If you haven't already, join me in wishing our colleague and comrade @rcolesworthy.bsky.social—truly the very best of us—a happy birthday, won't you?

We don't actually need to keep showing our throats to the tech bros.

Worth reading, if you haven't yet: lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-....

The Most Moral Army | Los Angeles Review of Books

Mary Turfah examines Israeli officials’ weaponization of language, particularly that of medicine, in an attempt to reframe their ongoing genocide in Gaza.

The only correct stance for any scholarly press to be taking on its own or its authors' potential use of genAI is "lol, no."

I was having a conversation about this on Twitter, and now know that Minnesota and Lever are among these publishers. If you know of others, feel free to chime in—we should probably get a list going.

This is exactly the thing, authors: to the extent that editors may seem to be critiquing or nitpicking, we are doing so with firm commitment to your projects and firm faith in your ability to find the right forms for your arguments. We would not have signed on to help with those projects otherwise.

If you haven't registered for this seminar already, you want to go do that now, trust me. Manu & Deanna are both brilliant.

MCprofchander.bsky.socialSep 21, 2024 2:29pm

if you’re interested you’re welcome to hear me and deanna koretsky talk about the bonkers novella “the black vampyre” (1819) this thursday at noon on zoom you can register at odsecs.org/future-semin... and access the novella at jto.americanantiquarian.org/wp-content/u...

Future seminars — Open Digital Seminar in Eighteenth-Century Studies

new mary shelley edition, affordable for students and edited by one of the best

I need someone to organize one conference where I can hang out with all my US colleague-friends. (Don't say MLA; I am never going to spend money to come to that.)

VICTORIAN RACE, EMPIRE, DISABILITY. Bassam Sidiki and I co-organized this roundtable and I am so excited to be in this conversation. Join us! #EVENT2024