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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The English department at Reed College—my department—is hiring a TT prof in post-45 US fiction and/or narrative. This position includes teaching in the interdisciplinary humanities program (mostly the freshman core course) as well as possibly contributing to upper level interdisciplinary programs.

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Tenure-Track Assistant Professorship in Post-1945 Fiction and/or Narrative of the United States - Office of the Dean of the Faculty - Reed C...

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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My kid asked me what‘s something I teach my students and I said “That if you write what you have to say on paper then—unlike devices—no one has access to it except you and whoever else physically interacts with the paper” and you guys, it made an immediate impression

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Justin Gage @justingage.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The History Department at the University of Arkansas (my department) is hiring an Assistant Professor in U.S. Latino/a/e History! The U of A is setting enrollment & graduation rate records each year. Please help spread the word 🗃️: uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UAF_Ex...

An aerial view of the University of Arkansas campus during the fall.

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Ordinary Notes @hystericalblkns.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

What do we owe each other? This is what we must attend to.

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deven parker @devenparker.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

ROMANTIC MEDIA AND WARTIME NETWORKS, my first monograph, is out today with @stanfordpress.bsky.social. It tells the story of how the state revolutionized its wartime communication networks in the Romantic period and how writers responded to - and resisted - this media revolution.

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Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

some news to share: this Fall 2026, I’ll be an associate professor with tenure at @baruch.cuny.edu & @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social! I’m joining Baruch’s Black & Latinx Studies dept & the GC’s Black, Race, & Ethnic Studies dept. I’m excited to contribute to the incredible work happening at CUNY!

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Joey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

CFP! @ayendy.bsky.social and I are co-editing an awesome book on 19th and early 20th c. Latinx-Asian relationalities. Proposals for 4-6k word essays due 10/8. Please dm me for more info and share widely!

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Briony Neilson @brionyneilson.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Allen Lane, co-founder of Penguin Books, extracts a book from the brand new "Penguincubator" – a vending machine with a range of Penguin titles available for sixpence, placed outside Collet's bookshop on London's Charing Cross Road in July 1937 🗃️

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Bebe Neuwirth (she/her) @bebeneuwirth.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Thank you Empire State Building. NYC ❤️ Dolly.

Empire State Building lit up in bright pink in honor of Dolly Parton. Beautiful.

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Renee Hudson @renhu2.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My review of @ayendy.bsky.social's searing memoir, Dique Dominican, which explores the failures of the American Dream framed by toxic productivity and the too-high demands academia makes of us. Read it now at @LatinxTalk: latinxtalk.org/2026/08/25/b...

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Book Review: Bonifacio, Ayendy, Dique Dominican - Latinx Talk

Resisting the American Dream: On Ayendy Bonifacio’s Dique Dominican Ayendy Bonifacio’s memoir, Dique Dominican (2026), is a referendum on the American Dream. In Bonifacio’s hands, the narrative of upl...

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Unusual Whales @unusuqlwhalles.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Thank you to the brilliant Renee Hudson for this very smart and generous review of Dique Dominican. Read it in Latinx Talk:

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Glenn Fleishman @glennf.com · 26/08/2026

I have never had a donation page time out when collecting payment before, but Dolly’s Imagination Library just did. We’re all giving.

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Library of Congress @librarycongress.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Library is devastated to learn of the passing of Dolly Parton, a music legend and titan of children's literacy. Her Imagination Library program has earned multiple Library Literacy Awards and, in 2018, she visited us to donate its 100 millionth book to our collection and host a story time. 🦋❤️

Dolly Parton reads to children in the Library’s Great Hall in 2018. Photo by Shawn Miller.

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Molly Farrell (she/her) @mollyfarrell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My new book is officially out today! I'm posting just as we all learned that Dolly Parton has died. As part of writing this I deepened my respect for those who, like she did with the Imagination Library, take the genius and potential of all children seriously--no matter how much money they have.

Book dedication open on top of another book with the cover NEW WORLD CALCULATION that reads For all the children of Columbus City Schools, past, present, and future, including my own. Every single one of you is a genius.

