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Sarah Jane Cervenak @sjcerv.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Good morning. Astonished to share that my first book is 12 years old today. Thanks for reading, teaching and supporting ❤️❤️❤️ @dukepress.bsky.social

Photo of the black and white cover of ‘Wandering: Philosophical Performances of Racial and Sexual Freedom’ . The photo on the cover is of the artist photographer Carrie Mae Weems walking a cobblestone road by an ocean. She is wearing a long black dress and looks out to the sea.

There is a bunch of blue, orange and purple balloons that read ‘happy birthday’ placed at the corner of the cover

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

BREAKING: Boston University's English department (my dept) recently voted to approve new learning outcomes for the English major, including an anti-AI provision that requires students to “craft and revise writing that is sustained, original, and generated without the assistance of AI."

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New Learning Outcomes Announced | English

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Kaneesha Parsard @kaneeshaparsard.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Hi everyone! My first book Desiring Freedom is coming out this November on the University of Chicago Press. Pre-order here (bit.ly/4j51OqD) and check out blurbs from David Scott and Faith Smith below:

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Desiring Freedom

A groundbreaking account of concepts of freedom in West Indian literature and visual culture.Desiring Freedom examines post-emancipation West Indian literature and visual culture to ask how they reima...

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William Orchard @billeo.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Against Archival Erasure: a conversation on Caribbean women and the archive. 2/27 at the CUNY Graduate Center.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

It would be embarrassing under any circumstances to spend a year on this reactionary horseshit, but to have spent the year in which graduate students were sent to concentration camps for op-eds and the federal govt launched a no hold barred attack on academic freedom is just beyond

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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

It’s infuriating how many people claim to care about fictitious “child trafficking” conspiracies about trans people and Wayfair and Democrats but will miss, ignore, and distract from actual government agents kidnapping children in front of their very eyes

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Dominique Baker @bakerdphd.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

It would appear I am now a columnist at Inside Higher Ed. My first piece focuses on McCarthyism, censorship, and our current moment in higher education. This is an essay I started nearly 6 months ago so I'm glad to finally share it with y'all. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

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Censorship Arrives on Campus

In her debut column, “Echoes in the Quad,” higher education policy scholar Dominique J. Baker explores how the political oppression of the McCarthy era reverberates in the stifling of academic freedom...

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

The Introduction, “What is the Future We Yearn For?,” to my book, *The Future That Was*, is now live and freely available to all on the book’s @princetonupress.bsky.social website press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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The Future That Was

How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

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Ryan Cecil Jobson @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

On a separate note, this isn’t even the most exciting development in the study of CLR James in my own household this week. news.uchicago.edu/story/lost-p...

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Lost pages reveal an alternate ending to a classic Caribbean novel

Discovery from UChicago’s Kaneesha Parsard sheds new light on “Minty Alley” by political theorist C.L.R. James

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

There hasn't been a lot of empirical evidence yet -- here's a start from Kim + Hamilton. Faculty hiring of URMs decreases after state introduction (not passage) of anti-DEI legislation. Impact greater for teaching-focused schools, and increases with state revenue dependence. osf.io/preprints/so...

Graph showing relationship between share of faculty hiring going to white men vs. underrepresented minorities at different levels of state revenue dependence with and without introduction of DEI bills.

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️ press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

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The Future That Was

How Third World women seized the means of knowledge production to fight against rising authoritarianism and imagine a future freer than our present

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The TRiiBE @thetriibe.com · 01/10/2025

NEW — An estimated 40 people were taken by federal agents in an overnight raid in South Shore, a predominantly-Black neighborhood on Chicago’s South Side. A couple who live nearby said they were shocked to see the enormous militarized raid in their community. thetriibe.com/2025/09/feds...

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Feds detain dozens of immigrants in 'massive' South Shore apartment building raid in Chicago • The TRiiBE

An estimated 40 people were taken by federal agents in the course of the overnight raid in the predominately-Black neighborhood.

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UC Berkeley English @ucberkeleyenglish.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Don't miss the first of this semester's New Faculty Voices Q&A series! This semester we were delighted to welcome Professor Farah Bakaari to UC Berkeley English. A scholar of 20th and 21st Century African Literature, you can learn more about her and her work in our Q&A - link in bio!

