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Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

This autumn is the 10th anniversary of the publication of Written/Unwritten: Diversity and the Hidden Truths of Tenure. It came out during a heartbreaking time, my mom’s passing. I worked on copy edits and proofs from her living room, between medical appointments. uncpress.org/978146962771...

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Written/Unwritten

The academy may claim to seek and value diversity in its professoriate, but reports from faculty of color around the country make clear that departments and ...

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Lauren Eriks Cline @lerikscline.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Literally moved to tears by the finish: so stunningly formed.

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

who benefits: oligarchs cuz AI is a political project, but who benefits also: corrupt trustees of universities hoovering public money to prop up tech companies with a diffusion crisis faculty need to connect the dots too; join us in chicago for a workshop! www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

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Against the AI Campus: Building Power in Higher Ed

Welcome Reception / October 23 / 6-8 PM Central / Chicago, ILWorkshop / October 24 / 9AM-5 PM Central / University of Illinois-Chicago Email us to inquire…

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Kathryn VanArendonk @kvanaren.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

widows bay is incredible and the directing is a huge part of why but this emmy is actually for station eleven, fyi

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Midwest Victorian Studies Association @mvsa.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Are you interested in "(un)teaching empire"? Apply to this MVSA 2027 conference roundtable, as part of the Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom project. Roundtable Organized by Cherrie Kwok and Doreen Thierauf. Abstracts + CVs due Nov. 30. midwestvictorian.org/call-for-pap...

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Call for Proposals: “(Un)Teaching Empire”

Undisciplining the Victorian Classroom at MVSA 2027, April 1-3, 2027 Sidney Paget, “My Dear Watson, The Two Events Are Connected,” from: Arthur Conan Doyle, The Original Illustrated She…

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Devin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

GREETINGS.

Cover of my forthcoming monograph, Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Cosmologies of the Human, featuring an image by John Ruskin of ferns, moss, florals, and rock in shades of sage green, teal, and lavendar.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Anyway. Data politics are the cataclysmic danger. AI is mostly just a mid tech attached to a speculative finance scheme. Anything it can make dangerous is already dangerous enough to kill us.

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The fixation on college majors continues to be one of the great bait and switches of modern education. Core curriculum classes, distributed across the subjects and comprising the bulk of course credits taught in any given year continue to be *most* of college education.

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19th Century Theatre Caucus @19ctheatrecaucus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hello Bluesky! This is @lerikscline.bsky.social writing on behalf of the 19th Century Theatre Caucus. We're excited to share and repost publications, events, and news of interest to caucus members and other lovers of nineteenth century theatre and performance.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Dependency is the goal.

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Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Hey literary scholars! Remember fun syllabus queries on the other site back in the day? Can we try it here? The literature of extraction: a syllabus. Please and thank you.

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Deidre Lynch @drbibliomane.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I got tired of waiting for the journalists at @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social to cover this (it IS summer), but this is to say that ALL the staff members in Women & Gender Studies here were laid off last week, on the top of the cutting of 5 lecturer positions in the program last year.+

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Devin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

It (nearly) lives! Forthcoming from OUP in November or December! My first reaction, for once, was glee — though the terror of writing a book is that it’s never finished. Eek! Woohoo! Wild to have proofs in hand!!!!

Title page of forthcoming book by me, titled Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Cosmologies of the Human: Worlds Unmanned. From Oxford UP.

Table of contents for forthcoming book.

Introduction: Poetry, Person, Planet — with subsections on William Wordsworth; Sylvia Wynter and lyricization; climate, affectability, impress; and criticism, canonicity, and counterbumanism.

First chapter on Wordsworth, Charles Lyell, and c19 manscapes — with subsections on Wordsworth’s and Lyell’s lyric theologies, the pathetic fallacy (Ruskin) and Wynter on desperate realization, and apostrophizing Toussaint Louverture.

Second chapter on Tennyson’s In Memoriam, the possibilities and limits of posthumanism, and ambivalent reading — with subsections on extinction and apostrophe.

