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Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 5d ago

NEW from Public Collectors! People on Your Block is a self-assessment guide to help you gauge your awareness of your neighbors and how deeply connected you are to the people that live on your block. Intended for private personal use. $2 PDF now. Print in 2 weeks? halfletterpress.com/people-on-yo...

The cover of People on Your Block by Marc Fischer, published by Public Collectors, showing a very blue sky with the moon in the distance, part of a building, trees, and a light pole.

A spread from the booklet showing the sky with dramatic clouds, part of a tree and multi-unit home and the first page of text:

How many of these questions can you answer about people on your block?

What are the names of your next-door neighbors?
If you live in an apartment or multi-unit building, what are the names of your neighbors on the other floors or sections of the building?
What are the names of your neighbors who live two doors down?
How many other neighbors do you know by name?
How many neighbors do you know by both their first and last name?
Which neighbors have children? Do you know their children’s names?
Do you know only neighbors that are close in age to you, or do you talk to neighbors that are a variety of ages?
Which of your neighbors own pets? What are the names of their pets? Are any of them service animals?
How many neighbors have pets whose names you know, but not the names of the neighbors that own them?
Which neighbors drive a car? What kind of car do they drive? Is it normally parked on the street? Can you match cars to people and houses?
How long have your neighbors lived on your street?
Which neighbors know the history of your block going back 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, or even more years?
How long have they lived in your neighborhood?
How long have they lived in your city?
What languages do your neighbors speak and can you communicate with them in a language that you both speak?
Do you have any neighbors with disabilities?
Are any of your neighbors blind, deaf, non-verbal, or challenged by mobility limitations?
Do your neighbors own their homes or do they rent?

More questions from the booklet (excerpt):

Which buildings on your block are being used as Airbnbs or other forms of short-term rental?
Which buildings are owned by people living in other cities, states or countries?
Which buildings are owned and managed by a corporation?
Which neighbors have solar panels or other forms of off-grid energy they can draw from?
What are your neighbors’ occupations?
Are any of your neighbors doctors, nurses, lawyers, tech workers, teachers, therapists, dentists, chefs, mechanics, plumbers, electricians, maintenance workers, metal scrappers, social workers, architects, writers, artists, financial advisors, engineers, musicians, athletes, actors or designers?
What other forms of expertise do your neighbors have?
Which neighbors can you hire, and which neighbors can you barter skills or services with?
Which of your neighbors own a ladder, a lawn mower, a snow blower, a leaf blower, a generator, a tire pump, a battery charger, a drill, welding tools, a chainsaw, a water pump, and hand tools?
Which neighbors drive a truck or other utility vehicle?
Which neighbors drive a tow truck?
Which neighbors know how to fix a car, bicycle, motorcycle, skateboard, or scooter?
Which neighbors maintain a garden and grow their own food?
Which neighbors do not have a garden but know a lot about plants and gardening?
Which neighbors understand canning and other methods of food preservation?
Which neighbors know how to mend clothes or fix appliances or electronics?

The back cover of the booklet (excerpt of text):

This booklet is a self-assessment guide to help you gauge your awareness of your neighbors and how deeply connected you are to the people that live on your block. It’s intended for private personal use.
I’ve lived in the same house in Chicago with my wife Jen for 14 years. For about half of these years, I did not know many of my neighbors. Some events changed this. A development was proposed next to our property, and we felt it would be detrimental to the block. We went door to door to get signatures to oppose it. We met many neighbors, and we defeated a terrible project. We also worked with a neighbor to collect signatures to get speed humps for our street. We collected enough signatures because we knew a lot of neighbors. Three years later the city still hasn’t given us speed humps, but at least we still know all those neighbors. Six years ago we adopted a small, cute dog that we walk. He helps us meet our neighbors. I know the names of over 35 nearby dogs and about 60 people on my block. Finally, I became one of the moderators in a private social media group for our neighborhood. It has over 11,000 members. Some of them live on our block.
What would it mean to know every neighbor’s name? I talk to neighbors, but I don’t know everyone. Many people do not know their neighbors but would like to. This publication contemplates what a more detailed ‘knowing’ might be. I want to consider more ways our neighbors could be an immediate resource—particularly should a crisis occur, and as an alternative to depending on police or government agencies to solve problems that we may be able to solve with others through shared labor, mutual aid, understanding and kindness. I’ve seen unlikely friendships develop on my block, and have experienced them myself. I’ve never felt as deeply connected to a place as I do now. I have answers for most of the questions in this booklet.

