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Dr. Elysia Balavage

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Transnational modernist | Doing 'nothing', modernist readings of nihilism, and working-class food culture 📚💥 | SRU @apscuf.org Contingent Faculty Committee Co-chair ✊️ | Book Reviews Editor for @spacebjournal.bsky.social United we bargain. Divided we beg.

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Dr. Elysia Balavage @drgreasefire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We're rallying on the steps of the State Capitol Building in PA for a 15% increase in funding for higher education. Let's do this ✊️✊️
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Dr. Elysia Balavage @drgreasefire.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Had to cut my time short this year, but another fabulous @intleliotsociety.bsky.social conference is in the books!
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APSCUF @apscuf.org · 23/09/2026
Tell us how you're feeling about the rally in the comments.
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Sept. 28 rally — Affordable College Now! | APSCUF
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Dr. Elysia Balavage @drgreasefire.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yessss!!! Please join and support us if you can ✊️✊️✊️
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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 16/09/2026
More than any higher ed development in recent memory, institutional subsidies for AI at R1 universities prove that austerity is a choice. It is not “too expensive” to invest in a humanities research infrastructure; rather, it is a choice that R1 universities make not to & subsidize AI instead.
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AAUP @aaup.org · 14/09/2026
The Trump admin is afraid of educated critical thinkers which is why they are doing everything they can to bend higher education to their will. We can’t let them. The AAUP & AFT have responded to McMahon’s ‘Compact 2.0’ letter w/ our own “National Call to Action to the Secretary of Education.” 1
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AAUP and AFT Respond to Trump's "Compact 2.0"
AAUP President Todd Wolfson and AFT President Randi Weingarten demand that the Trump administration immediately cease weaponizing taxpayer funds and civil rights enforcement to politically coerce coll...
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Goodbye university it was fun.
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SUNY UFS President Bruce Simon @sunyufspresident.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Our National Call to Action to U.S. higher education governance bodies and unions. @aaup.org @standupforscience.net @aacu.org @higheredlabor.bsky.social @sfndhe.bsky.social @cadhe.bsky.social @wearehighered.bsky.social @standhighered.bsky.social @uupinfo.bsky.social hdl.handle.net/1951/89089
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Dr. Elysia Balavage @drgreasefire.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Thanks to @nissaren.bsky.social and Catherine Hollis for putting this meet-up series together and building solidarity amongst scholars of modernism! @moderniststudies.bsky.social
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APSCUF @apscuf.org · 28/08/2026
We are standing together to advocate for a 15% increase in funding for public higher education in Pennsylvania and for the @papromise.org plan to make college more affordable. Join us at noon Sept. 28 on the Capitol steps in Harrisburg. RSVP at www.apscuf.org/sept28rally #AffordableCollegeNow
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Seth Kahn (he/him) @badpacifist.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
PA public higher ed folks! Come to Harrisburg on Sept 28 to rally for budget increases for all of us! Don't let the leg, the gov, and our system/campus mgmt teams play us each other. Public higher ed is worth paying for. For all of us. Students, staff, faculty, all invited!
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Sept. 28 rally — Affordable College Now! | APSCUF
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Dr. Elysia Balavage @drgreasefire.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
An outside chance ask: does anyone know someone who works on commercial tenant - landlord relations? Trying to help a thriving, local single-mother, female-owned business stay open and thriving despite a (possibly) discriminatory landlord. Thank you!! @asanews.bsky.social @lawandsociety.bsky.social
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Dr. Elysia Balavage @drgreasefire.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
An outside chance ask: does anyone know someone who works on commercial tenant - landlord relations? Trying to help a thriving, local single-mother, female-owned business stay open and thriving despite a (possibly) discriminatory landlord. Thank you!! @asanews.bsky.social @lawandsociety.bsky.social
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Modernism/modernity is looking for a new co-editor! Could this be you? If you're interested, applications are due Nov. 16. It's a four-year term, and you'll be working with one of the current editors. More info about how to apply here: @mmodernity.bsky.social
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The Modernist Studies Association is devoted to the study of the arts in their social, political, cultural, and intellectual contexts from the later nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. The o...
