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C19: The Society of Nineteenth-Century Americanists

C19 2026: Cincinnati, OH -- March 12-14
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We've extended the deadline for submissions to our special issue, "Adaptations," to January 15th, 2026. Attaching the cfp here: please submit!
Cfp for special issue of J19, "Adaptations."
October 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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profgardner.bsky.social
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper is 200 today! @c19americanists.bsky.social @digblk.bsky.social @ccp-org.bsky.social @blkgrlpoet.bsky.social @profgabrielle.bsky.social @npr.org She’s just as fabulous, relevant, and fiery now as she was in C19! For a sample, see commonplace.online/article/vol-...
September 24, 2025 at 12:31 PM
c19americanists.bsky.social
Hello C19-ers! The deadline for submitting panel/roundtable or individual paper proposals for 2026 conference in Cincinnati is TODAY!

And the deadline for submitting a proposal to one of our seminars is SEPT 15TH!

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2026 Conference CFP | C19 Society
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September 5, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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thedial2024.bsky.social
Issue 2.1 is out! Essays by @alicedegalzain.bsky.social & Peter Balaam; don’t miss our forum on higher ed now featuring Stephanie Foote, @jennifergreiman.bsky.social, @cnewf.bsky.social, & @samcohen.bsky.social

Read/circulate/submit:
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The Dial – A Journal of the Ralph Waldo Emerson Society
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September 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
c19americanists.bsky.social
We are hard at work on the 2026 Conference Website. In the meantime, a reminder that you can find the CFP for panels, individual papers, AND seminars here:

www.c19society.org/2026-confere...
2026 Conference CFP | C19 Society
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August 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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hlmurray.bsky.social
‘Whiteness and American Literature’, edited by Jolene Hubbs, is out today with Cambridge UP, featuring a chapter by me where I discuss whiteness in a bunch of extremely weird C19 novels and short stories! @c19americanists.bsky.social @ssag.bsky.social

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Whiteness and American Literature | Cambridge University Press & Assessment
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July 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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jsench.bsky.social
I guess I'm on the only @c19americanists.bsky.social watching the Sex and the City sequel series.
jsench.bsky.social Jonathan @jsench.bsky.social · Jul 5
Harriet Jacobs cameo on Sex and the City.
July 8, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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printculture.bsky.social
This is the most 19th-Century shit I’ve seen in all my years.
heroicendeavour.bsky.social Caroline Ball @heroicendeavour.bsky.social · Jul 22
"It’s never been easier to build an impressive-looking library, especially if you’re mostly interested in the colour and size of your books. Is this necessarily a bad thing?"

Yes. It says you're shallow, ignorant, too lazy to do anything about either, and too stupid to realise how obvious you are.
‘Look how well-read I am!’ How ‘books by the metre’ add the final touch to your home – or your image
It’s never been easier to build an impressive-looking library, especially if you’re mostly interested in the colour and size of your books. Is this necessarily a bad thing?
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July 23, 2025 at 1:07 AM
c19americanists.bsky.social
The 19th century abolitionist movement utilized a diversity of tactics and engaged in constant critical internal debate in the mission to end slavery. The movement needed speeches, lawyers, lawbreakers, newspapers, and armed resisters. History teaches us that freedom requires all of the above.
June 9, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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robinmbernstein.bsky.social
OMG, everyone, @c19americanists.bsky.social is in @alisonbechdel.bsky.social 's new book, #Spent! This is page 144!!! Published today!
Frame from Alison Bechdel's new book, Spent. Ginger says to Sparrow, "Two weekends from now, I'm off to the 19th-century conference. Theme: 'The End: From Climate Apocalypse to the Dire State of Our Profession."
May 20, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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ladyhistorian.bsky.social
Literally the only thing I want from my students is that they want to learn. That's it. That's the entire thing. Everything else is details
solomonmissouri.bsky.social Solomon @solomonmissouri.bsky.social · May 14
The thing about most professors… they actually want to teach… so if you want to learn they will help you
May 15, 2025 at 12:22 AM
c19americanists.bsky.social
Our #TeachingC19 series is a rich resource for careful, insightful thinking about pedagogy in C19 studies. We just published a new piece today by Jill Swiencicki

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#TeachingC19 | C19 Society
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May 11, 2025 at 9:53 PM
c19americanists.bsky.social
Our latest #TeachingC19 essay is published! Read Erica Stevens, Ashley Rattner, and Julia Tigner collectively reflect on how pedagogy rigorously and responsibly engages online modalities and digital technologies during the age of "enshittification."

