What a busy week! 'Just finished revising our contributions to @dpupopculture.bsky.social! My chapter deals with Maybe Happy Ending; Sasha, Love Never Dies; & Kristofer, The Transformers: The Movie.

Warm congrats to my supervisees who presented on their projects today @cbuniversity.bsky.social!

Way to go, @vincenthaddad.bsky.social! X

You star, @rezekjoe.bsky.social! X

Feeling v official!

Warm congrats to my supervisees who presented on their projects today @cbuniversity.bsky.social!

Bloomed while I was working from home. :(

And...we are up on Google Books; congrats, @matthewleggatt.bsky.social & @sunypress.bsky.social! Here's to our nxt 500!

Drafted by the MLA Task Force on AI in Research and Teaching, the latest statement from the MLA "asserts that centering communication as a human act is at the core of our work as educators." Learn more: mla.org/EC-actions

Nxt week, my four supervisees will be presenting their posters at the CBU Student Research Poster Showcase @cbuniversity.bsky.social!

Bloomed while I was working from home. :(

So proud of the students in my "Film Form & Style" class @cbuniversity.bsky.social who contributed to this issue of Film Matters @intellectbooks.bsky.social! Thx, Liza, for yet another sterling number!

And...we are up on Google Books; congrats, @matthewleggatt.bsky.social & @sunypress.bsky.social! Here's to our nxt 500!

Fab build!

I don’t have a deerstalker yet, but I did get some handkerchiefs while I was in Japan.

This was shared by 25 news outlets! Thx to my RAs for heroically mapping the web traffic.

Nxt week, my four supervisees will be presenting their posters at the CBU Student Research Poster Showcase @cbuniversity.bsky.social!

So proud of the students in my "Film Form & Style" class @cbuniversity.bsky.social who contributed to this issue of Film Matters @intellectbooks.bsky.social! Thx, Liza, for yet another sterling number!

"Feel the Force": The First 50 Years of Star Wars A PopCRN conference 4th-5th of May 2027 (really, would any other days do?) Free, online academic popular culture conference Submit here - unesurveys.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Register here - unesurveys.au1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Next week! Join us @cbuniversity.bsky.social! www.cbu.ca/newsroom/eve...

Copyedits are here @intellectbooks.bsky.social!

Next week! Join us @cbuniversity.bsky.social! www.cbu.ca/newsroom/eve...

Copyedits are here @intellectbooks.bsky.social!

Wastelands & Wonderlands: Utopias & Dystopias in Film & Lit is out in two weeks @sunypress.bsky.social. Read @matthewleggatt.bsky.social's intro here! sunypress.edu/content/down...

Production for volume 2 begins! Congrats, David, Grace, & me! We look fwd to working w/ @intellectbooks.bsky.social.

Warm congrats, Ruth & @princetonupress.bsky.social! I look forward to reading, & learning from, this.

'Wrapped two brief, 3K-word essays--on Rogue One & on Maybe Happy Ending--this weekend, just before two sets of assignments come in! There'll be sequels to both essays, I think. I'm still thinking abt Maybe Happy Ending.

Ready for the next 500 meetings. Bring it!

Wastelands & Wonderlands: Utopias & Dystopias in Film & Lit is out in two weeks @sunypress.bsky.social. Read @matthewleggatt.bsky.social's intro here! sunypress.edu/content/down...

Production for volume 2 begins! Congrats, David, Grace, & me! We look fwd to working w/ @intellectbooks.bsky.social.

Secret of good teaching? Going quickly and slowly at the same time. Quickly in finding the best form of expression so people understand; slowly in dwelling on the key points so they sink in even if the complexities recede.

'Wrapped two brief, 3K-word essays--on Rogue One & on Maybe Happy Ending--this weekend, just before two sets of assignments come in! There'll be sequels to both essays, I think. I'm still thinking abt Maybe Happy Ending.

Out next month @sunypress.bsky.social! Warm congrats, @matthewleggatt.bsky.social & thx for having Callum & me! sunypress.edu/Books/W/Wast...

Jürgen Habermas (18 June 1929 – 14 March 2026).

Please share! EHR is hosting a free one-day symposium at St John's College, Oxford, on Friday 17 April, 10-6, on the theme 'When there are no sources'. Further details and how to sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-there...

I got this for one of my supervisees. They’re heading to grad school this fall.

I got this for one of my supervisees. They’re heading to grad school this fall.

Today, I'm teaching an essay by Ruth Bernard Yeazell. I heard a version in London the year before, & I remember everyone diligently taking notes. What a wonderful piece of criticism! Thx, @gwzach.bsky.social & @ctrhjstudies.bsky.social, for making it happen! muse.jhu.edu/article/6767...

I'm teaching James this week, & my students tell me that this telegram is perfectly intelligible.

I'm teaching James this week, & my students tell me that this telegram is perfectly intelligible.

Out next month @sunypress.bsky.social! Warm congrats, @matthewleggatt.bsky.social & thx for having Callum & me! sunypress.edu/Books/W/Wast...

Updating my magnet collection.

We are in French too! And somehow, we are on CBC Nova Scotia's list of top stories for 1 March. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/223...

Show me AI that can visit an archive, then sit in the searchroom and interpret 19th-century handwriting, and you might - almost - have a point. I'm seeing an awful lot of evidence that people just don't know what humanities scholars actually do.

This week, I'm teaching Portrait!

We are in French too! And somehow, we are on CBC Nova Scotia's list of top stories for 1 March. ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/223...

I'm in the news! halifax.citynews.ca/2026/03/01/n...

I'm in the news! halifax.citynews.ca/2026/03/01/n...

Great to be a part of this project! Thx for having me, William & Jessica!

ReFocus: The Films of David Fincher is coming together! Warm congrats, Keith & @edinburghup.bsky.social; & thx for having me! Special thx to my Boston Reading/Victorianist/Work-in-Progress Group for engaging with my ms with such rigor & generosity.