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Arthur Wang @arthurzw.bsky.social · 5h

oh look the best graduate conference is back 👀

Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · 5h

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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Annie McClanahan @anniemcc.bsky.social · Aug 19

I'm belated in announcing this amazing new Post45 special issue dedicated to the work of emerging scholars--check it out!

Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · Aug 8

The publication of this issue also marks the end of @anniemcc.bsky.social's distinguished five-year term as Co-Editor of the journal. Our new Co-Editor is @jdconnor.bsky.social. Congratulations to Annie and J.D.!

Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · Aug 8

Issue 10 of Post45 Journal is here! THE INAUGURAL PRIZE ISSUE features winners & honorable mentions for the Mary Esteve Emerging Scholar Essay Prize & the Post45 Prize for Contingent Scholars, post45.org/sections/iss...

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J.D. Connor @jdconnor.bsky.social · Aug 6

Post45 keeps crushing it. Sara Kippur gets *into it*. I may be drawn to the chapter on the French avant-garde on US tv, but the work is sharp throughout.

Your periodic reminder that I am now co-editing the Peer Reviewed side of our journal. Send us your best stuff.

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New York Nouveau | Stanford University Press

Postwar French writers were at the vanguard of global literary innovation—from the experimental minimalism of the Nouveau Roman to the literary games of the OuLiPo—but less often appreciated is the ex...

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Shawn Gilmore @gipperfish.bsky.social · Aug 12

Comics folks should definitely go read “Metamorphoses of the Spiral: Comics and Modernism in Art Spiegelman’s Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!” by @emmywaldman.bsky.social over at @post45.bsky.social. What a great piece!
post45.org/2025/08/meta...

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Arthur Wang @arthurzw.bsky.social · Aug 13

Scared to ask, but who wore it better? @post45.bsky.social

Side by side images of the Post45 website and a 1969 serigraph by Larry Zox, with purple arrows highlighting similar color schemes.

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Arthur Wang @arthurzw.bsky.social · Aug 8

It’s been a dream working with @anniemcc.bsky.social, editor-scholar-mentor extraordinaire & developing this prize issue was the highlight of co-editing @post45.bsky.social together 🥹

Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · Aug 8

The publication of this issue also marks the end of @anniemcc.bsky.social's distinguished five-year term as Co-Editor of the journal. Our new Co-Editor is @jdconnor.bsky.social. Congratulations to Annie and J.D.!

Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · Aug 8

Issue 10 of Post45 Journal is here! THE INAUGURAL PRIZE ISSUE features winners & honorable mentions for the Mary Esteve Emerging Scholar Essay Prize & the Post45 Prize for Contingent Scholars, post45.org/sections/iss...

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Arthur Wang @arthurzw.bsky.social · Aug 8

REALLY GOOD ARTICLES

Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · Aug 8

Issue 10 of Post45 Journal is here! THE INAUGURAL PRIZE ISSUE features winners & honorable mentions for the Mary Esteve Emerging Scholar Essay Prize & the Post45 Prize for Contingent Scholars, post45.org/sections/iss...

Screenshot of the special issue's web page, with articles displayed in a grid format.

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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · Apr 10

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to own, buy, and sell individual stocks.

We need to ban congressional stock trading—and I've got a bill for that.

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ACH @ach.bsky.social · Mar 20

ACH is collecting information about impacts on research. If your National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) or Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) work has been impacted, or if you anticipate future impacts, let us know.

Digital Humanities Funding Impacts

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is collecting information about impacts on research. If your National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) or Institute of Museum and Library…

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Arthur Wang @arthurzw.bsky.social · Apr 3

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is collecting info about impacts of DH funding cuts at the NEH & IMLS: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Aditya Gotu Desai @adityadesai.bsky.social · Apr 3

This is just to say friends, if you have a space or platform to talk about NEH, IMLS, and other such agency cuts, my job is subject to them and as of yet I have no gag order

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · Mar 28

You guys really don't need the update on this but it's pretty much the hellscape comedy of errors you might suspect. They emailed today to say they are "looking forward to the talk" and only needed me to take the words "race" "activism" "justice" and "gender" out of the title. Lol. Lmao even.

Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · Mar 24

Was scheduled to give a talk for an office of equal opportunity/affirmative action in a couple weeks but that office no longer exists & the website is taken down. No one contacted me but I think it's fair to assume I'm no longer giving the talk. Gonna go schedule some self-care in that time block.

