Get ready for this issue of @victorianpoetry.bsky.social — it’s coming soon and it’s fantastic. Featuring this incredible work by @rcolesworthy.bsky.social as well as equally extraordinary essays by @lerikscline.bsky.social @carolinelevine.bsky.social and Ruth McAdams.

The more I've personally thought about these issues, the more I think we should all be looking at UPs not (just) as funded but as directly FUNDING fields that unis have all but abandoned. Monographs cost more to make than they earn. UPs are putting $$ DIRECTLY where unis don't.

I'm obsessed with this stat: "with more than 4,000 degree-granting institutions and fewer than 130 university presses in the United States and Canada, this vital [publishing] infrastructure is directly supported by less than 3 percent of the institutions it benefits"

Peter Berkery, executive director of @aupresses.bsky.social, with a letter in CHE on unis that close their UPs becoming "free riders" in the scholarly ecosystem--extracting without putting in. (Headline is sort of misleading--the problem is unis not UPs) www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...

They say to write what you know

Really enjoying the Darrell Issa discourse on the San Diego subreddits rn. Toodles, dude.

Zohran for president plz.

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

!!!!!!!!

Mississippi

What we know, 10:20pm —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, *and* AG —BIG Dem gains in VA House —Dems win NJ-Gov —Mamdani wins —Dems keep PA supreme court —Larry Krasner & Bragg win — GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices —JD Vance’s half-brother loses Cincy —Dems sweep Orlando council —ME anti-mail vote measure loses

The NYT is such a joke, for once I’m enjoying it.

I AM SO PLEASED. Cross yr fingers for Prop 50.

Happy to have this new piece out in @publicbooks.bsky.social today about political #gaslighting, a lost version of the play #Gaslight, and how the latter can help us reframe the way we think about and push back against the former!

My favorite thing about San Diego public radio is Scott Bass, whose reports are pure poetry. Today: like a tidy bonsai garden with no detritus.

If you’d like to compare the extortionate demand letters the Trump admin has sent to various universities, you can do that here: sites.google.com/view/univers...

“[A]n honorary doctorate to Trump will help our University community celebrate its absurdity.”

UVA agreed to the "Guidance for Recipients of Federal Funding Regarding Unlawful Discrimination" (link down thread). UVA pays nothing and does not get an outside monitor (unlike Columbia). Critically, this doesn't stop the feds from opening new inquiries. federalinfo.virginia.edu/sites/federa...

That’s seven. @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/us/uni...

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

just my baby with tens upon tens of thousands of our neighbors, the smoldering solidarity of chicago #nokings

This story shows protests today in every part of San Diego county, from reliably blue neighborhoods to GOP strongholds:

Dartmouth is OUT! Thank goodness... a friend at U of A and I have been playing "Who will be the last of the 9 standing?" and it's not gonna be us!

BOOM! After over a thousand students, faculty, & workers gathered on campus to demand a rejection of Trump’s bribe, UVA SAYS NO LOYALTY OATH! ✊🏼✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾 M.I.T. ☑️ BROWN ☑️ PENN ☑️ USC☑️ UVA ☑️ This is People Power in Action. #DefendHigherEd

YES!

This volume contains several poems edited by Stuart Curran, including The Cenci. It represents his final completed work, the acme of his stunning career.

Bought my tix to see this in theaters and can’t remember the last time I was so amped to go to a movie. I also love that the majority of the negative reviews reveal their authors to be hysterically poor / platitudinous readers of the novel.

Utterly obscene.

do yourself a favor & read @annakornbluh.bsky.social & @isanchezprado.bsky.social hyperallergic.com/1049388/how-...

Planning a course on Wuthering Heights across time & space. Considering Condé’s Windward Heights, Desai’s Inheritance of Loss, Haire-Sargent’s H (sadly Mizumura’s True Novel is too long). Other recs? Pop culture refs (Celine, Kate Bush, etc.)? Wd love any/all recs! 🖤

Please, humanities professors, read this by @annaeclark.bsky.social www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...

Jacksonville State University is hiring several new TT faculty in Creative Writing (Fiction), Medieval Literature, and Professional Writing! Feel free to message me if you have any questions!

It was very great to talk w/ the amazing SEL managing editor Kelly McKisson about institutions & pandemic-time in dialogue w work by @marymullen.bsky.social, @annakornbluh.bsky.social @mltondre.bsky.social, @devingarofalo.bsky.social, Liz Miller, Barbara Leckie, & others @sel1500to1900.bsky.social

MIT President Sally Kornbluth just issued a statement to the campus community saying NO to Trump’s authoritarian compact “And fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.”

week 7, in a city under siege for 32 days and counting, and the students who are able to come to class despite the blitz are showing up like their lives depend on those 50 minutes of togetherness, poetry, and big questions

And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.

students said they weren’t really poetry fans but loved novels, so i wrote down a line they picked out from jane eyre, scanned it, noted the metrical substitutions and internal rhymes. reader, they took pictures of the chalkboard.

Once again, it is *faculty*—not administrators—who brought this case and won. Including UC Faculty Association chapters of the AAUP.

Patricia A. Matthew explores class, leisure, and the historical context of Pride and Prejudice. lithub.com/what-pride-a...

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

excellent and comprehensive story about what's happening at Texas A&M www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

I have been impatiently waiting for this book to come out and just this morning aspirationally put selections from it on my grad seminar syllabus, the timing could not be better!

Who benefits from attacks on higher ed? Certainly not the US economy. Certainly not the states where higher ed is the major employer. Certainly not the American people. excellent work @ehayot.bsky.social and @paulakrebs.bsky.social www.post-gazette.com/opinion/gues...

“Syracuse University paused admission to 20 majors in the College of Arts and Sciences without faculty input” dailyorange.com/2025/09/coll...

UC Berkeley told 160 faculty, staff and students that their names were included in files shared with the federal government related to "alleged antisemitic incidents." We hear from one of them.

This man could have simply resigned rather than fire a prof and demote a dept chair plus a dean. That would have been leadership.

We are launching a new #CFP at the Journal of Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine on Climate Change and Planetary Health. More details here link.springer.com/collections/...

go go go a *historic*, WALL TO WALL coalition of national & California labor unions, *including* the Faculty Associations and led by the AAUP www.latimes.com/california/s...

Clearer every day that any authentic human future will need to take place off-line

lot of people out here laboring under the misapprehension that uni is just further high school and there is some higher authority on content than the professor who is a live, working researcher in the field