Molly MacVeagh
@mollymacv.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. of Interdisciplinary Humanities @ WFU/ contemporary literature, climate, critical food studies
I reviewed Daniel Saldaña París' dance plague novel for the new World Literature Today worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/novembe...
The Dance and the Fire: A Novel by Daniel Saldaña París
Trans. Christina MacSweeney. Catapult. 2025. 238 pages.
worldliteraturetoday.org
November 5, 2025 at 9:14 PM
I reviewed Daniel Saldaña París' dance plague novel for the new World Literature Today worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/novembe...
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The 11th annual Post45 Graduate Symposium will be hosted by Duke University's Department of English, February 20-21, 2026! Check out the CFP (post45.org/graduate/202...) and please share with anyone who might be interested.
Abstracts are due November 14.
Abstracts are due November 14.
October 9, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The 11th annual Post45 Graduate Symposium will be hosted by Duke University's Department of English, February 20-21, 2026! Check out the CFP (post45.org/graduate/202...) and please share with anyone who might be interested.
Abstracts are due November 14.
Abstracts are due November 14.
Pawpaw field day was lit
September 6, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Pawpaw field day was lit
Do I know any geographers? How does "Human Geography Without Scale" fare twenty years on?
August 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Do I know any geographers? How does "Human Geography Without Scale" fare twenty years on?
Best spy shows are the ones mostly about paperwork
August 14, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Best spy shows are the ones mostly about paperwork
I reviewed Irene Solà's latest and it is strange and wonderful and has lots of farting: www.full-stop.net/2025/07/04/r...
I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness – Irene Solà
Solà’s latest novel asks you to follow her across the line between the living and the dead, to hold fascism and goat husbandry together with light slanting across a kitchen floor.
www.full-stop.net
July 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I reviewed Irene Solà's latest and it is strange and wonderful and has lots of farting: www.full-stop.net/2025/07/04/r...
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“While life in Gaza is being obliterated and the West Bank is under escalating assault, the present report shows why the genocide carried out by Israel continues: because it is lucrative for many.”
July 1, 2025 at 11:02 AM
“While life in Gaza is being obliterated and the West Bank is under escalating assault, the present report shows why the genocide carried out by Israel continues: because it is lucrative for many.”
These “one year later” jumps in Andor are really not working for me
May 7, 2025 at 1:55 AM
These “one year later” jumps in Andor are really not working for me
apologies for crowdsourcing but: does anyone have recs for contemporary novels (besides Luster) that feature IBS or adjacent digestive stuff?
April 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
apologies for crowdsourcing but: does anyone have recs for contemporary novels (besides Luster) that feature IBS or adjacent digestive stuff?
I want to talk about the google earth ending of this with somebody
March 31, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I want to talk about the google earth ending of this with somebody
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columbia, brown, georgetown, cornell and now tufts — they’re taking our students, our colleagues, our kin
https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/international-student-tufts-university-reportedly-taken-into-federal-custody/2VK55QMAOZFIDBR2A6XNKC5XOU/?outputType=amp
https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/international-student-tufts-university-reportedly-taken-into-federal-custody/2VK55QMAOZFIDBR2A6XNKC5XOU/?outputType=amp
International student at Tufts University reportedly taken into federal custody – Boston 25 News
Tufts said they were told the student’s visa had been terminated.
www.boston25news.com
March 26, 2025 at 12:15 PM
columbia, brown, georgetown, cornell and now tufts — they’re taking our students, our colleagues, our kin
https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/international-student-tufts-university-reportedly-taken-into-federal-custody/2VK55QMAOZFIDBR2A6XNKC5XOU/?outputType=amp
https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/international-student-tufts-university-reportedly-taken-into-federal-custody/2VK55QMAOZFIDBR2A6XNKC5XOU/?outputType=amp
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We call for the immediate release of former Columbia University grad student Mahmoud Kahlil, a legal permanent resident of the US. His abduction is an assault not only on basic immigration law but on our 1st Amendment protections of freedom of speech & assembly.
www.aaup.org/news/aaup-co...
www.aaup.org/news/aaup-co...
