"Bucknell has decided to close its highly respected, decades-old UP in June 2026. The stated reason? The press serves scholars, not Bucknell undergrads. Bucknell undergrads—& some grad students as well—disagree." FANTASTIC piece on BUP's student internship program. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

does anyone know how I can get my $3000 payout from Anthropic for copyright infringement on my book? serious question

This year's remembrance lecture at Edinburgh Napier marks, as always, Craiglockhart's First World War links(the meeting place of Owen and Sassoon) and our late colleague Catherine Walker. This year it is also the @fwwsoc.bsky.social Dennis Showalter Memorial Lecture, given by @juliarsct.bsky.social.

As Labor Day approaches, we urge all AAUP members & chapters to join the national actions organized by @aft.org & the MayDayStrong coalition. Their website provides a directory & instructions for locating nearby actions. maydaystrong.org See you on the streets! #DefendHigherEd #WorkersDeserve

Also, if you are Reading-adjacent on 23rd September, I'll be talking about the edition at @buxiduan.bsky.social & @lawrentian.bsky.social's symposium on modernist editing alongside @greenbowlerhat.bsky.social, @wvmierlo.bsky.social and many more bsky.app/profile/gree...

Buxi Duan @buxiduan.bsky.social has organised a wonderful symposium on Modernist Editing at the University of Reading. Do come! There are a few bursaries for PGR and precarious ECRs … research.reading.ac.uk/centre-for-b... @modernistudies.bsky.social

Come work with @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social and @ruaaup-ptl.bsky.social! Please help us spread the word unionjobs.com/listing.php?...

I just love rainbow colored crosswalks.

Are you a modernism fan in New York? Book now for the Grolier Club exhibition Richard Aldington: Versatile Man of Letters, which runs from 11 Sept to 11 Nov. www.eventbrite.com/e/exhibition...

Reminder! Deadline to sign up for @moderniststudies.bsky.social seminars at this year's conference, including mine on Surveillance Modernity (described below), is August 31. #surveillancestudies

Pub day! My new book, Authoritarians in the Academy at @hopkinspress.bsky.social, is now officially out and available for purchase. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

The CFP for next year's joint MSA/BAMS conference in Loughborough, UK is out! As a longtime oddball, am thrilled for a Euro summer, 'Weird Modernisms'-style @moderniststudies.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social

Exciting news! The CFP for the joint MSA/ BAMS conference in Loughborough next July is out now. Because this is a joint conference in the UK, there are a number of changes to note for MSA members, including the earlier deadline (Dec. 1) for papers, panels, workshops, etc. More details at the link!

The International Comic Arts Forum (ICAF) is now accepting applications for three positions on our Executive Committee. We are looking for a Fundraising Coordinator and two Members-at-Large. Deadline for applications is September 1, 2025. Send a CV/resume and cover letter to [email protected]

"Through close readings of Emily Brontë, George Eliot, and others, the book challenges its readers to immerse themselves in the 'fossil-fueled lifeworld' of the nineteenth century." New in review, Karen Pinkus on Nathan K. Hensley's Action without Hope: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/karen_pinkus...

The desire to stay on here long enough to let you all know when my book is out (so soon! mere months away!) versus the desire to disappear from the internet entirely forever

A bit of a ways off, but if T. S. Eliot is your jam: I'm speaking on this cool Zoom panel in December on "The Spiritual, Ethical, and Social Vision in His Life and Work." Check it out if you can! eicsp.org/events/event...

In 2026, the MSA Conference will look a bit different-- weird, even! That's because we're having a joint conference with BAMS @modernistudies.bsky.social in Loughborough, UK from July 1- 4, 2026. The CFP will be out soon! But in the meantime, please save the date.

LET'S FUCKIN GOOOOOOOOO

Thank you Aaron Hanlon, Eric Hayot and Anna Kornbluh for HUMANITIES WORKS: posters, postcards, and handouts to support the humanities. humanitiesworks.org/posters/

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going hard for us, I see, Cather.

Registration for the 2025 MSA Conference is now open! If you didn't have a chance to submit a paper this year, there's still a chance to participate by registering for a seminar. Seminars are a great opportunity to get feedback on drafts. Seminar topics can be found here:

I hear we’ve been talking the institutional turn…. modernismmodernity.org/forums/moder...

