At least 12 arrested after police break up peaceful protest at Ohio State University dispatch.com/story/news/loc… via Columbus Dispatch

If you are a faculty member in an institution that still has faculty governance, now is the time to show up. It doesn’t matter if you’ve never shown up before, if you don’t know how administrative things work, if you fundamentally disagree with your administration. 1/5

Is it fair to say we’re … chomping… at the bit for this Vampire Exhibition Wright State University (Dayton, OH) and Wright State COLA?

April 25th
3:00-4:45
Allyn Hall Commons

OR, hear me out: you can write just for yourself.

Savoring every sentence of an 18th-century epistolary novel? Trudging dutifully through the buzzy memoir of the moment?

Tell us about the book you're currently reading, and we might just publish it in a new monthly feature— forms.gle/dQFRGARbD9GC1y…

My top reasons to love Richard Serra:

1. His beautiful list of verbs for making art, that remains an infinite menu for overcoming creative blocks.

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The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies announces the search for the Editorin-Chief of its journal for emerging research: Studies in Eighteenth-Century Culture. Deadline for applications: April 30, 2024. asecs.org/publications/s…

I'm really looking forward to talking about public writing with Sarah Chihaya & Jennifer Wilson next Wed at 12pm EST. It's free! It's online! It's open to everyone! You should register to 'be there'! utexas.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

If you told me that Biden called for expanding tutoring and summer learning so that 'every child learns to read by third grade,' and the House Speaker DIDN'T applaud or stand up, I wouldn't believe it... so here's the video to prove it

friendly reminder to support your West Virginia journalists who don't reduce our beautiful, complicated state to tired jokes

Bless my neighbor who is trying to get rid of her EMPTY CAVIAR JARS on the local buy nothing page…

Hot off the press! Congratulations to Laura Helton (Laura Helton) on the arrival of her book, SCATTERED & FUGITIVE THINGS: HOW BLACK COLLECTORS CREATED ARCHIVES & REMADE HISTORY published in the Black Lives in the Diaspora series. rb.gy/d2px7b @columbiaUP

Does anyone out there work on the English Romantic poet Anna Seward? I just found a long letter by her in a Grangerized book I purchased, I’d be happy to share a scan once I can figure out how to safely do so!

Absolutely wild that ERASURE was originally published by the University Press of New England. In the 21st century! (2001)

Just goes to show you how important indie and university presses are.

Reading this essay yesterday was the highlight of my day. 🛸

Great news for a Thursday!
The new special issue Refusing 18th-Century Fictions, Part 1 is now available to read Project MUSE
muse.jhu.edu/issue/51979
It's a fabulous lineup, and more fantastic authors to come in Part 2 in April. Stay tuned!
#18thC entury #C18th #18thC

Stories and Recipes from Black Appalachian Cooks wnyc.org/story/stories-… via WNYC 🎙