VPFA Annual Conference - now there's a New Year's resolution for you! victorianpopularfiction.org/vpfa-annual-co…

We are thrilled to announce that the CFP for Issue 7, ‘Labour in the Long Nineteenth Century’ is now live and open for your submissions! Proposals are due by 23:59 on Sunday 7th April 2024, to be sent to [email protected]. Do share widely and we look forward to hearing from you!

Our second online Queer Souths reading group is coming up this Friday, 13.00 GMT. We'll be reading excerpts from Ludwig Von Reizenstein's The Mysteries of New Orleans. Email [email protected] for the readings and the zoom link.

Big news! Since August 2016, ✨500,000✨ pages of the Freedmen's Bureau records have been successfully transcribed on the Smithsonian Transcription Center, thanks to the incredible efforts of our 50,000 #volunpeers. Explore the portal: nmaahc.si.edu/explore/freedm…

International Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship in Black Digital Humanities jobs.chronicle.com/job/37587931/i…

This year will be the 25th anniversary of the publication of Jose Munoz's landmark first book, Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. U of MN Press upress.umn.edu/book-division/…

Can Literature Cure Law? Should It? publicbooks.org/can-literature… via @publicbooks

April 10: Rabinor Lecture in American Studies with Associate Professor Jon Parmenter "Dispossessed: Cornell University’s Origins in Indian Country" events.cornell.edu/event/the_2022…

The McNeil Center & Penn Press will inaugurate a new prize this summer for an exceptional dissertation in early American studies. The award includes a book contract, research funds, and a manuscript workshop at the Center. Applications open August 1!

Join us in Philly next May for a conference on early early America. Proposals due August 30th. More info here: mceas.org/events/2025/05…

🏆📚The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is now accepting submissions for the 2025 Pauli Murray Book Prize. The prize ($1,500) will recognize the best book on Black intellectual history (broadly conceived) published in 2024. loom.ly/ikVBuYw

Next week in Ithaca there’ll be two panels of grad students responding to an exhibit at Kroch library that opens on Thursday September 19. Big thanks to Derrick R. Spires & dr. charline & @this_was_a_poet for the opportunity! And the Cornell Society for the Humanities for support!

The deadline for the Arizona Quarterly special issue on the American Novel that Nate Wolff and I are coediting is less than a month away! Do send us things. azq.arizona.edu/call-papers-0

Immerse yourself in the literary depth of the Caribbean! 🌴 Join us at the #MiamiBookFair for the ReadCaribbean program on Saturday, November 23, at 12 pm, with Edwidge Danticat, Myriam J.A. Chancy, and Fabienne Josaphat! 📚 #ReadCaribbean #MBF2024 @‌miamibookfair

This family has been friends with my family all my life. Their home in Altadena is now ashes.

For #28DaysofBWS we are highlighting books to honor #BlackHistoryMonth. Day 8 & Day 9's books are Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall & COMBEE: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War by Edda L. Fields-Black!

Coming in October… press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…

Come teach literature at Cornell next year— joint offer for a two year postdoctoral position with the Society for the Humanities! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30459