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#TeachingC19 | C19 Society
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April 9, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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nataliapetrzela.bsky.social
My NEH grant was terminated in service of a new focus on “patriotic programming,” but as an American and an Americanist, I know that resisting this dangerous decision and the broader movement of which it is a part is my patriotic duty.

Wrote abt it @newrepublic.com

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April 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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hermioneclone.bsky.social
All, this is an incredibly important story paper for American women writers, and NIU holds almost 1,000 issues. Every $1K they raise will allow them to digitize 75 issues! The fundraiser ends at 11:59 CST on April 3rd. Please help if you can, even just the cost of a coffee! #C19AmLit
April 3, 2025 at 1:35 AM
c19americanists.bsky.social
The first essay in the 2025 iteration of our #TeachingC19 series is published on our website! Read Margaretta M. Lovell's "The Narrative of Nancy Prince: Historical Facts—Artistic Fiction" here:

www.c19society.org/teachingc19a...
#TeachingC19 | C19 Society
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March 19, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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drreznicek.bsky.social
My grad students are asking for examples of historians who use literature to help make their argument. Who would you recommend?
March 17, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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xineyaophd.bsky.social
🚨 C19ers & Asian Americanists! 🚨I’m co-hosting

@c19americanists.bsky.social Virtual Panel: Asian American Studies in the Long C19

Wed 4/9/25 3:00-4:30pm EST

Ft Julia H. Lee (UC Irvine), Andrew Leong (UC Berkeley), Mich Ling (Rutgers), Edlie Wong (Maryland), and Caroline Yang (UMass)
Dear Colleagues, Please see the following announcement for the next C19 Virtual Event, which will be held on Wednesday, 4/9 from 3:00-4:30pm Eastern Time. C19 Virtual Panel: Asian American Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century Date: Wednesday, 4/9/25, 3:00-4:30pm Eastern Time Hosted by Xine Yao (Associate Professor, University College London) and Spencer Tricker (Assistant Professor, Clark University). Featuring Julia H. Lee (Professor, UC Irvine), Andrew Leong (Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley), Mich Ling (Graduate Student, Rutgers), Edlie Wong (Professor, Maryland), and Caroline Yang (Associate Professor, UMass). Description: While the nineteenth century has long represented an important historical starting point for the study of Asian America, the field of Asian American studies largely remains focused on twentieth- and twenty-first century developments. In nineteenth-century American studies, analyses of the literature and experiences of people of Asian descent has similarly registered as a marginal concern, despite the fact that path-breaking works on these topics have productively complicated our understanding of the era’s racial politics and cultural production. Addressing these patterns of neglect, this C19 virtual panel seeks to reinforce scholarly networks first established at past C19 conference seminars and spotlight research, teaching, and community-building practices among scholars of Asian America in the long nineteenth century. It also provides a forum in which scholars can underscore–among other issues–the responsibilities of Asian American studies to reckon with longstanding histories of Asian settler colonialism, anti-blackness, and the complicated inter-imperial dynamics of our present moment, in which the abuses of both US and Chinese power loom large. While the panel will center Asian Americanist scholars at various career stages, it strives to be a welcoming space to colleagues across the spectrum of nineteenth-century studies who are interested in deepening their knowledge of Asian American studies and/or looking to diversify their teaching materials in this area. The panel, held on Zoom, will begin with questions for the panelists before opening up to Q&A with attendees. Zoom link: https://clarku.zoom.us/j/96534831636?pwd=csRnDIa2CePExBRMNrWNv86ERST1cw.1
March 17, 2025 at 3:48 PM
c19americanists.bsky.social
With the CFP out, we are well on our way towards the C19 Conference in Cincinnati, OH on March 12-14, 2026! Please consider donating to our Travel Fund for C19 members with limited access to travel funding, especially graduate students and contingent faculty.

