This plaque is next to my place. It commemorates a priest who in 1830 founded one of the first schools for deaf mutes in Italy "cui donava col canto la vita della parola" (to whom he gave with song the life of the word." I'm not sure what that means, but it's a lovely phrase. @jsfarr.bsky.social

Book submissions for the George E. Haggerty Prize in LGBTQ+ Studies in 18th-Century Scholarship are now open—Jan 15 deadline. If you published a peer reviewed book in 2024 or 25, please submit! $500 cash prize. RT’s appreciated 🙏🏼 asecs.org/resources/ol...

#Newbook: Body Language: Medicine and the Eighteenth-Century Comic Novel by @katalves18c.bsky.social examines the intersections of British 18C comic fiction and medical discourse, adding "a vital chapter to the study of medicine, literature, and gender in the period." To order: tinyurl.com/3vpz7crk

The latest @ecfjournal.bsky.social is out today, with a special section edited by Mona Narain on “Asian/Asia.” Articles in this cluster by @shruti-jain.bsky.social and @kaushiktekur.bsky.social, a Reflections essay by @travisclau.bsky.social, and a response by me! utppublishing.com/toc/ecf/37/2

Contents | Eighteenth-Century Fiction 37, 2

Special Section: “Asian/Asia”: Provocations

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When Uncle Travis’s brand new poetry collection, WHAT’S LEFT IS TENDER, arrives, his kitty nephews celebrate. As for me, I’ll be teaching from this in my health humanities class this fall! @travisclau.bsky.social

this is a disgrace and a national shame

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"WASHINGTON, D.C. (August 1, 2025) – The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) announced today that it will begin an orderly wind-down of its operations" cpb.org/pressroom/Co...

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception." www.mellon.org/voices/human...

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The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

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Wild to me that this is out of print! Just got my hands on a copy off of eBay. It contains an introductory essay by Joe LeSueur.

Out today, the Academic Council of the University of California issues the following statement: “Higher education is under direct and sustained attack. 1/ senate.universityofcalifornia.edu/_files/repor...

Is it really a protest in Wisconsin if there isn’t at least one sign that says “fuck Ron Johnson”?

Milwaukee showing up to protest Trump and Musk fascism.

Pour one out tonight not only for the thousands of fantastic scholars whose NEH grants were wrongly terminated, but also for all of the junior scholars who have never—and now may never in their lifetimes—receive federal support for their research

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

Cory Booker is doing something incredible on the Senate floor. If you're not watching, you need to watch: www.youtube.com/live/Ej6locU...

LIVE: Cory Booker goes for floor speech RECORD

YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen

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Proudly casting my vote for #SusanCrawford and against Musk-Trump here in Wisconsin.

Here’s an essay I wrote about accessibility as an improvisational mindset that we can cultivate in our classrooms & communities, & as a principle that aligns uncannily with some strains of Romantic thought. #disability #disabilitystudies

From an idea in 2008 to a book in 2025, ECHOES OF CARE: DEAFNESS IN MODERN BRITAIN has been published by @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ! It explores how changing perceptions of deafness intersected with healthcare, disability, and eugenics in 19th-century Britain. www.mqup.ca/echoes-of-ca...

Very disturbing anti-disability rhetoric here, where Trump blames the recent American Airlines crash on DEI efforts, specifically hiring disabled folks, into the FAA. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Oh shit, it’s Robert Wringhim from Private Memoirs & Confessions of a Justified Sinner, appearing in a Brocken spectre. 🫣😱

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Wele-Bwgan y Niwl👻😶‍🌫️

We don’t have to be stars exploding in the night / or electric eels under the covers / we don’t have to be anything quite so unreal / let’s just be lovers

cambridgeblog.org/2024/12/the-... Manu is just very good at all of :waves hands:

Dear colleagues, In abject humility, I write to recommend ______, whose achievements are so monumental, so profound, as to leave me debased, worthless, by their measure. Do I “warmly” recommend them? Hell would seem an arctic tundra next the respectful inferno of my professional esteem

They are submitted. The grades. 🥳

Any advice for a ten minute conference presentation? #BSECS25

Hi #RunningPunks, I completed a 10-miler along icy Lake Michigan today. Heard a punk band called Memo PST on KEXP that really got me excited. 😆🤘🏻

It just seems like the perfect night—frigid and dark here in Milwaukee—for a rye manhattan + some early Silver Jews.

Much gratitude to @profchander.bsky.social for inviting me to be part of this collection I wish I had had as an undergrad. This is a love letter to the folks working at the intersections of race and disability who we need now more than ever.

The finale Somebody Somewhere may be on tonight but I will never stop telling people to watch this amazing show. But you don’t have to just listen to me. Here’s @lyz.bsky.social to tell you about it www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...

Farewell to 'Somebody Somewhere,' TV's Rare Love Letter to Middle America

In the final season of Bridget Everett's HBO series, Sam, Joel, Trish and Fred experience big changes but cherish their small-town life above all.

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