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In this season of thanks and as we close out 2025, all of us at Project MUSE wish to share our gratitude with our many friends, supporters, and colleagues from around the world.

Thank you!
From all of us at Project MUSE
December 19, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Thank you to the latest to support #NISOPlus26 in Baltimore, @asmedotorg.bsky.social!

To join ASME & the other generous sponsors in supporting our standards work: niso.plus/niso-plus-20...

To join us in Baltimore: niso.plus/niso-plus-20...
Thank you to our sponsors! https://niso.plus #NISOPlus26 NISO Plus 2026 logo with Baltimore skyline. Feb 16–18, 2026 Corporate logos for ten sponsors
December 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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With semester break upon us, keep up with scholarly content and create a free personalized MyMUSE account.

MyMUSE offers a number of enhancements to help make your research and discovery more powerful and efficient.

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#Discover #Explore #MUSE
December 18, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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🔉The latest 'Slavonic and East European Review', edited by @uclssees.bsky.social, is out!

👉 www.mhra.org.uk/publications...

Articles by Sara Dickinson, Justin Willson, Vuk Uskoković, Ilya Vovshin, Oleksiy Tolochko & Book Reviews.

Via @projectmuse.bsky.social 👉 muse.jhu.edu/issue/54160
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December 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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In Visual Arts Research 51.2, read about how @gigisyu.bsky.social, @lllart.bsky.social, et al created a teaching resource to promote art making as a means of engaging with others & harnessing agency of materials as collaborative partners. #OA on @projectmuse.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...
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December 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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Out now in the new Poe Studies, available Open Access on
@projectmuse.bsky.social, William Foster Carr and Irina Arévalo Valverde translate an excerpt from Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío's book The Strange Ones. Read for free at muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
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December 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Kacy Dowd Tillman explores how archival petitions by Black loyalists during the Revolution challenge objectification & assert authorship. Her article reinterprets bureaucratic records as a form of early life writing.
Now open access: doi.org/10.1353/eam....
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#EAS
Historical painting showing a chaotic battle scene. British soldiers in red uniforms clash with opposing forces amid smoke, raised weapons, and falling figures. Flags billow overhead as officers and soldiers struggle in close combat, conveying movement and violence at the center of the scene.
December 17, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Journal of American Folklore special issue on “Folklore, Comics, & Graphic Storytelling” 138.550. @danielperetti.bsky.social, @ayannidoesthings.bsky.social, @sallypirie.bsky.social, @smposey.bsky.social, @kacymckinney.bsky.social, and more. @projectmuse.bsky.social: https//muse.jhu.edu/issue/55668
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December 17, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Heidi Ka-Sin Lee argues that the musical score in "Dune: Part One" functions as a quasi-diegetic entity for the viewer to grasp Paul Atreides's psychological states + the planets he traverses, in Music & the Moving Image 18.3, OPEN ACCESS on @projectmuse.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...
December 18, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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The amazing & enduring Jane Austen, born #otd 1775 - Happy 250!

Do you have a favourite novel?

Discover more about her work w/FREE OA book from @hopkinspress.bsky.social & their HOP Encore Edition w/ thanks to @nehgov.bsky.social & @mellon.org.

#ReadUP

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December 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
Library Trends
Volume 74, Number 2, November 2025 

Special Issue: Libraries, Library Services, and Persons Living with Dementia 

Guest Editors: Timothy J. Dickey and Sarah McNicol
#S2O #OpenAccess at @projectmuse.bsky.social
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NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Library Trends Volume 74, Number 2, November 2025 
 Special Issue: Libraries, Library Services, and Persons Living with Dementia 
 Guest Editors: Timothy J. Dickey and Sarah McNicol #S2O #OpenAccess at Project MUSE CONTRIBUTORS
 Timothy J. Dickey, Sarah McNicol, Sanda Erdelez, Sanjica Faletar, Kornelija Petr Balog, Sarah McNicol, Darby Morhardt, Melvin Thompson, Rebecca Johnson, Anthea Innes, Mason McLeod, Umniyah Gilani, Kyla J. Kovalik, Constance Dupuis, Equity Burke, Mary Beth Riedner, Carina Spaulding, Gemma Jolly, Debbie Hicks, B. Sally Rimkeit, and Gillian Claridge
December 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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NEW ISSUE OUT NOW
Literature and Medicine
Volume 43, Number 1, Spring 2025
Special Issue: Shame and Medicine 

Guest Editors: Arthur Rose and Luna Dolezal
#S2O #OpenAccess at @projectmuse.bsky.social

