Reposted by Stacy BurtonKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants. 20652451426 5.2K
Reposted by Stacy BurtonRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/08/2026New from Eric Klinenberg: "policymakers in Europe didn’t come to grips with it until August, 2003, when a heat wave killed more than seventy thousand people. What those officials still failed to plan for was that Europe would warm at a rate more than twice the global average."newyorker.comThe End of the European SummerAs extreme heat overwhelms the Continent’s great cities, they are racing to adapt to a climate that they were never built to withstand. 421870 218
Reposted by Stacy BurtonJohn Garrison Marks @johngmarks.com · 10/08/2026On my blog, I wrote about how America's museums are falling apart. The US has 20k+ museums, and most have historic buildings with leaky roofs, failing HVAC units, and flooding basements. What they don't have is money for repairs. Please read/share! 🧵 johngmarks.beehiiv.com/p/america-s-...johngmarks.beehiiv.comAmerica's Museums are Falling ApartWith 7259138 259
Reposted by Stacy BurtonJames Fallows @jfallows.bsky.social · 07/06/2026National Park Service has open comment page, for Albert Speer Memorial Arch that is next on MAGA wish list You can make comments here: parkplanning.nps.gov/documentsOpe... That page has lots of "before and after" illustrations. Below, before/after view from near JFK/RFK grave site in Arlington 1441000654 1K
Reposted by Stacy BurtonDr. Syntax @drsyntax.bsky.social · 18/07/2026I'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.static.klipy.comToby Ziegler's Intense Stare Down in The West WingALT: Toby Ziegler's Intense Stare Down in The West Wing 415233 152
Reposted by Stacy BurtonRebecca Hussey @ofbooksandbikes.bsky.social · 16/07/2026So there, AI, Proust says you can never write a good book. 511936 119
Reposted by Stacy BurtonJason Rabinowitz @airlineflyer.net · 05/07/2026A $3 @mta.info subway fare and some good Q train timing can buy you one hell of a view of the July 4th fireworks and the Brooklyn Bridge light show! Huge shoutout to the train operator for slow rolling over the Manhattan Bridge and the conductor for announcing it. 265207463772 20.7K
Reposted by Stacy BurtonItai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 24/06/2026🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92 13533199 533
Reposted by Stacy BurtonEdward Hopper @edwardhopper.bsky.social · 25/05/2026Amid the Depression, travel felt less like leisure than necessity. Hotel Room (1931) is drawn from trips Jo Hopper logged in her notebooks. The scene turns a suitcase, a bed, and a blind into narrative symbols—rootless transience rendered as still life. 0627 62
Reposted by Stacy BurtonLondon Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 13/04/2026‘The scale of the earthworks was so great that Israel’s two hundred bulldozers were not nearly enough – many were damaged by the Palestinian resistance – and Israel urgently needed two hundred more.’ In the next issue: Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza, online now www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...lrb.co.ukEyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow LineMost of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture... 14435 44
Reposted by Stacy BurtonJohn Bistline @bistline.bsky.social · 01/04/2026This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset. 168183376896 18.3K
Reposted by Stacy BurtonLupita Nihongo @otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 23/03/2026The question that broke America fundamentally was ‘do all people deserve basic rights?’ This question was too hard for us. Too hard for our leadership. It still is. So now all of our rights are in jeopardy. 2935911036 3.6K
Reposted by Stacy BurtonTim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · 07/03/2026One for the #TravelWriting scholars. Samia Ounoughi and I seem to have been working on this book forever, but it's out at last! It features a great range of contributions. If you have access to an academic library and an interest in travel writing scholarship, please request a copy! 1217 21
Reposted by Stacy BurtonAMSN @austmodernist.bsky.social · 13/02/2026The joint @AustModernist & MSIA Conference will be held in Adelaide on 19-21 November, on the theme "Toxic Modernism/Modernist Intoxication." Further details at the link below. Send us your abstracts! amsn.org.au/amsn-confere...amsn.org.auCall for Papers: Toxic Modernism/Modernist IntoxicationThe Australasian Modernist Studies Network and Modernist Studies in Asia present: JOINT AMSN / MSIA CONFERENCE NOVEMBER 19-21, 2026 ADELAIDE UNIVERSITY Bradley Forum, Hawke Level 6, CCCW Organising… 077 7
Reposted by Stacy Burtoneileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 30/01/2026"It may take time to prove you're right, but you have to stick to it." - Fred Korematsu Jailed for refusing to abide by FDR's Exec Order 9066, he took his case against internment all the way to the Supreme Court - and lost. Remember him on Korematsu Day, January 30th. 1/ 1848821532 4.9K
