Paula Krebs

Thrilled the panel Diane Jakacki & I organized for #mla25 is accepted. Ever wish you hadn't missed the 2011 MLA DH panel? Come and see @kfitz1.bsky.social @alanyliu.bsky.social @laurenfklein.bsky.social @triproftri.bsky.social as well as Kenton Rambsy and Steve Ramsay dish about DH textbooks.

Ordered!

The introduction to my book OPEN ADMISSIONS is now available for free on the @dukepress.bsky.social website! Use the code E24SVNCK for 30% off the book! www.dukeupress.edu/open-admissi...

Reason number 4,328 why we need language teaching and learning

This is so freaking cool www.mprnews.org/episode/2024...

‘The Avengers‘ and ‘Star Wars‘ get Ojibwe and Lakota language dubs from Indigenous Minnesotanswww.mprnews.org Minnesotans Thomas Draskovic and Anton Treuer voiced characters in two language dubs of popular movies. They say the goal is revitalize Indigenous languages.

The Future of Humanities in Education symposium at the University of Kansas in September is tackling big issues. Join us there. collegedean.ku.edu/fhes

FHEScollegedean.ku.edu

It’s Pride Month. Go out and buy June Thomas’s A Place of Our Own. overcast.fm/+Mifkpq3xM

Bonus: Feminist Bookstores: A Love Story — with June Thomas — Making Gay History | LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archiveovercast.fm As a bookish lesbian growing up in working-class England, June Thomas developed an early love of bookstores. After moving to the U.S. in the 1980s, she found community in the feminist bookstores of th...

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We're down 13 people in English in the fall, 11 of them permanently. WVU cuts have reduced our department by more than 1/3. A third! Last night, WVU faculty and friends celebrated those who are leaving. So many careers ended; so many student futures curtailed. www.thedaonline.com/news/past-an...

Past and present WVU faculty gather for “The Big Goodbye”www.thedaonline.com Past and present faculty, students and campus community members gathered to honor faculty members laid off during “Academic Transformation” at “The Big Goodbye” Wednesday.

Just one session at the Summer Seminar www.maps.mla.org/Seminars/ADE...

Best thing you can do for yourself as a chair or program leader is to go to the Twin Cities for this. Sharing resources, frustrations, ideas with others in the same boat. Register now to get the hotel rate. www.maps.mla.org/Seminars

Seminarswww.maps.mla.org MLA Academic Program Services: 2024 ADE-ALD Summer Seminar and MAPS Leadership InstituteGet tools and strategies to help you lead!The ADE-ALD Summer Seminar and the MAPS Leadership Institute will give...

And this is one of those “do I really sound like that?” moments. humanitiesseedbank.substack.com/p/paula-kreb... Thanks, @ehayot.bsky.social, for these cool little video snapshots for the humanities.

Paula Krebs, "Narrators"humanitiesseedbank.substack.com Learning to read with "position" in mind

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Excited to be a plenary speaker at this summer's ADE/ADFL summer seminar, talking about academic freedom. If you're involved in department leadership and haven't been to one, you should go!

Come to the Twin Cities at the end of May if you're a humanities department chair, program leader, or interested faculty member who wants to find out what other humanities leaders are trying. www.maps.mla.org/Seminars/ADE...

ADE-ALD Summer Seminar in Minneapolis–St. Paulwww.maps.mla.org MLA-fullThe Marquette Hotel, Minneapolis29–31 May 2024Book your group rate for the 2024 ADE-ALD Summer Seminar.Hosts and Lead Sponsors: Carleton College, Macalester College, and St. Olaf CollegeContri...

Department chair or program leader in the humanities? Get some great professional development help in amongst a group of friendly and enthusiastic peers. Your hosts in the Twin Cities area are eager to show you a good time, and the workshops are unmatched in higher ed. www.maps.mla.org/Seminars

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Necessary reading on the impoverished vision gutting higher ed—“models of learning that involve curiosity, experimentation, and cultural sensitivity bear value that lasts far beyond their application to one particular profession. This value…cannot easily be replicated; nor can it easily be replaced”

For Public Books, I wrote about the current swathe of university cuts, labor organizing, and the value of deep learning and imaginative expansion. www.publicbooks.org/in-defense-o...

In Defense of Imaginationwww.publicbooks.org West Virginia University's unprecedented cuts to its liberal arts programs sells the public a university tethered to market demands at the expense of imaginative expansion and intellectual curiosity.

CUNY Grad Center Futures Initiative free event on parenting while in grad school. In person and online: www.eventbrite.com/e/parenting-...

Parenting While Earning a Degreewww.eventbrite.com Experts, parents, and students at CUNY share resources and present research on earning a degree while parenting (attend in-person or online)

Humanities department chairs and program leaders, learn from each other at the Summer Seminar in the Twin Cities, 29-31 May. Whether your program is language, lit, writing, area studies, folklore, religious studies, you name it, we help you with it. www.maps.mla.org/Seminars/ADE...

Get those convention session proposals in for New Orleans in January! www.mla.org/Events/2025-...

Let’s get out there and change the narrative: www.maps.mla.org/Resources/Re...

Report on English Majors’ Career Preparation and Outcomeswww.maps.mla.org The ADE Ad Hoc Committee on English Majors’ Career Preparation and Outcomes was charged with reporting on career outcomes for English majors and minors; gathering case studies and other forms of evide...

Happy to make this possible: @torreymaldonado.bsky.social and Philly Drag Mafia’s Ian Morrison (Brittany Lynn) will distribute $1500 worth of their books to schools and libraries, thanks to @modernlanguage.bsky.social Exec Council. Thanks, Torrey and Ian, for what you do for kids and reading.

@mattseybold.bsky.social I emailed you—may have gone to spam.

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NEWS YOU CAN USE “despite myths to the contrary, English majors are employed, earn good salaries, and experience satisfaction with their career paths”. www.maps.mla.org/Resources/Re...

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English department people: this report just out from the Association of Departments of English is tremendous, the product of a lot of hard work by many people, and worth a read (and it's got pictures) www.maps.mla.org/content/down...

Just pre-ordered my pal June’s terrific book (trust me; I’ve read it—and lived a fair amount of it). Seems to be a 20% off sale going on tight now. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/june-...

A Place of Our Ownwww.hachettebookgroup.com A deeply researched and highly readable cultural history of queer women’s lives in the second half of the twentieth century, told through six iconic sp...

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CFP! We couldn't have an MLA conference in New Orleans without a Kate Chopin panel now, could we? Of course not. Send me abstracts! (E-address provided in the call.)

Call for Papers: Kate Chopin's Louisiana (2025 MLA Annual Convention)mla.confex.com

Got an idea for a convention session? Submit a CFP this week and put a panel proposal together by 1 April for #MLA25 in New Orleans. mla.confex.com/mla/2025/cfp...

Program Copy Formsmla.confex.com Program Copy Forms: 2025 MLA Annual Convention

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Sharing a cfp for a panel at MLA 2025! "Invisible Labor: supporting emerging technologies in academic institutions" is sponsored by the MLA Libraries and Research Forum, and we're very lucky to have @amandalicastro.bsky.social serving as the facilitator. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Invisible Labor: CFP MLA 2024docs.google.com