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Going to ATHE? Interested in pitching your book? I'm emailing in my role as Incoming Editor for the Studies in Theatre History and Culture series at the University of Iowa Press to extend an invitation to meet with me on July 23-24. DM for Calendly Link.

My copies somehow traveled from a USPS Distribution Center in Atlanta to Mobile Alabama yesterday, but I'm starting to see many of the authors in the collection receive their collections and share from CRITICAL UNIVERSITY STUDIES AND PERFORMANCE.

So happy to see this collection out in the world. I’m grateful for so many amazing scholars who are working to imagine a different university.

shelby brewster, phd@shelbybrew.bsky.social · 2mo ago

happy publication to all my coauthors in Critical University Studies and Performance, edited by the wonderful @noemontez.bsky.social + @arielnereson.bsky.social my essay draws on my most formative grad school experience: organizing a grad workers union. i'm honored to be in such brilliant company

happy publication to all my coauthors in Critical University Studies and Performance, edited by the wonderful @noemontez.bsky.social + @arielnereson.bsky.social my essay draws on my most formative grad school experience: organizing a grad workers union. i'm honored to be in such brilliant company

Critical University Studies and Performance – Vanderbilt University Press

Critical University Studies and Performance explores how we contend with issues of power, race, class, and gender in higher education, specifically as they r...

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I also chair the ATDS Contingent Faculty Award whose deadline was extended to June 3 www.atds.org/awards-1

Theatre Survey is looking for a new Associate Editor who will move into the Editor role: www.astr.org/news/725027/...

Putting out feelers for a new project. Drop me a note if you want to know more. CFP: Football and Performance Editors: Eero Laine, Noe Montez, and Shannon Walsh We are currently seeking chapter abstracts for an edited volume on football and performance.

I am working with ASTR to select the next Editor of THEATRE SURVEY. Please reach out if you're interested: The ASTR Publications Committee invites applications or nominations for Associate Editor, transitioning into Editor of Theatre Survey, ASTR’s flagship publication.

A thousand NYU contingent faculty went on strike Monday and today they have a real contract with real security in one of the most expensive places on earth

N.Y.U. Professors Reach a Deal on a Contract to End Strike After 2 Days

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We should never forget that these "studies" programs -- Women and Gender; African Diaspora; Latinx; Asian and Pacific -- emerged from the demands of politicized students, and that therefore administrators _as a class_ have always resented them and their successes.

Miriam Posner@miriamposner.com · 5mo ago

Students feel like they can’t enroll in majors like Af-Am Studies and WGSS because they’re getting messages from all sides that they’re not remunerative. And yet they desperately want the knowledge, so classes are full. That seems to be the situation everywhere.

FYI, Academia.edu has changed its terms of service to give an irrevocable worldwide license for anything uploaded to its site to be used for generative AI. I do not consent to this and have pulled all my papers.

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Here's a cool opportunity for an "early career" actor. Emory will pay you $42k w health, benefits, and $10k in research funds. You teach one course per term & serve as an acting coach/ actor (with more $$) for a dept. production. Application Deadline: March 2, 2026. apply.interfolio.com/179709

If you think ICE is only in Minneapolis or you already know it’s everywhere but you need specifics, I recommend this map created by students at Rice University.

I'm the selection committee chair for the ATDS Contingent Faculty Research/Travel Award. Please consider applying for the award by May 1. www.atds.org/awards-1?fbc...

Of course, there's no mention of the 200+ degree programs she cut or consolidated to help pay for this historic football win (by tripling the football budget).

Emory Walkout Jan 20 12 PM Asbury Circle

Wild that Indiana is going to finally win a national football championship in the year that IU’s leaders & the state’s government decided it was no longer a serious research university.

Rebecca Spang@rlspang.bsky.social · last yr.

So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...

Scenic Carpenters! A job in Technical Theater that's basically 9-5 that also gives AFFORDABLE health care, a matched retirement plan, PTO, and more! Apply at Theater Emory to be our next Asst. Technical Director! Salary determined by Emory , but guess it would be high $40s-low $50s to start.

Critical University Studies and Performance is up on the Vanderbilt UP site! Check out the cover and slate of contributors (including Marisa Williamson, whose performance is featured on the cover). Use HOLIDAY50 to get 50% off your preorder. www.vanderbiltuniversitypress.com/978082650032...

Critical University Studies and Performance – Vanderbilt University Press

Critical University Studies and Performance explores how we contend with issues of power, race, class, and gender in higher education, specifically as they r...

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This is the importance of buying the books we write and teach from university presses. The same administrations that don’t care about the humanities would be just as happy to have academic publishing handled by these companies. We can save our own publishing ecosystem- but we have to do it.

Philipp Heimberger@heimbergecon.bsky.social · 9mo ago

"academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it... The dominant four collectively generated... $12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024."

As someone who has had multiple flights cancelled and/or delayed this weekend…

Drew Magary@drewmagary.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I'm on Sunday duty at @defector.com today! First up, my newser on the airport crisis. Spoiler: Trump is fucking you. defector.com/if-youre-stu...

Thank you ASTR 2025. Our dreams are beautiful even when the world is on fire. Thank you for sharing your book ideas at the University of Iowa Press booth, beautiful meals, and friendship. You keep me inspired.

TODAY is the last day to vote: If you live in the city of Atlanta and don't know who to vote for, go on over to the @atlpresscollective.com for candidate questionnaires.

Last chance to turn it off. On Monday, November 3rd, Microsoft will start using your LinkedIn data for AI training. And remember, you're opted in by default. To toggle it off 👉 Account - Settings & Privacy > Data privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement.

I’m very pleased to be named as the next series editor for the University of Iowa Press’s Studies in Theatre History and Culture series. I’ll be working with Heather Nathans though Jan 1, 2027 and will move fully into the role on that date. Send me your book pitches and/or I’ll come find you!

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream

The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.

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I worked with Danielle Fenton-Rosvally, Julia Fawcett, & Amy Cook to create a document with best practices for search committees conducting an academic job search in TDPS. I hope it’s a useful document & that committees will take some of this advice to heart. cdn.ymaws.com/www.astr.org...

We’d be in a much stronger position right now if mainstream Democrats had taken a common sense stand for First Amendment principles instead of piling on undergraduate standing up for Palestine.

Disney has Tron: Ares, Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere, Rental Family, Zootopia 2, Ella McCay, Avatar: Fire and Ash, and Is This Thing On? opening this year. I hope the talent involved in these movies curtails all planned publicity until the company reverses its decision about Kimmel.