Taylor Cowdery
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I teach medieval literature at UNC. "Matter and Making in Early English Poetry" is out now from Cambridge UP.
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University admins claim to be "data-driven" and "run universities like a business," but when study after study finds liberal arts majors get good outcomes, are cheap to run, and are in fact profit centers, admins cut them anyway for ideological reasons.
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November 19, 2023 at 12:56 AM
University admins claim to be "data-driven" and "run universities like a business," but when study after study finds liberal arts majors get good outcomes, are cheap to run, and are in fact profit centers, admins cut them anyway for ideological reasons.
ncnewsline.com/2023/11/16/n...
ncnewsline.com/2023/11/16/n...
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Hi everyone! Please consider sending an abstract to the Sewanee thread that I am organizing with Alexis Becker, “Personhood from Below.” The deadline is November 1st!
Info and submission guidelines can be found here:
new.sewanee.edu/academics/me...

An excerpt from our CFP is below:
Info and submission guidelines can be found here:
new.sewanee.edu/academics/me...

An excerpt from our CFP is below:
October 26, 2023 at 12:06 AM
Hi everyone! Please consider sending an abstract to the Sewanee thread that I am organizing with Alexis Becker, “Personhood from Below.” The deadline is November 1st!
Info and submission guidelines can be found here:
new.sewanee.edu/academics/me...

An excerpt from our CFP is below:
Info and submission guidelines can be found here:
new.sewanee.edu/academics/me...

An excerpt from our CFP is below:
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From Sarah Blackwood's excellent essay, published a couple of months ago: www.nybooks.com/online/2023/...
October 27, 2023 at 12:40 PM
From Sarah Blackwood's excellent essay, published a couple of months ago: www.nybooks.com/online/2023/...
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“The [University of North Carolina] board approved new rules for which subjects can have distinguished professorships. They will now only be given in STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields.”
UNC System is getting $3.7 billion from the state budget. Here’s where the money is going.
The UNC System Board of Governors allocated $3.7 billion from the General Assembly. This includes investments in faculty salary increases, athletics and rural healthcare.
www.wunc.org
October 27, 2023 at 2:25 AM
“The [University of North Carolina] board approved new rules for which subjects can have distinguished professorships. They will now only be given in STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) fields.”
Hi everyone! Please consider sending an abstract to the Sewanee thread that I am organizing with Alexis Becker, “Personhood from Below.” The deadline is November 1st!
Info and submission guidelines can be found here:
new.sewanee.edu/academics/me...

An excerpt from our CFP is below:
Info and submission guidelines can be found here:
new.sewanee.edu/academics/me...

An excerpt from our CFP is below:
October 26, 2023 at 12:06 AM
Hi everyone! Please consider sending an abstract to the Sewanee thread that I am organizing with Alexis Becker, “Personhood from Below.” The deadline is November 1st!
Info and submission guidelines can be found here:
new.sewanee.edu/academics/me...

An excerpt from our CFP is below:
Info and submission guidelines can be found here:
new.sewanee.edu/academics/me...

