Apply for the first annual Toynbee Early Career Scholar First Book Workshop Competition. We seek to support early career scholars in global history at a pivotal moment in their trajectory, and especially encourage scholars from the Global South to apply: toynbeeprize.org/posts/announce…

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Really enjoying Andru Volinsky’s Constitution Day talk on the US Constitution(s) and Public Higher Ed funding this morning, courtesy of @FranklinPierce!

How has your campus leveraged resilience and innovation over the past few semesters? AAC&U invites conference proposals that reimagine curricular structures, pedagogies, and assessment methods to make quality and equity hallmarks of #HigherEd. aacu.org/events/2022-ge…

#Fan Studies Network North America Conference 2021 (online) Schedule fsn-northamerica.org/fsnna21-schedu… Fan Studies Network North America (FSNNA)

Great to read Roberta Pearson's & Ann McClellan's new work on #Sherlock #Holmes in @chrismeyer2203 & Monika Pietrzak-Franger's Transmedia Practices in the Long Nineteenth Century Routledge Literature Routledge Books!

Excited to have my article on Philip Brogdon's amazing archive of Black #SherlockHolmes memorabilia published in the #JournalofFandomStudies! Check out this great collection on archiving fandom!

Want some experience in academic publishing that will look good on a CV? Consider joining our Editorial Team! We're always looking for help putting together the journal as well as other publication avenues, like our podcast and #PopularCultureDialogues. Email, DM for more!

April 1912. The first installment of Arthur Conan Doyle’s THE LOST WORLD appeared in The Strand Magazine - presenting the genius of Professor George Edward Challenger to readers for the first time.

At last! With big thanks to my co-editor @chrismeyer2203 and all our contributors @ilgordon @Luethinho @Ecco64 Ann McClellan

.Matt Griffin and I are editing a special issue of Transformative Works and Cultures on Blackness and fandom studies. Spread the word and let either of us know if you have questions. journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/…

Taika being too real about writing here 🥲

Announcing the 2nd annual online TO BE CONTINUED symposium on seriality and adaptation 22-23 Sept. Check out the roster and find registration information here (event webpage with more information coming soon) ...! docs.google.com/document/d/1cJ…

The most important lesson I've learned in the last year: Burnout isn't just the result of too much work. It's the TYPE of work. And, more specifically, your emotional connection to it. Burnout comes from feeling like no matter how much you do, it will never be enough.

Reblogging for those folks thinking about course texts for fall; "Vidding: A History" is open access and free to use, and has a great selection of vids for students to look at, and even essay questions. :D (There's also a free ebook and a paperback if that's how you roll!)

In the Midwest it is customary to accept a compliment by explaining how you got the item at a significant discount “thank you I got it cheap at Kohls”

Let's try this again! Registration is now open for #FSNNA22 on Eventbrite: eventbrite.com/e/fan-studies-… The schedule is now available again on our website: fsn-northamerica.org/fsnna22-schedu…

It was so wonderful to see so many of you in New Orleans this past weekend! Let's keep the good times rolling: consider applying to our virtual symposium this February! We're hoping for 10 minute papers and lots of discussion. Deadline is December 1. docs.google.com/document/d/1OH…