This is so cool! I'm smitten by this info: the contract "was written out twice on a large piece of parchment that was then cut in half along a wavy or tooth-shaped line" so they could be fitted back together to confirm their authenticity.
As the spring admission tour crowds grow, I remember sitting at a hotel breakfast with other families on college move-in day and thinking, this feels so familiar.
10 Austen quotes to show college admission is the new 19th c marriage market:
www.underrevision.com/blog/post/23... #janeausten #college
Beautiful reading of this poem by Danusha Lameris. For those who want to read the original it’s at poets.org/poem/small-k...
In honor of Habermas, a meme I made
We are hiring a Membership Specialist in the Department of Organizing and Services.
Full consideration of applications will be given to those submitted by March 26.
Details here:
I think about this book at least once a day
I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.
Oxford U.P. is looking for proposals for the series Race in Nineteenth-Century Literatures and Cultures. Go for it! :)
Read this - the best analysis of Scrooge I’ve seen!
We are hiring ....
Because John Nightingale is retiring...
for a Tutorial Fellowship in European History 400-1000...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQP650/t...
Early medievalists! Come join us at Magdalen College, Oxford: apply for this permanent job by 27 March. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQP650/t...
look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british
Photo of a skull in a golden box on an altar
Roses are red,
They look nice on a shrine
Here is the skull,
Of St. Valentine.
(Photo taken in Rome’s Chiesa di Santa Maria in Cosmedin of the relic of the 3rd Century martyr, a cleric who ministered to persecuted Christians and could apparently restore sight to the blind.)
Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin
If you’re around NYC 6 March and want to chat about care, vulnerability, and the Gothic, you should truck down to the Columbia Irish Studies Seminar
📣 We’re hiring!
Cornell University Press is seeking a Director of Editorial, Design, and Production. A key role at the heart of scholarly publishing.
🔗 Details + application: cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree...
CFP: CUNY English Student Association Graduate Conference on Beauty, Pleasure, Value. Proposal deadline 2/20.
A hero and lady justice
Ok, I’m in tears now. Our era has its anthem. Thank you, Bruce.
Hearing folks are bummed they missed the Eyes on ICE training - but good news, it's all recorded and public! We'll be holding more live trainings soon, but if you aren't one of 200,000 who already watched it, find it here: www.youtube.com/live/zqka9fU...
Beautifully put, and absolutely right.
Residency for two emerging writers to explore the feminist archive at Nottingham Women's Library.
Details in link.
Please share :)
Job posting: Public Affairs Specialist @ Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Closes: February 13, 2026; Salary: $85,447 - $111,087
Never forget that it was decentralized, autonomous, grassroots direct action that achieved this victory.
Not politicians, parties, or petitioning.
Let this be the first in a series of victories in which we drive out all the forces of repression and tear down all the structures of oppression.
Jews in Minneapolis are holding a Havdalah service tonight (7:30-8 pm ET) to come together as a Jewish community to find hope and strength in our tradition.
Join them here to separate the sacred from the profane:
templeisrael.zoom.us/j/81682319533
From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now):
-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.
You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.
In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.
The clergy just keep coming to this anti-ICE protest.
Genuinely unclear where they all will go — it’s packed outside on the sidewalk already.
📣 Calling all experts on 18th-century Britain! Apply for this fantastic job by 15 Feb. 📣
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE665/a...
Birkbeck, University of London, is seeking a Lecturer in Medieval Studies to join our dynamic team within the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Autumn 2026. As Lecturer in Medieval Studies you will contribute to the teaching of Medieval English literature and Medieval history across the Faculty, within our School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication, and School of Historical Studies - this includes our BA English and BA History programmes, as well as postgraduate taught programmes in the two subject areas. This post is offered on a permanent contract at Birkbeck, full time 35 hours per week, with a salary of £44,247 rising to £60,858 per year. Teaching hours will vary from 6pm - 9pm, Monday to Friday. To be successful, you will bring research expertise in the literature, history and culture of the Late Medieval period (c.1300-1500), and demonstrate a capacity to contribute to interdisciplinary research and teaching, participate actively in curriculum development, supervise doctoral students, and help shape the intellectual life of our vibrant academic community. We would also welcome applicants who would be able to contribute to collaborative teaching programmes or research in the Faculty, in areas such as identity, race/ethnicity, or gender - experience of collaboration with cultural institutions, whether through research or teaching, is also welcome. Core responsibilities will initially include programme/module administration, teaching, supervision, assessment, student support and pastoral care. You will also be equipped to supervise doctoral students. With a PhD in any area of Medieval Studies, you will contribute the Faculty’s and Schools’ research impact and culture, and to the intellectual and cultural life of the institution and the various communities and partners with whom we work and serve.
Birkbeck is hiring a Lecturer in Medieval Studies (c.1300-1500), full-time and open-ended.
They will be formally based in English but expected to be able to contribute about 0.5FTE to History, including teaching and supervision.
Closing date Feb 23rd: cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/lect...