Jessica R Valdez
@jrvaldez.bsky.social
assistant professor of 19thc lit at Louisiana State University, formerly at University of Hong Kong and University of East Anglia, UK.
Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer.
Opinions expressed are solely my own and do not express the views or opinions of my employer.
Don't forget to submit an abstract for RSVP's Dublin conference on movements and migrations by tomorrow!
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RSVP Conference 2026 – RSVP
Dates July 23-25, 2026
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November 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Don't forget to submit an abstract for RSVP's Dublin conference on movements and migrations by tomorrow!
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Others: How do you like Baton Rouge?
Me: It's fine, but I really, really miss walking -- I miss living in a walkable city.
Also Me: feeling ECSTATIC because I got a parking spot just a little bit closer to my office so I don't have to walk as far.
Me: It's fine, but I really, really miss walking -- I miss living in a walkable city.
Also Me: feeling ECSTATIC because I got a parking spot just a little bit closer to my office so I don't have to walk as far.
November 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Others: How do you like Baton Rouge?
Me: It's fine, but I really, really miss walking -- I miss living in a walkable city.
Also Me: feeling ECSTATIC because I got a parking spot just a little bit closer to my office so I don't have to walk as far.
Me: It's fine, but I really, really miss walking -- I miss living in a walkable city.
Also Me: feeling ECSTATIC because I got a parking spot just a little bit closer to my office so I don't have to walk as far.
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October 29, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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It’s lovely to see our BAVS CFP out. If you research/teach any aspect of the Victorian period (broadly defined) do consider joining us! You can submit a paper, roundtable, creative workshops/ pedagogical paper. We really are open to a wide range of talks! victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c...
CFP: BAVS 2026 Conference Liverpool
BAVS Liverpool 202627 – 29 July 2026 Keynote Speakers: Dr Alison Chapman (University of Victoria, BC), others to be confirmed. The Centre for Modern and Contemporary History (CMCH) at Liverpool Joh…
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October 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
It’s lovely to see our BAVS CFP out. If you research/teach any aspect of the Victorian period (broadly defined) do consider joining us! You can submit a paper, roundtable, creative workshops/ pedagogical paper. We really are open to a wide range of talks! victorianist.wordpress.com/2025/10/20/c...
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We’re excited in Liverpool to hear that LJMU will be hosting the fab @bavs-uk.bsky.social conf in July. I can’t wait to see Victorian scholars treading the corridors of my historic c19th building. Well done to @drhorrocks.bsky.social for getting this off the ground! Now to dust of my organisers hat…
October 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM
We’re excited in Liverpool to hear that LJMU will be hosting the fab @bavs-uk.bsky.social conf in July. I can’t wait to see Victorian scholars treading the corridors of my historic c19th building. Well done to @drhorrocks.bsky.social for getting this off the ground! Now to dust of my organisers hat…
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Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.
Ohio State changes policy on group conferences after Trump administration threats
A federal investigation into potentially discriminatory practices at Ohio State prompted the university to change its policies regarding conferences.
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October 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.
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The deadline for Curran Fellowships is fast approaching: Oct 15 (letters due a week later). Who doesn't want money for travel & research? So much exciting work to do on British/empire periodicals of the long 19th c!
📣 Curran Fellowships are now OPEN! Per our most recent newsletter, we've moved up our Curran awards to allow recipients time to plan summer travel. Applications due Oct. 15. As always, guidelines and more info are on our website!
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The Curran Fellowships – RSVP
The Curran Fellowships are travel and research grants intended to aid scholars studying British magazines and newspapers from the long nineteenth century in making use of primary print and archival so...
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October 2, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The deadline for Curran Fellowships is fast approaching: Oct 15 (letters due a week later). Who doesn't want money for travel & research? So much exciting work to do on British/empire periodicals of the long 19th c!
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Fellowship: Curran Fellowships (Application deadline: 10/15/25) | NAVSA
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September 20, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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September 20, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Nilkantha's paper at RSVP-Chicago was terrific & I'm excited to read this essay.
Nilkantha Pal investigates the emergence of children’s #periodicals in Bengali literary culture. Learn how these vernacular periodicals helped shape a literary selfhood among Bengali middle classes from the 1870s onward: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.org #ExpandingTheField
September 18, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Nilkantha's paper at RSVP-Chicago was terrific & I'm excited to read this essay.
The Race and Transimperialism Reading Group has returned! On September 26th at 1PM EST, we're discussing Guilmette's “Unsettling the Coloniality of the Affects" (2019) and Samalin's “Affect Theory’s Colonial Sources" (2022) on Zoom. @navsa.bsky.social DM for details.
September 18, 2025 at 3:44 PM
The Race and Transimperialism Reading Group has returned! On September 26th at 1PM EST, we're discussing Guilmette's “Unsettling the Coloniality of the Affects" (2019) and Samalin's “Affect Theory’s Colonial Sources" (2022) on Zoom. @navsa.bsky.social DM for details.
