To all who attended #2023ASA in Montreal: Did you give or hear a great paper on environmental issues? Please consider submitting or nominating one to the 2023 Annette Kolodny Prize for Best Environmental Paper at the ASA! Deadline 1/14/24 Details here: docs.google.com/document/d/1yn…

Att: Carlos Alonso Nugent Emma Shaw Crane keva 👾 Cleo Wölfle Hazard @endtimesplural American Studies Association @ASLE_US

To all who attended #2023ASA in Montreal: Did you give and/or hear a great paper that engaged one or more environments? If so, please submit and/or nominate to the 2023 Annette Kolodny Prize! Deadline 1/14/24, details here: docs.google.com/document/d/1yn…

Thanks, Paul! After admiring you and so many other past honorees, it's great to be mentioned alongside several of the essays I've most enjoyed this year.

As part of my effort to understand white supremacy in the borderlands, I traveled through Tombstone, AZ. I knew I’d see guys with guns, but I didn’t think they’d be wearing Christmas sweaters.

A rare rainy day in the Sonoran Desert

Attention ASA folks: a few days left to submit the paper you gave at #2023ASA for the Annette Kolodny Prize for Best Environmental Paper! Deadline 1/14/24!

For MLA 2025, the Forum on Caribbean Studies and the Forum on Ecocriticism/Environmental Humanities are co-organizing a panel entitled "Ecologies of Enslavement, Ecologies of Abolition." Details here: mla.confex.com/mla/2025/webpr…

Excited for this in a few months...

Since I’ve had a sneak peak at this article, I can say it’s a must-read. The rest of the issue looks great, too!

For MLA 2025, the Forum on Caribbean Studies and the Forum on Ecocriticism/Environmental Humanities are co-organizing a panel entitled "Ecologies of Enslavement, Ecologies of Abolition." One more day for abstracts: mla.confex.com/mla/2025/webpr…

Arriving early for a bit of archival research before #LSA2024 Latina/o/x Studies Association. If you’re around on Thursday, I’ll be in conversation with Anita Huizar Hernandez, @tatianareinoza, Evelyn Soto, and Alberto Varon! Lucky me!

Interested in submitting to a special issue of the African American Review? Brittney Edmonds (Brittney Michelle Edmonds) and Hayley O'Malley are editing "African American Literature in Dialogue with the Other Arts." Proposals due 6/15!

If you're looking for summer reading, consider my article in the latest Representations. Entitled "Drawing and Disrupting Borders in the Wake of the US–Mexico War," it explores how Apache pictography and performance resisted the rise of settler states. online.ucpress.edu/representation…

JOB POSITION: U-M American Culture and the Program in Latina/o Studies (LS) seek qualified applicants for a tenure-track faculty appointment at the rank of Assistant or early Associate Professor for areas of research within Latina/o/x studies. joblist.mla.org/job-details/88…

Saddened (though not shocked) by the lack of Latinx and/or Latin American writers on this list. New York Times Books, where were Jennine Capó Crucet, Angie Cruz, Francisco Goldman, Reyna Grande, Yuri Herrera, Valeria Luiselli, Helena María Viramontes, Javier Zamora, and so many others?

Who's on here anymore? If you are, and if you attended American Studies Association 2024 in Baltimore, consider submitting your environmentally-oriented paper to the Annette Kolodny Prize theasa.net/awards/committ…