it's officially out! :)

A new special issue of VP on material conditions is out & it’s a banger. It considers what it looks like to interrogate the protocols whereby intellectual production’s insides are quarantined from their constitutive outsides in conversation with Victorian poetry. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56685

Recently published | Race, Violence, and Form is available now. One of the first in the new Studies in the Global Nineteenth Century, the book employs exciting new methods to understand nineteenth-century Irish literature and culture. More here ⬇️ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Very happy to find this waiting for me when I returned home from South Bend! I’ve a chapter in here on ‘Irish Gothic and Global Reading Cultures in the Long Nineteenth Century’, which was so much fun to write! I loved working with @cookiegoth.bsky.social and @marymullen.bsky.social, too!

Ideas are often poor ghosts; our sun-filled eyes cannot discern them; they pass athwart us in thin vapour, and cannot make themselves felt.

Cusp 4.1 is now live on Project Muse. This issue includes a fantastic cluster, drawing from papers at the 2025 NVSA, on the Victorian Twentieth Century as well as a newly recovered prose piece by George Egerton. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56579

Race, Violence, and Form, co-edited with a writer of the most beautiful sentences, @cookiegoth.bsky.social, is out now. For more about the volume, see our blog post up at Liverpool UP blog:

This upcoming lecture from the inimitable Prof Rashid Khalidi in Queens' University Belfast looks brilliant: www.eventbrite.ie/e/rashid-kha...

THE BARBARA JOHNSON COLLECTIVE has a cover, a website, and is available for preorder! (Use code NUP2026 for a discount.) See the full contents at the link below — lucky to be part of this extraordinary project and excited to see it in print this fall! ✨🔥 nupress.northwestern.edu/979889948066...

Max Chapnick reviews Irena Yamboliev's Ornament, The Novel, and the Victorian Real on Review 19: www.review19.org/view_doc.php...

If one is to have freedom to write out of one's own varying unfolding self, and not be a machine always grinding out the same material or spinning the same sort of web, one cannot always write for the same public.

Good craic last night on @thelatelateshow.bsky.social with @tommytiernan.bsky.social @glenhansard.bsky.social and Patrick Kielty. Tickets / Info for The House Must Win available here: www.thehousemustwin.com Thank you www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjvE...

Hot off the press! AMERICAN LITERATURE'S WAR ON CRIME: NOVELS & THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF MASS INCARCERATION, by Theodore Martin. Use the coupon code MLA and save 30%! tinyurl.com/482zmjsw @columbiaup.bsky.social

following Ali Kadri, every IOF-U.S. bomb as a waste of human life, a furtherance of structural genocide against Arab peoples, and, in the long term, an attempt at enclosure, producing wasted land to be eventually put in service via settler-colonialism to western capital.

It is too much, has been too much, and it is hard to bear.

This is a beautiful essay: lareviewofbooks.org/article/minn...

I have recently written a review of this fascinating book for the April edition of Bronte Studies

Juliet Shields reviews @sarahdallison.bsky.social's excellent book: www.review19.org/view_doc.php...

"Palestinian witnesses have reported that some prisoners were alive at the time they were taken for organ extraction. In one batch of bodies, the organs removed were those commonly transplanted: heart, liver, lungs... Here, the surgeon acts as—is—a soldier." I'm honestly speechless.

Out this spring!!

Barbara Leckie reviewing @nathankhensley.bsky.social's beautiful book: www.review19.org/view_doc.php...

Re-reading books is such a pleasure.

hey bsky let's pay March rent for these families in MN: www.gofundme.com/f/support-po...

The deadline for submissions to the Vcologies Early Career Paper Prize has been extended to February 15! Submissions should be emailed to Kathleen Frederickson. See attached flyer for details! #envhist #envhum

“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.” ― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

Lots of points of hope in this piece about the Twin Cities. And what Serwer calls “neighborism” is what I associate with diasporism—I truly believe with my heart that it’s the key to our futures.

It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can

minnesota coming together to show us all how to stand up against ICE is such a beautiful display of what solidarity looks like

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

Fucking incredible.

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

may Minneapolis reveal what people can do to keep each other safe from violence, and expose the lie that police work does the same thing. the violence is the police; safety is everyday acts like this:

But when I asked an organizer what they wanted to see out of press coverage, they told me they wanted people to see the beautiful things they are building here, and not just the worst stories of the worst of ICE's crimes. What people are doing here is beautiful. It's a tragic beauty, but a real one

oh man, the Walker Art Center is going to be closed on Friday (If you're not from the Twin Cities, this is like MoMA closing in support of a general strike—a very big deal)

Saint Paul Public Schools, one of the biggest school districts in the state, is closed for the next two days because teachers need time to build hybrid learning because unaccountable masked, armed federal government goons have made it too difficult for nonwhite children to leave their homes.

If you’re near Georgetown on Thursday it would be good to see you for this. The great @nicolerizzuto.bsky.social will be talking about ed-tech contracts & members of @guaap.bsky.social will be sharing results of a student survey of GU working conditions 💙

No work, No school, No shopping — only community, conscience, and collective action. HOW TO PARTICIPATE Mark your calendar. Make your plan. Encourage community to stand with you + Join the Twin Cities DSA contingency for the march! buff.ly/JxuwKlb

ICE abducted a man in minneapolis on january 6. by january 14, he was dead in a concentration camp in texas. victor manuel diaz was 36 years old. they say he did it to himself. ICE murdered him.

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

On my morning walk today I saw this one, which is one of my favs, on a power box. See many poster designs here: defend612.com/art/

Vigil for Renee Good here in front of Wisconsin’s capitol building right now:

"Settlers always think they're defending themselves. That's why they build forts on other people's land." - Fred Moten

Much as Adania Shibli was censored by the Frankfurt Book Fair, Randa Abdel-Fattah has been removed from the Adelaide Writers Festival. Her book is about silencing. We discuss at length the many ways, small & large, public & behind the scenes, Palestinian voices are silenced