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🚨 Reminder and gentle nudge--proposals due March 1 🤟

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History: “Eventually the incompetent fascists invariably lose power and then society recovers in a new and stronger way” Me: “Oh, cool, so what has to happen for the spell to be broken??” History: “mmmm…well, that part is less encouraging.”

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Shop update.

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Andrea gives the three canonical options: A: CAUSE-a-bon B: ca-SOW-bahn C: ca-SAW-bun This platform doesn't do polls, but please vote below so we can get this settled definitively ASAP. I have a whole chapter on Middlemarch that I've already written, so I need to learn soon?? 😂😱

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Sublimate your existential terror by crafting an incisive political manifesto enmeshed in a 19th c niche project [AKA The submission portal for NAVSA2025 is now open] navsa.georgetown.edu/submit-propo...

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NAVSA types! Do you advise grad students on the job market? If so, consider submitting a proposal for a NAVSA 2025 roundtable on "Resources for Advising the Academic Job Search" (deadline 3/1/25, CFP linked below). @navsa2025.bsky.social @navsa.bsky.social drive.google.com/file/d/1zCov...

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One of the smartest, most delightful people I know, writing about another of the smartest, most delightful people I know! What could be better?!

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To be clear, when Hegel argued that History is teleological he was specifically describing the inevitability of Muppet Middlemarch

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Lauren Eriks Cline: "Classrooms can be limited, local experiments in alternative arrangements: assessment structure as preparedness training, reading list as go-bag, class community as model for mutual aid." 🔥

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If you will be at MLA, come by the Archives and Possibility panel on Friday at 8:30 to hear scholars working in Black studies, Caribbean studies, Native and Indigenous studies, and Victorian studies consider archival methodologies that position the archive as a site of re-creation or possibility.

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Wanna come to my party? Having a convo with @ryancordell.bsky.social about Digital Victorians in a series about new books in critical bibliography. Thurs 12/12 12:00p EST. Details and register here: rarebookschool.org/all-programs...

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This article is really helpful. It’s also good to know that if you’re using Signal, you need to make sure to turn off settings that display message previews. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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Delighted to announce that @emmadavenport.bsky.social is the inaugural winner of Victorian Poetry’s early career prize! Watch for her brilliant essay, “Crediting Women’s Poetic Labor: _Paradise Lost_ and Toru Dutt’s ‘Our Casuarina Tree’.” Read more abt it below or in the alt-text. Congrats, Emma! ✨

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On Friday afternoon, Kathy Psomiades brought home the hardware for Primitive Marriage: Victorian Anthropology, the Novel, and Sexual Modernity, awarded best second book by NAVSA. One judge, @mmvty.bsky.social, said (paraphrased): "Literally, though, how did you do this?" 🏆🔥💜

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Perhaps no period better clarifies our current crisis of digital information than the 19th century. In Digital Victorians, @pfyfe.bsky.social argues that writing about Victorian new media continues to shape reactions to digital change. www.sup.org/books/litera...

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Um. This NYT Cooking blurb is giving Moby Dick in a big way.

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if you've read verso books, please help any way you can to support the publisher in straits after a partner's bankruptcy left books change lives! www.kickstarter.com/projects/ver...

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UC Davis English is hiring this year in Global Anglophone Literatures of the Nineteenth Century. I'm chairing the search and would be very grateful for your help sharing the advertisement with excellent candidates far and wide. Thank you! joblist.mla.org/job-details/...

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The ratio quoted here is from 2023, which I assume means it indexes a time period before every untenured faculty member in the humanities was laid off. Joyner has been at the college for a year, and by next year St. Norbert will have no remaining junior faculty in the humanities.

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For the newsletter, I wrote about first days as a first practice in what we hope learning will look like.

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Teen Vogue once again bringing it www.teenvogue.com/story/ella-e...

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This is gonna be great, y'all!