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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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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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!
Project MUSE -- Verification required!
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"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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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.
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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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 · 2mo agoWe 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...
We are delighted to announce that Irish Studies at QUB will host @acirishstudies.bsky.social in 2028. The dates will be June 12-15; CFP to follow.
Charles Lever: “If, good reader—for to you we now appeal—it has not been your lot to have once on a time lived remote from the world and its ways, you cannot imagine how intensely interesting can become the commonest of those incidents which mark ordinary existence”
Would be so grateful for reposts the help get the word out. Also, I think the application deadline is getting extended by a week, so you have a bit of time. Also also, all you have to write is a paragraph to apply!
Andrea Kaston Tange@aktange.bsky.social · 3mo agoThese remote, affordable seminars are a GREAT way to set summers writing goals you'll actually meet because you have end-of-summer accountability (and workshop groups!) to help you meet them. You should definitely apply! midwestvictorian.org/summer-semin...
ICYMI, the recording of our #RSVPDigiEv last Friday with VPR's Expanding the Field winners is now live on our YouTube channel! Many thanks to Sourav, Tarini, and Nilkantha for sharing your work and insights on this important topic, and to Kathy Malone for moderating! youtu.be/OKYFS1Pgfms
Expanding the Field: A Roundtable Discussion
YouTube video by Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
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Album out on Friday, pre order on www.mickflannery.com and thank you. www.theirishworld.com/taking-the-h...
Taking the House - The Irish World
Singer- songwriter and now playwright Mick Flannery told David Hennessy about his new album The House Must Win which is made up of music from his new stage show of the same name. Mick Flannery, one of...
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‘Nobody’s negotiating for the people here’: comedian Charlie Berens takes on AI datacenters
‘Nobody’s negotiating for the people here’: comedian Charlie Berens takes on AI datacenters
Known for his ‘Manitowoc Minute’ skits and midwestern humor, the journalist turned comedian is speaking out against the AI datacenter boom in Wisconsin
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College is not a “stamp of approval” for “select people”; it is, overwhelmingly, public infrastructure whose function is to educate the public and advance inquiry in all areas of study. It should be free to all because learning serves the social good and prepares people to participate in social life
Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis@jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 3mo agoWTF, NYer. "If we agree that college primarily serves a credentialling process that stamps select young people as worthy of work..." We do not. So much for the bastion of erudite journalism. This is sensationalism, damaging our most vital institution: education. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...
The draft conference schedule is now available there too! ssnci.org/annual-confe...
Annual Conference 2026 | The Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland
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Society for the Study of Nineteenth Century Ireland @ssnci.bsky.social · 3mo agoFor details on the 2026 SSNCI Annual Conference and our registration link see ssnci.org/annual-confe...
Found this handwritten, "Poem by Oscar Wilde's Mother" at the top of some random internet copy of "The Famine Year" and for whatever reason, it brings me joy:
THREAD 🧵 The 2026 Global Report on Food Crises shows that the number of people facing acute food insecurity is growing. Tens of millions of people are at IPC Level 4 or higher levels of hunger, including millions of children and mothers. #Infograph
Fascinating stuff from @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social: 'Like public spheres of the past, Substack has created its own proletarianized counter-public: under-employed writers.'
A Confederacy of Haters
Substack describes its newsletters as solid “independent businesses.” The counter-public responds: we are gig workers excluded from most legacy media work.
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The weaponisation of logistics has caused severe shortage of fuel, food and medicines piling misery on Palestinians.
As world focuses on Iran, Israel ‘engineering starvation policy' in Gaza
The weaponisation of logistics has caused severe shortage of fuel, food and medicines piling misery on Palestinians.
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‘The scale of the earthworks was so great that Israel’s two hundred bulldozers were not nearly enough – many were damaged by the Palestinian resistance – and Israel urgently needed two hundred more.’ In the next issue: Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza, online now www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Eyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow Line
Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture...
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The first book in the Race in Nineteenth Century Literatures and Cultures series (Oxford University Press) is out in June! Porscha Fermanis’ Settler Fiction from the Southern Hemisphere, 1820-1890 Get your library to order copies! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
it's officially out! :)
Princeton University Press@princetonupress.bsky.social · 4mo agoIn Beneath the Wage, @anniemcc.bsky.social retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging conventional assumptions about how work is waged, regulated, managed, and automated. Out now (2 June UK pub). Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Sociology
A new special issue of VP on material conditions is out & it’s a banger. It considers what it looks like to interrogate the protocols whereby intellectual production’s insides are quarantined from their constitutive outsides in conversation with Victorian poetry. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56685
Recently published | Race, Violence, and Form is available now. One of the first in the new Studies in the Global Nineteenth Century, the book employs exciting new methods to understand nineteenth-century Irish literature and culture. More here ⬇️ www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
Very happy to find this waiting for me when I returned home from South Bend! I’ve a chapter in here on ‘Irish Gothic and Global Reading Cultures in the Long Nineteenth Century’, which was so much fun to write! I loved working with @cookiegoth.bsky.social and @marymullen.bsky.social, too!
Ideas are often poor ghosts; our sun-filled eyes cannot discern them; they pass athwart us in thin vapour, and cannot make themselves felt.
Cusp 4.1 is now live on Project Muse. This issue includes a fantastic cluster, drawing from papers at the 2025 NVSA, on the Victorian Twentieth Century as well as a newly recovered prose piece by George Egerton. muse.jhu.edu/issue/56579