Democracy Now!@democracynow.org · 6d ago

"We have to keep working to make occupation [and] apartheid costly and make this kind of human rights violation costly for the offenders," says Palestinian human rights defender Issa Amro, who was detained at an Israeli military base for seven hours on Friday.

Meet Issa Amro: Palestinian Human Rights Advocate Attacked by Settlers, Detained by Israeli Army

We speak with Palestinian human rights defender Issa Amro after he was detained at an Israeli military base for seven hours on Friday. Amro, the founder of the Hebron-based group Youth Against Settlem...

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Victorian Studies @victstudies.bsky.social · 6d ago

Check out Kristin Mahoney’s article “Vernon Lee and the Difficulty with Love” in 68.2 where she investigates Lee’s relationship to love and how love operates as a point of difficulty in her writing. Mahoney’s article is linked here: muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 2w ago

If you are a first-time author of a book published in 2026 in Irish Studies (broadly conceived) do consider submitting it to the Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Books. acisweb.org/murphy-prize/ Happy to answer any questions. #IrishStudies 🗃️

Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book | American Conference for Irish Studies – An Chomhdháil Mheiriceánach do Léann na hÉireann

Don Murphy, husband of ACIS Past President Maureen Murphy, was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, and died in New York on March 2, 1986. He received his Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and Bachelor of...

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Sarah Bull @sarahebull.bsky.social · 2w ago

#bookhistory #histmed 18th Century Literatures job at the University of Alberta! Particular interest in candidates with expertise in Critical Race/Ethnicity Studies; Disability Studies; Environmental Humanities; History of Science/Medicine; and Print Culture/ Book History.

Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Global 18th -Century Literatures

Location - This role is in-person at North Campus Edmonton. The Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta invites applications for a tenure-track appointment in Global 18th-C...

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Dr Mary McAuliffe @drmarymcauliffe.bsky.social · 2w ago

History / Irish Studies job at Boston College, applications for a senior scholar to serve as the inaugural Jane B. and Thomas E. Hachey Professor invited The appointment will be a tenured position at the rank of full Professor of History #irishhistoryjob apply.interfolio.com/194167

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Mary Mullen @marymullen.bsky.social · 3w ago

I am doing the same! Share advice/insights/tips!

Anna Gibson@annagk.bsky.social · 3w ago

A question for those involved in PhD literature admissions: I'm gathering resources for MA students considering PhDs. It's been a while, y'all! Any advice/insights/tips that you'd be happy for me to pass on to students? (I'll paraphrase but also happy to share attributed quotes.)

Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · 3w ago

Columbia University bans all electronic devices in required courses in its Core Curriculum. This is the way! I’m rarely proud to be a Columbia graduate, but this is great:

Columbia prohibits electronic devices in all Literature Humanities, Contemporary Civilization sections

Columbia has prohibited the use of electronic devices in all Literature Humanities and Contemporary Civilization sections starting this fall, 12 syllabi for the courses reviewed by Spectator show and ...

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Mary Mullen @marymullen.bsky.social · 3w ago

This makes me think of wuthering heights.

Irish Literary Times@irishlittimes.bsky.social · 3w ago

“When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.” ― Edna O'Brien

Jessica R Valdez @jrvaldez.bsky.social · 4w ago

We're hiring in the long eighteenth century at LSU. Please spread the word and let me know if you have any questions. It's a wonderful department to work in! lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0210...

Assistant Professor - 18th-Century British Literature

All Job Postings will close at 12:01a.m. CST (1:01a.m. EST) on the specified Closing Date (if designated). If you close the browser or exit your application prior to submitting, the application progre...

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jennifer kates @jenniferkates.bsky.social · 4w ago

It’s our air, our lives, and our city — we should decide 🦅 Two potential data center sites have already been identified in Philly—but the city has no rules to protect communities. We're rallying on 9/14 to demand City Council press PAUSE on data center development. Join us at philly.my/sep14rally

Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · last mo.