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Ryan Boyd @ryanboyd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

They need to make "Goblin Market" a miniseries

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Unusual Whales @unusuqlwhalles.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

CFP! @joeykim.bsky.social & I are editing The Latinx-Asian Commons, an interdisciplinary collection on Asian-Latinx relationalities from the nineteenth century to 1965. We welcome 300–500-word proposals. Due October 8, 2026. Graduate students & contingent faculty encouraged! See photo for more info.

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Joey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

CFP! @ayendy.bsky.social & I are editing The Latinx-Asian Commons, an interdisciplinary collection on Asian-Latinx relationalities from the nineteenth century to 1965. We welcome 300–500-word proposals. Due October 8, 2026. Graduate students & contingent faculty encouraged! See photo for more info.

Cfp for edited collection titled the Latinx Asian commons. Email Joanne.kim2@utoledo.edu for more info

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British Association for Romantic Studies @bars.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

🌟Call for Applications: BARS Communications Fellow 2026-27 to assist with the BARS Blog and social media 🌟 Deadline - Monday 14th September Details - www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6572

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I’m at the vigil for Jason Arday in London (Trafalgar). Very big turnout, easily thousands of us here

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Joey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Grateful that my poem "North Korean, Wrapped in Plastic Foam, Floats to Freedom in the South” was named a finalist for @rhinopoetry.bsky.social’s 2026 Founders' Prize & is now out! Many thx to the RHINO team & Matthew Olzmann for judging this year's prize. Congrats to the winner & fellow finalists!

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Joey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Thrilled to share that Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation received an Honorable Mention for the @bars.bsky.social's First Book Prize! Congrats to Yin Yuan on winning for Alimentary Orientalisms, & to Colleen Taylor, my fellow Honorable Mention! 🎉🥳👏🏼

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Dr Andrew McInnes @drbeard79.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Congratulations to Yin Yuan for the winning Alimentary Orientalisms and honourable mentions @joeykim.bsky.social & Colleen Taylor - brilliant books leading an incredible set of work we looked at for the @bars.bsky.social First Book Prize 🏆

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shortcake⁷ is bulletproof @starlichka.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

i can hear BTS! BTS! BTS! chanted in the hearts and minds of millions this morning

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Joey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This week only, the ebook version of Romanticism and the Poetics of Orientation, is on sale for $9.99! Sale ends 7/24/26: edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-romanti...

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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Min Jin Lee's new novel, American Hagwon, dramatizes Korean exceptionalism--the roots of it, the extent of it, like nothing else. Her story this week in the New Yorker is excerpted from the novel, a moving and powerful glimpse at one young man trying to pass a test: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

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“Testing,” by Min Jin Lee

In less than twenty-four hours, he would take the Suneung again, and, for the past three years, he had done little but sleep, eat, and study for this exam.

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Dr. Syntax @drsyntax.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I've said this before: Scholar friends, if you read an essay, chapter, or book that you like please DO tell the author! I can't tell you how much these notes mean to someone who feels like they are alone and simply writing into the void.

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Toby Ziegler's Intense Stare Down in The West Wing

ALT: Toby Ziegler's Intense Stare Down in The West Wing

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Joey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

“What propelled Asian mobility across the Pacific? How did the 'chino/a' label emerge? How did Asians respond to incipient colonial forms of race making?” Such an essential book by @diegojavierluis.bsky.social!

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Joey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Got my hands on the latest print issue of @ecfjournal.bsky.social! I’m happy to share my essay, “Epistolarity and Black Futurity in The Woman of Colour,”which is the first piece I wrote postpartum and now the first that shows my new “Associate” title in print! 🥰🥹 dm me if you’d like a copy!

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Joey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Researching at Yonsei and Ewha, my parents’ alma maters! 🇰🇷

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Dustin Friedman @dustinfriedman.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Hey everyone! I edited a special issue of Nineteenth-Century Literature on the “Fin de Fin de Siècle”. Check it out!