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Dr. Elysia Balavage @drgreasefire.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Thanks in large part to both this piece and a survey I conducted in the Spring, I have my union chapter's full support in changing the language of precarity at my institution: from "adjunct" and "temporary/temp" (🤬) to "contingent." A small, but incredibly significant win for non-TT faculty ✊️
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The Space Between Journal: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 @spacebjournal.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
We are still looking for one or two more short reviews (200-300 words) of publications from 1926! Enduring, popular or forgotten, we welcome any suggestions. If you are interested in contributing a mini-review in our next issue please email spacebetweenbookreviews@gmail.com
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Tim Waterman @tim-waterman.co.uk · 18/08/2026
CFP: Eating for a Green Future: Literature, Culture, and the Politics of Food in Contemporary India networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
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Call For Proposals: Eating for a Green Future | H-Net
CALL FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALSEating for a Green FutureLiterature, Culture, and the Politics of Food in Contemporary IndiaEdited byDr. Manisha Mohanty (Assistant Professor, S'O'A University & Fulbright-Ne...
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Dr. Elysia Balavage @drgreasefire.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Thanks to @emergencycampaign.bsky.social for an already fiery meeting on how we can protect Pell ✊️✊️
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Dr. Elysia Balavage @drgreasefire.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I don't need to sell y'all on how important Pell grants are to working-class students or how egregious it is that these grants are under threat. Attend this virtual meeting if you can!
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July 29 – Raise Hell for Pell: Double it NOW! – Higher Education Labor United
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Dr. Elysia Balavage @drgreasefire.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
I don't need to sell y'all on how important Pell grants are to working-class students or how egregious it is that these grants are under threat. Attend this virtual meeting if you can!
higheredlaborunited.org
July 29 – Raise Hell for Pell: Double it NOW! – Higher Education Labor United
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APSCUF @apscuf.org · 24/07/2026
“The United States leads the world in research because generations of scientists have been free to pursue difficult questions, challenge conventional wisdom, collaborate openly and publish their findings—without political interference." —AFT/AAUP statement www.aft.org/press-releas...
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AFT, AAUP Reject Trump’s Radical Plans to Overhaul Scientific Research Funding
WASHINGTON—AFT President Randi Weingarten and American Association of University Professors President Todd Wolfson issued the following statement in response to the Trump administration’s proposal to ...
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Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Proud to be one of the co-authors of a major new @aaup.org report on the variety of (extorted) compliance agreements that some universities and colleges have come to with the current Trump administration: www.aaup.org/reports-publ...
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Extorted Compliance: A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance
Published July 2026.This report was prepared by a joint subcommittee of the Association’s Committee A on Academic Freedom andTenure and the Committee on College and University Governance and was appro...
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Modernist Studies in Asia (MSIA) @modernism-asia.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
CFP for Intoxicating Modernisms at Adelaide University (proposals due 24 July 2026)
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Dr. Elysia Balavage @drgreasefire.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Kept this little bit from my diss days on my whiteboard. It still makes me smile, especially the line from Tool's "Schism" 🔗🔗
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MSA Modernism & Environment SIG @msa-modenviro.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Modernism and Environment enthusiasts! Check out the TWO latest installments of our “Letters from the Field" blog series on @moderniststudies.bsky.social's M/m print+ "Modernism, Energy, and Environment" blog! Do read and share! modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...
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Letters from the Field: #2 and #3 | Modernism / Modernity Print+
I write from Tampa, Florida, where last year’s back-to-back hurricanes have subsided into this year’s drought, and where I have been thinking obsessively about the university as environmental infrastructure. Like Virginia Woolf’s narrator Mary Beton in A Room of One’s Own, I have “sat down on the banks of a river” on a university campus. I’ve thought about how this place
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Dr. Elysia Balavage @drgreasefire.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
There is so much to celebrate from 1926... a hearty "thank you" to those who've offered to write a contribution! We've got room for a few more, so please reach out here or at spacebetweenbookreviews@gmail.com if interested 😄📚
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Dan Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It's union or bust, folks. This is expensive, we need taxes to make it happen. This is labor-led, we need need labor power to make it happen. Same dynamic in primary and secondary ed, in hospitals, in libraries, in childcare, etc etc
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Money on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
✨ MotL 92 is live! ✨ We speak with Mario Rendina about the politics of public employment & training in the US as they shifted over the course of the late 20th century. Please listen & share! 🎧 🙌 moneyontheleft.org/2026/07/02/p...
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APSCUF @apscuf.org · 13/07/2026
We are standing together on Sept. 28. Join us in Harrisburg. Learn more at www.apscuf.org/sept28rally/ #AffordableCollegeNow
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Dr. Elysia Balavage @drgreasefire.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
"...campuses are on much more stable ground than administrators claim, that shrinking the faculty ranks or cutting academic programs is unnecessary, and that if there is bloat, it’s at the highest ranks of the institutions." And... "Cut administrative expenses, especially highly paid staff." 💯
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The Faculty’s Numbers Man
When professors want to dispute cuts, they turn to Howard Bunsis. Is he just telling them what they want to hear?
