Stacy Burton
@sburton17.bsky.social
20th/21st C literature + theory, University of Nevada, Reno (emerita)
Travel Narrative + the Ends of Modernity (Cambridge UP)
Pro: democracy, the public good.
Oregonian based in Reno since 1990.
Travel Narrative + the Ends of Modernity (Cambridge UP)
Pro: democracy, the public good.
Oregonian based in Reno since 1990.
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This week we look forward to publication, on Thursday, of the next in the Society's New Historical Perspectives book series:
'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940' by Gareth Roddy bit.ly/4o9iblT
Available free Open Access from @uolpress.bsky.social 1/2
'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940' by Gareth Roddy bit.ly/4o9iblT
Available free Open Access from @uolpress.bsky.social 1/2
Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940 - University of London Press
The west has long gripped the imagination. In Atlantic Isles, Gareth Roddy examines the cultural and political prominence of the ‘westward gaze’, which flourished in late-nineteenth century Britain an...
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October 26, 2025 at 10:05 AM
This week we look forward to publication, on Thursday, of the next in the Society's New Historical Perspectives book series:
'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940' by Gareth Roddy bit.ly/4o9iblT
Available free Open Access from @uolpress.bsky.social 1/2
'Atlantic Isles: Travel and Identity in the British and Irish West, 1880–1940' by Gareth Roddy bit.ly/4o9iblT
Available free Open Access from @uolpress.bsky.social 1/2
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A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments.
#medievalsky
www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
#medievalsky
www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
October 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
A neat tool I just came across: Viabundus, a digital road map of northern Europe 1350-1650, that lets you calculate contemporary travel routes/times. In 1500, going Amiens → Köln by horse took almost 7 days and 13 toll payments.
#medievalsky
www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
#medievalsky
www.landesgeschichte.uni-goettingen.de/handelsstras...
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Here it is: the Trump Administration "draft proposal" to the University of California. Published bc faculty sued for its disclosure.
Its terms go beyond what Trump demands in similar compacts to other universities.
EVERYONE should read: faculty, students, admins, alumni.
ucop.edu/communicatio...
Its terms go beyond what Trump demands in similar compacts to other universities.
EVERYONE should read: faculty, students, admins, alumni.
ucop.edu/communicatio...
ucop.edu
October 25, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Here it is: the Trump Administration "draft proposal" to the University of California. Published bc faculty sued for its disclosure.
Its terms go beyond what Trump demands in similar compacts to other universities.
EVERYONE should read: faculty, students, admins, alumni.
ucop.edu/communicatio...
Its terms go beyond what Trump demands in similar compacts to other universities.
EVERYONE should read: faculty, students, admins, alumni.
ucop.edu/communicatio...
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Announcing our new and forthcoming books in Modernist Studies! buff.ly/HCJbjw9 @xenoglossic.bsky.social @kristingrogan.bsky.social @fuscowrites.bsky.social @maebhlong.bsky.social @matfournier.bsky.social @adam-mckible.bsky.social @skkeller.bsky.social @notquitehydepark.bsky.socia
October 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Announcing our new and forthcoming books in Modernist Studies! buff.ly/HCJbjw9 @xenoglossic.bsky.social @kristingrogan.bsky.social @fuscowrites.bsky.social @maebhlong.bsky.social @matfournier.bsky.social @adam-mckible.bsky.social @skkeller.bsky.social @notquitehydepark.bsky.socia
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The shortlist for the Ilse Schwepcke Prize has now been announced.
Congratulations to Kapka Kassabova, Ursula Martin, Viv Groskop (@vivgroskop) and Victoria Whitworth,
It is an annual award, administered by the SoA, for women’s travel writing in the English language.
Congratulations to Kapka Kassabova, Ursula Martin, Viv Groskop (@vivgroskop) and Victoria Whitworth,
It is an annual award, administered by the SoA, for women’s travel writing in the English language.
September 23, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The shortlist for the Ilse Schwepcke Prize has now been announced.
Congratulations to Kapka Kassabova, Ursula Martin, Viv Groskop (@vivgroskop) and Victoria Whitworth,
It is an annual award, administered by the SoA, for women’s travel writing in the English language.
Congratulations to Kapka Kassabova, Ursula Martin, Viv Groskop (@vivgroskop) and Victoria Whitworth,
It is an annual award, administered by the SoA, for women’s travel writing in the English language.
