Angela S. Allan

I read zillions of Perry Mason novels and wrote about Erle Stanley Gardner, Cold War ideas of justice, and the War on Crime in the latest issue of Arizona Quarterly: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...

is anyone doing one of those last minute MLA sessions this year?

Job posting for a lecturer position at Harvard Hist & Lit--please share! histlit.fas.harvard.edu/lecturer-pos...

Excited to share that my book, Notes on the Novella, is under contract with Princeton UP. It's made up of thirty "notes" on thirty different novellas. Boccaccio, Cervantes, de Zayas, Eliot, James, Larsen, Fuentes, Pynchon, Delany, Spark, Lispector, Morrison, Ferrante -- and more!

While I agree this is useful context, I think even if people are overworked and underpaid, the absolute lack of integrity means they have no business teaching others in any circumstance.

This is deeply depressing: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...

Please share or consider applying!

after several years of silence, Solveig Güzel returns with a fifteen-page oral history

feeling pretty left out that no one has started the "academic twitter lurker" starter pack.

Deadline is tomorrow! Consider applying to Harvard Hist & Lit, we're hiring for 3-year lecturerships across multiple fields: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12709

Please share! Harvard History & Literature is hiring multiple lecturers across different fields/disciplines! academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/12709

It's too soon to say if I like this site because there aren't tons of unhinged takes on here to get mad about, but I admit I still check the other site first because that's where the drama thrives.

When I go for an eye exam, I feel like I'm failing calculus all over again. "Can you read the second line?" Absolutely no clue, but I could probably guess incorrectly?

Because I have spent all afternoon writing, deleting, rewriting, and deleting a few sentences, I might as well commit to writing at least one sentence here.