I am a PhD sociologist who works outside academia and I approve this message.

Getting a PhD and then working outside academia is dope. My advisees who’ve done that are more or less uniformly happy and feel that they’re using the skills they trained on. (I talked to one today who just landed a great gig). Just wanted to convey that to anyone it might benefit.

This makes me so happy and proud 😭

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Grateful to Alice Jorgensen and JEGP for this lovely review of my first book: muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...

They very much do! There's a whole forum dedicated to OE, and others dedicted to Middle English, Old Norse, Chaucer, etc!

and more. Send a 300-word proposal and CV to saltzman@chicago.edu and Heather.Maring@asu.edu by 15 March, 2026.

Please note that all accepted presenters must be members of MLA by 7 April, 2026. (6/6)

and represented the exercise of agency. Papers might address issues in early English texts regarding the exercise of the will, representations of gender, concepts and clichés of medieval communal identities, ideas of political and legal agency, non-human agency, (5/6)

Agency and Subjection in Early Medieval England

This session invites papers on agency and subjection in early English literature. Scholarship in the last 15 years has reconceived how we understand medieval subjectivity and affect, enabling new interrogations of how medieval writers understood (4/6)

materials, but also those that engage materials in other languages and literary traditions. Send a 300-word proposal and CV to saltzman@chicago.edu and Heather.Maring@asu.edu by 15 March, 2025.

Please note that all accepted presenters must be members of MLA by 7 April, 2025. (3/6)

Speaking One Way, Meaning Another

This session invites papers on techniques and theories of allegory, capaciously understood to include ways of speaking on multiple levels, double entendre, dissimulation, riddles, modes of integumentum, etc. Open to papers that engage with Old English (2/6)

The MLA Old English Forum is now accepting paper proposals for the 2027 annual meeting, 7-10 January. We’re accepting 300-word proposals for two guaranteed sessions until March 15, 2026 for 15-20 minute papers. Please share widely!! And don’t hesitate to get in touch with any questions. (1/6)

International Fellowships 2026 The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce. Funding status Open for applications Career stage Early-career

Please help spread the word on this, especially to those who may be feeling cold winds towards their research.

We’ve opened the call for our International Fellowships, enabling early career researchers to work for two years at a UK research institution
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/sche...

Feeling immensely grateful at the end of this tough year. I got tenure, was humbled to receive generous recognition from colleagues, and got some exciting professional news in the last few weeks. There's so much work to do but most of the people I get to do it with are pretty great.

This came out earlier this week! Thank you so much to Yale University Press for all their efforts getting it to publication.

Oh well. I am making my claim and every author should.

RIC - it's not huge but it's incredibly efficient, honestly makes life so much easier flyrichmond.com/richmond-int...

But also, the fact that my first run at a Beowulf seminar, during plague lockdown, went as well as it did was entirely thanks to y'all being such a fantastic group, and I think about you all a lot, actually.

Understood as interrogating assertions of "standard" Modern English, I'd say it's a practice worthy only of "lof," that is, praise :D

Check out this excerpt of the brilliant @addieisunwieldy.bsky.social 's monograph, "Straight White Men Can't Dance," forthcoming from Bloomsbury in September!!

(the black hole here, too, is how can you possibly evaluate the analysis that your LLM produces if you are not trained to interpret, analyze, historicize?) everything is amazing if you know nothing

The Kool-Aid Man is often depicted with a smaller pitcher of Kool-Aid: himself.

This recursive image invites a layered semiotic reading destabilizing the boundaries between subject and object, container and contained, body and commodity, to highlight a profound paradox in capitalist symbolism of

Harvard is offering 558 free classes, including but not limited to "We the People: Civic Engagement in a Constitutional Democracy", "American Government: Constitutional Foundations", and "U.S. Political Institutions: Congress, Presidency, Courts, and Bureaucracy."
Thank you Harvard!! 👏👏👏

Why is it that BlackRock is doing a better job defending the value of the liberal arts than most actual higher education administrators?

12 UC Berkeley students' visas restored by ICE in nationwide reversal At UC Berkeley, 12 students have had their status restored today after 23 were terminated since April 4.

One of the happiest updates I’ve written since I started following this story. 12 students back in status and maybe more to come. Across the country, students are saying their SEVIS is back.

www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

Glad to see that it's not too hot today, nor too cold - you really only need a light jacket

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Literary Form in Early Medieval England - free to download for five more days! Please share! doi.org/10.1017/9781...

Disco Elysium (OST) - Full + Tracklist | British Sea Power [Original Game Soundtrack] YouTube video by Kami Gawa

I don't know who needs to hear this but the Disco Elysium soundtrack is fantastic for grading.

Thank you so much for sharing!!