My colleague and I are guest-editing a special issue of AMLit - American Literatures, hosted by the University of Graz. Our deadline for essays concerning digital representations of Black and Indigenous peoples has been extended until the end of January :) Feel free to share!

And here is Emily Hamilton-Honey with both of her books from our American Literature Association exhibit, Girls to the Rescue and Turning the Pages of American Childhood, published by McFarland #ala2023

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If anyone will be in Boston for American Literature Association on Thurs at 4pm, I’ll be discussing my research on #PaulineHopkins ’s typewriter fiction. My Hopkins Society panel looks amazing. Would love to see you there!

i was helping my friend move today & while i was packing i found this frame and went. did i give you this?? and she said no i won it at an amlit raffle a while ago. & i was like … did you know this is my photo

cannot believe she entered to win my art before i even knew her 😭😭

#PublicationDay ! My 📚arrived. What a feeling, to hold the result of years of labor in one’s hands! Many thanks to Fiona, Emily, & the terrific staff at Edinburgh University Press, & the brilliant series editors Mark Whalan + Martin Halliwell, for their support & efforts #modwrite #AmLit

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From The Madwoman in the Classroom: So, I decided that the final exam for my AmLit class would be a literary connections project: Students had to research a pre-1865 author and discuss ways that the living artist could have been influenced by one we studied. Here are the project titles:

Thank you American Literature Association for putting on over 200 panels and thank you to the African American Literature and Culture Society for running my paper on Giovanni’s Room in its Identity and Citizenship panel #ALA2023

So, I decided that the final exam for my AmLit class would be a literary connections project: Students had to research a pre-1865 author and discuss ways that the living artist could have been influenced by one we studied. Here are the project titles:

Arrived in Boston for American Literature Association. Giving a paper on Everett’s ‘American Desert’ on Saturday morning!

CFP special issue of AmLit
*Potentials of Positionality and/or Ethics of Exclusion?: Critical Reading Approaches to Minority Literatures from the Americas*
Deadline: March 30, 2023

Oh yeah suckaz Emotion&AmLit class is in full swing! we’re reading Baldwin, we’re reading Berlant, we’re reading UTC, we’re theorizing culture of true feeling, we saw your tweets, we saw your tiktoks, we have thoughts about u swifties, we have thoughts about u fast car misreaders

Very excited to be heading to the States for the first time in May for American Literature Association. I’ll be presenting research on death and academia… in Everett’s ‘American Desert’

I had so much fun talking about bananas & #KateChopin at American Literature Association that I thought I should share this picture with y'all. Women eating bananas, 1876 Philly World's Fair. (Provenance of photo unknown)... the talk/panel came from this book: lsupress.org/books/detail/n…

Good morning American Literature Association ! Come see me to talk proposals and check out new University of South Carolina Press books on Cormac McCarthy, Black Girl Magic and more 📚

Come hear me talk about the end of the world at American Literature Association!

Two weeks today I’ll be heading out to Boston for what will be my first time in the US and Canada.

On Saturday the 27th (10-11.20), I’ll be presenting some research on Everett’s ‘American Desert’, race, fantasy, and death. If you’re at American Literature Association this year, do come along!!

We are excited about these 3 CFPs for our panels American Literature Association’s 2024 conference! 1) “Asian American Carceral Structures: Dispossession and Relocation” 2) “Game Changers: Asian Americans and Gaming Culture” 3) “Open Call: New Directions in Asian American Literary Studies!” (1/2)

Check out two panels Eric Gary Anderson & myself are putting together for the Society for the Study of American Gothic at the American Literature Association Conference in Chicago, May 23 - 26, 2024. Abstracts due January 20. Feel free to message me with any questions!
call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/11/03…