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andy hines @andyhines.bsky.social · 09/09/2025

It's publication day for UNIVERSITY KEYWORDS. Across 27 sharp essays, the book offers a critical account of the political economy of US higher education, how it came to be structured this way, and how together we might build a better university together.

green and yellow cover of University Keywords, ed by Andy Hines

Table of contents for University Keywords

University: An Introduction, Andy Hines

Academic Freedom, Jennifer Ruth and Ellen Schrecker
Adjunct, Heather Steffen
Admissions, Scott Gelber
Alternative Institutions, Andy Hines and Eli Meyerhoff
Athletics, Wayne L. Black
Board of Trustees, Asheesh Siddique Kapur
Budget, Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
Campus, Davarian Baldwin
Classroom, Richard Simpson
Critical University Studies, Rana M. Jaleel, Isaac Kamola, and Heather Steffen
Debt, Eleni Schirmer and Jason Wozniak
Degree, Christopher Newfield
Discipline, Vineeta Singh
Diversity, p.s. kehal
EdTech, Annie McClanahan and Louise McCune
Endowment, Dennis M. Hogan
Entrepreneurship, Jesse Goldstein

Table of contents for university keywords

Fiction, Jeffrey J. Williams
Legislation, Elizabeth Tandy Shermer
Noncitizen Student, Abigail Boggs
Police, Yalile Suriel and Grace Watkins
Ranking, Jelena Brankovic and Stefan Wilbers
Revenue, Dan Nemser and Brian Whitener
Risk Management, Mattie Armstrong-Price
Sustainability, Kai Bosworth, Jesse Goldstein, Andy Hines, and Eli Meyerhoff
Title IX, Rana M. Jaleel
Union, Zach Schwartz-Weinstein

Appendix: Questions to Consider for Composing a Keywords Entry

Contributor Bios
Acknowledgments
Index

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

so fab! if you didn't see: against-a-i.com

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AGAINST AI -

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Kaneesha Parsard @kaneeshaparsard.bsky.social · 25/03/2024

In a new article in Verge, @neelofer.bsky.social, Najnin Islam, and I offer iteration as the aesthetic logic by which contemporary visual culture connects Indian indenture to the labor systems that precede and follow it. Check it out in Verge (open access!) muse.jhu.edu/pub/23/artic...

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Project MUSE - Indenture, Iteration: Race and the Aesthetics of Contract Labor

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AAUP–Penn @aaup-penn.bsky.social · 08/01/2024

Penn is due for reaccreditation. That requires a university to adhere to principles of academic freedom, shared governance, open expression, and diversity. Speak up and tell MSCHE: unelected trustees' and donors' recent actions put Penn's future at risk. Public comment ends 1/12 shorturl.at/giAOS

Flyer: Did you know Penn is now applying for reaccreditation, even while facing threats that trustees might unilaterally close departments and punish open expression? DON'T LET DONORS AND TRUSTEES JEOPARDIZE PENN'S ACCREDITATION. Third-party comment period is open until January 12. Use the QR code to tell MSCHE: Higher education is impossible without academic freedom. Billionaire CEOs' and trustees' attempts to control curriculum and to silence speech are a threat to Penn's future

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Jim Casey @jimccasey1.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

Unpopular opinion: the MLA convention somehow morphed into one of the better scholarly events out there. Plenty of complaints, sure, but I've been almost every year since 2017. And as all the tweets & texts are reminding me–a lot of good work is happening in those dim ballrooms!

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Kaneesha Parsard @kaneeshaparsard.bsky.social · 03/01/2024

For my first Bluesky post, some #mla24 promo: It's here! Wake up with "Jerks" this Friday at 8:30 am. We'll hear about Oscar Zeta Acosta's pugnacious leadership in the Chicano movement, Coetzee’s jerk poetics, dyspeptic dads, Larry David, and the valences of "nothing" in Naipaul's work.

Description of an MLA 2024 roundtable, titled "Jerks," on the dyspeptic, cantankerous, and disagreeable in literature.

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