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GoogeliArt 🦋💙PD @googeliart.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Belgium players mock Trump with his own dance before ending US run: ‘He’s gonna be so mad’ www.rawstory.com/world-cup-26...
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Belgium players mock Trump with his own dance before ending US run: ‘He’s gonna be so mad’
The Belgium men's soccer team handily defeated the United States 4-1 Monday night, but not before Belgium players mocked President Donald Trump by imitating his signature dance on the field – capping ...
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Dr. Elysia Balavage @drgreasefire.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Please message us here or email spacebetweenbookreviews@gmail.com!
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Michael H Whitworth @profmhwhitworth.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire are under threat c.org/ytqX5wZFxS
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Sign the Petition
Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire
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Modernist Studies Association (MSA) @moderniststudies.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Save the date! MSA 27 in Tallahassee, FL, December 2- 5. Details forthcoming!
MSA 2027 Modernism, Expanded Universe Tallahassee, Florida. Black and white images of expanding folded sheets.
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Dr. Megan Faragher @meganfaragher.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
MSA folks - in Loughborough or not, you can check me out on the virtual session beginning in 20 minutes! I'll be talking about Naomi Mitchison and Wyndham Lewis's collaboration Beyond This Limit. Imagine getting to see more art like this? 12:15 Virtual session, RM 2!
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Dr. Elysia Balavage @drgreasefire.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Humans are on the @moderniststudies.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social virtual menu today at 14:45 / 9:45EST! Check us out! #WeirdModernisms
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Dr. Elysia Balavage @drgreasefire.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
#WeirdModernisms
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Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Glad to see @spacebjournal.bsky.social @spacebetween.bsky.social represented at @modernistudies.bsky.social @moderniststudies.bsky.social Weird Modernisms…
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Dr. Elysia Balavage @drgreasefire.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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Faculty Unions Slam 3-Year Degrees
The American Association of University Professors and American Federation of Teachers came out against three-year degrees after Massachusetts announced plans to adopt them.
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Dr. Elysia Balavage @drgreasefire.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
What a fantastic forthcoming event by @modernistudies.bsky.social, @moderniststudies.bsky.social, AMSN, MADS, @modernism-asia.bsky.social, SEM, The Virginia Woolf Society of Turkey, and HASE! Such cool things happening in the world of modernism 😁
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Ria Banerjee @ria4983.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Hi @moderniststudies.bsky.social MSA conference attendees! Anyone going to Loughborough and need a room? A friend had to cancel her trip so it's up for grabs. DM for details. The Peacock Inn from July 1 - 4, twin room with ensuite for £270 (might be negotiable) RTs much appreciated pls!
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The Space Between Journal: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 @spacebjournal.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
If anyone is interested in reviewing this open-access bibliography for our 2026 issue, please get in touch! Either on here or via spacebetweenbookreviews@gmail.com...
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British Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
📣 CFP: 'Weird Modernisms' TMR Special Issue 📝 We are looking for contributions of conference reports, interviews, Q&As, and similar pieces, covering both the in-person and virtual conference. ⏰ If you are interested in being involved with the issue, please email tmr@bams.ac.uk by 12 June 2026.
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APSCUF @apscuf.org · 01/06/2026
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Labor union participation is on the rise even as U.S. companies spend more than $1.7 billion annually to halt union formation  | Fortune
Last year, Amazon reported spending $26 million on non-attorney consultants to persuade employees not to unionize.
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The Space Between Journal: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 @spacebjournal.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Burning thoughts? Fresh perspectives? Ideas for a cluster? Send them our way!! We welcome submissions and queries from scholars of all ranks and institutional affiliation status. #Modwrite
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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 29/05/2026
#OtD 29 May 1946 the Rochester general strike ended in victory after just one day. They won union recognition, the reinstatement for hundreds of city workers who had been fired for forming a union, and dropping of all charges against pickets. Learn more: www.tiktok.com/@workingclas...
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The Space Between Journal: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 @spacebjournal.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Assistant Book Reviews Editor @johndattridge90.bsky.social with Mitch Losito and Ben Clarke on the "Solidarity at Work and Play" panel at the joint @spacebetween.bsky.social and @fimassociation.bsky.social conference on "Solidarity!"
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Dr. Elysia Balavage @drgreasefire.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Thanks for the shout-out by @meganfaragher.bsky.social !! And, follow the Space Between Journal for some cool content 😎 @spacebjournal.bsky.social
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The Space Between Journal: Literature and Culture, 1914-1945 @spacebjournal.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
The joint @spacebetween.bsky.social @fimassociation.bsky.social on "Solidarity!" at @uncg.edu is off to a fantastic start!
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