"Fiction can help us reflect on where this all goes beyond consumption and a display of knowingness."

The More You Know | Los Angeles Review of Books ‘Knowing fictions’ and their consequences.

Out today - my essay on "knowing fictions" in @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social. Big thanks to @leilanadir.bsky.social for the editorial collab! lareviewofbooks.org/article/clim...

"Fiction can help us reflect on where this all goes beyond consumption and a display of knowingness."

@heatherhouser.bsky.social on "knowing fictions": lareviewofbooks.org/article/climate-fiction-...

UAntwerp Dept. of Literature seeks full-time doctoral researcher in contemporary anglophone fiction under my supervision. Fully funded up to 4 years.
Deadline: 30 April 2026 @uantwerpen.be www.uantwerpen.be/en/jobs/vaca...
#academia #literature #affectstudies #familystudies #envhum

Call for Visiting scholar @uantwerpen.be Urban Studies Institute for 2026-27 uantwerpen.be/nl/jobs/vaca...

Introduction: “Dear Colleague”: Divergent Futurisms and the History of Black Speculation in Crisis On 15 February 2025, the Department of Education issued a “Dear Colleague” letter to schools, colleges, and universities, advising against race-based “disc

Black Speculations/Black Futures at MELUS journal with @scottsvisor.bsky.social Full themed issue coming soon! academic.oup.com/melus/advanc...

Inside the Body of Black Feminism: Science, Race, Culture

Everything is the worst rn. Work keeps on keeping on. Support research in feminist and ethnic studies (not necessarily mine). If you are inclined: PREORDER dukeupress.edu/inside-the-b... Discount code E26PINTO @dukepress.bsky.social

Join Jim Scown and me on Friday 13 March for the Biocriticism webinar on "Poetics and Ethics of Health on a Warming Planet" @sorbonnenouvelle.bsky.social.
2pm-3:30 CET on Zoom. Details & link at biocriticism.hypotheses.org/programme

This is not how you improve education at the University of Texas | Opinion The provost’s decision to eliminate key teaching and advising units threatens students, staff and educational quality, Julie Minich writes.

@professorjulie.bsky.social on the gutting of education & research thru the destruction of WGS, Black studies, Latino studies, & American studies at @utaustin.bsky.social www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...

The University of Texas is clipping the wings of students of color | Opinion Students from different races and ethnicities had to fight to find belonging at the University of Texas. Now they are being asked to shrink themselves, Mateo Vallejo writes.

This one from a UT grad student is especially powerful.

UT Head of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Speaks Out • The Austin Chronicle On Monday, the Chronicle spoke with Lisa Moore, who has served since 2023 as the chair of UT-Austin’s Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department – a department that is now being collapsed with ...

My colleague!

The UT System's New 'Controversial Topics' Policy Is About Policing Knowledge When politically appointed regents and administrators determine which topics are “germane,” academic freedom quietly shifts into political compliance.

"You cannot “balance” away genocide or dispossession. To pretend otherwise is not rigor—it is refusal." María Del Carmen Unda's powerful op-ed resisting the horrible erasure of knowledge at @utaustin.bsky.social www.texasobserver.org/ut-system-ne...

Tenuretrack professor in Cultural and Societal Storytelling (Faculty of Arts, KU Leuven) The Literary Studies and Cultural Studies Research Unit of the Faculty of Arts at KU Leuven is seeking a full-time (tenure-track) professor (ZAP) in Cultural and Societal Storytelling.

tenure-track ZAP position at @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social Kortrijk in Literary & Cultural Studies www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...

PRE-ORDER now! @samanthapinto.bsky.social 's next brilliant book from @dukepress.bsky.social www.dukeupress.edu/inside-the-b...

Doing this podcast with @smartgirl07.bsky.social and our guests lit up my 2025-- smart, breezy, funny convos about first gen everything, ethical admin & student practices, and (80s & 90s) culture. Cannot wait for season two fun!

Genre Bending | Stanford University Press Detective, horror, fantasy, romance, science fiction, spy thrillers, westerns, zombie novels. In recent decades, acclaimed and ambitious writers of literary fiction have increasingly gravitated to pop...

