We are so happy to have your chapter in this collection. I've been thinking about it since you first presented on this topic at Trieste.

@samslote.bsky.social -Sam, are you able to help with this one?

**Undergraduate CFP**
The Rock Creek Review has extended its deadline for the 2025 issue until Feb 1. See website for submission guidelines.

Colleagues, please encourage your students to submit their best lit. papers from the Fall.
Share freely! (thank you!)

inside.heidelberg.edu/departments-...

If you left the trolley go straight, you'll have 5 sets of pockets to check. Might even come out ahead.

My LGBTQ+ LIT course next semester filled so quickly, they game me a second section. ...of a LIT course. This has never happened before.

**Call for Papers**
The Rock Creek Review
"Reading the Unreal"

This year’s issue seeks undergraduate essays analyzing literature in which the reader must confront the unreal and suspend their disbelief.

Please Share Freely

Submission guidelines and link here: inside.heidelberg.edu/departments-...

AS Byatt, author and critic, dies aged 87. www.theguardian.com/books/2023/n...

**CALL FOR PAPERS**
College Students, send us your #Literature papers!
The Rock Creek Review is an #Undergraduate journal of #LiteraryCriticism
We are now accepting undergraduate papers for our Spring 2024 Edition.
Please share freely with students and colleagues around the world!

A student came to my office hour in a panic that he didn't have a good paper topic. I asked him to talk about why he was drawn to certain texts this semester, and 15 minutes later, he developed two solid options. I can't wait to see which one he chooses.
Good meeting to end the week!

Just added to my list and my calendar!

Alert - motion to eliminate funding for the NEH. US folks please contact your rep right away this will be voted tonight. 😳⬇️🗃️

Cover image of The Incarnations by Susan Barker

Reading this for the first time along with my students. What a wild ride, and we're not yet at the halfway point.
Fascinating dives into Chinese history surrounded by intrigue, creepiness, and reincarnation.
Bonkers in the best way!

Very moving new poetry pamphlet by Annemarie Ní Churreáin based on testimonies from the Stranorlar Mother & Baby Home in Donegal.

Watching U.S. institutions systematically cut support to the humanities is like watching a person saw their right arm off.

English and literature faculty, encourage your students to submit if they've written a great paper on Frankenstein, Inferno, The Iliad, House of Usher, etc. So much works with this year's theme!

Nov 14 Join me and Dr Kathleen Dixon Donnelly for an online chat about John Quinn and some of the early 20th century's most prominent literary figures like #JamesJoyce, #TSEliot, and #WBYeats.

The online event is free, but registration is required at bit.ly/TSPLQuinnSuchFriends Please share freely!

Call for Undergraduate Literature Papers

The Rock Creek Review is an international undergraduate journal of literary criticism edited entirely by students at Heidelberg University, OH.

We are now accepting papers for our Spring 2024 Edition.

Please share freely with students and colleagues

The Modernist Review #49: Precarious Modernisms 27 October 2023 Modernism has been productively destabilized in recent years, leading Paul K. Saint-Amour to claim that the masculinist model of “make it new” verges on a kind of “cartoon vitali...

With the ongoing Modernist Studies Association 2023 Conference in Brooklyn what better time to share our collaborative BAMS x MSA Special Issue - The Modernist Review: Precarious Modernisms (guest edited by Zoë Henry)!

modernistreviewcouk.wordpress.com/2023/10/27/t...

Talia Schaffer: “Ordinary Bodies: Phil Squod and the Social Model of Victorian Care” The disability studies scholar discusses Bleak House and the feminist philosophy of ethics of care.

Join UMN's English Department and @taliaschaffer.bsky.social for "Ordinary Bodies: Phil Squod and the Social Model of Victorian Care" cla.umn.edu/english/news...

Call for Undergraduate Literature Papers

The Rock Creek Review is an international undergraduate journal of literary criticism edited entirely by students at Heidelberg University, OH.

We are now accepting papers for our Spring 2024 Edition.

Please share freely with students and colleagues

Nov 14 Join me and Dr Kathleen Dixon Donnelly for an online chat about John Quinn and some of the early 20th century's most prominent literary figures like #JamesJoyce, #TSEliot, and #WBYeats.

The online event is free, but registration is required at bit.ly/TSPLQuinnSuchFriends Please share freely!

It's getting close to the top of my TBR list. Really looking forward to it!

You've got this!
Fingers crossed for a "revise and resubmit" letter.
Rejections are hard, but readers reports are *usually* helpful and allow you to make improvements.
Sometimes though, they are mean-spirited garbage. I hope you don't get any of those. 🤞 Your advisors will help you if you do.

Wow! Long live the King!

Katie Jones & I are looking for a few chapters on early-C20 non-canonical literature (modernism-adjacent?) for this proposed collection. We'd like these to be diverse in terms of understandings of British Literature by race/ethnicity/geography. call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/10/...