Please join me for the online launch of my book Logistics and Power: Supply Chains from Slavery to Space, next Tuesday, Sept. 30 at 2 p.m. PST. Join Brett Neilson, Paul Apostolidis, and Jaime Acosta Gonzalez for discussion and q&a introduced by Dylan Rodriguez (UCR). Register at bit.ly/ZiegerBook.

Barzillai Lew (b. 1743) served with distinction during the American Revolutionary War. He purchased the freedom of his future wife, Dinah Bowman, for $400 in 1767. The 1790 census lists him as head in a household of 14 free people of color. Their house became a stop on the Underground Railroad.

Hello #academicsky! I'm sharing a cfp for an edited collection on "Naming & Classifying," pulled together by me, Kristin Girten, & @aaronrhanlon.com . We'd love to see your work! Please also circulate to anyone you think might be interested. Deadline 10/31. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

"The Department of History invites applications for an assistant professor who will make enough leftist remarks to annoy conservative talk radio hosts but whose politics will ultimately support the neoliberal mission of the university."

Hello everyone. Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax has a tenure-track job in Enlightenment rhetoric and / or 18th-century literature. Tell everyone. www.msvu.ca/about-msvu/c...

I’m excited for this research day on the syllabus I’m working on: “Research I. Browsing, Skimming, Learning, Honing. Taking notes. Going down Rabbit Holes. Following the Clues. Going Deep & Taking Shortcuts. What Research and Poems Have in Common.”

#PublishingJob Acquisitions Editor University of Tennessee Press Knoxville, TN salary band: $50K-$90K 👇

The 2025 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey is live. If you are a professor in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, or Texas it's for you. Ends 8/29 at 5pm Eastern forms.gle/v7T3BH2w9LXs...

When you strip away humanity

On the left is a post today from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. On the right is literal Nazi propaganda from the 1930s.

“I asked Chat GPT” “I asked Grok” Ok well I asked Sappho and she said ……. ……. ..[b]osom

My book LOGISTICS AND POWER will be out on September 9 from University of California Press, and is available for pre-order now! www.ucpress.edu/books/logist...

If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this: Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.

*Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse* is out today! The official release got pushed back due to an issue w the art, & despite being mostly about literature it's very visual. So to celebrate its full entry into the world, a thread of some of my favorite images from it:

It's the one year book-iversary of Holding It Together, and I think its message is more urgent than ever. Because the book is about how the US came to rely on women as its safety net. But that story is fundamentally a story of what happens when billionaires don't want to pay their fair share. 1/

Phenomenal thread:

As the first collection to bring together Hall’s work on the visual, this volume assembles Hall’s essays, lectures, reviews, catalog texts, and conversations on art, film, and photography. 📚30% off #ArtHistory titles: buff.ly/JAsjrEz @dukepress.bsky.social @forarthistory.org.uk #ForArtHistory2025

🚀📈 Making Victorian visual culture searchable: Introducing an open-access and AI-powered dataset of 72,000 illustrations from the Illustrated London News (1842-1890). (w. Bethany Warner, @pfyfe.bsky.social and @bcgl.bsky.social) openhumanitiesdata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

'Bright Coast, Long Shadows', Bryan Angus, linocut. bryanangusart.com

‘Ben Affleck evacuated his home in Pacific Palisades on Wednesday but so did the retirees, surfers and young families living in Palisades Bowl, a mobile home community, where units cost $1200 a month.’ Anahid Nersessian writes from LA, on the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...

a recent new work: words perhaps fitting for midwinter, words that recur for me when working held thought connect turn shadow enfold still flow reveal unfold touch leaf thread surprise light hold space play shelter pause hide quiet stream glimpse enclose between air gather open breath fold close

Me, googling: ah yes, purchased by private equity.

Agree! (Also--'Writing on Fire' appears in the archive for its chapter on close reading! Grateful to Scott Newstok for including it!)

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees Yf we wante a bettir future Teach artes & humanityes

Mein Gott this cover goes hard!

I'm happy to say that the special issue of Modern Fiction Studies that Catherine Keyser and I edited is now out! The theme is Women Thinking in Public (which feels even more important now than it did when we put the issue together). Hooray for feminist collaboration!

Where do I find the soothing cute cat content on here?

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My textbook is finally available! 'Writing on Fire: A Fierce Yet Friendly Guide to Writing Humanities Essays in College.' There are chapters on close reading, thesis statements, all the good stuff. If you teach writing via a humanities subject, check it out! broadviewpress.com/product/writ...

Do you have an answer ready when someone asks 'What's your favorite book?' (often seems to happen when I mention I'm an English prof) At this point I'm finding myself overwhelmed by the question--how to sum it all up in a single choice??

Testing out this platform! Here's a link to an article that came out earlier this year--in which I consider why the Apollo Belvedere sculpture, a hunk of marble, came to symbolize European race; and how Walter Pater played a part. "White Desire: Pater and Race" cdn.vanderbilt.edu/vu-cas/wp-co...

Finally getting around to setting up a Bluesky account, in my usual 'late adopter' mode . . . curious to see how it's different from twitter/X