Megan Ward
@megaplex.bsky.social
Director of Humanities Initiatives at Oregon State University. Histories of AI, author of SEEMING HUMAN. Runner, mom, writer, tator tot enthusiast.
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My new article in Public Humanities--"Public Humanities, Then and Now"--featuring John Henry Newman, W. E. B. DuBois, and (alas) Thomas Hardy's Jude Frawley: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Public Humanities, Then and Now | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
Public Humanities, Then and Now - Volume 1
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January 8, 2025 at 12:46 PM
My new article in Public Humanities--"Public Humanities, Then and Now"--featuring John Henry Newman, W. E. B. DuBois, and (alas) Thomas Hardy's Jude Frawley: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Reposted by Megan Ward
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January 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Editors, producers, reporters: we've got SIX open positions at @propublica.org — take a peek, some have fast-approaching application deadlines: boards.greenhouse.io/propublica?g...
Last day till MLA! "Poetry defined the emergence of Romania's literary tradition": TRUE or TRUISM? To find out what's NOT true, read Andrei Terian and Maria Chiorean in 12 Truisms About the Novel. muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034%... w/
@sarahdallison.bsky.social
@sarahdallison.bsky.social
January 8, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Last day till MLA! "Poetry defined the emergence of Romania's literary tradition": TRUE or TRUISM? To find out what's NOT true, read Andrei Terian and Maria Chiorean in 12 Truisms About the Novel. muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034%... w/
@sarahdallison.bsky.social
@sarahdallison.bsky.social
Modernism breaks from realism with World War I: TRUE or TRUISM?
To find out what's NOT true, read
Claire Seiler in 12 Truisms About the Novel. muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034 w/
@sarahdallison.bsky.social + @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social
January 8, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Modernism breaks from realism with World War I: TRUE or TRUISM?
To find out what's NOT true, read
Claire Seiler in 12 Truisms About the Novel. muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034 w/
@sarahdallison.bsky.social + @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social
Science fiction and fantasy are the province of white writers: TRUE or TRUISM?
To find out what's NOT true, read
Susana Morris in 12 Truisms About the Novel. muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034 w/
@sarahdallison.bsky.social + @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social
To find out what's NOT true, read
Susana Morris in 12 Truisms About the Novel. muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034 w/
@sarahdallison.bsky.social + @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social
January 6, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Science fiction and fantasy are the province of white writers: TRUE or TRUISM?
To find out what's NOT true, read
Susana Morris in 12 Truisms About the Novel. muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034 w/
@sarahdallison.bsky.social + @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social
To find out what's NOT true, read
Susana Morris in 12 Truisms About the Novel. muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034 w/
@sarahdallison.bsky.social + @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social
Autofiction is writing about the self: TRUE or TRUISM?
To find out what's NOT true, read
Nicolás Medina Mora in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034%20 w/
@sarahdallison.bsky.social
+ @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social
To find out what's NOT true, read
Nicolás Medina Mora in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034%20 w/
@sarahdallison.bsky.social
+ @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social
January 6, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Autofiction is writing about the self: TRUE or TRUISM?
To find out what's NOT true, read
Nicolás Medina Mora in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034%20 w/
@sarahdallison.bsky.social
+ @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social
To find out what's NOT true, read
Nicolás Medina Mora in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034%20 w/
@sarahdallison.bsky.social
+ @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social
5 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 8: Free indirect discourse is the most important formal feature of the novel. To find out what's NOT true, read
Tara Menon in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034%20 w/
@sarahdallison.bsky.social
Tara Menon in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034%20 w/
@sarahdallison.bsky.social
January 4, 2025 at 6:12 PM
5 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 8: Free indirect discourse is the most important formal feature of the novel. To find out what's NOT true, read
Tara Menon in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034%20 w/
@sarahdallison.bsky.social
Tara Menon in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034%20 w/
@sarahdallison.bsky.social
6 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 7: Freytag's plot pyramid is the deep structure underlying all narrative. To find out what's NOT true, read
@dallasliddle.bsky.social
in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034 w/ @sarahdallison.bsky.social
@dallasliddle.bsky.social
in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034 w/ @sarahdallison.bsky.social
January 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
6 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 7: Freytag's plot pyramid is the deep structure underlying all narrative. To find out what's NOT true, read
@dallasliddle.bsky.social
in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034 w/ @sarahdallison.bsky.social
@dallasliddle.bsky.social
in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034 w/ @sarahdallison.bsky.social
7 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 6: The Anglophone novel is never sufficiently postcolonial. To find out what's NOT true, read @kavithaganesan76.bsky.social in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034
January 2, 2025 at 11:43 PM
7 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 6: The Anglophone novel is never sufficiently postcolonial. To find out what's NOT true, read @kavithaganesan76.bsky.social in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034
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Announcing our winter special issue: "Nobody Cares but Everybody Should: Toward a Shared History of the Novel." 12 short essays engage with truisms in novel studies. Thanks to Sarah Allison & Megan Ward (@sarahdallison.bsky.social, @megaplex.bsky.social) for guest editing & to all the contributors!
January 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Announcing our winter special issue: "Nobody Cares but Everybody Should: Toward a Shared History of the Novel." 12 short essays engage with truisms in novel studies. Thanks to Sarah Allison & Megan Ward (@sarahdallison.bsky.social, @megaplex.bsky.social) for guest editing & to all the contributors!
