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Pride flag in a window

Good morning from Boston University. Pride flags EVERYWHERE

Good thing you got the hell outta there!

A History of American Gay Autobiography | Cambridge University Press & Assessment

www.cambridge.org/et/universit...

Book cover: THE BARBARA JOHNSON COLLECTIVE, edited by Devin M. Garofalo & Nathan K. Hensley — in black font, against a Barbie pink background, design inspired by 80s literary theory book series.

Promotional flyer for THE BARBARA JOHNSON COLLECTIVE. Includes image of cover, description of book, editor bios, and brief promotional blurb by Heather K. Love: “This book makes clear why language, thought, and writing matter, now more than ever.” Discount code: NUP2026. All information included in the flyer, plus more, can be found at the linked website.

THE BARBARA JOHNSON COLLECTIVE has a cover, a website, and is available for preorder! (Use code NUP2026 for a discount.) See the full contents at the link below — lucky to be part of this extraordinary project and excited to see it in print this fall! ✨🔥 nupress.northwestern.edu/979889948066...

Photo of me holding aforementioned book and grinning intemperately.

Just got my copy of this banger, edited by David Bergman and Guy Davidson and including essays by many hands, including one from yours truly on Walt Whitman! And I promise that the book—dealing though it does with gay men AND autobiography—is not as solipsistic as it sounds.

Hey! Is the dream of the 90s (sustained ambitious attention to the fin de siècle American novel) alive?

Yes! In this AzQ special issue @rafaelwalker.bsky.social and I co-edited with intro by us & afterword by Jennifer Fleissner 😎

Open access! @hopkinspress.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/issue/56582

Read this the whole special issue of Arizona Quarterly for free!

#S2O #OpenAccess at @projectmuse.bsky.social

muse.jhu.edu/issue/56582

Not sure how I missed this, but 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

muse.jhu.edu/issue/56582?...

Our special issue of Arizona Quarterly on the American novel at the turn of the 20th century is now out! In addition to an intro by @natewolff.bsky.social and me, it includes 6 original essays and a bracing afterword by Jennifer Fleissner (which, among other things, urges us back to Lears).

muse.jhu.edu/issue/56553

Our special issue for @j19journal.bsky.social honoring Frances E.W. Harper's 200th birthday is now out! It features *8* terrific essays on intriguing facets of Harper's work and concludes with a stirring afterword by @profkori.bsky.social.

@dark-stars.bsky.social
@c19americanists.bsky.social

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

Jfc, are you the only person, much less PhD, who didn’t look awkward in high school?!

One of the things I looked forward to most about writing my first book was giving people something to comment on besides my height, and here I am missing my first MLA post-publication. But Toronto in January? Toront-NO!

As I said on the other app, so again here: Thank you, friend, for this encouraging blurb, and let us hope the book lives up to your high praise! #grateful

Application deadline extended to Jan. 5th. This is a great position whose terms are sweeter than HR will permit us to disclose in the ad, but please feel free to get in touch with me with any questions. Thanks to all for helping to spread the word.

Realism after the Individual A study of the transformation of the realist novel in the hands of early-twentieth-century American writers, who adapted this quintessentially nineteenth-century genre to the conditions of their age. ...

My book, Realism after the Individual: Women, Desire, and the Modern American Novel, is now out with @uchicagopress.bsky.social! Use discount code UCPNEW for 30% off. I'm so excited! 🥳
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

This is madness. And, at a university where the provost is using dreadful phrases like "people who truly ‘visioned’ the potential synergies and multipliers in opportunities," the *last* thing they can afford to get rid of is the English department!

Proofs for the Cambridge History of American Gay Autobiography, which includes my essay on Whitman! As niche as the volume sounds, I'm sure it'll appeal widely—because who doesn't wanna read generations of gays talking about themselves, or, in Whitman's case, as I argue, artfully refusing to?!

Let me know, my dear, and I'll make the reservations. This probably will be our least-cynical meeting ever because I haven't felt this confident about our collective future since 2008.

I'm over here doing the jelly roll and everything else I can think of! I think it's time for you to make another NYC visit, and, this time, the wine and snacks are one me—especially since I may now be able to afford to live here! 🙌🏾

I can't tell you how significant it is that Manhattan went for our boyfriend Mamdani. When, in these streets, I found white, often straight finance bros rooting for ZM, I knew we had something. People are understanding that voting for their economic interests doesn't mean voting for their tax breaks

I am so thrilled—really! But how long do we have to keep saying that it's high time to vote Staten Island *off* the island! We just are not the same.

Tens of Thousands of White-Collar Jobs Are Disappearing as AI Starts to Bite Companies ranging from Amazon to Target are sending workers into an unwelcoming market.

Paired with this one:
www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

How U.S. Billionaires Stack Up With the Rest of the World There are 3,508 billionaires on the planet. Americans dominate their collective wealth.

These two stories in today's WSJ make it clear that we all should be reading the Grapes of Wrath right now and make me all the surer about having cast my (early!) vote for Mamdani this morning.

This one:
www.wsj.com/business/bil...

Jobs | City University of New York

Our Black & Latino Studies Department is hiring a tenured associate professor in black and/or Latino queer studies (open discipline)! I'm so excited about this hire—excited enough to have agreed to serve on the search committee! Please spread the news. Baruch's great, and so is NYC!

Opinion | When Viewpoint Diversity Means Conformity Trump’s compact isn’t just coercive. It’s incoherent.

A clear-eyed explanation of the dangers to universities posed by the push for "viewpoint diversity," written by one of the clearest-eyed analysts of argumentation, Amanda Anderson.
www.chronicle.com/article/when...

And stay tuned for one more while we await the ad to come through!