Talia Schaffer

Villanova English Department is hiring an assistant prof in disability studies. Please circulate--I'm happy to answer any questions. jobs.villanova.edu/postings/36518

apply.interfolio.com/195460 new post-doc at Princeton: AI as a "cultural technology" — its role across arts & humanities & knowledge infrastructures, AI's societal effects on creative & cultural industries (literature, music, film, visual arts). Looking humanistic approaches to AI systems!

CFP: Studies in English Literature 1500–1900, "Decolonizing Historical English Literary Studies" (Abstract Deadline: 2/1/2027) navsa.org/News/13752460

DEADLINE EXTENDED CFP: 18th- and 19th-Century British Women Writers Conference Abstract Deadline: 11/1/2026 navsa.org/News/13661141

Position: Harper-Schmidt Postdoctoral Fellowship (Application Deadline: 12/1/2026) navsa.org/News/13752482

No ISBNs in Canada for AI writing. This is a fantastic policy, and every country should do the same. www.canada.ca/en/library-a...

Inside the humanities we’re slowly losing our minds as we shout this til we’re hoarse—of course education in the name of ROI is an ideological project! Of course, treating knowledge as a content strategy results in bullshit! Still bracing to read this eloquent call to close the business schools

Victorianists! The CFP for NVSA 2027 on “Trash” has been extended one week to Thursday, October 22! Please share and submit!!

Please circulate! Open-field, tenure-track assistant professor search in English. Details below. jobs.chronicle.com/job/38050517...

Just a friendly reminder that Curran Fellowship applications are due next week on 15 October! Open to all researchers, Curran awards offer up to $6,000 USD to support #19thC periodical research that makes use of print and archival sources. Application guidance here: rs4vp.org/awards/curra...

My department is hiring in 20th-century American Literature! Happy to answer questions.

Please share!! The Department of English at Arizona State University invites applications for an Assistant Professor, Indigenous Studies position. PhD in literature, rhetoric, media studies, linguistics, or related discipline required at the time of appointment. apply.interfolio.com/194236

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSX678/t... We are looking for a special scholar to lead our remarkable team in 18th century literature @engfac.bsky.social

We're hiring in the long eighteenth century at LSU. Please spread the word and let me know if you have any questions. It's a wonderful department to work in! lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/LSU/job/0210...

Lecturer in British Romantic Literature University of Glasgow Full time permanent www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSS069/l...

The Clarissa group was so delightful, and now there’s added UNCLE TOBY value! Join us!

If you care about scholarship, please consider signing this petition. University of Exeter is going to be decimated unless we can stop it. c.org/p6HMYK2BbN

evergreen post

This is a rousing and clarifying account

Beautiful piece on what narrative medicine can do

"Working class" in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go.

eavesdropping on a couple of english lit academics in st. john, i overheard confirmation of what is surely going to be the biggest literary news story of the year

humanities.princeton.edu/2026/05/18/p...

Trump: "If Democrats took control of the country, I think this country is finished. These people are sick."

Breaking NEWS!! Federal judge rules DOGE illegally terminated NEH grants last year in a summary judgment in favor of plaintiffs AHA, ACLA, and MLA, and orders the restoration of 1400 terminated grants

“I have a PhD in atmospheric physics. I spent a decade measuring greenhouse gases from satellites. The thing that made me good at it was reading poetry. It trained me to notice what was not being said in a dataset. Every critical decision I made as a scientist was interpretation, not computation.”

This is so cool! I'm smitten by this info: the contract "was written out twice on a large piece of parchment that was then cut in half along a wavy or tooth-shaped line" so they could be fitted back together to confirm their authenticity.

As the spring admission tour crowds grow, I remember sitting at a hotel breakfast with other families on college move-in day and thinking, this feels so familiar. 10 Austen quotes to show college admission is the new 19th c marriage market: www.underrevision.com/blog/post/23... #janeausten #college

In honor of Habermas, a meme I made

We are hiring a Membership Specialist in the Department of Organizing and Services. Full consideration of applications will be given to those submitted by March 26. Details here:

Oxford U.P. is looking for proposals for the series Race in Nineteenth-Century Literatures and Cultures. Go for it! :)

Read this - the best analysis of Scrooge I’ve seen!

We are hiring .... Because John Nightingale is retiring... for a Tutorial Fellowship in European History 400-1000... www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQP650/t...

Early medievalists! Come join us at Magdalen College, Oxford: apply for this permanent job by 27 March. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQP650/t...

look at my country man, we’re getting out-No Kings’d by the fuckin’ british

Roses are red, They look nice on a shrine Here is the skull, Of St. Valentine. (Photo taken in Rome’s Chiesa di Santa Maria in Cosmedin of the relic of the 3rd Century martyr, a cleric who ministered to persecuted Christians and could apparently restore sight to the blind.)

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

📣 We’re hiring! Cornell University Press is seeking a Director of Editorial, Design, and Production. A key role at the heart of scholarly publishing. 🔗 Details + application: cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree...

CFP: CUNY English Student Association Graduate Conference on Beauty, Pleasure, Value. Proposal deadline 2/20.