scary, chaotic week, I'm feeling grateful for teaching. It's a rare privilege to walk alongside young folks willing to plant their feet and wrestle with hard ideas. The questions my senior thesis/I.S. students want to ask all have to do with justice, community, and connection.

Getting a library card!

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

CFP in C19 trans studies for @c19americanists.bsky.social 2026 conference! #C192026 #transstudies #c19

A big WHOOPS—and congratulations—to Elizabeth James, who co-wrote "Methodologies for Exploring Unknown Archives." Our social media coordinator missed the fact that James was the Recovery Hub consultant for the Woman's Literary Club of Baltimore Digital Archive. Great work, Elizabeth! #academicsky

You can read more about the #CriticalHealth conference on the @fullersociety.bsky.social website: margaretfullersociety.org/conferences/...

What happens to the archives of our feminist elders? Walk alongside scholar Mich Ling as they work with Merle Woo--a contributor to /This Bridge Called My Back/ and an Ethnic Studies vanguard--to organize, analyze, and preserve her records.

Congratulations to Vassar Historian and head of Vassar Archives and Special Collections, Prof. Ron Patkus, who just received the AAVC's Outstanding Faculty Award.

If the dismantling of the ODH has impacted your work, sign up to give a lightning talk during the "What the NEH/ODH has Inspired Session" by Monday, June 9th: bit.ly/ach-inspirat...

I think a lot about how Aaron Swartz committed suicide while facing a probably long jail sentence for download some of JSTOR, but no one at Meta is going to face any repercussions for using all of Libgen to train its AI.

In addition to our reading groups, MTC will host a writing workshop on job market materials this summer. First meeting will be June 27th @ 2pm ET. Second meeting first week of August, date TBD. More information: mid-theory.com/mtc-writing-...

*URGENT* please support NIH research and the NIH employees who are standing up for science at the risk of losing their jobs! Sign *TODAY* in support of the Bethesda Declaration. The senate appropriations committee is reviewing the NIH budget Tuesday at 10 am. SHARE widely! 🧪

NEW: Laws banning gender-affirming care for transgender youth in the United States are inflicting severe harm on young people and their families as well as health care systems and civil society. 🧵⬇️ www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...

I'm a little late, but excited to announce that my article, "'Undisputed Dignity': Anna Julia Cooper, Black Publishing, and Late-Nineteenth Century Discourses of Dignity," published in Legacy Journal is now available: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

Really looking forward to talking about Plath and her analyst in Cambridge next week; nab yourself a free ticket to Aesthetics of the Clinic if you're around? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-aesthe...

"We further estimate that the removal of mandates during this time contributed to 21800 COVID deaths through the rest of 2022, 9% of the U.S. total that year." A reminder that these outcomes are a matter of choice.

Next up in our Society of Early Americanists joint fundraiser is the #letterpress work of @transbookhistory.bsky.social whose work through @meanwhilelttrpress.bsky.social is committed to resisting trans and queer erasure through the power of print.

Can I pet that dawg

On the latest episode of the Hopkins Press Podcast, our guest is Koritha Mitchell, who introduced the notion of "know-your-place aggression" into discourse in a popular African American Review article in 2018 tinyurl.com/yftvx5zb

Do. Not. Disturb. The. Mysterious. Ancient. Rune-inscribed. Skull-adorned. Ring. Found. In. The. Idyllic. Countryside. Seriously, there's a whole book about this. And movies. Long ones!

Fascinating to finally see some AI skepticism from... CNN? Let's go??? www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/b...

This has been a long coming, but I am beyond thrilled & ecstatic to announce that TOWARD A TRANS[]CRIP THEORY is now out with TSQ 🥹 Our intro is open access and we can’t wait for you to read and engage with us. @jlsmilges.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social

I'm over the moon to get back to my liberal arts roots this fall, when I'll start as assistant professor of English at the College of Wooster in OH. The list of people & systems that helped me get where I am grows every year, incl the Clayman Institute. My husband's support is my favorite constant.

September will mark the 200th anniversary of Frances E. W. Harper’s birth. Here’s the fourth of six essays in the forum commemorating Harper in the current Legacy, Nazera Sadiq Wright’s amazing study of Harper, Gertrude Bustill Mossell, & Black library use & creation: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

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

Here is a flowchart of my 2023-2024 year on the job market, when I was ABD. The process landed me at a wonderful, supportive, exciting postdoc at Stanford's Clayman Institute. It was also grueling and demoralizing. Job seekers, please remember that in a sea of "no," you only need one "yes."

I often will look at the stupid AI summary that pops up on google and follow the sources it gives to see if it’s actually right. Most of the time? It isn’t. And even if it’s technically correct, it’s totally missing context clues that are crucial to subject matter understanding and expertise

Max Chapnick & I are proud of this forum commemorating the 150th anniversary of Louisa May Alcott's novel _Work_. Six innovative authors offer insights on C19 gender & labor in literature, very needed as we stand on the precipice of a new Gilded Age & a nadir of modern gender justice. Open Access! 🧵

Fave takeaways from this conversation with @susanstryker.bsky.social, Ava Kim, and @adriandaub.bsky.social * to police gender is also to police race * there's no such thing as a temporary political sacrifice * trans persistence is about much more than rights

Some sad confirmation from @bcgl.bsky.social while I was at UW last week—the National Digital Newspaper Program—which builds Chronicling America—has been shut down Historical newspapers are probably the archival material most used by the general public—for genealogy, local history—it’s such a loss

Feminism Against Cisness in a German leftist magazine. From the email from the author “ it gives me hope, inspiration and makes me feel more excited and hopeful for future and present possibilities than anything I’ve been reading in a while.“ urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=htt...