Very excited::: THIS WEDNESDAY, Oct 28, at 6pm at the at the Mahindra Center at Harvard (Am lit seminar): Lara Langer Cohen: "Mourning, Organizing: The Work of Grief in Five Black Women's Friendship Albums.” With Charline Jao responding. 133 Barker, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge.
Travis Foster
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nineteenth century american literature, queer feminism, book project on trans feminine childhood, he/him sorta
Villanova job posting: disability studies and literature, with a focus on any geographic area or historical period after 1800. 12/11 deadline. I'm happy to answer any questions. jobs.villanova.edu/postings/36518
Assistant Professor of English (Disability Studies)
Founded in 1842 and recognized among the nation’s best colleges and universities, we are a mission-driven institution inspired by the values of truth, unity, love, and dedication to serving the common...
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He joined the editorial team as Book Review Editor in 2024. We are thrilled that he will continue at Legacy in this new role. If you have ideas for any of our Features—Profiles, Reprints, From the Archives, or On Culture—please email Travis at travis.foster@villanova.edu! ✉️ 2/2
An interview with anthropologist and religious studies scholar Clayton Jarrard about my new book This Watery Place: Four Essays on Gestation (Pluto Press), which was published on Thursday. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
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Podcast Episode · New Books in Gender · 11/22/2025 · 1h 16m
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September will mark the 200th anniversary of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s birth. To help commemorate and celebrate, the current issue of Legacy features a forum on Harper’s life and work. This week, I’ll share each of the six essays; for now, here’s the intro: muse.jhu.edu/pub/17/artic...
Just a reminder I've created a queer and trans studies feed to collate discussions, publications, news and academic jobs relevant to our field. Please like and pin it for easy access, use the 🌈🎓 emojis together to post to it, and share it with your colleagues!
Don't forget the deadline to apply is approaching! APPLY TO PRESENT>> forms.office.com/e/wCQ7W9CyaD Applications close on 28th April 2025 #AcademicSky 🌈🎓 #Conference #OpenCall #Symposium #Opportunity #Queer #LGBTQIA2S+ #LGBT #Trans #TransLivesMatter #Trans+ #TVCE
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The Trans+ Virtual Centre of Excellence invites you to apply to present at our first annual Symposium on 8th July: www.gsmd.ac.uk/whats-on/tra... Deadline for submissions 28th April #AcademicSky 🌈🎓 #Conference #OpenCall #Symposium #Opportunity #Queer #LGBTQIA2S+ #LGBT
Today is the day! Take a look at the CFP for the 2026 Biennial Conference of The Society of 19th-Century Americanists: UNDERGROUND www.c19society.org/2026-confere... The Conference website will go up at the end of April / early May, and submissions will be due Sept 5th.
2026 Conference CFP | C19 Society
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My piece on Trump's executive orders targeting trans people is out now at N+1. www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Full-Throated Explicit Dehumanization | Paisley Currah
Perhaps because, unlike the Green New Deal, they actually exist, transgender people have been especially easy to single out and harm. Signed on the day of his inauguration, Trump’s executive order “De...
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Call for papers! Legacy-backed panel (SSAWW 2025): "Trans Studies & the Tomboy". Send Travis your propositions!
The CDC’s Youth Risk Behavior Survey has monitored the wellbeing of America’s high school students since 1991. Since 2015, it’s been a vital source of data on LGBQ youth. In 2023, it provided the first ever nationally representative sample of transgender teens. As of this morning, it’s gone.
CFP: 2025 SSAWW Conference “Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures: 25 Years of SSAWW” November 6-9, 2025 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Marriott Old City. Proposals for panels, roundtables, & individual papers due February 28th, 2025. studyamericanwomenwriters.org/events/2025-...
2025 SSAWW Conference
CFP: 2025 SSAWW Conference “Understanding Histories, Imagining Futures: 25 Years of SSAWW” November 6-9, 2025 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Marriott Old
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I am looking forward to receiving your proposals! 🚶♀️🚶🏿♀️🚶🏼♀️
CFP: New Perspectives on Walking Women in Anglophone Literatures and Cultures http://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-145364 Hamburg, 28.03.2025-29.03.2025, JProf. Dr. Sandra Dinter, Bewerbungsschluss: 07.10.2024
Congratulations too to Madeline Zehnder, the second Rising Scholar Prize honorable mention. Zehnder won for "William J. Wilson's Object Lesson: Reading Childhood in 'The Afric-American Picture Gallery," a paper included in the seminar titled Race and Age: Black Childhood in the Nineteenth Century.
Congratulations too to Annie Persons, the first of two Rising Scholar Prize honorable mentions. Persons won for "Hawthorne and the (Ongoing) Age of Coal," a paper delivered as part of the panel titled Rocky Pasts and Uncertain Futures: Earth Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature.
Congratulations to Eagan Dean, winner of this year's Rising Scholar Prize for a paper delivered at the conference in Pasadena!!! Eagan won for "Magnetism and the Strange Child: Spiritualist Prehistories of Transness in Cecil Dreeme," a paper delivered as part of the Trans Childhoods panel.
🔔 Please share widely! A call for contributions for an edited collection _Reading the Queer Eighteenth Century_ which will be published by De Gruyter in early 2026. Submit a proposal or pass on to interested scholars! #Skystorians #18C #Queer #Disability #Ecocriticism #trans #transnational
Happy mail day to me! Been waiting for this one
New issue of History of the Present on Reproductive Racial Capitalism, co-edited by Jennifer Morgan and Alys Eve Weinbaum - will be available online soon!
congrats to Dionte Harris, winner of the GLQ/MLA's "Crompton-Noll Prize for Best LGBTQ Studies Article" for "The Smear: Vibrational Flesh and the Calculus of Black Queer Becoming in Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight" — read it here, free for three months: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
My new essay is now out from American Literature! “Beyond Railroads and Internment”? Japanese American Wartime Incarceration Literature and the Foundations of Asian American Literary Studies @dukepress.bsky.social read.dukeupress.edu/american-lit...
Situation Critical is now published! Many, many thanks to @lizault.bsky.social for all of the terrific editorial work and support. Get it from Duke and use the discount code E24CVTCH for 30% off www.dukeupress.edu/situation-cr...
Syllabus question: short stories, poems, shortish novels, and/or essays about addiction and recovery? Any period. (Most of the course’s students will be in recovery.) Thank you!
The contributors to "Feminism against Cisness," edited by Emma Heaney, showcase the future of feminist historical, theoretical, and political thought freed from the conceptual strictures of cisness. Read the introduction for free now! www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMa...
CFP! We couldn't have an MLA conference in New Orleans without a Kate Chopin panel now, could we? Of course not. Send me abstracts! (E-address provided in the call.)
Call for Papers: Kate Chopin's Louisiana (2025 MLA Annual Convention)
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I'm thrilled to be getting together with Mel Chen for a conversation in the Intellectual Publics series next week! Tuesday, March 5 at 6:30 PM ET. Register at gc-cuny-edu.zoom.us/webinar/regi....
FWIW when I'm out of my current contracts I will be refusing further work for Routledge as well because of this (same issues) www.routledge.com/Sex-and-Gend...