Last night, over a billion birds passed over our heads as they migrated south. This is one of the most dramatic events in the natural world, but most of us are asleep while it happens. Radar tells the tale.

Very happy to share that my article in the new issue of #Leviathan is out! It discusses Melville's Clarel, and the possibility of reading a philosophy of secularization at work in the poem. Many thanks to Melville scholars far and near for their friendship and support!🐋 👉 muse.jhu.edu/article/970196

📣 Registration is now open for the “Critical Health” conference (17-18 October 2025). Register for in-person or online attendance by clicking on the link below: 🔗 criticalhealthconference.wordpress.com/registration/

Paris-based artist Auriane Kolodziej will showcase her work during the “Critical Health” conference I’m coorganizing. Find out more about her sculptures and beautiful poetry here: criticalhealthconference.wordpress.com/art-exhibit/ (desktop version recommended)

When people ask, "Right before the Republic crumbled, who was doing the best 19th century literary pun stencils?" remember my name.

surrounded by circle upon circle of consternations and affrights

September is officially here! American Studies scholars, what are your plans for the term? 💬

Avec un chapitre de Marine Soubeille, nouvelle membre d'ECHELLES, sur Moonrise Kingdom de Wes Anderson !

#AgregAnglais2026 Publication Ellipses Huck Finn et Moonrise Kingdom Coordonation Frédéric Lefrançois et Rédouane Abouddahab Rédouane. Merci aux collègues, dont @juliennegre.bsky.social 🙏 www.editions-ellipses.fr/accueil/1595...

unexpected research trajectories continue to emerge from this sperm whale madness

Signs and wonders, eh?

today: old yellow folders and X-files vibes ☢️

🗺️In special collections @bibdiderotlyon.bsky.social for new project: massive 1633 French ed of Mercator's atlas by Hondius. Includes stunning 1606 map of Virginia, predating Smith’s, with hints of 1550s French exploration in Florida. Renaissance Latin makes feel more fluent than I really am!

It took M. F. Maury nearly 10 years to reach this representation of "sea drift and whales" in 1855. Melville's *Moby-Dick* (published before this map) registers this changing perception of the oceans. First time I come across a French version @bibdiderotlyon.bsky.social, this one published in 1861.

Unnamed reader from 60y ago left their Théâtre des Célestins ticket as a bookmark in this volume @bibdiderotlyon.bsky.social. Not sure anyone has opened this book since then. Chevalier's account of his travels in the US in early 1830s is very interesting and has a nice map focused on transportation.

#Comics scholars |fans: Help. This centerfold (published in the French magazine “La Vie Parisienne”) is from 1912. I've been looking in my dozens of folders for earlier examples of artists working with a similar technique. Can you think of any examples from 1912 and possibly a little earlier? 🙋🏻‍♀️

what after all canst thou do, but tell the poor, pitiful point, where thou thyself happenest to be on this wide planet

A haunting image of an unnamed Native child and a recovered story of the American West. The Girl in the Middle is out now. Read a free sample of this compelling book and save 30% with code PUP30: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

💬 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗲̀𝘀 « 𝗗𝗶𝘀/𝗘𝗺𝗯𝗼𝗱𝗶𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 : 𝟰𝘁𝗵 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝗮𝘄𝘁𝗵𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 » @sorbonne-universite.fr @sorbonnenouvelle.bsky.social @upcite.bsky.social  📅 1er - 4 juillet 👉 Plus d’informations : https://f.mtr.cool/mfykctbpjb

📍🌎📚 Interested in the intersections of American literature and cartography? Our 2026 conference in Lyon, France, invites papers on map-text interactions. Deadline flexible upon request — don’t hesitate to reach out! Full CFP ➡️ maps2026.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag... Please share and repost!

📍🌎📚 Interested in the intersections of American literature and cartography? Our 2026 conference in Lyon, France, invites papers on map-text interactions. Deadline flexible upon request — don’t hesitate to reach out! Full CFP ➡️ maps2026.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag... Please share and repost!

🗺️🌎🔔CFP: Maps in American Literature, 15th–21st Century International Symposium | April 1–3, 2026 | ENS de Lyon, France Deadline: June 15, 2025 Keynote Speaker: Martin Brückner (U Delaware) Full CFP: maps2026.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag... @modernlanguage.bsky.social @officialbaas.bsky.social

Hey @nortoncriticals.bsky.social is that a typo in *Huck Finn*'s 4th critical edition? The 3rd edition had "store", which clearly makes much more sense. Thanks!