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NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Literature and Medicine Volume 43, Number 1, Spring 2025 Special Issue: Shame and Medicine 
 Guest Editors: Arthur Rose and Luna Dolezal #S2O #OpenAccess at Project MUSE   CONTRIBUTORS
 Michael Blackie, Catherine Belling, Joel Christian Gill, A. Emiko Blalock, Jaheel Rowe, Rebecca Garden, Arthur Rose, Luna Dolezal, Harriet Cooper, Penelope Lusk, Maaike Hommes, Harriet Hustis, Douglas Dowland, Katharine Cheston, Chloe R. Green, Carla Robison, Traci B. Abbott, and Veronica Heney
December 11, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Journal of English and Germanic Philology 124.4 is available on @projectmuse.bsky.social ! Contributors include Britt Mize ( @tamu.bsky.social ), @irinadumitrescu.bsky.social ( @unibonn.bsky.social ), @dariocapelli.bsky.social , and more. cc: @ndiscenza1.bsky.social
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55693
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December 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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American Music SPECIAL ISSUE on @projectmuse.bsky.social ! Vol. 42, Iss. 2 is entitled "Current Perspectives on Cuba and Puerto Rico" and was guest edited by Marysol Quevedo. Contributors include Mark Levine ( @cnucaptains.bsky.social ), Noel Torres-Rivera, and more.
muse.jhu.edu/issue/55782
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December 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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New issue of Journal of Early Christian Studies Vol. 33, No. 4 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56088 @projectmuse.bsky.social @hopkinspress.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Check out the five new articles in The Pluralist Vol. 20, No. 3, now available on @projectmuse.bsky.social. muse.jhu.edu/issue/55706
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December 12, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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New volume of the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy: Archaeology, Culture, History, Literature Vol. 125C (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/54753 @projectmuse.bsky.social @ria.ie @graemewarren.bsky.social @davidstifter.bsky.social @dhaydenceltic.bsky.social
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December 15, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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New issue of Neotestamentica Vol. 59, No. 2 (2025) muse.jhu.edu/issue/56081 @projectmuse.bsky.social
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December 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Review alert! ✍️ ‘Apphia Peach, George Lord Lyttelton, and the Correspondents' by Melvyn New was reviewed in the journal ‘SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900,’ Volume 63, Number 3, Summer 2025. Find out more ➡️ tinyurl.com/nhch7nhb @projectmuse.bsky.social #18thCenturyLiterature #bookreview
December 15, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Read the essay "Not Defiance, Not Deference: #Australia’s U.S. Alliance Pragmatism in the Second #TrumpAdministration" by Rory Medcalf ( @rorymedcalf.bsky.social ) on Project MUSE @projectmuse.bsky.social : muse.jhu.edu/pub/136/arti...
December 15, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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In American Music 42.2, a special issue on Cuban and Puerto Rican music on @projectmuse.bsky.social , Benjamin Lapidus discuss how popular and folkloric Cuban music reflects a dialogue with music history and a Cuban context for issues like race, gender, faith, and more. muse.jhu.edu/pub/34/artic...
Cover of American Music, Volume 42, Issue 2, Summer 2024. Horizontal rectangles in a column on the right side of the cover in a gradient of yellow and green shades on white textured background.
December 15, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Library support means that @ceu-press.bsky.social has already been able to publish many new #OA books (with more funded and planned)

▶️ Freely available for download from @projectmuse.bsky.social @oapenbooks.bsky.social @jstor.bsky.social and other open platforms!
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🎉 Exciting news from @sussex.ac.uk

They've renewed their 3-year membership to the Opening the Future programme with @ceu-press.bsky.social

This continued partnership helps expand access to scholarly content and supports sustainable #OpenAccess publishing

👉 ceup.openingthefuture.net/news/162/
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December 16, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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Join us in celebrating Jane Austen's 250th birthday with a press-spanning Austen reading list!

30+ articles are free to read thru 31 Dec on @projectmuse.bsky.social, and we're offering a special discount code for Austen book titles: tinyurl.com/5dheyrpb

Happy birthday Jane! 🥳🎉🎂🎁
Happy 250th Jane Austen Join us for a press-wide reading list at the Hopkins Press Blog press.jhu.edu/newsroom Illustrated with Jane Austen wearing a party hat
December 16, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Thanks @baltimoresun.bsky.social for the article this week reporting on our work with @ushmm.bsky.social. It can be read here: (bit.ly/SunMUSE_USHMM).

MUSE & @hopkinspress.bsky.social are proud of this work of scholarly research & have made it open access and free to explore.

bit.ly/USHMM_MUSE
December 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Did you know, along with holidays like Christmas, Hanukkah & Kwanzaa, December is also the Universal Month for Human Rights?

Explore more about #HumanRights w/ a FREE issue of HRQ from @hopkinspress.bsky.social 👉 bit.ly/4pobuwo

#ReadUP #TeamUP #humanrightsmonth
December 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM