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Victorian Poetry is thrilled to announce a new open-access special issue, “Transition and Transformation.” Guest edited by Erik Gray, it features contributions by Florence Boos, Mary Ellis Gibson, @lindakhughes.bsky.social , Britta Martens, & Herbert F. Tucker. muse.jhu.edu/issue/53644

Bridget V. Franco explores a digital humanities project amplifying Afro-descendant representation in Latin American cinemas through the curation of resources that center Black voices, experiences, and communities Read free in Hispania through 28 Feb tinyurl.com/55yr89v6

Austen is not interested in fostering illusion...She has designed the ends of her novels to push us out of her artificial world back out into a world that requires even more of us. —Alexandra Mullen reviews Jane Austen and the Price of Happiness by Inger Brodey, from JHU Press tinyurl.com/3pfpamfe

"If you haven't read Moby-Dick, that's your first mistake!" Thanks for the morning laugh, @melville-society.bsky.social! Check out their @celj.bsky.social-award winning journal, Leviathan! muse.jhu.edu/issue/52401 Here's a free issue to get you started:

📣 SEL is pleased to announce the publication of our Winter 2025 issue, 63,1! From early modern feminist bibliographic work to an interview with a curator at The Huntington, SEL's new issue on The English Renaissance has something for everyone 🎉 read now on ProjectMUSE https://buff.ly/4hRbzpa

Higher Ed book of the day: Arthur Levine & Scott Van Pelt’s THE GREAT UPHEAVAL: Higher Education's Past, Present, and Uncertain Future www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... @hopkinspress.bsky.social @brandeisuniversity.bsky.social

Out now, THE KHAYYAM SUITE, a rich collection of #poems inspired by the #Persian lyric tradition, written by Charles Martin and published by @hopkinspress.bsky.social . Available in Europe from your local bookshop! Trade orders and media copies @oxfordpublicity.bsky.social.

Is “Penal Violence in Spaces of Precarity” by Gail Super examines the malleability of violence by analysing the connections between law and violence in: 1. Violence by civilians in informal settlements 2. Unlawful violence by the police 3. Excessive violence 🔗: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

Following up on Gail Super’s article on “Penal Violence in Spaces of Precarity,” this #TBT we are revisiting our Fall 2000 issue “Violence.” The articles in this issue observe human violence from three perspectives: ideas, behavior, and relation. Find here: www.jstor.org/stable/i4004...

Tsz Ting Yan analyzes Punch’s representation of the Opium War not only as a response to foreign affairs but also as a form of domestic sociopolitical expression. Read it in the latest issue of VPR: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.bsky.social

Steven Trout examines the political meaning of Caspey Strother's US Army uniform in Faulkner's Flags in the Dust, and how the novel undermines the connection between military attire and citizenship Read free in Mississippi Quarterly through 28 Feb tinyurl.com/544hh67c

📰 People are calling for a so-called unity government to stem the violence in Mozambique. But there is a better way to set the country on the right course. www.journalofdemocra...

Celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth on MUSE with these featured journals and many other books and an array of content! #ReadUP and #Discover #History 📜 here 👉 bit.ly/fBlackHistory

Announcing The Yale Review Festival 2025! ✨ Join us for four days of workshops, readings, talks, and conversations. Details and schedule: yalereview.org/festival

Building on political autobiography work of Margo Perkins, Angela Y. Davis and Dylan Rodríguez, Patrick Elliot Alexander reflects on "the post-Black Power neo-abolitionist memoir" Read free in College Literature thru 28 Feb tinyurl.com/muvz8s37

SEL has published our first issue of 2025! Please do check out its smart English Renaissance essays and one of our first features in the new Living Discourse Initiative---"SEL: The Interview" with Joel A. Klein, Curator at The Huntington. #AcademicSky @hopkinspress.bsky.social bit.ly/3QrWw97

Edited by Florian Grosser and Monica Bravo, "Another Revolution" is framed "against the foil of the ambiguous political [and] contested intellectual history of revolutions": "this cluster examines the specific phenomenality of profound, pervasive change." modernismmodernity.org/forums/anoth...

Carolyn Betensky examines how Sylvanus Urban, the fictional editorial persona of the Gentleman’s Magazine, “embodied, in his disembodied fashion, a fundamental principle of miscellaneity itself.” Read it in the latest issue of VPR: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.bsky.social

How do manager-worker coalitions act as the most powerful antidote to privatization? January @worldpolitics.bsky.social authors Isabel Perera and Trevor Brown answer this and more in The Storied Teller. @isabelmperera.bsky.social @cornelluniversity.bsky.social wpj.princeton.edu/storied-tell...

Announcing the new SCS Award for Excellence in Academic Advising! The award recognizes programs and departments which actively and positively shape students’ lives and careers through purposeful and sustained advising activities. Applications are due June 1! www.classicalstudies.org/awards-and-f...

In honor of London Fashion Week, here are two past articles “ReFashioning Men: Fashion, Masculinity, and the Cultivation of the Male Consumer in Britain, 1860-1914” muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl... or “Clothing Napoleonic History in Vanity Fair and the Trumpet Major” muse.jhu.edu/pub/3/articl...

