Very happy to share that my article in the new issue of #Leviathan is out! It discusses Melville's Clarel, and the possibility of reading a philosophy of secularization at work in the poem. Many thanks to Melville scholars far and near for their friendship and support!🐋 👉 muse.jhu.edu/article/970196

#AmLit friends! A student asked if the "Shafters" referred to in chapter 9 of The Great Gatsby ("No wasting time at Shafters") in Gatsby's list of general resolves actually refers to something existent in 19th c. middle-town life? I thought of a mere "effet de réel" but who knows...?

➡️ Deadline extended to November 15, 2025

The Ralph Waldo Emerson Society is calling for proposals for a panel on “Emerson and Power”— CfP below!

The conference trail goes on! 👉🏻 Wed July 2-Friday July 4, Hawthorne-Poe Society conference. Join us today at @upcite.bsky.social! 📍Sophie Germain, Pl. Aurélie Nemours, 75013

Les résultats étant désormais officiels, je peux vous partager ma joie de rejoindre l'équipe d'anglicistes de l'ILCEA4 à l' @ugrenoblealpes.bsky.social en tant que maîtresse de conférences ! Looking forward to exciting new projects! 🙏🏻🐳🔍

Goodbye to misty Mystic and to sunny New Bedford, and so long to the jolly crew of fellow Mellvilleans! It's been a blast, as always... Thank you for these incredible conferences throughout the years! @melville-society.bsky.social 🐳🙏🏻

Ne dites plus "le fond de l'air est frais", mais "it was the most delightful of all days for a walk, with a dash of invigorating ice-temper in the air, but a coolness that soon gave place to the brisk glow of exercise, while the vigor remained as elastic as before." (The Blithedale Romance)

Merci de diffuser autour de vous cette annonce pour un contrat doctoral de 3 ans à l'Université Lyon 3 sur le thème "Philosophie pragmatiste de la religion", financé par le programme ANR "FONFON : Fondamentalisme et fondationnalisme" : fonfon.hypotheses.org/734.

Prochaine séance des séminaires W19 et A19 le 30 avril à 14h: comment les écrits et la pensée de Louise Michel sont-ils reçus dans les cercles radicaux états-uniens à la fin du 19e siècle? Réponse avec J. Michelle Coghlan @jmcoghlan.bsky.social et Thomas Caubet larca.u-paris.fr/events/event...

Can't wait to review this for #Transatlantica! @afea.bsky.social Many thanks to @yasnabozhkova.bsky.social ✒️📖👓!

🚨🚨 #AgregAnglais2025 l'épreuve de traduction aura lieu le mardi 11 mars. Bon courage💪💪💪

🗓️ Le 6 mars à 16h30, ECHELLES reçoit Alice de Galzain @alicedegalzain.bsky.social pour une communication intitulée "Cultivating the Roots of Feminism: Health, Gender, and Reform at Brook Farm and the Fruitlands" vale.sorbonne-universite.fr/event/sem-a1...

Collègues de l' #ESR, comment faire lorsque les dates limites d'envoi des dossiers de candidature MCF (notamment pour les postes "au fil de l'eau") sont fixées avant les décisions CNU quant à la qualification ? Les calendriers vont-ils être lissés ?

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! 👋

Happy Winter Solstice! These photos were taken with a pinhole camera I made from a beer can and left out from Summer to Winter Solstice - a 6 month exposure. Bottom line = Winter Solstice. Top line = Summer Solstice. The lines are the Sun moving across the sky w/some reflections. No line = clouds

hey #Academics, any suggestions or strategies for tackling the carbon footprint of organizing international conferences?

Je suis docteure ! I'm a doctor! Un immense merci à toute celles et ceux qui ont participé à cette aventure, and long live the Melvillian spirit! 🐳❤️

It’s 1st of December. Mull everything. Mull the wine, mull the cider, mull your tea, mull the tap water, mull the cat, mull the carpet, mull the chairs. Mull it all! Get your hair cut in a mullet. Mull the Kintyre. Mull the halls with boughs of holly. Get everything mulled. FULL MULL AHEAD!

How come is there no paper out there on Robert Zemeckis's "Death Becomes Her" (1992) and Hawthorne's "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment" 🧐🔮(also, would have loved to see Bruce Willis in an adaptation of the latter 🙏)

#HelloESR #HelloAcademia 👋 I'm a PhD candidate in North-American literature specializing in 19th c. lit., with a focus on theology, politics and the history of ideas! 📖 (1/3)