Charlotte Sussman
@charlottesussman.bsky.social
Chair, Duke English. Eighteenth-Century Studies, Migration Studies, Blue Humanities. Author of PEOPLING THE WORLD: REPRESENTING HUMAN MOBILITY FROM MILTON TO MALTHUS. Remembering the Middle Passage Project. Knitting, running, hopeful cook.
Excited for the kickoff event of the Sharing Ground seminar, a conversation between Michael Roth and Robert George on academic freedom and the humanities. Friday, September 18, 4pm in the Ruby theater. Please join us if you can! sites.duke.edu/sharinggroun...
Events – Sharing Ground
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The lineup looks amazing! Really looking forward to chairing a keyword seminar on migration, and hearing all the amazing talks and seminars already scheduled!
Aarthi Vadde@aarthivadde.bsky.social · 4mo agoThe website for SNS 2027, hosted by Janice Ho at UBC, just launched with a fabulous lineup of keynote speakers, keyword seminars, and novel seminars. Check it out! And please submit abstracts for panels or single papers on any novel-related topic (deadline Nov. 15): snsnovelgeographies.arts.ubc.ca
I'm sharing an extraordinary farewell letter from my colleague Vic Strandberg who taught in Duke's English Department for 60 years. He's touched the lives of over 10k students, which is unreal. Also, he shared Duke's salary for asst. prof in English in 1962: $9500 english.duke.edu/news/farewel...
Farewell Letter from Vic Strandberg
You could call this my last will and testament. I will begin with the testament, based on my institutional memory going back sixty years. After earning my PhD at Brown in 1962, I taught at the Univers...
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“Applications are invited from well-qualified candidates with expertise in literature in English of the long eighteenth century (1660–1830).”
Dinah Roe@preraphsrule.bsky.social · 8mo agoThere’s still time to apply! Happy to answer any questions about the position or the seminar
Charlotte Sussman@charlottesussman.bsky.social · 11mo agoPOSTDOC ALERT: in 2026-27, James Mulholland (NCSU) and I are running a Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Sharing Ground: Humanities, Academic Freedom, and the Future of the University.” The position is for a Humanist-in-Residence and the job is live on AJO: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31122
POSTDOC ALERT: in 2026-27, James Mulholland (NCSU) and I are running a Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Sharing Ground: Humanities, Academic Freedom, and the Future of the University.” The position is for a Humanist-in-Residence and the job is live on AJO: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31122
Duke University, English Department
Job #AJO31122, Postdoctoral Associate, English Department, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US
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Major conference on the legacy of Fredric Jameson happening at Duke April 10-12, 2026. Grad students should submit! CFP linked: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Submit your proposal: Fredric Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory
Due December 15, 2025 11:59 PM EST Notification of Decision January 10, 2026 Conference Information April 10–12, 2026 Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA Keynotes by Michael Denning, Jane G...
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POSTDOC ALERT: in 2026-27, James Mulholland (NCSU) and I are running a Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Sharing Ground: Humanities, Academic Freedom, and the Future of the University.” The position is for a Humanist-in-Residence and the job is live on AJO: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31122
Duke University, English Department
Job #AJO31122, Postdoctoral Associate, English Department, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, US
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It was such a pleasure to put together this essay cluster for PMLA with Donna Landry and James Mulholland and all our brilliant contributors! Here’s our introduction, I’ll link the issue in comments www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Unfinished Business: Reckoning with Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture | PMLA | Cambridge Core
Unfinished Business: Reckoning with Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture - Volume 140 Issue 3
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Another amazing piece in our PMLA essay cluster on Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture!
Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 12mo agoCheck out "Pearl Diving without Guarantees" by my colleague Ida Danewid. "While today [Stuart Hall and Cedric Robinson] are widely regarded as the two titans of the concept of racial capitalism, they often traveled in opposite directions." www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Another amazing piece in our PMLA essay cluster on the legacy of the 1983 conference, Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture!
Robbie Richardson@londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 12mo agoMy piece out now in the new PMLA: Marxism, Cultural Studies, and the Rise of Indigenous Studies
It took a while, but our cluster of essays on Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture, 1983, is finally here. All the pieces are 🔥
Another highlight of our time in London was the Do Ho Suh show at the Tate Modern
Morning run on the Grand Union Canal between Little Venice and Kensal Town
Amazing conversations on day one, looking forward to days two and three!
These workshops have been a joy to organize with my co-editors Jo McDonagh and Hadji Bakara, with the amazing support of the Neubauer Collegium. neubauercollegium.uchicago.edu/events/migra...
The Neubauer Collegium - The Neubauer Collegium
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The North Carolina coast. It does not disappoint.
The sign we all need now. (Courtesy of the Ocracoke ferry)
On Friday afternoon, Kathy Psomiades brought home the hardware for *Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology, the Novel, and Sexual Modernity,* awarded best second book by NAVSA. One judge, @mmvty.bsky.social, said (paraphrased): "Literally, though, how did you do this?" 🏆🔥💜
I don’t really believe in the pathetic fallacy, because, you know, it’s a fallacy, but it’s hard not to interpret the dense fog this morning along those lines.
