So looking forward to JLF island of Ireland starting 22 May. Do join us - it’s free but booking is essential 📣 @tlrhub.bsky.social

If you will be in London in May, please consider attending the Ronald Firbank Centenary Symposium. Alan Hollinghurst will be delivering the keynote!

Ronald Firbank: A Centenary Symposium

Exactly a hundred years after the death of incomparable novelist Ronald Firbank this symposium celebrates his work, life, and legacy.

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On Monday 13 April we'll be joined by Dr Sinead Moynihan (Exeter), who will speak on 'Watching the mail for [...] the Amerikay letther: Benedict Kiely and the New Yorker'. All welcome. www.qub.ac.uk/schools/Iris...

Cusp 4.1 is now live on Project Muse. This issue includes a fantastic cluster, drawing from papers at the 2025 NVSA, on the Victorian Twentieth Century as well as a newly recovered prose piece by George Egerton. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56579

Fascinating week at Miranda House & Delhi University discussing Ireland, India & Empire & especially the women often so lost from this history. @voicestcd.bsky.social

Look at all the new books in Victorian studies @navsa2025.bsky.social & this isn’t even all of them! Note @pfyfe.bsky.social pointing to @mmvty.bsky.social ’s clever book cover, and the “cut out a sticker of a book cover” craft activity 😄

Thanks so much to @marymullen.bsky.social for spearheading last night’s amazing celebration of all the books published this past year by NAVSA authors. This was so fun @navsa2025.bsky.social

Huge congratulations to our NAVSA 24/25 authors! Thank you so much for your work! [QR code for a little discount aussi ☺️)

Don't miss Muhammad Farooq, Mehtap Ozdemir, Zarena Aslami, Niloofar Sarlati, & Fatima Burney in "Inter-Imperial Spaces: West and Central Asia in the Ongoing Aftermath of Postcolonial Theory" at #NAVSA2025

If you are at the MSA conference, stop by the JHUP table to take a look at the beautiful latest issue of Cusp.

I loved collaborating with my academic sibling @nathankhensley.bsky.social (along with some of my very favorite Victorianists) to recognize the work of our fantastic advisor and mentor Kathy Psomiades. Read her book!

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"Caring about thought in time means caring about scholarship." Please allow yourself the pleasure of reading Kathy Psomiades, reading a bunch of other people, reading her award-winning book, *Primitive Marriage* (cluster of response-essays now out in VLC) www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

VISAWUS 2025 in St. Louis was so wonderful. Thanks to Anne Stiles and @profneilh.bsky.social for all of their organizing work and @badvictorianist.bsky.social for the amazing magic lantern show.

The deadline for submissions to the next Northeast Victorian Studies Association conference is just two weeks away! Just because the theme is “Silences”doesn’t mean you should let this CFP pass by you in silence—go ahead and submit!

Michael Field in Context (Cambridge University Press) is out today! I'm so excited that this volume is finally out in the world. It features 35 chapters on so many different aspects of Michael Field's lives and work. Find out more/order for your library here: www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

Cusp. 3.2 is now up on Project Muse muse.jhu.edu/issue/55539 with a fantastic cluster on cosmopolitanism edited by @shinjinichatto.bsky.social and articles by Bassam Sidiki (on racialized quarantine) and Caylee Weintraub (on deep-sea ecology) as well as an interview with Tom Crewe

"Cosmopolitanism on the Cusp" is now out! This is a special cluster I had the honor of editing for @cusplate.bsky.social. I would like to warmly thank Cusp editors @kristinmahoney.bsky.social, Kate Hext, and Alex Murray for their enthusiasm for the cluster.

NVSA cfp is out--Silences. Mark your calendar for April 10-12 at Cornell, and submit an abstract: northeastvictorianstudies.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

*Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse* is out today! The official release got pushed back due to an issue w the art, & despite being mostly about literature it's very visual. So to celebrate its full entry into the world, a thread of some of my favorite images from it:

Action without Hope

A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action. What does it feel like to live helplessly in a world that ...

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So happy to see the Cusp article "Hauntings in the Nursery" by @dremilyvincent.bsky.social among the top 20 most-read articles in JHUP journals for February. This article will be free to read through March 15: muse.jhu.edu/article/920145

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The Top 20 Hopkins Press articles you read on @ProjectMUSE in February can be revealed! Lots of new articles ranked this month from American Imago, Cusp, MFS, Portal, Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, Journal of Democracy & more Read free thru Mar 15: tinyurl.com/mr3csa2n

Friends, do come along if you are in the Boston area for my talk on Michael Field and Women Artists @harvard.edu libcal.library.harvard.edu/event/14158949

Spring 2025 Philip and Frances Hofer Lecture on "Queer Bindings: Women Artists and the Michael Field Book"

Houghton Library welcomes Ana Parejo Vadillo, who will give the Spring 2025 Philip and Frances Hofer Lecture on "Queer Bindings: Women Artists and the Michael Field...

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NEW ISSUE OUT NOW CUSP: Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Cultures Volume 3, Number 1, Winter 2025 tinyurl.com/mryj2ht2

Issue 3.1 of Cusp, with articles on decadence in Korea, Sarah Grand, Arthur Symons, H. G. Wells, and The Story of an African Farm is now up on Project Muse. Please take a look and consider submitting to the nicest-looking of all journals: muse.jhu.edu/issue/54315

Please consider submitting an abstract for our upcoming conference, VISAWUS 2025: GATEWAYS (www.visawus.org/conferences/). October 3-5, 2025 in St. Louis, with the amazing @kristinmahoney.bsky.social as keynote speaker! Papers about Judy Garland are also welcome.

CHAINS OF LOVE AND BEAUTY, now out in paper! @princetonupress.bsky.social

MLA goers! The Victorian and early 20thC Forum is taking advantage of drinks arranged by Priti Joshi (thank you, Priti!) and meeting tonight at 7pm at LONGITUDE 90, the bar at Le Meridien Hotel, on Poydras St., just up from the conference hotel. Please join us!

If you will be at MLA, come by the Archives and Possibility panel on Friday at 8:30 to hear scholars working in Black studies, Caribbean studies, Native and Indigenous studies, and Victorian studies consider archival methodologies that position the archive as a site of re-creation or possibility.

Don't miss Chat with an Editor this Friday and Saturday at #MLA2025 #MLA25. Sign up to meet with a journal editor either at the convention or virtually next Wednesday (1/15), and find out how to get your article published! @mlanews.bsky.social bit.ly/3Ppc0KB