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Anna Fancett @annafancett.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Romanticism colleagues, I am still looking for a poetry contributor for the Year's Work in English Studies. If anyone is interested, please contact me! #romanticism

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The Circle for Asian American Literary Studies (CAALS) @caals.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Excited to share the schedule for our Virtual Conference! On June 22, we will have Karen Tei Yamashita discussing her new novel, Questions 27 and 28 w/ Christine Kitano. The next day, @mai-linhhong.bsky.social & Sameer Pandya will discuss bridging academic and creative work! LINK: bit.ly/4on5KDJ

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Joey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

So excited that UToledo library has a FIRST edition of Younghill Kang’s first novel, The Grass Roof (1931)! The novel is out of print, and this copy is in such good condition 🙏🏼 #librariesrule!

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Inside pages of The Grass Roof by Younghill Kang

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

This is incredibly tragic. I had the pleasure of speaking at an MIT Libraries event last month and got to see the good work the do and the community they support. For a university of this caliber to shutter this many of its libraries--this is truly a travesty.

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

This special issue of @differences.bsky.social invites literary theorists and historians to engage with a question raised by this reader: For whom do we read? View the TOC and read the editor's introduction, made freely available: buff.ly/FYRFI0L

Differences cover with bold yellow background and centered text asking For Whom Do We Read

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

A super interesting opportunity at the Whitney Humanities Center. The deputy director there, @dianeberrettbrown.bsky.social, is awesome and you know I <3 New Haven. Please repost and spread the word!!

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Joey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Excited to share my new essay, "Epistolarity and Black Futurity in The Woman of Colour," out now in Eighteenth-Century Fiction! I'm especially proud of this piece because I wrote it while pregnant-in ERs, hospital rooms, and through the exhaustion of postpartum recovery. DM me if you'd like a copy!

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Joey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Honored to be short-listed for the British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) First Book Prize! BARS is the UK’s leading national organization for promoting the study of Romanticism. Congrats to the fellow honorees--excited to see the winner next month!!! www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6441...

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BARS First Book Prize 2026 Shortlist Announced – BARS Blog

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Joey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

I'm officially tenured!!! I'm deeply grateful to everyone who supported me through it all. I'm humbled and honored to continue this work as an Associate Professor. 🎉🙏🤩

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Joey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The fall 2025 issue of Multi-Ethnic Literatures of the US (MELUS) is out, and my conversation with Ocean Vuong is included in it! If you’d like a pdf, let me know! academic.oup.com/melus/articl...

First page of article “The Lack of Coherence is a Powerful Disobedience” convo with Ocean Vuong and Joey Kim

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Mina Kimes @minakimes.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

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The Circle for Asian American Literary Studies (CAALS) @caals.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

We're delighted to announce the 4th CAALS Virtual Conference which will be held on June 22-23rd, 2026! We have 2 CFP’s: “West Asia in the Asian/Asian American Imaginary" and Writing Right Now: Approaches to Asian American Literary Studies Dissertations and Book Projects." See photos for details!

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Ingrid Burrington @lifewinning.com · 01/04/2026

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

Highlighted section of the Copilot ToS which says "Copilot is for entertainment purposes only"

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Rachel Bachman, WSJ sports reporter @realbachscore.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

After Claudia Goldin became the first woman to win a solo Nobel in economics, she got hundreds of invitations. She accepted three. One was advising WNBA players on a labor deal. She helped players land the biggest % raise in US sports history. www.wsj.com/economy/wnba...

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WNBA Players Had an Ace Up Their Sleeve in Pay Negotiations: A Nobel Laureate

Harvard economist Claudia Goldin helped WNBA players win a nearly 400% raise. Starting this season, players’ average salary will top $580,000.

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Nicola Parsons @nicolaparsons.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

📢 Fully-funded PhD scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century Based at the University of Sydney (supervised by me) and the University of Glasgow (supervised by Matthew Sangster), with time at both institutions. Applications due 21 April More details: www.gla.ac.uk/scholarships...

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University of Glasgow - Scholarships & funding - USYD UofG Joint PhD Scholarship: Living with Print in the Eighteenth Century

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