@c21literature.bsky.social celebrates the reissue of Volumes 1-3! Wednesday 30 September, 17:00-18:30 (UK time). Register at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/c21-litera...
Heather Houser
@heatherhouser.bsky.social
Full Professor of Lit at University of Antwerp. Formerly at UT Austin. Books: Ecosickness (2014) and Infowhelm (2020). Books in progress: Our Bodies, Our Climate (public scholarship) and Girl Striving (memoir). heatherhouser.com
PhD positions in literary & translation studies at @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
PhD Position in Literary Studies / Translation Studies: Writer’s Residencies and the Emergence of World Literature | Pieter Vermeulen
AT KU Leuven, we are advertising three four-year, full-time PhD vacancies in literary and translation studies. The positions form part of EMLIT: Pluriactivity, Digitality, Mobility, and the Emergen...
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Call for papers for "Values of Crafts" Symposium @uantwerpen.be Urban Studies Institute, 4-5 February 2027. Due 15 OCTOBER www.uantwerpen.be/en/conferenc...
Values of Crafts: Unpacking tensions in the valuation of craft knowledge | Values of Crafts Symposium 2027 | University of Antwerp
Scientific symposium on the future of crafts co-organized by Crafting Futures and Tracks4Crafts
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In London on June 2nd? I'll be in convo with novelist Daisy Hildyard @ucl.ac.uk Anthropocene Research Network. Thanks to moderator & organizer Francesca Balestro! Details & reg: www.ucl.ac.uk/social-histo...
Enmeshed bodies: thinking, writing, and feeling (through) climate change and the Anthropocene
A conversation with novelist Daisy Hildyard and Professor Heather Houser
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So excited and proud that the @c21literature.bsky.social special issue “The Century at 25” that I edited with @heyitsdenisew.bsky.social @keeblearin.bsky.social @alicebennett.bsky.social is now complete and out in the world 🎉 So many brilliant contributions: c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1422/i...
Denise Wong@heyitsdenisew.bsky.social · 4mo agoSo proud of this special issue and all the hard work from our incredible contributors, and blessed to have collaborated with the dream team @keeblearin.bsky.social @melissaschuh.bsky.social @alicebennett.bsky.social 💥
Excited to announce that our new issue has opened! c21.openlibhums.org/issue/1422/i... 'The Century at 25' was guested edited by Alice Bennett, Arin Keeble, Melissa Schuh, and Denise Wong
C21 Literature: Journal of 21st-Century Writings | Issue: Issue: 3(12) The Century at 25 (2026)
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Sign up for "Close Encounters of the Nonhumankind: In the U.S. and Beyond" conference on 2 July at University of Westminster (and online). I'll be speaking with Stephen Rust and Christy Tidwell. Many inspiring panels, readings, keynote to boot! www.eventbrite.com/e/close-enco...
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Many of the articles in this upcoming themed issue of MELUS are up on advanced access-- including @jamesbliss.bsky.social @maiagiladi.bsky.social and more! academic.oup.com/melus/advanc...
Advance articles | MELUS | Oxford Academic
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Read @samanthapinto.bsky.social's latest brilliant book INSIDE THE BODY OF BLACK FEMINISM - just the intro for now - and then preorder @dukepress.bsky.social
Samantha Pinto@samanthapinto.bsky.social · 5mo agoTHE INTRO IS UP. 😬. Thank you, @dukepress.bsky.social !
And here’s a piece I wrote on recent staff purges at my university!
What do Universities Lose When Staff are Fired en Masse?
Julie Avril Minich, AAUP @ UT Secretary
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Become the next Manager Director of @asle-us.bsky.social (literature & environment scholarly association)! #envhum www.asle.org/wp-content/u...
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@heatherhouser.bsky.social explores "knowing fictions": "When climate information becomes atmospheric in this way, a text encodes the failure of knowledge." https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/climate-fiction-knowingness-global-warming-pollution-ruth-ozeki
The More You Know | Los Angeles Review of Books
‘Knowing fictions’ and their consequences.
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Out today - my essay on "knowing fictions" in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. Big thanks to @leilanadir.bsky.social for the editorial collab! lareviewofbooks.org/article/clim...
