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submitted 19 days ago • 8 comments

Good news! My beloved little wonder book is freshly published by @cambridgeup.bsky.social ! Digital access is available for free through 27 Feb 2025. Please share! Please welcome this beauty into the world! #C18L #18thcentury DOI: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

submitted 21 days ago • 15 comments

The CSU's literally shutting majors & firing faculty at the same time as it pays multi-millions to Silicon Valley companies for this climate-disaster plagiarism machine. It's unconscionable. The money (state money!) is being siphoned from students/faculty, for the CSU to be tech bro paradise.

submitted 30 days ago • 6 comments

In case anyone is wondering, there was zero faculty consultation about this. Do better, CSU!

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

Sonoma State announced faculty layoffs and program closures today. Targeted programs are mostly humanities and social sciences Like all CSU, SSU is an institution that serves first generation and minoritized students. California has chronically underfunded the CSU and has billions in reserve.

submitted 42 days ago • 12 comments

For any members of the CSUN community, please request help from the Matador Relief Fund if you've been displaced by the #LAFires csun.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

HBO has declined to renew “Sesame Street” for new episodes. The series that’s been teaching generations of little kids since 1969 now has no studio. Please consider donating to Sesame Workshop to ensure the residents of 123 Sesame Street are still around to teach kids of all needs and backgrounds.

submitted 81 days ago • 178 comments

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submitted 87 days ago • 20 comments

Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no

submitted 92 days ago • 579 comments

On this Giving Tuesday ASECS is asking for $18 (get it? get it?). $18 can do a lot for our colleagues and our field:

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

"By then, I knew that what I had always wanted from a story was what I had wanted from life: to make it mean something despite what seemed like utter chaos." Samantha Colicchio on her journey with the hit TV show Lost. the-rambling.com/2024/11/23/i...

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Turkey trot your way over to @therambling.bsky.social straight away, because our latest issue is out—from Lost to Lord of the Rings, reality TV to “succubus chic,” you will not lack for conversation at the dinner table after reading the essays at the-rambling.com. 🐌🦃

submitted 99 days ago • 0 comments

Excellent volume in our Routledge Studies in Eighteenth-Century Cultures & Societies series to be published this week: Letters and the Body, 1700–1830 Writing and Embodiment Edited By Sarah Goldsmith, Sheryllynne Haggerty, Karen Harvey #skystorians #c18th #c19th www.routledge.com/Letters-and-...

submitted 101 days ago • 8 comments

SUPER postdoc at ASU Film & Media Studies: looking for U.S. Latina/o/x Studies; subspecialties in African American, Caribbean, Afro-Latinx Literature, Visual Culture Studies, and/or Women of Color Feminisms. 2 years + possible conversion to a T-T position. Please share! apply.interfolio.com/159508

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

Los Angeles! We are collecting blankets and maternity clothes (6mo+) for our unhoused neighbors. We have two pregnant community members at the same time! Warm blankets and comforters are also appreciated, it's getting cold out. And if you have large scraps of new carpet (6ft x 6ft ot larger)

submitted 107 days ago • 5 comments

A new open-access journal, Public Humanities, has launched. I'm proud to have a piece in the inaugural "Manifesto" issue, on "The Necessity of Public Writing." I hope academo-friends will read, circulate, propose, and submit. doi.org/10.1017/pub....

submitted 111 days ago • 9 comments

Please share and use: a spreadsheet documenting the cuts announced by 87 (!) US universities & colleges during the 2023-24 academic year … so far. A long, dispiriting list of college closures, faculty/staff layoffs, academic program eliminations, and significant budget cuts. 1/

submitted 323 days ago • 14 comments

pls. RT Global Equiano opens fresh conversations about enslaved & free Black people as they navigated spaces dominated by violent, colonial forces, & considers the Black Atlantic futures they imagined. 20-21 Sept #18thc #romanticism earlycaribbeansociety.org/events/globa...

submitted 324 days ago • 1 comment

grateful to my GU colleagues who stood in their regalia today and read out names & academic biographies of the 100 scholar-teachers killed in Gaza

submitted 324 days ago • 0 comments

If you are a member of ASECS’s Women's Caucus, we have a new email address: [email protected]. Add us to your safe list. Not a member of the Caucus? We can add you. The caucus is open to people who do not identify as “woman” even though our panels focus on women’s issues.

