Jeanne-Marie Jackson
@jmja.bsky.social
Professor of English at Johns Hopkins / Senior Editor of ELH / Director, Alexander Grass Humanities Institute. Books etc. at jeannemariejackson.com
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Jeanne-Marie Jackson
@jmja.bsky.social
· Aug 29
Can’t not be excited about a COVER! An “if you know you know” kind of design, and otherwise, elegant suggestion. So grateful yet again to the talented team at @princetonupress.bsky.social.
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I'm in the Chronicle Review today on intellectual pluralism and civic education, by (unlikely) way of my current book subject J.E. Casely Hayford. Neither pro nor con, but a secret third thing!
www.chronicle.com/article/view...
www.chronicle.com/article/view...
Opinion | Viewpoint Diversity Misses the Point
The academy’s latest obsession mistakes political representation for intellectual agility.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I'm in the Chronicle Review today on intellectual pluralism and civic education, by (unlikely) way of my current book subject J.E. Casely Hayford. Neither pro nor con, but a secret third thing!
www.chronicle.com/article/view...
www.chronicle.com/article/view...
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One of the few things I'm certain of about yesterday. History is not mechanistic. Weird openings matter immensely.
I have no idea what to make of the Trump-Mamdani meeting or the announcement from Marjorie Taylor Greene, but they should be a clear reminder of the importance of contingency in historical events.
November 22, 2025 at 2:47 PM
One of the few things I'm certain of about yesterday. History is not mechanistic. Weird openings matter immensely.
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Reading!
I'm in the Chronicle Review today on intellectual pluralism and civic education, by (unlikely) way of my current book subject J.E. Casely Hayford. Neither pro nor con, but a secret third thing!
www.chronicle.com/article/view...
www.chronicle.com/article/view...
Opinion | Viewpoint Diversity Misses the Point
The academy’s latest obsession mistakes political representation for intellectual agility.
www.chronicle.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Reading!
I'm in the Chronicle Review today on intellectual pluralism and civic education, by (unlikely) way of my current book subject J.E. Casely Hayford. Neither pro nor con, but a secret third thing!
www.chronicle.com/article/view...
www.chronicle.com/article/view...
Opinion | Viewpoint Diversity Misses the Point
The academy’s latest obsession mistakes political representation for intellectual agility.
www.chronicle.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I'm in the Chronicle Review today on intellectual pluralism and civic education, by (unlikely) way of my current book subject J.E. Casely Hayford. Neither pro nor con, but a secret third thing!
www.chronicle.com/article/view...
www.chronicle.com/article/view...
I have the coolest colleagues.
Do you want to hear me talk for a bit about the forthcoming Soft Pink Truth album from our basement studio? Your wish is granted! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmJW...
The Soft Pink Truth on "Mere Survival Is Not Enough"
YouTube video by Thrill Jockey Records
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November 18, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I have the coolest colleagues.
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My co-edited volume with Cajetan Iheka - “Intellectual Traditions of African Literature, 1960 - 2015” has been published! Those with institutional access to @universitypress.cambridge.org can read it online, and we are grateful for help in spreading the word.
resolve.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
resolve.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
African Literature in Transition
Cambridge Core - African and Caribbean Literature - African Literature in Transition
resolve.cambridge.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
My co-edited volume with Cajetan Iheka - “Intellectual Traditions of African Literature, 1960 - 2015” has been published! Those with institutional access to @universitypress.cambridge.org can read it online, and we are grateful for help in spreading the word.
resolve.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
resolve.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
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LET’S DO THIS BALTIMORE! “AGHI in Translation” launches today, continues tomorrow. Open bar’s on us at 5 tonight. ;) @deepvellumbooks.bsky.social @hopkinsreview.bsky.social @jhuartssciences.bsky.social @willevans.bsky.social @maxlawton.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
LET’S DO THIS BALTIMORE! “AGHI in Translation” launches today, continues tomorrow. Open bar’s on us at 5 tonight. ;) @deepvellumbooks.bsky.social @hopkinsreview.bsky.social @jhuartssciences.bsky.social @willevans.bsky.social @maxlawton.bsky.social
LET’S DO THIS BALTIMORE! “AGHI in Translation” launches today, continues tomorrow. Open bar’s on us at 5 tonight. ;) @deepvellumbooks.bsky.social @hopkinsreview.bsky.social @jhuartssciences.bsky.social @willevans.bsky.social @maxlawton.bsky.social
November 12, 2025 at 12:59 PM
LET’S DO THIS BALTIMORE! “AGHI in Translation” launches today, continues tomorrow. Open bar’s on us at 5 tonight. ;) @deepvellumbooks.bsky.social @hopkinsreview.bsky.social @jhuartssciences.bsky.social @willevans.bsky.social @maxlawton.bsky.social
My co-edited volume with Cajetan Iheka - “Intellectual Traditions of African Literature, 1960 - 2015” has been published! Those with institutional access to @universitypress.cambridge.org can read it online, and we are grateful for help in spreading the word.