Third chapter on Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the problem of reference, and infrastructures of reading — with subsections on Swedenborgianism, sphericity, plantation inheritances, and the slippages of rhyme.

Fourth chapter on Phillis Wheatley, extractivism, extractionist reading, and salvage criticism—with subsections on solar intergumanism, allusion, reticence, and refusal.

Coda on contemporary representations of climate collapse, Wynter on transumption, and the afterlives of c19 aesthetic imaginaries.

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I'm planning on having students do more in-class writing in both my freshman and upper-level classes. If you are too, let's share prompts? Here are some of mine that I'm tinkering with:

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Lauren Eriks Cline @lerikscline.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The English department is back in session.

Photo of the poster’s open office doorway, next to which sits the English department’s newest campus acquisition, a Ms. Pac-Man machine.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 15/08/2026

Absolutely vile framing from the @nytimes.com. Why doesn’t this leave behind hard questions for the media that hounded him? Or the global right-wing that gleefully turned a local matter into an international incident?

“Professor’s Death Leaves Behind Hard Questions for Cambridge on Race and Hiring”

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

predictably excellent from hollingshead, every word "Against the forces of antiintellectual fascists+AI tech lords, self-flagellating academics+immediacy fetishists alike, we need to champion the difficulties+pleasures of humanities scholarship with our whole chests." defector.com/humanists-ha...

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Humanists Have Done Nothing Wrong | Defector

For many years, I’ve held a pet theory that cultural consumers can be grouped into two broad categories: Primary Source People and Secondary Source People. The former are the book lovers, cinephiles, ...

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Jay Shelat @jshelat1.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Friends, my book—No Place for Home: Terror and Race in Literature After 9/11—has a cover! I’m so pleased with what Rachel Moeller and the design team at @uminnpress.bsky.social came up with! The book will be out in Spring 2027 and that I’ll post a pre-order link once it’s available! 1/2

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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Laura Heffernan and I are proposing an in-person seminar on "Aesthetics for Amateurs" for ACLA 2027. It's about recentering creativity and making--especially amateur making--in our theories of the aesthetic. If this is your jam, please consider submitting! www.acla.org/seminar/d6b4...

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View Seminar | American Comparative Literature Association

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Hester Blum @hesterblum.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

1. @robdelaney.bsky.social is the best read and smartest person in Hollywood/London 2. The dizzying adrenaline of talking about Moby-Dick with him every day was amazing and I think is contagious if you subscribe to the podcast?!? 3. Our digressions are EPIC and rival Melville's 4. 🐳 4 life

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Emily Steinlight @emilysteinlight.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It’s been a hard week and I nearly missed that this was finally out. I wrote “Victorian Studies and the American State” 5 years ago and have been discussing it with some of you for a decade. Surreal to see, and grateful to be in the good company of @jakeromanow.bsky.social and brilliant respondents

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Victorian Studies and the American State | PMLA | Cambridge Core

Victorian Studies and the American State - Volume 141 Issue 2

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Between the latest PMLA on Victorian Studies & Its Others and the recent issue of @victorianpoetry.bsky.social I’m not sure any Anglophone lit subfield is as full of critical self-reflection (complimentary!!) as Victorian studies right now. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Latest issue | PMLA | Cambridge Core

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Dennis Hogan @dennismhogan.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Submissions to the New England Review of Boats will close tomorrow at midnight!! See below and please get in touch if you want to contribute!

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Elizabeth Alsop @elizabethalsop.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

when cuts like this happen at Harvard of all places it at least clarifies that the motives are ideological not financial — not that it’s any consolation

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Lauren Eriks Cline @lerikscline.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

The Victorian as a literary tradition: "I propose that this version of Victorian—narrow rather than 'wide,' transnational without a presumption of being global—might itself help us undiscipline; by centering objects over methods, we might loosen the self-regarding perpetuation of discipline itself."

