Penn State faculty vote yes to unionize! ✊ www.pennstatefacultyalliance.org/news/2026/05...

This past weekend, CripAntiquity board members Alicia Matz (Co-Chair) and Tori Lee (Secretary) hosted a workshop at the 9th Quadrennial Feminism & Classics conference, hosted by the University of Cincinnati. (1/)

So excited to hear about this new edition of Catullus from the inimitable @magistracohen.bsky.social!

Who all is going to be at FemClas this week?

I have SO MANY thoughts about these schools and the broader movement and gave a paper about them at a conference last month. Overall, this isn't an awful article but I do have an issue with the credulous parroting of this "apolitical" line www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

Hey #AncientSky, I need to replenish our departmental supply of ancient world-themed stickers before graduation festivities later this month, but, in this new age of tariffs & AI slop, I need help! Where can I buy cool classics stickers designed by a human & without exorbitant hidden fees?

Thread: This semester at Texas Tech, our new chancellor has required a portal to be created through which a form must be submitted for every course. www.texastribune.org/2025/12/01/t...

ICYMI: Katharine Huemoeller's _The Child Follows the Womb_ comes out today! This book is a game-changer for our understanding of enslaved women's reproductive labor in the Roman world yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

hell yes Steve Mellon & co. I could not sign this fast enough. LFG!! I'm pledging to support post-Block journalism in Pittsburgh. Whether that's new ownership at the PG, or a Pittsburgh Union Progress revival, or something else, I'm here for it. actionnetwork.org/forms/pledgi...

Logging back on briefly to encourage you to go read this issue of Pasts Imperfect, where I have an essay about the push to automate literacy in the contemporary academy and the relegation and subjection of literacy in Ancient Rome pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/pasts-imperf...

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New year, new Rhea! Rhea Classical Reviews is excited to share that we have officially been designated as a 501c3 organization! Obtaining this tax-free, non-profit status opens the door for us to expand, as well as apply for grants and secure funding to support our internal and external operations.

I'm seeing some good critiques of this (and, as a scholar of ancient emotion, I have plenty to offer myself!), but I have to say: the claim that human emotional experiences are based in diverse cultural norms does NOT imply that people who experience emotions differently than we do are less human.

BREAKING: Federal judge in Pittsburgh blocks DOJ's invasive trans care subpoena. The latest loss for DOJ, regarding the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's patients, also brings news that DOJ has started scaling back its requests following its many losses. New, at Law Dork:

Join us in Williamsburg, VA for the 79th ACL Institute! Hosted by W&M Classics, with in-person + virtual sessions. Date for proposals: Pre-Institute workshops due Dec 15, 2025; Institute sessions due Jan 11, 2026. Details + links: https://www.aclclassics.org/ACL-Institute/ACL-Institute-2026

🚨 PSA for classics folks: a new volume, Ancient Rape Cultures: Sexual Violence in the Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian World (which features a contribution from my amazing colleague SB Breitenfeld), is now available open-access here! irfrome.org/publication/...

Included is a state-of-the-field piece about disability in antiquity (open access), which I co-wrote with @horusofnekhen.bsky.social and @tibg1312.bsky.social. See where we're at with this subfield!

It is my pleasure to share the CFP for a special issue of #ResDiffJournal guest-edited by Hasskei Majeed, Justine McConnell, Olakunbi Olasope, and Luke Roman, building on the Classics &/in Africa conference at UCL this summer. "Classics and Africa" resdifficiles.com/classics-and...

Attention, classics and translation people! Scott McGill and I are organizing a panel for SCS 2027 called "The Indirect Method: Translations as Sources." Please read, share, and/or submit! www.classicalstudies.org/annual-meeti...

🚨🚨🚨 Major announcement!!! I am extremely pleased to announce that HAA is searching for a senior, endowed position in premodern art or architecture. The subfield is wide open. Please spread the word and encourage curious scholars to write to me with questions! 🚨🚨🚨 cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

CFP sure to be of interest to many: Slavery and Humanity Revisited: The Impact of Slave Systems on Personal Experience (for the Symposium Vesuvianum at the Villa Vergiliana) www.vergiliansociety.org/symposium-ve...

Congratulations to Vice President Roxanne Brown who has been elected as our next international president! “I am beyond humbled & honored to serve as the USW’s next president," said Brown. Read more at: usw.ca/new-usw-leaders-prepare-to-take-office/

Heads up, UIUC Classics is accepting applications for MAT and MA/PhD programs for fall 2026. All resident grads are supported by full tuition waivers and a combo of fellowships TAships, and RAships. For any questions, Dan Leon ([email protected]) is our fearless DGS and I'll link our website below.

