'While we can’t address all of the volume’s essays in this post, together they reframe nineteenth-century Ireland by offering new theories of racialization, new approaches to colonial violence, and new understandings of Irish literary forms.'
Mary Mullen and Renée Fox discuss their new book here:
Recently published | Race, Violence, and Form is available now. One of the first in the new Studies in the Global Nineteenth Century, the book employs exciting new methods to understand nineteenth-century Irish literature and culture.
More here ⬇️
www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....
Race, Violence, and Form, co-edited with a writer of the most beautiful sentences, @cookiegoth.bsky.social, is out now. For more about the volume, see our blog post up at Liverpool UP blog:
The cover of the collection Race, Violence, and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland, edited by Renee Fox and Mary Mullen. The cover image is Abandoned (2025) by Fiona McGovern.
Very happy to find this waiting for me when I returned home from South Bend! I’ve a chapter in here on ‘Irish Gothic and Global Reading Cultures in the Long Nineteenth Century’, which was so much fun to write! I loved working with @cookiegoth.bsky.social and @marymullen.bsky.social, too!
The 2026 Festival of Monsters CFP is now available! Come talk monsters in Santa Cruz with us this October 🧛🏻♀️♥️
www.monsterstudies.ucsc.edu/2026cfp
We’re so excited that this will be out in March!
When the federal government is blockading schools at every level, shooting citizens, and kidnapping people and disappearing them, there is no other choice. Another shooting just now in Minneapolis, in case you hadn't heard.
I’m excited that The Necromantics is now out in paperback! Link in the comments if you have a loved one that would treasure a holiday gift full of reanimated corpses 🧛🏻♀️♥️
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"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe
Are you in Santa Cruz? Please join us for a monstrously good time
I had such an amazing time at Marsh’s in the spring
Is THAT what that was?? I was so confused
Free advertising for @cookiegoth.bsky.social's fabulous book
Huge congratulations!!
Our NEH K-12 Institutes grant was terminated without us even being notified (spam folders checked, no letter)—we had to go into our NEH portal to find the termination status.
Ah, mud and history… 😂
I love this so much!
This should be a really fun conversation! Please join us
Irish Poet, Eavan Boland, has just a library in @tcddublin.bsky.social named in her honour. Below is a sample of her work. www.rte.ie/news/2025/03...
We'll be celebrating St. Patrick's Day in style!
At lunch time, Mike Cronin will lecture on Ireland's Soft Power on March 17
At 5 pm, we will have a panel discussion on how Boston College navigates in 21st century Ireland
Join us on campus next Monday to celebrate!
Come to our 2025 UCSC Festival of Monsters! CFP deadline 4/1/25 🧛🏻♀️♥️
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Percy Shelley: I propose a ghost story contest! What is the SCARIEST story concept???
Mary Shelley: a guy creates another guy
Byron: I don’t get it
Mary Shelley: (*looks directly into the camera)
My textbook is finally available! 'Writing on Fire: A Fierce Yet Friendly Guide to Writing Humanities Essays in College.' There are chapters on close reading, thesis statements, all the good stuff. If you teach writing via a humanities subject, check it out! broadviewpress.com/product/writ...
Seeing ‘Translations’ in Kilmainham Gaol about 15 years ago is still one of my favourite theatrical experiences ever.
I’m so excited about this new book by my amazing colleague Kim Lau!
wsupress.wayne.edu/9780814341346/
The Humanities must firmly reject AI taking over our classrooms, our pedagogy. It’s the only way.
Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.
We're running through the copy edits! 🎉 So excited to have a volume in a series with such illustrious co-editors!
NAVSA 2025 CFP
This such an excellent CFP. @navsa2025.bsky.social
navsa.georgetown.edu
years ago the V21 Collective & Jennifer Doyle started a database of funded MA programs in English. It's still a fantastic resource for helping students find chances to remove themselves, if just for a year or two, from the maelstrom of fully commodified life
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...