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The right sets the terms of our political discourse in so many ways, one of which is the idea that there isn't enough "debate" and "free speech" on campus.
We need to push back on this. The truth is (speaking for myself as a history prof), I don't really emphasize debate much in my classes/
We need to push back on this. The truth is (speaking for myself as a history prof), I don't really emphasize debate much in my classes/
September 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The right sets the terms of our political discourse in so many ways, one of which is the idea that there isn't enough "debate" and "free speech" on campus.
We need to push back on this. The truth is (speaking for myself as a history prof), I don't really emphasize debate much in my classes/
We need to push back on this. The truth is (speaking for myself as a history prof), I don't really emphasize debate much in my classes/
Thomas Swick’s perspective on English-language travel writing of the last 50 years….
Fifty years ago, Paul Theroux published “The Great Railway Bazaar,” a book that “dazzlingly lifted travel writing out of its midcentury doldrums,” as Thomas Swick writes.
The Great American Travel Book - The American Scholar
The book that helped revive a genre, leading to an all-too-brief heyday
theamericanscholar.org
September 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Thomas Swick’s perspective on English-language travel writing of the last 50 years….
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We're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live!
1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social
More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/
1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social
More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/
August 26, 2025 at 10:52 AM
We're delighted to share that the CFP for the joint @modernistudies.bsky.social and @moderniststudies.bsky.social 2026 conference, Weird Modernisms, is now live!
1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social
More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/
1-4 July, Loughborough University @lborouniversity.bsky.social
More info here: moderniststudies.org/conference/MSA2026/CFP/
On the extraordinary Balkan quartet by Kapka Kassabova: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Balkan Quartet
Published in Studies in Travel Writing (Ahead of Print, 2025)
www.tandfonline.com
August 18, 2025 at 10:59 PM
On the extraordinary Balkan quartet by Kapka Kassabova: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Sunday evening, Reno.
August 18, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Sunday evening, Reno.
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War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength - and Germany violates human rights more than El Salvador.
on the upsidedown world of the new State Department human rights reports
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
on the upsidedown world of the new State Department human rights reports
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Trump Has a New Definition of Human Rights
State Department reports portray Germany as more oppressive than El Salvador.
www.theatlantic.com
August 14, 2025 at 5:51 AM
War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength - and Germany violates human rights more than El Salvador.
on the upsidedown world of the new State Department human rights reports
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
on the upsidedown world of the new State Department human rights reports
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.
The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway
The Pacific island nation of Tuvalu could be submerged in 25 years due to rising sea levels, so a plan is being implemented to relocate its population to Australia.
www.wired.com
July 26, 2025 at 10:20 AM
The first planned migration of an entire country due to climate change is happening! Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation, is at risk of being submerged under rising sea level, so it has signed an agreement with Australia to allow 280 Tuvaluans to settle in Australia as permanent residents each year.
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This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1
Dean at U of Chicago: “She also expressed concerns that the administration might be asking the Arts & Humanities Division to cut back to compensate for other divisions’ financial challenges, asking whether ‘our entire unit [is] being used to float other units facing cuts.”
UChicago Arts & Humanities Division to Restructure Amid “Historic Funding Pressures”
“The status quo is not an option,” Deborah Nelson, dean of the Division of the Arts & Humanities, wrote to division faculty on June 18.
chicagomaroon.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
This is very bad. Although entirely predictable. Once more the humanities are being cut back to prop up STEM and, increasingly, AI investment (including at the expense of bench science). In the past, cuts to humanities were promoted on two separate logic streams that do not hold true: /1
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Researchers have been sneaking secret messages into their papers in an effort to trick AI tools into giving them a positive peer-review report
Read the full story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Read the full story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
July 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Researchers have been sneaking secret messages into their papers in an effort to trick AI tools into giving them a positive peer-review report
Read the full story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Read the full story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Colin Thubron on Kapka Kassabova and the romance of the nomadic life
The Haven of Wilderness | Colin Thubron
In a quartet of books about life in the mountains of southern Bulgaria and North Macedonia as they descend into Greece, Kapka Kassabova gives voice to the shepherds, nomads, horse breeders, dog…
buff.ly
May 29, 2025 at 12:03 PM
Colin Thubron on Kapka Kassabova and the romance of the nomadic life
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The library of Congress is so so so fundamental, founded in 1800, it’s the only library of its kind, it belongs to every American, it has every copyrighted book, it is non-partisan. It is for research, anyone can use it. It is our library and we cannot let them trash it.
