Well, would you look at that!

Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 5mo ago

"Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new LinkedIn data shows." ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 69% VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 68% www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Next250 - Sign the Declaration of Interdependence. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/ne...

Next250 - Sign the Declaration of Interdependence

As the United States reaches its 250th birthday, the nation stands at a crossroads of great or dangerous change. We, the people, have the power to build a promising future for everyone. A future that ...

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New book going to press: *Character Networks in Contemporary U.S. Fiction.* It’s about social networks as context for—and formal element of—the novel. For contemporary lit, novel/narrative theory, DH, lit and sociology, network analysis crowds. Here’s what it’s about: (1/n)

Looking forward to hearing Christel Woods, Katrina Newsom, John Linstrom, Rajender Kaur, @yulisapaola.bsky.social, and @drkj.bsky.social's recent work!

Dr. Molly Volanth Hall@mollyvolanthhall.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Myself and @margaretmaryk.bsky.social are exited to be facilitating discussion amongst the 6 exceptional participants of the Global Kinship: Opening Boundaries of Thinking in the Climate Humanities virtual Roundtable @modernlanguage.bsky.social Fri Jan 9 at 3:30pmET! mla.confex.com/mla/2026/mee...

Consider submitting and please share with your network this CFP for a Society for the Study of American Women Writers panel at the American Literature Association conference in Chicago in May www.cfplist.com/CFP/46130

President Trump’s birthday military parade is estimated to cost $45 MILLION. Here’s a list of a few ideas of what they could be doing with that money instead: 🧵

Army estimates that Trump's military parade could cost $16 million in damage to Washington streets

The repair costs are part of the estimated $45 million price tag for the upcoming parade.

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There’s an estimated 33,000 homeless veterans in the United States. With $45 million, our government could provide housing for 6,500 of those forgotten heroes.

Fulbright Board Resigns After Accusing Trump Aides of Political Interference www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/u...

Fulbright Board Resigns After Accusing Trump Aides of Political Interference

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“The Trump administration staged an unprecedented intervention in this year’s Fulbright selection process, rejecting finalists whose research deals with race, gender or climate change.” www.insidehighered.com/news/global/...

Fulbright Applicants Rejected Over “DEI” Research Proposals

The Trump administration staged an unprecedented intervention in this year’s Fulbright selection process, rejecting finalists whose research deals with race, gender or climate change.

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Silence is Collaboration: Academics Must Speak Out Against Fascism

We write this in the wake of the illegal arrests of Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Ozturk, Badar Khan Suri, Alireza Doroudi, and other foreign students and teaching faculty at American universities. We wi…

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First, they said postponed; now the meeting is canceled. That means no flu shots next year. “'It’s a six-month production cycle,' Dr. Offit said. 'So one can only assume that we’re not picking flu strains this year.'" Fundamentally, that's a form of mass murder. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u...

F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots

The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.

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Hiya BlueSky! We've got a cracking special issue on Ali Smith which features an interview with Ali Smith, published in December 2024: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/901/in.... Check it out, if you haven't already had a chance! #AcademicSky #BookSky #Literature #OpenAccess @bacls.bsky.social

This Black History Month, you'll be supporting Black Penned Stories. Follow this Starter Pack. This isn't DEI. It's Anti-Segregation. #BlackSky #BookSky go.bsky.app/Thz8U7e

A reminder to donate to your local or the national planned parenthood: www.plannedparenthood.org

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CFP: 2025 SSAWW Conference “Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures: 25 Years of SSAWW” November 6-9, 2025 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Marriott Old City studyamericanwomenwriters.org/events/2025-...

The Rise and Fall — and Rise? — of Close Reading On John Guillory’s new history of a contested technique www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

The Rise and Fall — and Rise? — of Close Reading

On John Guillory’s new history of a contested technique.

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Working on updating my list of #multiethnic #contemporary #American #AdrenalineNarrative sources (think #extreme #adventure #travel and #outdoor #sports). Suggestions in any #genre (book, social media, film, etc.) welcome!

A little #ecocriticism / #envlit (/ #envhum) starter pack - all names, suggestions, feeds welcome! 📚🌿🪲 go.bsky.app/E9pwdD

Here’s another starter pack - American Studies. I am very sure that I have forgotten many good, wonderful scholars, colleagues, friends. Apologies!!! Please let me know if you would like me to add someone. If you don’t want to be on this list, let me know as well 💙🫶🏻💙 go.bsky.app/5FPEkAk

Students in my fall section of Introduction to Literary Research (LITT 2123) created a public (annotated) bibliography of sources related to James Weldon Johnson, focusing on sources related to the novel *The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man*. Find it on Zotero www.zotero.org/groups/54441...

Sharing my 200th #ScholarSunday thread for the brunch crowd. Enjoy, add more great public scholarship of all kinds (especially yours!), & please share widely! @hcrichardson.bsky.social @kevinmkruse.bsky.social @sifill.bsky.social @markhamillofficial.bsky.social

Ben Railton@americanstudier.bsky.social · 2y ago

Over at the newsletter I’ve just shared my appropriately super-sized 200th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the last week. Featuring so many amazing folks, including: 🗃️ americanstudier.substack.com/p/scholarsun...

From the obliteration of New College to Ben Sasse’s presidential appointment to UF to these 432 courses at FSU, the overt dismantling of public higher ed in Florida is one of the most chilling things I’ve seen in years.

Lauren Eriks Cline@lerikscline.bsky.social · 2y ago

"The 432 courses that were removed from General Education range from Theories of African American Studies, Critics of Religion and American Multi-Ethnic Literature to Feminism and Globalization, the Evolution of Human Sexuality and LGBTQ History."

"...the truth is that white mediocrity can only parade as merit because know-your-place aggression is constantly in motion." Read this fabulous interview with Koritha Mitchell, editor of Broadview editions of Iola Leroy and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. www.publicbooks.org/white-medioc...

White Mediocrity Empowers White Villainy: A Conversation with Koritha Mitchell

“Not only does whiteness empower folk to destroy entire communities; it empowers them to say to your face that the destruction doesn't have reverberating effects in the current moment.”

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Netflix is so wild to me. There’s a first rate production of August Wilson’s “The Piano Lesson” starring Samuel L. Jackson, Danielle Deadwyler and John David Washington and I only know about it because of a post on BlueSky. Like, I’m watching it now while reading along and it’s BRILLIANT.

CFP: 2025 SSAWW Conference “Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures: 25 Years of SSAWW” November 6-9, 2025 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Marriott Old City. Proposals for panels, roundtables, & individual papers due February 28th, 2025. studyamericanwomenwriters.org/events/2025-...