Did I just place some interlibrary loans for these books? Yes, I did!

I use one in the office. They are terrific. Their standard model is very travel friendly, too!

The students get it.

Somehow, I currently have both.

Rituals like these offer little moments of normalcy in these insane times.

Thank you for letting me know!

Exactly. I found a long talk with my editor and then some time away to get the right frame of mind to be the most helpful.

It’s tough going in general and even tougher if you’ve written everything else.

Me: “Joanie, I have to go to work.”
Joanie:

It’s looking a bit judgy.

CFP: Close Reading, Professional Practice & Public Writing (guaranteed session MLA27). Apps due 3/16. Seminars have 15 participants, precirculated <1500wd papers, and time to workshop ideas/drafts of your newest piece of public writing. Join us! Please pass this on to anyone who might be interested!

I approve!

The reading list for next semester's Literature of Mental Illness course. I feel like I'm missing a book of poems or another play. Suggestions?

It's difficult to remember, but for every writer, there is a reader.

Have a friend or colleague who chairs a multidisciplinary humanities department? We'd like their abstract for MLA27!

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Modern Language Association Call for Papers. TEACHING DYSTOPIA IN DYSTOPIAN TIMES. This roundtable invites papers from educators at all levels who are working with dystopian texts or at restrictive institutions to share pedagogical, political, and interpretive strategies. 200-word abstracts due March 15 by email to alexander.manshel@mcgill.ca Deadline for submissions: Sunday, March 15, 2026

Calling all High School English Teachers, Professors, and Educators of all kinds!

Do you have thoughts on TEACHING DYSTOPIA IN DYSTOPIAN TIMES?

Then please join us for this roundtable at next January's MLA convention in Los Angeles!

Thanks for sharing + please get in touch with any questions!

Pedagogy – Mid Theory Collective Posts about Pedagogy written by Alec Abramson, John Downes-Angus, and Samuel P. Catlin

Reading the pedagogy column at @mid-theory.bsky.social and finding it to be quite good!

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The Michigander who now lives in Ohio is aware of the controversies surrounding this one!

I sense crusty bread nearby!

That's a good boy!

Douglas Dowland, We, Us, and Them: Affect and American Nonfiction from Vietnam to Trump Johannes Voelz; Douglas Dowland, We, Us, and Them: Affect and American Nonfiction from Vietnam to Trump, American Literary History, Volume 37, Issue 4, 1 D

A rather thorough review of my second book in the latest American Literary History Review.

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Yes!

Thinking a little more about the disgust course. I have Swift, Kafka, Sartre, and Lispector on the reading list. I don't want to do "gross" necessarily, but I would be interested in potential literary readings!

I try to time mine just a minute or so under.

This was the mainstay at my grandparents for decades.

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Very important reading in my mailbox today. @thetattooedprof.bsky.social @cnewf.bsky.social

Hugs, friend!

The department chair works out next year's schedule.

I may have made a contribution.

An exciting read has arrived! @lisadiedrich.bsky.social