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Stephen Guy-Bray @stephengb.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

This plaque is next to my place. It commemorates a priest who in 1830 founded one of the first schools for deaf mutes in Italy "cui donava col canto la vita della parola" (to whom he gave with song the life of the word." I'm not sure what that means, but it's a lovely phrase. @jsfarr.bsky.social

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Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Book submissions for the George E. Haggerty Prize in LGBTQ+ Studies in 18th-Century Scholarship are now open—Jan 15 deadline. If you published a peer reviewed book in 2024 or 25, please submit! $500 cash prize. RT’s appreciated 🙏🏼 asecs.org/resources/ol...

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George E. Haggerty Prize in LGBTQ+ Studies in Eighteenth-Century Scholarship – ASECS

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BucknellUPress.bsky.social @bucknellupress.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

#Newbook: Body Language: Medicine and the Eighteenth-Century Comic Novel by @katalves18c.bsky.social examines the intersections of British 18C comic fiction and medical discourse, adding "a vital chapter to the study of medicine, literature, and gender in the period." To order: tinyurl.com/3vpz7crk

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祖思薪 Eugenia Zuroski @zugenia.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

The latest @ecfjournal.bsky.social is out today, with a special section edited by Mona Narain on “Asian/Asia.” Articles in this cluster by @shruti-jain.bsky.social and @kaushiktekur.bsky.social, a Reflections essay by @travisclau.bsky.social, and a response by me! utppublishing.com/toc/ecf/37/2

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Contents | Eighteenth-Century Fiction 37, 2

Special Section: “Asian/Asia”: Provocations

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Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

When Uncle Travis’s brand new poetry collection, WHAT’S LEFT IS TENDER, arrives, his kitty nephews celebrate. As for me, I’ll be teaching from this in my health humanities class this fall! @travisclau.bsky.social

Large orange tabby cat and skinny tuxedo looking skyward. In the foreground is Travis Chi Wing Lau’s poetry collection, WHAT’S LEFT IS TENDER

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the Mountain Goats @themountaingoats.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

this is a disgrace and a national shame

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception." www.mellon.org/voices/human...

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Mellon Foundation

The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

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Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Wild to me that this is out of print! Just got my hands on a copy off of eBay. It contains an introductory essay by Joe LeSueur.

Blue book that is titled selected plays by Frank O’Hara, published by Full Court Press.

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Out today, the Academic Council of the University of California issues the following statement: “Higher education is under direct and sustained attack. 1/ senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/repor...

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Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Listen, other Jason Farr, there’s only enough room in this world for one of us. 😤

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Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Is it really a protest in Wisconsin if there isn’t at least one sign that says “fuck Ron Johnson”?

Protestor holding a sign that says FUCK RON JOHNSON

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Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Milwaukee showing up to protest Trump and Musk fascism.

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Dr. Chance Bonar @chancebonar.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Pour one out tonight not only for the thousands of fantastic scholars whose NEH grants were wrongly terminated, but also for all of the junior scholars who have never—and now may never in their lifetimes—receive federal support for their research

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Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Kate, this absolutely made me day. Thank you!

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Cory Booker @corybooker.com · 02/04/2025

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Cory Booker is doing something incredible on the Senate floor. If you're not watching, you need to watch: www.youtube.com/live/Ej6locU...

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LIVE: Cory Booker goes for floor speech RECORD

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Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Proudly casting my vote for #SusanCrawford and against Musk-Trump here in Wisconsin.

White bespectacled bearded man wearing a green jacket with “I voted” sticker. He stands in front of a “vote here” sign.

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Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Been saying this. We need to find a way to keep him, Dawes, and Wahlin.

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Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Here’s an essay I wrote about accessibility as an improvisational mindset that we can cultivate in our classrooms & communities, & as a principle that aligns uncannily with some strains of Romantic thought. #disability #disabilitystudies

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Improvisational Accessibility and Romanticism | Romantic Circles

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Jaipreet Virdi @jaivirdi.com · 11/02/2025

From an idea in 2008 to a book in 2025, ECHOES OF CARE: DEAFNESS IN MODERN BRITAIN has been published by @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ! It explores how changing perceptions of deafness intersected with healthcare, disability, and eugenics in 19th-century Britain. www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...

A book standing upright on multiple copies, which are laying next to a 1920s Underwood typewriter. The book cover is a faded and blurry background, with a photo of a person’s ear horizontal on the bottom, and text emitting from it to represent sound. The text in large font says “Echoes of Care” followed by “Deafness in Modern Britain” and the author’s name, Jaipreet Virdi.

