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Wholeheartedly co-sign! The CBBS has provided me with a crucial network of professional support since my first conference in 2017. And they are fun. IYKYK.

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Early Americanists! If you’ve never attended the CBB conference, I cannot recommend it highly enough. The lack of concurrent sessions create a really wonderful sense of collective endeavor and it produces more sustained conversations. Sad to be missing this year’s!

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Still an invaluable book.

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📣 [CFP Mina Loy] @yasnabozhkova.bsky.social and I are looking forward to reading your proposals for our special issue of Feminist Modernist Studies. There's still time to send us something! ✨ @modernistudies.bsky.social – @moderniststudies.bsky.social think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu...

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Today is the day! Take a look at the CFP for the 2026 Biennial Conference of The Society of 19th-Century Americanists: UNDERGROUND www.c19society.org/2026-confere... The Conference website will go up at the end of April / early May, and submissions will be due Sept 5th.

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very excited about this ✨

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Read several big novels this year that I suspect will stick with me for a long time (James; Septology; Ducks, Newburyport), but this is the one that I can’t stop thinking about. I’m completely haunted by it. Unlike anything I had ever read.

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Well, this sure looks like a must-read for 19thC Americanists.

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Spread the word! @natewolff.bsky.social and I have extended the deadline for submissions for our Arizona Quarterly special issue on the American novel at the turn of the 20th century. New date is Jan. 2nd. azq.arizona.edu/call-papers-0

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I've tortured all of my friends and all of the websites long enough about this chapter not to share the first paragraph, now that the whole thing is fully drafted. See why this was so hard? Don't worry, I'm citing everyone on earth. This chapter gets us to the next one, on Phillis Wheatley.

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Baby’s first Marathon! Or almost. Discovered after the fact that a marathon is, in fact, 26.219. Alas!

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Need an excuse to escape the family for a while this Thanksgiving? Why not finish your essay for our special issue on the American novel at the turn of the 20th century?! There's still about a week left to submit.

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“Founded in Fiction” is out in paperback today from @princetonupress.bsky.social! I’ve learned a great deal from the responses to the book and I hope it continues to generate conversation about the history of early American fiction in this new form: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb....

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An absolute must read for anyone interested in the development of fiction in the United States!

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Emerson and Fuller's Transcendentalist journal, THE DIAL, has relaunched, thanks to the labor and love of @chrishanlon.bsky.social. I'm so honored to have an essay in the inaugural issue, where I write about climate change, Thoreau and global shipping. thedialjournal.org

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also, if you'd like to teach one class in a beautiful place and get to make work with great people, the 2026 Mary Routt Endowed Chair in Writing applications are open now 👇

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Scripps is currently searching for a writer to serve as the Mary Routt Endowed Chair in Writing for Spring 2026. Please share widely: joblist.mla.org/job-details/...

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Admittedly obscure query, but do any Wheatley or early Americanist scholars know where to learn more abt Countess of Huntingdon’s / George Whitefield’s work w coal miners? Have some primary sources & there are fleeting refs to this context in scholarship I’ve read, but I still have many questions!

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I'll be discussing a pre-circulated paper, "Colonial Print Culture in a Society with Slaves: The Example of British Jamaica,” at the Columbia Seminar on Early American History and Culture, Tuesday, November 14th, 5:30p, Faculty House It's a hybrid event, so you can join in person or on zoom

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My editor copies of Passing have arrived! The edition is gorgeous. Thanks, @broadviewpress.bsky.social!

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Happy pub day to @rafaelwalker.bsky.social's edition of Nella Larsen's Passing! George Hutchinson calls this edition of Larsen's novel "the best we have," so you'll want to be sure to treat yourself to a copy! broadviewpress.com/product/pass...

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It's pub day for my critical edition of Nella Larsen's magnificent novel, Passing! This is a novel I've been reading for more than half my life, so what a surreal experience creating this was for me. Larsen's most recent biographer calls the edition "the best we have," but find out for yourselves! 🥳

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The Scripps English department is hiring a VAP in poetry for 2024-25 (potentially renewable for 2025-26): www.scrippscollege.edu/hr/faculty/v...

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Old-ish news but I'm pretty darn pleased with it: RECEPTION v15 (2023) Special Issue, READING TIME: OR, TL; DR. I co-edited this with @ikax.bsky.social; co-authoring intro with her reminded me: writing can be exhilarating. Contributors post tk scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/reception

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The endorsements for my edition of Nella Larsen's Passing—out next month!—are public now, and I am so, so grateful for the warm endorsements from such wonderful scholars. Academia can be a snake pit sometimes, and so we relish generosity when we can get it! 💜🥰

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TT position at Scripps in Pre-1900 US History/African Diaspora and the Atlantic World: www.scrippscollege.edu/hr/faculty/t... Accepting applications through 10/15. Feel free to reach out with any questions about the position or Scripps.

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TT position at Scripps in Pre-1900 US History/African Diaspora and the Atlantic World: www.scrippscollege.edu/hr/faculty/t... Accepting applications through 10/15. Feel free to reach out with any questions about the position or Scripps.

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Oct. 15 deadline for the Hench 12 month postdoc at the American Antiquarian Society. Come work with the collections & I promise to leave you alone.

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I’ve been eagerly anticipating Duncan’s new book since I learned about it. Really excited to dig in: global.oup.com/academic/pro...

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It’s here!

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I'm excited to say that this thing I've been working on is now a thing in the world.

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Job opening U Tenn Knoxvilke: tenure-track assist prof, early American literature, esp with expertise in Indigenous studies; environmental humanities, early national politics. apply.interfolio.com/130694 by October 30, 2023.

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Random reading diary: @kqandrews.bsky.social THE ACADEMIC AVANT-GARDE: POETRY AND THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY. A delightful & clever book that has yet to get its due, written w/breezy fluency, while continually prosecuting Actual Arguments about the mattering of poetry. www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

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Sadly, I won’t be able to make it to ACLA this year—I’m bummed to miss all the great novel theory/history of the novel offerings. This seminar, in particular, looks amazing: www.acla.org/fiction-beli...

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My smart friends Danny Hack and Rachel Ablow have asked me, Bluesky pals, to help them publicize their proposed ACLA 2024 seminar, "Fiction, Belief and Disbelief." They're especially eager to get grad students involved, so please share. Abstracts are due 30 Sept. www.acla.org/fiction-beli...

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