An excerpt from our CFP is below:
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Less than two weeks left until the deadline for our Annual Conference CFP. Our 2024 theme is "Mystics and Work" and, as always, the conference will be held online with no conference fee. Downloadable version here: mysticismlivedexperience.wordpress.com/cfp-mlen2024/
October 3, 2023 at 10:50 PM
Less than two weeks left until the deadline for our Annual Conference CFP. Our 2024 theme is "Mystics and Work" and, as always, the conference will be held online with no conference fee. Downloadable version here: mysticismlivedexperience.wordpress.com/cfp-mlen2024/
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as of today, direct from Verso pre-orders available! paperback is $14.97 right now www.versobooks.com/products/303...
Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism
Contemporary cultural style boosts transparency and instantaneity. These are values absorbed from our current economic conditions of "disintermediation": cutting out the middleman. Like Uber, but for ...
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September 27, 2023 at 11:57 PM
as of today, direct from Verso pre-orders available! paperback is $14.97 right now www.versobooks.com/products/303...
Friends! Be sure to mark your calendars for this exciting conference organized by Harry Cushman and Mariah Min. You will not want to miss these papers!
More info here: bit.ly/identityinflux
More info here: bit.ly/identityinflux
September 27, 2023 at 8:42 PM
Friends! Be sure to mark your calendars for this exciting conference organized by Harry Cushman and Mariah Min. You will not want to miss these papers!
More info here: bit.ly/identityinflux
More info here: bit.ly/identityinflux
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Please consider applying for Stanford’s Open Rank late medieval literature position. Reviewing begins on 26 September: facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
Stanford | Faculty Positions: Details - Open Rank Late Medieval Literature Search
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September 23, 2023 at 5:34 PM
Please consider applying for Stanford’s Open Rank late medieval literature position. Reviewing begins on 26 September: facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
this was informative!
Eight and Skate | Gabriel Winant
The age of optimism that lasted in the US from the 1940s to the 1970s looked, basically, like a car. In his classic study Labor and Monopoly Capital
www.nybooks.com
September 23, 2023 at 6:10 PM
this was informative!
an excellent touch in Succession is Tom’s suspenders
September 23, 2023 at 12:39 AM
an excellent touch in Succession is Tom’s suspenders
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The Colby English department is looking for a graphic novelist to take up our writer-in-residence position spring 2024. It's a great gig: one class, excellent students, housing and a stipend, and time to pursue your own work. If this sounds good, please apply! apply.interfolio.com/130055
Jennifer Jahrling Forese Writer-in-Residence Program | Colby College
Colby established the Jennifer Jahrling Forese Writer-in-Residence Program in 2019.
www.colby.edu
September 22, 2023 at 2:19 PM
The Colby English department is looking for a graphic novelist to take up our writer-in-residence position spring 2024. It's a great gig: one class, excellent students, housing and a stipend, and time to pursue your own work. If this sounds good, please apply! apply.interfolio.com/130055
UNC is hiring an assistant professor of creative writing in poetry! Write me if you've got questions.
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/266...
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September 22, 2023 at 3:09 PM
UNC is hiring an assistant professor of creative writing in poetry! Write me if you've got questions.
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/266...
unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/266...
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Hi everyone! My co-organizers and I are still looking for abstracts for two (!!) 2024 New Chaucer Society Conference sessions. The deadline to submit is tomorrow, 9/22; more info is available here and in the thread below newchaucersociety.org/surveys/?id=...
September 21, 2023 at 7:00 PM
Hi everyone! My co-organizers and I are still looking for abstracts for two (!!) 2024 New Chaucer Society Conference sessions. The deadline to submit is tomorrow, 9/22; more info is available here and in the thread below newchaucersociety.org/surveys/?id=...
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Not exactly my lane, but some of y'all will find this relevant to your research interests.
Hi everyone! My co-organizers and I are still looking for abstracts for two (!!) 2024 New Chaucer Society Conference sessions. The deadline to submit is tomorrow, 9/22; more info is available here and in the thread below newchaucersociety.org/surveys/?id=...
September 21, 2023 at 7:22 PM
Not exactly my lane, but some of y'all will find this relevant to your research interests.
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One day left to submit to our New Chaucer Society panel, "Ecological Change and Social Consequence in the Late-Medieval World"!
Text and details here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/08/...
Text and details here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/08/...
September 21, 2023 at 9:33 PM
One day left to submit to our New Chaucer Society panel, "Ecological Change and Social Consequence in the Late-Medieval World"!
Text and details here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/08/...
Text and details here: call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2023/08/...
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you love to see it 😍💪
September 21, 2023 at 7:16 PM
you love to see it 😍💪
Hi everyone! My co-organizers and I are still looking for abstracts for two (!!) 2024 New Chaucer Society Conference sessions. The deadline to submit is tomorrow, 9/22; more info is available here and in the thread below newchaucersociety.org/surveys/?id=...
September 21, 2023 at 7:00 PM
Hi everyone! My co-organizers and I are still looking for abstracts for two (!!) 2024 New Chaucer Society Conference sessions. The deadline to submit is tomorrow, 9/22; more info is available here and in the thread below newchaucersociety.org/surveys/?id=...