Last night’s #c19 @c19americanists.bsky.social plenary, with founders and past (and present) presidents reflecting on the last 15 years, was a beautiful thing to listen to and gave hope for the present and future. Lots of love to all involved, including Chris’s pants, for keeping this org growing.

And on Day 1 of the 2026 conference of @c19americanists.bsky.social !!!

Welcome to Day One of the 2026 conference!

Our special issue for @j19journal.bsky.social honoring Frances E.W. Harper's 200th birthday is now out! It features *8* terrific essays on intriguing facets of Harper's work and concludes with a stirring afterword by @profkori.bsky.social. @dark-stars.bsky.social @c19americanists.bsky.social

The Dial has stickers. See you in Cincinnati. @c19americanists.bsky.social

Life Writing’s Uses and Abuses Saturday, 10 January 2026 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM MTCC - 707 Presider Koritha Mitchell Boston U See pic for full list of titles and presenters Also attached Thursday and Friday sessions on American literature before 1900

#MLA2026 #Toronto LLC 19th Century American Forum's Sponsored Sessions RESOLUTION!!!!!! Thurs 8 Jan 2026 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM MTCC - 606 To protest the MLA’s suppression of Resolution 2025-1, discuss how to organize, teach, research c19 American lit committed to staying, fighting Presider Xine Yao

See attached for the Saturday and Sunday sessions at @modernlanguage.bsky.social for American literature before 1900 @c19americanists.bsky.social @earlyamerican.bsky.social

We are now accepting both applications for Travel Grants for the 2026 Conference and donations to the Travel Grant Fund pool for distribution. If you would like to make a tax-deductible contribution, please visit our C19 Zeffy page: www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

I knew Fall 2025 would be labor-intensive in terms of teaching, so it’s all easier said than done, but this is also a semester exciting conversations with folk I admire. A couple more on deck! ASA: American Studies Association AAR: American Academy of Religion

My co-editors Andrew Taylor, Sarah Ruffing Robbins, and I are so proud of this latest book in the Interventions series published by @edinburghuniversitypress. The Asian American Renaissance: Literary Encounters Across Time by Mai Wang will change the stories we tell about US literary history.

19th-Century Americanists of North America! Will any of you be in Europe in Dec? I've been asked to draw your attention to the BrANCA conference in Paris on Dec 12-13 They would love to see some of you there! @c19americanists.bsky.social branca-2025.weebly.com

We've extended the deadline for submissions to our special issue, "Adaptations," to January 15th, 2026. Attaching the cfp here: please submit!

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper is 200 today! @c19americanists.bsky.social @digblk.bsky.social @ccp-org.bsky.social @blkgrlpoet.bsky.social @profgabrielle.bsky.social @npr.org She’s just as fabulous, relevant, and fiery now as she was in C19! For a sample, see commonplace.online/article/vol-...

Hello C19-ers! The deadline for submitting panel/roundtable or individual paper proposals for 2026 conference in Cincinnati is TODAY! And the deadline for submitting a proposal to one of our seminars is SEPT 15TH! www.c19society.org/2026-confere...

Issue 2.1 is out! Essays by @alicedegalzain.bsky.social & Peter Balaam; don’t miss our forum on higher ed now featuring Stephanie Foote, @jennifergreiman.bsky.social, @cnewf.bsky.social, & @samcohen.bsky.social Read/circulate/submit: thedialjournal.org

We are hard at work on the 2026 Conference Website. In the meantime, a reminder that you can find the CFP for panels, individual papers, AND seminars here: www.c19society.org/2026-confere...

‘Whiteness and American Literature’, edited by Jolene Hubbs, is out today with Cambridge UP, featuring a chapter by me where I discuss whiteness in a bunch of extremely weird C19 novels and short stories! @c19americanists.bsky.social @ssag.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/au/universit...

I guess I'm on the only @c19americanists.bsky.social watching the Sex and the City sequel series.

This is the most 19th-Century shit I’ve seen in all my years.

The 19th century abolitionist movement utilized a diversity of tactics and engaged in constant critical internal debate in the mission to end slavery. The movement needed speeches, lawyers, lawbreakers, newspapers, and armed resisters. History teaches us that freedom requires all of the above.

OMG, everyone, @c19americanists.bsky.social is in @alisonbechdel.bsky.social 's new book, #Spent! This is page 144!!! Published today!

Literally the only thing I want from my students is that they want to learn. That's it. That's the entire thing. Everything else is details

Our #TeachingC19 series is a rich resource for careful, insightful thinking about pedagogy in C19 studies. We just published a new piece today by Jill Swiencicki www.c19society.org/teachingc19a...

Our latest #TeachingC19 essay is published! Read Erica Stevens, Ashley Rattner, and Julia Tigner collectively reflect on how pedagogy rigorously and responsibly engages online modalities and digital technologies during the age of "enshittification." www.c19society.org/teachingc19a...