submitted 324 days ago • 0 comments

Noticed/participated in lots of ASECS conversations about how we might be in solidarity with Palestinians. Here is one extremely modest thing we can do: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

submitted 329 days ago • 0 comments

My friend is establishing a trust to support her neighbor, whose disability status + benefits were revoked despite extensive medical evidence, + whose gender affirming care is at risk due to back pay of disability benefits. Pls support Heather if you can! gofund.me/bbf0e777

submitted 329 days ago • 0 comments

Hi Janeite friends! Do you have an absolutely favorite Austen adaptation you can talk about for hours (or even 3-5 minutes)? Submit your ideas for Virtual JaneCon now! What is Virtual JaneCon? It’s a radically inclusive, free Jane Austen con. No bigots allowed. virtualjanecon.com/submissions-...

submitted 331 days ago • 1 comment

Virtual mentoring happening now. You don’t have to be registered for asecs—if you want to come chat, about anything, log on now!

submitted 335 days ago • 0 comments

Join us now at the virtual Doctor Is In session! #asecs2024 #asecs24

submitted 335 days ago • 0 comments

Hi! We're getting ready for The Doctor is In mentoring at #asecs24 and are happy to have lots of great mentors. Please tell everyone at the conference! #18thc @asecsoffice.bsky.social @dlspratt.bsky.social

submitted 338 days ago • 0 comments

Wonderful #ASECS2024 #ASECS24 colleagues! Please share that in addition to our in-person mentoring events, we have two free virtual mentoring opportunities through The Doctor Is In on Fri 4/5 and Sat 4/6 1-3 est: sign up by using this registration link! All are welcome! csun.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

submitted 336 days ago • 1 comment

Wow. It's almost as if the enrollment crisis has more to do with declining state funding and rising tuition costs than a slight decline in the number of college-age students. Who would have guessed?

submitted 344 days ago • 3 comments

Two weeks ago, I found out my position at St. Norbert College had been eliminated due to budget cuts: one of 21 faculty positions (13 in the humanities) eliminated at the college so far this year. I was under tenure review, and now I'm not. I have until May, and then my contract will be done.

submitted 349 days ago • 48 comments

Hi! We only have four mentors for ASECS -- we're looking for more so we can have a much more complete mentoring meeting. Please volunteer, it's just 2 hours and you're doing essential service to the profession.

submitted 360 days ago • 2 comments

📣Calling all faculty, instructors, library workers, DH folks & independent scholars interested in podcasting/digital storytelling. There's still time to reserve a seat in our upcoming virtual institute. Funding a problem? Apply for one of our scholarships nationalhumanitiescenter.org/education-pr...

submitted 373 days ago • 1 comment

If you're part of the CSU faculty union, here is a petition to ensure that the bargaining team are elected to their positions: actionnetwork.org/petitions/in...

submitted 387 days ago • 1 comment

Join us 2/1, 12pm PST: "Indigenizing Archives thru Digital Sovereignty, Digital Curation & Language Revitalization" w/Jerrid Lee Miller, current Lang Archivist for Cherokee Nation Lang Dept Registration required: sjsu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... www.sjsu.edu/cies/events/... ischool.sjsu.edu/circle

submitted 404 days ago • 0 comments

Did you know: 1 in 40 ppl in the U.S. with a college degree got it from the CSU? Yet the faculty that make that possible are so underpaid many need govt assistance to make ends meet. Me and 29,000 of my friends are on strike this week, the biggest in CSU history ✊🏼 see my timeline for ways to support

submitted 409 days ago • 2 comments

On strike #cfa #csu

submitted 409 days ago • 0 comments

Want to support the Cal State strike? You can with some ~form-filling shenanigans~ There are 23 campuses and 23 forms that it would be bad to fill out with false info! Here are ALL 23 LINKS. Pls share! Bakersfield: app.smartsheet.com/b/form/496e7... Chico State: app.smartsheet.com/b/form/5ee49...

submitted 412 days ago • 9 comments

I'll be on strike next week with 30,000 of my colleagues in the largest labor movement in Cal State history. I wrote about why I'm on strike and why we are refusing the narrative management has offered. It's time that we invest in students, not investment accounts. medium.com/@kateozment/...

submitted 412 days ago • 2 comments

It would be SUCH A SHAME if some of y'all decided to use this non-secured form that CSU management has set up to encourage students to narc on faculty striking and give them trash data to comb through. Such. A. Shame. Certainly don't do that. app.smartsheet.com/b/form/76a7e...

submitted 413 days ago • 3 comments

CSUN has one of the only orange groves left in the San Fernando Valley, + it provides a free, healthy food + shade resource for our students + community. It was wonderful to help care for the land today (1/2) #communityengagement #sustainability

submitted 413 days ago • 1 comment

Today’s @nytimes.com story about the Cal State strike. I am begging you to email me or do any research. They have $8.6 billion in cash and investments and $2.5 billion in reserves. THERE IS NO DEFICIT. Interview me! I will send you links! Care about nearly 500k students as much as fake plagiarism!

submitted 415 days ago • 15 comments