This graduate mentoring program designed by @jessmasters.bsky.social is a new MSA initiative, and I wish existed when I was a grad student. Pass it along to any graduate students working in modernism or modernist-adjacent fields, like the Harlem Renaissance, 20th-century studies, etc.

Finally, the MSA Board is excited to announce a new graduate mentoring program! Graduate student MSA members have the opportunity to be paired with a senior faculty member for one-on-one mentoring sessions. More info can be found when you register for the conference. @jessmasters.bsky.social

Get the reduced rate by (actually) Aug 31! 👇

saw this in my Baltimore banner scanner; disappointed.

Attention philosophers, x-philosophers and moral psychologists - I'm hiring! Two, 3-year research fellowships on an interdisciplinary project in the Philosophical Moral Psychology Lab at the Uehiro Institute, Oxford. Pass it on! For more info and to apply: tinyurl.com/mrwwuyaw

Afro-Scottish Poetry Event 2025 25 July, Glasgow. Tickets £0–£10 A multicultural evening of poetry, music, & storytelling that celebrates African & Scottish identities through powerful performances. Created & curated by Chisom Okoronkwo with U Belong Glasgow www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/afro-scott...

Cover release! Enchanted Wood preorder available with 30% discount through September. Beautiful wood engravings from mid-20th century to please and compel the eye and mind. Minnesota Press publishes in December 2025.

late announcement: on July 1, I was promoted to senior lecturer in the University Writing Program at Johns Hopkins. Here I am fulfilling a childhood dream as "Egyptologist" in the Ashmolean Museum. I pointed to all the hieroglyphics & kept saying "This is text!!" which I'm sure was charming. 😆🤔🫠

Researchers! Short-term fellowships for working with Beinecke Library (and all Yale special collections) are open for applications. Deadline is July 31. beinecke.library.yale.edu/programs/fel...

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Bluesky peeps: please help! This is for the book I'm working on. Did you have family fire drills when you were growing up? (And what generation are you?) If you have kids, do you have family fire drills now? THANK YOU for your help and please REPOST this question! 😘 #AcademicSky #Writing #History

Reminder: we love publishing research and conference postcards! If you're a contingent scholar and you've got some scholarly travel scheduled this summer, drop us a line through our pitch page. Check out some of our previous postcards here: contingentmagazine.org/category/pos...

CFP from my @ucc.ie colleague @georginanugent.bsky.social and Ronan Crowley @goetheuni.bsky.social-an invitation to address feminist, queer, intersectional and transnational approaches to the question of Joyce and his women contemporaries for a special issue of Feminist Modernist Studies #modernism

trolled by Chinese fortune cookie about my book manuscript.

Also, if I know anyone NOT a contributor to the Oxford Handbook of George Orwell and wants to review, also hit me up!!!

I'm still looking for a reviewer of this book! If you're interested, hmu! www.routledge.com/Teaching-wit...

@argonautbooks.bsky.social is one of the best bookshops in Edinburgh and @scottishbooktrust.bsky.social do outstanding work. They deserve support.

It me.

We are so delighted to introduce our first cohort of contributing writers—critics and thinkers who exemplify the spirit of what we want MTC to be. We are grateful for their work and thrilled to have them on board as we continue to grow and evolve!

👇👇 a tremendous special issue proposal in the works at Feminist Modernist Studies journal.

Look. I have written a book about how Nazis took over and guess what—this is how they take over: Claim there is an invasion of immigrants. Use it to create an authoritarian state. Shut down any objection or protest with excessive force. I have receipts. I will talk to press. It’s right here, now.

"If you’ve ever wanted to read an academic journal article, though, you may have noticed that it costs money to download it—anywhere between $5 and $90. The article’s author isn’t getting that money."

Columbia College in Chicago has just laid off 20 more tenured and tenure-track faculty members. columbiachronicle.com/topstory/bre...

looooove this.

okay the student information system has already defaulted to showing me fall 2025's rosters THE VIOLENCE AGAINST ME I AM GOING TO INPUT SPRING 2025 FINAL GRADES GET THEE BEHIND ME SATAN

it's the last one that is just WOW.