My NEH grant was terminated in service of a new focus on “patriotic programming,” but as an American and an Americanist, I know that resisting this dangerous decision and the broader movement of which it is a part is my patriotic duty. Wrote abt it @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/1936...

All, this is an incredibly important story paper for American women writers, and NIU holds almost 1,000 issues. Every $1K they raise will allow them to digitize 75 issues! The fundraiser ends at 11:59 CST on April 3rd. Please help if you can, even just the cost of a coffee! #C19AmLit

The first essay in the 2025 iteration of our #TeachingC19 series is published on our website! Read Margaretta M. Lovell's "The Narrative of Nancy Prince: Historical Facts—Artistic Fiction" here: www.c19society.org/teachingc19a...

My grad students are asking for examples of historians who use literature to help make their argument. Who would you recommend?

🚨 C19ers & Asian Americanists! 🚨I’m co-hosting @c19americanists.bsky.social Virtual Panel: Asian American Studies in the Long C19 Wed 4/9/25 3:00-4:30pm EST Ft Julia H. Lee (UC Irvine), Andrew Leong (UC Berkeley), Mich Ling (Rutgers), Edlie Wong (Maryland), and Caroline Yang (UMass)

With the CFP out, we are well on our way towards the C19 Conference in Cincinnati, OH on March 12-14, 2026! Please consider donating to our Travel Fund for C19 members with limited access to travel funding, especially graduate students and contingent faculty. www.zeffy.com/en-US/donati...

A few fun things to know about this thing that already made you angry: 1.) Parrhesia program is direct result of a series of ad hoc committees who found student protesters were too disruptive when they shouted down fascists, blocked roads, & got shot by campus police. Parrhesia teaches civility.

The final has to be Ahab vs. Moby-Dick. It is inevitable.

BREAKING: the U.S. District Court in D.C. has found that Trump’s firing of former NLRB Chair Gwynne A. Wilcox’s firing was unlawful, and ruled that she must be immediately reinstated to serve out the rest of her term as a board member. She was appointed and confirmed to a 5-year term in 2023.

Hey don't forget about this hot (or cold, as you wish) CFP for MLA26 @c19americanists.bsky.social @melville-society.bsky.social

19th century US history is replete with examples of collective organizing in resistance to tyranny. Slavery could not have been abolished without underground and out in the open organized collective resistance and refusal to comply with unjust law.

I'm on the organizing committee for next year's @c19americanists.bsky.social conference in Cincinnati & what I can tell you about this year's theme is that it was the first thing anybody pitched & we were all, like, "Yep that's it." The fastest I've ever seen five professors agree about anything.

This theme!!! Hell yes C19 and program chair @marthaschoolman.bsky.social and president @femmenoire.bsky.social

Today is the day! Take a look at the CFP for the 2026 Biennial Conference of The Society of 19th-Century Americanists: UNDERGROUND www.c19society.org/2026-confere... The Conference website will go up at the end of April / early May, and submissions will be due Sept 5th.

We are on Bluesky! We are the Graduate Student Collective of the C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists (@c19americanists.bsky.social). We aim to support C19 graduate students and junior faculty through initiatives like our G19 New Book Forum. Stay tuned to learn more!

Ida B. Wells was a teacher. She knew she could write, and she knew how to ask questions. She investigated and addressed a problem, lynching. She was a woman who had adult responsibilities way too young and little resources. But she did. Be afraid, and do it anyway.

Season 10 proposals are due on 2/15! We're looking for projects that explore the nineteenth-century United States! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

As we look ahead to C19 2026 in Cincinnati, we are excited for our next C19 virtual event, a discussion of the life, work and activism of Ohio native Charles Chesnutt! The event will be on Feb 21st from 3:00 to 4:30 PM EST / 12:00 - 1:30 PM PST Check your email inboxes for the link!

Stay tuned 👀

Dear C19ers, This note is just a quick reminder to look out for a CFP for the 2016 Conference next month! And again, the next C19 conference will be March 12-14, 2026 in Cincinnati, Ohio. More information coming next month.

As I see my beloved home state of California burn, a million times yes

Hello C19 members! Check your inboxes for a message from out Communications Committee with the CFP for our #TeachingC19 series. We'd love to review your proposal for a teaching-focused piece of writing on C19 American studies! Proposals for Spring are due Jan 24. www.c19society.org/teachingc19a...

It looks like copies of my book are sold out at the @uminnpress.bsky.social table at #2024ASA but you can order it at this link with the code MN92070 for 30% off!! If you order it, let me know when you get your copy! ☺️ www.upress.umn.edu/978151791789...

3 years ago today I was able to launch this labor of love for hidden collections in PWIs. The amount of overtime/sheer will/effort that went into this internally unappreciated project is a bit unimaginable to me now, but it helped me jump to better places curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/slavery-abol...