look at this picture of @marymullen.bsky.social's book on the shelves of @sel1500to1900.bsky.social !!! 🤩

It was very great to talk w/ the amazing SEL managing editor Kelly McKisson about institutions & pandemic-time in dialogue w work by @marymullen.bsky.social, @annakornbluh.bsky.social @mltondre.bsky.social, @devingarofalo.bsky.social, Liz Miller, Barbara Leckie, & others

@sel1500to1900.bsky.social

So so cool. Thank you so much, Nathan!! Such a lovely conversation about books.

I honestly can’t bring myself to read this but I do think it’s very important for people in the US to remember that this is happening right now because of our government.

As the History Representative for ACIS, I have the distinct privilege to chair the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book. If you, or someone you know, has a book copyrighted in 2025 in Irish Studies please do consider submitting! Details here. 🗃️ #speirgorm

I love my "no" committee!

Want to attend NAVSA 2025: Aftermaths but can't make it to DC? Want MORE brilliant Victorianist scholarship than you can get at the in-person event? The NAVSA 2025 DIGITAL PRESESSION is free and open to all —registration required for security

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8 million people in Sudan are facing emergency levels of hunger, part of a strategy of deliberate starvation.

NVSA 2026--silences! Submit an abstract for the April 10-12 conference at Cornell: northeastvictorianstudies.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Villanova English Dept is hiring a poet! Here's the ad--please circulate. Great department with kind, smart colleagues. You can live in Philly (4-eva!): jobs.villanova.edu/postings/33001

We have to consider who are the stifled people and who are the stiflers before we can be sure of our ground.

"We shouldn’t have to scour a Philly lobbying report to find out that the company that invented and sells Tasers spent $75,000 lobbying the city...We shouldn’t have to browse LinkedIn to find out that salesmen for Microsoft hosted city officials to push the company’s vision for AI in gov't"

What's being "protected" is not "free speech" but rather the RIGHT for white men to be white supremacists in public without any criticism or any consequences. I hope that's clear.

Our One Million Experiments podcast released a shortened season this summer. I recommend listening to the 4 episodes if you are interested in how people have created community-based crisis response projects since 2020: millionexperiments.com/podcast/seas...

Don't forget all of the high quality essays from our past conference volumes freely available online! For more see ssnci.org/publication-...

The pleasure and value of re-reading books cannot be overstated.

The Texas A&M System Chancellor described teaching gender theory as “insubordination and indoctrination.” And professors and department heads were fired for it.

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.

Im raising $450 for the Sameer Project! These stinking cute stickers are $5 each, free postage in the US 💜 100% of the proceeds will be donated

Did you publish a book in 2025/2024? Are you attending NAVSA this November? Do you want to celebrate your book? If so, fill out this form: docs.google.com/forms/d/1tJH...

“Gaza’s famine is man-made. And those who are making it happen are doing their best to conceal their crime. The Israeli government is reading from the same playbook as many architects of calamity from the past 100 years.” - must read, by Alex de Waal 👇 observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

The grey stone walls, the broken country, the meagre trees, seemed to be telling him afresh the story of that painful past which he knew so well by heart. But no story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather, we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.