Out now! GENRE BENDING by Jeremy Rosen from @stanfordpress.bsky.social !
www.sup.org/books/litera...

‘Fear and hopelessness’: study finds one in four professors consider leaving US south Survey by American Association of Professors shows nearly quarter of respondents are switching due to states’s politics

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

PhD Scholarship in Environmental Humanities at Ghent University Discover a PhD Scholarship in Environmental Humanities on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other PhD opportunities.

🌱 Fully funded PhD scholarship in Environmental Humanities at Ghent University!

A unique opportunity to collaborate with Marco Caracciolo, Elly McCausland, and me on innovative research connecting literature, culture, and ecology.

Check out Allen MacDuffie's review of Cates Baldridge's "Plowswords: Literature and the Agricultural Trap from Shakespeare to Coetzee," published in 2024 by @uvapress.bsky.social #envhum #evhist #aghit #ecocrit
www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Submit your #envhum work for ASLE Spotlight 2026, deadline October 1, 2025, details here: www.asle.org/stay-informe...

Home | The Tidewater Initiative We are a multidisciplinary research group devoted to study, stewardship, and stories of working waterfronts, coastal infrastructures, and oceans under conditions of globalization and environmental ins...

We're launching a new Tidewater Initiative at JHU. Our research group on working waterfronts and coastal infrastructures includes a new student research lab, courses, programming partnerships with the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, and more in the works. sites.krieger.jhu.edu/tidewater/

Breaking the World

Third book in our (with @samanthapinto.bsky.social) Black Feminism in the Edge Series ( @dukepress.bsky.social) comes out in March! Congrats to Justin Mann (and check out the gorgeous cover). www.dukeupress.edu/breaking-the...

Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies The Department of Environmental Studies at St. Olaf College invites applications for a full-time, tenure track position in the area of North American Indigenous Environmental Relations at the Assistan...

#academicjob: Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies.
Northfield, MN, United States

Deadline: September 22, 2025

Info: fa-ewur-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

#envhum #envhist #indigenousstudies

Sarah Dimick, Lisa Han, & Ben Stanley Discuss Their New Titles - Edge Effects Sarah Dimick, Lisa Han, and Ben Stanley discuss their new books and critical topics in the environmental humanities.

Of Supermarkets, Shipwrecks, and Seasons: A Conversation with Sarah Dimick, @thehanopticon.bsky.social, and Ben Stanley - @edgeeffectsmag.bsky.social

edgeeffects.net/sarah-dimick...

#envhum #ecocrit #clifi #foodstudies

#envhum #envhist job posting in Norway

Overview of the events at the Greenhouse in August. More info on uis.no/en/greenhouse. For the book talks, see also https://newnatures.org/greenhouse/.

the academic year 2025/2026 has started here in Norway and we are slowly returning to our offices - for every one in town, @greenhouseuis.net will resume next week and Anna Grasskamp and her team from Oslo are kicking off the autumn term events on 27 August !

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Scientists decry Trump energy chief’s plan to ‘update’ climate reports: ‘Exactly what Stalin did’ Ex-fossil fuel executive Chris Wright said administration is reviewing national assessments made by past governments

“We’re reviewing [National Climate Assessments], and we will come out with updated reports on those and with comments on those reports,” said Wright, who is one of the main supporters of the administration’s “drill, baby, drill” agenda to boost fossil fuels" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Feminist Theory - Volume 26, Number 3 Table of contents for Feminist Theory, 26, 3

Better link to the issue here! Intergenerational Feminisms with @jennifercnash.bsky.social and so many great folks! journals.sagepub.com/toc/ftya/26/3

Talking to @smartgirl07.bsky.social about being labeled the "smart girl" in her family, being a first-gen college and grad school student (esp. in the humanities!), and, you know, libraries (cue the study music).

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We are looking for multidisciplinary panels to be presented at our upcoming conference "Beyond Dualism—Thinking Creatively Across Worlds," which takes place in July next year.

The full call can be found in the news section on our website: www.carsoncenter.uni-muenchen.de/news/news_ev... (1/?)