🗺️🌎🔔CFP: Maps in American Literature, 15th–21st Century International Symposium | April 1–3, 2026 | ENS de Lyon, France Deadline: June 15, 2025 Keynote Speaker: Martin Brückner (U Delaware) Full CFP: maps2026.sciencesconf.org/resource/pag... @modernlanguage.bsky.social @officialbaas.bsky.social

#CongrèsInternational I Congrès commun de la Nathaniel Hawthorne Society et de la Poe Studies Association. Thème retenu : « Dis/embodiment ». 📅 Du 1 au 4 juillet 2025 📍 Maison de la Recherche de l'Université Sorbonne Nouvelle 🔗 Plus d'informations : swll.to/B5JlSY #ESR #helloESR

[COLL] 12-13.06.25 / MdR Generations and Generational Time in the US in the Long 19th Century Keynotes @brigfield.bsky.social & @danaluci.bsky.social Org. Hélène Cottet, @hquanquin.bsky.social (IUF), Matthew Redmond Poke @saesfrance.org @institutdesameriques.fr @afea.bsky.social Bsky speakers ⬇️

great bodies are at times encountered

🔴 l’école Alix #Lyon 2e est occupée à partir de ce soir mardi 13 mai pour mettre à l’abri une famille de 2 enfants 🆘 Sur les 410 enfants sans toit de l’agglomération lyonnaise, 101 sont hébergés dans 26 établissements scolaires !

[ #VeilleESR #Parcoursup ] Adapter notre appareil de formation aux besoins de l'économie. Communication du Conseil des ministres du 28/04/2025 Je vous offre une lecture premier degré de cette passionnante communication.

CFP - Children on the Move: Histories, Experiences and Representations of Child Travellers (26-27 March 2026, University of Angers) - Organised by Anne-Florence Quaireau and Tom Williams - Keynote speaker: Gabor Gelléri (@gaborgelleri.bsky.social) Please help us circulate this CFP far and wide! :-)

Deadline tomorrow!

Je suis thrilled et ravi d’annoncer que mon prochain livre, « L’Alternance codique : structurer le sens en conversation bilingue », paraîtra en novembre aux Presses Universitaires de Rennes !

📢 Reminder: the deadline for the "Monarch of All I Survey" CFP is April 15! Help spread the word—share and repost!

Sur la réécriture de l'histoire, ce tout nouvel "ordre exécutif", est emblématique... www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Also new in #corpus building tools, I have just put online Project Gutenberg Corpus Builder, a web app which allows you to search for ebooks in the Gutenberg Project database and download the results as pre-formatted files for use in corpus software: gutencorpus.prendrelangue.fr #linguistics

babe what if we kissed outside the temporary hospital for scurvy-ridden whalemen who had been trapped in the ice for months

*PUBLICATION DAY* *Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on British Travel Writing: Decentring Epistemologies* (Routledge 2025) is out in the world! Many thanks to my co-editors and all the contributors! More info: www.routledge.com/Twenty-First...

📢 Reminder: the deadline for the "Monarch of All I Survey" CFP is April 15! Help spread the word—share and repost!

Laure Gardelle, professeure de #linguistique anglaise à @ugrenoblealpes.bsky.social, distinguée au palmarès « Femmes en tête » de @societessavantes.bsky.social : societes-savantes.fr/femmes-en-te...

Consultation du CNRS sur les maths : questionnaire grand public à remplir en ligne, ça ne prend que quelques minutes. consultation-maths.fr

#StandUpForScience. Message from France in solidarity with scientists and academics working in the United States, Argentina, and all countries where academic freedom is under threat. @standupforscience.bsky.social @sufs-paris-rp.bsky.social @standupforscibe.bsky.social

ON Y EST ! Rendez-vous tout à l'heure pour défendre les valeurs scientifiques : apportez pancartes, instruments, énergie, et fleurs pour la statue de la liberté en fin de parcours. Pensez à taguer ce compte pour qu'on partage vos photos 👍 1/ ⬇️ #StandUpforScience #StandUpforScienceFrance

Au moment où, aux US, la question de (comment) résister se pose avec urgence, je suis heureux de voir l’aboutissement d’un projet de quelques années, avec la mise en ligne d’une traduction annotée de « La résistance au gouvernement civil » de H. D. Thoreau, flanquée de deux textes. Un fil 🧵 (1/9)

🗓️ Le 6 mars à 16h30, ECHELLES reçoit Alice de Galzain @alicedegalzain.bsky.social pour une communication intitulée "Cultivating the Roots of Feminism: Health, Gender, and Reform at Brook Farm and the Fruitlands" vale.sorbonne-universite.fr/event/sem-a1...

Vous vous intéressez à la fiction spéculative sous toutes ses formes? Venez à Dijon en octobre !

sometimes you work on a digitized ancient edition, and it's page after page of spotless disembodied images but sometimes the human body breaches the surface, and here's a hand, and a window opens onto the people who were actually there

I think I understood about 61% of what happens in this book—but I loved all 61%. @vajra.me's writing has the texture of dreams, and reading Rakesfall felt like sleepwalking—all I could do was follow the flow and take in what I could, savoring the dizzying (and sometimes hilarious) views 🪐👻✨

📣 [CFP Mina Loy] @yasnabozhkova.bsky.social and I are looking forward to reading your proposals for our special issue of Feminist Modernist Studies. There's still time to send us something! ✨ @modernistudies.bsky.social – @moderniststudies.bsky.social think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...