Registration is now open for Crafting Your Scholarly Book, my annual summer book workshop! tiliaeditorial.com/crafting-your-scholarly-book A participant comment: "Ellen knows how to work with diverse kinds of projects and help everyone articulate their own ideas better. Dream editor to work with!"
You and me against the world!
The Bends is the best Radiohead album 😍
Steven Mintz's substack post may have gone unnoticed since he published it as the holiday season kicked in.
If you missed, it, it's very useful for anyone currently doing course planning for the spring who wants students to learn things in the dystopian era of AI substack.com/inbox/post/1...
I just read the Penguin edition of Felix Holt, and having skipped the intro for this very reason, I discovered that the ENDNOTES are RIDDLED with spoilers! Which is just... why?! 😫
The Emory Writing Program Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship application is now open! 3/3 teaching in first-year writing with opportunities to design/instruct upper-level classes in rhet/comp. Renewable up to three years. All PhDs with experience/interest in writing are welcome to apply—share widely!
It would perhaps surprise no one that I was raised with public radio as the background noise to my daily existence, so it was a singular delight getting to go on NPR to talk about Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol omny.fm/shows/in-the...
Sharing again for the Friday crowd and for all your Knives-Out-season needs.
"It is a drag, and it is drag doing the gender work expected of 007.
This year Amazon acquired full creative rights to the James Bond franchise. And as the quest for the next 007 drags on, Lauren Eriks Cline reflects on Daniel Craig's legacy in making palpable the character’s coerced masculinity.
I spent some time with "Returning the Gift" as I was writing an article on gift/contract recently--thanks for writing it, Rebecca!
Only @rcolesworthy.bsky.social can tell us if this is canon.
In my mailbox today, a book well worth reading.
Auckland university is hiring a Lecturer (that’s Assistant Prof for all you Americans) in English, specialising in the long nineteenth century, to a permanent position commencing before Semester 1, 2026 (or by negotiation). Focus is nineteenth century fiction - details below!
Last week I learned that the University system is paying for a subscription to Gemini, Google's AI, for all students, and that my purchase of two packages of blue books and a box of pencils has exhausted my office supply budget. Every budget is a moral document.
A tool that signals how far they diverge from an aspirational norm is not that useful for the task of learning that student’s unique entrance into critical thought, and any process that separates me from the difficult work of learning the student’s language is an obstacle to helping them.
"You fail to historicize," of course
New game: Read, Research, Recycle
(One you read for fun, one you research for years, one you put out with the old paper)
Bleak House, David Copperfield, Our Mutual Friend
Screenshot of the beginning of a journal article: "The eighteenth-century British moralist and belletrist nonpareil, Joseph Addison, declared somewhere in his _Spectator_ essays that 'Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind.'"
Look, there are many reasons to admire Joe Buttigieg, but this approach to citation is top 3 at least
Can we have a rule that everyone gets to do this once in their career?
Screenshot of the beginning of a journal article: "The eighteenth-century British moralist and belletrist nonpareil, Joseph Addison, declared somewhere in his _Spectator_ essays that 'Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind.'"
Look, there are many reasons to admire Joe Buttigieg, but this approach to citation is top 3 at least
New podcast! Tobias Wilson-Bates interviews Nathan K. Hensley, author of "Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse," a study of “how writers from the early phases of our prolonged climate emergency used aesthetic strategies to redefine the category of action.”
The little *thwip*s that signal a change of topic 😍. Especially the one that comes right after you mention synchrony/diachrony. "We could talk about that all day, but maybe that's not the best thing to talk about." *thwip!*
The most fun I’ve had talking about ideas in a long time. I’m so grateful to Tobias for leading this wide ranging & (for me) really energizing conversation. He is such a badass— listen for his edited-in list of the 10,000 books on Amazon abt “climate” and “hope,” one by Michael Bloomberg 🤣🙏🌿
Y'all, listen to @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social's interview of @nathankhensley.bsky.social in this Studies in the Novel podcast! It's fantastic!
www.studiesinthenovel.org/interact/pod...
bUt HeR wAlkiNg sTiCk
"It's always so funny to me when people complain," she told the magazine. "They're like, 'All she does is sing about this.' But those are the songs that you've made popular. Clearly *you* love sex. You're obsessed with it. It's in my show. There's so many more moments than the 'Juno' positions, but those are the ones you post every night and comment on. I can't control that."
Sabrina Carpenter, alias Foucault 😍
*Action without Hope: Victorian Literature after Climate Collapse* is out today! The official release got pushed back due to an issue w the art, & despite being mostly about literature it's very visual.
So to celebrate its full entry into the world, a thread of some of my favorite images from it:
arguably harder to get an assistant professor job than to become Pope, strictly going by percentage of likely candidates...
Wrapped book!
Unwrapped book! (Action without Hope)
thank you so much, @uchicagopress.bsky.social!
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I cry every. single. time. 💔