Reposted by Stacy Burtonkerraway.bsky.social @kerraway.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Short list for the new £10,000 Sherborne Prize for Travel Writing: deskboundtraveller.com/short-list-f....deskboundtraveller.comShort list for new £10,000 Sherborne Prize for Travel Writing – Deskbound Traveller 011 1
Reposted by Stacy Burtoneileen chengyin chow @chowleen.bsky.social · 11/11/2024A thread on birthright citizenship I wrote in 2018, that unfortunately remains relevant. I always thought this was where it was all headed. Abolishing birthright citizenship for the non-white and non-rich. And why I teach on United States v. Wong Kim Ark every semester. Who was Wong Kim Ark? 1/ 4327401289 2.7K
Reposted by Stacy BurtonMark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 24/01/2026We’re supposed to believe this is a domestic terrorist attacking ICE with a gun 26098823887 9.9K
Reposted by Stacy BurtonMark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 20/01/2026Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum. 281174954018 17.5K
Reposted by Stacy BurtonHistory UC Davis @history-ucdavis.bsky.social · 05/01/2026The annual Eugene Lunn Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Pulitzer prize-winning historian and journalist Anne Applebaum on Monday, February 9, 2026 from 4-6 pm at the Manetti Shrem Art Museum. The event (including reception) is free and open to the public. 2153 15
Reposted by Stacy Burtonkerraway.bsky.social @kerraway.bsky.social · 05/01/2026Words from the road for 2026: new books on travel and place from writers including Helena Attlee, Howard Cunnell, Louis de Bernières, Charles Foster, Kapka Kassabova and Sara Wheeler. deskboundtraveller.com/words-from-t... 092 9
Reposted by Stacy BurtonJournal of Modern Literature @journalofmodlit.bsky.social · 30/12/2025BOOK NEWS Transportation technology in Henry James's fiction Recent release from @universitypress.cambridge.org journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.com/2025/12/book...journalofmodernliterature.blogspot.comBOOK NEWS: Transportation technology in Henry James's fictionHenry James and the Writing of Transport By Alicia Rix Cambridge UP, 2025 ISBN: 9781108473170 https://www.cambridge.org/us/universitypress... 021 2
Reposted by Stacy BurtonRoyal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 26/10/2025This week we look forward to publication, on Thursday, of the next in the Society's New Historical Perspectives book series: 'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940' by Gareth Roddy bit.ly/4o9iblT Available free Open Access from @uolpress.bsky.social 1/2bit.lyAtlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940 - University of London PressThe west has long gripped the imagination. In Atlantic Isles, Gareth Roddy examines the cultural and political prominence of the ‘westward gaze’, which flourished in late-nineteenth century Britain an... 12815 28
Reposted by Stacy BurtonYvonne Seale @yvonneseale.bsky.social · 24/10/2025A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments. #medievalsky www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras... 27991375 991
Reposted by Stacy BurtonStacy Fahrenthold @sfahrenthold.bsky.social · 25/10/2025Here it is: the Trump Administration "draft proposal" to the University of California. Published bc faculty sued for its disclosure. Its terms go beyond what Trump demands in similar compacts to other universities. EVERYONE should read: faculty, students, admins, alumni. ucop.edu/communicatio...ucop.edu 27702368 702
Stacy Burton @sburton17.bsky.social · 23/10/2025Moments from the history of the road trip…. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comThe History of the Motel: 100 Years of Neon and Kitsch (Gift Article)In 1925, the first motel opened on a California highway, ushering in a new era of convenience and comfort for a nation falling in love with the open road. 021 2
Reposted by Stacy BurtonColumbia University Press @columbiaup.bsky.social · 08/10/2025Announcing our new and forthcoming books in Modernist Studies! buff.ly/HCJbjw9 @xenoglossic.bsky.social @kristingrogan.bsky.social @fuscowrites.bsky.social @maebhlong.bsky.social @matfournier.bsky.social @adam-mckible.bsky.social @skkeller.bsky.social @notquitehydepark.bsky.socia 095 9
Reposted by Stacy BurtonThe Society of Authors @societyofauthors.bsky.social · 23/09/2025The shortlist for the Ilse Schwepcke Prize has now been announced. Congratulations to Kapka Kassabova, Ursula Martin, Viv Groskop (@vivgroskop) and Victoria Whitworth, It is an annual award, administered by the SoA, for women’s travel writing in the English language. 173 7
Reposted by Stacy BurtonJoe Stieb @joestieb.bsky.social · 13/09/2025The right sets the terms of our political discourse in so many ways, one of which is the idea that there isn't enough "debate" and "free speech" on campus. We need to push back on this. The truth is (speaking for myself as a history prof), I don't really emphasize debate much in my classes/ 522063486 2.1K
Stacy Burton @sburton17.bsky.social · 08/09/2025Thomas Swick’s perspective on English-language travel writing of the last 50 years…. 000 0
Reposted by Stacy BurtonBritish Association for Modernist Studies (BAMS) @modernistudies.bsky.social · 26/08/2025We're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live! 1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/ 05231 52
