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The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans. Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

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On this 14th day of #BlackHistoryMonth, I am sharing my Anguilla Massacre project. [CW: murder, violence and anti-Blackness.] I started researching the lynching at the Anguilla prison camp in 2008. Here is a zine that tells the story: issuu.com/projectnia/d...

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Masters scholarships for Palestinian students at Sussex. Please disseminate? www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/re...

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Thrilled to share news of the publication of Sana R. Chaudhry's _Experiments in Silence: the Urdu Short Story After 1947_ in the series Modernist Constellations, which Emilie Morin and I edit for @cupress.bsky.social. Congratulations to Sana! libraries.clemson.edu/press/books/...

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Lauren and I are proposing a New Deal panel for MSA 2025. Even if you're already committed or won't be attending MSA (Boston this year), please get in touch if you're interested in this topic!

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Huzzah. The webpage for my book (including pre-order links) has gone live at Penguin Random House. Cover still TBD, though you can now read the blurb copy we agonized over for a very long time.

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"Octavia’s Bookshelf converts into a mutual aid center for neighbors displaced by the Eaton Fire." www.altaonline.com/california-b...

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When I wrote about Altadena's Janes Village for Atlas Obscura a while back, a big part of the story was how developer E. P. Janes vanished in 1926. Tragically, a century later most of his cottages have also vanished in the Eaton fire. 1/6 www.atlasobscura.com/articles/los...

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Zora Neale Hurston was born on this day, January 7, 1891. She died penniless on January 28, 1960 and was buried in an unmarked grave. This passage, from her famed 1937 novel, Their Eyes Were watching God, seems especially pertinent at this moment. 1/

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Cambridge Digital Humanities - The call for visiting fellowships for the academic year 25/26 is now open: www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/research/fel...

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NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! (Kind of) 📚💙 In honor of my late grandfather CLR James's 124th birthday, meet the new edition of his 1953 book Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways: The Story of Herman Melville and the World We live In I wrote the foreword with 🧪 in mind! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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CFP: Critical Reappraisals of the New Deal as Cultural Enterprise @laheffernan.bsky.social & I are planning a panel for @moderniststudies.bsky.social in Oct. We welcome proposals for panel papers & also from scholars interested in contributing to a potential collaborative publication Please reskeet

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CFP: Critical Reappraisals of the New Deal as Cultural Enterprise @laheffernan.bsky.social & I are planning a panel for @moderniststudies.bsky.social in Oct. We welcome proposals for panel papers & also from scholars interested in contributing to a potential collaborative publication Please reskeet

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Perfect! Irish academic steers safely through the post-conference talk interview

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12 Days to MLA; 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day One: The New Woman is White, cis-het, and imperialist. To find out what's not true, read @krbarrett.bsky.social in a special issue of Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034

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Public higher educacioun ys the infrastructure of democracye and sholde be free to all. Everyone sholde be able to pursue their intellectual vocations and career dreames, to fynde the learning thei seeke wythout the burden of debt. It ys tyme for a great reinvestment yn public higher ed.

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So the City of Miami was under a federal consent decree for 20 years that forbade them from criminalizing homelessness guess what happened during that time

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A Boston colleague (not on Bluesky) asked me to post this ad for a 2-year postdoc at Tufts on the Mellon Foundation-funded project University Ecologies and the Question of the Commons. Please forward widely! humanities.tufts.edu/postdoctoral...

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we start reviewing applications on January 6th for these two tenure-track positions in American lit

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An extraordinary dataset here: everyone who has won a literature grant from the NEA, ever. Open access and published at the Post45 Data Collective. Congratulations Xander!

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happening Monday, 9 Dec Come to our online open house! USF is a top 50 public university, ranks #22 nationally for social mobility, and is a member of the AAU. We offer a fully funded program (tuition waiver, stipend, and health benefits). Re-skeets welcome @moderniststudies.bsky.social

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Public higher ed could be a social goode for improvinge lyfe for manye and providinge a foundacioun for democracye, but both red AND blue U.S. states are cuttinge higher ed. Blue states especiallye are defunding liberal arts and humanityes that foster critical thinkinge.

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‪Is "enthusiastically" an appropriate answer when someone asks how I take my coffee?‬

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high school teacher asks: "is there a site w short videos of people describing their professions+their college major, to help guide students, show them all the different things people do?" we made humanitiesworks.org and individual depts have alumni roundtables, but got video testimonials? please RT

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Received copy of "Prisoners After War" from Jason A. Higgins @jasonhiggins.bsky.social looking forward to reading! Thank you

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50% off my book and everything else @columbiaup.bsky.social for the rest of today, including all of the titles in the Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past/Present/Future series!

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Happy anniversary to my favorite copy editor comment of all time. "You use 'long eighteenth century' a lot in this book, but each century is exactly as long as another."

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Last call, friends! @hartmann-villalta.bsky.social and I are collecting articles and books by contingent literary studies scholars for our 2024 @contingent-mag.bsky.social list. Please reply with your pubs by, say, end of day Mon, 12/2, to be included. Click through to see last year’s list.

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