University admins claim to be "data-driven" and "run universities like a business," but when study after study finds liberal arts majors get good outcomes, are cheap to run, and are in fact profit centers, admins cut them anyway for ideological reasons. ncnewsline.com/2023/11/16/n...

Hi everyone! Please consider sending an abstract to the Sewanee thread that I am organizing with Alexis Becker, “Personhood from Below.” The deadline is November 1st! Info and submission guidelines can be found here: new.sewanee.edu/academics/me...  An excerpt from our CFP is below:

From Sarah Blackwood's excellent essay, published a couple of months ago: www.nybooks.com/online/2023/...

“The [University of North Carolina] board approved new rules for which subjects can have distinguished professorships. They will now only be given in STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields.”

Hi everyone! Please consider sending an abstract to the Sewanee thread that I am organizing with Alexis Becker, “Personhood from Below.” The deadline is November 1st! Info and submission guidelines can be found here: new.sewanee.edu/academics/me...  An excerpt from our CFP is below:

Less than two weeks left until the deadline for our Annual Conference CFP. Our 2024 theme is "Mystics and Work" and, as always, the conference will be held online with no conference fee. Downloadable version here: mysticismlivedexperience.wordpress.com/cfp-mlen2024/

as of today, direct from Verso pre-orders available! paperback is $14.97 right now www.versobooks.com/products/303...

Friends! Be sure to mark your calendars for this exciting conference organized by Harry Cushman and Mariah Min. You will not want to miss these papers! More info here: bit.ly/identityinflux

Please consider applying for Stanford’s Open Rank late medieval literature position. Reviewing begins on 26 September: facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...

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The Colby English department is looking for a graphic novelist to take up our writer-in-residence position spring 2024. It's a great gig: one class, excellent students, housing and a stipend, and time to pursue your own work. If this sounds good, please apply! apply.interfolio.com/130055

UNC is hiring an assistant professor of creative writing in poetry! Write me if you've got questions. unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/266...

Hi everyone! My co-organizers and I are still looking for abstracts for two (!!) 2024 New Chaucer Society Conference sessions. The deadline to submit is tomorrow, 9/22; more info is available here and in the thread below newchaucersociety.org/surveys/?id=...

Not exactly my lane, but some of y'all will find this relevant to your research interests.

One day left to submit to our New Chaucer Society panel, "Ecological Change and Social Consequence in the Late-Medieval World"! Text and details here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/08/...

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Hi everyone! My co-organizers and I are still looking for abstracts for two (!!) 2024 New Chaucer Society Conference sessions. The deadline to submit is tomorrow, 9/22; more info is available here and in the thread below newchaucersociety.org/surveys/?id=...