There's still time to submit to our next German issue!

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW The Faulkner Journal 36.1, Spring 2026 #S2O #OpenAccess @ Project MUSE tiny.one/5xn658hf CONTRIBUTORS Sarah B. Hardy Erin Penner Laura Wilson Joseph R. Urgo Marie Lienard-Yeterian

New from @hopkinspress.bsky.social, FRAYED, by Rebecca Pope-Ruark is a compelling account of #burnout among #women #leaders in higher education. Offering actionable advice on how to mitigate burnout personally, and how to prevent it institutionally, this book is available to buy in Europe! #HE

A gentle reminder for those celebrating the US News College Rankings that they are mostly hooey-- www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... @hopkinspress.bsky.social #EDUsky #AcademicSky

Join us Dec. 15 for the next BHC Book Series event. 9:00 a.m. EST live on YouTube Philip Scranton discusses *Spare Parts: A Global History of a Modern Problem, 1940-1980* @hopkinspress.bsky.social with @profmarkwilson.bsky.social and Valentina Fava Send us your questions for Phil in advance #BizHis

I am so grateful to Matthew Alexander Randolph for this thoughtful review of _I Have Avenged America_ in Eighteenth-Century Studies!

Hopkins Press@hopkinspress.bsky.social · 2d ago

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Eighteenth-Century Studies 59.4, Summer 2026 tiny.one/2frt6avc CONTRIBUTORS Lynn Festa Susan S. Lanser Amy S. Wyngaard Joan DeJean Kimberly S. Manganelli Laura Mason Peter P. Reed Stephanie Diehl Jonathan Conlin Seth Rudy Manuel Covo Matthew Alexander Randolph and more

"My father’s sister had a little box she carried from stage to stage, hung with a scroll, the frame ornamented with pencils and matchsticks, strung up with stories sung and chanted" "Crankie Show in Wintertime" by Chaya Holch, TYR's Poem of the Week: yalereview.org/article/chay...

📢 Graduate Student Reception at #GSA2026! Join fellow grad students for food, drinks & conversation! 📅 Sat., Sept. 26 | 7–9 PM 📍 Gilbert Room, Hyatt Regency Phoenix 🍽️ Free food for all! 🍺 Free drink tickets for the first 25 students! #GSA2026 #GermanStudies

Also on the MSA First Book prize short list: Maria Farland's <Degraded Heartland: Antipastoral, Agriculture, and the Rural Modern in US Literature> with Johns Hopkins UP.

Degraded Heartland

Antipastoral, Agriculture, and the Rural Modern in US Literature

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Congrats as well to those on the MSA First Book prize short list: Nicoletta Asciuto, Brilliant Modernism: Cultures of Light and Modernist Poetry with Johns Hopkins UP

Brilliant Modernism

Cultures of Light and Modernist Poetry

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New book review live on Marginalia! Morgan Bettin-Coleman reviews The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution: Diversity and the Empire in the British Atlantic, 1688-1883. Check out the full review now!

Last but not least on the MSA First Book Prize short list: Sebastian P. Klinger's <Sleep Works: Experiments in Science and Literature 1899-1929> also with Johns Hopkins UP

Sleep Works

Experiments in Science and Literature, 1899–1929

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"An English professor sent me a check for $2.50. He had read a Melvin Maddocks piece which quoted Cyril Connolly’s saying that we should tip authors. I didn't know what to make of the $2.50. I cashed the check." yalereview.org/article/anni...

Annie Dillard: "Making Contact"

The author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek shares the most surprising letters sent by her readers.

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NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Configurations 34.3, Summer 2026 tiny.one/5n6uv34b CONTRIBUTORS Sophia Efstathiou Hannah Star Rogers Sasha Bergstrom-Katz Liliana Gil Katherine Ziff Angela Schöpke-Gonzalez Sarah Klein Bruce Clarke Joshua DiCaglio Anita Guerrini Dorin Smith Phillip James Grider

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Eighteenth-Century Studies 59.4, Summer 2026 tiny.one/2frt6avc CONTRIBUTORS Lynn Festa Susan S. Lanser Amy S. Wyngaard Joan DeJean Kimberly S. Manganelli Laura Mason Peter P. Reed Stephanie Diehl Jonathan Conlin Seth Rudy Manuel Covo Matthew Alexander Randolph and more

"His mentor will feel obligated to bring him home; which is to say, the eminent professor is coming to appropriate his Surinam specimens." —Adam Ehrlich Sachs, "The Flora of Surinam"

"By branding the movement as leaderless, tribeless, and partyless, we denied the state its usual tools: cooptation, ethnic mobilization, and backroom deals with a handful of leaders."

What “Leaderless” Actually Means | Journal of Democracy

Gen Z protests are about more than a generation. Uprisings like the one we helped lead in Kenya are rewriting how movements organize, and how states fight back.

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#TodayinHistory in 1980: The birth of Solidarność, Poland’s Solidarity movement, a surge of civil resistance amid an economic crisis and the Helsinki Accords. Solidarity played a key role in bringing about the end of communism in Europe at the close of the decade. 1/2

Registration is now open for Modernist Crossings, a series of free online events co-organised by seven international associations of modernists. More info here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/d...

It’s time to Hype that Hypothesis! Torben Iversen hypothesizes that #democracy transformed #capitalism, not the other way around. Read his WP 75th anniversary article that explains how we now have an inequalizing economic dynamic that’s proving difficult to reverse: doi.org/10.1353/wp.2...

Volume V of the USHMM Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, is available on Project MUSE. Explore this volume to learn about the vast and lethal scope of the racial persecution, detention, and murder of non-Jewish victims by the Nazis and their allies. https://tr.ee/540DZf

"Frayed" by @agilefacultyrpr.bsky.social provides an honest account of burnout among women leaders in higher education—and what you can do about it. https://tr.ee/MalCgM

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW MFS Modern Fiction Studies 72.3, Fall 2026 #S20 #OpenAccess @ProjectMUSE tiny.one/2un4rnev CONTRIBUTORS Eyal Amiran Leo Kadokura Heather Ray Milligan Safaa Mohamed Christopher Morris Lamia Tayeb Olivia Lingyi Xu Joanna Falk Randi Gill-Sadler Elana Gomel and more

There are no heroes coming to save our democracy. If we are to mount a defense, it must begin with students learning the necessary skills in the classroom.

Defending Democracy Must Begin in the Classroom | Journal of Democracy

There are no heroes coming to save our democracy. If we are to mount a defense, it must begin with students learning the necessary skills in the classroom.

journalofdemocracy.org

Comment savoir? The question recurs in Marie NDiaye’s work. This special issue--which includes a piece by NDiaye—approaches the evolving significance of the author's writing. Open access through @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/issue/57592

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 80.2, October 2026 tiny.one/2bb498us CONTRIBUTORS Adam McConville Sarah Martin Amanda Toledo Kate Quealy-Gainer Cassidy Russell Jessie Maimone Glorian Roberts Fiona Hartley-Kroeger Natalie Berglind April Spisak and more

delighted to share my latest article is published (open access) in Modern Fiction Studies! @hopkinspress.bsky.social I give Hanya Yanagihara's first novel, The People in the Trees, the petroculture studies treatment and conclude that the times, they are exhausted doi.org/10.1353/mfs....

What do we lose without local news? On Sept 23, join America's Rural Future in Morgantown, West Virginia (or online) to hear from journalists, local leaders, and policy experts on the national consequences of local news decline and local information ecosystems.

The Journal of Song Yuan Studies invites submissions for a special section on Han'er yuyan 漢兒語言. We look forward to receiving your abstracts!

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