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Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

My article "Provincializing Victorian Studies" is out in the latest PMLA. It's many years in the making—thanks for reading. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Provincializing Victorian Studies: A. Native’s Marita among Literary Traditions | PMLA | Cambridge Core

Provincializing Victorian Studies: A. Native’s Marita among Literary Traditions - Volume 141 Issue 2

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

CABO VERDE CABO VERDE CABO VERDE

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Tricia Matthew @triciamatthew.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I know Tiffany from my year at the NHC. She’s a devoted scholar and mentor. I met her at the NHC and was grateful for her friendship. This is devastating in multiple ways—no salary, no healthcare, no faculty privileges, and more. Please support her. chuffed.org/project/1562...

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Mutual Aid for Tiffany

Our colleague, friend, and justice-devoted loved one Tiffany is facing significant financial burdens as she defends herself against potential punitive disciplinary actions from the University of Calif...

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Lauren Eriks Cline @lerikscline.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

French defense faisant la grève apparently.

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshks.org · 18/07/2026

🎯 “An elite consensus that AI-assisted learning might be fine for hoi polloi but not for future leaders at the most selective institutions cannot be far-off now“ The coming class divide on AI: tech-free learning at elite institutions, AI-centered learning everywhere else.

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Dennis Hogan @dennismhogan.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Many faculty have been sounding the alarm about the problems generative AI poses for student learning. Strangely, some higher ed administrations seem have emerged as major AI boosters. Why? As I write in the latest @hedgehogreview.bsky.social it's a labor story: hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-f...

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Brian Glavey @glavey.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

So I'm starting a podcast about friendship and aesthetic experience called "Some Marvelous Experience." I've posted a brief teaser that explains a little bit about the main idea and will drop the first episode soon. Please subscribe and help me spread the word! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

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Some Marvelous Experience

Arts Podcast · Updated Biweekly · A podcast about friendship and art hosted by Brian Glavey. For each episode I'll talk to a pair of friends about a work of art or aesthetic experience that they share...

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Dag. @3fecta.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Homer Simpson leaning down comforting bart in the worst day ever meme.

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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Absolutely insane that Cape Verde — a country of 500,000 — played Spain, Uruguay and Argentina…and lost to none of them in regulation. Easily one of the greatest performances in World Cup history.

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Nora J. Williams @norajw.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

'Tis I! Scroll down the thread for archival recordings of performances and access to scripts from A Two Woman Hamlet 💀💐👑

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Exeter has a phenomenal track record of literary studies research AND enrollment. The unbundling of the two will sabotage them both. And that is by design. The fewer research-intensive humanities departments there are, this thinking goes, the easier it will be to censor what they produce.

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Meredith McGill @mlmcgill.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

English profs: suggestions for good pairings of pre-C20 and contemporary novels? I'm teaching an intro to lit. studies in F26. I have the poetry units all taken care of and some ideas for short fiction, but need to pick a couple of novels to use to teach narrative analysis. All suggestions welcome!

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

proofs! A Very Special Relationship: Capitalism and the Novel Form special issue of Cultural Critique on Marxism, Form, and Futurity

A Very Special Relationship

The novel is the art form unique to capitalism. A categorical statement that should license clarity about novel form, the historicity of that form, and its futurity.

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Matt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

The AAUP chapters at Vanderbilt & Wash U have issued a joint statement denouncing the “State of Scholarship” report commissioned by their chancellors. Please, let’s make this as widely read as the gaslighting to which it responds.

Joint Statement on the "State of Scholarship" Report
The Vanderbilt University and Washington University chapters of the American Association of University Professors express our profound disagreement with the "State of Scholarship" report commissioned by our universities' chancellors. The report distorts the state of humanistic and social scientific scholarship at our universities and in the academy overall. Worse, it proposes a shocking intrusion of university administration into faculty governance and portends greater threats to academic freedom that should concern all faculty.
The report currently appears on Vanderbilt's website under the insignia of both Vanderbilt and Washington Universities. It is already receiving public condemnation. As the American Council of Learned Societies makes clear, the report is founded on false premises and anecdotal evidence and thus does nothing to "ensure deeper and more meaningful relations among scholars and members of the public." No doubt more rebuttals from scholars, departments, and professional societies will follow. It suffices for us to say that the report falls far short of the standards of political neutrality and disinterested inquiry it claims to champion. Historians, literary scholars, and anthropologists are singled out for caricature while the authors fail to acknowledge their own public biases against scholarship performed in the name of social justice. Nor does the report divulge its source of funding or conflicts of interest that may entail - standard practice for any work of humanistic or social scientific scholarship. In sum, the report is itself a clear example of "politicized" research that its authors attempt to decry.
What is most alarming is the guidance the report offers to its intended audience of university chancellors and presidents. By falsely arguing that humanities and social science departments are in the throes of an epistemological crisis, the authors lay the groundwork for university adminis…

