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Post45 Journal @post45.bsky.social · 7h

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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j19journal.bsky.social @j19journal.bsky.social · 3d

We've extended the deadline for submissions to our special issue, "Adaptations," to January 15th, 2026. Attaching the cfp here: please submit!

Cfp for special issue of J19, "Adaptations."

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Joey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 4d

Walter Pater’s The Renaissance (1868): “To regard all things and principles of things as inconstant modes or fashions has more and more become the tendency of modern thought.”

Joey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 5d

Teaching The Picture of Dorian Gray, and this quote hasn't aged: “It is personalities, not principles, that move the age.” 👀

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Marcos Gonsalez @marcossgonsalez.bsky.social · 5d

Adelphi University’s English department is hiring an Assistant Professor in creative nonfiction.

I’m happy to answer any questions folks may have. Applications due Nov 14. Please share widely!
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Hiring Assistant Professor - Creative Writing, - Garden City, N.Y.

View job details and apply now

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Joey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 5d

Teaching The Picture of Dorian Gray, and this quote hasn't aged: “It is personalities, not principles, that move the age.” 👀

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Cathleen D. Cahill @cathleendcahill.bsky.social · 6d

UNM is awesome! Happy to sing its praises

Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · 6d

***Job Opportunity***

Assistant Professor of Educational Thought and Sociocultural Studies – Black Studies in Education, University of New Mexico

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Assistant Professor of Educational Thought and Sociocultural Studies – Black Studies in Education - Albuquerque, NM 87106 - Indeed.com

University of New Mexico

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Nathan Ellstrand @nellstra.bsky.social · 6d

***Attention Historians***

Tenure-track job postings in History and History-adjacent fields for October 2025.

A thread.

I will update the thread over the course of the month.

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Joey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 7d

“One year, I came home and all the leaves fell off my father. After that, he was winter." -Hua Xi's "Bookshelf" poets.org/poem/bookshelf

A Bookshelf

My father read a mountain aloud.

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Joey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 9d

Today in my British Victorian literature class, a student leading discussion gifted each of us a handmade, up cycled bookmark 🔖 with various colors and charms to choose from! Such a generous, thoughtful 🎁

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 12d

the book you may have heard more about, CLOSE READING FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, is co-edited with @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social

it's shipping from @princetonupress.bsky.social any day! plus Dan and I are planning workshops for high school & college instructors & students, talks, and class visits

Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century

A user’s guide to the fundamental practice of literary studies, providing context, examples, and practical exercises

press.princeton.edu

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Joey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 11d

The poem at the beginning is worth an article in and of itself!

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Joey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 11d

Check out this TOC of the Korea Review, an English-language monthly magazine published in Korea from 1901-06 before the Japanese occupation. #research #inthearchives

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Joey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 12d

The best part of writing is the writing. I’m sad for this rising generation of writers tempted by gen. AI who are being robbed of the opportunity to write for and by themselves, to have the freedom to try, to fail, and to try again.

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Joey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 18d

Celebrating another good week in the books!

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Ayendy Bonifacio @ayendy.bsky.social · 22d

¡Wow! What a lovely first review for Dique Dominican!

“A brutally raw, poignant, and literary coming-of-age memoir.” -Kirkus 😍

www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

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Joey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 22d

“how sometimes the camera pauses while a family counts itself, and all of them are alive.” From Mary Oliver’s “Every Morning” thx for sharing @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social www.onlypoemsdaily.com/p/every-morn...

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ONLY POEMS @onlypoemsmag.bsky.social · 23d

poetry prompt of the week: tell me about something a computer could never understand or replicate. tell me about something disgustingly human.

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Alan Lester @alanlester.bsky.social · 23d

Stuart Hall Essay Prize. Please disseminate:

www.stuarthallfoundation.org/foundation/s...

Stuart Hall Essay Prize reopens to submissions - Stuart Hall Foundation

The second Stuart Hall Essay Prize is reopening to submissions. The new submission window is open from now until Monday 3 November. Open to submissions from UK-based entrants aged 18 to 30 inclusive, ...

www.stuarthallfoundation.org

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AHHH! real meghan!! 나영지 🇵🇸 @ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 25d

omfg other korean LG energy solutions workers in tennessee are preemptively leaving apple.news/ADhXzmk7nTJm...

Korean workers at Spring Hill factory leave U.S. following immigration raid in Georgia — The Tennessean

Many South Korean Ultium Cells employees in Spring Hill leave the country after Hyundai raid in southern Georgia.

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 26d

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

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Joey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 28d

Living rent free in my 🧠 😭

Joey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 28d

*you should too 🤣

Joey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · 28d

A student was presenting on Jane Eyre, beauty, and ended with some book covers. She shared this one. I had to see it, so you should to 😂😮

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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 29d

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, a target of the Trump administration, advances in preliminary election in bid for second term.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu advances in preliminary election in her bid to win a second term

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has advanced in a preliminary election in her bid to win a second term. Wu is the city’s first Asian and female leader and a frequent target of the Trump administration.

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Joey S. Kim (she/her) @joeykim.bsky.social · Sep 8

Tomorrow, celebrated writer Lauren Groff will be giving the annual college lecture at the University of Toledo! 9/9 at 7pm in University Hall with free parking. Hope to see you there! facebook.com/events/s/202...

2025 Edward Shapiro Distinguished Lecture Series with Lauren Groff

Causes event in Toledo by UToledo Judith Herb College of Arts, Social Sciences and Education and 2 others on Tuesday, September 9 2025 with 294 people interested and 38 people going.

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