Publication klaxon 🎺: Bridget Vincent of ANU English has a recent article out in Modern Fiction Studies: "Olga Ravn and the Logic of the Lyric Essay", vol. 70 no. 3. Congratulations Bridget! 🥳 🥳 🥳 muse.jhu.edu/article/942200

Great to hear Dr. Peter Hotez talk about combatting dengue in creative and scalable ways. He’s a hero! theworld.org/segments/202... #PublicHealth @hopkinspress.bsky.social @bcmhouston.bsky.social

My higher ed book of the day: Smart University: Student Surveillance in the Digital Age by Lindsay Weinberg www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... @purdueuniversity.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social #academicsky #TechJustice

Noel Sloboda reviews Harrisburg Shakespeare Company’s 2024 production of The Comedy of Errors, dir. Kelli Kauterman. 🎭: www.paonstage.com/shows/2024/h... 📰: muse.jhu.edu/article/945047 📷: John Bivens

Read the guest editors' intro for Christianity & Literature's special issue on Christianity and African American Literature, with the admonition "to have an attitude toward history, one must first be written into it" Free thru 28 Feb tinyurl.com/ybn84jys

Read @alexorengog.bsky.social's review of National and Transnational Memories of the Kindertransport in the new German Studies Review! muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @thegsa.bsky.social

Taking a community-informed approach, researchers assessed attitudes toward opioid use treatment among D.C. residents, finding that effective engagement must address community experience & leadership Read free in Progress in Community Health Partnerships tinyurl.com/y2bfjvjn

Evan Mawarire, a Zimbabwean pastor, posted a video to Facebook in April 2016 voicing his frustration at the poverty, corruption, and repression brought by longtime dictator Robert Mugabe. It struck a chord. Read an excerpt from Mawarire’s new memoir here: www.journalofdemocra...

Matthew Stephens @c19thnewshound.bsky.social argues that short-lived newspapers, often overlooked as the expected casualties of a developing industry, were actually a significant proportion of the 19th century’s press. Read it in VPR 57.1-2: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... @rs4vp.bsky.social

The SCS Abstract and Proposal Submission System is open! For the 2026 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, the deadline for all submissions is Monday, April 7 at 12:00 pm ET. Learn more: classicalstudies.org/annual-meeti...

In Hispania, Jacob Brown proposes a novel author presentation approach to better empower language educators in teaching Afro-Latin American literature in intermediate and novice-level Spanish courses Read free through 28 February tinyurl.com/sfxwe3tm

"Greedy Science," edited by Michael D. Gordin and W. Patrick McCray, examines how greed reshaped the global scientific community through the relentless pursuit of money, fame, and celebrity. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

Take a look back at a 1967 review article from former @worldpolitics.bsky.social editor, Henry Bienen, in which Bienen reviews two books, one of which was authored by scholar Martin Kilson. #BlackHistory www.jstor.org/stable/2009731

This Thursday at 11am CST, join Library Trends in celebrating the legacy of scholar/mentor Mary Niles Maack Featuring presentations from the journal's recent special issue devoted to Maack (free to all through the end of February) Info/register: tinyurl.com/44nxur7v

My higher education book of the day: David Staley’s brilliant Alternative Universities — what would you build if you could start over? www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... @davidstaley8.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social #AcademicSky

By the insightful Rachel Toor: Why Should Faculty Bother With AI? www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in... with Jose Antonio Bowen and Eddie Watson @hopkinspress.bsky.social

Have you heard? Now through 2/26, save 30% on select history books, including "I Dread the Thought of the Place" and "Abraham Lincoln: A Life" and get free shipping on $50+ orders with code HIST25. 📚 View full terms and details on our website. www.press.jhu.edu/books/histor...

In "White Coats, White Hoods" Jacqueline Antonovich explores the medical politics of the Ku Klux Klan as eugenics gained a foothold in America at the turn of the 20th century Read free in Bulletin of the History of Medicine thru 28 February tinyurl.com/7myfbfx2

MLN is now accepting general submissions for their 2025 comparative literature issue -- deadline April 1 Contact [email protected] with questions about submission guidelines About MLN: press.jhu.edu/journa... Submit: mc.manuscriptcentral...

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Journal of College Student Development Volume 66, Number 1, January/February 2025 tinyurl.com/4f9u4b82

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW The Review of Higher Education Ahead of Print tinyurl.com/yw483unn

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Studies in Romanticism Volume 63, Number 4, Winter 2024 tinyurl.com/fdznk9nd

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW ariel: A Review of International English Literature Volume 56, Number 1, January 2025 tinyurl.com/3vrpnrcf

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved Volume 36, Number 1, February 2025 tinyurl.com/59es3eyy

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Human Rights Quarterly Volume 47, Number 1, February 2025 tinyurl.com/449ymdcf

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Victorian Periodicals Review Volume 57, Number 1 & 2, Spring/Summer 2024 tinyurl.com/3aea53hw