Stacy Burton @sburton17.bsky.social · 18/08/2025On the extraordinary Balkan quartet by Kapka Kassabova: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....tandfonline.comBalkan QuartetPublished in Studies in Travel Writing (Ahead of Print, 2025) 051 5
Reposted by Stacy BurtonAnne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/08/2025War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength - and Germany violates human rights more than El Salvador. on the upsidedown world of the new State Department human rights reports www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...theatlantic.comTrump Has a New Definition of Human RightsState Department reports portray Germany as more oppressive than El Salvador. 872261833 2.3K
Reposted by Stacy BurtonDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/07/2025The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.wired.comThe First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is UnderwayThe Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia. 11368983139 6.9K
Reposted by Stacy BurtonLauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 24/07/2025This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1 15583228 583
Reposted by Stacy BurtonNature @nature.com · 15/07/2025Researchers have been sneaking secret messages into their papers in an effort to trick AI tools into giving them a positive peer-review report Read the full story: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 36304113 304
Reposted by Stacy BurtonThe New York Review of Books @nybooks.com · 29/05/2025Colin Thubron on Kapka Kassabova and the romance of the nomadic lifebuff.lyThe Haven of Wilderness | Colin ThubronIn a quartet of books about life in the mountains of southern Bulgaria and North Macedonia as they descend into Greece, Kapka Kassabova gives voice to the shepherds, nomads, horse breeders, dog… 0123 12
Reposted by Stacy BurtonJoseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 13/05/2025The library of Congress is so so so fundamental, founded in 1800, it’s the only library of its kind, it belongs to every American, it has every copyrighted book, it is non-partisan. It is for research, anyone can use it. It is our library and we cannot let them trash it. 7654264 654
Stacy Burton @sburton17.bsky.social · 23/04/2025Samuel Diener on “what might be learned about early modern and modern cultural practices of imagining the self by examining accounts of maritime travel and exploration that (in contrast to…lyric poems, novels, and paintings…) are narrated in the first-person plural.”cambridge.orgNarration in the Key of We: The Voyage and the Grammar of Identity | PMLA | Cambridge CoreNarration in the Key of We: The Voyage and the Grammar of Identity - Volume 140 Issue 1 010 1
Reposted by Stacy BurtonTim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Major new publication for the #TravelWriting Studies folk - Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on British Travel Writing, edited by the dream-team of @afquaireau.bsky.social, Emanuelle Peraldo and Samia Ounoughi. Lots of excellent stuff in here and some interesting perspectives on contemporary work. 52710 27
Reposted by Stacy BurtonKaren L. Cox 📚🏳️🌈 @drkarenlcox.bsky.social · 28/03/2025The EO that included restoring monuments/memorials on federal property is a full-on embrace of Confederate ideology. Beginning Monday @uncpress.bsky.social will make my book No Common Ground available to read FOR FREE for the next two weeks. Educate yourself about what this embrace means. ✊ 10238101244 3.8K
Reposted by Stacy BurtonRebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 28/03/2025This was such a satisfying project, and one in which I realized for the first time how much my whole life had been spent in a manscape, in places where almost everything was named after men. 401977414 2K
Reposted by Stacy BurtonJohn Raimo @johnraimo.bsky.social · 11/03/2025Benjamin Paloff, Bakhtin’s Adventure: An Essay on Life without Meaning (@nupress.bsky.social, 2025; #skystorians): nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014862...nupress.northwestern.eduBakhtin’s Adventure - Northwestern University PressA bold rereading of Mikhail Bakhtin’s groundbreaking theories A century after Mikhail Bakhtin first began formulating his now-canonical reflections on f... 162 6
Reposted by Stacy BurtonDr Anne-Florence Quaireau @afquaireau.bsky.social · 11/03/2025*PUBLICATION DAY* *Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on British Travel Writing: Decentring Epistemologies* (Routledge 2025) is out in the world! Many thanks to my co-editors and all the contributors! More info: www.routledge.com/Twenty-First... 2135 13
Stacy Burton @sburton17.bsky.social · 22/03/2025Did Meta steal your work to train its AI? Probably. Check and see. 010 1
Reposted by Stacy BurtonJames McConnachie @jamesmcconnachie.bsky.social · 19/03/2025New travel-writing prize for women writers! Deadline is end of the month... www.ilseschwepckeprize.co.ukilseschwepckeprize.co.ukThe Ilse Schwepcke Prize – New Awards for Women’s Travel Writing 057 7