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Support the C19 Travel Fund
Begun with the 2018 C19 conference, the Travel Fund is made possible by the generous tax-deductible contributions of our members. Travel Fund awards help defray costs for travel, lodging, and conferen...
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March 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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mattseybold.bsky.social
A few fun things to know about this thing that already made you angry:

1.) Parrhesia program is direct result of a series of ad hoc committees who found student protesters were too disruptive when they shouted down fascists, blocked roads, & got shot by campus police. Parrhesia teaches civility.
rezekjoe.bsky.social Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · Mar 7
What the f everybody. The arrogance here, just, wow.
March 8, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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jessagoldberg.bsky.social
The final has to be Ahab vs. Moby-Dick.

It is inevitable.
literaryhub.bsky.social Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · Mar 5
Introducing our inaugural Ides of March Madness bracket: The Best Villains in Literature! We love a good villain, but which one deserves the title of the Greatest Literary Villain Of All Time? Starting tomorrow (3/6), you can vote to help crown your favorite villain the best of the bad!
March 5, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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kimkelly.bsky.social
BREAKING: the U.S. District Court in D.C. has found that Trump’s firing of former NLRB Chair Gwynne A. Wilcox’s firing was unlawful, and ruled that she must be immediately reinstated to serve out the rest of her term as a board member.

She was appointed and confirmed to a 5-year term in 2023.
Text: UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA GWYNNE A. WILCOX, Plaintiff, v. DONALD J. TRUMP, in his official capacity as President of the United States and MARVIN E. KAPLAN, in his official capacity as Chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, Civil Action No. 25-cv-334 Judge Beryl A. Howell Defendants. ORDER Upon consideration of plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment, ECF No. 10, defendants’ cross motion for summary judgment, ECF No. 23, the legal memoranda in support and in opposition, and the entire record herein, for the reasons set forth in the accompanying Memorandum Opinion, it is hereby-- ORDERED that plaintiff’s motion for summary judgment, ECF No. 10, is GRANTED; it is further ORDERED that defendants’ motion for summary judgment, ECF No. 23, is DENIED; it is further DECLARED that the termination of plaintiff Gwynne A. Wilcox was unlawful, in violation of the National Labor Relations Act, 29 U.S.C. § 153(a), and therefore null and void; it is further… DECLARED that plaintiff Gwynne A. Wilcox remains a member of the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”), having been appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate to a five-year term on September 6, 2023, and she may be removed by the President prior to expiration of her term only “upon notice and hearing, for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office, but for no other cause,” pursuant to 29 U.S.C. § 153(a); it is further ORDERED that plaintiff shall continue to serve as a member of the NLRB until her term expires pursuant to 29 U.S.C. § 153(a), unless she is earlier removed “upon notice and hearing, for neglect of duty or malfeasance in office, ” id.; it is further ORDERED that defendant Mark Kaplan, as well as his subordinates, agents, and employees, are ENJOINED, during plaintiff’s term as a member of the NLRB, from removing plaintiff from her office without cause or in any way treating plaintiff as having been removed from office, from impeding in any way her ability to fulfill her duties as a member of the NLRB, and from denying or obstructing her authority or access to any benefits or resources of her office; it is further ORDERED that defendant Mark Kaplan and his subordinates, agents, and employees provide plaintiff with access to the necessary government facilities and equipment so that she may carry out her duties during her term as a member of the NLRB; and it is further ORDERED that the Clerk of the Court is directed to close this case. SO ORDERED. Date: March 6, 2025 This is a final and appealable order.
March 6, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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jeffreyinsko.bsky.social
Hey don't forget about this hot (or cold, as you wish) CFP for MLA26 @c19americanists.bsky.social @melville-society.bsky.social
jeffreyinsko.bsky.social Jeffrey Insko @jeffreyinsko.bsky.social · Feb 23
Hey, you should check out this cool looking panel for MLA26 in Toronto. 🌶️🔥♨️🧊🌡️🏔️https://mla.confex.com/mla/2026/webprogrampreliminary/Paper30328.html
March 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
c19americanists.bsky.social
19th century US history is replete with examples of collective organizing in resistance to tyranny. Slavery could not have been abolished without underground and out in the open organized collective resistance and refusal to comply with unjust law.
March 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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mattseybold.bsky.social
I'm on the organizing committee for next year's @c19americanists.bsky.social conference in Cincinnati & what I can tell you about this year's theme is that it was the first thing anybody pitched & we were all, like, "Yep that's it."

The fastest I've ever seen five professors agree about anything.
2026 Conference CFP | C19 Society
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February 14, 2025 at 4:08 PM