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In case you missed the last reminder, the deadline for workshop and seminar submissions is now in SIX days: March 15. Panels, papers, and roundtables are due on April 5. Don't miss the deadlines if you want to join the MSA 2025 conference in Boston!

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We badly need as many “future of the regional public university” essays and “criticism and the community college” symposia as we can get (so long as they’re written by scholars at those institutions).

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Everything about this look is wonderful. We need more good fashion content on this site, so take note, everyone.

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Speaking from experience: if you’re taking a sick day and need some comfort viewing, this will be amply rewarding.

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The first MSA 2025 CFP deadline is in just ten days, and this account won't shut up about it until all the deadlines have passed! So don't forget to submit proposals for workshops and seminars by MARCH 15. Panel, individual paper, and roundtable proposals are due in exactly one month on APRIL 5.

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Did you publish a book of criticism in 2024? We’re awarding a prize to the best book on the contemporary arts—broadly conceived, and from anywhere in the world!

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The Seth covers are such a perfect design choice for this series.

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It's abstract submission time for NAVSA and MSA 2025! And this year you could theoretically attend both. Proposals for workshops and seminars are due in 11 days for MSA 2025 too, and proposals for panels, papers, and roundtables are due in about a month!

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Comics and Graphic Narrative Forum CFP for MLA26. Panels on: —Canadian Comics —Adaptation and Opposition Through Comics —Comics and Genocide Deadline: 3/15

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Decent people thank Ukraine.

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I took this photo, of a supply drive for Ukraine in Żoliborz, Warsaw, exactly three years ago yesterday. Posted for obvious reasons.

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Absolutely cannot wait two years for this.

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I had completely forgotten about how good these are.

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Another MSA-sponsored CFP for MLA: calling all modernists AND early modernists for Doing Modernism with the Early Moderns / Doing Early Modernism with the Modernists. Submit abstract by March 15 to Kate Schnur: Kate.Schnur (at) qc.cuny.edu 1/

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Joy has been in short supply of late, but the start of Spring Training, and now the start of the MLS season, is offering some small, necessary relief.

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Friends, my favorite comic shop is on BlueSky! Give @myp-comics.bsky.social a follow.

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I believe this one at my core.

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We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

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English students for me, but exactly the same sentiment.

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Remembering Jules Feiffer: notes from his friends, colleagues and admirers www.tcj.com/remembering-...

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Took a family poll and we’re hopelessly deadlocked. Mammoth is a good, obvious choice, but a hyper-local name like Wasatch is intriguing.

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Comics studies folks! Nominations for Comics Studies Society (@cssorg.bsky.social) awards are now open! Please note that eligibility has been extended to include work from both 2023 and 2024. Submit your excellent work now! #comics comicsstudies.org/prizes/

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Time to revisit the Utah Black Diamonds, which, of the original name ideas, was criminally underrated.

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One more note about this call for an MSA ombudsperson: nominees can also be in academic-adjacent positions or former academics too. As long as they're familiar with academic conferences and able to attend the conference, they would be a viable candidate. Please DM with any questions.

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Not the only ones by a long shot, but all books I read at very specific times, where nothing was quite the same after having done so.

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The MSA is seeking nominations for its inaugural ombudsperson. The person doesn't have to be an MSA member, as long as they're familiar with academic organizations like the MSA. www.moderniststudies.org/about/ombuds/

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My resolution to buy fewer things this year is already taking a hit.

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Why are university presses important? A thread 🧵

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Today at @comicsjournal.bsky.social , read an extensive and exhaustively researched obit for Jules Feiffer, one of THE towering figures of American cartooning. www.tcj.com/writer-carto...

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CFP: Canadian Comics. Abstracts due 3/15. 🇨🇦

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Branch regional public universities are such a core part of the infrastructure of American higher ed, bringing the best of what we do to every community. And the support is collapsing - and it’s a choice, not an inevitability.

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One of my favorite things about my Seattle summers: @rlevay.bsky.social and I going to see him play as often as we could. The greatest.

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Taking a moment to offer my gratitude to everyone working on peer reviews right now—seemingly thankless work, but invaluable if done well. I needed some good news today, and a set of sharp, insightful reviews did the job. Good readers, critical but supportive of a work’s larger aims, are the best.

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Jules Feiffer completely innovated political cartoons, expanding beyond one-panel punchlines and visual tropes by featuring ordinary people, often in monologue, being riled, resigned, grousing—and dancing. Straight up one of the best to ever do it.

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Goodbye to Jules Feiffer, one of the best, most distinctive cartoonists we’ve ever had.

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