Paul Fyfe

@pfyfe.bsky.social

Professor at NC State University. Wandering between worlds of C19th British lit, comparative media studies, critical data literacies. Book *Digital Victorians* https://www.sup.org/books/literary-studies-and-literature/digital-victorians

Public comment period is open for the disastrous proposed changes to OMB rules on federal grants — essentially allowing political scrutiny, review, cancellation of funded academic research. The feds must reply to every substantial comment. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposes to revise the Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance to improve government- wide policies and requirements related to the management of grants, co...

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Please encourage any early career & NTT scholars doing fantastic work on Victorian poetries to submit to @victorianpoetry.bsky.social ‘s 2026 Early Career Prize — more info in the thread (have not had enough coffee, text of the call is embedded in a reply to the post linked below)!

Victorian Poetry@victorianpoetry.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Victorian Poetry invites submissions for its 2026 Early Career Prize. Please share far and wide! More info in the image / alt-text. Submissions due 3 August 2026.

A well-meaning person recently asked me “Do you think AI will take your job?” An answer came this morning in an email from someone I taught 15 years ago.

Obviously, my own life has taken a bit
of a turn from the humanities, but I did want to express that your teaching was absolutely fundamental to me—from Victorian British Lit to the really important things like the respect, creativity, and, honestly, the amount of fun and being oneself that can be achieved within the classroom and academia writ large.

Want to go back entirely to print for fall Brit lit class. But anthologies have gotten so expensive since the last time I required one. Anyone else dealing with this?

*Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse* is out today! The official release got pushed back due to an issue w the art, & despite being mostly about literature it's very visual. So to celebrate its full entry into the world, a thread of some of my favorite images from it:

Action without Hope

A study of how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action. What does it feel like to live helplessly in a world that ...

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