What gets me is the woman who wasn’t able to finish her degree. The one who isn’t sure if she can. The one who started a stable job and had to leave because of this behavior. How many brilliant women are stifled by the men coddled by their institutions?

Chokely Carmichael🥋@stewartcoles.bsky.social · last mo.

UW-Madison professor engages in multiple sexual relationships with students, disparages another over their sexual orientation and appearance, creates hostile environment, and department leadership covers it all up. And in true “pass the trash” fashion, moves on to ASU once forced to resign.

Irish Studies at QUB @irishstudiesqub.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Irish Studies Assistant Prof post available at @bc-irish-studies.bsky.social apply.interfolio.com/191724

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Mary Mullen @marymullen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Sept. 9 at Notre Dame--in addition to discussing the collection Race, Violence and Form, we will celebrate Sara Maurer's work in shaping it: irishstudies.nd.edu/events/2026/...

"Race, Violence and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland" - Panel Discussion

Please join the Keough-Naughton Institute for a panel discussion with Renée Fox, Mary Mullen, and Amy Mulligan on the edited volume, Race, Vio...

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Mary Mullen @marymullen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NVSA CFP for 2027: Trash northeastvictorianstudies.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

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Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 2mo ago

Here are some of the declines in international student applications and enrollment revealed in a lawsuit challenging new duration of status regulations that would limit the ability to offer some programs of study and create administrative bloat on campus. www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

Institution Grinnell College
Enrollment data 15.8 percentage point decline in international student yield from fall 2023 to fall 2026
Institution University of Illinois Chicago
Enrollment data 50 percent decline in admitted international students over historic levels
Institution University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Enrollment data 25.1 percent decline in international graduate applicants from 2025 to 2026 cycle
Institution University of Maryland, Baltimore
Enrollment data 37.9 percent decline in new international student enrollment from fall 2024 to fall 2025. Thirty-two students admitted for fall 2026 have withdrawn applications, and 14 have requested to defer their admission.
Institution University of Maryland, College Park
Enrollment data anticipated 30 percent decline in new international graduate students year over year
Institution University of Wisconsin–Madison
Enrollment data 10.9 percent year-over-year decline in undergraduate applications, and 27 percent year-over-year decline in graduate applications. Five undergraduate students who put down deposits have since withdrawn.
Institution University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Enrollment data 42 percent decrease in applications, 29 percent decrease in admissions and 38.7 percent decrease in enrollments year over year

19 Century Studies Association @ncsascholars.bsky.social · 2mo ago

We are pleased to share our CfP: Framing the Human in the 19th Century. We meet in #Philadelphia, March 11-13, 2027. 🎃 Proposals due October 31, 2026. For more details, visit: ncsaweb.net/2027-confere... 💰We have four Conference Travel Grants, due January 15, 2027: ncsaweb.net/grants-fundi...

AAUP @aaup.org · 2mo ago

Texas Tech is using AI to seek out content on sexual orientation & gender identity. Professors describe the effort as a dystopian academic nightmare. One professor worried about her core course, Holocaust in Literature, because it mentions that gay & bisexual men were also targets of the Nazis...

Texas Tech University Is Using A.I. to Cut Left-Leaning Content

Texas Tech is using A.I. to cut left-leaning content in its curriculum. Some say the effort to ferret out forbidden topics is a dystopian academic nightmare.

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Mary Mullen @marymullen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

NVSA's Rudikoff Prize for first book in Victorian Studies now accepting nominations for books published in 2025: nvsa.org/rudikoff-pri...

Rudikoff Prize

The Sonya Rudikoff Award for the best first book in Victorian Studies was established by the Robert Gutman family in honor of Mr. Gutman’s late wife. Sonya Rudikoff was an active member of th…

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Devin Garofalo @devingarofalo.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It (nearly) lives! Forthcoming from OUP in November or December! My first reaction, for once, was glee — though the terror of writing a book is that it’s never finished. Eek! Woohoo! Wild to have proofs in hand!!!!

Title page of forthcoming book by me, titled Nineteenth-Century Poetry and Cosmologies of the Human: Worlds Unmanned. From Oxford UP.

Table of contents for forthcoming book.

Introduction: Poetry, Person, Planet — with subsections on William Wordsworth; Sylvia Wynter and lyricization; climate, affectability, impress; and criticism, canonicity, and counterbumanism.

