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CfP 'Intimacies in nineteenth-century Ireland' @ssnci.bsky.social annual conference in June 2026. Deadline 1 Feb 2026! For details see ssnci.org/annual-confe...

Delighted that the *Radical History Review* 153 (Oct 2025) "Radical Histories of Decolonization*, I co-edited with Marissa Moorman, Jessica Namakkal, and Golnar Nikpour is now up! Cover features Kiluanji Kia Henda's “A Descoberta” (2006)" read.dukeupress.edu/radical-hist... cc @jecca.bsky.social

6,000 faculty members at Penn State has filed for a union. These professors and other faculty will vote on unionizing in the coming year. If they win their union it will be the largest public union in Pennsylvania.

GHOSTS AND THINGS BY @abriefel.bsky.social argues that #Victorians turned to the dead to understand the material culture of their present. Learn more: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501... #BookSky #Spiritualism

Graduate students! Submit an essay to the annual Northeast Victorian Studies Assocation "Expanding the Field" prize: nvsa.org/essay-prize/

5 of the hunger strikers in British prisons have faced hospitalization after 5 weeks of this collective action for immediate bail and a right to fair trial. Please up the pressure - continue to call, email, share posts, and organize. Force the state to take action!!!

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW New Literary History Vol. 56, N0. 2, Spring 2025
 Special Issue: Irish Keywords tinyurl.com/bdcrw9cm CONTRIBUTORS
 Claire Connolly, James Chandler, Joe Cleary, Aileen Dillane, Iarla Ó Lionáird, Clara Tuite, Paige Reynolds, Jane Ohlmeyer, Barry McCrea, Clair Wills, and more

Very excited and honored to be doing an online book conversation about *Action without Hope* at @greenhouseuis.net next Monday, December 8th, at 10 am Eastern / 4 pm Central European — Zoom link below. Would be so psyched to see people there, if you can make it 🌿 newnatures.org/greenhouse/e...

Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.

Free Palestine lit??? Free Palestine lit. 🇵🇸 🍉 📚 ✨

Have you got a new book out about Irish America? Regardless of discipline, if it came out in 2025, you can submit it to the ACIS Lawrence McCaffrey Prize for Books on Irish America! You need to fill out the form on this website and the books need to be sent by 1 January! acisweb.org/mccaffrey-pr...

A great time to get Novel Institutions, or Narrating Irish Female Development, or The Gothic Forms of Victorian Poetry, or Temporality and Progress in Victorian Literature, and many others.

Essay by Prof. Hazel V. Carby on Indigenous Futurism and photographs made by Diné artist Will Wilson and by Tewa/Hopi artist Michael Namingha, and paintings by Métis/Shoshone artist Jaune Quick-To-See Smith. #ArtSky #IndigenousArt www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

but there’s no such thing as someone else’s children. (From One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This, by Omar El Akkad)

Take advantage of the conference discount <10NAVSA25> for 40% off until December 1! @unipresssalesbot.bsky.social! #readUP

Looking forward to this book!!

reviewed great collection on writers & new media in the 19C print culture sublime! ed and intro by alexis easley w essays by @jenniebatchelor.bsky.social & more! in Review 19 -- www.review19.org/view_doc.php... & looking forward to talking about it at @navsa2025.bsky.social !!

A timely roundtable at #NAVSA2025: "Victorianist Work After the University as We Knew It." A great conversation with Sarah Allison, Gordon Bigelow, Ruth McAdams, Rachel Sagner Buurma, & Kyoko Takanashi.

I look forward to celebrating NAVSA authors on Friday at the 7:00 pm reception sponsored by CUSP/ the empire/colonialism caucus @navsa2025.bsky.social. So many excellent books! drive.google.com/file/d/1v9hN...

Good morning Philly! Who has the power?

This is happening in one week. Join Dean Spade for "Sticking Together in Tough Times," an online workshop benefitting the Wesam Water Project. chuffed.org/project/1424...

Two of Riddell's (short) haunted house novels are collected in this edition by The British Library in their long-running Tales of the Weird series:

Dr Miranda Melcher recently chatted with @eleanorfitzsimons.bsky.social on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about Speranza: Poems by Jane Wilde! Find out more here: bit.ly/NBNSPJW

The House Must Win has been a long time coming—a stage adaptation of my first album, Evening Train, a story of love, lust, gambling, and betrayal. My debut as a scriptwriter has been a new and rewarding challenge. Tickets on sale Thursday. Pre-sale via mailing list tomorrow.

The first look at a book cover is always so exciting (w/ @cookiegoth.bsky.social)

We are advertising for an Assistant Director to join us in Marsh's Library. Full details about this exciting post here: marshlibrary.ie/vacancy-for-...

New review up on Review 19--Ruth McAdams on Lindsey N. Chappell's Temporal Forms and the Nineteenth-Century Mediterranean: Writing British Heritage in Ancient Lands: www.review19.org/index.php

The one and only Tsering Wangmo Dhompa wrote today's poem of the day. poets.org/poem-a-day

look at this picture of @marymullen.bsky.social's book on the shelves of @sel1500to1900.bsky.social !!! 🤩

It was very great to talk w/ the amazing SEL managing editor Kelly McKisson about institutions & pandemic-time in dialogue w work by @marymullen.bsky.social, @annakornbluh.bsky.social @mltondre.bsky.social, @devingarofalo.bsky.social, Liz Miller, Barbara Leckie, & others @sel1500to1900.bsky.social

I honestly can’t bring myself to read this but I do think it’s very important for people in the US to remember that this is happening right now because of our government.

As the History Representative for ACIS, I have the distinct privilege to chair the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book. If you, or someone you know, has a book copyrighted in 2025 in Irish Studies please do consider submitting! Details here. 🗃️ #speirgorm

Want to attend NAVSA 2025: Aftermaths but can't make it to DC? Want MORE brilliant Victorianist scholarship than you can get at the in-person event? The NAVSA 2025 DIGITAL PRESESSION is free and open to all —registration required for security (thread of papers below)

8 million people in Sudan are facing emergency levels of hunger, part of a strategy of deliberate starvation.

NVSA 2026--silences! Submit an abstract for the April 10-12 conference at Cornell: northeastvictorianstudies.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Villanova English Dept is hiring a poet! Here's the ad--please circulate. Great department with kind, smart colleagues. You can live in Philly (4-eva!): jobs.villanova.edu/postings/33001

We have to consider who are the stifled people and who are the stiflers before we can be sure of our ground.

"We shouldn’t have to scour a Philly lobbying report to find out that the company that invented and sells Tasers spent $75,000 lobbying the city...We shouldn’t have to browse LinkedIn to find out that salesmen for Microsoft hosted city officials to push the company’s vision for AI in gov't"

What's being "protected" is not "free speech" but rather the RIGHT for white men to be white supremacists in public without any criticism or any consequences. I hope that's clear.

Our One Million Experiments podcast released a shortened season this summer. I recommend listening to the 4 episodes if you are interested in how people have created community-based crisis response projects since 2020: millionexperiments.com/podcast/seas...

Don't forget all of the high quality essays from our past conference volumes freely available online! For more see ssnci.org/publication-...

The pleasure and value of re-reading books cannot be overstated.