Coming Soon! www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

🗣️ PLEASE SHARE 🗣️ I'm writing an intro & sourcebook on late ancient Gazan literature for Dar al-Kalima University Press. The press and I plan to produce an Arabic translation to make Gazan literature more accessible to Palestinians. Help me compensate the Gazan translator! spot.fund/dn8t744sc

Today I published a new section of my website with resources for those who wish to learn, study, and/or teach ancient languages using braille. It rests on work we did over the past year to expand screen reader access to these languages through the LibLouis library. Check it out and share around!

HELU's International Campus Worker Protections (ICWP) Campaign is organizing to pressure our institutions to stand up for international workers. Read more about this campaign in a recent piece by organizer Bobby Huggins higheredlaborunited.org/2025/09/22/t...

My review of @sarahebond.bsky.social's latest book, Strike, just came out in the Classical Journal! It was a pleasure to read and review and I really hope everyone will check it out!

New post on Humanist! Do I think fondly on (or even remember) oral exams in grad school? No. But do I want to experiment with them now, especially after reading more literature about how to use them to engage students in deep learning? Yes. #AncientBlueSky #classicsBlueSky #TeachLearnSky #EduSky

Was (or is) your campus experience one of conforming to norms, or challenging them? @publicsource.org wants your take on academic freedom for potential inclusion in our new series "Gagging Academia" www.publicsource.org/academic-fre...

A heads up that many many academic books are on this list! Find out if yours is here: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

I maintain this list and celebrate each new addition and funding improvement to allow all to access our discipline. It feels equally important to mark the rollback of past successes. Programs at UVa, Columbia, Cornell, and Rutgers, now no longer exist. RT pls. 1/ livyarrow.org/funded-mas-a...

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yesterday @eosafricana.bsky.social sent out their notice for Eos WRITES, which is a really great opportunity to work on writing, give feedback, and build community. here’s their link to sign up: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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.

Each year, we publish lists of books, journal articles, and chapters published by historians working off the tenure track. It's never too early to start collecting, so if you or someone you know has something with a 2025 publication date to submit, have at it!

Forget your triremes, the strongest ship is mentorSHIP! Applications are now open for the 2025–26 AAACC + Mountaintop Coalition Mentorship Program! Sign up to be a mentor and/or a mentee by September 8! (You can be both!) Head to our website for details.

WHAT!?! I honestly cannot wait to read this!!!

Teaching beginning Latin or ancient Greek this year? Feeling daunted by the prospect of overburdened students, AI cheating, and hostile admin? Join us to swap strategies for a successful semester! TODAY!!!

I may still update the sex work reading (Perhaps a new piece by @anisekstrong.bsky.social !) and I'm looking for a newer reading for the non-binary bodies unit, but here's the relaunch of my sex and gender research mythologies seminar OER. All materials are free to use. clas4032.wordpress.com

Our AI Workshop for People Who Hate AI is tomorrow!!! I promise @apistone.bsky.social and I won't spend *too much* time ranting about the AHA's new guidelines. Don't forget to register! #TeachAncient

they’re here! i only need like 3 of these. CUP sent me 10. so, how about this: i’ll mail the others to the first 7 contingent faculty and/or grad students who email me their mailing address.

A great post on classroom discussion! I especially love the quotation from bell hooks on having students read their written work aloud in class, which I'm definitely adopting for my writing class this semester!

Come hang out with me and @ellenleephd.bsky.social to talk about AI and teaching on August 7! Register here! www.wccclassics.org/events/wcc-p...

Come hang out with us for this upcoming workshop (August 12)! It's led by the brilliant @ellenleephd.bsky.social (with me as her trusty sidekick) who is so smart and thoughtful about language pedagogy and I am so excited to learn from her! Register here! www.wccclassics.org/events/wcc-p...

Today on the blog, SN Yeager and Victoria Austen discuss Classics and unionization for the Contingent Faculty series. www.classicalstudies.org/scs-blog/sn-...

Teaching beginning language students this year? Join me and @apistone.bsky.social for a conversation about how *hard* it is to teach ancient languages right now and what we can do about it.

Me and @apistone.bsky.social, back at it again! This year, we're designing the kind of workshop we've desperately wanted to attend over the past few months, but haven't found: an AI workshop for people who hate AI. Come chat with us about the plagiarism machine!

Fun fact—the formal pub date is 7/31, but apparently CUP is now live with my book, if you’re logging in thru an institution: accordingly, book 🧵 incoming. (1/) www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...