First chapter on Wordsworth, Charles Lyell, and c19 manscapes — with subsections on Wordsworth’s and Lyell’s lyric theologies, the pathetic fallacy (Ruskin) and Wynter on desperate realization, and apostrophizing Toussaint Louverture.

Second chapter on Tennyson’s In Memoriam, the possibilities and limits of posthumanism, and ambivalent reading — with subsections on extinction and apostrophe.

Third chapter on Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the problem of reference, and infrastructures of reading — with subsections on Swedenborgianism, sphericity, plantation inheritances, and the slippages of rhyme.

Fourth chapter on Phillis Wheatley, extractivism, extractionist reading, and salvage criticism—with subsections on solar intergumanism, allusion, reticence, and refusal.

Coda on contemporary representations of climate collapse, Wynter on transumption, and the afterlives of c19 aesthetic imaginaries.

Jay Roszman @jayroszman.bsky.social · 2mo ago

1/5 📣 An article I've written about the Queen's University in Ireland, its constituent colleges, and their relationship to the British Empire has been published with @jbritishstudies.bsky.social. The article makes the case for rethinking about the Queen's University's purpose in Ireland. 🗃️

Institutions of Empire? The Foundation of the Queen’s Colleges and British Imperial Service, 1845–85 | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core

Institutions of Empire? The Foundation of the Queen’s Colleges and British Imperial Service, 1845–85 - Volume 65

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Mary Mullen @marymullen.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What a dream! This will be great.

Dennis Hogan@dennismhogan.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This fall, alongside @gavjacobson.bsky.social and @equatormag.bsky.social, I will be moderating a reading group on Mike Davis's Late Victorian Holocausts, which uncovers the role imperialism played in the famines that followed 19th-century El Niño-related droughts. www.equator.org/events/late-...

Emily Steinlight @emilysteinlight.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It’s been a hard week and I nearly missed that this was finally out. I wrote “Victorian Studies and the American State” 5 years ago and have been discussing it with some of you for a decade. Surreal to see, and grateful to be in the good company of @jakeromanow.bsky.social and brilliant respondents

Victorian Studies and the American State | PMLA | Cambridge Core

Victorian Studies and the American State - Volume 141 Issue 2

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Jacob Romanow @jakeromanow.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My article "Provincializing Victorian Studies" is out in the latest PMLA. It's many years in the making—thanks for reading. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Provincializing Victorian Studies: A. Native’s Marita among Literary Traditions | PMLA | Cambridge Core

Provincializing Victorian Studies: A. Native’s Marita among Literary Traditions - Volume 141 Issue 2

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Robbie Richardson @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Great to see this finally out: My article "The Stubborn Will to Mean: Sympathy, Relationality, and the Origins of Collecting Indigenous Bones in the Eighteenth Century" in ELH!

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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"The facts of Palestine are spoken, and increasingly by Palestinians themselves, but they are met by a refusal to listen, by ears that prefer the drone of implausible denial to the unbearable weight of fact." www.equator.org/articles/mor...

Gaza and the Problem of Moral Stupidity • EQUATOR

Forty years after Edward Said demanded ‘permission to narrate’, the truth from Palestine has never been more widely known. And yet the annihilation continues.

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Mary Mullen @marymullen.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Really disappointing (sickening, tbh) to read a forum on Daniel Deronda in 2026 that does not include Palestinian voices or call genocide what it is.

Carleton University Department of English @cuinenglish.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Congratulations to Professor Barbara Leckie, who has won a Carleton University Research Achievement Award! Read more here: carleton.ca/english/2026...

Research Achievement Awards - Research and Innovation

The awards were established in 1989 to enhance research quality and recognize research excellence. The recipients’ terms run from May to April after an announcement each spring. Be sure to also view t...

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Liverpool University Press @livunipress.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Renée Fox and Mary L. Mullen are launching their book, Race, Violence, and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland at the SSNCI Annual Conference! You can find out more here ⬇️

Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland @ssnci.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We are really looking forward to the SSNCI Annual Conference 2026 on Thursday and Friday (18 - 19 June)! Keep up to date with the conference details on our website! ssnci.org/annual-confe...