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Eagan Dean

@eagandean.bsky.social

he/they asst prof College of Wooster [My posts do not reflect my employer] Eagandean.com Early/C19 US lit & culture, trans/gender studies learning to teach for justice 🏳️‍⚧️🌈

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Johanna Winant @johannawinant.bsky.social · 6d ago

poets apply!!!!

Lee Konstantinou@lkonstan.bsky.social · 6d ago

UMD's Department of English is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor with a specialization in Poetry. Please spread the word. Best consideration date October 15, 2026. If you have any questions about the position, don't hesitate to reach out.

Eagan Dean @eagandean.bsky.social · 2w ago

Interested in adding some trans studies to your C19 syllabus? Want to teach something new with _Hope Leslie_? Looking to add more historical depth to your trans studies class? Consider assigning my most recent article on trans figures in colonial historical fantasy! doi.org/10.1215/2328...

Instrumentalizing the “Fag End” of Gender: The Countersovereign Work of Settler Transness

Abstract. This article argues that Catharine Maria Sedgwick's 1827 historical novel Hope Leslie participates in the settler discourse of the “vanishing Indian” through instrumentalizing a trans settle...

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Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers @legacy1984.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Whose birthday is it today?... Margaret Fuller! 🎂🎈 Here's a selection of readings on one of the great transcendentalists... (there are so many articles on Fuller in our archives that I could not include them all, so do not hesitate to drop your other favorite pieces in the comments!) 1/4

Emma Heaney @riislover667.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Vancouver

Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers @legacy1984.bsky.social · 4mo ago

We are looking for contributions to our next digital Salon on "Women and Animals." We invite short, reflective, or creative pieces of no more than 1,000 words on the past and future of the political alliance between women and animals. 1/3

Eagan Dean @eagandean.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I have a new article out with TSQ today that thinks about gender nonconforming figures inside colonial romances like /Hope Leslie/. I'm asking, why do these stories imagine trans figures? What are they for, and who benefits? How do trans literary historians grapple with our colonial inheritances?

Instrumentalizing the “Fag End” of Gender: The Countersovereign Work of Settler Transness

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ProfKori @profkori.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This is where I’ll be tomorrow evening! Grab a friend and join me! Free & open to the public! No ticket, registration, or rsvp required!

Adrian Daub @adriandaub.bsky.social · 5mo ago

COVER REVEAL!!!! PROJECT 1933: FASCISM THEN AND NOW is coming on October 20, 2026. You can preorder it now: www.amazon.com/Project-1933...

PROJECT 1933: FASCISM THEN AND NOW

coming October 20

Trans* Book History @transbookhistory.bsky.social · 5mo ago

This is happening in a few weeks: libcal.uky.edu/event/16533226

Book Arts Weekend with Kadin Henningsen: Lecture

Please join UK Libraries' King Library Press on April 17-18 for the Spring 2026 Book Arts Weekend with Kadin Henningsen, the new Head of the King Library Press. Waltzing with...

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Eagan Dean @eagandean.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Something I love about working at a college with a strong teacher education program is realizing my students are using teacher language on me. I recently received a compliment sandwich from a student who did not like a reading, and a "thanks for participating" for going to another student's event

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ALT: a cartoon of two spidermans standing in front of a nypd van

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Kristin Grogan @kristingrogan.bsky.social · 7mo ago

teaching Whitman tomorrow, thinking about

I will plant companionship thick as trees along all the
rivers of America, and along the shores of the
great lakes, and all over the prairies;
I will make inseparable cities, with their arms about
each other's necks;
By the love of comrades,
By the manly love of comrades.

Trans* Book History @transbookhistory.bsky.social · 12mo ago

It's a unicorn job for this printer-scholar and I am beyond excited to be continuing the work I did at @skeuomorphpress.org with @ryancordell.org! I'd love it if folks helped me celebrate by making a donation to support KLP's programing: give.uky.edu/campaigns/47... 2/2

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Cathy Davidson @cathyndavidson.bsky.social · 12mo ago

www.dukeupress.edu/reparations-... @dukepress.bsky.social is currently offering a 30% discount on David Eng's "Reparations and the Human" Use this code: E25DLENG

Reparations and the Human

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Eagan Dean @eagandean.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I was very pleased to review @riislover667.bsky.social's gorgeous volume _Feminism Against Cisness_ for @legacy1984.bsky.social . A great step toward trans studies as method and highly accessible for C19 practitioners!

