Molly MacVeagh
@mollymacv.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. of Interdisciplinary Humanities @ WFU/ contemporary literature, climate, critical food studies
man Food, Inc. has not aged well...curious what the student reception is going to be in class tomorrow
February 2, 2026 at 3:59 PM
man Food, Inc. has not aged well...curious what the student reception is going to be in class tomorrow
everything is bad but teaching close reading remains so good
January 20, 2026 at 9:50 PM
everything is bad but teaching close reading remains so good
such a clear articulation of the stakes--
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
The ‘Crisis of the Humanities’ Is Over. That’s Not a Good Thing.
All of higher ed now suffers the attacks of politics and technology.
www.chronicle.com
December 29, 2025 at 5:12 PM
such a clear articulation of the stakes--
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
It is sleeting and I’m in the middle of part five—if this keeps up we have optimal septology-finishing conditions
December 26, 2025 at 4:52 PM
It is sleeting and I’m in the middle of part five—if this keeps up we have optimal septology-finishing conditions
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URGENT ACTION: the UNC System is planning to force instructors to publish their syllabi, claiming these are public records and not our intellectual property. We have a small window of time to redirect this decision.
Please sign
actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...
Please sign
actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...
Protect Academic Freedom, Our Faculty, Our Communities
Faculty, staff, students, alumni, and community members: The UNC System is preparing to cave to political pressure from the Heritage Foundation, the Oversight Project, and the James Martin Center by ...
actionnetwork.org
December 9, 2025 at 11:21 AM
URGENT ACTION: the UNC System is planning to force instructors to publish their syllabi, claiming these are public records and not our intellectual property. We have a small window of time to redirect this decision.
Please sign
actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...
Please sign
actionnetwork.org/petitions/pr...
also: my living lexicon entry for Environmental Humanities is out! I had to cut the part about the Vaucanson's Digesting Duck but still a sneak preview of ongoing metabolism project: read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...
Metabolism | Environmental Humanities | Duke University Press
read.dukeupress.edu
December 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
also: my living lexicon entry for Environmental Humanities is out! I had to cut the part about the Vaucanson's Digesting Duck but still a sneak preview of ongoing metabolism project: read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...
This was such a good week of 2024--and led to, among other things, a lovely continuing group chat. Apply! Apply!
Are you an environmental humanist? Do you like hanging out with other smart environmental humanists? Would you like to do so for a week this summer in Maine? Then I highly recommend Colby's Summer Institute in the Environmental Humanities! (app due 2/6/26) cah.colby.edu/initiatives/...
December 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
This was such a good week of 2024--and led to, among other things, a lovely continuing group chat. Apply! Apply!
enjoying this so much but I don’t think it’ll thrive on my contemporary lit syllabus…
December 2, 2025 at 8:50 PM
enjoying this so much but I don’t think it’ll thrive on my contemporary lit syllabus…
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!