Call for Papers: Repositioning Criminal Justice; Critical Reimaginings /
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We've got a fantastic stack of books and wonderfully talented reviewers for our next issue's Book Reviews section! Stay tuned...

Let us know on Bluesky or email us at spacebetweenbookreviews@gmail.com 😎

Registration for the BAMS/ MSA conference in Loughborough is now open! You can find the reg link on our conference website, including hotel and travel info. Please don't forget to first become a member of BAMS or MSA. The link to register for seminars and workshops is also separate this year.

Faculty, Grad Workers Left Out of Va.’s Unionization Bill Lawmakers sent the new Democratic governor a bill to end the state’s longtime ban on public workers unionizing. But faculty and grad students are excluded.

“You can’t build a world-class university on the backs of exploited faculty and graduate students.”

—Tim Gibson, Virginia AAUP President

@abigailspanberger.com,
Let’s put faculty back in the bill!

@aaupvirginia.bsky.social

Hey MSA Members! Travel grant applications for the BAMS/ MSA conference are now open. All are welcome to apply but priority is given to advanced grad students, contingent faculty, and those without institutional funding. You can find the application on our website: www.moderniststudies.org

Registration for the Weird Modernisms conference opens in ONE week. In the meantime, if you're looking for info about conference registration, hotel costs, and travel to Loughborough you can find it here: www.moderniststudies.org/conference/M...
Check back in one week to register/ book your hotel!

Here it is! The permalink to the joint letter from SUNY SA President Luca Rallis, SUNY Faculty Council of Community Colleges President Candice Vacin, CUNY University Faculty Senate Chair John Verzani, and me on state budget negotiations. Next: the link to join us!

hdl.handle.net/1951/88718

The Space Between Journal is on Bluesky! Follow us to see all the wonderful scholarship and other cool stuff we've got on 😊

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crucial coverage from The Guardian that features our collaborative, movement-building website
against-a-i.com

There are a number of #MLA27 calls for papers focused on contingent faculty — please check them out…

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Looks like cannibalism will be on the program for the joint @moderniststudies.bsky.social and @modernistudies.bsky.social conference this July!

Sooo happy our panel was accepted 😁

Heading into the weekend dreaming about the Eliot Unconference coming up soon.

March 5 and 6, both days from 10 - 11.30 am EST.

It's not too late to register to attend! Join the party, we're kinda fun really: sites.lsa.umich.edu/tseliotsocie...

@johndattridge90.bsky.social and I are so excited to be the new Editor and Assistant Editor of the @spacebetween.bsky.social journal! Check us out...and maybe review for us 😁

MSA Members, it's time to vote for new board members! Please visit this link: vote.press.jhu.edu/msa/election...

Thank you to everyone who agreed to let their name stand! And if you need to renew your MSA membership before voting, now is a perfect time to do so! You have until March 16 to vote!

Why is the Eliot Summer School ALWAYS FUN? We think it's thanks to Director Cuda and all the students! Sign up, join, come or come again to nerd out at Eliot Camp this summer 💪🤓🌻

‘Censored’: Texas A&M cancels course under new ‘race and gender ideology’ policy Texas A&M’s government and public service department alleges a professor refused to submit information about his class for review.

In a week, Texas A&M goes from censoring Plato to canceling Dr. Leonard Bright's Ethics & Public Policy course on unfounded allegations it taught "race & gender ideology."

“The message was clear: Be very afraid, no one can save you from being censored at TAMU.”

— @drleonardbright.bsky.social

Plato Has Been Censored; What Next? PEN America condemns and calls absurd Texas A&M censoring Plato readings and discussions related to race and gender

PEN America condemns educational censorship at Texas A&M after a professor is told not to teach Plato, a foundational thinker in the study of Western philosophy, merely because his writings discuss questions about love, gender, and human identity. pen.org/press-releas... #censorship #highereducation

2PM EST next Wednesday, 17 December, if you're interested in what will definitely be an outstanding event on all things spiritual, ethical, and social in T. S. Eliot's work!

If your take on "Weird Modernisms" includes cannibalism, consider submitting an abstract for an MSA 2026 panel I'd like to propose: "When Humans are On the Menu: Cannibalism and Modernity." Check it out below! @moderniststudies.bsky.social @modernistudies.bsky.social

Exciting news! The CFP for the joint MSA/ BAMS conference in Loughborough next July is out now. Because this is a joint conference in the UK, there are a number of changes to note for MSA members, including the earlier deadline (Dec. 1) for papers, panels, workshops, etc. More details at the link!

A bit of a ways off, but if T. S. Eliot is your jam: I'm speaking on this cool Zoom panel in December on "The Spiritual, Ethical, and Social Vision in His Life and Work." Check it out if you can!

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Tarot card image of the empress with a crown of stars. Text reads Weird Modernisms BAMS/ MSA 1- 4 July 2026 Loughborough University, UK

In 2026, the MSA Conference will look a bit different-- weird, even! That's because we're having a joint conference with BAMS @modernistudies.bsky.social in Loughborough, UK from July 1- 4, 2026. The CFP will be out soon! But in the meantime, please save the date.

My review of The Routledge Companion to Working-Class Literature, edited by Ben Clarke, is now live in English Studies! Such an important, timely provocative volume.
@tandfresearch.bsky.social

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

University protests blast Trump's attacks on funding, speech and international students University professors and students have led protests on campuses against what they say are broad attacks against American higher education.

“College campuses have historically been the places where these kind of conversations, these kind of robust debates and dissent take place in the United States.”

“It’s healthy for democracy. And they’re trying to destroy all of that in order to enact their vision, their depraved agenda.”

Ohio Gov. DeWine signs higher ed bill regulating classroom discussion and banning diversity efforts • Ohio Capital Journal Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed a massive higher education bill that would ban diversity and equity and prohibit faculty from striking into law into law Friday afternoon. The bill will take effect in 90 ...

Disgusting and disastrous.

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So much cuteness!!

I used the template. Fast, easy. The more of us write, the more of a chance it has being effective.

Absolutely! The link is below, and I'm happy to forward the MSA listserv email as well 😊

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