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Sara Nović @novicsara.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Very disturbing anti-disability rhetoric here, where Trump blames the recent American Airlines crash on DEI efforts, specifically hiring disabled folks, into the FAA. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

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Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Oh shit, it’s Robert Wringhim from Private Memoirs & Confessions of a Justified Sinner, appearing in a Brocken spectre. 🫣😱

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Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

We don’t have to be stars exploding in the night / or electric eels under the covers / we don’t have to be anything quite so unreal / let’s just be lovers

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Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

With your permission, this will be my new introductory paragraph for all letters.

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Nate Wolff @natewolff.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Dear colleagues, In abject humility, I write to recommend ______, whose achievements are so monumental, so profound, as to leave me debased, worthless, by their measure. Do I “warmly” recommend them? Hell would seem an arctic tundra next the respectful inferno of my professional esteem

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Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Yesss. Wish we could have a cigar hang!

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Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

They are submitted. The grades. 🥳

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DeclanKavanagh.bsky.social @drdeclankavanagh.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Any advice for a ten minute conference presentation? #BSECS25

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Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Also, my goodness, I sure miss reading/hearing your wonderful conference papers.

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Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

One point, made succinctly, by way of brief theoretical framework + a passage or two + analysis, followed by brief conclusion. Rehearse to get sense of timing.

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Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Hi #RunningPunks, I completed a 10-miler along icy Lake Michigan today. Heard a punk band called Memo PST on KEXP that really got me excited. 😆🤘🏻

White bearded middle-aged man wearing a blue sweatshirt and neon green caution gear to alert drivers in the fog. In the background, sheets of ice on Lake Michigan.

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Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

It just seems like the perfect night—frigid and dark here in Milwaukee—for a rye manhattan + some early Silver Jews.

My turntable setup. On the left is the record player and on the right is the Silver Jews “Starlite Walker” album cover. Also visible is my manhattan in a martini glass.

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Travis Chi Wing Lau (劉志頴) @travisclau.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Much gratitude to @profchander.bsky.social for inviting me to be part of this collection I wish I had had as an undergrad. This is a love letter to the folks working at the intersections of race and disability who we need now more than ever.

The first page of my essay, "The Crip Foundations of Romantic Medicine"

The cover page to The Cambridge Companion to Romanticism and Race

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Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Me too. An incredible series about friendship and queer life.

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Lisa Tozzi @lisatozzi.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

The finale Somebody Somewhere may be on tonight but I will never stop telling people to watch this amazing show. But you don’t have to just listen to me. Here’s @lyz.bsky.social to tell you about it www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

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Farewell to 'Somebody Somewhere,' TV's Rare Love Letter to Middle America

In the final season of Bridget Everett's HBO series, Sam, Joel, Trish and Fred experience big changes but cherish their small-town life above all.

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Prof MNP @nushpowell.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Let’s talk Jack Sheppard, a (bad) thief and a legend. Plenty of people have pointed out that making violent criminals the subject of – well, let’s call it economically inflected fantisizing – is hardly new. What really helps someone cross from news to legend, though, is Not Getting Caught.

Black and white engraving of Jack Sheppard, done by George White in 1728, based on a painting by James Thornhill. Sheppard has large, soulful eyes and is wearing a coat and breeches with cravat. His hands are cuffed in his prison cell, and his hair is cropped short. This may emphasize his status as a condemned prisoner, but it's also arguably a reminder that he was apprehended wearing a gentleman's wig.

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Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

My new MO is crying on the plane as I watch downloaded eps of Somebody, Somewhere. 😭🤦🏼

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Prof Wolvie @profwolvie.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

TAPS THE SIGN

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Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Mocha mousse and phone apps for dating and sex. I hate this unsexy TL.

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Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Yes, all important skills—skills that are ultimately at odds with the logic of the neoliberal university. (This thread resonates so deeply—thx for posting).

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Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

This year’s Haggerty Prize will award a peer-reviewed article published between 1/1/22 and 12/31/24. $500 cash prize! Please submit your work or nominate others. Deadline is 1/1/25. And please repost to spread the word. Info at link. #c18 #ASECS #LGBTQ

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George E. Haggerty Prize in LGBTQ+ Studies in Eighteenth-Century Scholarship – ASECS

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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Hearing the president of KU say that the way the humanities can protect itself - a question asked by a humanities professor of Spanish - is that her field should direct its public voice to how the Spanish language can impact AI versus the third study of an obscure play…. Just sigh.

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Roxane Gay @roxanegay.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

The audacity of the university asking employees for donations. Every institution! Every year!

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Jason Farr @jsfarr.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Not bad at all, IMO! I just wrote the same exact line in a chapter draft. I am building on previous ideas. Self-citation is a way to mark this development. And I’m also having a laugh at myself as I realize that I’m aging in the profession.

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