Emma Heaney@riislover667.bsky.social · 12mo ago

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Alice de Galzain @alicedegalzain.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Paris-based artist Auriane Kolodziej will showcase her work during the “Critical Health” conference I’m coorganizing. Find out more about her sculptures and beautiful poetry here: criticalhealthconference.wordpress.com/art-exhibit/ (desktop version recommended)

Art Exhibit

Mirror, mirror by Auriane Kolodziej Auriane Kolodziej’s artwork will be on display at Le Club de la Sorbonne (galerie Gerson) on Friday 17 October, from 5:30 til 7:00 pm Auriane Kolodziej (bo…

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12mo ago

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“Trans people have kitchen tables. People that love trans people have kitchen tables. Immigrants have kitchen tables,” Abughazaleh said. “Democrats have been messaging on this issue, which is basic human decency, wrong this entire time. It’s a two-pronged thing. When it comes to extremism, if you’re constantly ceding ground that trans people don’t deserve to exist, or that there are carve-outs for that … it never stops with the people that you deem inhuman, it will always come to you.”

Eagan Dean @eagandean.bsky.social · 12mo ago

In a scary, chaotic week, I'm feeling grateful for teaching. It's a rare privilege to walk alongside young folks willing to plant their feet and wrestle with hard ideas. The questions my senior thesis/I.S. students want to ask all have to do with justice, community, and connection.

DC Public Library @dcpubliclibrary.bsky.social · last yr.

Getting a library card!

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · last yr.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Eagan Dean @eagandean.bsky.social · last yr.

CFP in C19 trans studies for @c19americanists.bsky.social 2026 conference! #C192026 #transstudies #c19

CFP: Rhizomatic Gender
C19 conference, Cincinnati, OH
March 12-14 2026

Cisness, like many forms of normativity, defines itself through rejecting what it constructs as the abnormal. There are also, however, many nineteenth century American stories of entangled figures whose genders arise from shared roots. This era is replete with gender-nonnormative and trans figures who develop their genders in relationship to more normative companions (Woolson’s Felipa and her tourists, Ellen Craft in disguise with her husband,) or enemies (Lillie Blake’s Frank Heywood against Judge Swinton), as well as communities whose gender norms emerge when they embrace a gender rebel (the March sisters and Jo, Hawkeye’s company and David Gamut). It seems as if transness and cisness are always subtending one another.

Drawing from new discourses about the co-constitutive nature of cisness and transness, especially Emma Heaney’s Feminism Against Cisness, we invite papers that consider normative and nonnormative genders in relation.

Can we look at C19 gender as a rhizome––as a network of people and communities whose gender expressions bloom because of their submerged entanglements? What relationships underlie/are underground to what look like individual expressions of gender? Particularly, how do these relationships develop between trans and non-trans people? How do trans and non-trans people collaboratively develop narratives and self-concepts of gender, including within and across racial dynamics of power?

What alliances emerge across cis and trans characters in C19 literature and history? What conditions––material, social, and figural––have allowed for trans life to persist? What can we learn from these stories as teachers and thinkers living in an environment that discourages solidarity with trans people?

Topics papers might address include:

The roles of trans characters/episodes of gender nonconformity in the bildungsroman.
The prevalence of minor trans characters and the significance and/or function of their minorness.
Constructions of cisness/normativity that embrace rather than reject trans characters (and the potential/pitfalls of this sort of inclusion).
How such relationships challenge a cis/trans distinction.
White supremacy’s role in such distinctions.
Clandestine networks of care forged across a seeming cis/trans binary.
Interracial solidarity (and its failures) in constructing gender.
Strange, unwieldy, or baffling means of describing both cis and transgender.
Embodiment and lived experience as gender’s locus.
The challenges of trans historiography in American literature.
The role of artificiality (especially fiction) in constructing trans and non-trans alike.

Please submit an abstract of 200-300 words to Eagan Dean (eagan.dean@stanford.edu) and Will Younts (wyounts@vols.utk.edu) by August 10.

