My new article in Public Humanities--"Public Humanities, Then and Now"--featuring John Henry Newman, W. E. B. DuBois, and (alas) Thomas Hardy's Jude Frawley: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Editors, producers, reporters: we've got SIX open positions at @propublica.org — take a peek, some have fast-approaching application deadlines: boards.greenhouse.io/propublica?g...

Last day till MLA! "Poetry defined the emergence of Romania's literary tradition": TRUE or TRUISM? To find out what's NOT true, read Andrei Terian and Maria Chiorean in 12 Truisms About the Novel. muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034%... w/ @sarahdallison.bsky.social

Modernism breaks from realism with World War I: TRUE or TRUISM? To find out what's NOT true, read Claire Seiler in 12 Truisms About the Novel. muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034 w/ @sarahdallison.bsky.social + @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social

Science fiction and fantasy are the province of white writers: TRUE or TRUISM? To find out what's NOT true, read Susana Morris in 12 Truisms About the Novel. muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034 w/ @sarahdallison.bsky.social + @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social

Autofiction is writing about the self: TRUE or TRUISM? To find out what's NOT true, read Nicolás Medina Mora in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034%20 w/ @sarahdallison.bsky.social + @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social

5 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 8: Free indirect discourse is the most important formal feature of the novel. To find out what's NOT true, read Tara Menon in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034%20 w/ @sarahdallison.bsky.social

6 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 7: Freytag's plot pyramid is the deep structure underlying all narrative. To find out what's NOT true, read @dallasliddle.bsky.social in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034 w/ @sarahdallison.bsky.social

7 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 6: The Anglophone novel is never sufficiently postcolonial. To find out what's NOT true, read @kavithaganesan76.bsky.social in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034

Announcing our winter special issue: "Nobody Cares but Everybody Should: Toward a Shared History of the Novel." 12 short essays engage with truisms in novel studies. Thanks to Sarah Allison & Megan Ward (@sarahdallison.bsky.social, @megaplex.bsky.social) for guest editing & to all the contributors!

8 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 5: The Victorian novel is an English novel. To find out what's NOT true, read Sierra Eckert in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034 w/ @sarahdallison.bsky.social + @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social

9 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 4: The bound commercial novel is a Victorian phenomenon. To find out what's NOT true, read Lindsey Eckert in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034 w/ @sarahdallison.bsky.social + @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social

Two tenure-track positions in AI at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC. Artificial intelligence is broadly construed here to include AI policy, governance, ethics, AI for cultural heritage, &c. Review of applications will start Jan 6th. Please RT and share! #MLSky #NeurIPS

Excellent OpEd in @inquirer.com by @aktange.bsky.social www.inquirer.com/health/exper...

The health lessons of 19th-century literature

Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates; their novels highlight the fragility of public health today

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Going to #MLA2025? Dig plants? Don't miss our Victorian Plants Roundtable, co-organized with @aktange.bsky.social, also featuring Sarah Bilston, Amy M. King, and Lindsay Wells. Subtitle: Imperial Networks and Affordances of Care. 1/9, 5:15 pm. Hope to see you there!

10 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 3: The author is a solitary creator. To find out what's NOT true, read @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , @sdileonardi.bsky.social + @beccacohen.bsky.social in a special issue of Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034

11 Days to MLA; 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day Two: The typical Victorian novel was published serially. To find out what's not true, read @3volumenovel.bsky.social in a special issue of Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034

12 Days to MLA; 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day One: The New Woman is White, cis-het, and imperialist. To find out what's not true, read @krbarrett.bsky.social in a special issue of Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034

With @sdileonardi.bsky.social and @beccacohen.bsky.social, I wrote a shortish essay on The Girl on the Train and how self-branding is changing authorship. For a fascinating special issue of Studies in the Novel ed by @megaplex.bsky.social and @sarahdallison.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

CFP: Public Humanities, Issue #1: Manifestos. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Introduce yourself with some jobs you've done apart from your work now: - blood drive organizer - IHOP waitress - medical dictation transcriber - lifeguard, swim lesson instructor, swim team coach

Brandon Menke@bamenke.bsky.social · 3y ago

Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from your work now: - groundskeeper at nursery - stock boy & cashier at Save-A-Lot - office assistant at local insurance company - teller at local bank - facilities assistant at art museum - security captain at art museum