CFP/ MLA 2027. Panel on Migration in Children's and YA Graphic Narratives, sponsored by the Forum on Comics and Graphic Narrative. Deadline 3/16.

Call for contributions on Precarity and Resilience (and other topics about the profession) for the annual pub PROFESSION, now an issue of PMLA. www.mla.org/Publications...

Call for contributions on Precarity and Resilience (and other topics about the profession) for the annual pub PROFESSION, now an issue of PMLA. www.mla.org/Publications...

Anyone with expertise in 19th century stationery? Asking for a friend

PROFESSION has always been such an important part of how I understand, well, the profession. Please consider submitting and share widely this important CFP on precarity.

PROFESSION is becoming an annual issue of PMLA! Here's this year's CFP: www.mla.org/Publications...

PROFESSION is becoming an annual issue of PMLA! Here's this year's CFP: www.mla.org/Publications...

How do you teach in light of what’s going on? Resources for teaching in times of crisis, gathered from the Twin Cities and elsewhere: www.mla.org

If you have Criterion, don’t miss the 1968 James Baldwin documentary by Horace Ové. It’s a Baldwin lecture and q and a at the London West Indian Club.

How do you teach in light of what’s going on? Resources for teaching in times of crisis, gathered from the Twin Cities and elsewhere: www.mla.org

I’m voting no on the motion to proceed to the appropriations package. ICE/DHS should not move forward without accountability, investigations, and reforms.

Quick reminder: This Tuesday, the HAVI team @schmidtsciences.bsky.social will be doing a webinar about our current digital humanities/AI RFP. It is January 20, 2026, 1PM EST. Register here: www.schmidtsciences.org/opportunity/...

I didnt know interest had declined. It's a pity. A year in France as an undergraduate changed me more than any other experience.

Please help out with this important U of Oklahoma study on how recent changes in state and federal policy are affecting you and your students. qualtrics.ou.edu/jfe/form/SV_... @drkalebbriscoe.bsky.social @modernlanguage.bsky.social

Sharing @penamerica.bsky.social's new report, America's Censored Campuses. pen.org/report/ameri...

My Pilates teachers are collecting for a rent fund for families at the elementary school in the Twin Cities where they used to teach. Donate on Venmo at www.venmo.com/u/pilatesfor...

Missed me being unable to take a normal adult picture at the @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social booth at #MLA26? You can still get the discount until 2/28 if you use the code at Bloomsbury.com!

Check out: Supporting Faculty and Students in the Face of Today’s Threats to Higher Education @ 2026 MLA Annual Convention Room 715A Now!

Really looking forward to this roundtable on "Digital Humanities and Contemporary Book Studies"! It's one of the most exciting research areas out there, in my very biased opinion. And I *might* even share a hot take about Heated Rivalry...

Join us on 1/27 at 2 p.m. ET for a free webinar about what we gain from reading & teaching banned books and how we can respond to censorship. With @becalzada.bsky.social, Shireen Campbell, @samcohen.bsky.social, & Sonya Douglass—moderated by @paulakrebs.bsky.social. webinars.mla.org/webinar/why-...

Banned books webinar from @modernlanguage.bsky.social with @paulakrebs.bsky.social, @becalzada.bsky.social, Shireen Campbell, Sonya Douglas, and me webinars.mla.org/webinar/why-...

Very excited about this first online sighting of ENGLISH MAJORS AT WORK: CAREER AND LIFE PATHWAYS: www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/english-majo...

Excited and nervous to chair an online panel at #MLA2026: When do we need to know what is AI and what is student writing? How can we know? Nothing too ambitious, right? With @hollyjhassel.bsky.social @leoflores.bsky.social, Liz Losh, and Sarah Z Johnson +

In the last couple of years, we have published collections on Dracula, teaching in prisons, Margaret Atwood, social justice, Yuyachkani's human rights theater, and much more. What teaching volume might you put together?

Commmunity college faculty and staff at #MLA26, come to the cash bar for you and for grad students who want to learn about CCs. mla.confex.com/mla/2026/mee...

Grad students--wanna connect with some friendly folks from community colleges and learn what CC careers are like? At #MLA26, come to mla.confex.com/mla/2026/mee...

Subscribe to The Long Game. I have never been in a more friendly, welcoming, and knowlegeable online community. The chats welcome non-experts, and it's ok to lurk.

If you're on the program for #MLA26, please be sure to register for the convention. A couple hundred of you are currently not registered (this happens every year). Don't make me come to your session with the registration ipad!

Buried in 15th graf: “Analysts also cite recent economic challenges related to Trump’s tariffs. A backlash from Canadian consumers and provinces…has virtually stopped the sale of American whiskey in what was once among the industry’s biggest export markets.” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/d...

Here it is, the final regular #ScholarSunday thread of 2025, my 255th thread of great public scholarly writing, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy, all! 🗃️ blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

What a dream it would be to work on that collection!

Love this from Education Under Secretary Nicholas Kent, via IHE: Kent pledged to “end the practice of using accreditation as a political weapon,” and acknowledged that in return, “we might be accused of weaponization, but those accusations will be false.” mailchi.mp/d853d23f0c60...

Elizabeth Gaskell is still underrated. I could listen to Juliet Stevenson read North and South all night. And have.

Greetings check this out: Amplifying voices is a new Cambridge grant to help under-represented scholars publish. Apply!!! www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

We are all lucky Tricia Matthew thinks so carefully about Austen and her world

And watch this: www.britannica.com/video/why-do...

US Customs and Border Protection is seeking to add to the form I-94, requiring applicants to provide their social media from the last 5 years. Submit comments to [email protected] by 2/9. MLA did, defending the right to privacy and free speech for anyone in the US, however brief their stay.

The legal fight over Virginia board appointments is over. The 22 Youngkin picks rejected by Democrats will not join their respective university boards, handing Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger a chance to immediately reshape VA higher ed. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

If I wanted to learn about how cotton became rags which then became paper in C18 and 19 England, what would I need to read?

“The new forms cannot fully substitute for the actual physical objects in which those earlier texts were embodied at particular times in the past.” Thirty years old and ever more timely, regarding primary records: www.mla.org/content/down... @modernlanguage.bsky.social @paulakrebs.bsky.social

Nice example of how literary expertise can help us understand the conditions of the world we're living it.

Among the many professional development sessions at #MLA26 is this one, on working with (or in) your campus Office of Research to find out what's available for #humanities research. Come to Toronto. mla.confex.com/mla/2026/mee...

Love those #humanities op-eds! Gene Jarrett, @humanitiesall.bsky.social board member, @mlanews.bsky.social member, and @princeton.edu dean, in the Inky: share.inquirer.com/8dVqH3

📣 Call for Papers – The EUROCALL Review 👉 “Openness in Language Education: Global practices and research, pedagogical innovation and critical resistance” 📅 Submission deadline: 4 May 2026 📘 Planned publication: Autumn 2026 Please share widely! ❓Reach out if you have any questions!

State Dept takes over international ed initiatives from Education Dept. In its "Fact Sheet," State Dept gives 5 examples of funded 2024 projects that "deviated from the core mission of supporting international education for global competitiveness." All 5 involved research related to trans issues.