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.

The Texas A&M System Chancellor described teaching gender theory as “insubordination and indoctrination.” And professors and department heads were fired for it.

It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.

Im raising $450 for the Sameer Project! These stinking cute stickers are $5 each, free postage in the US 💜 100% of the proceeds will be donated

Did you publish a book in 2025/2024? Are you attending NAVSA this November? Do you want to celebrate your book? If so, fill out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/1tJH...

“Gaza’s famine is man-made. And those who are making it happen are doing their best to conceal their crime. The Israeli government is reading from the same playbook as many architects of calamity from the past 100 years.” - must read, by Alex de Waal 👇 observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

The grey stone walls, the broken country, the meagre trees, seemed to be telling him afresh the story of that painful past which he knew so well by heart. But no story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather, we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

At a profound level, MAGA's immigration policies are simply a way to transfer taxpayer dollars to private contractors whose job is to terrorize the American people. Fundamentally, leaders are using our own money to destroy our democracy.

Event | Join the School of English and Digital Humanities ‪@ucc.ie‬ on Wednesday, 10th September, for a symposium in honour of the late Dr Eibhear Walshe. Find out more here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/green-carn...

Crowdfunding, second jobs, credit card debt. This is how teachers are stocking their classrooms to serve students during a period of economic uncertainty. 19thnews.org/2025/08/teac...

@annagk.bsky.social and I are welcoming short pedagogy articles/approaches that use Dickens's Working Notes, or that center compositional process or serial form in some way. If you teach Dickens, check out the dickensnotes.com platform!

Venus Williams!!

“#famine is the last calamity hitting the people of #Gaza Hell in all shapes. “Never Again” has deliberately become again. This will haunt us." Full statement by UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini: www.unrwa.org/newsroom/off...

"As this Famine is entirely man-made, it can be halted and reversed." "The time for debate and hesitation has passed, starvation is present and is rapidly spreading." "Any further delay—even by days—will result in a totally unacceptable escalation of Famine-related mortality."

Now available! THE RISE OF CELEBRITY AUTHORSHIP: 19th-CENTURY PRINT CULTURE & ANTI-SLAVERY, by Sarah Allison Use the coupon code CUP20 and save 20%: bit.ly/3V9ygLk @sarahdallison.bsky.social @columbiaup.bsky.social

"Public transit is a service, not a business—should public schools have to turn a profit? A powerful transit system can benefit everyone, unless one is so petty as to view the ability of human beings to move from place to place as a zero-sum game to be won" defector.com/doomsday-for...

“Given the ongoing genocide in Gaza…we call on Sport Canada and Tennis Canada to forbid Canadian athletes to compete against Israeli athletes at the Davis Cup and all other international events.” - 413 🇨🇦 academics, athletes + sports journalists, inc 3 former UN special rapporteurs + an Olympic 🥈ist

The closing of Bucknell University Press is a tremendous loss for academic publishing in general and 18th-century studies in particular. Universities have abandoned the academic mission. We’re the generation that will have to reinvent knowledge-work from the institutional ruins.