I’m at the vigil for Jason Arday in London (Trafalgar). Very big turnout, easily thousands of us here

Deciding on the readings to include on a syllabus and just getting up and walking away in despair is like shopping for something you really want, seeing way too many choices and leaving the store

Come work with me! Two tenure-track faculty searches in the Department of Media & Cinema Studies @mediaatillinois.bsky.social: Media & Society: tinyurl.com/mreff8av Sports Media: tinyurl.com/2p337e7y

We're hiring! Open area search for assistant professor of sociology at UC Berkeley. Come be our colleague! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05416

Assistant Professor - Open Field - Sociology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Frank Brassiere

Landon Palmer@landonpalmer.bsky.social · last mo.

Virgil Pants

If you’re in the mood to laugh riotously and cry ugly in one afternoon, read George Eliot’s “Amos Barton”

Tell me I’m old without telling me I’m old: “Your institutional memory makes you a valuable committee member.”

My English dept’s projected incoming freshman majors for this AY is up 127%! 11 to 25 isn’t overwhelming but still. CS down 177% maybe we’re capturing kids who really wanted to major in English all along and now AI has given them permission? Cautiously optimistic in GA

If you are a philosophy grad student or early career scholar and have been thinking of working in scholarly publishing, this role at the APA Blog would be a great way to get some experience on your resume philjobs.org/job/show/31609

Interesting

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2mo ago

But I was told it was inevitable.

I need something that talks about the Gothic's impact on readers' nerves/anxieties/bodies. Any suggestions?

What are some places online you all go to read things that are interesting but not super cerebral in a jargon way and avoid politics? Frivolity of an interesting kind is fine.

Great job in modern British History @manchester.ac.uk - please share 🗃️

Lecturer in Modern British History (post-1800):Oxford Road

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Hey Victorianists, you’re teaching a course on a single Victorian novelist. Which do you choose?

Using gr*k to fact check Merriam-Webster is peak “wtf is wrong with you?”

Theo@theopriestley.net · 3mo ago

We live in the stupidest timeline.

Huge difference between “AI” and genAI

Jamelle Bouie and Rebecca Onion did a podcast series for Slate on the Reconstruction. Their episodes feature historians and supplementary reading lists of primary and secondary sources. Highly recommend slate.com/podcasts/rec...

Reconstruction

A Slate Plus podcast that finds the seeds of our present politics in the period after the Civil War.

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postdoctoral fellow in computational humanities and publishing: CMU cmu.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/CMU/job/Pitt...

Postdoctoral Fellow in Computational Humanities and Publishing - CMU Libraries and CMU Press - UEIS

The Carnegie Mellon University Libraries and Carnegie Mellon University Press invite applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Humanities and Publishing. This is an exciting opportun...

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WANTED! Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics (Education) Education, Communication & Society King's College London Salary: £45,031 to £52,514 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRT413/l...

Please consider applying for this fabulous opportunity

Maebh Long@maebhlong.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Applications for a new, 2 year postdoctoral position are now open! Please share widely. The Eamon Cleary Postdoctoral Fellowship in Irish Studies, based at Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka, the University of Otago, Aotearoa New Zealand, is open to Ph.D. graduates in any area of Irish studies.

Who gives classroom lectures/conference talks without using slide desks?

JHC

Dear— Thank you for your email. I will be out of the office until [date]. I will have perfectly good WiFi and cell service, but I will not respond to your email because I don’t want to. All best, Melissa

Hilarious. I believe they genuinely thought there was tremendous pent up demand

Matt Seybold@mattseybold.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Nothing promotes individual liberty quite like a state-mandated indoctrination.

Perfect PSA

Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives@spellingmistakescostlives.com · 3mo ago

On the tube

We’re appointing a writer-in-residence! Join us to respond to our holdings related to the Bloomsbury Group (including the archives of Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press) ahead of a major exhibition in 2027. Applications close 19 May. Best of luck! collections.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...

Call for Applications: Writer in Residence - Blooming Bloomsbury and the Modernist Archives Publishing Project -Creativity and Community Co-Curation (2026)  | Museums and Collections

The selected writer will spend the summer months (June—September 2026) drawing inspiration from MAPP to develop new creative work. From September to December, they will build on this...

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Remember course packets?

We’re very pleased to share news of this research fellowship position, working with our wonderful CECS / English Literature colleague Prof Mary Fairclough @maryfairclough.bsky.social on the collected works of Mary Wollstonecraft: 🔗 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRL782/r...

Research Fellowship: The Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft at University of York

Explore an exciting academic career as a Research Fellowship: The Collected Works of Mary Wollstonecraft. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.

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What I tell myself after 4 years working on this stupid Bleak House article “As Katharine Hepburn used to say: ‘I'd rather fail at something difficult than succeed at something that comes too easily.’”

12-month fixed-term post in pre-1800 literature and creative writing at Sussex: jobs.sussex.ac.uk/job/dbd70010...