So excited for "A Study in Empire: How We Read Now" with brilliant colleagues Olivia Lingyi Xu, Jacob Romanow, Nasser Mufti, & Meghna Sapui at #NAVSA2025

Fab work here from Rachel Winchcombe, @daniellealesi.bsky.social, Jack Bouchard, Amanda Herbert, @juliafine.bsky.social, @meghnasapui.bsky.social, Ilaria Berti, and Mercedes Lopez Rodriguez.

Thanks to @raherrmann.bsky.social for inviting me to guest edit this special issue of Global Food History, "Empires of Disgust": www.tandfonline.com/toc/rfgf20/1...

66.3’s second essay cluster, “Textures of Empire,” is organized and introduced by Jason Rudy @jasonr75.bsky.social, and features essays written by Meghna Sapui @meghnasapui.bsky.social, Bassam Sidiki @super-bass.bsky.social, and Erin Cheslow.

New issue alert! 66.3 features essays originally presented at the 2023 NAVSA conference, held in Bloomington, Indiana. The conference’s theme, “Revision, Return, Reform,” is reflected in this issue’s three essay clusters: Stretch*, Textures of Empire, and Global Decadence, Global Victorian Studies.

Patrick & I would be so grateful if ppl would circulate this to their smartest + most interesting academic friends. We are excited to welcome everybody to DC 🙏💙

@meghnasapui.bsky.social compares Alice Perrin's "The Biscobra," first published in 1894 then again in 1901, for its distinct uses of the titular biscobra as "a racialized metric of scientific knowledge and a potent metaphor for the imperial gothic." Read here: jvc.oup.com/2022/06/03/t...

Ann Arbor is beautiful in September 🍃Also, hello in this new place!!