AAUP Condemns Trump Administration’s Punitive Weaponization of Federal Grant Funding at Columbia
The Trump administration has taken the unprecedented move of cancelling $400 million in federal contracts and grants to Columbia University in alleged response to “inaction by Columbia’s administratio...
https://www.aaup.org/news/aaup-condemns-trump-administration’s-punitive-weaponization-federal-grant-funding-columbia
March 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
We call for the immediate release of former Columbia University grad student Mahmoud Kahlil, a legal permanent resident of the US. His abduction is an assault not only on basic immigration law but on our 1st Amendment protections of freedom of speech & assembly.
www.aaup.org/news/aaup-co...
www.aaup.org/news/aaup-co...
Small good thing (Sally)
March 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Small good thing (Sally)
👀 this looks so good!
Kristin Ross, The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life - @versobooks.bsky.social, September 2024
www.versobooks.com/products/322...
www.versobooks.com/products/322...
The Commune Form
When the state recedes, the commune-form flourishes. This was as true in Paris in 1871 as it is now whenever ordinary people begin to manage their daily lives collectively. Contemporary struggles over...
www.versobooks.com
February 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
👀 this looks so good!
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The billionaire class is waging a war on workers, putting our nation’s healthcare, research, education, + jobs at risk.
Higher ed workers, students, +allies are mobilizing
Join us!
Feb 13 8pm ET
National Strategy Call
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Higher ed workers, students, +allies are mobilizing
Join us!
Feb 13 8pm ET
National Strategy Call
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
February 11, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The billionaire class is waging a war on workers, putting our nation’s healthcare, research, education, + jobs at risk.
Higher ed workers, students, +allies are mobilizing
Join us!
Feb 13 8pm ET
National Strategy Call
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Higher ed workers, students, +allies are mobilizing
Join us!
Feb 13 8pm ET
National Strategy Call
us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Some real aesthetic synergy in my January reads
January 27, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Some real aesthetic synergy in my January reads
I participated in the first book institute last summer and it was incredible—applications for this year due February 19! cals.la.psu.edu/programs-ser...
First Book Institute - The Penn State Center for American Literary Studies
First Book Institute Announcing The 2025 First Book Institute Hosted by the Center for American Literary Studies Pennsylvania State University June 1-7, 2025 Co-Directors John Marsh, Professor of Engl...
cals.la.psu.edu
January 22, 2025 at 1:38 AM
I participated in the first book institute last summer and it was incredible—applications for this year due February 19! cals.la.psu.edu/programs-ser...
This movie is mostly making me want to wear a short skirt and a looong jacket
January 10, 2025 at 2:04 AM
This movie is mostly making me want to wear a short skirt and a looong jacket
Hannkuah’s over but the French agriculture novels continue (I can’t decide if I like this or not)
January 3, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Hannkuah’s over but the French agriculture novels continue (I can’t decide if I like this or not)
Reading Creation Lake + revising Birnam Wood chapter = surveillance georgic Hanukkah
December 31, 2024 at 3:23 PM
Reading Creation Lake + revising Birnam Wood chapter = surveillance georgic Hanukkah
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BREAKING: The AAUP condemns today’s faculty arrests at NYU.
“This crackdown on NYU faculty is part of a distressing pattern of repression of pro-Palestinian speech on college campuses nationwide.” — AAUP President Todd Wolfson.
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www.aaup.org/news/aaup-co...
“This crackdown on NYU faculty is part of a distressing pattern of repression of pro-Palestinian speech on college campuses nationwide.” — AAUP President Todd Wolfson.
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www.aaup.org/news/aaup-co...
AAUP Condemns Faculty Arrests Amidst Protest Crackdown at NYU
The AAUP condemns the reported arrests of two faculty members and three designations of faculty as "personae non grata" at New York University. As the AAUP has maintained since 1940, faculty should be...
www.aaup.org
December 12, 2024 at 10:04 PM
BREAKING: The AAUP condemns today’s faculty arrests at NYU.
“This crackdown on NYU faculty is part of a distressing pattern of repression of pro-Palestinian speech on college campuses nationwide.” — AAUP President Todd Wolfson.
⬇️
www.aaup.org/news/aaup-co...
“This crackdown on NYU faculty is part of a distressing pattern of repression of pro-Palestinian speech on college campuses nationwide.” — AAUP President Todd Wolfson.
⬇️
www.aaup.org/news/aaup-co...
really enjoyed this review: www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/becc...
A Business Doing Pleasure With You: On Becca Rothfeld's "All Things Are Too Small" — Cleveland Review of Books
There are nefarious forces at work in the sphere of taste.
www.clereviewofbooks.com
December 11, 2024 at 5:32 PM
really enjoyed this review: www.clereviewofbooks.com/writing/becc...