I’m tickled pink. @uminnpress.bsky.social featured my book Enchanted Wood on their banner for MLA 2026. We all need some ideas about survival through beauty and books to get us through this brutal winter.

Round-up post on my 2025. The year in which I left paid academic employment, but still produced quite a lot of academic work. I also wrote some other good stuff. On balance, I think I have survived the transition and plan to build on many fronts next year (more news on which in January) #AcademicSky

So thrilled to be holding Kris Bluemel's absolutely exquisite Enchanted Wood and to be sharing it at MLA in Toronto next week!

Unboxing my first author copy of Enchanted Wood on Boxing Day. Beautiful book after all! Thank you #universityofminnesotapress #ruralmodernity #womenartists

Gwenda Morgan‘s Apple Picking, 1952 www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-arti...

Kathy Walkup and Crystal Z Campbell speaking @sharpweb.org for Keynote 2 on Rochester’s Visual Studies Workshop and Press. Joan Lyons, founder and past director, seated with Scott McCarney, Megan N Liberty and Tate Shaw.

SHARP 2025 U Rochester. First keynote by the wonderful Katie Mitchell on the Legacy of Black Bookstores. @sharp2025.bsky.social ASL interpretation much appreciated!

Just attended fabulous panel at SHARP 2025, U Rochester, with Abby Moreshead, Molly Dotson, and Bette London presenting. “Taste, Cultural Hierarchy, and Values of the Book.” Here’s Abby:

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.