The More You Know | Los Angeles Review of Books
‘Knowing fictions’ and their consequences.
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"Fiction can help us reflect on where this all goes beyond consumption and a display of knowingness." @heatherhouser.bsky.social on "knowing fictions": https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/climate-fiction-knowingness-global-warming-pollution-ruth-ozeki/
UAntwerp Dept. of Literature seeks full-time doctoral researcher in contemporary anglophone fiction under my supervision. Fully funded up to 4 years. Deadline: 30 April 2026 @uantwerpen.be www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca... #academia #literature #affectstudies #familystudies #envhum
Call for Visiting scholar @uantwerpen.be Urban Studies Institute for 2026-27 uantwerpen.be/nl/jobs/vaca...
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Black Speculations/Black Futures at MELUS journal with @scottsvisor.bsky.social Full themed issue coming soon! academic.oup.com/melus/advanc...
Introduction: “Dear Colleague”: Divergent Futurisms and the History of Black Speculation in Crisis
On 15 February 2025, the Department of Education issued a “Dear Colleague” letter to schools, colleges, and universities, advising against race-based “disc
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Everything is the worst rn. Work keeps on keeping on. Support research in feminist and ethnic studies (not necessarily mine). If you are inclined: PREORDER dukeupress.edu/inside-the-b... Discount code E26PINTO @dukepress.bsky.social
Inside the Body of Black Feminism: Science, Race, Culture
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Join Jim Scown and me on Friday 13 March for the Biocriticism webinar on "Poetics and Ethics of Health on a Warming Planet" @sorbonnenouvelle.bsky.social. 2pm-3:30 CET on Zoom. Details & link at biocriticism.hypotheses.org/programme
@professorjulie.bsky.social on the gutting of education & research thru the destruction of WGS, Black studies, Latino studies, & American studies at @utaustin.bsky.social www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...
This is not how you improve education at the University of Texas | Opinion
The provost’s decision to eliminate key teaching and advising units threatens students, staff and educational quality, Julie Minich writes.
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This one from a UT grad student is especially powerful.
The University of Texas is clipping the wings of students of color | Opinion
Students from different races and ethnicities had to fight to find belonging at the University of Texas. Now they are being asked to shrink themselves, Mateo Vallejo writes.
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"You cannot “balance” away genocide or dispossession. To pretend otherwise is not rigor—it is refusal." María Del Carmen Unda's powerful op-ed resisting the horrible erasure of knowledge at @utaustin.bsky.social www.texasobserver.org/ut-system-ne...
The UT System's New 'Controversial Topics' Policy Is About Policing Knowledge
When politically appointed regents and administrators determine which topics are “germane,” academic freedom quietly shifts into political compliance.
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tenure-track ZAP position at @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social Kortrijk in Literary & Cultural Studies www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
Tenuretrack professor in Cultural and Societal Storytelling (Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven)
The Literary Studies and Cultural Studies Research Unit of the Faculty of Arts at KU Leuven is seeking a full-time (tenure-track) professor (ZAP) in Cultural and Societal Storytelling.
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PRE-ORDER now! @samanthapinto.bsky.social 's next brilliant book from @dukepress.bsky.social www.dukeupress.edu/inside-the-b...
Doing this podcast with @smartgirl07.bsky.social and our guests lit up my 2025-- smart, breezy, funny convos about first gen everything, ethical admin & student practices, and (80s & 90s) culture. Cannot wait for season two fun!
La’Tonya Rease Miles@smartgirl07.bsky.social · 9mo agoI kept resisting creating a podcast and I'm so glad that I didn't listen to myself. Here's the final episode of the season where @samanthapinto.bsky.social I recap the Year of Smart Girl. Join us for more shenanigans in season two. www.buzzsprout.com/2459505/epis...
Out now! GENRE BENDING by Jeremy Rosen from @stanfordpress.bsky.social ! www.sup.org/books/litera...
Genre Bending | Stanford University Press
Detective, horror, fantasy, romance, science fiction, spy thrillers, westerns, zombie novels. In recent decades, acclaimed and ambitious writers of literary fiction have increasingly gravitated to pop...
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