Watched #CitizenKane last night prepping for class, and my god, I wonder how many evil people in power used it as a blueprint for life—entirely missing the point. Funny enough, we also talked William Dean Howells’s “Editha” today…
#AmLit #AMST #yellowjournalism
Adorable black and white pitbull mix lying atop a large, blue monkey stuffed animal.
As a #19thcentury scholar who regularly makes up songs about her kids and pets, I’m ashamed to say I only began “Maggie, a Girl of the Streets” (about my dog) last night when my son said something similar. #AmLit
Needed to do a little bit of positivity printing today - dropped a few in the store: hotbrownpress.etsy.com/listing/4443...
#c19 #AmericanLit #Thoreau #Walden #AmLit #19c #letterpress #printmaking
A picture of me wearing the Recovery Hub for American Women Writers t-shirt. The front features the hub logo in three shades of blue, along with a quill pen
The back of the shirt reads “Disrupt the canon one digital project at a time”
The tote bag is an undyed canvas with the hub logo and the “Disrupt the canon one digital project at a time” slogan
Hey, do you want to wear your love of digital humanities and cultural recovery on your sleeve? @recoveryhubaww.bsky.social has you covered! Make a donation of $50 or more between now and Christmas and receive your choice of a tote bag or t-shirt!
#DigitalHumanities #AmLit
#AmLit friends! A student asked if the "Shafters" referred to in chapter 9 of The Great Gatsby ("No wasting time at Shafters") in Gatsby's list of general resolves actually refers to something existent in 19th c. middle-town life? I thought of a mere "effet de réel" but who knows...?
Left book is The Conjure Woman from 1899 (cover featured an elderly Black man flanked by two rabbits). Right book is a 1973 illustrated adaptation with a purple cover featuring a rather terrifying (albeit impressive) conjure woman. The illustration resembles a shrunken head hanging by its hair.
After years of periodically looking online, I purchased a first edition 1899 copy of The Conjure Woman, by Charles Chesnutt (one of my favorite #19century authors). Bonus purchase was this 1973 illustrated adaptation.
#booksky #academicsky #americanliterature #Amlit #AAlit
eBay listing (sold to me) of an 1899 first-edition of Charles Chesnutt’s, The Conjure Woman. The cover famously shows an aged Black uncle figure flanked by white rabbits—the publisher’s attempt to liken the book to Joel Chandler Harris’s Uncle Remus.
Come to mama! Gift to myself because the price was unbelievably good.
#booksky #19c #AmLit #AALit
When you randomly check if there are first editions you can afford by your favorite #19c author and end up submitting an offer 😬
#AmLit #AALit #CharlesChesnutt #AcademicSky
Out today!! Read it here first, free!!
#writingcommunity #AmLit #essay #commentary
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An image showing the cover of the edited collection "American and Ownership: Territory, Bondage, Jubilee." It shows a stylized depiction of American land- and cityscapes, as well as figures engaging in hunting and cartographing.
If anyone is interested in my thoughts on Sarah Piatt's #GothicPoetry, my essay “Haunting Pictures: Negotiating Self-Ownership, Gender, and Class in Sarah Piatt’s Poetry" is out now in the collection "America and Ownership: Territory, Bondage, Jubilee"!
#AmLit
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Hey #DigitalHumanities and #AmLit folks! @recoveryhubaww.bsky.social is offering free summer workshops to support DH projects that center the work of (global) American (trans-/queer-inclusive) women writers. If that sounds like you, register here! recoveryhub.siue.edu/2025/05/14/s...
My book Melville’s Wisdom is out with
@oxunipress.bsky.social. It covers
🔹Herman Melville’s responses to the Old Testament wisdom books
🔹religious skepticism in 19th-century America
🔹higher criticism of the Bible in America in literature
🔹literary responses to modernity
#hermanmelville #amlit #c19
pre-ordered!
(and veeeery tempted to try to make room for a Zoom talk about this in my #AmLit lecture #timezonesarestupid)
Hahaha, just found these babies sleeping in my bed. Spider-Man looks all set, but I think my daughter’s child might be a character from an Edith Wharton novel. I worry for her.
#booksky #AcademicSky #wgs #AmLit #C19
Want to talk about why the work of women author societies is so urgent in 2025? or how to do community and coalition building? Send the Margaret Fuller Society your ideas for our #SSAWW 2025 panel! #C19 #amlit #pedagogy #recovery #margaretfuller @recoveryhubaww.bsky.social @legacy1984.bsky.social
Taught the Declaration of Sentiments in my #amlit survey. Students were floored by its relevance today.
