Our latest #NewBookForum is out! Daniel Diez Couch, Associate Professor at the United States Air Force Academy, discusses "American Fragments: The Political Aesthetic of Unfinished Forms in the Early Republic," available from University of Pennsylvania Press.
www.g19collective.org/g19-new-book...
Our latest #NewBookForum is out! Abby Goode, Associate Professor at Plymouth State University, discusses her monograph "Agrotopias: An American Literary History of Sustainability," available now with The University of North Carolina Press.
www.g19collective.org/g19-new-book...
Two-tiered birthday cake with the letters spelling out "Power Concedes Nothing Without A Demand." Candles on top spell out "happy birthday." the top tier is bright pink and the bottom tier is rainbow sprinkles. It's really doing a lot.
Get ready for the...
🎂 Great Douglass Day Bake Off! 🎂
How to enter:
1. Bake a birthday cake!
2. Decorate it!
3. Post a photo on here or IG to #DouglassDay
Competition is going to be fierce! Learn more & see past winners: douglassday.org/bake-off/
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Get Ready for Douglass Day 2026! Fresh newsletter out today.
- Preview event on Feb 6
- New teaching resources
- Swag (trading cards are back!)
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And there's still plenty of time to register for Douglass Day 2026. All Rights for All!
Look for the people you admire, and tell them what you like about their work! No better way to connect with someone.
Save some of your Q&A questions to ask them at the coffee breaks! It is a good excuse for going up to people.
Any more tips on how to network at the 2026 C19 conference? Post them in the comments!
(2/2) Any more tips on networking at the #C19 Conference or at conferences generally? Post them in the comments!
Tips for the 2026 C19 Conference! 1. Networking
Look for other grad students on the program, and email them before the conference. They might be just as new and shy as you, so form a team in advance to know you will be in good company.
Be on the lookout for G19 staff! We can help you connect with other people.
(1/2) Here's the first in our series of tips for Graduate Students planning on attending the #C19 Conference in Cincinnati, OH, from March 12-14, 2026! Today we're looking at #networking!
You can find more info about the C19 Conference here: www.c19underground.com
Our latest #NewBookForum is live! Sarah Ensor, Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discusses her first monograph "Queer Lasting: Ecologies of Care for a Dying World," available now with NYU Press.
@plantmetaphor.bsky.social
www.g19collective.org/g19-new-book...
Thank you! We’ll fix it.
Introducing our wonderful G19 New Book Forum Team. You can find more of their work at: www.g19collective.org
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Emma Thiébaut is a PhD student at Université Paris Cité (France). She specializes in nineteenth-century US literature, animal studies and queer theory.
Michael R. Soriano is a fifth-year English PhD candidate at the University of Miami. His research focuses on the serialized print production, distribution, and consumption among 19th-century US and Caribbean radicals in the labor, abolitionist, and socialist and anarchist movements. He is also the project lead for the Radical Periodical Index, an online archive that digitizes the Chicago-based anarchist peridoical, The Alarm.
Haley Garrelts is a fourth-year PhD candidate in American Literature at Texas Tech University. Her dissertation applies a sound studies lens to American Civil War poetry, exploring how authors create (and subvert) popular portrayals of the Civil War from the home front through their poetic soundscapes. Her work has appeared in Canadian Review of American Studies.
Meet the G19 Social Media Team!
We hope you'll join us for these important conversations at #MLA26! mla.confex.com/mla/2026/mee...
If you're attending the upcoming @historians.org or @modernlanguage.bsky.social meetings, join sessions related to the Doctoral Futures initiative: https://bit.ly/3YtXXb7
I picked up three books from this fantastic sale. You can pick up my book SEARCHING FOR BLACK CONFEDERATES: THE CIVIL WAR'S MOST PERSISTENT MYTH at 50% off.
Already own it? That's OK. Send a copy to your neo-Confederate uncle. uncpress.org/978146965326...
Volume 41, Number 2, 2024 of Legacy is online! 🎉 You can find the entire issue here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/53522 ! We'll be covering each piece and why you should reach them in the coming days!