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“UC Berkeley released the names of individuals and their ‘potential connection’ to reports of alleged antisemitism.”
Potential, alleged, reports: these words tell us that any student, at any time, can now make any claim, w/ or w/o evidence, & get a faculty member investigated, fired, &/or arrested
Potential, alleged, reports: these words tell us that any student, at any time, can now make any claim, w/ or w/o evidence, & get a faculty member investigated, fired, &/or arrested
Well, that's terrifying.
www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...
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UC Berkeley turns over personal information of more than 150 students and staff to federal government
UC Berkeley has provided the personal information of roughly 160 students, staff and faculty to the federal government in a directive from the UC Office of the President.
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September 12, 2025 at 11:17 AM
“UC Berkeley released the names of individuals and their ‘potential connection’ to reports of alleged antisemitism.”
Potential, alleged, reports: these words tell us that any student, at any time, can now make any claim, w/ or w/o evidence, & get a faculty member investigated, fired, &/or arrested
Potential, alleged, reports: these words tell us that any student, at any time, can now make any claim, w/ or w/o evidence, & get a faculty member investigated, fired, &/or arrested
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hey if you're going to @navsa2025.bsky.social & want to split a room with somebody to help keep costs down, the wonderful Kate Oestreich has built a crowdsourced roomshare page, which is available below and at the website: navsa.georgetown.edu
September 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
hey if you're going to @navsa2025.bsky.social & want to split a room with somebody to help keep costs down, the wonderful Kate Oestreich has built a crowdsourced roomshare page, which is available below and at the website: navsa.georgetown.edu
soo exciting that @susanzieger.bsky.social's Logistics and Power is out today! We're lucky to have her coming to LSU in early October.
My book is out today! Find out how logistics organizes modern power: www.ucpress.edu/books/logist...
September 10, 2025 at 1:46 AM
soo exciting that @susanzieger.bsky.social's Logistics and Power is out today! We're lucky to have her coming to LSU in early October.
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Proofs!
I hope that novel people and #19thc people will like this essay on Ali Smith & her remaking of Victorian serial fiction (hey, I hope that people like and read Ali Smith!). Many thanks to @ceyingst.bsky.social for their help in the final stages of the essay's preparation.
I hope that novel people and #19thc people will like this essay on Ali Smith & her remaking of Victorian serial fiction (hey, I hope that people like and read Ali Smith!). Many thanks to @ceyingst.bsky.social for their help in the final stages of the essay's preparation.
September 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Proofs!
I hope that novel people and #19thc people will like this essay on Ali Smith & her remaking of Victorian serial fiction (hey, I hope that people like and read Ali Smith!). Many thanks to @ceyingst.bsky.social for their help in the final stages of the essay's preparation.
I hope that novel people and #19thc people will like this essay on Ali Smith & her remaking of Victorian serial fiction (hey, I hope that people like and read Ali Smith!). Many thanks to @ceyingst.bsky.social for their help in the final stages of the essay's preparation.
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today in faculty work under authoritarianism: not one but two meetings on same day w PhD students about their departure, emigration, exile from the U.S., how to finish dissertations, how to never return, how to renounce citizenship, how to mourn student visas, how to find a life elsewhere
September 5, 2025 at 8:07 PM
today in faculty work under authoritarianism: not one but two meetings on same day w PhD students about their departure, emigration, exile from the U.S., how to finish dissertations, how to never return, how to renounce citizenship, how to mourn student visas, how to find a life elsewhere
so thrilled to have been included in this book -- many thanks to @katiabowers.bsky.social and Margarita Vaysman for everything. My chapter is "Victorian Realisms in the Age of Global Trade."
Margarita Vaysman & I have been working on this for the past 5 (!) years, but it's finally done- the online version is up and the hardcover should be out later this month! Welcome to the Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms, feat. 41 chapters and beautiful cover art: academic.oup.com/edited-volum... 🎉
The Oxford Handbook of Global Realisms
Abstract. Realism is an artistic practice that aims to faithfully represent reality. Historically, it has been practiced across different media, from early
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September 6, 2025 at 12:20 AM
so thrilled to have been included in this book -- many thanks to @katiabowers.bsky.social and Margarita Vaysman for everything. My chapter is "Victorian Realisms in the Age of Global Trade."
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We have a wonderful line up of keynote speakers for RSVP-Dublin:
KATHERINE BODE (Australian National University) will deliver the Wolff keynote and ANDREW LEWIS and TEJA VARMA PUSAPATI will be in conversation for the Colby keynote!
And you too can be there - submit a proposal by Nov 1.
KATHERINE BODE (Australian National University) will deliver the Wolff keynote and ANDREW LEWIS and TEJA VARMA PUSAPATI will be in conversation for the Colby keynote!