There's a more complete story out now for what happened at the Library of Congress today. Library staff denied access to new appointees to senior library positions without a Senate-confirmed Librarian in place. Recognizing the former #2 as in charge in the interim. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/u...
Officials Are Denied Access to Library of Congress After Trump Names New Boss
www.nytimes.com
May 13, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The library of Congress is so so so fundamental, founded in 1800, it’s the only library of its kind, it belongs to every American, it has every copyrighted book, it is non-partisan. It is for research, anyone can use it. It is our library and we cannot let them trash it.
Samuel Diener on “what might be learned about early modern and modern cultural practices of imagining the self by examining accounts of maritime travel and exploration that (in contrast to…lyric poems, novels, and paintings…) are narrated in the first-person plural.”
Narration in the Key of We: The Voyage and the Grammar of Identity | PMLA | Cambridge Core
Narration in the Key of We: The Voyage and the Grammar of Identity - Volume 140 Issue 1
www.cambridge.org
April 22, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Samuel Diener on “what might be learned about early modern and modern cultural practices of imagining the self by examining accounts of maritime travel and exploration that (in contrast to…lyric poems, novels, and paintings…) are narrated in the first-person plural.”
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Major new publication for the #TravelWriting Studies folk - Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on British Travel Writing, edited by the dream-team of @afquaireau.bsky.social, Emanuelle Peraldo and Samia Ounoughi. Lots of excellent stuff in here and some interesting perspectives on contemporary work.
April 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Major new publication for the #TravelWriting Studies folk - Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on British Travel Writing, edited by the dream-team of @afquaireau.bsky.social, Emanuelle Peraldo and Samia Ounoughi. Lots of excellent stuff in here and some interesting perspectives on contemporary work.
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The EO that included restoring monuments/memorials on federal property is a full-on embrace of Confederate ideology. Beginning Monday @uncpress.bsky.social will make my book No Common Ground available to read FOR FREE for the next two weeks. Educate yourself about what this embrace means. ✊
March 28, 2025 at 11:12 PM
The EO that included restoring monuments/memorials on federal property is a full-on embrace of Confederate ideology. Beginning Monday @uncpress.bsky.social will make my book No Common Ground available to read FOR FREE for the next two weeks. Educate yourself about what this embrace means. ✊
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This was such a satisfying project, and one in which I realized for the first time how much my whole life had been spent in a manscape, in places where almost everything was named after men.
#WomensHistoryMonth: The City of Women Map is a fascinating visualization of women’s history and urban transportation. Created by Molly Roy, Rebecca Solnit, and Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, the map renames subway stops after notable women with links to that area, offering an entirely new way to view #NYC.
March 28, 2025 at 8:56 PM
This was such a satisfying project, and one in which I realized for the first time how much my whole life had been spent in a manscape, in places where almost everything was named after men.
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Benjamin Paloff, Bakhtin’s Adventure: An Essay on Life without Meaning (@nupress.bsky.social, 2025; #skystorians): nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014862...
Bakhtin’s Adventure - Northwestern University Press
A bold rereading of Mikhail Bakhtin’s groundbreaking theories A century after Mikhail Bakhtin first began formulating his now-canonical reflections on f...
nupress.northwestern.edu
March 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Benjamin Paloff, Bakhtin’s Adventure: An Essay on Life without Meaning (@nupress.bsky.social, 2025; #skystorians): nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014862...
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*PUBLICATION DAY*
*Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on British Travel Writing: Decentring Epistemologies* (Routledge 2025) is out in the world! Many thanks to my co-editors and all the contributors!
More info: www.routledge.com/Twenty-First...
*Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on British Travel Writing: Decentring Epistemologies* (Routledge 2025) is out in the world! Many thanks to my co-editors and all the contributors!
More info: www.routledge.com/Twenty-First...
March 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM
*PUBLICATION DAY*
*Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on British Travel Writing: Decentring Epistemologies* (Routledge 2025) is out in the world! Many thanks to my co-editors and all the contributors!
More info: www.routledge.com/Twenty-First...
*Twenty-First-Century Perspectives on British Travel Writing: Decentring Epistemologies* (Routledge 2025) is out in the world! Many thanks to my co-editors and all the contributors!
More info: www.routledge.com/Twenty-First...