Andrea Gadberry

👏👏👏yesssss!! Congrats!

Rümeysa Öztürk spoke briefly at a press conference held when she arrived at Logan Airport tonight.

"My dear professor and lab mates are here today. I just want to highlight that. ... My advisor sent my dissertation proposal to the prison. My lab mates have been reading me books on the phone."

Mail Art Pioneer Anna Banana Dies at 84 The artist’s playful adoption of the banana motif transformed an everyday object into a vehicle for social interaction and anti-market exchange.

Anna Banana, a trailblazing figure in mail art, performance, and alternative publishing, has passed away at 84.

NYU Admin is completely out of control, arresting faculty and community members for peacefully protesting for disclosure and divestment, declaring some of those faculty "persona non grata." Just wild.

So happy the French Republican Calendar is on Bluesky

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New this fall, the 11th and 12th books in Chicago’s Thinking Literature series: Julia Jarcho’s “Throw Yourself Away: Writing & Masochism” and Leah Middlebrook’s “Amphion: Lyre, Poetry, & Politics in Modernity.” @uchicagopress.bsky.social

We Lacanians call it Lack Friday

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A clip of an article that reads: 'Shelley also announced that Thomas Spence has joined Hachette Book Group to lead Basic Liberty, which the publisher says “will represent a wide range of conservative perspectives, focusing on topics of enduring interest rather than transitory political concerns."'

Well that didn't take long. Hachette announced two new imprints today, including Basic Liberty, an imprint which will focus on "a wide range of conservative perspectives" and is headed by a senior advisor to the Heritage Foundation named Thomas Spence.

www.thebookseller.com/news/hachett...

Ann Blair, "Notetaking" writing things down makes you smarter

Announcing a new project from me and Carla Nappi:

Humanities Seed Bank: Ideas for an Uncertain Future.

Please enjoy (it's free)... new posts each Monday. Upcoming: Caroline Levine, Reggie Jackson, Paula Krebs, lots of other interesting folks.

If you want to take part, DM me here or send email!

Digital Florentine Codex The Getty Research Institute provides global access to the Florentine Codex, considered the most important manuscript of early colonial Mexico

florentinecodex.getty.edu dang, this resource is so good and so well organized: digital Florentine Codex hosted by the Getty Research Institute

Hello Bluesky! Very excited to announce the fall lineup for the Bilkent Philosophy and Literature online speaker series, starting next Thursday with Anna Christina Ribeiro's paper, "Thinking With Poetry." Sign up to get the Zoom links here —

www.patrickfessenbecker.com/philosophy-a...

Still plenty of time to apply

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rje...

A reminder that applications are due this Friday by 23h59 EDT for Harvard's pre-1800 French and Francophone Studies tenure-track position! If you're applying and just sitting on an application that's already complete, please just submit! academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12490

omg noooo

There is the 9/11 we are told to never forget and the 9/11 we never remember because we were never taught about it in the first place.

library.brown.edu/create/moder...

#solidarity 🥶

Record low 2022 Antarctic sea ice led to catastrophic breeding failure of emperor penguins - Communi... Four out of five emperor penguin colonies in the Bellingshausen Sea, Antarctica experienced breeding failure in spring 2022 due to unprecedented sea ice loss, according to an analysis of satellite ima...

Absolutely terrible news.

Last year there was a total breeding failure at 4 of 5 studied emperor penguin colonies due to the breakup of sea-ice.

www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Classes start in one week. My plan to accomplish a summer’s worth of work starts now.

BART has gone deconstructionist

With the cuts to programs at state universities and community colleges, doctoral programs will become even more socio-economically homogenous. I was the only student in my PhD cohort from a state school. I remember the chuckles I received when I would tell folks I graduated from Boise State.

Thank you, Z!! 🎉

alex is here! 🎉 👇

Hi Bluesky, another exciting t-t opening here: pls help us publicize before the 11/1 deadline.
As @saulnoamz.bsky.social has mentioned, Comp Lit is looking for a scholar of media history/theory/archaeology who works on non-anglophone cultural traditions:
academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12720

‎Writing Latinos: Sarah Quesada: The African Heritage of Caribbean and Latinx Literature on Apple ... ‎Show Writing Latinos, Ep Sarah Quesada: The African Heritage of Caribbean and Latinx Literature - May 10, 2023

As WVU destroys its language department, I want to remind people the words of Sarah Quesada, interviewed here by Geraldo Cadava: "multilingualism is a reflection of the Global South" and not a privilege. Monolingualism is the practice of a failed empire. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...