“The humanities are not a luxury,” said MLA executive director Paula M. Krebs. “They are a necessity, teaching people vital skills, including how to effectively communicate, construct arguments, evaluate evidence, and build connections across cultures. www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

It was a special joy to receive the email announcement about this from the NEH after my award was terminated .

If you are considering applying for the Paula Hyman Mentorship Program @AJS I am holding an workshop on writing a successful applications this Friday 2/25 @ 10am CST. Details here: associationforjewishstudies.org/professional...

How are you moving forward given that cancellation notice? I am in a similar position and curious about next steps.

She faced historical times just like our own, and she survived them as a writer and teacher, until she was finally murdered. That's it for now. The irony is not lost on me that she has been silenced in our times.

She was a brilliant artist, a feminist, and modernist, who wrote stories and plays. Jordan Finkin and I had been working on piecing together her work, translating her poignant stories of poverty, madness, desire, unwanted marriage, and motherhood.

These funds were dedicated to the translation and dissemination of the work of a major Yiddish writer who perished in Minsk at the hands of the Nazis. Her career spanned 1899 until her death in the Minsk ghetto sometime between 1942-1945.

My NEH grant to translate and annotate the selected works of Rokhl Brokhes has been terminated. I knew this was coming but I am still devastated by the news.

I have a forthcoming piece I can send! It’s out this summer.

Sounds like our work is overlapping, though I am looking at writers a decade later!

So honored to share the MLA Leviant Award in Yiddish Studies with @aglaser.bsky.social.

Nice to find you here!

Truly!

And today in TN news: tennesseelookout.com/2023/08/16/c...

I was startled by a deer and baby doe on my run today. We paused to look each other in the eye and then went on our way. So quietly back to the nature of things.

When Gee was at Vanderbilt he spent extravagant sums entertaining and remodeling the Vanderbilt mansion. He was also a supporter of the humanities and chipped away at Vanderbilt's elitist isolationism. He then fled under the cover of night. Since then he's left behind a trail of disaster.

You’ll be shocked - <shocked> - that when the NYT finally bothered to get around to covering the most important higher education story in the country, that they framed it entirely around the stale Narrative™️ of what majors/degrees are vocationally useful.

Totally anecdotal. She authored a major history monograph that was reviewed widely in various press outlets, but only one academic review. I wonder if its harder to get people to write them?

A colleague claims that the academic book review is a dying genre. Folks are just too tired to write them, the profession is a in a new state of emergency, etc...Is this true for literary studies? Other fields?

lack of federal funding for research is terrible. mellon divestment also terrible! https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2023/08/15/does-humanities-research-matter-anymore-opinion

I am jumping in and hoping to rediscover my twitter feed here!