The graphic that the Book Cellar created for my conversation about my forthcoming novel Man Overboard! with @amrangowani.com this coming Tuesday 7/7 at 6:30 pm is a delight. See you there! RSVP at the link!

For DePaul, money is tight. But tight is relative: The university managed to come up with enough scratch to start construction this year on a $42 million basketball and athletics center on its Lincoln Park campus. chicago.suntimes.com/architecture...

Cash-strapped DePaul closes the curtain on Downtown’s historic Reskin Theatre

The landmarked 1,400-seat Beaux-Arts playhouse was designed by Benjamin H. Marshall, one of Chicago's preeminent architects.

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DePaul Art Museum Advisory Board Calls on University to Save the Institution, Expressing ‘Anger, Frustration, and Deep Sadness’ Over Abrupt Closure

A scathing letter from the DePaul Art Museum advisory board calls on DePaul University to reverse its decision to close the museum.

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If you’re as incensed as everyone at DePaul is about the closing of the university art museum, consider signing this letter. Thanks for the support! openletter.earth/letter-oppos...

Closure shows “there’s not a priority for the arts or the humanities” at DePaul, especially when the university is investing & developing other divisions...City Council approved DePaul’s plans for a $60 million basketball & athletics practice facility in December blockclubchicago.org/2026/02/26/d...

DePaul Art Museum Closing In June: 'It's A Huge Loss'

The museum's final exhibits will open March 5. The decision to close was made "to ensure long-term financial sustainability for our university," DePaul's president announced Thursday.

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so, my employer is defunding libraries while building a $60 million gym to be used only by athletes . . . teams that have accepted bribes to lose games chicago.suntimes.com/college-spor...

Former DePaul players and ex-Bull Antonio Blakeney charged in scheme to rig games

In the 70-page indictment, authorities say fixers recruited the college basketball players with "bribe payments" usually ranging from $10,000 to $30,000 per game.

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A whole host of colleges & universities are using Trump as cover for shock doctrine cuts to faculty & staff, while diverting funds to public-private partnerships & SaaS contracts they hope will float rocky investing by trustees & endowment managers. Don't regurgitate their barely cogent rationales.

"universities are being infiltrated by a commercial industry that exploits students+faculty as data mines frenzy w/o consulting their faculty, collecting empirical data on whether gen AI is pedagogically useful, or pausing to inquire about the long-term impact" www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books

We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.

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😮 A university without a library ceases to be a university. Full stop. I’m flabbergasted that a “determination” about a library’s future — besides FUND IT AND STAFF IT — needs to be made by an institute of higher learning.

Colleen T@librarycolleen.bsky.social · 8mo ago

"...the eventual plan is to close the library" #depaul #Chicao (Illinois) 📚📜 depauliaonline.com/80758/news/d...

Now available online! www.cambridge.org/core/books/h... 🌿📚💚🪲

Alice Wickenden@awickenden.bsky.social · last yr.

hello. if you work at a university please ask your library to buy my book. it is all about books and libraries and also plants, museums, the Royal Society, and the ways we learn. I think it will be interesting to lots of people, hopefully. thank you www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

paperback coming early 2026! ✨

HEROES chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Demonstrators block entrance at Broadview ICE facility: 'They know Chicago doesn’t want ICE in our city'

Protesters staged a sit-in and stopped vehicles trying to come in and out of the facility Friday morning. Earlier police ordered tents they had set up to be removed.

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Working on ecology in premodernity? Come share your stuff with us! Proposals for 2025-2026 Premodern Studies Seminar at the Newberry Library are due July 7! newberry.slideroom.com?utm_source=C...

crash writing a new syllabus for intro to poetry (starting monday!): any fav poems for thinking about communities, social groups, collectives?

good day to break my wordle streak www.nycclc.org/news/2024-11...

New York Times Tech Guild on ULP Strike

The Times Tech Guild—the union that powers the technology behind The New York Times—has walked off the job in a ULP strike. The work stoppage began at 12:01am Monday despite multiple rounds of intense...

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today's teaching is /convent of pleasure/--thanks, past megan

u of c is moving towards NTT faculty strike and seeking solidarity, especially from alums. please consider signing and sharing! act.seiu.org/a/facultyfor...

Administrators at Harvard are developing “unprecedented” modes for disciplining faculty.

Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · 2y ago

Harvard has banned faculty from the library for holding a quiet sit in protest at the library with printed quotes of the libraries values. Nothing about Palestine. Merely protesting the right to free expression.

who's going to MLA in january? should i go?? not giving a paper, but it's in new orleans & the warmth would be nice . . .

Happy pub day to *Disrupted City* www.chapatimystery.com/archives/slo...

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DePaul Students Rally Around Security Guard Who Says He Was Removed For Being ‘Pro-Palestine’

Terrance Freeman, who worked for an outside security company, said he was fired after university officials reprimanded him for taking a picture with pro-Palestine demonstrators.

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Hi friends, I have received an actual, real-life copy of my first book, Glorious Bodies, and it is the thing I am most proud of in this world. If you're interested in trans history and theology, I hope you'll take a look!

Emily Drabinski reporting that this includes every librarian. www.tspr.org/tspr-local-n...

WIU sends out layoff notices to nearly 90 employees

The administration is eliminating 57 faculty positions and 32 staff positions.

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if you had a to order books for a Margaret Cavendish and Hester Pulter course, how would you do it? Asking for myself obvs! Plenty of excellent digital resources . . . So maybe I could get away with just the Broadview Paper Bodies Cavendish reader?

It’s PUBLICATION DAY!!! 🥳 I’ll post a little teaser every day on each ch. In our introduction, Chloe Preedy & I…er…introduce vol. & explain what on earth possessed us to publish a book on a writer mostly associated ŵ prose in a PLAYS companion series. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526149466

RSA 2025 RENAISSANCE LIBRARIES: THEN AND NOW How do libraries mediate the materials of Renaissance Studies? How should we understand the spaces that connect the past to the present? Send abstracts to @tarallyons.bsky.social & to me. Due July 22. See you in Boston! www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

UGH. Ten years and 4 months later, I re-located this footnote to an antislavery pamphlet pointing out that it was printed on linen and not cotton paper so as to avoid the material economy of slavery.... that REALLY should have made it into my book but didn't bc I forgot. Oh well. Here it is anyway.

Today a wonderful post by @elizaaudacis.bsky.social on two devotional books with early modern female signatures as Beth considers dirt, tears, and detritus as evidence of book use buff.ly/3Rx5mDF #HerBook #EarlyModern #C17

The Whole Duty of Man Laid down in a Plain and Familiar Way (1712) with Private Devotions for Several Occasions, Ordinary and Extraordinary [1712].

By Beth DeBold These two devotional texts, bound together in dark brown goatskin with faded gilt ornaments and fore-edges, represent a fairly commonplace survivor of the early eighteenth century. The ...

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RSA 2025 CFP RENAISSANCE LIBRARIES: THEN AND NOW Got a paper that explores how Renaissance Studies has been mediated by libraries? I'm organizing a set of panels with @tarallyons.bsky.social & BSA sponsorship. Send us your abstracts! Proposals due July 22. www.rsa.org/forms/FormRe...

Renaissance Society of America

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new author line for me