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Anna E. Clark @annaeclark.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote about the divide between high school and college English, and what we might do to bridge it, for @publicbooks.bsky.social—part of an excellent roundtable on higher ed under Trump organized by @dennismhogan.bsky.social

www.publicbooks.org/toward-the-h...

Toward the Higher- and Secondary-Ed Alliance! - Public Books

The influence of K-12 policy and pedagogy on higher ed can perhaps be seen best in the trickle-up effect of the standards of the Common Core.

www.publicbooks.org

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Anna Ioanes @annaioanes.bsky.social · 1d

A very exciting mail day (last week)!
@uncpress.bsky.social @hkyria.bsky.social

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Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · 3d

The 11th annual Post45 Graduate Symposium will be hosted by Duke University's Department of English, February 20-21, 2026! Check out the CFP (post45.org/graduate/202...) and please share with anyone who might be interested.

Abstracts are due November 14.

Abstract submission form QR code for the Post45 graduate symposium at Duke, February 20-21, 2026. The form is also accessible at https://tinyurl.com/2e2dr4wv.

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Anna Ioanes @annaioanes.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you!!

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Anna Ioanes @annaioanes.bsky.social · 3d

Looks incredible!

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Anna Ioanes @annaioanes.bsky.social · 7d

What a life. Grateful I got to meet him twenty years ago while studying in Prague

Irish Literary Times @irishlittimes.bsky.social · 7d

Czech novelist Ivan Klima dies aged 94
Author of more than 40 books survived Nazi concentration camp as a child and later became an active member of the literary underground during communism

www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Czech novelist Ivan Klima dies aged 94

Author of more than 40 books survived Nazi concentration camp as a child and later became an active member of the literary underground during communism

www.irishtimes.com

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Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 15d

Absolutely outrageous to say that a uni’s academic press doesn’t serve its undergraduates. Non-profit university presses support and sustain a scholarly and intellectual system THAT MAKES TEACHING UNDERGRADUATES POSSIBLE. No presses? no fields of study, no professors, no college.

Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 15d

"Bucknell has decided to close its highly respected, decades-old UP in June 2026. The stated reason? The press serves scholars, not Bucknell undergrads. Bucknell undergrads—& some grad students as well—disagree." FANTASTIC piece on BUP's student internship program. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

Bucknell UP Closure Would Also Mark End of Vital Student Internship Program | H-Net

A post from Feeding the

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Pete Kunze @petecant.bsky.social · Sep 8

I had a great conversation with Katherine Fusco (@fuscowrites.bsky.social) about her wonderful new book, Hollywood's Others: Love and Limitation in the Studio System.

You can check it out here:

newbooksnetwork.com/hollywoods-o...

Katherine Fusco, "Hollywood's Others: Love and Limitation in the Star System" (Columbia UP, 2025) - New Books Network

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Dr. Emily Hamilton-Honey @hermioneclone.bsky.social · Sep 4

dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

Duke cut librarians. It never told the faculty they worked with

Thirty-three of the more than 200 full time library staff members accepted voluntary severance packages, prompting their departure from Duke. Their absences leave the future of a key aspect of academi...

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Anna Ioanes @annaioanes.bsky.social · Sep 3

Ugh, sorry 🩶

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Aaron Fountain @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social · Aug 26

The offer still stands today

Aaron Fountain @aaronfountainjr.bsky.social · Aug 25

Exciting news! @uncpress.bsky.social is having a flash sale to celebrate their new website
You can save 50% off all books, including mine, for 48 hours with code 01NEWSITE50

My book tells a character-driven narrative of student activism in the '60s and '70s
uncpress.org/978146969182...

High School Students Unite!

Mid-twentieth-century student activism is a pivotal chapter in American history. While college activism has been well documented, the equally vital contribut...

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Anna Ioanes @annaioanes.bsky.social · Aug 25

And I am so looking forward to reading Faith Barter's Black Pro Se! uncpress.org/978146968597...

Black Pro Se

Black thinkers in the antebellum United States grappled with what it meant to inhabit a place, a history, and a violent legal regime. In newspapers and pamph...

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Anna Ioanes @annaioanes.bsky.social · Aug 25

I already have it, but perhaps you would like to buy Amy K. King's brilliant book? uncpress.org/978146966464...