And you too can be there - submit a proposal by Nov 1.
✨ It's official! We're now accepting proposals for #RSVP2026, "Movements and Migrations"! We invite scholars to examine the relationship between periodicals, migrations, and movements for our 2026 conference in Dublin. Full CFP and more details on our main website.
RSVP Annual Conference – RSVP
The nineteenth century was marked by unprecedented migration, as people moved to urban centers; were forcibly or semi-forcibly relocated; and emigrated to escape war, famine, economic instability, or…
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September 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
We have a wonderful line up of keynote speakers for RSVP-Dublin:
KATHERINE BODE (Australian National University) will deliver the Wolff keynote and ANDREW LEWIS and TEJA VARMA PUSAPATI will be in conversation for the Colby keynote!
And you too can be there - submit a proposal by Nov 1.
KATHERINE BODE (Australian National University) will deliver the Wolff keynote and ANDREW LEWIS and TEJA VARMA PUSAPATI will be in conversation for the Colby keynote!
And you too can be there - submit a proposal by Nov 1.
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The theme of RSVP's 2026 conference in Dublin is movements and migrations -- submit an abstract! rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...
RSVP Annual Conference – RSVP
The nineteenth century was marked by unprecedented migration, as people moved to urban centers; were forcibly or semi-forcibly relocated; and emigrated to escape war, famine, economic instability, or ...
rs4vp.org
September 4, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The theme of RSVP's 2026 conference in Dublin is movements and migrations -- submit an abstract! rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...
The theme of RSVP's 2026 conference in Dublin is movements and migrations -- submit an abstract! rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...
RSVP Annual Conference – RSVP
The nineteenth century was marked by unprecedented migration, as people moved to urban centers; were forcibly or semi-forcibly relocated; and emigrated to escape war, famine, economic instability, or ...
rs4vp.org
September 4, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The theme of RSVP's 2026 conference in Dublin is movements and migrations -- submit an abstract! rs4vp.org/rsvp-confere...
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Call for Book Review Editors for H-Material Culture. If you're interested, get in touch by sending an email to [email protected] and we'll follow up! #MaterialCulture
August 26, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Call for Book Review Editors for H-Material Culture. If you're interested, get in touch by sending an email to [email protected] and we'll follow up! #MaterialCulture
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There are currently wildfires in every province of Canada. My cousin on Vancouver Island had to evacuate from his home late last week. It's been messing with my head, as someone who grew up in B.C., to think of that normally rainy place burning.
A CURSE on petrocapitalists & their cronies.
A CURSE on petrocapitalists & their cronies.
August 13, 2025 at 12:14 AM
There are currently wildfires in every province of Canada. My cousin on Vancouver Island had to evacuate from his home late last week. It's been messing with my head, as someone who grew up in B.C., to think of that normally rainy place burning.
A CURSE on petrocapitalists & their cronies.
A CURSE on petrocapitalists & their cronies.
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anonymous student reports notably useless as data now have the power to get teachers fired and / or arrested—not great
What the hell is Brown thinking agreeing to this??
“Student course evaluations that are collected on an anonymous basis at the end of each semester will be regularly reviewed to identify any reports of antisemitism, which will be promptly referred to OECR for appropriate action”
“Student course evaluations that are collected on an anonymous basis at the end of each semester will be regularly reviewed to identify any reports of antisemitism, which will be promptly referred to OECR for appropriate action”
www.brown.edu
July 31, 2025 at 12:33 AM
anonymous student reports notably useless as data now have the power to get teachers fired and / or arrested—not great
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Call for Applications: BARS Communications Fellow 2025-26
BARS would like to invite applications for a Communications Fellow to assist with the BARS Blog and social media for a period of one year tenable from August 2025.
Details: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6062
BARS would like to invite applications for a Communications Fellow to assist with the BARS Blog and social media for a period of one year tenable from August 2025.
Details: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6062
July 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Call for Applications: BARS Communications Fellow 2025-26
BARS would like to invite applications for a Communications Fellow to assist with the BARS Blog and social media for a period of one year tenable from August 2025.
Details: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6062
BARS would like to invite applications for a Communications Fellow to assist with the BARS Blog and social media for a period of one year tenable from August 2025.
Details: www.bars.ac.uk/blog/?p=6062
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For students and scholars trying to think about or beyond the nation in our times, this list offers some starting points. Thanks to the folks at @jstordaily.bsky.social for the opportunity. daily.jstor.org/transtlantic...
Transatlantic Studies: A Reading List - JSTOR Daily
Using the Atlantic Ocean as a guiding metaphor, transatlanticism emphasizes the fluid nature of contrived national boundaries and identities.
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April 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
For students and scholars trying to think about or beyond the nation in our times, this list offers some starting points. Thanks to the folks at @jstordaily.bsky.social for the opportunity. daily.jstor.org/transtlantic...