Weakening faculty governance does nothing to solve the real challenges facing our universities, and undermines our ability to effectively address society's most profound problems and challenges, from the inequalities of wealth and white supremacy to the political consequences of climate change.
Indeed, the direst threats to public trust in higher education are not philosophical debates about the nature of truth. Currently, the federal government is dramatically cutting funding for the humanities and social sciences as well as for the natural sciences, engineering, medicine, public health, and the arts. In response, university administrations have instituted austerity measures, even as administrative salaries and administrative positions have taken up an increasing share of decreasing budgets.
The best way for scholars to cultivate diverse opinions and advance knowledge is by strengthening academic freedom. Political threats to higher education have degraded, and will continue to degrade, the quality of all fields of our universities' research, to the detriment of America's global standing.
We note that the organizations now working most actively and successfully to defend academic free inquiry from politicized federal interference are not university leaders but the American Council of Learned Societies, the Modern Language Association, and the American Historical Association - professional societies of the very disciplines chastised by the report.
We call on our chancellors to rescind the report and affirm their commitment to the intellectual autonomy of faculty, academic departments, and governing faculty bodies. Administrative interference into academic departments, as licensed by this report, is a violation of the standards of academic freedom that have made American universities the envy of the world. Rather than undermining these bedrock principles, administrators should vigorously and publicly defend them.
Vanderbilt University AAUP
vanderbiltaaup@gmail.com
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Shakespeare Bulletin @shaxbull.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

NEW ISSUE KLAXON: Shakespeare Bulletin 44.1 is now published via Project Muse! Find the first issue of a planned two-part issue featuring scholar-practitioners reflecting on their rehearsal room work in educational and professional contexts. Check it out here 📰: muse.jhu.edu/issue/57024

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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

english lit and culture studies people from the last 10 years, favorite standalone articles, or book intros/chapters, that open new ways of reading / new areas of study / new paradigms and thus usefully show new grads range in the field?

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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

I’m heartbroken by what’s happening at Muhlenberg & grateful to the students reporting on it. I was thrilled when my amazing new public health colleague joined in fall 2025. I am shocked the college decided to lay him off months later w/no explanation of the criteria they used to make this decision

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Muhlenberg cuts faculty and staff to combat $10 million deficit - The Muhlenberg Weekly

On May 19, 13 faculty received letters of non-reappointment following the 2026-2027 academic year, and nine staff members were laid off. Additionally, the administration announced that 16 vacant staff...

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 01/06/2026

My book has a cover! I told the press I had a thing for the design of computer books from the 1970s and I was so excited they took that seriously. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

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Seeing Like a Supply Chain

A history of the technology of supply-chain management from punch cards to neural nets, and how the ambiguity built into that technology helps companies and ...

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Devin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Percolating on my fall theory course & would love to hear: what single essay (or chapter of a book) makes theory (interpreted however you like) or intellectual / aesthetic infrastructures concrete in ways that have stuck with you & / or you really admire? Example: Barbara Johnson, “Muteness Envy.”

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Devin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Please encourage any early career & NTT scholars doing fantastic work on Victorian poetries to submit to @victorianpoetry.bsky.social ‘s 2026 Early Career Prize — more info in the thread (have not had enough coffee, text of the call is embedded in a reply to the post linked below)!

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onion person @junlper.beer · 15/05/2026

i’ve been thinking of what could even be said about such a tragedy. someone said it best that trans people are “born so late and die so young”. we uproot our lives and transition and live more life than anyone else ever does and society punishes us for it. we deserve better

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