Grotesque Touch

In this book, Amy K. King examines how violence between women in contemporary Caribbean and American texts is rooted in plantation slavery. Analyzing films, ...

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Anna Ioanes @annaioanes.bsky.social · Aug 25

Wildly intrigued by Rudyard Alcocar's Interpretaciones: uncpress.org/978146967666...

Seems an essential addition to the current conversation on close reading!

Interpretaciones

Interpretaciones: Experimental Criticism and the Metrics of Latin American Literature examines readers’ reactions to short texts during crucial moments of ...

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Anna Ioanes @annaioanes.bsky.social · Aug 25

Hit that $75 mark with some other incredible titles! I can't wait to read Jess Libow's Vigorous Reforms: uncpress.org/978146968903...

Vigorous Reforms

Nineteenth-century America saw profound changes in the ways people viewed their bodies, their health, and their corporeal connection to their environments. T...

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Anna Ioanes @annaioanes.bsky.social · Aug 25

Congrats to @uncpress.bsky.social on a beautiful new website! The press is celebrating with a 48-hour flash sale! 🎉 You can save 50% off all books, including mine, for 48 hours with code 01NEWSITE50. Free shipping over $75, too!

uncpress.org/978146968894...

Painful Forms

In the wake of World War II, Americans struggled to grasp the shifting scale of violence brought on by the nuclear era. To grapple with the overwhelming suff...

uncpress.org

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Anna Ioanes @annaioanes.bsky.social · Aug 25

And I am so looking forward to reading Faith Barter's Black Pro Se! uncpress.org/978146968597...

Black Pro Se

Black thinkers in the antebellum United States grappled with what it meant to inhabit a place, a history, and a violent legal regime. In newspapers and pamph...

uncpress.org

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Anna Ioanes @annaioanes.bsky.social · Aug 25

I already have it, but perhaps you would like to buy Amy K. King's brilliant book? uncpress.org/978146966464...

Grotesque Touch

In this book, Amy K. King examines how violence between women in contemporary Caribbean and American texts is rooted in plantation slavery. Analyzing films, ...

uncpress.org

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Anna Ioanes @annaioanes.bsky.social · Aug 25

Wildly intrigued by Rudyard Alcocar's Interpretaciones: uncpress.org/978146967666...

Seems an essential addition to the current conversation on close reading!

Interpretaciones

Interpretaciones: Experimental Criticism and the Metrics of Latin American Literature examines readers’ reactions to short texts during crucial moments of ...

uncpress.org

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Anna Ioanes @annaioanes.bsky.social · Aug 25

Hit that $75 mark with some other incredible titles! I can't wait to read Jess Libow's Vigorous Reforms: uncpress.org/978146968903...

Vigorous Reforms

Nineteenth-century America saw profound changes in the ways people viewed their bodies, their health, and their corporeal connection to their environments. T...

uncpress.org

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Anna Ioanes @annaioanes.bsky.social · Aug 25

Congrats to @uncpress.bsky.social on a beautiful new website! The press is celebrating with a 48-hour flash sale! 🎉 You can save 50% off all books, including mine, for 48 hours with code 01NEWSITE50. Free shipping over $75, too!

uncpress.org/978146968894...

Painful Forms

In the wake of World War II, Americans struggled to grasp the shifting scale of violence brought on by the nuclear era. To grapple with the overwhelming suff...

uncpress.org

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Aug 20

One way to know slavery was bad is that for several hundred years it appeared in seemingly almost every story as the worst thing that could happen to the protagonist. Also, when a character would be looking for a metaphor about being in the worst possible state of being, they would reference slavery

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Anna Ioanes @annaioanes.bsky.social · Aug 9

To me, the picture is too harrowing to repost, but I just love thinking about Gerold Yard

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Carl Wilson @carlzoilus.bsky.social · Aug 1

Among the things the Corporation for Public Broadcasting shutdown means is that it will no longer help manage music rights for NPR & PBS stations, and all that work and expense will be downloaded to across the network.

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Anna Ioanes @annaioanes.bsky.social · Aug 1

If you, too, would like to purchase 72 marble composition notebooks, they are on sale for like 50 cents #psa