8 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 5: The Victorian novel is an English novel. To find out what's NOT true, read Sierra Eckert in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034 w/
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January 1, 2025 at 6:04 PM
8 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 5: The Victorian novel is an English novel. To find out what's NOT true, read Sierra Eckert in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034 w/
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@studiesinthenovel.bsky.social
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9 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 4: The bound commercial novel is a Victorian phenomenon. To find out what's NOT true, read Lindsey Eckert in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034 w/ @sarahdallison.bsky.social + @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social
January 1, 2025 at 12:44 AM
9 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 4: The bound commercial novel is a Victorian phenomenon. To find out what's NOT true, read Lindsey Eckert in Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034 w/ @sarahdallison.bsky.social + @studiesinthenovel.bsky.social
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Two tenure-track positions in AI at the School of Information Sciences, UIUC. Artificial intelligence is broadly construed here to include AI policy, governance, ethics, AI for cultural heritage, &c. Review of applications will start Jan 6th. Please RT and share! #MLSky #NeurIPS
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December 11, 2024 at 8:34 PM
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Going to #MLA2025? Dig plants? Don't miss our Victorian Plants Roundtable, co-organized with @aktange.bsky.social, also featuring Sarah Bilston, Amy M. King, and Lindsay Wells. Subtitle: Imperial Networks and Affordances of Care. 1/9, 5:15 pm. Hope to see you there!
December 30, 2024 at 2:14 PM
Going to #MLA2025? Dig plants? Don't miss our Victorian Plants Roundtable, co-organized with @aktange.bsky.social, also featuring Sarah Bilston, Amy M. King, and Lindsay Wells. Subtitle: Imperial Networks and Affordances of Care. 1/9, 5:15 pm. Hope to see you there!
10 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 3: The author is a solitary creator. To find out what's NOT true, read @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , @sdileonardi.bsky.social + @beccacohen.bsky.social in a special issue of Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034
December 30, 2024 at 8:05 PM
10 Days to MLA! 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day 3: The author is a solitary creator. To find out what's NOT true, read @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social , @sdileonardi.bsky.social + @beccacohen.bsky.social in a special issue of Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034
11 Days to MLA; 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day Two: The typical Victorian novel was published serially. To find out what's not true, read
@3volumenovel.bsky.social
in a special issue of Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034
@3volumenovel.bsky.social
in a special issue of Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034
December 30, 2024 at 12:31 AM
11 Days to MLA; 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day Two: The typical Victorian novel was published serially. To find out what's not true, read
@3volumenovel.bsky.social
in a special issue of Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034
@3volumenovel.bsky.social
in a special issue of Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034
12 Days to MLA; 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day One: The New Woman is White, cis-het, and imperialist. To find out what's not true, read @krbarrett.bsky.social in a special issue of Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034
December 28, 2024 at 11:59 PM
12 Days to MLA; 12 Truisms About the Novel Debunked. Day One: The New Woman is White, cis-het, and imperialist. To find out what's not true, read @krbarrett.bsky.social in a special issue of Studies in the Novel: muse-jhu-edu.oregonstate.idm.oclc.org/issue/54034
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With @sdileonardi.bsky.social and @beccacohen.bsky.social, I wrote a shortish essay on The Girl on the Train and how self-branding is changing authorship. For a fascinating special issue of Studies in the Novel ed by @megaplex.bsky.social and @sarahdallison.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
Project MUSE - Brand Management: International Bestsellers and the Death of the Author, Again
muse.jhu.edu
December 19, 2024 at 6:48 PM
With @sdileonardi.bsky.social and @beccacohen.bsky.social, I wrote a shortish essay on The Girl on the Train and how self-branding is changing authorship. For a fascinating special issue of Studies in the Novel ed by @megaplex.bsky.social and @sarahdallison.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl...
CFP: Public Humanities, Issue #1: Manifestos. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
November 28, 2023 at 5:18 PM
CFP: Public Humanities, Issue #1: Manifestos. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Introduce yourself with some jobs you've done apart from your work now:
- blood drive organizer
- IHOP waitress
- medical dictation transcriber
- lifeguard, swim lesson instructor, swim team coach
- blood drive organizer
- IHOP waitress
- medical dictation transcriber
- lifeguard, swim lesson instructor, swim team coach
Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from your work now:
- groundskeeper at nursery
- stock boy & cashier at Save-A-Lot
- office assistant at local insurance company
- teller at local bank
- facilities assistant at art museum
- security captain at art museum
- groundskeeper at nursery
- stock boy & cashier at Save-A-Lot
- office assistant at local insurance company
- teller at local bank
- facilities assistant at art museum
- security captain at art museum
Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from your work now:
-adjunct professor/Postmates bike delivery
-adjunct professor/barista
-adjunct professor/commercial painter
-busboy
-adjunct professor/Postmates bike delivery
-adjunct professor/barista
-adjunct professor/commercial painter
-busboy
November 10, 2023 at 6:00 PM
Introduce yourself with some jobs you've done apart from your work now:
- blood drive organizer
- IHOP waitress
- medical dictation transcriber
- lifeguard, swim lesson instructor, swim team coach
- blood drive organizer
- IHOP waitress
- medical dictation transcriber
- lifeguard, swim lesson instructor, swim team coach