{2026 New Release} Language as Liberation : Reflections on the American Canon by: Toni Morrison Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Beloved Toni Morrison investigates Black characters in the American literary canon and the way they shaped the nation’s collective unconscious. In a dazzling series of lectures from her tenure as a professor at Princeton University, Toni Morrison interrogates America’s most famous works and authors, drawing a direct line from the Black bodies that built the nation to the Black characters that many of the country’s canonical white writers imagined in their work.

Happy Pub Week to Toni Morrison! Morrison remains one of our most important and cherished authors, and the release of Language as Liberation should be treated as the enormous literary event it is. #newrelease #ToniMorrison #LanguageasLiberation

Day 1 Part trois at #ACTFL24
The president’s panel discussion on #languageasliberation was 🔥
Thank you @doriec.bsky.social @proferandolph.bsky.social @ujuanya.bsky.social @junkoyamamoto.bsky.social and Ben Tinsley!

Day 1 at #ACTFL24: my cup was filled before the end of the opening session…thank you @proferandolph.bsky.social for your leadership, #languageasliberation, our ACTFL TOY finalists and winner, and the incredible Sheryl Lee Ralph, who needs to get herself on Bluesky…

The president of ACTFL speaking in front of giant screen. ACTFL mission statement: ACTFL's envisions an interconnected world where everyone benefits from and values a multilingual and multicultural education.

At #ACTFL today in #Philly. Presenting on Sunday. Should be a great weekend!
#LanguageAsLiberation

From today’s rehearsal. So pumped to kick off the ACTFL conference tomorrow and hear from our opening keynote speaker Sheryl Lee Ralph!
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#LanguageAsLiberation
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ACTFL Presidential Sessions. Session #1: Language as Liberation: A Panel Discussion with the ACTFL President, Friday, November 22, 2:30-3:15pm, Room 126B. Session #2: Language as Liberation: Intersections of Race & Identity (Paper Panel), Saturday, November 23,. 1:30-2:15pm, Room 120C.

It’s ACTFL week! Join me during the presidential sessions at the ACTFL convention. Featured panelists & researchers include Uju Anya, Ben Tinsley, Dorie Conlon, Junko Yamamoto, Tasha Austin, Aminah Raysor, Aris Clemons, Melissa Baralt, & Valentino Rahming. #langchat #LanguageAsLiberation

Flyer containing the title of LJ’s presentation (“Abolitionist and Liberationist Language Pedagogies”) as well as the names and logos of each of the five regional conferences (NECTFL, SWCOLT, SCOLT, Central States, and PNCFL).

I look forward to visiting all five ACTFL regional conferences starting this week. Join me as I share how we can create spaces of empowerment, liberation, and joy in the language classroom. See you soon in NYC, Honolulu, Atlanta, Minneapolis, and Seattle! #ACTFL #LanguageAsLiberation