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Politics In The Wild @politicsinthewild.bsky.social · Feb 5

Around 35% of SpaceX’s revenue comes directly from the federal govt.

Less than 1% of NPR’s budget comes from the federal govt.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · Feb 1

It's actually theft of taxpayers money when websites go dark. We paid for that data

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Arthur Wang @arthurzw.bsky.social · Jan 30

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · Jan 29

Got the official email directing a pause on our NSF grant. The language of the email likens “any grant activity that uses or promotes the use of DEIA principles and frameworks” to discrimination and a violation of the law

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celj.bsky.social @celj.bsky.social · Jan 17

CELJ is conducting a survey on peer review in humanities publishing, focusing on #DEI principles.

We’re inviting editors, authors, publishers, and reviewers to share ideas—specific questions or broader topics like peer review types, editorial labor, and more—by Feb 1, 2025.

Fill out the form ⬇️

Re-Imagining Peer Review

CELJ is working on a large-scale survey of peer review in humanities journal publishing, especially as it intersects with principles of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The project team is soliciting...

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Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social · Jan 14

The deadline for this CFP is in three weeks. We've also added Simone Murray as a third keynote! It will be great! Details here...https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/12/distrusting-the-institutions-of-literature

Tim Groenland @groenbot.bsky.social · Nov 14

CFP:

Dis/Trusting the Institution(s) of Literature

University College Dublin, Ireland
17-20 June 2025

Keynote speakers: Sarah Brouillette, Chris Newfield

Organised by me and Adam Kelly

Full CFP here:
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/11/...

Please consider submitting, and share widely!

Images of the two-page call for papers as outlined in the post. Too lengthy to add in full here, but one key sentence is: "Abstracts of 200-300 words for 20-minute papers and an author bio of max 100 words should be submitted by e-mail attachment to trust.ucd@gmail.com by 3rd February 2025.". Please write to us at this email address with any questions.

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Tade Thompson @tadethompson.bsky.social · Jan 13

People, we'll always have Octavia E. Butler and we'll always have Ursula K. Le Guin.

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Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · Jan 13

Good news for feminist book history! A team led by Julie R. Enszer has built a dataset with metadata for all articles and issues of Feminist Bookstore News (FBN) from 1976 to 2000, published open access at the Post45 Data Collective data.post45.org/posts/femini...

Feminist Bookstore News Issues and Articles (1976-2000) – Post45 Data Collective

This dataset contains metadata for all articles and issues of Feminist Bookstore News from 1976 to 2000.

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Kate Marshall @katemarshall.bsky.social · Jan 8

2/2 and look out for these next three titles, and more to come in 2025! Francisco Robles, Myka Tucker-Abramson, and Sara Kippur. It has been an amazing time to read books in this series, which I co-edit with Loren Glass.

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Kate Marshall @katemarshall.bsky.social · Jan 8

1/2: I won’t be at MLA this year for the first time in years, but if you are, I hope you’ll check out the Post*45 books at the Stanford UP booth! We had three great titles come out in 2024, by Adrienne Brown, Adam Kelly, and Shane Boyle.

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Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · Jan 8

In a new article, Zackary Kiebach asks “what do we gain by aligning the fallibility of the computer interface with our own divergent cognitive and physical processes for interfacing with image, text, or sound?"
post45.org/2025/01/glit...

Glitch Ability: A Crip Poetics of Failure - Post45

Zackary Kiebach

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Arthur Wang @arthurzw.bsky.social · Jan 7

Chatting with prospective Post45 authors and special issue editors at #MLA2025 12-2pm on Friday! Last year’s event led to a fantastic special issue that’s now in development (articles under review) at @post45.bsky.social

celj.bsky.social @celj.bsky.social · Jan 7

Don't miss Chat with an Editor this Friday and Saturday at #MLA2025 #MLA25. Sign up to meet with a journal editor either at the convention or virtually next Wednesday (1/15), and find out how to get your article published! @mlanews.bsky.social

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Dec 17

Trump says he's wants to privatize USPS because it's "unprofitable".

Reminder that the Post Office isn't a for-profit enterprise: it's a public service that guarantees everyone in America reliable, affordable, and universal mail service.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · Dec 16

BREAKING: Trump says his team is looking into the privatization of the Postal Service.

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Kathryn @fivefteditrix.bsky.social · Dec 5

Forgive me, faculty, for the peer review requests you are about to receive

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