resolve.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
resolve.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
African Literature in Transition
Cambridge Core - African and Caribbean Literature - African Literature in Transition
resolve.cambridge.org
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
My co-edited volume with Cajetan Iheka - “Intellectual Traditions of African Literature, 1960 - 2015” has been published! Those with institutional access to @universitypress.cambridge.org can read it online, and we are grateful for help in spreading the word.
resolve.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
resolve.cambridge.org/core/books/a...
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This week at JHU: AGHI in Translation! Read the excerpt from SCHATTENFROH by Michael Lentz, translated from the German by Max Lawton, then attend the events with Lawton and Deep Vellum publisher Will Evans on Nov. 12 & 13 in Baltimore.
hopkinsreview.com/features/fro...
hopkinsreview.com/features/fro...
From SCHATTENFROH — The Hopkins Review
Translated from the German by Max Lawton and published by Deep Vellum through the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute's AGHI in Translation initiative, Michael Lentz's first novel translated into Eng...
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November 10, 2025 at 2:26 PM
This week at JHU: AGHI in Translation! Read the excerpt from SCHATTENFROH by Michael Lentz, translated from the German by Max Lawton, then attend the events with Lawton and Deep Vellum publisher Will Evans on Nov. 12 & 13 in Baltimore.
hopkinsreview.com/features/fro...
hopkinsreview.com/features/fro...
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This is as big a deal as Mamdani actually? In forever fascist ass MS...???
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Mississippi Democrats Break Republican Senate Supermajority, Flipping 3 Legislative Seats
After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.
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November 5, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is as big a deal as Mamdani actually? In forever fascist ass MS...???
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I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
November 5, 2025 at 12:13 PM
I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.
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Mamdani's victory wasn't only a repudiation of an old and exhausted political establishment in the city, it was also a triumph over the framing power of the political press, and none more so than the New York Times, whose coverage and editorials worked relentlessly to dampen his appeal.
November 5, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Mamdani's victory wasn't only a repudiation of an old and exhausted political establishment in the city, it was also a triumph over the framing power of the political press, and none more so than the New York Times, whose coverage and editorials worked relentlessly to dampen his appeal.
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The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute has partnered with nonprofit publisher Deep Vellum to publish one new work of literary translation each year. This collaboration also includes a translator residency, campus events, and graduate student workshops. magazine.krieger.jhu.edu/2025/10/deep...
Deep Vellum partnership creates new literary translations - Arts & Sciences Magazine
The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute and Deep Vellum have started a partnership to create new and innovative translations.
magazine.krieger.jhu.edu
November 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The Alexander Grass Humanities Institute has partnered with nonprofit publisher Deep Vellum to publish one new work of literary translation each year. This collaboration also includes a translator residency, campus events, and graduate student workshops. magazine.krieger.jhu.edu/2025/10/deep...
Excited to keynote at Duke next month! With some of my favorite field colleagues.
October 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Excited to keynote at Duke next month! With some of my favorite field colleagues.
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Across the city, more than 164,000 New Yorkers flocked to the polls this weekend for the first two days of early voting, according to the Board of Election, a staggering turnout that nearly matches the entire early voting count in 2021.
First Weekend of Early Voting Shatters Record, as Mamdani Rallies Thousands in Queens
Turnout was massive across all five boroughs, with voters telling THE CITY that they were motivated to vote for — and against — the Democratic nominee.
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October 27, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Across the city, more than 164,000 New Yorkers flocked to the polls this weekend for the first two days of early voting, according to the Board of Election, a staggering turnout that nearly matches the entire early voting count in 2021.
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Announcing Jackie Milad as the next Hopkins Review Featured Cover Artist EARLY, so you can catch her incredible exhibition up for just a few more days at Silber Gallery at Goucher College!
hopkinsreview.com/press/volume...
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October 20, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Announcing Jackie Milad as the next Hopkins Review Featured Cover Artist EARLY, so you can catch her incredible exhibition up for just a few more days at Silber Gallery at Goucher College!
hopkinsreview.com/press/volume...
hopkinsreview.com/press/volume...
