773 - Working under Fire: Precarity, Censorship, and the Nineteenth-Century Studies Classroom Sunday, 12 January 2025 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM Hilton New Orleans Riverside - Salon 19 (1st Floor) Description We are, yet again, living in a historical moment where what we teach and how we teach are flashpoints for larger cultural and political divisions in the United States. This group of nineteenth-century Americanist scholars discusses censorship, repression, employment precarity, burnout, and institutional stress in their professional lives and research.

Presider Kathryn Walkiewicz U of California, San Diego Speaker Jesse Alemán U of New Mexico, Albuquerque Ben Bascom Ball State U Xine Yao University C London Oliver Baker Penn State U, University Park

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Sunday Jan 12 @ 1:45 (Salon 19): “Working Under Fire: Precarity, Censorship, and the Nineteenth-Century Studies Classroom” hosted by LLC 19th American Forum

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Picture of author Miriam Wallace holding up a copy of her edited collection at the MLA24 Bucknell exhibition booth. To the left of the photo is a close up of the book cover which consists of rectangular blue, purple, and teal color swatches

So good to see #Transits series editor Miriam Wallace at #MLA24. If you teach aspects of the #18thcentury, explore her timely new coedited collection on pedagogy as ethical engagement!

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#rhetcomp's been at the MLA for a long time (Gere, Holdstein). Fred Newton Scott was the first rhetcomp scholar to serve as MLA president in 1907 (Gere). He'd later become the first NCTE president in 1911.

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Happily, our 5:15 Friday #MLA24 panel 616 on Making DH Projects Public was well-attended, discussion was excellent, and I don’t *think* I made a fool of myself! I was nervous for nothing. 🤣

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Julie and I stand in the bustle of reading terminal market in Philadelphia

I smile and hold Julie’s book

Delighted to catch up with @juliepark.bsky.social and celebrate her beautiful new #uchicagopress book: My Dark Room at #mla24 #MLA2024

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There was no better way to debut at #MLA24 than a panel with @jenniferisasi.bsky.social, Tyeschia Thompson, and @walshbr.bsky.social
Great talks by too many people to tag here so I’ll just say thank you to the #DH folks!

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Portraits from an NEH grants panel

A panel with Anne McGrail, Jewon Woo, Amber LaPiana, and Jack Norton.

Hard to capture the subtle pre-storm sunset viewable through Philly streets from the skywalk to the convention hall.

Friday at #MLA24 #MLA2024 I caught the #NEH panel and a wonderful @danicasavonick.bsky.social panel on Teaching DH at Community Colleges.
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#MLA24 Panel 492 presented some very interesting responses to and uses of the very generic quality of writing produced by #genAI tools like #ChatGPT, especially recognizing the functions and limitations of discursive communities

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Interesting commentary from @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social about AI
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Here bright and early for MLA! Stop by and see us in the exhibit hall or online at upress.umn.edu/book-division/…! #mla24

Currently in a very Broadway heavy labour oriented panel at #MLA24 I'll report back! But yes, BroadwayTok got me deep into this - need the lost documentary apart from the tell-all book and omg Co-op?! The Company doc mockumentary is also an excellent fly-on-the-wall look in these topics