Max Chapnick & I are proud of this forum commemorating the 150th anniversary of Louisa May Alcott's novel _Work_. Six innovative authors offer insights on C19 gender & labor in literature, very needed as we stand on the precipice of a new Gilded Age & a nadir of modern gender justice. Open Access! 🧵
#TBT NBF:
Dr. Kelly Ross, @kellyross910.bsky.social, Jun 2024:
In *Slavery, Surveillance, & Genre,* Ross traces detective fiction’s roots in 19th-c. race, genre, and gender, showing how African Americans used “sousveillance” to resist white surveillance. ⬇️
www.g19collective.org/g19-new-book...
Our latest #TeachingC19 essay is published! Read Erica Stevens, Ashley Rattner, and Julia Tigner collectively reflect on how pedagogy rigorously and responsibly engages online modalities and digital technologies during the age of "enshittification."
www.c19society.org/teachingc19a...
The cover of Eric Gardner’s Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Civil War and Reconstruction. On a blue background, the largest portion of the cover reproduces a C19 engraving of African American author-activist Frances Ellen Watkins Harper found in William Still’s 1872 The Underground Rail Road. The portrait shows her head and upper body. She is wearing traveling clothes, and she is in three-quarters profile, facing to the left. Her hair is pulled back in her signature chignon, and she looks ahead with wisdom and determination. The engraving lines can be seen throughout the portrait, especially on her skin and her dress. A mostly-opaque yellow rectangle rests perhaps two-thirds of the way down the cover below Harper’s chin and neck. Here, inside a thin brown border, the words “Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s” are offered in brown all caps, followed by the words “Civil War and Reconstruction” in smaller white all caps, followed by a partial centered line, followed by the author’s name in smaller brown all caps.
The daily barrage of evil made me hold back on a cover reveal, but maybe this is the day. Out later in 2025, this book, like 7000+ books & so many other rich projects, would not exist without the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities. These stories must be told & we must save the NEH.
#TBT NBF:
Dr. R.J. Boutelle, @rjboutelle.bsky.social, Jul 2024:
In *Race for America,* Boutelle argues that African Americans challenged “manifest destiny” to rearticulate the terms of national expansion in the antebellum period of the United States. ⬇️
www.g19collective.org/g19-new-book...
Don't forget that in a couple of days you can attend this incredible-sounding pre-panel for the 2025 SSAWW conference! Just click on the link below!
#TBT NBF:
Dr. Thomas Koenigs, @tomkoenigs.bsky.social, Jul 2024:
In *Founded in Fiction,* Koenigs argues that Early US literature was far more diverse in its applications and served more purposes than simply the aesthetic or artistic. ⬇️
www.g19collective.org/g19-new-book...
What an amazing collection. If you’re interested in Black print in all its forms this is a volume you will savor. Thanks to the editors @brigfield.bsky.social and @jsench.bsky.social
My essay is now available in its online version through the Journal of the Bible and its Reception. Apparently they publish them first this way and then in whatever issue of the journal it’ll be in later this year. I’m so glad to see this one out in the world.
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Read free thru 31 March Tracing the Tradition of the “Wheatley Poem”: 1773, 1973, 2023, and Beyond From the Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival 50th Anniversary: A Special Issue of Callaloo Illustrated with a portrait of Phillis Wheatley attributed to Scipio Moorhead
In Callaloo's Phillis Wheatley special issue, Laura Vrana traces an intergenerational call-and-response conversation between “Wheatley poems" in which poets treat her as a central topic and conjure her as a major literary figure
Read free thru 31 March: tinyurl.com/wvrjsdrn
With the CFP out, we are well on our way towards the C19 Conference in Cincinnati, OH on March 12-14, 2026! Please consider donating to our Travel Fund for C19 members with limited access to travel funding, especially graduate students and contingent faculty.
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Today is the day! Take a look at the CFP for the 2026 Biennial Conference of The Society of 19th-Century Americanists: UNDERGROUND
www.c19society.org/2026-confere...
The Conference website will go up at the end of April / early May, and submissions will be due Sept 5th.
We have a cover! Forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press this fall!
Still looking for submissions to this @melville-society.bsky.social MLA panel!
Hey don't forget about this hot (or cold, as you wish) CFP for MLA26 @c19americanists.bsky.social @melville-society.bsky.social
How did the environmental violence of the #AmericanRevolution affect Hudson River farming families and alter the region’s gender dynamics? Read #EAS #Winter2025 article “Ravage the Country” by Blake McGready here: doi.org/10.1353/eam....