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This rules
October 10, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This rules
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Read Fui Can-Tamakloe's "We Are Men" free in @hopkinsreview.bsky.social via @projectmuse.bsky.social
#S2O #OpenAccess
muse.jhu.edu/article/958166
And then listen to "We Are Men" (read by Tsiddi Can-Tamakloe) along with an interview with Fui Can-Tamakloe at the THR podcast: tinyurl.com/42xjv7pw
#S2O #OpenAccess
muse.jhu.edu/article/958166
And then listen to "We Are Men" (read by Tsiddi Can-Tamakloe) along with an interview with Fui Can-Tamakloe at the THR podcast: tinyurl.com/42xjv7pw
October 9, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Read Fui Can-Tamakloe's "We Are Men" free in @hopkinsreview.bsky.social via @projectmuse.bsky.social
#S2O #OpenAccess
muse.jhu.edu/article/958166
And then listen to "We Are Men" (read by Tsiddi Can-Tamakloe) along with an interview with Fui Can-Tamakloe at the THR podcast: tinyurl.com/42xjv7pw
#S2O #OpenAccess
muse.jhu.edu/article/958166
And then listen to "We Are Men" (read by Tsiddi Can-Tamakloe) along with an interview with Fui Can-Tamakloe at the THR podcast: tinyurl.com/42xjv7pw
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1) As of today, you can read the full Introduction to "The Letter of the Law in J.E. Casely Hayford's West Africa" for free on its @princetonupress.bsky.social page. All books are labors of love, but labor and love are also at the heart of this book's subject.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa
The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa’s most important early twentieth-century statesman and intellectual
press.princeton.edu
September 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
1) As of today, you can read the full Introduction to "The Letter of the Law in J.E. Casely Hayford's West Africa" for free on its @princetonupress.bsky.social page. All books are labors of love, but labor and love are also at the heart of this book's subject.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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This is such a great practice and as a person who has written a book, it is always amazing on the rare occasion when I have received these types of notes and never a burden.
I started doing this thing where when I read a book I admire I try to find the author’s email & send a quick message saying I appreciated it. No big deal, not trying to be weird, but like: thank you for helping me think something new. It’s hard writing books. It matters when people read them.
Did you see your friend's book at the store? Email them a pic! See them cited? Email them (esp. as aggregators fail to catch many citations)! Did a scholar mention their work! Email them! Did a student use their work in a paper? Email! Did a professor teach their work? Email! Email! All the time!!!
September 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
This is such a great practice and as a person who has written a book, it is always amazing on the rare occasion when I have received these types of notes and never a burden.
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“The Letter of the Law in J.E. Casely Hayford’s West Africa” is now available for Amazon pre-order! I will even paste the first two blurbs here to entice you, upping by about 100% my not-very-impressive marketing game.
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September 15, 2025 at 9:34 PM
“The Letter of the Law in J.E. Casely Hayford’s West Africa” is now available for Amazon pre-order! I will even paste the first two blurbs here to entice you, upping by about 100% my not-very-impressive marketing game.
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0691...
www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0691...
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TRYING X TRYING is on Poetry Northwest’s list of PoNW’s Favorites | Autumn 2025!! In great company.
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Big thanks to Cindy Ok and all at Poetry Northwest.
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Pub date approaching; book shipping now.
💖💖💖
Big thanks to Cindy Ok and all at Poetry Northwest.
✨ ✨ ✨
www.poetrynw.org/ponws-favori...
Pub date approaching; book shipping now.
www.poetrynw.org
September 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
TRYING X TRYING is on Poetry Northwest’s list of PoNW’s Favorites | Autumn 2025!! In great company.
💖💖💖
Big thanks to Cindy Ok and all at Poetry Northwest.
✨ ✨ ✨
www.poetrynw.org/ponws-favori...
Pub date approaching; book shipping now.
💖💖💖
Big thanks to Cindy Ok and all at Poetry Northwest.
✨ ✨ ✨
www.poetrynw.org/ponws-favori...
Pub date approaching; book shipping now.
1) As of today, you can read the full Introduction to "The Letter of the Law in J.E. Casely Hayford's West Africa" for free on its @princetonupress.bsky.social page. All books are labors of love, but labor and love are also at the heart of this book's subject.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
The Letter of the Law in J. E. Casely Hayford's West Africa
The first book devoted to the the career of anglophone West Africa’s most important early twentieth-century statesman and intellectual
press.princeton.edu
September 18, 2025 at 3:41 PM
1) As of today, you can read the full Introduction to "The Letter of the Law in J.E. Casely Hayford's West Africa" for free on its @princetonupress.bsky.social page. All books are labors of love, but labor and love are also at the heart of this book's subject.
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...