Recovery Hub for American Women Writers @recoveryhubaww.bsky.social · last yr.

A big WHOOPS—and congratulations—to Elizabeth James, who co-wrote "Methodologies for Exploring Unknown Archives." Our social media coordinator missed the fact that James was the Recovery Hub consultant for the Woman's Literary Club of Baltimore Digital Archive. Great work, Elizabeth! #academicsky

Alice de Galzain @alicedegalzain.bsky.social · last yr.

You can read more about the #CriticalHealth conference on the @fullersociety.bsky.social website: margaretfullersociety.org/conferences/...

Critical Health: Feminist Perspectives on Health and Well-Being in the Nineteenth-Century United States – Margaret Fuller Society

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Eagan Dean @eagandean.bsky.social · last yr.

What happens to the archives of our feminist elders? Walk alongside scholar Mich Ling as they work with Merle Woo--a contributor to /This Bridge Called My Back/ and an Ethnic Studies vanguard--to organize, analyze, and preserve her records.

A screenshot of the first part of an article on Scholarly Editing's website. The text reads, Looking for Merle: Participatory Archiving as Bridge Work. Mich Ling, Rutgers University.
Scholarly Editing, Volume 42
After all, the subversive intellectual came under false pretenses, with bad documents, out of love. Her labor is as necessary as it is unwelcome. The university needs what she bears but cannot bear what she brings.

—Stefano Harvey and Fred Moten

I have studied the history of our people in this country . . . I want to tell everyone about that, all the particulars that are left out of our schools . . . I feel now that I can begin to put our lives in a larger framework. Ma, a larger framework! The outlines for us are time and blood, but today there is breadth possible through making connections with others involved in community struggle.

—Merle Woo

Noelle Baker@noelleabaker.bsky.social · last yr.

New issue of Scholarly Editing is out! Vol. 42 highlights bold, community-driven editorial work—digital, archival, inclusive, and experimental. Read the intro + explore the issue: scholarlyediting.org/issues/42/vo... #IndigenousArchives #InclusiveArchiving #RecoveryEditing

Vassar @vassar.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations to Vassar Historian and head of Vassar Archives and Special Collections, Prof. Ron Patkus, who just received the AAVC's Outstanding Faculty Award.

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Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk @digblk.bsky.social · last yr.

If the dismantling of the ODH has impacted your work, sign up to give a lightning talk during the "What the NEH/ODH has Inspired Session" by Monday, June 9th: bit.ly/ach-inspirat...

CFP-ACH 2025 Special Session #166: What the NEH ODH has Inspired

After the dismantling of the National Endowment for the Humanities, how do we move forward? From 1965 to 2025, the NEH was the nation's largest public funder of the humanities. In the noise of this m...

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Mid Theory Collective @mid-theory.bsky.social · last yr.

In addition to our reading groups, MTC will host a writing workshop on job market materials this summer. First meeting will be June 27th @ 2pm ET. Second meeting first week of August, date TBD. More information: mid-theory.com/mtc-writing-...

Liz Haswell @ehaswell.bsky.social · last yr.

*URGENT* please support NIH research and the NIH employees who are standing up for science at the risk of losing their jobs! Sign *TODAY* in support of the Bethesda Declaration. The senate appropriations committee is reviewing the NIH budget Tuesday at 10 am. SHARE widely! 🧪

ADD YOUR NAME: Sign the Open Letter in Support of NIH Staff

Join the courageous and committed National Institutes of Health (NIH) public servants by adding your name now.

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · last yr.

NEW: Laws banning gender-affirming care for transgender youth in the United States are inflicting severe harm on young people and their families as well as health care systems and civil society. 🧵⬇️ www.hrw.org/news/2025/06...

“They’re Ruining People’s Lives”
Bans on Gender-Affirming Care for Transgender Youth in the US

Sabrina Evans-Rangel @drsabevans.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm a little late, but excited to announce that my article, "'Undisputed Dignity': Anna Julia Cooper, Black Publishing, and Late-Nineteenth Century Discourses of Dignity," published in Legacy Journal is now available: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...

Project MUSE - "Undisputed Dignity": Anna Julia Cooper, Black Publishing, and Late-Twentieth-Century Discourses of Dignity

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