Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.

Right, most of the syllabi I received in college were one-side of page, maybe two: a framing paragraph, a list of readings, paper due dates. Now they are 15 pp long, a freaking legal contract w/ the student. I often have to dig (scroll) to find the schedule of readings. Sign of the shifting times.

As an AP Lang teacher, I'm not really supposed to assign 11th graders any fiction. Junior year used to be dedicated to American lit in lots of places. Sometimes, teachers try for mashups. But there's more support for test prep than for lit.

Super excited to sign an advance contract with @curiousmonolith.bsky.social's Re-Editions series at Lever Press to do a #openaccess edition–with @philipb1793.bsky.social–of

Charles Brockden Brown's Memoirs of Stephen Calvert (1799/00).

1st US fiction to register #queer #gothic desire
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